A Perspective on Crime...

Back when I was in the Navy, we made a port call in Acapulco. Yeah..... That was fun.

Anyway... Some of my buddies and I hired a cab driver for the day to take us around. As we were passing by a bank, we all started staring. It was surrounded by dozens of guards w/ assault rifles and had a frickin' sandbagged machine gun nest on the roof. Asking our driver what the deal was, he replied "Banditos. Today is payday".

Later during the visit, my buddies and I decided we needed some more cash to waste so went and found an ATM. There was an armed guard outside (again w/ an assault rifle). As we took turns getting our money, I saw the guard was looking at us and talking on a radio. "Crap" I thought. "We're going to die". Instead, when we left the building, about every 30' or so was ANOTHER guard that had shown up to make sure we got away w/ our money and DIDN'T get robbed and killed before we could dump it into the local economy.

This was near 20 years ago, before things got REALLY bad.

When I start seeing machinegun nests at the local bank and Blackwater teams around ATM's, THEN I'll start taking Anti's claims of 'spiraling gun violence' seriously. I have no plan, however, to let myself be as vulnerable as the Mexican people though.

ISP Way Behind on FOID....Again

The firearm industry is in such a slump that the Illinois State Police are a month behind on processing the flood of FOID card applications, creating countless criminals in the state as cards expire w/o new ones arriving. They're not even bothering answering the phone much anymore they're receiving so many complaints.

Guess they must be gearing up to call for another fee increase.

Beat That Dead Horse Ladd

Since some dead tree paper put up an article about the 'Gun Lobby' 'hiding' their sales info, Ladd went and wrote another pre-debunked Huffpo article on it and has tweeted about it seemingly one handed a over half-a-dozen times in less than a day.

Since his sucky research skills have already been pointed out to him, that just makes it even more sad.

Unverifiable 'Facts'

The NGVAC put up a blog post w/ this claim:

sales to criminals represent 25% of the Gun Industry’s annual sales. (Source: Expert witness report filed as part of the 1999 NAACP lawsuit vs. the Gun Industry.)

Yeah, OK.

Unsurprisingly 'Gunsensus' made the same claim a few hours later on Twitter. So I called her on it. Here was the response:

Can't share--not mine to share. Part of lawsuit.

Yep, that's pretty much it. Sometimes you can't share legal documents publicly. Sorry.

How convenient. The 'lawsuit' was dismissed nearly 10 years ago. Reminds me of the 'super secret' AHSA Amici Brief in McDonald. We all know though that they will continue to repeat this 'fact' no matter how ridiculous it is and w/o providing any supporting evidence for it whatsoever.

At the same time, Ladd Everitt of the CSGV claims that there's no way to know the number of sales because the NRA/NSSF are 'hiding' the data. Another 'fact'.

This is all they have left.

IL State Senate Dist. 51 Campaign

W/ the redistricting of Illinois, it's caused a flood of new campaigners to appear and officeholders to shift around some. The new IL dist 51 currently has a GOP runoff between Chapin Rose, currently the Rep for Dist. 110, and Tom Pliura.

Pluira gives a good talk about being an NRA life member and supporting CCW on one hand but, on the other hand, has, in the past, supported the campaign of hardcore anti IL Sen Dick Durban as well as donating to Durbin's 'Prairie PAC' which dumps tons of money into the campaigns of other such anti's as Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi. His reasoning for doing so.... to be 'polite'. I kid you not.

So what will he do when he faces the DNC in Springfield should he win? Will he be 'rude' in the effort to get Concealed Carry or will he be an opportunist to try and gain favor?

Last Week on DOOT

• A Series of Unfortunate Decisions...
• Sour Grapes
• Settlement W/ No Admission of Wrongdoing
• Misogynists.
• It's (Not) a 'GrassRoots Movement' Charlie Brown
• @CSGV: No Shame, No Integrity, No Ethics
• Kenneth Quinnell's a Genius, Just Ask Him:UPDATE
• A Plethora of News Items
• Tunnel Vision or Mental Illness?
• THAT Explains It....
• *POOF!!*
• They Just Keep Getting Funnier
• NGVAC Feeling The Pinch @GunVictimsAct

A Series of Unfortunate Decisions...

If you're a political activist and want to remain generally anonymous, one of the first things you should NOT do is act like a prick while linking to articles publishing the names and information of other political activists, only removing said link after being called out w/ your real name in (unpublished) comments.

Another thing you should NOT do is conduct television interviews using your pseudonym (especially a trademarked pseudonym) and post videos/photos of yourself during political activities. This can be optional unless you do the below.

Now Sebastian TBFKASIH believes we shouldn't 'out' someone unless they're using their various handles as sockpuppets to pretend there's more support for your cause than there really is.

Yeah, don't do that either:

Because then if someone happens to click on the name and see a profile picture of the exact same person pictured in said videos/photos they're likely going to do a little Googling, just to see what's up.

And when they find ANOTHER profile of you calling yourself a 'public figure' and admitting to both your real name and pseudonym under yet another picture of yourself, don't be surprised when we laugh at you for being, (how did you put it again?) "Sensitive" over having this information made a little more public.

After all of these unfortunate decisions are made, you have another one to make. You can either accept the fact that people know who you really are and avoid the 'Streisand Effect' or you can continue acting like a petulant child and try to escalate the hostilities. I wouldn't recommend the latter but it's your choice.

Sour Grapes

Ladd Everitt's a sad panda:

CSGV CSGV

.@komenforthecure handgun webpage up again w/ note about no more backorders b/c of "overwhelming popularity." bit.ly/w84Gh4 #komen

50 minutes ago

This is what it looks like when you're losing. But of course the CSGV et al would prefer women die from breast cancer than own a firearm.

Settlement W/ No Admission of Wrongdoing

Last week I accepted the challenge of the head of the NGVAC, Elliot Fineman. Well today I finally got a response. After some back and forth exchanges, I got this:

I guess your referring to what I copied from the website below. We do not say Hasan was on the Terrorist Watch List, we say what you had said was the case in your earlier email. Nonetheless, since you have taken the time to read the enormous amount of material on our website, we will send you the $25 as a thank you for having done so. Have a nice weekend and enjoy the Super Bowl.

So even though Hasan is used as an example on the page talking about people on the 'Terror Watch List' buying guns, they're not 'really' saying he was on the Terror Watch List.

That's OK. It's still a box of ammo and some Starbucks coffee courtesy of Mr. Fineman. Gotta love it.

Misogynists.

Weer'd takes a look at how anti-gun activists Joan Peterson and Abby Spangler prefer to have women die of breast cancer than own a firearm. You can also throw Ladd Everitt of the CSGV into that batch as well.

Classy bunch aren't they?

We can also take a look at Lori O'neill, Vice-Chairman of the NCGAV, (who also opposes breast cancer research if funded by firearms, even one's wrongly identified) again. On her FB page, she makes this comment regarding abortion:

It's pretty simple--you're either pro-choice or no-choice. I choose to trust women to make decisions about their health and lives without elected officials pressuring us to abandon each other so they can be re-elected by extremists who distrust women.

But when it comes to firearms, she's 'no choice'. When it comes to firearms, she DOESN'T trust women to make decisions about their health and lives w/o elected officials pressuring them to abandon eachother so they can be re-elected by anti-gun extremists (like her) who distrust women.

To be part of their ilk, you have to make the choices THEY choose for you and none other, in this case being anti-gun. Otherwise they don't give a cr@p what happens to you.