A musical ode to Kyle Rittenhouse

Self-defense, self-reliance, and doing the right thing are themes that run deep in Country Music  Here is a selection for yesterday's Not Guilty verdict.

On self-defense: Miranda Lambert's Gunpowder and Lead

And to our Yankee readers, yes "bail" and "hell" do in fact rhyme.

On self-reliance: Hogjaw's Gitsum

Lastly, on doing the right thing: Don Walser and the Pure Texas Band - Shotgun Boogie

Here's a helpful protip for creeps who want to come to America to abduct kids

If you pick a kid in Virginia to kidnap, her mom might just shoot your sorry ass:

A New Zealand man who was shot while breaking into a woman’s Goochland County home had met her 14-year-old daughter online and suddenly arrived uninvited after methodically planning his trip to the U.S., Goochland’s sheriff said Monday.

The man, Troy George Skinner, 25, was found with duct tape, pepper spray and a camouflage folding clip knife with a 2.75-inch blade, Sheriff James Agnew said during a news briefing at the sheriff’s office. The duct tape and the blade had been purchased from a Walmart on Friday, the day of the attack.

The creep looks, well, he looks just like what you'd think.  Sort of a New Zealand Sta-Puft Marshmallow Man.

Skinner then reappeared on the back deck and again tried to get inside by throwing a landscaping brick through a glass door. The mother warned Skinner several times that she had a gun. After he broke the glass, reached inside and attempted to unlatch the door, she fired twice. One round struck him in the neck, the sheriff said.

[pauses to let the cheers die down]

I'd like to point out that there was not one, but two 911 calls about this, and the cops only showed up after he had been ventilated.  That's why you need a gun.

The girl played online games with him, but picked on the creepy vide and blocked him.  He flew from New Zealand to Washington DC and then took a bus to her town.  If your kids play online games (and really, whose kids don't), point this out to them.

The only downside to this is that the family gun was a .22 and therefore the Commonwealth of Virginia (or you and me - Federal charges have been filed) will have to pay to throw this pathetic jerk in prison.  A 1911 might have avoided that expense to the taxpayers.

An armed robber tried to carjack two cars in Florida

Both drivers pulled out their guns and stopped him:

Police say a man who tried to carjack two people was thwarted after the victims both pulled out guns to protect themselves.

According to Fox 30, Jacksonville police officers arrested 36-year-old Christopher Raymond Hill, charging him with strong-arm robbery, carjacking with firearm or deadly weapon, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and trespassing.

Don't mess with Florida.

Link dump

Can you "hunker down" until the police arrive, or outrun an active shooter?  No.

European Union agrees to cut carbon emissions by 40% in 15 years.  Expect more European companies to build factories here in the USA.

UK police overestimate number of firearms lost or stolen:

The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) has claimed that more legally owned firearms were lost or stolen over the last few years than appears to be the case, according to an exclusive analysis by The Register.

The discrepancy casts doubt on a new initiative pillorying gun owners for being careless about gun security.

Security is so bad on "keyless entry" automobiles that they are uninsurable in the UK.  Oops.

Fall Out Boy - The Phoenix

Via #2 Son comes this plausibly appropriate-for-the-Zombie-Apocalypse music.  It seems it's what the young folk are listening to.



I'd sure like someone to do a song with these lyrics:

LORD, make me fast and accurate.
Let my aim be true and my hand faster
than those who would seek to destroy me.
Grant me victory over my foes
and those that wish harm to me and mine.
Let not my last thought be “ If only I had my gun ”.

And LORD if today is truly the day that You call me home,
let me die in a pile of empty brass,
Surrounded by the lifeless bodies of my enemies
and with blood and skin on the barrel of my empty pistol
where I beat the last one to death.

Amen

How many rounds will a restraining order stop?

A friend worked with a woman who was separated from her husband.  There was some unpleasantness involved, and so she got a restraining order.

Yesterday he showed up and shot her three times, killing her.  Then he shot himself.  Their 14 year old daughter is now an orphan.

There's sometimes a darkness in some people's souls.  Hug your children.  Embrace the light.


And prepare for the worst.

Why yes. I found Jesus at the Shooting Range.

Goober is situationally aware.

And when some nogoodnick asks you if you've found Jesus you answer, well, look at the post title ...