Life in 3D

Joan is Right

She says in her post from yesterday

The truth is that there are too many victims and they know it

She’s right, we do know this., which is why we want to make sure that there are fewer victims by enabling people to defend themselves.  There is no more effective way for any person to protect themselves against any form of violence – guns, knives, fists, bats, chains, broken bottles, pool cues – than to have a firearm.

A small woman like my wife who is 5’1 1/4″ (she’s proud that she is over the 5’1″ mark) can effectively stop an attacker that is 6’4″ and 385 lbs with a firearm.  Mace is not guaranteed to stop an attacker, neither is a tazer, emergency whistle or a candle.

During and after the candlelight vigils  to honor victims of gun violence, the gun rights extremists ramped up their rhetoric. Victims make them nervous. They don’t like victims. They say we are “dancing in the blood of victims” when we light candles and ring bells. What’s that all about anyway?

What its about is that victims don’t make us nervous, they make us sad because we KNOW that many of those victims would not be victims if they had an effective means to defend themselves – a means that YOU and your people would like to deny us under the flag of “common sense gun laws”.

I have yet to see a gun control law that has had any effect on reducing crime or stopping it.  If you look at the facts, the only effect these so called ‘common sense’ gun control laws have had is to increase crime. You can go to Stranger’s site and see for yourself.  Article after article shows when gun control laws were enacted, crime increased.  Period.  Remove the useless restrictions on gun ownership and crime goes down because the only ones who have cared about the laws to begin with weren’t criminals.

In fact, the homicide rate for 2010 has been one of the lowest ever. With more and more states allowing CCW and real common sense gun laws homicide has dropped off the top 15 causes of death in the US.  Higher gun ownership and fewer murders.

Joan, how is it possible if guns are so bad and need to be controlled that homicides have dropped when gun sales are up??  Also, how is it if guns are so bad and gun control so good that the places with the strictest gun control laws also have the highest crime rates??

As my friend Jennifer said, you are making empty gestures with your candles instead of finding actual solutions to the problem.  We have a solution – get a gun and learn how to use it.  In the end the only person that can protect you is YOU, and a candle is no protection at all.

Glad They Have Time for This

I guess their economy must be fixed because apparently one of our California state Senators has time for this kind of bullshit.

Lowe’s Home Improvement has found itself facing a backlash after the retail giant pulled ads from a reality show about American Muslims.

The retail giant stopped advertising on TLC’s “All-American Muslim” after a conservative group known as the Florida Family Association complained, saying the program was “propaganda that riskily hides the Islamic agenda’s clear and present danger to American liberties and traditional values.”

And what is said Democrat from California doing in response to Lowe’s pulling the ads?  Why, he wants a boycott and ‘Legislative action’ which to my mind means that Congress will pull out some trumped up BS so they can grandstand

Calling the Lowe’s decision “un-American” and “naked religious bigotry,” Sen. Ted Lieu, D-Torrance, told The Associated Press he would also consider legislative action if Lowe’s doesn’t apologize to Muslims and reinstate its ads. The senator sent a letter outlining his complaints to Lowe’s Chief Executive Officer Robert A. Niblock.

“The show is about what it’s like to be a Muslim in America, and it touches on the discrimination they sometimes face. And that kind of discrimination is exactly what’s happening here with Lowe’s,” Lieu said.

Honestly, I find the entire idea of anti-discrimination laws to be absurd.  How many people have not gotten a job and were told “We found someone more qualified” when what they really meant was “Your too old/ blonde/ tall/ short/ whatever…”  The idea of law as behavior modification, to me, goes against the entire idea of freedom.

If someone wants to be a bigot, let them.  I hope they post a big freaking sign outside of their business saying “No _______ allowed!” because then I would know NOT to spend my money there.  Now, those same bigots have just taken it underground.

As far as Lowe’s goes, I can understand them not wanting to advertise on a show that might be a controversial subject, and that is their RIGHT to pick where they want their ad money to go.  For Lieu to say that he will try some sort of legislative action for Lowe’s spending their money how they see fit is not only reprehensible but shows exactly how the leftist mindset goes – You have no rights except what they want you to have.

I have a few more tools to buy for the shop so I think I’ll head over to Lowe’s today even though they are farther away than Home Depot.

**Update**

Tam pointed out correctly that he is a California state Senator, not a US one.  Corrections applied. I will punish myself by going to the range later.

We always knew Alec Baldwin was a douche

But he always has to make sure and remind us of the fact every once in a while

Go over to Ace and RTWT

So the other crap doesn’t count

The headline reads “Police clashes mar Occupy Wall Street protests”

So I guess the rapes, robberies, disease, assaults, public urination/defecation and  public sex did nothing to hurt the image of the “Give me your stuff protest” at all.  Nope, it’s all about the evil ‘Man’.

NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets, the New York Stock Exchange and the subways to raise their voices against what they say is corporate excess.

But since police in riot helmets, batons and riot shields ousted them from their two-month encampments, Occupy Wall Street protesters singled out officers as another enemy, saying their crowd control tactics were an excessive, chilling use of force against free speech.

Right, because how dare we, the public, demand that actual laws be enforced.  You know, since it’s a privately owned park and all, the smelly hippies should be able to just do whatever they want there and to hell with private property right?  Well, to hell with YOUR property rights that is – they still don’t want anyone else – especially from outside the group – using their stuff.

Tear gas in Oakland, Calif., pepper spray that hit an 84-year-old Seattle woman in the face and hundreds of arrests of demonstrators and journalists at Occupy protests across the U.S. this week shone the spotlight on the varying crowd control tactics of police, most who used helmets and riot gear as they broke up encampments in New York and other cities.

Yeah, and it’s not like she is an activist with a long history of this kind of behavior I guess that the laws shouldn’t be enforced against someone because of their age?

The press is so determined to protect these jackasses that they throw out headlines like this to make it appear that these selfish little twits were out there peacefully holding their signs and expressing their displeasure with the state of the economy instead of what was really going on – a bunch of spoiled brats having a temper tantrum and once we had enough they finally got spanked.

Personally, I think all of them should be given a job – breaking large rocks into small ones and then cleaning up litter on the side of the road for a year while wearing nice shiny leg irons.  They might also finally use a shower too.

Haberfeld and other policing experts said the crowd control was aggressive, but not excessive. But First Amendment experts said that every interaction with demonstrators, particularly when televised nationally, can thwart the goal of protests and discourage others from joining.

“That’s really is terribly inhibiting,” said New York attorney Herald Fahringer. “Because people say, ‘Gee, well, I don’t want to go out there and join the protest if I run the risk of getting hit over the head with a billy club.”

And this is a bad thing how???