Random Shots for Monday, 23 October 2017

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

1. Posted to Facebook —

   Set a date and time, then promote it.

   Last time I checked, open carry of both long guns and sidearms is still legal inside and around the Roundhouse.

2. Posted to Facebook —

   Are there similar articles for journalists covering “knife violence” (stabbings and slashings), “blunt-object violence,” (assault and battery using baseball bats, clubs, axe handles, lengths of pipe or rebar), “automotive violence” (deliberate hit and run incidents) and “bare-handed violence” (unarmed assault and battery) ?

3. Posted to Facebook —

   How many suicides, deaths due to neglgence or justifiable homicide are lumped into the category of “gun violence” ?

4. Posted to Facebook —

   Claudia Anderson — name me a victim disarmament “gun control” proposal that will actually perform its stated function of deterring violent crime.

5. Posted to Facebook —

   Here’s a screenshot from the CDC site — “gun violence” doesn’t even make the list.

   

6. Posted to Facebook —

   “Universal” background checks (and a 15-day waiting period) are already the law in KKKalifornia, yet Los Angeles has some of the highest rates of violent crime per 100,000 residents in the nation. That’s been the case for over 20 years now.

   “Back that up by making possession of a gun that you didn’t get a background check for a felony.”

   That would make me a felon several times over, for simple possession of inanimate objects. NO THANKS.

7. Posted to Facebook —

   No, I’m not confused at all.

   I’m simply unwilling to surrender liberty and property so that you can have your momentary warm fuzzy that you “got something done” and “made a difference.”

   For me to “compromise,” I would have to get something back that *I* want. Vague, unenforceable “promises” that “this will make a difference” don’t cut it. Nor do the lies that “no one wants to take your guns.”

8. Posted to Facebook —

   I guess I’ll have to settle for you and Bobby likening me to a heartless asshole or mental defective, then.

9. Posted to Facebook —

   What I did was pointed out that your proposed victim disarmament statutes haven’t stopped “gun violence” in any meaningful way in the past, then I asked why should I expect the same sorts of measures to work THIS TIME, because you have such “good intentions” THIS TIME?

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

1. Judas Priest —
   1. ’98 Live Meltdown
   2. Demolition
2. KRQE 13 News [CBS affiliate for Albuquerque, New Mexico] — Victim in carjacking crash fighting to cling onto life by Jeannie Nguyen
3. Dark Horse Comics — The Shaolin Cowboy – Who’ll Stop the Reign?
4. Star Trek: Discovery
5. Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May / June 2017 —
   1. pp. 148-151: “In the Mists” by Bill Pronzini and Barry N. Malzberg
   2. pp. 152-153: “The Return” by Bud Sparhawk
6. 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, Vol.34 #3: Autumn 2017 —
   1. pp. 26-28: “The Hacker Perspective” by “Master Chen”
   2. p.29: “A Little Brother’s Manifesto” by “Qrag”
7. Ace Books [Berkley Publishing Group] — Igniting the Reaches by David Drake
8. nmpolitics.net —
   1. Politics isn’t a sport by Heath Haussamen
   2. Build on the knowledge of the past instead of tearing it down by Brad Cates
9. Disturbed — Ten Thousand Fists
10. The Libertarian Heathen by Ryan Ramsey —
    1. Dave Champion, SJW and Federal Snitch
    2. LPF Under Attack by Adrian Wyllie, Paul Stanton, and ANTIFA
    3. Meet Paul Frankel, Editor in Chief at IPR, ANTIFA Terrorist, Convicted Forger, Former LNC Rep, and His Freak Show Seeking to Disaffiliate the LPF
11. Columbia Journalism Review [CJR] from Columbia University — A gun-focused news outlet on what it takes to cover firearms credibly by Ben Hallman
12. Hallmark Channel — Frasier
13. Image Comics — The Family Trade