Pearl Harbor Dec 7, 1941
And just so we can also be reminded of the end result:
Nagasaki, August 6, 1945
Tag: Evil Bastards
Dept. Of Righteous Shootings
Man, they’re coming in thick and fast. From Reader JohnC (thankee!) comes this excellent news*:
Police said three employees were inside the Wingstop in northeast Philadelphia Sunday when a 53-year-old man walked in wearing a mask and gloves around 10:30 p.m. The suspect allegedly pointed a gun at them and demanded the employees hand over the money from the cash register drawer.
Investigators said that’s when a customer, identified by police only as a man in his late 20s, walked in talking on the phone, likely not noticing a robbery was taking place, WPVI reported.
The suspect then turned and pointed his firearm at the customer, demanding he turn over his cell phone.
The customer pulled his own gun and fired one shot at the perpetrator, striking him in the neck, said Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small. The suspect was pronounced dead at the scene.
[pauses to let the cheering and catcalls subside]
There’s so much to like about this story that I barely know where to begin. (A neck shot? Dude.)
And now comes the time at this website when we do the Happy Dance…
*no link because it comes from the foul Fox News, who persist in embedding annoying loud auto-start videos in their articles. Also because Fox News, period. Fuck ’em. They’ve joined the list of news orgs which get no links from me.
Interesting Perspective
A lot of talk is centering around the Biden/Harris/Beto’s threats to disarm America. Several people have talked about this in Doomsday terms, e.g. in the Third World:
…and in Nazi Germany (same link):
I’m not going to suggest that this stuff never happened, because that would be stupid. Leftists attempt to deny history, and I don’t.
That said: I think that in order for a government to get its civilian populace disarmed, one of two conditions need to be in existence.
Firstly, this works in the Third World (Africa, S.E. Asia, etc.) where the population is scattered, impoverished and not very connected by media. Under these conditions, it’s quite easy for the government to send out truckloads of soldiers to village after village to round up the guns. In many cases, the gun owners aren’t aware that the raids are beginning or if they are, it’s too late and they’re too disorganized to devise some system to hide their guns or to organize resistance. And the very isolation of the population groups (by distance, desert or forest) adds to the ease for the government to do, well, anything (and not just gun confiscation) to their hapless citizens.
That’s not the situation facing a Marxist government like the Biden/Harris/Beto model. Gun owners in the U.S. are aware, connected and not easily cowed. Surprise may be achieved once, but only once before the word gets out and the job becomes not only more difficult, but a lot more difficult.
The other situation where gun control works is in a Western country — e.g. Germany or the U.K. — where the population is subservient by nature, and where disarmament can begin first with registration and later with door-to-door confiscation raids by the police.
That may work in Europe, but the snarling gun-owning population is the U.S. is anything but subservient. They’re actively hostile and willing to resist even “commonsense” policies like gun registration. (As was shown recently in Connecticut, the bluest of blue states, where governmental attempts to register AR-15s resulted in perhaps 5% compliance, and even that’s just a guess. Imagine the success rate of handgun registration or hunting — “sniper” — rifle registration…)
Even statewide gun control fails, as evidenced by the continuous wails of neo-Marxist governments like those of Illinois and New York complaining of the flow of “illegal” and unregistered guns from neighboring states like Indiana and Virginia respectively.
I’m not saying that attempts at confiscation aren’t going to happen. Anything is possible with these bastards. But if Marxists are good at anything, it’s trying to suppress human nature and in our case, Constitutional protections, because as with all things Commie, the results are irrelevant as long as the doctrine is followed.
What I am saying is that it’s not going to be as easy as they seem to think. In fact, it’s going to be exponentially more difficult than they think, and a tremendous amount of blood is going to be spilled, probably on both sides. In the end, the side which prevails will be the side with the greater devotion to their particular ideal, and the guts to push it, or resist the other’s, as hard as possible.
That’s enough talk. I’m off to the range. There’s ammo to be tested, and practice to be done.
Getting Real
I found this linked SOTI (can’t remember where, sorry):
And it gets worse:
Now I don’t know who these people are, but they sound seriously unhinged. I’m trying to see how any rational person could define supporters of a Manhattan businessman (and one-time Democrat) as a “conspiracy-fueled belligerent death cult”. Taking each word in turn:
What conspiracy? The only people who have been obsessed with conspiracy have been Leftists — Russia, Ukraine — and this despite the fact that the real conspiracy has been by ex-Obama staffers, the various intelligence services and government bureaucrats against President Donald Trump. Sheesh, just the Strzok-Page email exchanges alone are proof of that, and there’s so much more that I barely know where to begin. This does not exist in the imaginations of Trump supporters: it’s all been exhaustively documented — and despite that, Trump has only fired a few of the more egregious offenders, and prosecuted not a single one, not even the most obvious transgressors like Hillary Clinton (having a private — and illegal — email server while Secretary of State) or John Brennan (leaking classified information).
Belligerent? Who’s talking about gulags, about the State coming to confiscate guns from private citizens? And who is rioting in the streets, demanding to “burn it all down” and “destroy America”? Trump supporters? I wish we were that belligerent. Every single act of belligerence — from attempting to assassinate a Republican Congressman at a ballgame, burning and looting, and threatening the lives and livelihoods of people working in the current Administration — has come from the Left. Who screams invective at restaurant patrons, demanding support for the self-confessed Marxists at Black Lives Matter? Not Trump supporters, for sure.
And a death cult? What fevered imagination came up with that one? Where are the Trumpian suicide squads, the Trump-sponsored bands of thugs roaming the streets and beating up political opponents, the conservatives en masse bellowing “Death to Marxists”? (Although sometimes I wish we would, if only to drown out these assholes’ endless screams for a minute or two.)
No. All the above are activities engaged in by the Left.
Ask yourselves this: are these people to be taken seriously? I mean, it’s all very well for lone loonies like this David Atkins to call for mass “deprogramming” pogroms (taking a leaf from the Stalinists of the 1950s, who must be nodding their gray heads with satisfaction from that Great Collective In The Sky). But didn’t a former Cabinet Secretary (the snarling dwarf Robert Reich) first suggest some foolishness like this? Is this suggestion of Atkins about to become policy, if Biden ever becomes President?
Just the magnitude of such an undertaking is astonishing. Let’s remember that upwards of seventy million people either voted for Trump, or else were motivated to vote against “whatever it is that you Leftists want to implement”: open borders, high taxes, gun confiscation, wealth redistribution, “hate speech” (we already have “hate crimes”), civil unrest and all the other foulness that the Left has been supporting and threatening for the past fifty-odd years.
But when a massive segment of the population says in no uncertain terms, “We don’t want that, because such lunacy has caused death, destruction, poverty and misery in every single country it has been implemented”, then we — all 70 million of us — are the ones in need of “reeducation”?
These twerps are getting worked up into a frenzy — anyone who’s ever had to deal with a thwarted child’s growing tantrum recognizes this progression all too well — and this unreasoning hatred towards people who reject their political philosophy is simply setting up a situation for bloodshed. As much as we conservatives are called “Nazis” by the Left, the plain fact of the matter is that this demonization of political opposition has its roots in the Left: whether by the Jacobins of Revolutionary France or by Hitler’s own National Socialist Party, we all know from their example that the elimination of political rivals begins with dehumanization and demonization.
My biggest fear, and it is very much a fear, is that the Left have been building themselves up into a febrile frenzy, and at some point, it’s going to burst into mass violence towards us conservatives.
And while we may chuckle and load up our spare magazines, I’m pretty sure that few of us want that mayhem to actually come to pass.
But I think they do, because when fanatics see that they’re losing, they often choose self-sacrifice as an alternative to failure.
And we’re the “death cult”?
Making Celebrities Out Of Scum
Here’s (yet another) reason why I believe in the death penalty:
I always have arguments about this issue with people (e.g. Reader Quentin) who state that the problem with the death penalty is that occasionally (actually, hardly ever) the wrong people are executed for a crime they didn’t commit.
Fine.
On the other hand, you have situations like the above Yorkshire Ripper’s imprisonment, which basically turned into some kind of grotesque holiday camp which, I think we all agree, is appalling for everyone except the fucking murdering bastard.
So can I make a wee suggestion, here? If we aren’t going to execute assholes like this (and I still support that), can we at least make sure that their lives behind bars are a living hell? I’m thinking of solitary confinement as practiced in Pelican Bay: no visitors, no entertainment like TV, one hour’s exercise per day (also in isolation), the most basic of diets (water, bread, maybe some fruit).
In other words, there has to be a great deal of punishment involved for someone found guilty of killing over a dozen people, rather than turning him into some kind of folk hero and celebrity. And I find it appalling that the State has to spend a great deal of money just to keep some unworthy scumbag alive. If the government is going to throw money around like that, then fuck it: calculate how much money it will take to keep him alive, shoot him in the back of the neck, and give that money to the victims’ families.
It’s not a perfect solution, but it’s much better than the above travesty.
Just So We’re All Clear
Over time, several Loyal Readers have contacted me, warning that I might suffer the recent fate of several conservative websites, whose hosting services have blocked them (a.k.a. “de-platforming”) with weasel excuses such as that of The Conservative Treehouse’s lot: “given the incompatibility between your site’s content and our terms, you need to find a new hosting provider and must migrate the site by Wednesday, December 2nd.”
I, of course, am at risk because of my occasionally-intemperate rants and my all-round “bad” behavior.
Firstly: thank you all for your concern.
Secondly: Of course, Tech Support II has a backup plan — to quote him exactly, “There’d just be a little downtime while we execute. ”
Thirdly: “Execution” might very well include what could be called a “porcupine consequence” for these Lefty assholes if I am ever de-platformed.
As long as I’m left alone, nobody gets hurt.