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Time to outlaw knives

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Edged Weapons Crime

THIS POST MAY REMAIN IN PLACE FOR MORE THAN ONE DAY, BECAUSE GUN CONFISCATION IS INDEED DESIRED BY ELEMENTS OF OUR GOVERNMENT.  INFORMATION ABOUT THIS FACT NEEDS TO BE SPREAD.

A “mass stabbing” in Yolo County, Fornicalia, injured six persons seriously this past Saturday, the 17th.

From KCRA.com:

6 birthday party guests hurt in Yolo County mass stabbing

by Maneeza Iqbal

MADISON, Calif. (KCRA) —Six people were stabbed during a girl’s birthday party Saturday night in Madison, a town 11 miles west of Woodland, the Yolo County Sheriff’s Office.

The band member said two of his band mates were stabbed. A woman who tried to stop the suspect was also hurt. Other witnesses said two of the six victims were airlifted to a hospital.

A machete attack in Stockton then occurred on Sunday the 18th, involving Mel and Big Block Loc, from the StocktonRecord.com:

Man attacked with machetes

STOCKTON — Two men armed with machetes confronted a man just south of downtown Sunday concerning the theft of a bicycle. They assaulted the man, leaving him with a large cut on his head, police reported.

The noon incident occurred in the first block of West Scotts Avenue near South Commerce Street. Police reported the 28-year-old victim was treated at an area hospital for a non-life-threatening wound on his head.

His assailants were both described as men in their 30s. One had dreadlocks and is known as “Mel.” The other suspect is known as “Big Block Loc,” according to police.

There was a second stabbing in Stockton, on Sunday the 18th.  From the StocktonRecord.com:

Man stabbed in neck

STOCKTON — During an early morning altercation Sunday in north Stockton, a 25-year-old man was stabbed in the neck and his attacker was arrested, police reported.

The incident occurred about 5:34 a.m. in the 4400 block of Cotton Court, a short street just north of the Calaveras River off East Bianchi Road east of North El Dorado Street.

The victim was transported to an area hospital for treatment of a non-life-threatening stab wound, according to police.

Officers arrested Gregorio Cisneros, 21, on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, according to a report.

A fourth deadly stabbing occurred in the city of Modesto, on Sunday morning the 18th.  Again, from KCRA.com:

Suspect arrested in fatal Modesto car wash stabbing

by Maneeza Iqbal

MODESTO, Calif. (KCRA) —A man died after he was stabbed Sunday morning at a Modesto car wash, police said.

The 39-year-old man was stabbed multiple times around 11:45 a.m. at the business on Yosemite Boulevard, near Rosina Avenue. Police said the man was taken to a nearby hospital, where he later died. No other information about the victim was released.

These four separate incidents involving edged weapons in northern Fornicalia, all within a 60-mile radius of Sacramento — the Belly of the Bill Beast — occurred in the span of a single weekend; just two days.  That’s just one 60-mile-radius within roughly one county.  There are 58 counties in Fornicalia.  Multiply this edged weapon activity times 50 states.  Per day.  There are 365 days in a year.  You get the point.  (Sorry.  Couldn’t help that.)

People shouldn’t have to worry about knife attacks.  Clearly the persons using knives against others in violence are mental defectives or abject criminals.

One thing we do know, however, is that there won’t be a state or federal hue and cry to abolish knives or edged weapons, despite the statistics involved.

For example, according to crime statistics from the FBI, knives are consistently used to kill people far more often than rifles are used. Five times as many murders were committed with knives than were committed with rifles last year.  But again, people screaming for knives to be banned over rifles?  Anyone?  Bueller?

Murder rates before and after gun bans?  Guess what?  The rates don’t plummet.  Ask the residents of Baltimore, DC, Detroit, Chicago and even the UK.

Some other interesting statistics.

Murder Victims, by Weapons Used

The following table shows the number and percent of murder victims in the United States by the cause of death. Weapons used or cause of death include guns, stabbing, blunt objects, strangulation, arson, and more.

Weapons used or cause of death
Year Murder
victims,
total		 Guns Cutting or
stabbing		 Blunt
object1		 Strangulation,
hands, fists,
feet, or pushing		 Arson2 All
other3
Total Percent
1965 8,773 5,015 57.2% 2,021 505 894 226 112
1970 13,649 9,039 66.2 2,424 604 1,031 353 198
1975 18,642 12,061 64.7 3,245 1,001 1,646 193 496
1980 21,860 13,650 62.0 4,212 1,094 1,666 291 947
1985 17,545 10,296 58.7 3,694 972 1,491 243 849
1990 20,045 12,847 64.1 3,503 1,075 1,424 287 909
1991 21,676 14,373 66.3 3,430 1,099 1,529 195 847
1992 22,716 15,489 68.2 3,296 1,040 1,445 203 1,043
1993 23,180 16,136 69.6 2,967 1,022 1,482 217 1,168
1994 22,084 15,463 70.0 2,802 912 1,452 196 1,079
1995 20,232 13,790 68.2 2,557 918 1,438 166 968
1996 15,848 10,744 67.8 2,142 733 1,182 151 726
1997 15,289 10,369 67.8 1,963 702 1,187 134 934
2002 14,263 9,528 66.7 1,776 681 954 103 874
2006 14,990 10,177 67.9 1,822 607 833 115 1,128
2007 14,831 10,086 68.0 1,796 647 854 130 1,016
2008 14,224 9,528 66.9 1,888 603 964 85 1,156
2011 12,795 8,653 67.6 1,716 502 751 76 1,009
2012 12,765 8,855 69.4 1,589 518 767 85 951
1. Refers to club, hammer, etc.
2. Before 1973, includes drowning.
3. Includes poison, explosives, unknown, drowning, asphyxiation, narcotics, other means, and weapons not stated.

Source: Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reports for the United States, 1997, 2007 and 2008; Crime in the United States 2011, 2012.

Recently, we’ve all heard that both Obama and Hillary Clinton point to Australia with regard to outright gun confiscation — something they think might be a great idea for the United States despite that pesky and confounding Second Amendment.  They both fail to learn from history.  I call that Historical Alzheimers.

In Australia, it turned out that 640,381 personal firearms were destroyed by the government, costing taxpayers $500 million dollars.

That first year, homicides went up 3.2%.  Armed robberies went up 44%.  In Victoria, homicides utilizing firearms went up 300%.

But here’s the rub, Leftists.  Guess who failed to turn in their guns?  Why yes, morons, the criminals.  That’s their job.  Check the job description.  Then check the definition of the word “criminal.”

I know I should be, but I’m not yet a member of the NRA.  Looks like I’ll be joining this week.  And here’s another odd rub: gun sales the past few months have been skyrocketing.  More weapons in the hands of — gulp! — people who actually qualified for the purchase of their weapons.  Just like the shooter in Roseburg.  Every purchase was lawful and conformed to all regulations.  There’s only one final regulation left.  You know which one.  The ultimate regulation.  I’m sure the Australians were thinking the same thing: “it can’t happen here.”

Marcus Luttreall — the SEAL who wrote the book Lone Survivor, nails my feelings precisely.  I surrender my firearms to no one, man or beast.  And as an Oathkeeper, I have sworn to uphold the US Constitution and our Bill of Rights against all enemies, foreign or domestic.  No one said my oath stopped when I retired after 41 years in law enforcement.

As of last year, there was a 73% opposition to a ban on handguns.  63% of persons said that a home was safer with a firearm present in the home.

This is another Leftist move — and make no mistake, the ultimate wet dream of Leftists is gun confiscation.

I am The Realist.  And make no mistake, the reality is that the phrase “molon labe” has real meaning for me.

Another reason that this government and the UN are in the process of attempting to remove out First Amendment rights — our very right to communicate.  Communication that provides opposition to the defeatist, unsound, illusory, unrealistic, naive and just plain stupid goals of Leftists and this current administration.

BZ

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Obama undermines the FBI for Hillary

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Obama Lying Is StressfulLet’s get right to the meat of the matter: Obama is attempting to undermine the FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton’s classified emails on her private server.

From the NYTimes.com:

Obama’s Comments on Clinton Emails Collide With F.B.I. Inquiry

by Matt Apuzzo and Michael D. Schmidt

WASHINGTON — Federal agents were still cataloging the classified information from Hillary Rodham Clinton’s personal email server last week when President Obama went on television and played down the matter.

“I don’t think it posed a national security problem,” Mr. Obama said Sunday on CBS’s “60 Minutes.” He said it was a mistake for Mrs. Clinton to use a private email account when she was secretary of state, but his conclusion was unmistakable: “This is not a situation in which America’s national security was endangered.”

So now this becomes a situation in which the FBI — and more specifically Director James Comey — is placed in an adversarial position with the President of the United States.

The FBI is trying to determine the truth.  This is the opposite of what Obama wants, despite his insisting that his would be the most transparent administration in history.  Instead, it has been the most obtuse and opaque.

Look, Obama knew what kind of animal Hillary Clinton was back in 2007.  From AllenWest.com:

As a newly-published campaign memo shows, Barack Obama’s campaign had completely nailed Hillary Clinton for exactly who she is — as far back as 2007. The memo cites the current Democrat frontrunner’s “shifting, dodging and changing positions to satisfy the politics of the moment” and “penchant for secrecy and non-disclosure reflect an underlying disdain for the “invisible” people for whom she claims to speak.” 

And though I’m fairly certain Obama detests the Clintons, the same thing is occurring with Obama right now.  He’s putting aside his personal animosity for political gain, in order to ensure a Demorat is installed in the oval office and, with a bit more time, American politics will reach a demographic point via illegals, non-assimilators, Muslims and Free Cheesers of all stripes wherein Republicans or Conservatives will be essentially unelectable.  Demography is prophecy.

Obama can’t wait.

BZ

 

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Sanders wants Denmark socialism in the US

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Demorat Free Candy & CheeseSocialist Bernie Sanders said, during the Tuesday Demorat debate:

You see every other major country saying to moms that when you have a baby, we’re not going to separate you from your newborn baby because we are going to have — we are going to have medical and family paid leave like every other country on earth. Those are some of the principles that I believe in, and I think we should look to countries like Denmark, like Sweden and Norway and learn from what they have accomplished for their working people.

What would that mean for the United States?  How well does Socialism work?  Let’s check with someone who lives in Denmark.

A man named Lief, from Denmark, wrote an email to Tom Sullivan, who hosts a syndicated radio show from New York, and used to be on my local AM radio station KFBK in Sacramento — where I happened to work in the 70s.

Lief wrote to Tom Sullivan:

Tom,

 I’m a naturalized US citizen from Denmark. Our socialism is not what everyone over here thinks it is. They tax everything that stands still or starts to move. When we visited in 2000 my wife and daughters went shopping and were pleased that there was no sales tax. My aunt tapped me on the shoulder and said it’s included in the price. 22%. Today it is 26%. When you buy a “new” car in Denmark the tax is 100% of the sales price, I kid you not. My cousin called me one Xmas 4 years ago, he had just bought a new S class. Price out the door, $226,000. His wife visited here for vacation this past July. She said my uncle just bought a new Chevy Cruz, $89,000 out the door. She said their income tax in 56.6%. add the social security/pension tax 8% = 64.6%. and that’s the minimum. The past prime minister hired a new minister of agriculture, (my cousin is a large farmer), she said with all the new regulation 1,400 farmers have gon branrupt and closed their business in the past 4 years. AZnd that is in a small county of only 5.8 mil people. Smaller than the Bay Area. Their healthcare is atrocious. My aunt needed a hip replacement. From the day the doctor signed the “papers” she waited 22 months for her new hip. My cousin that bought the “S” class had gone to the Dr. 5 times in 18 mos. complaining of stomach trouble. Finally he convinced the Dr. to order an endoscopy. He waited 6 mos, they found stomach cancer and they took out his  entire stomach. He needed follow up chemo treatment. They live on the mainland and the only place in Denmark that treats stomach cancer is Copenhagen. He flew there 3 times a week for 4 months. He died of starvation 2 years ago. He always told me, nothing in this life is free, let alone socialism…..how true

He later added … 

By the way,

I forgot to mention in 2000 when my cousin and I stopped for gasoline. I was having a hard time converting Kroner to Dollars and liters to gallons and asked him how much was a gallon of gas. He said $11.85…..Also, my younger cousin last month took their newborn to the hospital after 5:00 on a Friday. They told him the baby needed a blood test but the lab was closed after 5pm and doesn’t open up till 8 am Monday….OMG. My cousin that visited this last July said the baby is fine now but yes. You had better not get sick from 5pm Friday till Monday morning….Socialism at its best…

You may add the above to your post if you like.

As I’ve said before because it happens to be true: everyone thinks they can “do” Socialism better than the last guy.  Sanders, Obama, the Demorats, Progressives, the SEIU, Leftists, all think they can “do” Socialism in America.  And yes, better than anyone else.

As it is, the US runs out of cash in 19 days, on November 3rd.  The proverbial “debt ceiling.”  Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said that this ceiling will hit two days before it was anticipated.

Where, just where, is all of this cash going to come from?

BZ

 

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When you lose your borders

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When we lose our borders, we get what is occurring now next to our border in Mexico.  You get Mexican cartel gunmen murdering people in broad daylight.  You get this.

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Mexican authorities continue to look into the kidnapping that led to a firefight that killed five Los Zetas cartel members and one Mexican soldier.  Sad.  That was at one time a very nice Lincoln Navigator with beautiful leather.  The equivalent of a Mexican hoopti.

When you lose your borders, you lose your sovereignty.  Hillary Clinton and the rest of the Demorats wish to enable that to occur even faster, by granting illegal invaders rights to ObamaKare.  She said so, specifically, in Tuesday night’s Demorat debate.  Most of the Demorat contingent tried to more of a Leftist than the next — with the exception of Jim Webb, who graduated from the naval academy, first in his class, served in the Marine Corps and, further, was Secretary of the Navy.  He received the Navy Cross, Silver Star, two Bronze Stars and two Purple Hearts.  Then you have Socialist Bernie Sanders, a “conscientious objector” during Vietnam who wants to be Commander In Chief of the US military.  Can you imagine?

When you value illegals over your own countrymen, you lose your country, your sovereignty, your identity as a nation.  Go see Sicario and try not to be even more resolute that our borders absolutely must be shut and controlled.  In the meantime, an illegal alien who was deported (and came back) has raped a sleeping woman in Chicago.

Just as is happening in Europe now.  People in Europe are being removed from their own homes in order to accommodate the “refugees” from Syria.

It has been proven that the so-called “refugees” from Syria aren’t necessarily that.  The bulk of them are economic “refugees” who are taking advantage of the offer of Euro Free Cheese provided by EuroGOWPs.

The Swiss are starting to push back against the migrant crisis, and Sweden is in political turmoil over the migrant crisis and the number of “refugees” in their nation.

“Refugee” criminals are now so brazen, knowing German police will do nothing, that they have taken to social media posing with stolen property.

In Germany, 1 in 3 citizens want Angela Merkel to resign over her “open arms” refugee policy.  “Easy access” and Free Cheese are the obvious attractions for migrants.

Let’s be frank.  Europe is doomed.  Its overall visage has been fundamentally changed overnight and there is no going back.  Each country receiving Syrian “refugees” and ISIS elements (oh yes, there are ISIS elements embedded in the flood — just look at how many young males, the perfect age for soldiers, are in the throng) will not be able to turn back that clock.Syrians Fleeing From ISISCheck the photographs.  Do the research yourself.

Europe is broken.  Islam has thundered into most every country there.  This is purposeful but it is also the result of the US taking no stance and “leading from behind.”  A vacuum was created.  Putin decided to fill it, along with Islam.

This is what you get when your country is run by GOWPs of all makes and models.  Marseilles is 90% Muslim, the UK is going, as is Germany, Sweden, Switzerland.  Islam is larfing its arse off.  Islam plays Long Ball, ladies and gentlemen.

The US — though divided from that problem by the Atlantic — has its own obvious border problems.  Also taken advantage-of by Muslim elements who only must get their ankles damp.

When you lose your borders, you lose your individuality, your language, your culture, your sovereignty, everything good that was the core of your country.  Europe is learning that lesson now and so are we.

Take a peek at the photos above once more.  This is what you will begin to see inside the US in a very short time.  On American streets.  We could have stopped it but decided, politically, not to.  Just as Mexican cartels assassinate police officers, attorneys, journalists, politicians and judges in Mexico, so may they begin to do so here.

Stand by for even more terrible consequences.

BZ

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One reason why crime starting to rise

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Cops Making ArrestMany officers and administrators will tell you I’m incorrect, but I’m telling you I am correct.  Because much of this is occurring subconsciously on the part of officers on one level.

One reason — amongst many reasons — that crime is starting to rise is in fact due to what some are calling the “Ferguson Effect.”  That is to say, law enforcement is not being as aggressive as they used to in terms of what is known as “self-initiated activity.”

Certainly, cops don’t shirk going to assigned calls.  Where they’re sent and why they’re sent is meat-and-potatoes to cops.

And certainly cops don’t lack for bravery, as it is the Sheepdog in us (I write “us” because, though retired for only three months, I still am a Sheepdog and, as an Oathkeeper, I swore then and swear now to uphold the US Constitution, Bill of Rights, and protect this nation from all enemies be they foreign or domestic) that brought us to the profession in the first place.

That said, we are all human in LE.  We have feelings and emotions and good days and bad days, just like everyone.  We are affected by external circumstances and situations just like everyone.

The following is just one more example, upon many others, where LE has been denigrated, removed from businesses, had their food purposely tainted, spat on or urinated upon recently.

From Fox2Now.com:

Olive Garden apologizes to police officer after hostess asked him to leave

by AP.com

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. – All Michael Holsworth wanted to do on Sunday was enjoy a nice birthday lunch with his family, but a hostess at Olive Garden wouldn’t even let him wait in the restaurant.

The Kansas City police officer was dressed in full uniform when he was refused service from the Olive Garden on 40 Highway and Noland Road for carrying his service weapon, WDAF-TV reported.

The employee allegedly asked Holsworth to leave the restaurant. Believing it was a joke, he asked the hostess if she was serious. Her simple reply was: “Yes, please leave.”

Tweet To Olive GardenThanks to social media, the officer did precisely what I would have done: spread the news.  Just as there are consequences for cops being stupid, there are consequences for businesses being equally stupid in their own domains.  Olive Garden has since apologized.

This is but one in a continuing series of factors which are resulting in cops deciding to do their work but not to rock the boat.  Because at this point in time boat-rocking is not paying dividends to cops.  It’s called officer survival and career survival.

LE administrators will say this is false because they have to.  Some officers will say this is false because they are not watching their surroundings carefully or don’t have their finger on the pulse of reality.  But I have had deputies on my department tell me covertly that is precisely what is happening.  They are watching their physical and political and career backs very carefully.

When I retired as a Sergeant, I was responsible for 50+ deputies per shift.  My number one goal was to ensure they got home safe at end of watch.  I trained and emphasized that in terms of their priorities the flow chart went like this:

  1. Themselves
  2. Their partner/fellow officer
  3. The citizens
  4. Suspects

Why is it, you may ask, that the citizens we are sworn to protect are third on the list?  Because if we cannot take care of ourselves individually, our partners and fellow officers, then we cannot take care of the citizens.  One officer killed or injured in a vehicle accident, a shooting, a fight, is just one fewer officer available to respond to future calls for service the next hour, the next day, the next week.  And Officer Safety was my personal priority when it came to my troops.  It was my duty to ensure they all went home safe at the end of their shifts to the people who loved them.

To me, the acts of Ray Tensing and Michael Slager are irredeemable.  They are beyond the pale.  But the other acts that have been quoted as responsible for Black Lives Matter, as in Ferguson and New York and other places, are justfifiable and in most of those cases predicated upon outright falsehoods.  The black DA in Baltimore charged too quickly and overcharged.  Race played a huge factor in her decision.  She will be greatly disappointed when she does not get her convictions.  Because, frankly, she “acted stupidly” — to quote another racist black.

Of course there was blowback throughout the nation because the national meme, pushed by our Commander In Chief, was that cops “acted stupidly” and in a clearly racist fashion, even when they were defending themselves and way before all the information was acquired.

Now, Rahm Emanual chimes in.  From the ChicagoTribuune.com:

Emanuel blames Chicago crime uptick on officers second-guessing themselves

by John Byrne

Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Monday stood by his contention that Chicago police officers are becoming “fetal” out of concern they will get in trouble for actions during arrests, blaming officers second-guessing themselves in the wake of high-profile incidents for rising crime rates in Chicago and elsewhere.

Last week, the mayor was part of a meeting in Washington, D.C., with Attorney General Loretta Lynch and a group of mayors and police officials from across the nation to discuss a spike in homicides and other crime.

“We have allowed our Police Department to get fetal, and it is having a direct consequence. They have pulled back from the ability to interdict … they don’t want to be a news story themselves, they don’t want their career ended early, and it’s having an impact,” Emanuel said, according to the Washington Post.

Officers “second guessing” themselves is what results in hurt or seriously injured cops.  And trust me, cops know just who has their back, and who doesn’t.  They will work for people, like me, who had their six.  Not so much for folks who don’t.  Just like any other job, anywhere else.  Because we’re human.

BZ

 

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