Lady Gets Lucky In Highland Park, Calls For Gun Control (That Already Exists)

By William Teach July 6, 2022 – 10:30 am

Of course Lilli Martini is making this all about herself, but, I think we can allow it this time. To a point

Look at My Face and Tell Me We Don’t Need Gun Control

I’d been to the July 4 parade in Highland Park so many times. This time, I went with my cousin and her boyfriend, plus another 5-year-old cousin and her grandmother. We walked in the pets and children’s march that comes right before the main parade and then rushed to our seats in front of Walker Bros. pancake house to take it all in—like I had done almost every year of my life.

The ambulances and police vehicles that kick off the parade came by, then the marching band passed. That’s when we heard it: pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. I thought it was fireworks until I saw people ducking. Then people started screaming and running and I felt something hit my face.

She was bleeding quite a bit, as shown in the article and the photos

Eventually, I found my cousin’s boyfriend and he was able to drive me to the hospital. There were no ambulances because so many other people were badly injured. I ended up with six stitches to close a graze wound that the doctor said had been cauterized by the heat of the bullet. I know how lucky I am.

If true, and it wasn’t glass or something (see the photo. It could be the passing of a round, or not), she is lucky

Here is the thing: I am just 18 but this is not the first time I have been close to a mass shooting. In 2016, when a shooter killed 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando with a semiautomatic rifle, I was 10 minutes away, visiting my dad. In 2017, he was living in Las Vegas when a sniper armed with multiple assault rifles shot up the Route 91 Harvest Festival, killing 60 people; my dad being extremely nearby.

I’m a rising sophomore at a college in Colorado who is planning on a career in education. The massacre in Uvalde, Texas, where someone with an assault rifle killed 19 children and two teachers, weighed heavily on my mind.

That is why on Monday, just hours after the shooting, I posted a photo of my bloody face on Twitter (she is limiting who can view her tweets) with the message: “i cant fucking believe i was in the middle of a mass shooting. ive felt safe at this parade for 18 years and today i got hit with a bullet and nothing will change in america this is ridiculous.”

So, of course she wants stricter laws, and we’re supposed to use her story to do this. But

Highland Park Suspect Was Known to Police; Bought Guns Legally

The man accused of killing seven people and wounding dozens of others in a shooting that terrorized a Fourth of July parade had been investigated by the local police before. Officers had responded in 2019 after someone reported that he had tried to kill himself. And they came to his home a few months later — seizing a knife collection — after a family member reported that he had pledged to “kill everyone.”

Still, in the years since, the man, Robert E. Crimo III, 21, was able to legally buy several guns in Illinois, including a high-powered rifle that officials said was used in the attack on Monday in Highland Park, a lakefront suburb north of Chicago. On Tuesday, Mr. Crimo was charged with seven counts of first-degree murder.

The details of those prior police visits raised questions about whether the Illinois authorities missed opportunities to use their relatively strict firearm laws to block Mr. Crimo’s gun purchases, and about whether a newly signed federal gun law might have made a difference had it been in force earlier. In a statement, the Illinois State Police defended its decision to grant Mr. Crimo a permit to own a gun, which he applied for in December 2019, three months after the police took the knives from his home.

That was the NY Times, showing that, despite all the strict gun control that so many want, including Ms. Martini above, the government failed spectacularly in stopping this guy. Gun control groups love Illinois for their gun control strictness. “Assault rifles” are banned in Highland Park, and the nutter planned this for weeks.

(Breitbart) On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) stated that the red flag law in Illinois is “ineffective” and “it certainly does appear that there was enough information” about the Highland Park shooter “to cause a court to cause law enforcement to go in and take his guns away.” Murphy also stated that the gun law recently passed by the Senate would give incentives for states to adopt laws “that are right now working in states like Florida, working less well, it seems, in states like Illinois.”

Yeah, it’s working in Florida, not so much in most of the Democrat states which do not seem interested in actually doing law and order stuff. It doesn’t help when police fail to enter the information into the database that is used to determine if someone can purchase a firearm.

(Reuters) The man charged with killing seven people at a Chicago-area July Fourth parade slipped past the safeguards of an Illinois “red flag” law designed to prevent people deemed to have violent tendencies from getting guns, officials revealed on Tuesday.

The disclosures raised questions about the adequacy of the state’s “red flag” laws even as a prosecutor lauded the system as “strong” during a news conference announcing seven first-degree murder charges against the 21-year-old suspect, Robert, E. Crimo III.

Any system is only as good as the people involved in it, and, when they fail, bad things can happen.

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Bummer: US Less Concerned About Climate Crisis (scam) Than Most Of The World

By William Teach July 6, 2022 – 7:15 am

The U.S. pretty much has one the biggest media markets in the world, constantly yammering on about ‘climate change’. It’s in the news, in the opinion section, in TV shows and movies, in specials, in museums, art exhibits, aquariums, posters, you name it. They’ve been spreading awareness for 35+ years. And this is the result

What, me worry? Survey shows US less concerned about climate change than most of the world

While two-thirds of U.S. residents in a new international survey said they were worried about climate change, the nation stood out for being among those least concerned about the warming world.

In the survey of more than 100 countries released last week, some 67.6% of respondents in the United States said they were either “very worried or somewhat worried” about climate change.

Among the 24 western hemisphere countries included in the survey, only Haiti at 67.3% had fewer respondents worried about climate change.

By comparison, 95% of the people surveyed in Mexico and 93% in Chile and Portugal reported they were at least somewhat worried. Only Jordan (48%) and Yemen (31%) showed fewer than half of respondents were concerned.

The survey was conducted on Facebook by its owner, Meta, and the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.

So, basically they are surveying people using a far left social media outlet, and getting responses they wanted, but, still not enough. Of course, they failed to ask what the political beliefs of the respondents are.

Of all those surveyed in North America, the U.S. had the largest percentage (11%) who said they don’t think climate change is happening. That’s compared with 6% of Canadian respondents and 7% of Haitians.

The problem here is the question, as we see at the survey

After being asked about their current level of knowledge about climate change, respondents were given a short definition of climate change: “Climate change refers to the idea that the world’s average temperature has been increasing over the past 150 years, will increase more in the future, and that the world’s climate will change as a result. What do you think: Do you think climate change is happening?”

I’d answer yes on that. The temperature has gone up. It will probably go up some more, because this is a typical Holocene warm period, and, eventually the world will enter a typical Holocene cool period. When they finally ask the question if it’s mostly caused by Human activities, well, in the U.S. the result is in the 40-50% rate. Oops.

What they should have asked is ” are you will to change your own life significantly to match your beliefs?” That’s rather important. People may believe in theory, but, they aren’t will to put this into practice.

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10% Say Biden’s American Is Heading In The Right Direction

By William Teach July 6, 2022 – 7:00 am

The 10% must be the celebs and rich folks making money off the misery of Americans

Only 10 Percent Say Joe Biden’s America Is Headed in Right Direction, Worst Result Since 2013

Only 10 percent of Americans say President Joe Biden’s America is headed in the right direction, according to a Tuesday Monmouth poll.

While few Americans are pleased with the direction of the nation, 88 percent say Biden’s America is headed in the wrong direction, marking the worst polling on the issue since 2013 when Barack Obama was president.

The poll sampled 978 Americans from June 23 to 27 with a 3.1-point margin of error. The polled respondents disproportionally leaned left. Thirty-one percent identified as Democrats, 43 percent as independents, and only 26 percent as Republicans.

Under Biden’s leadership, the nation continues to suffer under 40-year-high inflation. The southern border remains unsecured, fentanyl has become the greatest killer among 18 to 45-year-olds, gas prices have increased to all-time highs, weekly wages have shrunk, and supply chain woes have persisted.

Who was vice president in 2013? A lot of people were pretty sure they made a big mistake in voting Obama in 2013, too.

Polling suggests that the likely reason Biden’s approval rating has not recovered is the economy. The Monmouth poll found America’s top three concerns are inflation (30 percent), gas prices (15 percent), and the economy (nine percent). The top concerns outweighed abortion (five percent) and guns (three percent).

Fifty-seven percent of Americans believe Biden’s federal government policies have “hurt their family when it comes to their most important concern.” Only eight percent said Biden’s government “has helped” them, while 34 percent said Biden’s policies have had no impact on alleviating their concerns.

If Democrats think abortion, ‘climate change’, and gun grabbing will help them in the mid-terms, they are sorely mistaken. If they think blaming everyone and everything but Biden and themselves for the poor economic conditions, they are barking up a wind turbine. They’re only hope is that the economy turns around by November. I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of them try and reduce vote by mail, because they want those votes at the very last second. Interestingly, vote by mail, done legally and in a controlled manner, will seriously assist Republicans. They want people to vote GOP early.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 5, 2022 – 8:00 pm

…is hurting yourself and all sorts of health issues due to ‘climate change’, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on libs traumatized by July 4th flags.

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Excitable Paul Krugman: Climate Change Is Bringing The Apocalypse

By William Teach July 5, 2022 – 3:00 pm

I’ll be honest, I have no idea what the screed by Krugman says, the headline caught my attention

Another Step Toward Climate Apocalypse

Do we care what this nutter is writing?

We’re having a heat wave, a tropical heat wave. Also a temperate heat wave and an Arctic heat wave, with temperatures reaching the high 80s in northern Norway. The megadrought in the Western United States has reduced Lake Mead to a small fraction of its former size, and it now threatens to become a “dead pool” that can no longer supply water to major cities. Climate change is already doing immense damage, and it’s probably only a matter of time before we experience huge catastrophes that take thousands of lives.

And the Republican majority on the Supreme Court just voted to limit the Biden administration’s ability to do anything about it.

Damned the court for upholding the Constitution! We have doomsday cult rules to put in place. Ones that never seem to affect the rich folks, ones they never voluntarily follow, but, hey, sure, why not?

And partisanship is the central problem of climate policy. Yes, Joe Manchin stands in the way of advancing the Biden climate agenda. But if there were even a handful of Republican senators willing to support climate action, Manchin wouldn’t matter, and neither would the Supreme Court: Simple legislation could establish regulations limiting greenhouse gas emissions and provide subsidies and maybe even impose taxes to encourage the transition to a green economy. So ultimately our paralysis in the face of what looks more and more like a looming apocalypse comes down to the G.O.P.’s adamant opposition to any kind of action.

The question is, how did letting the planet burn become a key G.O.P. tenet?

OK, this is all about politics. Which should be no shocker to anyone paying attention. It’s been about politics since the Soviet Union fell and and far left joined the environmental movement. Watermelons: green on the outside, red on the inside.

Why, exactly, are authoritarian right-wing parties anti-environment? That’s a discussion for another day. What’s important right now is that the United States is the only major nation in which an authoritarian right-wing party — which lost the popular vote in seven of the past eight presidential elections yet controls the Supreme Court — has the ability to block actions that might prevent climate catastrophe.

Got that? Requiring the Legislative Branch to do its job and restricting the Executive Branch from creating unauthorized Big Rules is authoritarian.

Meanwhile, more unhinged doomsday cultists

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Stupid Person Learns Valuable Lesson As He “Mourns Roe v Wade”

By William Teach July 5, 2022 – 10:30 am

As I visit my usual haunts, like Bored Panda, Brightside.me, and others, I constantly run across posts where people bash their companies/bosses/spouses/parents, but, they so often do not post the results. The fallout. Same in straight news where idiots write open letters, sign petitions. Well, here’s a result, and he’ll probably learn nothing

Employee fired after refusing to work over Roe v. Wade ruling: ‘I’m in mourning’

A Universal Music Group employee said he was fired from his job for refusing to work after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last month, and claimed the termination showed the company did not support its workers “speaking out” about abortion rights.

Michael Lopez, a now-former production coordinator at Universal Music Enterprises, attempted to shame the company in a LinkedIn post last week, saying he is a “queer brown person” who was “fired during Pride month for speaking up in defense of abortion rights.”

Hit the link: he sure looks white as rice. Also, if he’s queer, does that mean he doesn’t sleep with women? So, not problem getting someone pregnant

“Last Friday, like countless other folks, I was devastated by the news of the supreme court’s attack on abortion rights,” Lopez wrote. “Paired with the flood of anti-queer and anti-trans legislation, it’s been hard to process how company’s [sic] expect us to be productive while our rights are being stripped away.”

Lopez said that every Friday, one of his tasks was to “process reports for upcoming releases” and he would then have to email his work to a list of 275 people. However, after the court’s ruling, he decided not to complete the task and emailed his coworkers letting them know.

“I didn’t do them today,” Lopez wrote in the email of the neglected work. “I’m in mourning due to the attack on people with uteruses in the US. Federally guaranteed access to abortion is gone.”

“Vivendi and Universal Music Group must stop donating to anti-abortion, anti-queer and anti-trans politicians,” he wrote. “Politicians like Marsha Blackburn, Ken Buck, Victoria Spartz, etc. Or expect more unproductive days.”

“Yours in fury, Michael Lopez,” he signed off.

And, yes, he was fired in a video call the next Monday, so, he jumped on LinkedIn to say how many people supported him, and

“I was being let go for (paraphrasing) ‘Not doing your job, disrupting the day of 275 people and poor judgement,’” Lopez wrote.

If you’re writing this, you aren’t understanding what’s going on. Further, it’s not going to help as you apply for other jobs and prospective employers see this. They may support you stance, but, will be concerned that anything might set you off and cause you to not do the job they’re paying you to perform. He even continued, because, if you’re going to dig a job hole, do it right

“Just got fired for this email from Friday, so they’re letting you know where they stand on employees speaking out on politicians that support marginalization for folks like me,” he wrote in the email. “A brown queer person terminated during Pride month speaking in support of abortion rights. Seems like that’s exactly what America is all about right now.”

He concluded his LinkedIn post by saying he did not speak for his company, but for himself and employees who will “suffer under these discriminatory laws.”

Well, have fun with that job search.

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The Most Important Thing Warmists Can Do Is Vote Or Something

By William Teach July 5, 2022 – 7:15 am

This is totally not a political issue, you know, says fake science guy

Bill Nye says the main thing you can do about climate change isn’t recycling—it’s voting

The best way to save the planet isn’t necessarily recycling – it’s stepping into a voting booth.

That’s according to celebrity science educator Bill Nye, television’s “The Science Guy,” who spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colorado, last week. “To be sure, recycling the bottles, don’t throw the plastic away [and] compost your compostable things … Start there,” Nye said. ”[But] if you want to do one thing about climate change: Vote.”

“And, if you’re a kid and you can’t vote yet, make sure your parents vote,” Nye, 66, added. “Hassle them.”

Right, right, this is totally about science. This is the same old talking point where climate cultists can avoid practicing what they preach.

Nye called the predominantly conservative Supreme Court “a controversial bunch,” and described the ruling as an act of “human negligence.” He noted that the ruling places a greater burden on the U.S. Congress and state legislatures to pass stronger laws aimed at protecting the environment — though, in some cases, enforcing those laws can be complicated.

Warmists are not happy when the Constitution gets in the way of their cult.

“What we’ve got to do is pass better laws,” Nye said. “The Supreme Court does what the law says, so we just have to pass laws that are more direct, more specific, more in everybody’s best interest.”

Huh. He said something that makes sense. I suggest that we pass laws that apply specifically to those advocating for climate crisis (scam) legislation which only applies to the Warmists. Yes, yes, I know that’s probably un-Constitutional, but, hey, we have taxation that applies to different citizens differently, right? See how the Warmists like it for a few years.

Nye pointed to laws that would attach fees or taxes to carbon emissions as examples of legislation that might move the needle on climate change, because affecting the wallets of both individuals and corporations could help curtail the sort of behavior that results in exorbitant carbon usage.

Yes, apply it to Warmists first, see how they like it.

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NY Daily News Admits New NY Gun Law Is Designed To Make It “Fairly Difficult To Arm Oneself Legally”

By William Teach July 5, 2022 – 7:00 am

I’m expecting that the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, the group that sued New York which generated the recent Supreme Court decision, is paying attention for their next lawsuit, as the NY Daily News editorial board says the quiet part outloud (you can read it not behind a paywall here)

Gun sense: New York’s revised gun laws should make the state safer and pass constitutional muster

It was embarrassing that after Gov. Hochul called an extraordinary session to overhaul New York’s gun laws in the wake of the Supreme Court’s evisceration, she and the Legislature took a day to show their cards. But the substance of the statute that emerged Friday is what really counts, and here, we have confidence that it’ll help protect police and civilians from the potential mayhem of concealed firearms everywhere.

In striking down New York’s 111-year-old Sullivan Law, the Supreme Court said the state could no longer require individuals to demonstrate a heightened need to carry a concealed weapon above and beyond typical public safety fears. So that’s out — but in is a rigorous new permitting regime required for all.

For the first time, the state will make all applicants pass firearm training. It will require four character references. It will scan “former and current social media accounts” of those seeking weapons, presumably to rule out those who are unstable or have shown a penchant for violence. There will be a new licensing system for and database of ammunition sales. Safe-storage requirements will get tighter.

Add it all up, and assuming these requirements survive inevitable court challenges, it’s going to remain fairly difficult to arm oneself legally in New York.

It’s just another way to make it almost impossible for law abiding citizens to carry for personal protection. There’s almost no crime committed by those with a concealed carry permit. You know that this intrusion into social media will allow the gun hating bureaucrats to deny permits. Stronger safe storage will make a firearm for home defense almost useless. References? This will all get crushed by new lawsuits. Citizens will just purchase ammo from other states

To mitigate that likelihood, the law liberally defines the court-approved “sensitive locations” where firearm carry can be restricted, including places of worship, educational institutions, “any place…used for public transit,” stadiums, polling places, any place where alcohol is consumed, Times Square, “any gathering of individuals to collectively express their constitutional rights to protest or assemble,” and more while making other private businesses presumptively no-carry zones unless their owners decide otherwise.

And that, again, is what makes it almost impossible to carry. You can walk around, but, most places will not post that citizens can carry inside. A lot won’t even know they need to post if they want to allow concealed carry holders in their businesses. This will lose in court again, because it is designed, as the editorial board points out, to make it fairly difficult for law abiding citizens to use their 2nd Amendment right.

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US Oil And Gas Responds To Brandon’s Twitter Intern

By William Teach July 4, 2022 – 3:28 pm

So, the White House Twitter intern decided he/she were being Super Smart

The vast majority of gas station owners are small businesses, either individually owned or companies that own a few. Some own a lot. But, almost none are actually owned by the fossil fuels companies like Shell, Exxon, BP, etc. They are licensed, sorta like McDonald’s, Burger King, Subway. They also make only a small amount of money per gallon. Are they supposed to give up their small profits? Is Biden working for free? How about his Twitter interns? His appointed agency heads?

Biden would probably be pretty mad if he actually saw the tweet, but, he probably doesn’t understand this newfangled social media stuff, and he’s too busy taking lots of fossil fueled trips at taxpayer expense. He came back from Europe on Thursday, flew to Camp David Friday, and is flying back today.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 4, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is a cloudless sky causing drought from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Victory Girls Blog, with a post on Orlando eating crow after their July 4th hot take.

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