Cats, Guns, and National Security: 2021-02-28

Saturday, March 6, 2021

THE DAILY FUDD: E31: "Fudding in real life: Swapping a Glock for a Vaquero for CCW."

I've done CCW with a snub-nose 9mm using star clips. Similar reload situation, but it didn't have near the same business-end visual effect.

Concealed carry, Glock 27 40 cal. replaced by single action Ruger Vaquero 45 cal. TALO quick draw - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E6d8K18KzY

I retired my Glock for a single action Ruger Vaquero as my CCW, I give reasons that I think backs up this move.

ADDENDUM: CCW holster for it: Concealed Carry holster for single action six shooters - YouTube

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Friday, March 5, 2021

Agendized outrage.

https://gab.com/Wolfram800/posts/105839408220577903

THE DAILY FUDD: E30: "Star Fudd: 'Bread and Circuses.'"

"Bread and Circuses" is the Star Trek Original Series episode where the Enterprise encounters a planet with 20th-century Earth technology, but a continuing Roman Empire. In their interaction with the society, they encounter an outcast religious community in the mountains. Its adherents refer to themselves as "Children of the 'Sun.'" Of course, at the end--and taking into account a throwaway line from Spock that the people were speaking English--it turns out that "Sun" was actually, "Son"--the "Son of God."

A point pertinent to this series, starting about five minutes into the episode, is where Kirk, Spock, and Bones are encountered by these "Children." A sentry fires a warning shot at them, and we soon see more sentries emerge carrying traditional-configuration bolt-action hunting rifles.

Points of history and fuddity here:

1. The non-military nature of the arms (government forces were seen with submachine guns) would be in keeping with the beliefs of some Essenes of the first century AD/CE about such matters--not pacifist, but non-militant.
2. Such uber-fudd arms, though far from ideal even by TDF standards, can serve a role in such matters.
3. Those armed with them got the drop on three trained Starfleet officers with phasers.

No, such arms are NOT the ideal in 2A or RKBA. But you use what you can get. And those "Children" did.

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"Qualified Immunity" up for rejection by Congress -- There's a side of this for pro-law and order people to recognize.

This is a move in Congress today to eliminate "Qualified Immunity" for law enforcement. Qualified Immunity is the legal concept that police are generally exempt from laws while enforcing the law. While "Back the Blue" is generally good, there is a side to this matter that the pro-LE side needs to consider: Police can be assholes. The problem involves things like a police officer shooting your dog because he THINKS the dog MIGHT end up threatening him SOMEHOW. Because "the right to keep and handle dogs" is not clearly established in constitutional jurisprudence, the best the dog owner can do is maybe collect financial recompense from the department. The trigger-happy bum with a badge MIGHT get SOME sort of reprimand about SOMETHING. But no charges will ever be filed. (As I told a police officer friend recently: "This is why even White people hate police.")

It's been recognized that virtually every encounter a civilian has with a police officer involves some statutory violation by the officer. Be it a threat by placing his hand on his weapon in a threatening manner or whatever or full-on felony battery, the officer proceeds as if immune from prosecution for anything, because that is how he was trained. It enables him to act confidently while intimidating people into compliance. (Indeed, a California police chief testified before Congress that such intimidation, not protection, is the reason for police being armed.) Police do not know the law; they know POLICY (per the late Jack McLamb).

The solution is simple: Common sense. It's one thing to miss a point on Probable Cause when stopping a terrorist attack, but another to shoot a man's dog and leave him to die slowly because the pooch barked. So we look the other way at the former and do some judicially-sanctioned eye-for-eye on the latter. But since with "civil rights" we have to deny certain realities, and government departments have to go out of their way to not appear "racist" by modern standards--"modern standards" being the need to HIDE demographic realities--we can't do use common sense. The terrorist has the same protections as the dog owner--and MORE protections if the terrorist has darker skin than most of us. Such is White Guilt today.

A lawyer explained the "exclusionary rule" about evidence in a manner that fits "qualified immunity": Because "we" want police to be able to do basically whatever they need to do to keep us safe, we exempt them from prosecution, but make up for that by excluding the evidence from trial. For example, to use that terror attack scenario: Achmed from Afghanistan is planning to blow up a building. Officer Friendly is by any common-sense measure convinced of this. So he pops open Achmed's trunk and finds the explosives, plans, wires, etc. Yay! The terror plot is stopped.

BUT, to make up for the camelfucker's supposed rights being violated, all that evidence is tainted. Achmed walks and is a free man with all the rights of such. Of course, he'll be monitored, but ultimately, he's free to launch further attacks, including the one that kills the wife of Officer Friendly.

So, since objective standards always go against the darker-skinned peoples (Russert's "Rule of Three" here--please click to read), we've ended up with two consequences:
1. Police have to abuse White people who don't deserve it just to establish parity with their abuse of others who DO deserve and require it.
2. Implementation of Qualified Immunity: Let authorities be as abusive as they wish, let the guilty go free, and let the good people suffer.

All because of White Guilt.

Understand, folks, "qualified immunity" sounds good, and some sort of protection for law enforcement in this regard is certainly necessary in this age of unrealistic "civil rights." That said, this current system has a severe flaw. The ultimate answer is to eliminate "civil rights" and apply and enforce simple "equal protection" with an eye toward demographic realities. Then police will be able to do their jobs even as we as a society police them. 

But until that can be done, a word for police: Stop being assholes. It'll get you greater political support among the good people--and you all know who I mean by that.
1. Accept 2A and RKBA for civilians. Just accept it, even when "policy" says you're supposed to violate people's rights.
2. Act secretly in ways that uphold the good guys. You KNOW what you can do.
3. Stop shooting people's animals because you think it's fun to pull a trigger.

Do your best.

Russert's Rule of Three proven again: CongressBlack covers up reality by labeling standardized tests as “Pillar Of Systemic Racism.”

"RULE OF THREE": In a comparison of group results in a quantified test, the White aggregate will fall between the Asian (Yellow) and Black aggregates, usually much closer to the Asian result.

New Member of "The Squad" Says the SAT and Standardized Tests are a "Pillar Of Systemic Racism" | Dan Bongino

https://bongino.com/new-member-of-the-squad-says-the-sat-and-standardized-tests-are-a-pillar-of-systemic-racism/?fbclid=IwAR0u4DI6Z_DG-Kez19QKgg7wnehbUn_wlJj1tYKazrrFbecbStzb_EBWRQA

Instead of declaring that standardized tests are bad if black Americans don’t test as well, maybe we should be asking why that is and trying to address the problem so those kids will benefit. For example, maybe we should be asking why Asian Americans are outscoring everyone else on the SAT, including white Americans. Does anyone think it’s because the test is biased in their favor?

ANSWERED! If one can reject their White Guilt long enough to accept it.

And here's a snippit from the Fox News article linked to the article:

In 2017, the New York state Board of Regents voted to drop a literacy test for prospective teachers, pointing to the large percentage of Black and Hispanic candidates who were failing the test.

Rule of Three is true. BUT, it should be noted in the interest of not promoting "White Supremacy" that the mainstream of racial comparative thought is refining it down to a two-sided "Light" versus "Dark" contrast. Asians are losing their "People of Color" status and being lopped in Whites due to the increasingly obvious fact that Western culture and civilization is NOT biased expressly pro-White, but rather by being objective is showing the reality of racial demographic traits. While the lopping together is reasonable, it is actually being done to obscure this racial reality and the reality of Western society.

Here on CGNS I reported a recent example in a school district in Washington state doing this: H/t: https://twitter.com/StevenWelliever/status/1328075308218470400

ARCHIVED COPY: MonitoringStudentGrowth.pdf (archive.org) https://web.archive.org/web/20201116053140if_/https://www.nthurston.k12.wa.us//cms/lib/WA01001371/Centricity/Domain/2664/MonitoringStudentGrowth.pdf

- Russert's "Rule of Three": Asiatics get the White treatment, and essentially for same reason -- Lesson for "White nationalists." - https://catsgunsandnationalsecurity.blogspot.com/2020/11/new-pc-id-asians-yellows-arent-people.html

Thursday, March 4, 2021

THE DAILY FUDD: E29: "The MAS-36: French fuddity found to be functional."

Turns out there was a reasonable basis for the French adoption of a bolt-action rifle as late as 1936.

Don't diss fuddity till you know the whole story.

From Ian "Gun Jesus" McCollum.

MAS-36: The Backup Rifle is Called to Action – Forgotten Weapons https://www.forgottenweapons.com/mas-36-the-backup-rifle-is-called-to-action/

Video and more at link.

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Here I thought he was talking about the firing pin on a 1911!

Country music is letting me down!

I like my interpretation better.

Luke Combs – Forever After All Lyrics | Genius Lyrics https://genius.com/21248906

THE DAILY FUDD index.

Please pardon the formatting issues. Since I'm just a regular guy more focused on ideas than form, I do my best, but this platform gives fits.

CAUTIONARY NOTE TO COMMON GUNNERS:

Please, folks, be sophisticated in your reading of material like this. As we recently saw in the lead-up to the consummation of the 2020 Election Steal, and as noted by such great minds as Victor Davis Hanson, it can be difficult to discuss worst-case scenarios and responses to them without sounding as though one is resigned to them or even supportive of them. Sometimes it's necessary to take things arguendo just to discuss the whole matter. So when reading this or other things in TDF and elsewhere on maintaining baseline RKBA, keep in mind that often this is not an endorsement of a position, but rather a practical tool. There are cases where I am very literally definitive in my analyses--e.g., on full-auto or the distinction in Anglo-American Common Law and jurisprudence between "Blackstone" and "Militia" above and elsewhere--but often it's a working up of arguments (read, "BS") for the politics and jurisprudence of it all. And sometimes, it can simply a realistic recognition of where we are headed. I may not like some of the readings of law, the Constitution, or history I have discussed over the years, but I have put them out there both to stir discussion and to maintain the crucial core of what I personally consider the second most important "right" of a person--right after private personal worship--that baseline Right to personal Arms. Libertarianism is not my drive--function is.

Maintaining defensive capability and American/Western heritage, plus aspiring toward Militia efficacy--frankly in that order, given the current setting--must be the aim.