From some Gummint asshole who’s suddenly started to smell the coffee:
Riots Are Organized and Coordinated, Rioters Are Paid Radical Left-Wing Anarchists
Uh, we all knew that long ago, dipshit. What we don’t know is why it took you fuckheads so long to realize that.
And what we’re breathlessly awaiting is for you assholes to start doing something about it.
Somebody explain to me whose side these pricks are on:
Local Fox affiliate KTTV 11 captured the action live on television as the shopkeeper and his son, who were armed with shotguns and bandoliers, had just finished explaining to a reporter how they had chased away a group of looters, who had fled the scene with police in hot pursuit.
A member of the local community, whose relatives were helping the shopkeeper and his son stand guard at the store, told KTTV’s Christina Gonzalez that the store had been in the area for decades, and that the shopkeeper’s family had helped everyone in the community.
Moments later, however, another group of looters arrived in a convoy of vehicles. When the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) arrived, too, however, they ordered the armed shopkeeper and his son to surrender their weapons, and they handcuffed three community members who had been helping in the standoff with looters.
Meanwhile, the looters ran away, and some apparently escaped altogether, with other officers in pursuit.
Gonzalez pleaded with one LAPD officer to release the three community members, while the others arrested one looter.
Eventually, the three community members were released. Police nearly arrested another woman who arrived on the scene to pick up one of them, who was apparently her mother.
What a fuck-up of a police force. That’s right, Keystone Kops: disarm the people who are doing the job you’re supposed to be doing but aren’t, and then arrest Yossarian, not Aarfy.
You rat bastards.
From Brandon Morse:
Riots are popping up in cities over the murder of George Floyd, completely overshadowing the legitimate protests containing peaceful people making a valid point. Some of these rioters, namely those belonging to the group “Antifa,” have mentioned that they’re going to leave the cities and move their destruction and violence into the suburbs.
Rioting in a city is, for all intents and purposes, safe for the rioter. Even if you do have a confrontation with police, you’re more than likely going to get a few bumps and bruises. At worst, some blood might be drawn from superficial wounds.
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The rules change in the suburbs. You’re not robbing a private store and destroying public property anymore. Now you’re in home territory. The house is full of valuable possessions and luxuries, yes, but more than that, this location has family members in it.
You’re far more likely to die in the suburbs than in the city in this situation. You may think moving the riots into neighborhoods is going to play out the same way. It’s not. You’re at a massive tactical disadvantage. The residents know these streets, the layout of their homes, and the defense capabilities of their residence and themselves.
You don’t. Each home will be different, each resident will have different approaches, and each home may have more than one or two gun wielders inside. The goal isn’t non-violent control of the situation now. It’s not about tear gas and high-pressure hoses now. Now it’s deadly force. You can’t just wash a bullet wound out and keep going.
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In the city, you were the pack of lions seeking whom you may devour. In the burbs, you’re the gazelle.
What these little shits don’t realize is that among the crowds of “Internet tough guys” (like me) are also some genuine tough guys — and the toughest are likely to be the quietest, the ones nobody knows about.
But hey, Pantifa/BLM: give it a go anyway. Let’s see how it works for you. And by the way: our suburban cops aren’t the pussified ones you face in the city. These are some serious rednecks who, in all likelihood, will ignore the fact that homeowners, in many cases their actual neighbors, are shooting you in the face. They may even join in the fun.
Stick to the cities, assholes.
Oh, and by the way: this shit?
Red dots show up real well on that.
Heather Mac Donald, as usual, does the best analysis of the current situation in our cities:
Savagery is spreading with lightning speed across the United States, with murderous assaults on police officers and civilians and the ecstatic annihilation of businesses and symbols of the state. Welcome to a real civilization-destroying pandemic, one that makes the recent saccharine exhortations to “stay safe” and the deployment of police officers to enforce outdoor mask-wearing seem like decadent bagatelles.
And:
This pandemic of civil violence is more widespread than anything seen during the Black Lives Matter movement of the Obama years, and it will likely have an even deadlier toll on law enforcement officers than the targeted assassinations we saw from 2014 onward. It’s worse this time because the country has absorbed another five years of academically inspired racial victimology. From Ta-Nehisi Coates to the New York Times’s 1619 project, the constant narrative about America’s endemic white supremacy and its deliberate destruction of the “black body” has been thoroughly injected into the political bloodstream.
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Once the violence began, any effort to “understand” it should have stopped, since that understanding is inevitably exculpatory. The looters are not grieving over the stomach-churning arrest and death of George Floyd; they are having the time of their lives. You don’t protest or mourn a victim by stealing oxycontin, electronics, jewelry, and sneakers.
So, given that the government is proving itself to be a bunch of craven cowards who are unwilling to keep the peace and enforce the law, will we see more of this? (First pic via Reader Ignore Amos and the second from Reader Old Texan.)
And so far — so far — nobody’s dropped the hammer (at least, not on our side). At some point, however, this may change.
The only problem is that this is precisely what these pricks want: martyrs to the Cause. So by throwing down on these anarchists, Marxists and looters, we’d be playing into their hands.
At some point however, and I suspect we may be fast approaching that point, nobody’s going to care about that. And then:
Then, martyrs will not be a problem. They’ll have plenty. In the meantime, however:
And:
It may be time to start getting serious around here…
I read this story over the weekend with a great deal of sadness, coupled with rage:
An angler has died after yobs allegedly pelted him with rocks using a catapult as he fished with his two brothers in a boat on a lake at a 15th century castle.
Charles Hilder, 66, from Romford, Essex, died in the grounds of Lullingstone Castle in Eynsford, Kent, following the attack at 5pm yesterday by the yobs who were stood on a bank.
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It comes as locals and MPs claimed the area had been under siege from yobs in recent weeks with some threatening people and even trying to steal a woman’s dog.
Clearly, the Brits need to pass legislation outlawing catapults (Seffrican: catties ; Murkin: slingshots) like these:
And we won’t even talk about those eeevil “assault” slingshots made with triple rubber pulls, wrist-braces and carbon-fiber Y-frames.
I mean, nobody needs a triple-pulled slingshot with a wrist-brace, amirite? [/sarc]
I think I’ve told the story about a man I know who in addition to carrying a handgun when out in public, has over the years also acquired about ten or more Ruger SP101 hammerless short-barreled revolvers, all chambered in .357 Mag, and he scatters them all over his place: bedside, living room, garage, bathroom, car, wherever. He also has one stashed in his toolbox and another in his fishing tackle box.
When I asked him why the tackle- and toolboxes, he replied simply: “Because bad things can happen anywhere, and working in my garage and fishing out in the boonies is where I’m most vulnerable.”
Of course, that makes all sorts of sense. It doesn’t help our British cousins (and the unlucky old guy above), because they’ve voted away their right to own handguns and their right to self-defense. But for us Murkins, it’s a cautionary word to the wise.
Never be too far away from the means to protect yourself.
By the way: that Kainokai triple-pull sling looks awful. To the surprise of absolutely nobody, I prefer the more traditionally-styled Lodonc:
Wood and steel, baby; if it works for a 1911, it’ll work for a damn slingshot.
Let’s see if I’ve got this right. The list of cities that are being besieged and set aflame by rioters includes the following: New York, Washington D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Seattle, Portland and Minneapolis.
Quick: what do these cities all have in common?
In other words, these shithole cities embody absolutely everything that is un-American about modern society and government; and yet we are supposed to feel some kind of sympathy or outrage that these cities are burning themselves to the ground?
Suck on it, assholes. Reap that liberal / socialist whirlwind, good and hard.
And somebody let me know when the carpet-bombing begins, so I can get some popcorn supplies in beforehand.
Oh, and by the way: this includes Dallas. Just don’t come too far north of I-635, assholes.