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Reflections upon the Newtown, Connecticut shootings:

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Newtown 1A great tragedy occurred last Friday.

Twenty small children and six adults were killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.  One adult, the mother of the suspect, was killed first, in her home.

Since then a major fuse has been lighted due to the significance of the event, and (predominantly in the DEM/MSM) the obvious and simple solution is to confiscate your weapons and proscribe personal ownership of firearms.  Then, clearly, all will be well with the nation and the world.

In the meantime, the bloody deaths of small children is fodder for competition, job advancement and ratings in the national media:

Tweet for Childrens' DeathsNothing that any logically-thinking and informed American didn’t already know and expect, however, from the DEM/MSM maggots.

[A small aside for those unfamiliar with the firearms industry in America: there are, to the best of my knowledge, at least seven firearms or firearms-associated manufacturers located in the state of Connecticut, to include Smith & Wesson; Colt; Sturm, Ruger & Co.; Mossberg; Winchester; Remington; and Martin Firearms.]

Mr Obama made it very clear that he believes immediate action is necessary:

“And this must change.  We can’t tolerate this any longer.  These tragedies must end.  Are we prepared to say that we’re powerless in the face of such carnage? That the politics are too hard? Are we prepared to say that such violence visited on our children year after year after year is the price of our freedom?”

Good and true words.  To be utilized — like any tool — for good or for ill.

Involving Mr Obama and Demorats, Leftists and Progressives — in consideration of my inherently doubting and questioning nature — I cannot help but think that what Mr Obama has in mind isn’t really much of an observance of our Bill of Rights.

But instead, something more along the lines of what Mr Bush created with Homeland Security — and worse.  Much worse.

Texas Fred has an excellent installment regarding his post-Newtown thoughts here.

Further: “we all know that guns are evil,” but do they ever save lives — and — who advocates them?  None other than black rapper Ice-T:

Asked by a London news anchor about America’s gun culture, Ice-T said: “Well, I’d give up my gun when everybody does. Doesn’t that make sense?  If there were guns here, would you want to be the only person without one?”

Anchor Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Channel 4 News: “So do you carry guns routinely at home?”

Ice-T: “Yeah, it’s legal in the United States. It’s part of our Constitution. You know, the right to bear arms is because that’s the last form of defense against tyranny. Not to hunt. It’s to protect yourself from the police.”

Anchor: “And do you see any link between that and these sorts of (Aurora-type) incidents?”

Ice-T: “No. Nah. Not really. You know what I’m saying, if somebody wants to kill people, you know, they don’t need a gun to do it.”

Anchor: “It makes it easier, though, doesn’t it?”

Ice-T: “Not really. You can strap explosives on your body. They [Muslims! – BZ] do that all the time.”

Anchor: “So when there’s the inevitable backlash of the anti-gun lobby, as a result of this instance, as there always is–“

Ice-T: “Well, that’s not going to change anything.  The United States is based on guns.”

Alas, finally, a truism.  One that we must all face.  Because history precludes us.

There is an American gun magazine that has featured a monthly column, for years, documenting incidents where the presence of a gun saved lives.

Check this from John Stossel:

Outrageous.  More guns lead to more violence.  Plainly.  Or — dare we say it? — not?

But: “if someone breaks into your house, which would you rather have?  A handgun, or a telephone?”

Clearly, Leftists, Demorats and Progressives would prefer this sign on their front yards:

Unarmed HomeOh wait.  No they wouldn’t.  Because those signs don’t exist on front yards.  ANYone’s front yard.  Does that mean that — gulp! — Demorats and Leftists and Progressives are slightly smarter than your average houseplant?  Answer: yes.  And calculatingly so.  They say one thing and espouse and live another.

Yes, I know you’re quite shocked.  Shocked, I tell you!

Various other killings stopped by armed citizens?  Click here.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch:

– Democrats vow to push for gun control measures in Congress
– Progressives Plan March On NRA In DC Monday

But if you’re not retarded or an idiot or a Demorat or a Leftist or a Progressive or immature or ill-educated or homeless or autistic or a GOWP or a parasite or an advocate or consumer of Free Cheese.  .  .

.  .  . then your gun rights are under assault.

Oh, right.  That would equate to a normal human being protected by the Constitution of the United States of America.

BZ

 

 

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27 people dead in Newtown, Connecticut school shooting

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Let me write the truth, where few will dare to go:

Guns were not responsible.

An evil human being, beyond description, was responsible.

You’ve likely noticed the number of persons killed as statistically incorrect.  But I count only the worthy.  Hence: 27 persons were killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown.

Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newtown, CTInformation is still rather sketchy and inconclusive but — despite that — massive conclusions are already being drawn.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said, in this statement:

With all the carnage from gun violence in our country, it’s still almost impossible to believe that a mass shooting in a kindergarten class could happen. It has come to that. Not even kindergarteners learning their A,B,Cs are safe. We heard after Columbine that it was too soon to talk about gun laws. We heard it after Virginia Tech. After Tucson and Aurora and Oak Creek. And now we are hearing it again. For every day we wait, 34 more people are murdered with guns. Today, many of them were five-year olds. President Obama rightly sent his heartfelt condolences to the families in Newtown. But the country needs him to send a bill to Congress to fix this problem. Calling for ‘meaningful action’ is not enough. We need immediate action. We have heard all the rhetoric before. What we have not seen is leadership – not from the White House and not from Congress. That must end today. This is a national tragedy and it demands a national response. My deepest sympathies are with the families of all those affected, and my determination to stop this madness is stronger than ever.

Rupert Murdoch, billionaire, wrote on Twitter:

Terrible news today. When will politicians find courage to ban automatic weapons? As in Oz after similar tragedy.

5:26 PM – 14 Dec 12 ·

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino also provided a similar statement:

As a parent and grandparent, I am overcome with both grief and outrage by the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut. This unspeakable act of violence will forever imprint this day in our hearts and minds. My heart goes out to the families impacted by this senseless tragedy and the many others we have recently witnessed across the United States. As a Mayor who has witnessed too many lives forever altered by gun violence, it is my responsibility to fight for action. Today’s tragedy reminds us that now is the time for action. Innocent children will now never attend a prom, never play in a big game, never step foot on a college campus. Now is the time for a national policy on guns that takes the loopholes out of the laws, the automatic weapons out of our neighborhoods and the tragedies like today out of our future.

What might there be in common with all three of these reactions?  Plenty.

They were issued by wealthy Demorats who each have their own personal protective retinue.  They can have theirs; apparently you cannot have yours.  Because if you conjure that Menino or Bloomberg or Murdoch make one move in public absent an armed protective contingent, you would be horribly wrong.

Further, two of them are mayors of major American cities where people are packed like herring and treated like herring, with a majority clamoring for Free Cheese.  The price for Free Cheese is, obviously, loss of independence, enhancement of parasitism, lethargy of the proles, and an unwillingness of said involved governments to trust their baseline electorate.  I submit: perhaps with good reason, due to voting history.

[A quick question for my readers about recent cultural events: does the current emphasis and popularity in the visual and written media with “zombies” have anything to do with a reflection of the American electorate in general?] 

Make no mistake; elementary school children involved in this kind of trauma will be inexorably scarred for some time, perhaps their entire lives — depending on what they saw and felt and were told — and will be told — to see and feel.

Newtown 2 It was heartbreaking to watch the live feeds of children attempting to relate what they saw and experienced, covered by all the major American media maggots.  Whilst watching the immured reactions of the children, I formulated two immediate questions: 1) What unfeeling bastard could hold a camera in the faces of these kids? and 2) What unfeeling parent could keep from smashing a fist into the throats of these media whores — and, further, would allow their children to be interviewed in the first place?

Answer: immature parents and dupes who are media whores themselves and to whom their children were nothing more than temporary tools for reverse fame.  Infamy.

I won’t waste my time writing about the shooter or his name or influences or his upcoming victimology.  Frankly, he doesn’t deserve the consideration nor do I care if he was abused or had autism or perhaps three nipples.  Because, when the Amercan maggot media is done with him, he will be a victim.  Of his circumstances, of his upbringing, of his environment.

He was Evil, pure and simple.  Evil has its nature, and he fulfilled those metrics.  I have seen Evil, I have faced it, I know its smell, the taste of it on my tongue.  I know how it walks, how it talks, how it lies, and how it revels in its obscenity.  I have arrested Evil.  I have booked Evil.  I have ridden with it up elevators, pushed it into the back of marked units, had it shoot at me, and shot at it.  I have had Evil hit me, punch me, cut me, spit on me, and smile at me with its maniacal grin.

Evil is the topic.  And guns comprise only a miniscule portion of the tools it utilizes, in the past, now, and in the future.

A gun is a tool.  And only that.  A means to an end.  Tools change, circumstantially-dependent.  A tool used one way can harm.  The same tool used another way can liberate and save.

Oddly enough, in a massive thrust of irony — ON THE SAME DAY — that only our Lord God seems to appreciate:

Knife-wielding man injures 22 children in China

BEIJING (Reuters) – A knife-wielding man slashed 22 children and an adult at an elementary school in central China on Friday, state media reported, the latest in a series of attacks on schoolchildren in the country.

The man attacked the children at the gate of a school in Chenpeng village in Henan province, the Xinhua news agency reported.

Police arrested a 36-year-old man, identified as villager Min Yingjun, Xinhua said. It did not give further details of the extent of the injuries.

And this in a country where no personal possession of a firearm is allowed, in any way, for any reason.

A Glock, a Sig, a Bushmaster.  A knife, a machete, a sabre, a broadsword.  A rock.  A baseball bat.  A series of highly-evolved and technologically-advanced drone aircraft.

Check history.  Remember history.  Because this important fact is true: one highly motivated individual, properly prepared, with mental singularity of mission, dedication, and a willingness to die for an ideal, can kill or cause to be killed any person on the planet.

No matter the tool involved.

BZ

 

 

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Black sports writer Jason Whitlock: “The NRA is the new KKK.”

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Serious sports writer Jason Whitlock.

First, some brief history for those unfamiliar with the story.

This past Saturday, Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher, 25, killed his 22-year-old girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins, at their home.  He shot his girlfriend, who was planning to leave him, nine times in the torso and neck.  Their 3-month-old daughter, Zoey, was unharmed.  Belcher then drove about five miles to the Arrowhead Stadium parking lot, and shot himself in the head after speaking briefly to various KC Chiefs coaches.

A tragedy for sure, but in a very small way.

However, American media and the Left are making this a major issue, with the DEM/MSM paying the situation far more attention than it deserves, far overshadowing the Benghazi attacks where four Americans were killed on foreign soil.

First, FoxSports writer Jason Whitlock said this on a CNN-related podcast:

“Sports gets so much attention, and people tune out the real world, that I try to take advantage of the opportunity to talk about the real world when sports lends itself to that and try to open people’s eyes.”

“You know, I did not go as far as I’d like to go because my thoughts on the NRA and America’s gun culture — I believe the NRA is the new KKK  [My emphasis. – BZ] .  And that the arming of so many black youths, uh, and loading up our community with drugs, and then just having an open shooting gallery, is the work of people who obviously don’t have our best interests [at heart].”

“I think it’s obvious if you’ve traveled abroad, and traveled to countries where they have legitimate gun laws, that we don’t have to have what we have in America, where people somehow think a gun enhances their liberty, and that people somehow think a gun makes them safer,” he continued.

“It just doesn’t. A gun turns some kids listening to music into a murder scene. And uh, you know, if you don’t have a gun, you drive home. You know, kids listening to some loud music, you don’t like it, you go home and complain to your wife. But when you have a gun, you open fire, potentially, and take the life of a child.”

That said, Bob Costas felt it incumbent upon himself to take up the issue as well during this past NBC Sunday Night Football game involving the Eagles and Cowboys.

Frankly, Costas was condescending and opportunistic.  If I wished to know his opinions, I’d read whatever blog or column he wrote.  Otherwise, I dislike being held captive to another Leftist journalist who spouts unsubstantiated pablum aimed at the Lowest Common Denominator viewer during a football game.

Whitlock was bad enough.  Costas put the silliness over the top.

Let me cut to the proverbial chase, if I might.

I enjoy football.  I played it briefly in high school, as a center.  I enjoy watching it.  My interest in football harkens back to the 60s when my favorite team became the Green Bay Packers.  Because I liked their uniforms.

But to link the NRA to the KKK is simply ignorance at its finest, with an extra heaping helping of Victimology, coupled with the continual bleating of blacks as lacking any control whatsoever of “their” individual or collective destiny.  This racist view diminishes blacks and makes them nothing more than empty-headed pawns in the game of everyone but themselves.  And that is the furthest from the truth.

Let’s first take race out of the formula.  Let’s just examine the issue of guns.  If Jovan Belcher hadn’t possessed a gun, and was the same psycho he became, he would have used a nice Louisville Slugger.  Or perhaps the nearby table lamp.  Or perhaps a machete he’d recently purchased from KnifeDepot.com.  Or perhaps a Cadillac Escalade or a GM Yukon Denali.  Or perhaps a rock.  Because:

Here’s an Important Safety Tip: crazy people are actually crazy.  And pissed people are actually pissed.  Human beings are by their very nature flawed and sometimes critically flawed.  They are also emotional and sometimes unthinkingly, reactionarily emotional.

That said, Jason Whitlock has chosen to take the situation above and past an emotional issue into a racial issue.  He equates our Constitutional Second Amendment to an embracement of the Ku Klux Klan.  An organization, by the way, started by Democrats — you know, those loving persons who opposed Lincoln in terms of granting black slaves their freedom.  Try reading some history.

Poor chops, that.  Too base, too “convenient” and, in truth, too wrong.

Here is the truth that few if any will write or speak of:

Popular young black male culture is that of a dead culture.  It is a losing and a bankrupt “culture.”  Please note the quotes.

When young black males start valuing themselves and begin to strive towards excellence instead of the LCD in terms of emotions and guns and turf and issues that mean nothing to anyone else, then perhaps I’ll start increasing their personal value.

Bottom line: let’s put the murder/suicide of Jovan Belcher in perspective.  He is only one of hundreds of black males killed at their own hands or the hands of their own.  This year.

Further: he possessed advantages not afforded to literally hundreds or thousands of likely-abled young black males in this country.  And, with that, he still decided to collapse his personal House of Cards.

So, no, frankly, I don’t cry one tear for Jovan Belcher.  He made his bed.  He needs to be discarded.  Move on.  Nothing to see here.

So tell me: WHY is it that HE is “more important” than the other hundreds of black males, killed daily, at the hand of OTHER black males — ?

It isn’t a matter of guns.

Ladies and gentlemen: it is a matter of a bankrupt culture of depravity, violence, turf.

Nothing more.  Nothing less.

Belcher was coddled and nurtured and told what a “wonderful player” he was.  He believed his own press and then took the incredibly SELFISH way out.

The true story should actually be: why do young black males have such an absolutely bankrupt and virulently violent culture?  And why do they do their best to continue this culture?  Besides them, who is responsible?  I would suggest: the bulk of no-load, non-judgmental excuse-providing Leftist Caucasoids.  GOWPs, all of them.  Guilty, Over-educated White Persons.

Don’t cry for Jovan Belcher, that dead asshole.

Cry for the mother of his child.  And that child itself.

BZ

 

 

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The deaths behind Fast & Furious: Obama and Holder, you OWN THOSE DEATHS

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Mr Obama was shocked, absolutely stunned, when Univision didn’t pitch him a series of interview “softballs” two weeks ago.

VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: Once again, however, Obama LIED: “Fast & Furious” did not start under President Bush.  Even ABC News acknowledges this fact.

Then Univision did something worse: it found many more weapons that were linked to Fast & Furious:

The Spanish language television news network Univision unleashed a bombshell investigative report on Operation Fast and Furious Sunday evening, finding that in January 2010 drug cartel hit men slaughtered students with weapons the United States government allowed to flow to them across the Mexican border.

“On January 30, 2010, a commando of at least 20 hit men parked themselves outside a birthday party of high school and college students in Villas de Salvarcar, Ciudad Juarez,” according to a version of the Univision report in English, on the ABC News website.

“Near midnight, the assassins, later identified as hired guns for the Mexican cartel La Linea, broke into a one-story house and opened fire on a gathering of nearly 60 teenagers. Outside, lookouts gunned down a screaming neighbor and several students who had managed to escape. Fourteen young men and women were killed, and 12 more were wounded before the hit men finally fled.”

Citing a Mexican Army document it obtained and published, Univision reported that “[t]hree of the high caliber weapons fired that night in Villas de Salvarcar were linked to a gun tracing operation run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).”

That operation was Fast and Furious.

The result to date?  Yes: absolutely nobody in the Department of Justice was held accountable. Some lesser administrators were allowed to “resign” quietly or found themselves magically reassigned. Nobody was fired.  Nobody was arrested.

Clearly, Eric Holder has Obama’s “complete confidence” regarding Fast & Furious:

The DOJ already said it won’t prosecute Holder for contempt;

Eric Holder stonewalled handing over Fast & Furious documents;

Obama himself asserted “executive privilege” with regard to the F&F documents;

Holder himself said Fast & Furious doesn’t really mean “Fast & Furious.”

Paul Ryan said on Monday that Eric Holder has to resign and do so immediately.  In fact, Romney said in December of 2011:

“Either Mr. Holder himself should resign, or the president should ask for his resignation or remove him.  It’s unacceptable for him to continue in that position now given the fact that he has misled Congress and entirely botched the investigation of the Fast and Furious program.”

Obama is corrupt.  He is a liar.  He is at once fighting to retain his White House chair and simultaneously disengaged and disinterested in actually LEADING this country.

Trotted out nightly on the DEM/MSM?  Of course not.

BZ

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“End of Watch” — for the nation

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I attended a Sunday showing of the new David Ayer film, “END OF WATCH.”

At its conclusion, I couldn’t help but make some linkages and indulge in a tad bit of introspection.

First, “End of Watch” is not “Training Day.”

I would recommend EOW to everyone looking for a remarkably accurate portrayal of police work in a big city rife with gangs, violence, mixed races and endless challenges for law enforcement.  It does an excellent job of displaying the best and the worst of humanity.  It does an excellent job of illustrating how the current young mixed generation of cops deal with the concepts of evil, sacrifice, history, courage, violence, reality, insanity, family, support, camaraderie, cliques, teams, and a greater awareness and sense of self.  And, moreover, how they are the video, social media, explicit, unabashed, put-everything-out-there generation — with little concern for the concomitant consequences.

That said, I wanted to investigate the making of the film.  America Ferrera has an interesting insight in this article. As in: the neighborhoods were true and correct.  As were a bulk of the “actors” in the “background.”  I won’t event speculate as to the amounts of cash that had to flow for the movie company to work unimpeded in L.A.

And that made me think further:

Perhaps there is an actual coming “end of watch” for our nation as well.  Further: the reasons are so clearly illustrated in this film.

There are not only individual persons but gangs and neighborhoods and communities and areas and subdivisions and cities and states reliant but upon the continual flow of local, state and federal cash.  Welfare cash.  Free cash.  Cash undeserved but still proffered.

As in:

But: how did we get there?  And what will we do now?  And how can we rid ourselves of this denigrating and corrupting plague?

And how did these two disparate persons/races manage to not only survive but — until the de nou mas — thrive?

How did we get here?

How did we get our cops to battle death edicts called in from foreign countries?

How did we allow MS13 “Big Evil” to exist in our suburbs in the first place?

Why do we or should we pit our civilian cops against militaristic cults, groups, gangs, unions, units or brigades from foreign military groups?

In one car: two Glock 17 pistols, six magazines, and one shotgun with six shells?

This, ladies and gentlemen, is a proverbial setup for failure.

Open borders.  Versus closed borders.

Right vs wrong.

How did we get here?

And a final question:

Would your dead grandparents recognize this current country?

BZ

 

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