From sunny Seffrica comes this lovely story.
Executive summary: three choirboys run into a church waving guns and try to appropriate the entire congregation’s cash. Only problem: the church in question is located in a deeply conservative part of the country, and one of the congregants is an ex-cop. Result: two choirboys dead, one possibly wounded.
You may now applaud.
And from the comments to the article comes this priceless observation:
Note the upvote : downvote ratio.
As the Left ramps up its little reindeer games, expect more of this kind of thing:
“As we’re walking down passing Fourth Street, a blue car just come swerving out into the middle of the street almost runs over a bunch of protesters and everybody around starts like smacking the car trying to get him to slow down,” the witness said. “He pulls down his window and he fires three shots into the guy. From point-blank. No words no nothing. And then rolls up his window and zooms off.”
I’m not saying this is a good thing — despite my Yosemite Sam online persona, I dread having to shoot someone again — but at some point, the “kill everybody” switch is going to be thrown by ordinary people, especially when these rioting thugs start blocking roads, stopping cars and trying to assault the drivers and passengers.
Used to be that peaceful protests were confined (by the police) to sidewalks, with lots of chanting, signs and so on. Peaceful stuff. But that police action seems to have gone by the board — whether by negligence or design I can’t say — and inevitably, as police presence diminishes, the thugs will become bolder and more violent as they get the impression that “We own the streets!”
So I blame city management for this — muzzling police has long been a hallmark of Leftist government — and if the winds have been sown, both rioters and their government backers can expect whirlwinds; which will invite rioters to start carrying guns to these “peaceful protests”, and off we go on the hurricane of violence.
Which, by the way, is exactly what the Leftist nomenklatura wants to happen.
…or, add this to the list of people I don’t want to see in the media, ever again, unless in an obituary. The list isn’t ranked, for once, because I can’t decide which is actually the worst.
I see that Gurgle’s evil technocracy has blocked a few conservative outlets, but somehow missed blocking Splendid Isolation :
My few thousand daily Readers are doubtless not worth their attention. So capitalizing on their omission, here’s a pic of a gun:
That’s a Knights SR25 in the manly 7.62mm NATO (7.62x51mm), and it’s at Collectors.
May as well take advantage while I can.
Nobody needs an assault rifle, right? Well, somebody did:
An Afghan girl has shot dead two Taliban fighters and wounded several more after they dragged her parents from their home and killed them for supporting the government.
Insurgents in the central province of Ghor stormed the home of teenager Qamar Gul last week looking for her father, the village chief, before shooting her parents.
Gul then emerged from the house with her family’s AK-47 and opened fire, killing the two Taliban fighters who gunned down her mother and father and injuring several others.
Here’s the thing: as lawlessness increases and mob rule overwhelms policing, the greater the need for ordinary citizens to be armed against the mob. We saw it in St. Louis with those two liberal lawyers protecting their home, and now we have another, more tragic example of the need for self-defense.
I know, I know: what happened in Afghanistan could never happen here, right? Then someone explain to my why “doxing” someone (publishing their personal details like their residential address) isn’t such a threat in this country. We’ve already had examples of a howling mob appearing outside conservatives’ homes; now add a little mob hysteria and some weaponry — a Molotov cocktail, perhaps, or a gun — and it’s easy to see how tragedy could so easily take place.
Always be prepared, in every sense of the word. Even though he had a gun, the Afghan chief wasn’t mentally prepared for the day when the mob descended on his home, and died as a result. That his teenage daughter had to respond just adds to the tragedy.
“[E]galitarianism inevitably flips the natural order on its head, elevating the bottom over all else. The ideological enforcers in the human resource department are no different from the ideological enforcers in communism. These people are not selected for their skill, but their stupidity. They are too stupid to contemplate what they are doing. Instead, they puff out their chests and stiffen their backs for having memorized the latest party fads.”
Next time you have any dealings with some self-important H.R. flunky, feel free to use the parts of the above which are appropriate, because it’s absolutely true. Totalitarianism doesn’t run on evil, but on the stupidity of its apparatchiks.