Cook County's "Gun Violence Coordinator"

Outside of the obvious jokes over the title of the job, Cook County (aka mostly Chicago) is getting more gov't employees at the taxpayer expense.

(CBS) — The Cook County Board has approved appointing a gun violence coordinator who will be expected to “live, eat, breathe and sleep gun violence,” reports WBBM’s Mike Krauser....

“All they do is live, eat, breathe and sleep gun violence and make sure that they come up ideas,” Boykin said.

Sheriff Tom Dart will appoint the gun violence coordinator.

So here's what's going to happen.  It's going to be a political appointment, not anyone w/ any actual experience, most likely associated w/ an IL based gun control group.  The only 'Coordinating' they're going to do is to coordinate the lobbying activities of said gun control groups in the state to push for more anti-gun laws.

Nothing will be done about the rampant gangs, drugs, or social collapse that are the primary precursors of the violence.  And the cycle will continue. 

Charleston, IL Becoming 'Little Chicago' UPDATE

I posted some issues a few weeks ago involving multiple, strong-arm robberies and violent assaults.  Just over the last week there was a 'mob action' in the local Wally-world and another shooting.


From the local paper:

The fight apparently started because of a "past disagreement with people in their high school" and was not a random incident, Oyer said.
He said the people involved are not current or former Charleston High School students but he declined to provide any additional information.

Update: The full video


 And just last night:

Eastern Illinois University issued an "off-campus crime advisory" by email to its students and staff that said a pedestrian might have fired a gun at a vehicle

 Over in the next town, the state DOC is using a homeless shelter as a dumping ground for transients.  The results are what you would expect.

MATTOON -- A reported resident of the Mattoon Area PADS homeless shelter has been arrested for allegedly sexually abusing a 16-year-old girl who had been providing volunteer services in connection with PADS.

 At a recent community meeting regarding moving the shelter, opponents of the move were physically and verbally threatened by several of the residents.

I've scheduled a CCW class for myself and the C-in-C. 

Why Are Anti-Gun Activists So Violent?

Not directly an 'anti-gun' activist but peripherally supported it.

Prosecutor who was involved in a case to criminally charge an 8th grader for 'obstruction' for refusing to take off an NRA shirt pulls out a gun in his work office threatening to shoot Halloween spider decorations.

Yeah.  Does anyone else hear the guy from Southpark "I am above ze law". Since he was  an APA, he has all sorts of special powers that the everyday subject does when it comes to carrying.

Chicago Crime Rates

I had video of the event and a good description of the thief. I filled out the online form with no issues, but a week later it came back as not being a valid online submission because the theft took place outside of the residence. Porches don’t count. I had to resubmit through whatever number they gave, which of course I did not.

Any questions?

The Stupid Never Stops..

So we've got the CSGV joining the Brady Bunch calling gun owners terrorists, the NGVAC throwing out their usual nonsense, and now Obama's mouthpiece calling for firearm homicides to increase nationwide.

White House press secretary Josh Earnest conceded Monday that Chicago is a city with a high rate of gun crimes and murder despite having very strict gun control laws. But he said that’s even more of an argument for stricter national laws.

Yeah, exactly. 

Is this the message he's going to give to the anti-gun IACP? Wouldn't surprise me.

Why Are Anti-Gun Activists So Violent? (Language Alert)

So John Boch, head of GSL in Illinois stops at a gas station.  A passerby notices the GSL bumpersticker and it causes him to lose his mind.

“You’re those fucking people that put guns in the hands of killers.  Guns don’t save lives, gun kill people, you stupid fuck.”

“No, fuck you.  Are you going to fucking shoot me?  Here’s a better idea, you sick fuck:  Why don’t you shoot yourself!”

 “You guys are fucking nuts.  You run around with your guns, ready to fucking snap and start killing people.” 

 “Oh, you gonna call the cops?  Why don’t you go fuck yourself.  Fuck you and fuck the police,” he screams.

Think about this.  He actively confronts and threatens an individual he assumes is armed and is 'ready to snap and start killing people'. 

THIS is why he is anti-gun, because this is how they react to their anger and they assume that's how everyone is.

This is also why we carry.

Following That Joyce Gun Control Money

It's been awhile since I last looked at the Joyce Foundation grant money lists, mostly because they pulled their lists for several years offline because we were showing how little public support gun control has and that most of it comes from elites like the Joyces, Soros, and Bloomberg. 

Well some of it's back up and the numbers are just as interesting as before. 

Josh Sugarmann and the VPC seem to be weening themselves off the Joyce teat, only receiving about 30% of their total money from them ($250K), which almost covers Josh's and Kirsten Rand's salaries ( $150k ea.)

The 'New Venture Fund' has seen their monies go from about $450K to over $1m/year under various grants.  The NVF seems to be a hub for money distribution to other sources.  Gotta keep as much of it hidden as they can.  

The Chicago Mayor's office has gotten $150K/year for the last several years to push gun control along w/ another $250K to the ICHV.

Harvard has gotten about $500K for the last few years.

the CSGV's 'Educational Fund' $150K and Bloomie's Everytown $350K and the WI 'WAVE over $300k/year.

Overall nearly $5.5 million dollars being dumped into gun control efforts every year just by the Joyce Foundation alone. So while the accusations that the NRA are just 'gun lobby' whores abound, the fact remains that anti-gun activism is paid for almost exclusively by a few rich philanthropists w/ their own private armed security.

Change the Wording and it's Still Just as Silly

Saw this little gem on the book of face:


Of course I chuckled and shared.  Then I got to reading the comments left on the original post.

Dice don't kill characters, stupid decisions and vindictive DMs with dice kill characters.

Dice don't kill PC's. They kill the innocent, unsuspecting NPC's who are simply attempting to defend what is theirs from the raiding, violent and greedy PC's, who invade their homes, businesses, mines, and those oh-so-costly dungeons, all in the name of financial gain and material wealth. But more NPC's die by the deadly "1" roll every single week. Please, do your best to protect these poor, innocent NPC's from a fate which could, with care and forethought, have been prevented.

 Dice don't kill people. DMs kill people - with dice.

 Dice don't kill characters, players do.

 This is why the PCs must have their own polyhedron dice. Without them, they are defenseless against the GM and his minions.

And my two favorites:

There's no need for high-capacity dice with 10 or more sides! An 8-sided die is plenty for the DM to defend himself with!

In Amber and Nobilis, where dice have been banned, PCs still die.

Chicago 'Gun Buyback' Money Coming From Rahms @ss

So the city of Chicago is hundreds of millions in debt for pensions so that Rahmbo is making sweeping across the board increases in taxes and fees to pay for it, making Chi-town one of the highest taxed cities in the nation. 

Yet he's able to pull out $250G for a publicity stunt along w/ all the overtime he'll have to pay police to do it.

Yeah, another 'gun buyback' which has never been shown to have ANY impact on crime.

Well GSL is going to be there w/ bells on to help support youth safety and education and they're pissing off all the right people:

Anthony Guglielmi, spokesman for the Chicago Police Department, said officers will check to see whether turned-in guns are operable but won’t check the IDs of the people who bring them in.
“If people want to game the system, society is the victim,” he said. “I think those people need to ask themselves, are they part of the solution to reduce violence?”

If you've got any old clunkers, GSL will accept them and they'll go to a good cause.

Denial. It Ain't Just A River in Egypt.

You really have to love anti-gun advocates.  They truly have to live in a world of their own to maintain their self image.  Take this column for example:

That power of the NRA is now diminishing and the power of "common sense" gun organizations are rising, such as the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence

Only if he defines 'now' as the last few weeks w/ a margin of error.  Pew and Gallup both show the exact opposite trend as does any measure of common sense.

Then this unsurprising bit of info:

Hillary Clinton will be recognized by the Brady Center for her "longstanding leadership in the fight to reduce gun violence by keeping guns out of dangerous hands".

While working for an administration that has shipped arms to drug dealers and terrorists.  Interesting take on it. The 'Brady Center' is giving her this 'award' in order to garner some media attention since she's currently in the lime-light  It's about the only light they can afford to keep on anymore since they're near defunct and have been mostly supplanted by the millions of dollars (not donors or members, unlike the NRA) of Bloomberg Inc.

The NRA, for its part, has stopped every single "common sense" gun reform proposal in the past 15 years, including a universally accepted "universal background checks."

How have they done that if their power is so 'diminished'?  A refrain we've been hearing from other failing anti-gun fanatics (ie Josh Sugarmann) for years.

The inaugural Mario M. Cuomo Visionary Award will be presented to Hillary Clinton at the Brady Center’s annual Brady Bear Awards Gala in New York on November 19.

Bet she won't show.  Any takers? I'll give odds.

In an attempt to "distract and distort" the "common sense" gun debate, the NRA is claiming that Hillary Clinton favors a "gun confiscation" agenda, using the code word of "Australia."

I love this bit.  He then goes on to justify how wonderful Australia is while completely ignoring the FACT that the rigged statistics he provides are only in association w/ the CONFISCATION of hundreds of thousands of privately owned firearms (while we managed to drop our homicide rate 50% over the same period).  He has to ignore that to maintain his worldview of the NRA as some giant behemoth that controls the minds of tens of millions of firearm owners (w/ their reduced influence of course).  You know, the usual "NRA is in the business of selling guns" meme.

The NRA doesn't have to 'fear monger' or lie.  Clinton and Obama gave firearm advocates that gift of calling for confiscation wrapped in a neat package w/ that fancy metallic ribbon as a bow.  The author's attempts to distract from that are nothing but sad as he lives in the gun control mental utopia of 20 yrs ago.