Years of Hard Work and Consistency Pay Off

Hunter Biden has been convicted of three felonies. The details are not important. He was habitually on drugs, and he lied in order get a lame Colt revolver. He got burned twice lying and once for possessing the gun.

So will gun people celebrate today, since nearly all of them are conservative? If so, I have not seen it yet. I checked one of the big gun forums.

I think most of us feel some sympathy for anyone convicted of a gun crime involving something like possession or skirting background-check laws. If Biden had used the gun in a violent crime, gun people would surely be happier about his fate.

This may sound like a weird question, but should we really be taking 2A rights away from everyone who uses illegal drugs or has an addiction? Because over 1/6 of us fall into that category. If you smoke or otherwise ingest weed without a prescription, you are breaking federal law. If you have a prescription and are addicted, which does happen regardless of what goofy libertarians claim, you are not breaking the law, but you still fall under the federal firearms prohibition.

What percentage of gun owners are alcoholics? Not zero or anything close to it, believe me.

Hunter Thompson was an extreme case of alcoholism and drug abuse, and he had all sorts of guns, which he used in the open, on video. No one cared, even when he shot the roof of his head out a few feet from his 6-year-old grandson. Why is that? Probably because no one thought he would ever shoot another person.

Did anyone seriously think the other Hunter would shoot anyone? No. Be serious.

If the prohibition’s motivation makes sense, it must be to keep guns away from junkies, street crackheads, and people who get dangerously drunk. I doubt it was drafted in order to keep guns away from Drew Barrymore and Robert Downey, Jr. Or Chevy Chase. Or Betty Ford or Kitty Dukakis.

I don’t think Biden’s addiction or even his generally bad personality inclined him to physically harm people with guns.

Is it bad that he lied on a federal form? Well, yes, but who has never lied to the government? Most lies told to the government are trivial, but lying to Uncle Sam is still against the law in many cases, and surely some decent people who will read this blog post are guilty.

Sometimes government forms are so badly conceived, they make it impossible to squeeze the truth into them. There are forms that only offer options, that, for many people, are all untrue. If you sign one after saying something not quite true, which you know to be inconsequential and irrelevant, should you be charged with perjury?

The other day I lied to an insurance company, sort of. They wanted to know how long I had been with my previous insurer. I wasn’t sure, and my insurance documents didn’t say, but I had to write something if I wanted a quote, so I made my best guess. That’s kind of a lie. Who cares? My record is excellent. I’m not trying to convince them I’m a safer driver than I am. Did I commit fraud?

They also wanted to know the mileage of my cars. I knew one of them, but I didn’t feel like walking out to check the other. I knew the figure to within three digits, but I wasn’t sure about the other two, so I guessed. Turns out I was within 10 miles, but I was wrong. Should they cancel my policy if the actual mileage was 45,678 and I said it was 45,687? They shouldn’t, and they wouldn’t. If I called right now and confessed, they would laugh at me.

If you have a normal-sized social circle, and you’re conservative, you definitely know someone who lied on a Form 4473. You may know their identities. Run to the phone now and turn them in.

I guess at my weight when I fill out 4473’s. No gun shop has a scale. Bring out the cuffs.

Lying about something which is clearly very important is different. Form 4473 requires you to tell whether you’re a citizen. It requires you to say whether you’re making a straw purchase. If you lie about the big things, you should be prosecuted. But lying about being a rich white-collar cokehead whose life consists of using hotel pool slides naked with hookers…I would be happy if all he got was a fine. He does deserve some punishment, simply for being an entitled creep about the whole thing. Fine him $5000 and make him write, “Hunter is a jerk,” 100 times on the blackboard.

I’m more concerned about him selling his dad’s influence to people. It sure looks like he did that in collusion with his dad and his uncle. For activities like that, all three should go to prison.

I don’t like him lying to Congress about important things related to bribery and our national security. He should answer for that.

If he were a street crackhead, running around shoving guns into people’s faces, I would understand the importance of keeping him disarmed, but I think that kind of behavior is covered by other form questions.

It’s amazing how unreasonable gun laws can be. Going to DC with a suitcase that has a misplaced and empty 15-round magazine under the lining can get you prison time. Having a short barrel on an unregistered rifle can get you prison time. A short-barreled rifle is not a particularly dangerous weapon. Having an AK with a magazine that has a European baseplate instead of one made in the US can be a felony.

Liberal spinmasters are in a tough spot now. Do they rail against the politically-motivated persecution of Hunter Biden by his father’s Democrat-dominated DOJ, or do they stand up, as usual, for unreasonable gun control that is inconsistent with the Bill of Rights?

Maybe this will be one of the straws that breaks Joe Biden’s back. Many in his party are dying to bolt and cut their losses. It would be great for them to cut Hunter loose, let him drown, stop making excuses for his dad, and try to find someone to take Joe’s place. It’s going to get worse. Hunter has more trials ahead, and he will be convicted again because he breaks laws with the same kind of immortality complex we see in teenage drivers.

Personally, I’m amazed that Hunter got away with referring to himself and his frat-bro buddies as “Aryan godlike men.” The implicit racism is off the charts. It’s not just antisemitic. It’s anti-every-nonwhite-race. It comes from the very heart of white supremacy. Real white supremacy. Not the imaginary white supremacy we keep hearing about. Comparing Northern European men to gods is about as bad as it gets. In Hunter’s mind, to be white and Northern European is to look like God. That should have turned leftists against him forever.

What do I think will happen to Hunter? I think he’ll get a little prison time, if his appeal fails. Looking around the web, I see that the feds do take Form 4473 seriously when it comes to sentencing. And the DOJ and the judge will have to think about their reputations, as the judge (but not the DOJ) did when rejecting Biden’s ridiculous sweetheart plea.

I think his big problems will come later, when he is convicted of other crimes involving dishonesty. I’m not a criminal attorney, so I don’t know, but I would guess that any felony conviction involving flagrant dishonesty would affect sentencing in any felony of the same fundamental nature. Just a guess.

You only get to be a first-time offender once.

Whether Hunter is being treated fairly or not, I’m getting tired of America’s new obsession with sending prosecutors after people connected to politics. Seems like everyone is going to be indicted or impeached eventually. Some prosecutions are necessary, but I feel like we’re headed for a system in which corrupt private attorneys, prosecutors, judges, juries, and impeachment committees, not the ballot box, decide who rules. Instead of democracy, we’ll have what some have termed “judocracy.”

When that happens, goodbye, GOP. Boxes full of leftist morons will put us all in the hoosegow.

It’s all part of the apocalypse. Life will continue to make less and less sense. Things that shouldn’t happen at all will be the rule, not the exception.

It would be great if God would rapture us before my next American Express payment.

Life is Never Childproof

My wife and I have been talking about raising children.

One issue that came up was the nature of the property where we live. It’s mostly pasture and forest. I have a house and a workshop, and the rest of the property is full of things like nettles, poison ivy, blackberry briars, holes, and snakes. The house itself has no bedrooms for children on the first floor. We live on a private road that opens onto a two-lane highway with a 55-mph speed limit, so opportunities for riding a bike are not good, and the nearest house is probably 250 yards away.

I’m not sure what to do about the house.

We have two stairways. One is carpeted. The other is hard oak. If the kids live upstairs, what are we supposed to do to protect them?

When I was a kid, my grandparents had a two-story house. They moved into another two-story house when I was about 5. The second house had a set of steep concrete steps covered in thin, hard vinyl.

I never saw a baby gate until I was an adult. I don’t know if they existed. My grandparents had 8 grandchildren, and none of us ever fell down the steps or came close to it. Neither did my grandparents. Nobody did.

The cabinets had no childproofing. I used to play inside them. Whatever chemicals were in the house were available to all. The guns were not locked up.

I have never known anyone except me who had a poison scare as a child. I sampled some rat poison once, and nothing happened. They sent me home from the ER without doing anything for me.

I have never lived in a modern baby-safe house. I don’t even know what the rules are.

I have never known anyone who fell down the stairs as a child (or adult) and had an injury of any kind. Does that mean the concerns are overblown?

I don’t remember much of anything that happened before I was three. My dad bought a house when I was that age. It was one house over from a corner, and the street intersecting our street was somewhat busy. A block to the east, there was a big lot which was often flooded, and there were snakes.

My friends and I used to walk out the door early in the day and spend our time running around like wild Indians. We didn’t cross the busy street, but we could walk a block or two in the other direction, all by ourselves. No one cared. No one was afraid grown men would grab us and have sex with us.

We didn’t know what homosexuality was, and we didn’t know what sex was.

We built forts in the swamp area. We used to have wars. We would chase each other around and hit each other with sticks and branches. Houses went up sometimes, and we played on the construction sites. It was understood that the big sand piles were there for our amusement. I was probably in junior high before I realized people weren’t supposed to go onto other people’s property and play in their unfinished houses.

We played with what are now known as war toys. My parents got me a plastic machine gun and a plastic battleship. We always had cap pistols. I had boots and a cowboy hat. We played cowboys and Indians, and no one ever questioned the notion that the Indians were bad and had to be shot. Sorry about that. We learned from Hollywood, which is always a stupid idea.

No one I grew up with ever committed a gun crime. I did throw a knife at my sister when I was a kid, but most people would have done the same thing eventually. She was special. My gentle 103-pound mother went at her with both fists.

When I used to visit my grandparents, my grandfather would put his grandchildren in the back of a pickup and drive us around on mountain roads at up to 80 mph. We loved it. We never died. I was his favorite, and he used to let me “help” him on his farms. He would sit me on the fender of his tractor while he raked or mowed, and he would also let me steer. If I had fallen off the front of the fender, I would have gone under the rear tire.

We used to shoot together. I never had a lesson in gun safety. I think I was expected to be smart enough not to shoot anyone.

He taught my aunt to swim by throwing her in a river.

Kids were allowed to sit anywhere they wanted in cars. My father used to put me on his lap and let me steer. I sat in the front seat like other human beings. We had a station wagon, and I liked riding in “the very back,” next to the rear window. In sedans and coupes, there were “parcel shelves” against the rear windows. Flat places big enough for kids to lie down in. And we did. Sometimes we had to move the little air-freshener dogs with the bobbing heads.

There were no such things as baby seats.

When we got bicycles, we rode on the streets. There were no helmets. I knew one person who got hurt. He was a teenager who decided to ride down from the peak of Miami’s 79th Street Causeway bridge at top speed. He rode on a narrow sidewalk, and he lost control and hit a sign with his face. He ended up with dentures. A helmet wouldn’t have helped.

We didn’t wear knee or elbow pads. Sometimes we rode barefoot, which was really dumb. I tore half the nail off my big toe that way.

My elementary school was a mile from my house, and my junior high was half a mile farther away. I used to walk and ride to school. Not always, but sometimes. So did my friends. The whole time I lived in that area, I heard about one kid getting hit by a car.

It was bad. A teenaged girl with no license spread him out on the asphalt like chicken salad. There were big stains. We were told his brains were splattered. But the rest of us got by without school zones.

At phys. ed. class, we were told to climb ropes to the top, or maybe 15 feet, above hard-packed ground. I was the kid who could never figure out how to climb the rope, but others made it. At playgrounds, we had merry-go-rounds, and naturally, we got them going at top speed and jumped off. We had see-saws, and we used to do things like jumping off while the other kid was up in the air.

I was probably 10 when I got my first pocket knife, and I got my first rifle at 12. No one thought it was weird to let me have these things. My best friend was a year older, and he was shooting deer and antelope.

My parents thought it was okay to buy me slingshots. Two neighboring kids had bows.

On Halloween, we went out without adult supervision, even though our mothers worried about us and believed legends about razors and drugs in apples and candy.

We always threw the apples out anyway. It was so unfair; giving us fruit. We got really angry at people who gave us things they knew we didn’t like.

Today, it seems like very few kids participate in Halloween. It seems like it’s more of an adult holiday. Adults go to parties and get high and drunk, and as a female comedian said, the women only have one costume: “It’s a slut.”

“Sexy vampire.” “Sexy nurse.” “Sexy witch.” “Sexy Disney character.” “Sexy nun.” Plain old whore. That about covers it.

When kids go out now, they form little squads behind adults with flashlights, they go to a few houses on prearranged routes, where they only see the same parents they see all the time, and they go home. Halloween was never really dangerous, but this is where we are.

Halloween is a Satanic holiday. It’s huge with the witches. That’s the reason to stay home and dress normally. The razor blades and drugs are mythical.

If your parents let you did things leftists from up north thought were unsafe, or they slapped or spanked you, leftists could not do anything about it. There were no powerful agencies roaming around taking children away from old-fashioned parents. If your parents took you to the emergency room with bruises, the doctors never called anyone to interrogate you and have your kids carted off to scary facilities where bullying and sodomy took place.

It must be true that kids used to have more accidents. Surely modern practices have made some difference. I’m sure government intervention saves more kids from abuse than it used to. I guess kids are safer if they can’t leave their yards. But I think some of our measures are overprotective. The truth is that a healthy upbringing in which kids face some risks is valuable. Probably so valuable that it’s better to lose some kids than to turn the rest into helpless basket cases.

Some kids have no common sense. Some kids are smart but make stupid mistakes. These things will always be true. Bad things will always happen.

Here’s a problem: now that we have all these safety policies, even if they’re overreactions, if your child has a very rare accident because you didn’t adhere to modern nanny standards, you will be considered a bad parent. Your spouse may agree. Society is destroying fathers’ ability to do a very important job: toughening kids up. It’s siding with destructive female neuroses.

Disempowering fathers and enabling neurotic women are almost always disastrous.

When I think of the terrible ways in which my parents failed me, I never think about not having a bike helmet. I think about my dad choking my mother. I remember my parents making no effort to teach me good habits or help me succeed. They didn’t teach me to do homework. They didn’t make me do chores. They didn’t show me how to defend myself. They taught me nothing about investing. My mother didn’t teach me proper hygiene. I was not introduced to the Holy Spirit, who is the only source of safety and success. The guns, skateboards, knives, fireworks…not issues.

What do we do about the house? Do we sell it? Do we seal off the upstairs, hoping there won’t be a fire? Do we put cameras up there?

The yard is both good and bad. It’s a world of adventure for kids. On the other hand, the grass in this area is thin and awful, so you wouldn’t want to lie down on it or do much of anything not involving being upright. It has a fence and gate, and that’s good for safety, but getting to other kids will be impossible without vehicles.

The workshop might as well have been designed intentionally to put kids in the hospital. Table saw, band saw, tractor, lawnmower, sharp things, pointy things, hammers, chemicals, torches…send them in there when you get tired of feeding them, and you might get lucky. I guess locks can solve the problem.

What about cars? My Explorer is turning out to be a lemon by design, and it’s a horror to work on. Ford designed it so stupidly it is likely to need thousands of dollars’ worth of repairs even if I take care of it, so I’m thinking of getting a Toyota 4Runner. But the 4Runner isn’t THE safest car on the road. What if my kids get in an accident, and I didn’t buy them THE safest car?

The guns can be locked in a storage room, and of course, the key will have to be hidden, and not in a place the kids will find it, unlike most things parents hide. Every dad who ever hid a dirty magazine, and every mother who ever hid a device or outfit from a dirty boutique, should be aware that their kids found them. It happens.

What are we supposed to do about schooling? DeSantis has done a lot to help, but Florida schools are still dominated by leftist morons and affirmative action cases. They didn’t disappear when he was elected. They are burrowing and hiding, waiting for him to leave.

They will still try to groom our kids and, yes, turn them into homosexuals and phony, mutilated “transgenders.” They will still teach them that socialism is a great idea. It worked out so well in Cuba and Cambodia. They will teach them that rebellion is brilliant and that their elders, with all their wisdom, are silly imbeciles. They will still see our children–God’s children–as theirs.

Some day, this blog post may be seen as proof my children should be taken from me.

Homeschooling is a must. That or private schooling. What are the odds we’ll be able to find a good private school that acknowledges the Holy Spirit?

The kids won’t be able to walk past our private road. They won’t be able to ride bikes much of anywhere. The geography won’t permit a lot of wandering.

What do we do about phones? Thanks to Disney, Florida is a pedophile’s dream, so they flock here. You can’t turn a kid loose without some means of calling for help. But if you give them smartphones, they send each other naked pictures and videos, and they watch adult pornography. If you give them cheap phones, the other kids torment them.

We can’t protect them from society, which is now extremely filthy. They have to live on this planet. It’s not like it used to be. By the time they get to high school, they will know about sodomy, VD, pornography, and seductive causes that give them excuses to cultivate sadism, bigotry, and arrogance.

What do we do about the Internet?

It’s like we’ll be raising children in a building with walls, floors, fixtures, and furnishings smeared with excrement from diseased people, hoping they won’t get sick.

With regard to the physical dangers, we’ll have to make decisions about risk and accept the consequences. That’s all we can do. We can’t raise kids, especially effeminate boys, who can’t do anything but cry and operate phones and tablets with their stick arms and muscular thumbs.

I told my wife to expect our children to get cut, scraped, burned, and bruised. It’s not preventable. They will get sick sometimes. They will get scars. We live in a cursed world. If you don’t want your kids to suffer, have yourself sterilized. If you don’t want to risk losing children, don’t have them in the first place.

God risks it, and loses, every day. He loses most of the people he creates.

I have been concerned that I might love my children so much I smother them and stunt them. It will be hard, handing a kid a new pocket knife or even letting him ride a bicycle in public. It will be hard to let him associate with other kids without me, knowing about bullying and peer pressure, which is the voice of the antichrist. I have to remind myself that human beings like me ruined the world and made it an unsafe place, and now we have to live in it without hiding from it.

Regarding the spiritual dangers–the temptation and corruption–we will just have to stay close to God and do what we know to do. After that, we have to accept what happens. Short of joining a cult and moving to an isolated compound, I see no way to raise kids in anything resembling an acceptable environment.

This world is a rotten place, and it’s our fault. It’s disgusting and dangerous. Not really fit to live in. It’s getting worse rapidly. I wish we had somewhere else to go. But it’s either have kids here or die childless.

I hate this world. Having children will make me hate it more.

God created the world so he could reproduce, and he expects people to have children. We will play the ball as it lies, and we will rely on God, thanking him and never blaming him.

You Can’t Stand Bad Company Forever

When I pray these days, I often complain to God about having to live in this world. I don’t blame him for anything. I just want someone to vent to. I keep telling him, “I hate this place.” I keep telling him he has been right about everything. The state of the world proves it over and over.

My life is excellent. I have health, prosperity, a wonderful wife, and a home pretty far from most of the vicious, demonized, leftist and Muslim nuts who are sincerely looking forward to a chance to kill every person like my wife and me. I enjoy life a great deal. I’m extremely grateful, because I know my blessings are extreme. But I will never feel at home here while demons rule the world. I always say it’s like I went to a Mexican resort for a luxury vacation and was not allowed to go home.

The Bible says Lot was in a similar situation. It says:

[B]ut he rescued Lot, a righteous man who was distressed by the debauchery of those unprincipled people; for the wicked deeds which that righteous man saw and heard, as he lived among them, tormented his righteous heart day after day.

I am not calling myself righteous, but I have some awareness of right and wrong. Enough to make the spectacle of the modern West revolting to me, every day. Enough to make me understand how much worse it will get.

Living on this earth is like living on a somewhat clean platform in the middle of a tank full of feces, urine, pus, menstrual fluid, dead bodies, rotten fish, and every kind of filth imaginable. The platform may be a big blessing, but you’re still in a bad place.

The other day I realized I should not say that I hate this place. The place is not the problem. A place can’t be good or bad. It’s the people.

I hated Miami because the people were rude and trashy. I could not wait to get out. What if the people were nice?

Miami has a magnificent bay and barrier islands. It has quick access to Gulf Stream fish. In a couple of hours, you can take a boat to the Bahamas. There is never any snow or ice. It’s sunny, and the sun improves people’s moods. It’s easy to grow fruit and ormamental plants there. Put the right people there, and it would be very nice.

What if you took all the Swiss and put them in Dade County, Florida, and you moved everyone in Dade to Switzerland?

Miami would be wonderful. People would get along. The economy would be fantastic. Crime would be almost nonexistent. The educational system would be tops. Switzerland, on the other hand, would be mostly ghetto, and everyone there would hate each other, because they hated each other where they came from. Crime would explode. The murder rate would skyrocket. Tourism would plummet.

God showed me this: I should not complain about a place. I should complain about the power and presence of the wicked. Where the wicked are few and weak, things are good. Where they are many and dominant, you end up with something like Somalia or San Francisco. Places where decent people are unhappy and persecuted, and the filthy are rewarded and promoted.

We hear a lot about genocide these days. From liars. Liars keep making the insane claim that Israel’s actions of self-defense are genocide.

Unlike Gazans, Israel and the Jews are truly threatened with genocide, and genocide is the openly-stated aim of their Muslim enemies. It’s not a conspiracy theory. It’s clearly true. The interesting thing is that genocide really is in the works from our side, but it will come from God, not his children or the Jews. God himself is going to clear the majority of those who hate Yeshua off the planet. He won’t send us out with ridiculous AR-15’s with skulls engraved on the magazine wells. He’ll do it personally, with the help of angels. He’ll also let the wicked kill each other off. He’ll even let animals kill them. That’s in the Revelation.

Eventually, God is going to decide he and his children have had enough of the presence and power of the wicked, and he will get rid of them and put the cleansed world back in our hands.

Genocide against the wicked is inevitable, because the mere presence of evil people and spirits is unsustainable for everyone else. It can’t be tolerated forever. Similarly, those who are against us are not looking for coexistence. They want us gone. Dead. Not just dead, but erased from history. Many religious Jews pronounce this curse on Yeshua: “May his name and memory be blotted out forever.” That came from Satan. Satan wants it for Yeshua and all those who are important to him. This is why Holocaust-deniers, and those who claim ancient Israel was not Jewish, exist.

It’s the people and the spirits. They ruin the world. When they’re gone, the world will be like a big petting zoo. Even animals will get along. Finally, the dream of leftists will be actualized: a vegetarian world. But they will be elsewhere.

I know what it is to have unbearable people removed from my life. My sister is the biggest example. It’s not enough to have peace with her. Having to interact with her is intolerable. The constant flow of lies, slanders, and emasculation can’t be tolerated. I can’t coexist with someone who pits everyone against me and tells lies to people who like me. She can’t be permitted to have a conversation with my wife. It would be like putting my wife on the phone with Hannibal Lecter.

My sister can’t be near me. I can’t have dealings with her. I’ve had enough. Having her in another state and not communicating with her are enormous blessings. She will probably die before I do, and I will not go to her funeral. She makes every interaction a source of persecution to me.

The children of Satan, on a large scale, are the same way. The worse and more numerous they get, the more they need to be gotten rid of. I understand why hell was created. There is no other solution.

Hell is full of beings who are against God, and even there, seeing where being hateful put them, they are still vile and sadistic. They could be trying to unite and make the best of it, but the fallen spirits torture dead human beings around the clock, for no constructive purpose. They literally make hell worse.

If there is a nice thing about hell, it’s this: there is no way for the dead to get here from there. The people who are there now will never, ever bother any of us again.

I keep praying for God to set his children aside in places where they are concentrated and dominant. I ask him to drive out the wicked and give their land and wealth to his children in these places. I ask him to keep the plagues of this time off these places. I say that if curses have to come, they should fall on places where he has been rejected openly, like New York City and Japan.

I want us to have some peace and comfort in places where we are improved and blessed while waiting to be extracted. Let the children of Satan torment each other, far away, if they have to be hateful. They can’t be saved, but maybe they can be kept away from us.

It’s Working

Here’s to traditional marriage. I think my wife will agree.

Today I decided to make a big step on making this property my own. Sometimes I’m intimidated because I can’t help thinking the original owners knew what they were doing when they made bad landscaping decisions. I am getting over that. Today I killed a magnolia and two bottlebrush trees.

It seems like I fix just about everything these days. My tractor’s poorly-situated steering cylinder started gushing oil, so I took it out, modified the frame (drilled and painted a big hole) to make it easier to remove next time, and took it to a hydraulic place for a rebuild. I would have rebuilt it myself, but there were problems identifying the parts. Now I have the numbers, because they were on the receipt.

I managed to bust the engine’s front cover while putting the cylinder back in, necessitating an expensive visit to the dealer, but at least I know how to deal with the cylinder in the future. And I painted up the new cover I bought, so it looks a lot better than the old one.

The house’s original owner had some horrible brush tines that were held on with chains and chunks of wood. I cut them in pieces and turned them into a quick-attach fork which is a thousand times as good. Welding, cutting, painting. Got it all done without help. No one else has a fork like this one. It’s fantastic.

I put a Pat’s quick attach set on my 3-point hitch, and it made it easy to switch attachments. Totally superior to the heavy, overpriced adaptors other people still, for unknown reasons, buy. I stuck a ballast box on the hitch, so now I have a compact ballast and a great brush fork to work together.

Today I went out and ripped my bottlebrush trees out because they were sick and planted two feet from my workshop. You never plant anything two feet from a building. Not even shrubs. The trees threatened to beat up the eaves during storms, and if they had been big trees, their roots would have threatened the foundation. They were in the way. Planting them was a bad choice. I pulled one out pretty easily with a chain and strap. The other one took more work, but now it’s on the burn pile. I plan to replace them with this: dirt. Or maybe two small shrubs with roots at least three feet out.

The magnolia was maybe 15 feet from the workshop and 10 feet from a water oak. It had to go. It had no future. It could have fallen on the shop. Every tree that poses a falling hazard is on the way out.

I am terrible at felling trees because I rarely have to do it. To gain practice, I tried to lean the magnolia away from the shop. When it started to move, I ran away like Sir Robin facing the Mad Chicken of Bristol, and the tree decided to stop falling. I decided brute force was the answer, as it so often is, so I chained it to the tractor and pulled it over.

I cut it in pieces and got rid of it, and now the cattle are snacking on magnolia leaves. I put glyphosate concentrate on the stumps.

When I came back in the house for breaks and to shower, my wife stared at me. I think she was starting to appreciate what I do around here. I was soaked in sweat. I had a mashed fingernail from a farm jack. I had a stick in my hair.

I had done maybe $1000 worth of work in around 3 hours. I base that on absurd quotes I’ve received for tree work. It was definitely work, but I enjoyed it. I have good tools, and my skills are adequate.

When I started taking off my work clothes, I was going to put them in the laundry room, but she told me to leave them where they were and let her know when I wanted food.

I showered, drew myself a Yard Boss Lager, put on my new glasses, sat in my new recliner, and relaxed.

My wife doesn’t know how to weld, cut metal, paint, fix chainsaws, cut trees, take a tractor apart, or operate tractor hydraulics. She can’t cut a tree. She has no idea who to call for a burn permit. She doesn’t know what one is. These things are not her problems. On the other hand, I don’t do laundry any more. I don’t wash dishes. I open drawers, and my ironed clothes are there. I open cupboards and see clean dishes.

It’s a pretty good system. God knew what he was doing when he designed it.

I got up yesterday, prayed, ate, dealt with a business lease for a rental property, fixed a cabinet door my wife had leaned on…I did all sorts of stuff. I can handle things that would leave metrosexual modern husbands in tears. I can drive a manual transmission. I can shoot, and it doesn’t bother me to kill cute animals that cause problems. I can make ammunition. I own taps and dies.

In return, my wife looks after wife stuff. She doesn’t compete with me and try to find an edge every day. She leaves the toilet seat up.

Satan has turned modern marriage into an endless competition. A series of selfish negotiations. It was never supposed to be like that. We were supposed to know and love our roles.

When you drive a car, the engine doesn’t decide it wants to be an air conditioner. The battery doesn’t decide it wants to be a transmission. The parts of a family should work together the same way.

Interestingly, in news related to old guys with rural properties, I have read that Tom Selleck is afraid he will have to sell his farm.

Tom Selleck must surely have a lot of money. He was in a very successful TV series 40 years ago, and he made a number of okay movies. He did a bunch of Hallmark movies. He has been in a CBS series for the last 14 years.

He lives on an avocado farm in Ventura County, California. Reports about the size of the farm vary, but it’s around 60 acres. He says he may have to sell if his series is cancelled, in order to have a good lifestyle until he dies.

How can that be true?

I looked it up. You can find the address on the web. He pays about $65,000 per year in property taxes. He may live another 15 years, so let’s say $1.5 million yet to pay, with numerical increases for inflation. Shouldn’t he be able to pay that?

His home is an avocado farm. Aren’t avocados expensive? Shouldn’t there be at least six figures of net income from that?

I decided to find out what John Travolta pays in my county. It’s about $27,000 per year. He has a smaller property, but on the other hand, the improvements are nuts. An incredible mansion that connects to a system of runways. He has carports with jets in them, at his house! One jet is a commercial airliner QANTAS used to own.

Travolta pays no state income tax, unless he has property in other states. He pays no county or city income tax. His property tax, during the same period during which Selleck will pay $1.5 million plus increases, will be about $400,000 with increases.

He can have all the guns he wants. He can keep an AK-47 in his car. If he shoots a criminal, our sheriff, Billy Woods, will probably take him to Dairy Queen.

He doesn’t have rolling blackouts. The power is always on.

I wonder what Tom Selleck is paying California, his county, and his municipality. And why is he there? He’s supposed to be conservative. My guess is that his wife won’t let him move. Or maybe he’s a RINO.

He could be in Tennessee or Florida right now. Or Idaho. Or Wyoming.

Zillow says his property is worth about $12 million, and Zillow is usually pretty accurate. Zillow thinks Travolta’s house is worth $3.5 million, which is very modest considering his wealth. The acreage is about a third of Selleck’s, which is still pretty good for a non-agricultural property.

If you don’t need runways, I guarantee you, you can get 60 acres here for what Travolta’s house is worth. With an agricultural exemption, your taxes will be around $16,000 per year.

You can have horses, cattle, goats, sheep, ostriches, emus, donkeys, or just about anything else you want. What you can’t have is California.

Selleck should not have a mortgage right now. Unless something is wrong, his home is paid for. He should be able to sell his ranch, pocket maybe $9,000,000 after capital gains, move to a better state, buy a better farm, and have well over $5,000,000 in additional retirement funds. He should have something saved up from his work. He should have the maximum Social Security benefit.

Maybe he just spends too much. When you’re 79, and you’re worried about your future, you ought to be able to rein in your spending and survive on a net worth of over $12 million. Even if all he has is a reverse mortgage, he should be able to fly business class to nice places every year and eat anything he wants.

If he moves in next door, I’ll be happy to help him and his wife find the best local barbecue.

Just not in the Way the Punks Want

I was reading the Bible and praying this morning, and I feel like I got a better understanding of how the Western world in 2024 resembles the disgusting cities of Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis.

Yeshua visited Abraham, along with two other “men.” All three appeared as human beings. Abraham prepared meat for them, and they ate it, which is a good lesson for anyone who thinks God is a vegetarian opposed to all forms of killing. God himself ate veal with Abraham and two powerful cherubs, which are presumably the same cherubs depicted on the ark of the covenant.

Yeshua told Abraham he was going to look at Sodom and Gomorrah to see if the things he had been told were true. Realizing Yeshua intended to destroy these cities, and surely aware of the sexual perversion and cruelty that were going on, Abraham negotiated and got God to agree he would not destroy them if he found 10 righteous men there.

The cherubs went to Sodom, intending to stay in the street all night. Knowing what the San Franciscans and Hamasexuals of the time would do if they could, a horrified Lot begged them to stay in his home. Angels are said to be very beautiful, so they would have been irresistible to the homosexual rapists of Sodom.

The angels agreed, and Lot made them a feast. He served unleavened bread, showing that there wasn’t much time to prepare. This is a parallel to the story of the Passover, another instance of God saving his people by separating them from the incorrigibly wicked.

The homosexual rapists went to Lot’s house like a BLM mob and demanded that the angels be sent out to be raped. They expressly stated their intentions. Lot offered his two virgin daughters instead and begged the perverts to leave the angels alone. The homosexual rapists in the mob decided to treat Lot worse than the angels, and they tried to pull him outside. They showed no interest in normal sex, if rape can be called normal, with the females.

But for the angels, Lot would have been stripped naked and sodomized to death in front of his own house, with his household looking on.

The angels struck the homosexuals blind and told Lot to gather his family and let the angels take them out of the city.

Lot had at least 4 daughters. No sons were mentioned. He had at least two married daughters. Their husbands thought Lot was joking when he tried to get them to leave, so they were under some kind of supernatural spell. Lot left with his wife and two virgin daughters.

Lot’s wife disobeyed God and her husband and looked back during the trip, so she died and was turned into salt. She was destroyed by female rebellion.

It looks like God was willing to spare Sodom for one righteous person, Lot, instead of holding out for 10. Lot’s daughters got him drunk later and committed incest with him, so they probably were not considered righteous.

It may be that there were other righteous people in the group. Lot was wealthy, so he had servants, and his servants would have had families. Judaism and Christianity are patriarchal, and the Old Testament is full of figures who led big households and had servants. If there were other righteous people in the group, they are not mentioned. It is common for the Bible to mention patriarchs without mentioning all the people who lived and traveled with them.

Homosexuals like to say Sodom was not destroyed because of their perversion, but this is not true. The Bible says the sin of Sodom was selfishness, but in Jude, it also says Sodom was destroyed for sexual sin. Also, the New Testament says homosexual acts between men are worthy of death. See Romans. There were plenty of reasons to destroy Sodom.

The main conclusion is that evil societies have earned the death sentence, but God spares them total annihilation because righteous people live in them along with the wicked. This is why God hasn’t destroyed the world a second time yet.

Another conclusion is that God will rain destruction and agony on evil societies right away, once the people who belong to him are clear.

We now live in a world where sexual sin, including some of the most disgusting varieties, is endorsed by many huge nations. We generally haven’t committed to bestiality, incest, and child rape, but these things are getting more common, and “activists” are pushing to normalize them.

The nice thing about this deliverance story, which is a warning about the tribulation, is that it shows that destruction is not for everyone. You can avoid it if you are close to God. The tribulation can’t come while God’s children are still here.

I also read about “dignities.” Jude says God has it in for people who revile them.

Speaking of backward Christians like the prosperity preachers and homosexual clergy, Jude said:

Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

So what is a “dignity”? The Greek word is doxa, which is vague. It can mean something like glory or a glorious individual. A person imbued with God’s glory.

Some people say it refers to Satan and other fallen spirits, because Jude says:

Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.

Some people say you can’t rebuke a foul spirit or speak evil of them. If that’s true, then you have to wonder why the Bible calls them impure and unclean. It also says we will cast them out, and it says we will tread on them.

To me, it appears that Jude was saying that if Michael was careful even when addressing the lowest of the low, human beings could cause themselves terrible trouble by speaking evil of people who speak for God.

Yeshua, John the Baptist, and the authors of the New Testament said terrible things about corrupt Jewish religious leaders, who were appointed by the Romans for money. They called them vipers and sons of hell, for example. They called them fools, comparing them to the retarded and the insane. They also used disparaging terms to describe sinners and people who didn’t listen. Clearly, then, “dignities” does not refer to all religious leaders or all people.

Based on my knowledge of the whole Bible, I believe Jude was criticizing punks in general. God hates punks. Christians love to say God loves everyone, but the Bible says otherwise. For example, it says he hates all workers of iniquity, and since he poured burning sulfur on the cities of the plain, it certainly looks like he hated the people who remained there after Lot left. I don’t think he loved them. Why would you pour burning sulfur on people you love?

In 2 Kings 2:23-24, God mutilated a bunch of children whose only known crime was making fun of Elisha, his anointed prophet. God, not Satan, brought two bears out to tear them open. In Deuteronomy 21, God told the Jews they could have worthless, rebellious children who ignored their parents executed by stoning, which really hurts and rips people’s heads open. God commanded the Jews to honor their parents, even though he did not say they had to love them, and the penalty was to live under curses, including premature death.

Punks have grandiose self-images which contrast starkly with their merits. They have no respect for people and spirits who are better than they are. They have no empathy. They take pleasure in sadism. They honor the vile, including spirits that hate God. They love to destroy. They persecute and steal from people who build. They can’t build anything for themselves. They reject the wisdom and commands of God and their betters. They love lying, and they punish and kill those who tell them the truth. They accuse better people of things they haven’t done, while denying their own egregious sins. They project their own evil onto people who are better than they are.

It sounds like God has it in for exactly the kind of people who are destroying and taking over America right now. We are inundated with punks who can’t receive correction. To make things worse, they pour out false correction.

God describes some people as worthless.

In the story of Naboth, Jezebel hires two worthless men to testify falsely against him. They said he had cursed God and King Ahab. Why did she do this? Ahab wanted Naboth’s vineyard, which Naboth had built, and Naboth did not want to sell. You can see how Jezebel resembles today’s leftist punks. Someone else built something and owned it, and she wanted it, so she made a lying accusation, destroyed the builder, and took what he built. Ahab got reparations.

The Bible uses the phrase “sons of Belial” to describe the false witnesses. Belial is a worthless spirit. His name means “worthless.” In the Bible, to be called the son of someone is to be said to be like him.

In the Old Testament, God calls the sons of Eli worthless. In Judges 19, God refers to the members of a Jewish homosexual rape mob in Gibeah as worthless, and later on, their tribe is wiped out.

“Belial” refers to Satan, who is, himself, worthless.

The Bible also uses the word “unprofitable” to describe worthless people. No matter what you do for them, they don’t change and become assets to the kingdom of God. In other words, they do not listen.

I have often said that God told me, “Hell is not full of ‘bad people.’ It’s full of people who don’t listen.” Hell is full of priests, rabbis, and popes who didn’t listen, but there are former rapists and murderers in heaven.

The children defiling our cities by testifying falsely against Jews, whites, men, Christians, conservatives, America, people who have assets, and everything and everyone else they can slander are children of Belial. They are making themselves worthless. The adults in government, the press, and the arts who support them are making themselves worthless. The world is filling up with worthless people who torment people who have humility and want to obey Yeshua.

The world is becoming unprofitable. God showed me that this is what precedes and motivates the rapture and the tribulation. God looks down, sees that traditional evangelism no longer produces a sufficient profit, notices that his people are being abused terribly without a good return on the investment, and pulls his children out. Then his fury pours out almost as it did on Sodom, except that he softens the blow enough to let some people live and change their minds.

Think of a grain of wheat. Most of it is worthless as food. The part that keeps you alive, and which has life in it, is in the interior. The husk is dead. This is why God compares worthless people to chaff. In tribulation, a tribulum crushes the husks of grain and removes them from the useful part, and then the husks are blown away and burned.

The kids in the tent camps are committing the sin Jude spoke of. They are reviling dignities. Their elders, Yahweh, people of good character, Christians, anyone who is anointed…everyone whose counsel can save them from hell.

Satan’s leftist and Islamist dupes now have cursed lives because they have done what the kids who made fun of Elisha did. In the supernatural realm, spirits are coming out to do the work of the bears. They won’t maul them, but they will do worse things. They will bring them things like poverty, addiction, criminal convictions, perversion, diseases, and the shortening of their lives, and the Islamists and kids who don’t repent will burn in the lake of fire forever.

Ironically, the people they abused will get reparations, and the world will be free, which is reminiscent of the slanderous chant about the river, the sea, and Palestine.

The Bible says Lot was vexed and oppressed in Sodom. Does that sound familiar? The chant kids and their allies vex decent people all day, every day. They get us fired from jobs. They ruin our businesses. They put their hands on us. They take over our schools. They dox and terrorize us. They demonize us. Because they have made themselves worthless by shutting their ears and praising themselves, there is nothing we can do to change them, so we sit at a distance and watch and wait for the end.

Of course they complain of genocide. They’re right in a way they don’t understand. God is going to commit genocide against them.

Israel is not genocidal, and the Jews didn’t steal land. The Jews begged the Arabs to stay in 1948, and other Arabs forced them to leave and to turn to actual genocide, which continues to this day. But God really is genocidal. He has done it before, and he will do it again. The punks falsely accuse their betters of genocide, and they deny the obvious antisemitic genocide they are calling for, and God himself will eventually do what they accuse Israel of doing. The punks will not be here for long.

It may sound strange to call God genocidal, but it’s obvious and undeniable. Read about the flood. Read about Sodom. Read Exodus. Read the Revelation. It shouldn’t be controversial.

We are not going to cleanse the world by buying rifles and ammunition. Cleansing the world is not our job, and we can’t do it anyway. God himself will do it. God told Yeshua to sit at his right hand while he made Yeshua’s enemies his footstool. He never told Yeshua to stand on his front porch and shoot people.

NPR Takes Much-Needed Step to End Journalism

This one blows my mind.

Everyone knows NPR is way WAY out on the left. The more conservative or religious you are–the fairer you are–the harder it is to listen. No fair-minded person can listen and fail to have the bias jump out at him, like an air horn in an orchestra. It is not reasonable to question the obvious fact that NPR is in the tank for the left.

I guess most conservatives are aware that a CURRENT editor at NPR, a well-regarded employee named Uri Berliner, just produced an essay decrying NPR’s unfairness. Notable fact presented in the essay: NPR has 87 editors, and precisely 0 are not leftists. That’s diversity in Bizarro World. I used to joke that “diversity” meant “getting rid of all the conservative white males,” but my joke has been destroyed in that it has become an objective description of reality.

Thank goodness for the flat Earth conspiracy theory. At least there is one conspiracy theory that won’t turn out to be true.

If you’re here, you have probably read his essay already, so there is no point in going over it line by line. You may also have read the bizarre, emotional, vengeful, punitive, objectively and demonstrably incorrect response written by NPR CEO Katherine Maher. Yes, she’s a woman. She had to be, because she’s white. They would never have hired a white male. Unless maybe he was gay. Or he wore dresses.

In an astonishing display of self-unawareness, in the safety of her bubble, Maher sent a message out to everyone at NPR, and instead of countering Berliner’s facts, she said:

Questioning whether our people are serving our mission with integrity, based on little more than the recognition of their identity, is profoundly disrespectful, hurtful, and demeaning.

Unbelievable! I thought I was used to the craziness now, but this is like a sharp slap in the face with a large, cold fish. I’m awake again!

1. “Disrespectful.” This means, “How dare you challenge our arrogance? You will pay. You will learn who you are and who I am on the corporate totem pole, little cis man.”

2. “Hurtful.” This means she is angry, not hurt. Someone rolled the rock over, and the biggest bug under the rock is mad because the sun hurt her eyes. Someone put foam sheets on the walls of the echo chamber. She is not “hurt” at all, and neither is anyone else. They’re just furious and ready to dispense payback.

3. “Demeaning.” This is a clumsy libel intended to put a truthful man on the defensive. It’s a deliberate lie intended to shift the blame to the innocent. It’s gaslighting. Berliner didn’t demean anyone. There are meme artists for that.

Based on the facts that he’s a leftist who got along fine with everyone at NPR for years, and that he was advanced to a high position there, Berliner is probably a jerk, but Maher’s attack on him is completely evil and dishonest, and it was intended to help NPR continue to harm conservatives and Christians, so in this instance, we should defend him.

People have a funny tendency to overembrace their enemies when their interests intersect. Right now, a lot of conservatives are saying John Fetterman is a great guy. No, he isn’t. He’s just a Jew who got mad because his pals on the left were assisting in the destruction of Israel. That doesn’t make him Trump cabinet material.

We have to learn to be non-binary. About some things.

I was disturbed by Maher’s insane, retributive message, but today I’m even more disturbed, because she has SUSPENDED HIM WITHOUT PAY.

How much more blatant can the discrimination be? What else do we need? Torches? Pitchforks? A guillotine? A pile of brush and a stake?

A woman in charge of one of the nation’s most prominent “journalism” organizations just SUSPENDED A MAN FOR DOING JOURNALISM.

That is literally his only crime.

He didn’t steal files. He didn’t catch people on hidden cameras. He didn’t lie to anyone. I’m sure he didn’t violate the terms of his employment, unless shilling for NPR no matter what is a term. Until this week, he was an admired employee in good standing. He has done absolutely nothing wrong. To the contrary, risking his job, his financial stability, and the loss of most of his friends, he has done exactly what journalists are required to do. He bravely exposed very damaging corruption at an organization which, as policy, defaults on its obligations of good faith. An organization which does the opposite of its purpose. They’re supposed to disseminate truth, and instead, they fight the truth every day.

Wow. The baseness of the human race could not be displayed more strikingly. It’s like we’re a reality show, and Joseph Heller writes the scripts.

The absurdity of this woman’s response can’t be heightened in any way. She left no room. She has literally punished a man for doing good journalism.

Let’s say he’s wrong. He’s not, but it doesn’t matter. A journalist does not punish another journalist for disagreeing with her. I just don’t have the energy to explain this obvious fact. Everyone knows it’s true.

We should burn the works of absurdist playwrights. Ionesco and Giraudoux, au revoir. Reality has left you in the dust. Every DC comic featuring Bizarro should be destroyed. Comparing Earth to Bizarro World is becoming like comparing Somalia to Switzerland.

Spirit-based delusion is everywhere. People can’t get this stupid without the help of demons. And what did Isaiah say?

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

“Woe” sounds quaint, but it’s not something you want. It means terrible suffering. Like the suffering that will come during the tribulation, which the liars and nuts are hastening with their willful dishonesty and cruelty. Woe means things like starving, dying in nuclear blasts, and watching your crops being completely destroyed. Sodom and Gomorrah experienced woe.

I would say this woman should be fired, but what good would it do? If we had killed Hitler, we would still have had Goering, Himmler, and Goebbels. If we had killed Saddam Hussein right away, we would still have had his sons. One person is not the problem. If we kill Kim Jong Un, we will still have to fight his sister, who is said to be worse. The problem is an Earth covered with a stinking soup of Yeshua-haters and truth-haters.

There are at least 86 people at NPR who can probably be trusted to continue doing what Maher is doing. The one who might resist is on suspension.

Not only is humanity getting nuttier; it is becoming immune to embarrassment about being nutty.

Man, I can’t wait for the rapture. I really hope I will be here during the millennium. To all of you who are still mired in blue states and cities, I have to tell you you’re making a mistake that will harm you and your children as long as you persist. You have forgotten what life among normal people is like, and while you may think you’re doing fine because you resist, you’re not.

During the millennium, the whole world will be a red state.

I guess we’ll have fewer guns, but on the other hand, why would we want them in a world ruled by King Yeshua and his obedient children?

Maybe he’ll let us keep Bass Pro. I love that place. When you step inside, it reminds you there are little isolated cysts full of sanity all over America.

I should buy a popcorn machine. Watching this corrupt phase of the world’s existence end without popcorn just feels wrong.

Baldwin Defenses Soon to be Tested

I am reading about Alec Baldwin, who is soon to be tried for manslaughter in the shooting death of Halyna Hutchins, whom he shot on a film set along with a hapless director.

I have written about this before. It seemed to me that he had no conceivable defense, and the defenses he was blathering on the web were more harmful than helpful. I guess his ego could not accept the notion that his lawyer might know more than he when he advised Baldwin to stay silent. I’m sure his lawyer gave him that advice, because only an idiot would not.

Baldwin had a firearm in his hand. Not a fake gun. A real revolver suitable for use as a self-defense weapon. The revolver had at least one real round of ammunition in it. Baldwin pointed the gun at two people, and the gun fired. Baldwin says 1) he never pulled the trigger, and 2) he relied on employees to make sure the gun was safe before he handled it.

Assertion 1 is a lie, so there is not much point in elaborating. The gun was designed so it could not be fired without pulling the trigger. This information is in the manual, which you can find online.

Assertion 2 is more complicated.

Baldwin is accused of negligent homicide. In legal terms, “negligence” means 1) you owed someone else a duty of care, and 2) you failed to exercise care.

To determine whether Baldwin owed his victims (he hit two people) a duty of care, you have to come up with a standard. What is the standard of care for a person holding a revolver?

You have to start with the standard of care every responsible gun owner knows. There are four rules.

1. Treat all guns as though they were loaded.

2. Always keep your firearm pointed in a safe direction.

3. Keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to shoot.

4. Be sure of your target and what’s beyond it.

There are different versions of these rules, but they all mean the same things.

There is another rule: when you handle a gun, ALWAYS check to see if it’s loaded. Doesn’t matter if your best beer buddy swears he just checked it. You have to check for yourself.

Are there times when you can’t obey these rules? Maybe, if you’re an actor. Actors sometimes have to point props that look like guns at themselves or others. But these days, prop providers have all sorts of props that look exactly like guns on film, yet are obviously not guns in the minds of the people who hold them. There are prop guns that are made entirely of things like rubber and plastic. There are prop guns that have no moving parts.

There must have been many scenes in which actors have pointed clearly-fake props at people. On the other hand, it appears there have been many times when actors have pointed real guns at other people. I’ve seen scenes where actors pulled the triggers on revolvers that were aimed at other people, and the triggers, cylinders, and hammers moved.

Baldwin knew his gun was real, and he still pointed it at another actor. He said he would never do that, but obviously, he did, because if he hadn’t, he would have missed his victims.

Baldwin didn’t treat the gun as though it were loaded, he aimed at a person deliberately or carelessly, and he put his finger on the trigger when he didn’t intend to shoot anyone. He broke three of the basic safety rules. The fourth didn’t apply to him because he didn’t have a target. He didn’t intend to shoot.

What I wonder is whether he can be held responsible for breaking the other rule.

Ordinarily, you have to check to see if a gun is loaded as soon as you take possession. But would that have made sense for Baldwin? What if the gun were ordinarily loaded with dummy bullets that looked like the real thing? If that’s how it worked, maybe it would be unfair to expect Baldwin to check all over again. Maybe as an ignorant actor who knows little about guns, he isn’t qualified to decide whether a round is real or fake.

If that’s the case, then it would make sense to hold the armorer responsible for checking the gun.

So maybe it’s wrong to say Baldwin should have examined the gun before picking it up. Maybe it would have looked the same regardless of the type of ammunition it contained.

Still, though, he broke three of the other 4 rules. You only have to break one rule to be negligent. I’m sure Baldwin’s lawyers will try to make the jury forget that.

If he hadn’t put his finger on the trigger, he wouldn’t have fired. If he had treated the gun as though it had been loaded, he wouldn’t have fired. If he had pointed the gun in a safe direction, he wouldn’t have hit anyone.

His lawyers are going to attack a couple of ways.

They will say the gun could have fired without Baldwin pulling the trigger, and that the state can’t prove otherwise because the FBI damaged the gun while testing it. They will also say Baldwin’s standard of care should be the standard of care movies stars usually employ on movie sets. They’ll say the famous rules everyone else obeys don’t apply to actors because movies hire armorers to make sure guns are used safely.

The argument about the trigger is somewhat ridiculous. I don’t expect it to go anywhere. The gun’s parts still exist. The gun has been repaired. It should be possible to use the damaged parts to show that before they were damaged, the gun would only fire when the trigger was pulled. It will definitely work that way in the repaired state.

It’s an argument designed to appeal to dumb jurors and biased jurors. If Baldwin’s lawyers pick the right jury, maybe they’ll get somewhere, but it doesn’t look good.

As for claiming movie stars live by different rules, it’s a bad argument that should fail. The fact that you’re making a movie doesn’t mean you have the right to loosen good rules that save lives and which everyone else has to obey.

A real firearm on a movie set is just like a real firearm anywhere else. People on a movie set are just people. It may make sense to abandon the rule saying Baldwin had to check the gun, because it may have been impractical and an expert had been hired to do it for him, but the other four rules are personal to the shooter.

He still seems guilty to me. I see no way to raise reasonable doubt. His best hope is a stupid jury or a jury containing a few fans. He needs a jury like the one full of black women who refused to convict O.J. Simpson. Simpson could have set his ex-wife on fire at a nationally-televised press conference, and those emotional, racist women would have sent him home.

My best guess is that he’ll be convicted. He has refused a plea, and it has been withdrawn. Was that his idea, because he can’t believe the minor god Alec Baldwin could be convicted, or did it come from his lawyers? Do they reasonably think they can win? Are they bad lawyers who give bad advice? No way to know, but that plea may look really good to Baldwin in a few months.

The armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, was convicted by 7 women and 5 men after only three hours of deliberation. Not a good sign.

I’m assuming Baldwin gets tried on the merits. Guilty people get their cases dismissed all the time, based on government errors and malfeasance. If the state dropped the ball somewhere down the line, the facts and the law surrounding the shooting won’t matter.

Here I Am, Stuck in the Middle With Jesus

Teh crazy lies thickly upon us like a fog composed of atomized PCP.

The left is corrupt and insane. Far more corrupt and insane than the political right. But we are not helping ourselves by failing to acknowledge the nutwads among us.

Today I started reading an article about the unconstitutional ways Aunt Sam (don’t judge) surveils us these days, and the article said this:

Last August, an FBI squad gunned down Craig Robertson, a 75-year-old woodworker, for things he had allegedly posted online. The killing was reportedly under review by the FBI’s Inspection Division, but as of this writing there has been no investigation by Congress. As members may have noted, the FBI now operates along partisan lines.

Sounds bad. Like Ruby Ridge and Waco. I looked it up to learn more about the FBI’s egregious misdeeds.

Turns out this guy was as crazy as a tree full of coons. He was “they-worthy.”

He threatened to murder Joe Biden and Alvin Bragg, and he said he was headed for New York to carry out his plans for Bragg. He went to Truth Social and posted this:

Heading to New York to fulfill my dream of iradicating [sic] another of George Soros two-but [sic] political hach [sic] DAs. I’ll be waiting in the courthouse parking garage with my suppressed Smith & Wesson M&P 9mm to smoke a radical fool prosecutor that should never have been elected. I want to stand over Bragg and put a nice hole in his forehead with my 9mm and watch him twitch as a drop of blood oozes from the hole as his life ebbs away to hell!!

BYE, BYE, TO ANOTHER CORRUPT BASTARD!!!

The FBI got a warrant. They showed up at his house with lots of equipment, which was good for him, because the more protection they had, the more likely they were to be able to take him alive and get him the drugs or padded walls he needed.

He cursed the FBI and refused to come out. Shots rang out. They shot him. They tried to revive him. He died at the scene.

Where is the problem here? For once, the FBI did everything right.

This guy had no business owning guns. He needed to be confined. There was a need to figure out whether he needed psychiatric treatment or a prison cell. No doubt about it. The FBI had an obligation to throw a net over him, bring him in, and lock up his weapons.

He’s not much like the kids the bumbling idiot Janet Reno killed needlessly in Waco.

Conservatives choose too many of the wrong battles.

This all serves to illustrate a point: though God is indisputably conservative, conservatism is not holiness, and conservatives–even those who nominal or true Christians–are not immune to the delusions that come from the spirit of antichrist.

You can be a true Christian and not know the Holy Spirit. If that’s you, you are vulnerable to Satanic delusion. If you’re not praying in tongues, you’re not hearing from God, but you are hearing from people and spirits that lie all day. You have no help. You have no source of information strong enough to outweigh the garbage that goes into your head all day.

Robertson was a pagan. Specifically, he was a Mormon. Mormons are not Christians. They believe Jesus is God, but they don’t believe in salvation by faith, and they don’t know the Holy Spirit. They have all sorts of sick, demonic practices. For all we know, Robertson was communing with the white salamander or the demon Moroni or the ghost of George Romney. It wasn’t the Holy Spirit who told him to shoot an admittedly twisted, bigoted prosecutor.

When we start seeing armed battles between trannies, homosexuals, Antifers, and Muslims on one side, and Christian militia nuts on the other, it won’t be because God told the militia nuts to mobilize. It will be because Satan is commanding both sides.

The truth has gotten lost, and while the right has more of the remnants of the truth than the left, there is no shortage of nutty, dangerous conservatives who don’t know God.

But Vivek Ramaswamy is a topic for another day.

Smart Judge Slaps Down Federal Overreach

Well this is interesting.

A Florida federal judge has put an end to the government’s bizarre ban on bringing firearms into post offices.

This law is stupid. I have taken loaded pistols into hospitals and banks, and I have kept guns in vehicles on university property. I have carried in parks where little children play. I carried in church; as a security team member, I was required to carry. I carry in restaurants with big bars. No one cares. It’s legal. Why are federal buildings set apart?

If I were a criminal, I would carry wherever I wanted, unless I were subject to search. Idiotic, inexplicable, arbitrary, pointless laws wouldn’t stop me. Neither would good laws. The ban didn’t stop bad people, but it inconvenienced good people and put them in danger.

We used to joke a lot about “going postal,” but the truth is that a post office is not a very dangerous place, nor is it a place that is especially appealing to criminals. Post offices aren’t full of good stuff criminals want. It’s not like masked collectors in stolen hoopties are storming post offices to get the latest Disney stamps.

Committing a crime in a post office can put the federal police on your back, and they are much worse than state cops. You’ll have the Postal Inspector’s agency and the FBI to deal with, and they don’t have to worry about state lines or extradition.

Here in Florida, under state law, we can carry in banks, churches, and hospitals. There are dangerous restrictions on several types of places and events. Bars, schools, sporting events, career centers (???), polls, government meetings, jails and prisons, police stations, courtrooms, airports, and places that fall into the same big category as whorehouses. There used to be a law saying you couldn’t go into hospitals with certain types of mental facilities, but it looks like it’s gone now.

The post office ban is federal. The state doesn’t care. The ban also applies to other federal buildings.

Let’s start with bars. It’s silly to keep guns out of bars, because bars are places where innocent, sober people are likely to be attacked. There is a separate law banning carrying a firearm while drunk, so if the ban on bar carry was removed, drunks would still have to leave their guns outside.

The ostensible purpose of the bar ban is to keep drunks from carrying weapons in bars, but since that law is redundant, the only effect of the law is to disarm sober people who may be attacked by drunks. Bartenders, waitresses, bouncers who keep belligerent people out, people whose current or former romantic partners may want to barge in and shoot them, and so on.

The unspoken purpose of the law is probably to allow drunks to beat people up, because legislators thought that was better than having righteous shootings in bars. Many people who have an irrational hatred of guns think it’s better for innocent people to be beaten and severely hurt than it is for victims to shoot assailants.

I understand why legislators wanted to keep guns away from professional sports events, because people are idiots about sports. They beat up Little League umpires. But the actual effect of the law is to leave innocent people at the mercy of bigger, stronger people who can’t behave like adults. Seems to me an umpire should be allowed and encouraged to carry.

Why there would be a ban on carrying a gun in a career center is beyond me. I have never seen a career center. I assume it’s a place where people go to find jobs. Googling, I see there are 12 career centers, and they are connected with public universities.

Are people likely to flip out when career advisors tell them they should be in waste management instead of neurosurgery? Has anyone ever heard of a shooting in a career center? Makes no sense to me.

The school ban is just plain insane. High schools and universities are full of women at their peak physical attractiveness, and we disarm them. Brilliant. They should call it the Ted Bundy Law.

The ban doesn’t seem to work well on school shooters, but it makes things a lot easier for them.

Keeping firearms away from polls seems archaic. With the exception of the well-known case of the Pennsylvania New Black Panthers who used a wooden billy to menace whites at a poll while shouting racist remarks and threats, we don’t hear about weapons at polls, or poll violence, any more, even though people are perfectly capable of beating each other up and killing each other at polls without weapons.

Keeping guns out of courtrooms makes a certain amount of sense, because courtrooms host divorces, domestic violence cases, and all sorts of criminal cases. I was in a courtroom when a murderer’s dad threatened to kill a detective. But the restriction should not apply to lawyers or court employees. Judges can carry. Cops and bailiffs carry. Why not lawyers? We’re officers of the courts. A lot of lawyers get attacked by moron clients, and courthouses tend to be situated in high-crime, Democrat-controlled areas.

When I used to practice, courthouses didn’t have gun check rooms. I doubt they have them now. I had to take long walks through downtown Miami without a pistol. The law wasn’t fair to me. It certainly wasn’t fair to all the ladies who worked in the building.

Keeping guns out of government meetings doesn’t make much sense to me. Violence at government meetings is rare.

Prisons and police stations…no complaints from me. The corrections officers and cops are armed. That’s enough. They provide a good deterrent, unlike a 70-year-old judge armed with a 5-shot, sweat-rusted .38 he doesn’t know how to shoot. People have a long history of smuggling guns into prisons for bad reasons, and prisons are full of people who have no civil rights, so we should keep guns out.

I think keeping guns out of police stations is stupid, because no one takes a gun to a police station in order to fight the police–no one a ban would stop–but the law seems harmless because police stations are very safe.

Airports? Why? There are no metal detectors at airport entrances, so obviously, they are already full of illegal guns. Not much happens. You can’t hijack an airport. If you’re going to take a hostage at an airport and use him to get yourself a plane, you can do it from the sidewalk, where guns are allowed. I don’t get it.

I had to stay at an airport hotel once. If I had walked in through an entrance that opened into the terminal, I would have had to leave my gun in my car or put it in a suitcase. Hotels are pretty dangerous. Connie Francis was raped twice in hotels.

The bar restriction has unintended consequences. It means there are a lot of restaurants where you can’t pee. Restaurants with busy bars often put their restrooms in bar areas. I can go to Friday’s with a gun, but I have to sit outside the bar area, and if the can is in the bar, I have to put my gun in my car before I can use the facilities.

That’s really stupid. Even if it were a bad idea to let people carry in bars, it should be okay to let someone zip into and out of the restroom without disarming.

I’ve had to tell hostesses not to seat me in bar areas. I guess they thought I was an alcoholic.

As for post offices, my big problem is that when I go, and I obey the law by putting my Glock and knife in my center console, I forget my weapons are in the car. Then I end up walking around half the day disarmed.

I could just keep my gun and knife on me and go in anyway, because they don’t check. I could have done it already, multiple times, without problems. I could have walked into the area where the drop slots are, fully armed, dropped my envelopes, and walked out. But it would have been very naughty.

Now it’s legal, at least until the decision striking down the law is appealed. And if anyone violated the law in the past, they can’t be charged with anything.

If the post office restriction is gone, then the other blanket restriction on federal facilities is presumably on life support. The same rationale for striking it down applies.

A right you can only exercise in little bits of your state is not much of a right. What if we said blacks could be banned from restaurants within a thousand feet of schools? What if we said you could only object to random searches in a few designated areas? People wouldn’t like these laws much. The right–not privilege–to carry is at least as important as other civil rights. We shouldn’t let tyrants nibble away at it.

Maybe tomorrow I’ll stroll into the Post Office fully armed and buy some stamps. My little salute to Rosa Parks.

Be Vewwwy, Vewwy Quiet

I decided to give myself a nice Christmas present. A silencer.

I took a precision rifle course a few years back, and I noticed a couple of things. I was the only person shooting an AR-platform gun instead of a real precision rifle (the question “Is it deer season?” was heard), and silencers seemed to be everywhere except on my gun’s muzzle.

I didn’t think too much of it. After all, ear plugs and muffs are cheap, and smart people use protection even with silencers. I was also not excited about the extreme cost or the long wait OR getting myself on yet another secret list somewhere. Today I decided to give in. I ordered a rimfire silencer, and I am planning to pick one up for bigger guns.

OKAY, PUT ME ON THE LIST NOW. THANKS.

Why rimfire? Mainly, it was a much easier decision. The world of silencers for bigger guns is more complicated, and they cost more. I still have not figured it out. What kind of muzzle attachment do I want? How will it work with a brake? Lots of questions. With rimfire, you just decide which one you want and order it.

Do I need it? Of course not. Plain old ear plugs are fine for a .22. But silencers are fun.

There are companies that make buying a silencer easy. You can actually have a silencer delivered to your door. You pay. They send you a kit with a government form and an SASE. You fill out the form and mail it. Then Uncle Sam drags his feet for eternity, because it’s a terrible thing when citizens are allowed to protect their hearing, and eventually, the vendor mails you the silencer.

I guess mailing a silencer is okay in spite of the NFA because you can’t actually shoot someone with it. I don’t know, though. I know you can’t have a new pistol mailed to your house.

It’s all pretty stupid. In parts of gun-phobic, herd-mentality Europe, silencers are not regulated. People can order them from websites the same way we order socks from Bass Pro. They’re also inexpensive compared to American silencers. A silencer is a can with baffles in it, so they probably cost about $20 to make. Our bizarre laws somehow make it easy for manufacturers and sellers to jack up the price.

The NFA is stupid, in general. I have learned a little about it. I found out why it bans rifles and shotguns with short barrels.

Once upon a time, our Congress was so stupid, it tried to get rid of all concealable guns. It wanted to get rid of all pistols. Imagine how criminals would have jumped for joy, seeing the rest of us suddently rendered defenseless. Because a short rifle or shotgun could take the place of a pistol, Congress tried to get rid of them, too. Then the pistol prohibition got the axe, perhaps because someone remembered we had a Constitution, but Congress, being stupid, left the business about short barrels in place.

Congress restricted a class of firearm virtually no one wanted or used. Years later, people decided they wanted short weapons for use in close quarters like homes and businesses, so a law which hadn’t been much of a bother suddenly became a major pain to many law-abiding citizens.

This is my understanding, anyway, and I am too lazy to check to see if it’s right.

While I was taking my class, I observed something I had already heard about, which almost no leftists believe. I noticed how loud “silenced” or “suppressed” guns were. They were very loud. Well able to damage hearing. But they were a lot quieter than unsuppressed guns and therefore less likely to defeat hearing protection.

Leftists think a silenced rifle sounds like a stapler. This idea comes from TV shows and movies, and fictional silenced guns are said to be “Hollywood quiet.” Maybe there is a gun out there that really is that quiet, but the general rule is that they are obnoxiously loud. You can’t run into an airport, shoot 15 people, and run out with no one noticing, regardless of what great geniuses like Whoopi Goldberg and Jake Tapper may think or say.

I don’t expect Hollywood quiet, but I would like to look after my ears reasonably well.

The silencer I ordered is not going to produce the same sad results as silencers attached to high-powered rifles. A .22 round is a lot quieter to begin with, so, if things go as advertised, I should be able to shoot rimfire without ear plugs. Just like I did about 5,000 times when I was a kid. That will be fun.

I only have one .22 which is threaded for a silencer. I guess I can have some other rimfires threaded. I wonder if I should try putting a barrel on the lathe. It would be a good experience even if I screwed up, and barrels can be replaced.

It’s kind of tough to get a silencer for a big gun now. The Obama Effect has not completely worn off. Covid helped keep it going. Many things that were hard to get a couple of years back are now readily available, but many others are still hard to find. The selection of .22 cans is good, but if you have a big rifle, you may have to settle for your third or fourth choice.

The big challenge now is to live long enough to see the paperwork clear.

It’s absurd for our government to hinder and delay the procurement of safety devices which are of no help at all in committing crimes, but we all know how weird the government is.

Speaking of guns and government, I saw Alan Dershowitz say something that wasn’t all that brilliant yesterday.

Dershowitz has a Youtube channel for some reason. He posts videos in which he tries to correct the world. Basically, he can’t adjust to the fact that everyone else is so much less intelligent than he is, so he wastes his time trying to set them straight. I’m sure that will work. Perhaps not the most productive way to spend one’s final days, but he seems to enjoy it.

Ordinarily, I find my chosen profession boring, because it is, but I watch Dershowitz from time to time because it’s nice to see someone with a fairly big platform saying things that should already be obvious to every lawyer in America.

I forget what the video was about, but at the end, he answered a question about the Second Amendment. He said something about how unrealistic it was to hope to fight tyranny with rifles. Apparently, he thinks it can’t be done, so there is no reason to let Americans go about armed.

It was a pretty dumb thing to say, but it goes to show what happens to people when they forget which lane they’re supposed to be in. Dershowitz is great with law, but that doesn’t mean he has any idea how to fight a just rebellion or any other kind of rebellion. It’s the kind of distinction you would hope a top legal mind would make automatically.

Maybe if he were not a leftist, he would have been inclined to do some research. He’s a very fair man, but everyone is somewhat biased.

I will give my take. I’m not a military or political expert, either, but I’m also not a sheltered leftist professor, and I have a little bit of common sense. I’ll post some assertions which may overlap to some degree.

1. Rifles can do wonders when pointed at the right people, so it’s careless to say rifles can’t be used to overthrow a government. Get to the right people, point rifles at them, and a lot of things may start to go your way.

2. Rifles can be used to get bigger weapons. Obvious.

3. If there is ever a just rebellion here, it is a certainty that many cops and military people will be part of it, because they lean right and fascists lean left. Fascist leftists like oppressive government, so they’re not the ones who will rebel. They’d be rebelling against themselves. You can’t fight the establishment when you are the establishment. The rebels would have cops and soldiers on their side, and that means they would also have things like jets, artillery, and tanks. Are tanks artillery? Not sure. Don’t care. Anyway, once the rebellion started, rebels working for the government would provide a lot of larger weapons.

4. In the event of a rebellion, other countries will take a look, and they will take sides. What do meddling countries do in civil wars? They supply arms. Again, the rebels would not be relying solely on duck guns and Glocks.

5. Even if you have big weapons, you still need rifles and people who know how to use them. Obvious? The only way that can happen in a reasonable amount of time is if private citizens are already armed.

6. Guerrillas who started out with small arms have caused a great deal of misery for overconfident superpowers.

7. It’s not easy for a country to fight rebel guerrillas in a civil war. In a normal war, everyone shows up in easily-recognized uniforms, and most of the fighting takes place at well-defined fronts. When you find your enemy, you can usually bomb the daylights out of him, because his people are concentrated and separated from yours. You can even bomb his cities. In a rebellion, people will wear what they wear now. They’ll be everywhere. They’ll be anonymous and under cover. They may work for you by day and kill your people by night. There will be no front. There will be no homogeneous rebel cities for you to bomb. Bomb a city, and you’ll kill your own people. The idea that you’ll be able to release every weapon you have and wrap things up in a hurry is absurd. If that kind of thing worked in civil wars, Vietnam would be a state.

Rebels in America could mount a successful coup, and if that didn’t work out, they would have a very good chance of dividing the country permanently, like Korea. If a rebellion were just, pro-2A people would turn out to be on the right side of history. They would be the people who saved whoever got saved from the tyrants. The founding fathers of Florexas.

8. The Second Amendment is not just about tyranny. It’s also about self-defense, and the best information we have tells us gun ownership and carrying firearms do much more to protect the weak and innocent than they do to empower the cruel. America has a people problem. We have several big demographics that commit a huge amount of violent crime, persistently. Blacks alone commit most murders. There is no hope we can change the population segments that are most prone to violence, so it would be sick and immoral to disarm the rest of us in the vain hope that somehow, disarmament would trickle down to people who never cared about the law to begin with. If Professer Dershowitz ever had to face a loaded shotgun in his bedroom, maybe he would adjust his beliefs a bit.

Ask Professor Dershowitz a purely legal question, and you’re sure to get a smart response. Ask him how guns and wars work, and the situation deteriorates fast. He veers dangerously close to the Behar/Feinstein* Vortex**. You find that he puts his metaphorical pants on one leg at a time, just like lesser attorneys.

Everyone is stupid about something.

He may be uninformed about guns and unaware of his bias, but least he’s not self-deceiving and willfully blind, like most prominent leftists we see commenting on this issue. He tries to be consistent and honest, so he offends just about everyone eventually. That makes him worth listening to occasionally, even if law is boring. Which it is.

*”We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it’s legal to hunt humans with 15-round, 30-round, even 150-round magazines.” — Dianne Feinstein

**”If you shoot with an AR-15, let’s say you shoot a deer, you can’t eat it because you basically demolish the animal.” — Joy Behar

Clues are Wasted on Some People

I saw an interesting story on the web today.

A guy who used to be a Christian conservative Youtuber gave in to the soy and became a leftist. He had a girlfriend who used to date a lunatic stalker. The girlfriend knew the ex-boyfriend was a stalker, because he had put tracking devices in her belongings. The stalker came to the new boyfriend’s apartment to kill him, possibly thinking a liberal male was a softer target than a woman.

While waiting to receive the consequences of supporting a political faction that disapproves of gun ownership, the boyfriend phoned the police, because they are able to arrive instantly and protect us from all threats. He nearly whimpered as he begged. Ugly.

The stalker fired a shotgun offensively at least once and then killed himself. At least one pellet hit the girlfriend. The boyfriend was unharmed.

He is now accused of using his girlfriend as a human shield. I don’t know if that’s true, but she got shot, and he did not. In the video, they appear to be on his apartment’s balcony, and she is between him and the apartment, looking in.

The police arrived during the attack. That’s very unusual. It appears the stalker killed himself because he didn’t want to surrender. He texted the girlfriend before he died, saying, “I should have killed the coward.”

It’s not fair to call a man a coward because he won’t fight a guy who has a shotgun, but maybe that’s not what the shooter meant. He may have been referring to other disappointing behaviors he saw during the attack.

He later denied lacking bravery, saying he simply depended on his girlfriend for situational awareness. That’s one of the worst defenses I’ve ever heard. He’s a man, she’s a woman, and she’s not even married to him, but he depends on her to be his bodyguard. Without weapons.

The whole purpose of not being married is to allow for sudden escape. If you haven’t married your girlfriend, it’s because you think something better, be it a better girlfriend or peaceful solitude, may come along, and you want to be able to hit the silk at a moment’s notice. What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. You can’t fault a girlfriend for running off when a mere boyfriend is in danger. She can get another one that doesn’t have holes in it.

I proposed in a hurry. Extremely unlike me. I was certain. My wife wasn’t on probation. There was no free trial period. I knew what I wanted, and I wasn’t hoping someone better would come along.

Note the contrast, ladies. Cold feet aren’t actually normal or okay.

The Youtuber is on Gofundme, trying to get $5000 to pay for moving expenses. The stalker is dead, so insisting on moving seems excessive. He claims he wants to get away from the memories. Doesn’t sound all that sincere to me.

I think he should be trying to get $5000 to pay for rifles, pistols, lasers, ammunition, and optics.

I tried to comment several times, but Youtube deleted my remarks almost instantly. I guess I offended some pink-haired girl who wears plaid shirts and hemp boxer shorts. Or maybe it was a pink-haired computer.

I tried to say the shooting was a great victory for feminism, like dying alone, surrounded by cats. I shouldn’t have said that. The injury the victim received was relatively minor, but it was still an injury, and she had a very bad day.

I tried to remark on the decisions the victims made.

The woman is as much to blame as the man, if it’s fair to blame a victim for failing to prepare to respond to someone else’s bad acts. She chose a man who chose not to be able to defend her or even himself. She also chose not to have a firearm. She did all this, even though she had found Airtags in her stuff and knew who had put them there.

The man chose not to arm himself, and it may be that he chose to put her between himself and the shooter. People are claiming he stayed behind her when he called the cops, and the video, though not conclusive, gives that impression.

They knew she had a crazy stalker. She had found tracking devices in her belongings, and she knew who put them there. The stalker didn’t go John Hinckley Jr. in one day. There is no way she didn’t tell her new boyfriend. They both knew they had a problem. Even if they didn’t think the shooter was going to try to harm them, they knew they lived in a dangerous world. They could have prepared. They decided not to.

I am careful about blaming victims. For example, if you leave your keys in your car, and someone steals it, I’m not going to say you’re to blame for the theft. That’s stupid. The thief is to blame.

On the other hand, I will say you’re to blame for not preparing like a responsible person. You didn’t steal the car, but you didn’t do what any responsible person would do.

If you leave your keys in your car and go around claiming people who don’t are racist, imperialist, performative, sexist, or whatever, you are beyond irresponsible. Many people who are against gun ownership are like that.

The folks in this story are guilty of irresponsibility, and it cost them. Unless they are legally barred from owning guns, they have no excuse.

My situation is a little different. I don’t think anyone is trying to kill me, but I’m prepared anyway.

I bought my first pistol right after my addict sister told me she was going to send her white trash addict friends to take care of me. I didn’t wait around to see if she was serious. If one had shown up, I would have shot him as many times as I had to in order to make sure he was rendered harmless. When you hear a credible threat, you don’t sit around doing nothing until a tattooed miscreant starts banging on your front door.

I keep a lasered Eastern bloc rifle where I can reach it from bed, along with electronic ear muffs and my cell phone. My wife saw the ear muffs and said she wanted some, so now she keeps some handy, too. That’s her attitude toward self-defense. None of that girly business about not having scary old guns in the house. No quietly-held hopes of trying to “fix” me and my attitudes about guns.

The rifle is actually hers. I gave it to her before she even got here. I have another one in the process of being set up, and when it’s ready, I plan to put the first one on her side of the bed.

I also have a pistol with a laser, ready to go in her purse when she learns how to handle it. No permit required in Florida. I want to get her a permit anyway, because there are additional benefits, but she can carry today without being arrested.

If we get uninvited guests, and I am not able to respond, they will have to deal with the wife, and I am pretty sure she will not hesitate to shoot to kill. Everyone thinks they’ll back down when the time comes, but that’s unusual. If you read up, you’ll learn that people who are in immediate danger of being shot or raped are generally very enthusiastic about shooting criminals, regardless of their backgrounds, sexes, or inclinations. Kids shoot criminals. Women shoot them. Old people. Preachers. Liberals. It’s normal. People don’t want to be hurt.

I don’t pretend to be brave, but I certainly hope I will be out in front if we are attacked. It’s my plan. I can say that much. If I have an attack of cowardice and hide behind my wife, I won’t make ridiculous defensive remarks about situational awareness.

Owning firearms isn’t a guarantee that we’ll be okay, but it’s a hell of a lot better than doing nothing whatsoever while pretending our dumb choice is virtuous and smart, insulting people who have the good sense to do the right thing, and striving to take away their civil rights.

It’s terrible that this lady was shot. Fortunately, her injuries aren’t very bad. I hope she and her boyfriend rethink their leftist notions, and I hope their story helps others to drop the insincere virtue-signaling and get back to ideas, like gun ownership, they know really work.

Leftism is a luxury. When things get really bad, no one will care about pronouns or sorting trash that can’t actually be recycled. People will fall back on the mindset that worked for earlier generations. Smart people don’t wait for a wake-up call in the form of buckshot. They face reality without being slapped in the face by it.

Was Eugene Stoner Really on our Side?

While I wait for my wife to emerge from the bathroom, I am making a list of killers whose fun was cut short because they weren’t smart enough to buy AK-47’s.

1. Nikolas Cruz, the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas shooter.
2. Andrew Warrender. Las Vegas Turnberry Towers.
3. James Holmes. Aurora, Colorado.
4. Orlando Harris. St. Louis, Missouri.
5. Caleb Sharpe. Rockford, Washington.
6. Armando Hernandez. Westgate, California.
7. Omar Mateen. Orlando, Florida.
8. Adam Lanza. Newtown, Connecticut.

Man, they keep popping up. This only took a few minutes.

Why does anyone trust an AR-15 for self-defense?

“Your Package has Been Shipped”

My wife is somewhere over Africa, telling stewardesses they’re too slow with her champagne. I expect to be having burgers and fries with her some time tomorrow.

Things are going quite well here. One of my best friends was raised by his grandmother, and she just passed away, so he and his kids had to spend the night here on the way to her funeral. His kids seem to be from another planet. They’re polite. They don’t break things. I have to keep telling them to talk LOUDER. Also, they cleaned my house.

I don’t know why they do this, but it happens every time they show up. I would be happy even if they came alone and left Dad at home.

I was dreading cleaning up the man-filth in preparation for trying to fool my wife about how neat I am before she takes over. Now I don’t have to do it.

We had a fantastic day yesterday. We hit Sonny’s BBQ and filled up on ribs. Every restaurant has off days, normal days, and on days. Sonny’s had an on day. The ribs were perfect. For dinner, I made two Sicilian pizzas. One cheese and one pepperoni.

I spent a lot of time talking to my friend’s only son. He has a tough life. Three sisters still in the house.

He started telling me how he loved my computer. I know little about it. I decided I wanted to make Youtube videos, so I found a guy online, telling people which parts to buy to build a suitable PC for a reasonable price. I bought the parts and built the PC. That’s all I know.

Evidently, it’s a gaming PC. I did not know this. Gaming and editing video require similar capabilities.

He knew all about the motherboard and graphics card.

It turned out he had a lot of tech interests. I told him about Arduino and Adafruit. I told him about soldering stations and so on. Maybe the next time I’ll see him, he’ll bring a homemade communications satellite.

Very smart kid.

He’s also conservative, which is not something you see a lot in junior high kids. We talked politics, and I told him stuff I had learned about God.

These kids are so quiet, I never know what’s happening in their lives, so it was a real revelation, conversing with him.

Things are going well for me, but America is not merely circling the drain; it already has one leg in it. This week, many Americans are on the web claiming Osama bin Laden, the mass-murdering idiot behind the deaths of over 3,000 innocent occupants of the World Trade Center (including Muslims), was right.

I’ll post more about that later.

I should hear from the little woman after 5 p.m today, and the next window of opportunity will come tomorrow morning. After that, Orlando in the afternoon.

I am not ready to shift into real married life. I have spent about two months with my wife, but we were always on vacation in exotic places. I have become very good at phone marriage and sending money. Having someone here all the time will be different.

The phone, immigration matters, and trip arrangements have been our chief activities for a long time. When she’s here, we can forget all that. So what will we do?

Fixing up the house and my wife’s wardrobe will kill a little time. After that, we will have to deal with freedom.

It’s a good problem to have. Some people have to get up every day and spend 10 hours trying to sell Bud Light.

I’ll continue the post during the next flight so I can express my thoughts about the bin Laden letter.

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My wife had to make a connection in a country that gives Hamas billions, and even though I know that country has no idea who I am or where my wife is, I feel more at ease completing this post now that she is somewhere else.

Bin Laden wrote a ridiculous letter to America, and people are urging others to read it, claiming it proves he was actually a good guy and we were the problem.

Some highlights:

The creation of Israel is a crime which must be erased. Each and every person whose hands have become polluted in the contribution towards this crime must pay its price, and pay for it heavily.

Right away, you can see that this letter is a scary, revealing litmus test. If you agree with bin Laden after reading the above citation, you are a Jew-hater. It’s possible for a person who does not hate Jews to believe Israel has done bad or unwise things from time to time, but if you want to erase the Jewish nation, which is legitimate, and abuse everyone involved in supporting it, you hate Jews.

[Y]ou have not yet tired of repeating your fabricated lies that the Jews have a historical right to Palestine, as it was promised to them in the Torah.

Well, we have the Torah, and it does promise all the land in “Palestine” (a non-historical nation) to the Jews. We have copies that predate the birth of the pedophile rapist Mohammed, who was born in the 500’s. Muslims don’t have a “real Torah” to show us. They do have the groundless ravings that form their own scripture. The same scriptures that mandate the killing of Jews and Christians, not just in Mohammed’s time, but forever.

Muslims believe in all of the Prophets, including Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad

Yeshua received worship and said he was the Messiah, so obviously, Muslims don’t “believe in” him. The Old Testament clearly says the Messiah is God, not just an anointed servant, so when Yeshua said he was the Messiah, he was claiming to be God. If you don’t believe this, you don’t “believe in” Yeshua.

When the Muslims conquered Palestine and drove out the Romans, Palestine and Jerusalem returned to Islam, the religion of all the Prophets peace be upon them.

How did Jerusalem “return” to Islam when it had never been a Muslim city? The Muslims invaded Jerusalem in the same century in which the thief and murderer Mohammed made Islam up. Mohammed’s efforts to create Islam are said to have started in 610, and Jerusalem was invaded and taken over by Muslim imperialists and slavers in 638.

You have supported the Jews in their idea that Jerusalem is their eternal capital, and agreed to move your embassy there. With your help and under your protection, the Israelis are planning to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque

The Jews held Jerusalem for thousands of years, including times when they lived under occupation. Islam’s claim is based on a dream someone supposedly had about an unnamed mosque in an unnamed location. And Israelis are not planning to destroy the mosque. It will be wonderful when Yeshua finally destroys this den of idolatry, but the Israelis are content to leave it alone.

Thus the American people have chosen, consented to, and affirmed their support for the Israeli oppression of the Palestinians, the occupation and usurpation of their land, and its continuous killing, torture, punishment and expulsion of the Palestinians.

Torture is actually a Muslim thing, just like chopping hands off without anaesthetic, which they do every week. Israelis don’t torture as policy, and soldiers who do it on their own are removed from their posts and sometimes imprisoned, but when Hamas attacked civilians in Israel this year, they printed a torture manual and sent it with their cowardly murderers. As for killing, that’s normal when people are making war on you and rejecting peace offers.

And whoever has killed our civilians, then we have the right to kill theirs.

I think he means, “”whoever has killed our civilians reluctantly and unintentionally, while making a great effort to spare them, at a high cost in lives to their own military, often while we have used our civilians as human shields, then we have the right to kill theirs deliberately, in huge numbers, using means banned by all recognized standards of civilized warfare, and we also get to torture and rape them.”

The American Government and press still refuses to answer the question: Why did they attack us in New York and Washington?

Actually, those questions have been answered about a billion times. We attacked in New York because they tried to blow the World Trade Center up by detonating a huge bomb in the parking garage, hoping to murder as many innocent, defenseless civilians as possible, in conformity with their official policy.

Bin Laden said Al Qaeda was calling victim nations to Islam. Funny how dumb Americans, virtually all of them leftists, are excited about the religion which will execute them SOONER than conservatives.

We call you to be a people of manners, principles, honor, and purity; to reject the immoral acts of fornication, homosexuality, intoxicants, gambling’s, and trading with interest.

Evidently, people of honor set fire to living babies, and they cut babies out of pregnant women and behead them, without even cutting umbilical cords. That’s Al Qaeda honor. In Gaza, they throw homosexuals off tall buildings, so “Queers for Palestine” must be a base-jumping club.

[T]he Jews have taken control of your economy, through which they have then taken control of your media, and now control all aspects of your life making you their servants and achieving their aims at your expense; precisely what Benjamin Franklin warned you against.

I have no idea what Ben Franklin said. I know my life is not controlled by Jews. Even the Jew I worship permits me to do what I want.

Anyone who thinks there is a big Jewish conspiracy should round up a hundred Jews and try to get them to agree on ONE THING. It’s impossible. If there were a Jewish conspiracy, we would see some sign of it in, hello, the government of Israel, which is constantly plagued by disunity.

The Jewish conspiracy is certainly doing a great job of making the media side with Israel; every day, I see articles blaming Israel for the deaths of civilians Hamas uses as human shields. It’s like the entire press industry has turned into Al Jazeera.

If this is what a Jew-dominated press looks like, what would it look like if Jews backed off? “MATZOH PRICES DROP DUE TO INCREASED AVAILABILITY OF PALESTINIAN BLOOD.”

You are a nation that permits the production, trading and usage of intoxicants. You also permit drugs, and only forbid the trade of them, even though your nation is the largest consumer of them.

So leftists support a guy who wants to ban drugs and alcohol. Try and imagine a world in which leftists could not get these things. The Betty Ford Clinic would have to set up FEMA tents. The entertainment industry would cease to exist.

You have continued to sink down this abyss from level to level until incest has spread amongst you, in the face of which neither your sense of honour nor your laws object.

That’s a little weird, given the common Muslim practice of marrying first cousins. Bin Laden married his cousin. Incest hasn’t been spreading in America, but give it time. Post-gay-marriage-revolution, some here have noted that there is no biological reason to prevent gay marriages between relatives, and then there are incestuous couples in which at least one partner is sterile. Leftists will be the first to march for the changes, so how can any leftist support a Muslim extremist? They think Mike Johnson is dangerous because he believes the Bible.

You are a nation that practices the trade of sex in all its forms, directly and indirectly.

So leftists, who gave us the term “sex worker” to replace the accurate term “whore,” support a guy who is against making money from sex.

Go ahead and boast to the nations of man, that you brought them AIDS as a Satanic American Invention.

AIDS came from Africa, and when did leftists suddenly become okay with linking AIDS to sin? I mean, it’s correct, but leftists lose their minds when you dispute the idea that people who got this venereal disease aren’t heroes.

People who did their best to get AIDS got a quilt, but nobody got a trophy for syphilis. Where is the syphilis quilt?

You who dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan, even though Japan was ready to negotiate an end to the war.

Japan was ready to cause the greatest bloodbath the world had ever known, and it was already off to a great start with little projects like the Rape of Nanking and the Bataan Death March. They taught women and kids to fight invaders with pointed sticks. They were ready to resist down to the last person. When the government decided to surrender, the military tried to stage a coup in order to keep the war going. It took TWO bombs to end the war because Japan kept fighting after one city was reduced to radioactive ruins.

We all know how easy it is to get ignorant leftists to believe fake history, though. They still think white people invented slavery, and they won’t admit most black slaves were bought from black traders. This information has been concealed from them in things called “books.” It’s no wonder they think the Japanese were the good guys.

The freedom and democracy that you call to is for yourselves and for white race only

We had a black president, we have numerous black billionaires, and Muslims still enslave blacks, but okay. Leftists don’t read, and they discard obvious facts, so no problem.

Regarding nuclear weapons:

Anyone else who you suspect might be manufacturing or keeping these kinds of weapons, you call them criminals and you take military action against them.

Wow. Wonder why that is. We let you get your hands on two passenger planes, and look what you did. You shouldn’t be allowed to have matches. But leftists who stare at Tiktok all day and think Kim Kardashian should be president believe you.

Tiktokers are claiming we need to read this letter, and they say, “It’s only two pages long.” It’s more like 15 pages long. Who is paying them?

The sudden adoption of hell-resident bin Laden’s beliefs should disturb Americans who aren’t crazy. My fear is that antisemitism has suddenly become fashionable. I think it will be like gay marriage: almost universally opposed one day but coercively, overwhelmingly, oppressively supported the next. I don’t think Jews have years time left to prepare. I think months are all they can hope for, and months aren’t enough. Christians–real ones–will be targeted for genocide next.

The letter is exposing a lot of de facto Nazis of whom we would otherwise be aware.

This is a good time to bring the wife to the armed, fenced Northern Florida compound. I’ll give her a lasered pistol to carry. We’ll get her going with an AK-47 of her very own. I already told her it was hers. We’ll get her a carry permit so she can carry in other states. We’ll pray like crazy and dedicate ourselves to the one who keeps us safe. Maybe we’ll get some dry food. The tiny pawn shop where I pick up guns is selling bagged meals, three for 10 dollars.

I visited the other day, and I have mixed emotions about it. On the positive side, the place was busy handing guns over to people who had had them shipped in, so people here appear to be taking a productive attitude, and that’s reflective of the culture here.

I saw a nice old lady talking about gun classes and various aspects of gun ownership. She was very enthusiastic and seemed to know a lot. The kind of person you would expect to be preparing for Thanksgiving dinner with her grandchildren right now. A guy who worked in the store had a $10,000 M249S on the counter. An old guy from California came and picked up a piece, proving some people have the good sense to leave the state. I was only there about 35 minutes, and I guess 5 guns were picked up.

On the down side, they were selling those dried meals. A sign of well-founded pessimism. Guns can help you prevent disaster. When you’re eating freeze-dried food, disaster has already come.

Another shop I’ve used has a Ma Deuce in the showroom. Probably still ready to rock, full auto. They’re that kind of people. It’s an impressive weapon for a civilian to have. It will lay down a wall of lead, one round will tear a limb off, it’s unusually good for shooting through vehicles, and you can scope it and hit terrorists a very long way off. They splatter. Horrific.

It will be hard imposing sharia law in that shop.

God, not firearms, is my protection, but I don’t see any reason to invite problems through lack of ordinary preparedness. I mean, I own an umbrella. I don’t stand outside in the rain and pray the drops miss me.

The plane is on the way. Before the sun sets tomorrow, my wife and I will be at White Castle.

I Love You, but Stay Out of my Yard

Last night, I dreamed a blonde woman and her employees were trying to get in my house. I was yelling at them and so on from behind sliding glass doors. I gave her the finger. I opened a door to give her some more, and she somehow inserted a wire in the opening so I could not close the door. I got out a knife to cut it, and I think made a small cut on my left hand.

Anyway, I would have been better off leaving the door shut.

I think obnoxious people in dreams often represent spirits, and we all know spirits try to get inside us, like vampires asking permission to enter houses.

Maybe I am too angry these days, and it gives spirits openings. The cowardly, racist, terrorist attack on Israel, and the terrorist attacks on Jews elsewhere, and the gaslighting and cancel fever among leftists all over the world, have had me thinking a lot about how I hate bullies and liars. I hadn’t thought much about self-defense in a long time, but I started getting back up to speed. I have a wife on the way here, terrorism will definitely reach rural American gentiles, and I can’t play around.

Christians have to be people of love, and we don’t get a break when people start abusing us. That’s the time when we have to be most careful not to fall into hate.

I believe I’m right to arm up, but I also have to prepare my mind and my heart.

I cast out spirits of anger and fear. I asked God to pour his love through me and help me to be rid of adverse spirits. I spent a lot of time praying in tongues. I feel much better.

As I woke up this morning, I heard my wife’s voice say, “Now we can read Hebrews 5:11.” Of course, she is not here, because the consulate is dilly-dallying. I thought maybe I had heard from God. I looked up the verse.

Discussing Yeshua, it says: “Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.”

I wondered the obvious wonder: “Am I resisting things God is telling me?” I’m always asking for correction as well as help in accepting it.

I still have lots of rough edges, but I don’t think I’m the main problem here. I think God was telling me and my wife what people are like.

First, Paul (assuming the traditional attribution is correct) says he has many things to say. Of course he did. He spent a lot of time alone with God, and God poured him full of information other people did not have. This happens to everyone who prays in tongues. Sometimes you get so much stuff, there is distress mixed with the pleasure, because it’s just more material you won’t be able to get anyone else to accept.

What if you lived in a country where almost everyone was dying of scurvy, God kept sending you pallets of Vitamin C, and virtually all of it went to sit in a continually-expanding warehouse, where it would never be opened?

The other day I felt like asking God to stop telling me so many things. “More stuff I can’t tell anyone.” But I immediately stopped myself and told him to give me as much as he wanted. Better for a few people to get revelation, and to feel bad about not being able to share it, than no one at all.

Second, Paul talks about how hard it is to say certain things. Wow. I know what he means. God has shown me all sorts of things, and there are pretty much two people on Earth who listen. Other people don’t respect me enough to listen. Some think TV preachers know everything. I get through to almost no one. So yes, it’s hard to make myself say certain things, because most of the time, people who get revelation are around people who won’t listen and would not understand if they did.

Yeshua told us not to cast our pearls before swine. We are his pearls, but the same principle applies to words. The best way to make swinish Christians mad at you is to tell them something God told you.

Third, Paul says the Hebrews are dull of hearing. That is true of most modern Hebrews as well as most Christians. Yeshua is the Messiah and God of the Jews, but Jews continue to suffer more than the should, because they don’t like him, they have no interest in Judaism, or they believe their confused sages have the answers. Israel would be having a much better time right now if most Jews belonged to Yeshua, but God’s help is limited because their ears are closed.

In the Tanakh, problems for Israel always indicated a state of disobedience. Somehow, most Jews think this is no longer the case. Israel is a pure victim, not in need of correction.

No confession, no repentance. No repentance, no relief. See Psalm 32.

If you are not baptized with the Holy Spirit, you are dull of hearing. Only the Holy Spirit enables people to receive truth. Reject Yeshua and you reject the Holy Spirit. It’s that simple.

Communion consists of two things: flesh and blood. The flesh of Yeshua represents his grace. Every good thing God does for you is grace. It’s charity. None of it is earned. The wine represents the sacrifice. If you share Yeshua’s cup, you agree to share in his rejection. You agree to stand up for him and be persecuted.

If you want the grace, drink from the cup. Don’t defend yourself. Don’t say God owes you anything good. He owes you hell. If you want the good, admit you deserve the bad.

Hebrews 5:11 is an interesting verse in an interesting chapter.

The enemies of Israel are in the wrong, but if you want protection from the wicked, you need to know God. America is like Israel, moving away from the one who protects it.

I will try to keep listening to correction I don’t like. I’m taking solid measures to arm my household, but I don’t need to be weighed down by anger. I will keep praying for the vicious, psychotic enemies of Jews and Christians, and I hope God takes us off this planet before I ever find myself in a situation where I have to consider picking up a weapon.

Stoner was no Browning

Suddenly I’m thinking about firearms and personal protection. I’m thinking about it because I just saw part of a surprising rap video taking up for Kyle Rittenhouse.

One of the many, many lies told about Rittenhouse is that he is a white supremacist. No idea where that comes from. He shot a Jewish pedophile in self-defense, and then he shot two more white people who were trying to harm him. One had an illegal pistol in his hand when Rittenhouse shot his arm nearly off.

Somehow that person, Gaige Grosskreutz, now known as Paul Prediger, never got charged with anything.

Anyway, it surprised me to see a rap song standing up for the victim, Kyle Rittenhouse, because in this country, black people are supposed to be against him for no reason.

A comment beneath the video mentioned something I had forgotten: Rittenhouse’s AR-15 rifle jammed while he was on the ground trying to protect himself.

Rittenhouse did a very impressive job of self-defense. He shot one attacker and then ran to tell the police, which was the correct, lawful, responsible move. Then he was attacked by a lynch mob, and they knocked him to the ground. His gun jammed. He cleared it. Then he shot two people who were trying to kill him, killing one and disabling both. After that, he resumed running toward the police, whom he eventually reached.

He did everything right. He only fired when his life was in imminent danger. He fired effectively, hitting what he aimed at. He stopped firing when the threats were neutralized, so he never crossed the line between self-defense and illegal retaliation. He also cleared a jammed weapon.

He did everything right, except for one thing. He bought the wrong rifle.

If you look at the history of AR-15 shootings, you will notice a common thread: rifles that jammed at critical moments. It has happened to criminals and also innocent people. It has also been a huge problem with the automatic versions of the AR-15 used by soldiers.

Some people get mad if you call an M16 or an M4 an AR-15. It is. It is. Shut up. No one says a semiautomatic Tommy gun is a different rifle from the automatic version. Just shut it.

Here’s a Google search for you.

I saw an Internet commenter saying AR-15 jams had saved countless lives. Pretty funny, but also true.

Try and find similar stories about AK variants or any other commonly-used semiautomatic rifles. Good luck. It won’t happen. There are millions of AK’s out there, and in a giant statistical sample, unlikely things will happen, but there is no long history of AK’s letting people down when it mattered.

Imagine what Rittenhouse went through. You’ve just been attacked by a child rapist who chased you down and tried to take your gun so he could kill you. People are firing shots around you (not often mentioned). They’re yelling, “Get him!” You’ve been knocked to the ground, your chest has been stamped on, and you’ve been assaulted with a deadly weapon (a heavy skateboard). A lowlife with an illegal Glock is running up to you. You’re on your back. And your new rifle is jammed.

It’s a wonder he lived.

I don’t get the AR self-defense craze. They’re all sorts of fun for targets and hunting, but why would you trust a gun which is famous for failure?

People blame the users. “Inexperienced.” “Untrained.” That’s really stupid. If you have to be trained in order to make a gun do what every other gun does for untrained people, you should buy a different gun.

They say poor maintenance is to blame. Good luck, trying to make an AK jam with poor maintenance.

I am an AR owner. Not for survival. Just for fun. I had to buy a special brush to clean the chamber. Never had to do that before. Where is my special AK chamber brush? They don’t exist. No need.

What happens if my AR chamber gets too dirty? It may hold onto a round so tightly it will not come out of the gun without tools. Show me where this is a problem with any other firearm.

I saw a guy on Youtube using hydraulic pressure and a special fitting to force a live round out of an AR-15. He threaded the fitting onto his muzzle, attached a grease gun, and pumped. He was a very knowledgeable guy, and he had tried everything else.

The round finally flew out and dented the wall of his shop.

What are you going to do if this happens to you while undocumented guests are rambling through your house at 3 a.m.? Short answer: surrender and possibly be raped or die.

Maybe you could use the grease gun to shoot the entire cartridge at the burglars.

A standard AR even has a feature that helps you jam it beyond field repair. It has a little thing you push to force stubborn rounds into your chamber. It’s called a forward assist. It was not part of the original design, but the military insisted it be added.

Hello…if a round is too fat to fit, the last thing you want is to force it. The proper thing is to eject the round and throw it out so you never try to use it again. If you use the forward assist, you’ll probably save the 25 cents you paid for the round, but if it gets stuck, you may be murdered by an assailant who realizes you are disarmed. Who bets a life against a quarter?

They should call it a burglar assist.

You can say, probably incorrectly, that your AR-15 will work great because you maintain and use it perfectly, so people who hate AR-15’s are stupid. First of all, you may be overestimating yourself and the gun, and second, wouldn’t you rather have a gun that works even when you screw up? I do. I want a gun I can throw to my untrained wife in an emergency.

The final thing I don’t like about the AR-15 is that it’s usually chambered in a bad cartridge: the .223/5.56. I will treat these calibers as though they were the same, because they nearly are. This cartridge has inferior stopping power compared to the AK’s standard 7.62. When you choose a rifle over a pistol, the single biggest reason is improved stopping power. Why choose a weak round over a strong one?

The 7.62 round is legal for deer hunting, probably everywhere. Go Google and read about deer and the .223. Many states will not let you use it. Why? Because it’s cruel to wound animals without killing them. State governments know the .223 is much weaker than the 7.62. How much more proof do you need?

The AR platform just isn’t very good. No one wants to admit it, but it’s obvious.

Why won’t they admit it?

I know why people continue to insist the AR-15 is a great gun. The main reason is that it’s really neat. It looks great; it makes you feel like a military guy holding a machine gun, instead of a fat Walmart employee with Cheez Doodle particles in his beard. It’s fun to customize. There are a billion parts and accessories you can install on your own.

Products people think are cool are almost always more popular than products that work.

There is also a certain amount of American pride out there. “WE BUILD GUNS BETTER THAN COMMIES!” No, we really don’t. The AK platform is a masterpiece, and the AR platform is a collection of compromises and corrections.

The AR-15 is like the Porsche 911, which was, and still is, a bad idea. Hitler had the VW Beetle designed by Ferdinand Porsche, and Porsche kept the same basic concept when he got into sports cars. Then his company held onto the butt-heavy, hard-to-drive, rear-engine format instead of moving forward like other companies. Just like Americans holding onto the AR-15. The result is that Porsches are still uglier, more dangerous, and harder to operate than other expensive sports cars, and Top Gear’s famous lap time board only has two Porsches in the top 15.

And Porsche is really trying, believe me. They don’t sit in front of the TV in Stuttgart and say, “Ze important sing is zat ve participated.”

People will rationalize in order to justify their prejudices. There are people out there right now telling pollsters Joe Biden is a fantastic president. When people claim the AR-15 is better than an AK, often, they are acting like lawyers. They look for anything they can say to bolster their case, and they forget about the truth.

I got a red dot for an AR-15. I figure it’s better to have it rigged up for self-defense than not, even if it’s my 4th choice. I mean, a golf club isn’t a weapon, but if you have one, you might put it next to the bed anyway.

I don’t have a laser on it. Those are for reliable guns.

I’m honest about the AK/AR debate. I think AR’s are really neat. I wish they worked well. I would prefer to be on the AR side because the primitive bits of my brain like them. But I’m not an idiot.

It’s sad that the AR-15 is so popular for self-defense, because intramural factional violence is going to get worse, and a lot of people who are in the right and who trust unreliable guns are going to get shot needlessly.