Orlando, Ideologies, Guns & Weapons

I’ve waited until today to comment for a couple of reasons. First off, a friend might have been there, then, and I needed to know his status. Second, Orlando has the OGC, Orlando Gay Choir, and I’ve met some of the folks in it. Another good friend had his son in the OGC and I’ve met some of the folks from it. In short, I know some of the gay folks in Orlando and, well, that makes this event more difficult.

Also, knowing full well that this would be “4 walled” in the news cycle, I didn’t see much purpose in a “me too” pile on. I wanted to wait until I had something to say. Until more was known and a better understanding could form.

What Happened?

It is important to make sure you know what really happened prior to reacting. More than anything else, I see this rule violated in this kind of event. From the POTUS on down to the “guy in the street” interview; folks jump to their Talking Points without a clue about the reality. So what did happen?

An American Muslim Male who was known in the gay scene and hung out at that bar “a couple of times a month” for a long time (IIRC year or two), who was known for beating his wife (per her statements, but also note this is in accordance with the Koran which states a man may “beat his wife unto her couches” for not being obedient) and who was described as hateful and prone to anger issues by his fellow workers; bought two guns in accordance with law, and then went to a gun free zone with limited exits and shot a lot of people (over 100, about half dead). He was employed as a security guard for an agency that was hired by the Federal Government, and had a special class of firearms license that let him posses and carry weapons into places the rest of us (even concealed carry license holders) can not go armed. He passed a Federal Background Check more extensive than that needed to buy the guns.

The Usual Suspects

So the Political Class have issued their call to “Round up the usual suspects!” (to quote Casablanca) and all the typical village idiots are running around reading from their hymnal-playbooks. Adding idiocy and pathos to sadness.

The Donald wants to ban muslims from known terrorist states from entering America until we can figure out what is going on. But this guy was born here, so that would do nothing for this class of problem. (It would likely fix other problems, though). Further, we already know what is going on. Islam wants to take over the world. (Read your Koran, that’s what it said to me.) Everyone is to be forced to convert, or die. (Optionally, if and only if the local dominant muslims decided to do it, you might be allowed to live if, and only if, you pay a special tax to them…) So what more is there to understand? There will always be “Radical Islam” trying to kill off western civilization since that is the requirement of Islam. Get over it and move on.

The Hillary wants to ban “Assault weapons” and “military guns” and impose background checks on gun shows and all the usual claptrap. Yet this guy passed an even more extensive background check. So how well is that Federal Background Check working for you this time, eh? Furthermore, he used a simple SEMI-automatic rifle, not a “military gun” and not an “Assault rifle” (which, by definition must have a full automatic “machine gun” mode of at least several rounds). So how would banning a gun that wasn’t used change this? Conversely, banning guns that LOOK LIKE military guns, but do not function like them (which is what was used) has only two possible outcomes (depending on how implemented): Either
1) folks will be killed by prettier weapons with more magazines, or,
2) Normal, moral, law abiding folks will be disarmed and have their 2nd amendment rights removed for no benefit.

Neither of those is a good thing.

The News Talking Heads divided into their usual camps. Fox News having folks on pointing out how dumb the gun ban ideas were. MSNBC pointing out how dumb the folks opposing gun bans were. CNN moaning and emoting over the dead and with pictures of candle vigils… Clue Stick: Candles do not stop nutcase ideologues with guns ( and / or laws ). Honorable Mention goes to Alisyn Camerota and Chris Cuomo on CNN who asked The Usual Liberals spouting the Talking Points Du Jour polite but pointed questions. Like “but he had passed a background check and had a Class {B?} Firearms License” and similar. Actually pointing out to folks that the proposed “fix” would have done nothing. Still slightly left wing tilted, but being good journalists and covering both sides. Refreshing, really.

The President, boating far up the River DeNile… can’t even bring himself to say “Islamic Terrorist” or even “Islamic Murderer”. Somehow seems to think if we just whistle past the Islamic Jihad we won’t end up in the graveyard. Dear Mr. POTUS: When folks want to beat you up, dominate you, rape women and kill men, whistling doesn’t cut it; but a well aimed Real Assault Rifle works wonders. Furthermore, when someone is stalking you (as Radical Islam is doing to all of Western Citizens) looking them straight in the eye and saying “I see you, I know who you are and what you want, and I will stop you.” can work wonders. Head in the sand not so much…

The Reality

More gun restrictions will not fix this. (Calling gun bans and restrictions “gun control” is just a lie. Banning a car is not controlling it, it is banning. Same thing with guns). Banning weapons in general has a very long history – of failure. China banned the people of Okinawa from having weapons. The result was Karate – the art of “open hand” or empty hand fighting. I was a student for years. I can kill with my bare hands. Unless you want to join the Islamists and start chopping off hands, you will not be taking those away from me. The Nunchuck was another direct result. Banned from owning swords or bow, the rice-flail and well handle became weapons. Now the nunchuck and “side handle baton”. In a case of incredible irony and terminal stupid, California has banned the nunchuck (unless you are currently enrolled in a class teaching it…). Guess what, the belt made of bike chain and the metal “medical arm brace” can work just as well. Short swords are banned in public, but the Machete in California is classed as a “gardening implement” so OK. But ban the machete, and I’ll just move on to the scythe or the “Art Of The Hand Saw & Claw Hammer” or a dozen others. (Note that in the game / movie Clue, the weapons include only one gun… the rope, pipe, and even candlestick are all lethal…)

You simply can not ever ban your way to safety. It is a fools errand and does not work.

In particular, note the attacks in France. Some of the toughest weapons bans in the world. The Islamist Murderers know how to make explosives from hydrogen peroxide and acetone from the local mega-mart, they don’t need guns. Yet they still get them there. Why? Because the only real effects of a gun ban are:
1) A weak, exposed, and vulnerable target population.
2) A larger and lucrative market for smugglers.

So just as soon as you win the War On Drugs and we don’t have tons of drugs crossing the border per day, that would be a good time to bring up the idea of gun bans again…

Or maybe not… Do note that folks in prison regularly make weapons, including guns, from materials at hand. I have a book on “Improvised and Modified Firearms”. It is very surprising what can be made into a gun. (Hint: You need to ban all water pipes and metal tubes…also nails and wood…)

Banning guns to folks with a “misdemeanor hate crime” conviction is not going to fix this. First off, he didn’t have one. Second, with the present trajectory of what is considered a “hate crime”, in short order most of America will be subject to banning. Already the Black Lives Matter folks see all Police has haters, so disarming the Police is good? Saying “I think marriage ought to be between man and woman” gets you branded hater too. (So I guess it would work to disarm all the Radical Episcopal Terrorists… Oh, wait, there aren’t any…) The whole concept of “Hate Crime” is a farce. Crime is crime. How one emotes about it is irrelevant (unless, of course, you want to inject a political control knob…) Would the FBI Agent who points out a given Mosque as center of Islamic Radicalization be subject to Hate Crime conviction for wrong think? In some jurisdictions today, highly likely. (Flint, anyone?)

Banning Muslims from foreign lands will not fix this. (It might improve things in 20 years, since there is a clear pattern of the children of Muslim Immigrants being radicalized. It might also reduce embedded covert ISIS agents.) These are radical islamist murderers following where their ideology leads them. The only real fix is to exterminate the ideology. I will leave it for others to decide where the ideology ends. Is it a perversion of Islam? A particular sect? (Watching Sunni and Shia argue over which one is the infidel can be great sport… they have been killing each other off for centuries). Perhaps all of Islam? When I read the Koran, it seems pretty clear to me. Islam is to dominate, the infidel is to be subjugated or killed. Perhaps “they” can “fix it”, but I’d rather they fixed it first, then were allowed to come here. The other way around seems to get a lot of folks killed. But that’s just my opinion. (And I’m saying it because I love everyone, even them… not a shred of hate in me… does that make it a ‘love crime’?)

The Scenario

I’ve struggled for a couple of days with the question of “Say this or not?”. The reason is pretty simple. I don’t want to give anyone ideas. Yet I’m pretty sure the Islamic Murderers are pretty well aware of this kind of potential. They have been known to scout out fuel trucks.

A fuel truck driven into the front door and set on fire would have had just as many, or more, killed. But it doesn’t even need a whole truck. This attack happened just at closing time for the bar. So you get 2 guys, each in overalls saying “Joe’s Cleaning Service” and with a mop in one hand and a 5 gallon plastic pail saying “floor cleaner” in the other. One approaches each door (front and back as required by fire regs). IF stopped by someone at the door, they say “Oh, let me show you my ID and the work order” and set down the pale (that has a loose lid). While setting it down, they knock it over into the doorway. Then light it.

Now 5 gallons is about 20 liters. That liquid will spread out rapidly to about 2 mm thick, then start evaporating rapidly. It will cover about 20 x 1000 cm^2 x 5 or 100,000 cm^2 Call it 10 m^2 or about a 10 x 10 foot area. (3 x 3 m is about 10 x 10 feet to the precision of spilled gasoline)

Now “flick your bic” and there is a wall of flame at both exits. NOBODY gets out alive. Anyone who runs through the flames will be functionally blind as they exit, so one “whack on the head” with your trusty hammer and they are done.

This is but one of a hundred scenarios that can be thought up. Each worse than a gunman with a long rifle.

The Problem

The basic problem is the creation of “soft targets”. The “gun free zone” is a prime example. It isn’t “gun free”. It is properly called “Defense free – Criminal With Guns Attack Zone”. It is no accident that mass shootings happen at schools and bars. They are both “gun free zones” aka ‘easy targets’.

Anyone who demands more “gun free zones” is waving a giant “I Am An Idiot!” flag. Anyone advocating for “gun control” is lying, as it is gun banning and restriction, not control, and delusional in thinking less defense means better defended. I don’t have to like that to see the truth in it.

(Similarly anyone calling the AR-15 he used an “assault rifle” is clearly waving the “I am ignorant” flag or “working from an agenda”. It is NOT a military gun nor an “assault rifle” as it is not capable of automatic fire. Period. Full stop. And no, just because some Dimocrat passes a law defining it as one doesn’t change the reality.)

There will always be nut cases and malicious ideologies. They will always have access to weapons (since so much is so easily weaponized). Disarming yourself will not “fix” that. The only way to fix it is to attack the ideology and exterminate it. I don’t have to like that either, to see the truth in it.

Now mix your soft targets with your murderous ideology, you get mass casualties.

That really is how simple it is.

The Fix(es)

The only real fix is to harden the targets (which means more guns not less) and exterminate the ideologues.

A partial “help” would be to stop building giant “man traps” with only 2 exits. Have some ‘breakout panels’ in any place that is subject to attack. That can be as simple as large windows with nearby chairs for tossing, or as complicated as an alarmed “emergency door” in the back of the bathrooms, only openable from the inside.

Overstated? Not at all. The Islamic Murderer cased several places looking for the best target. He clearly figured out that Disney has a LOT of security (even if hard to spot). It is also open to lots of free flow of people. That means his targets could escape and he would be rapidly faced with guns and police. So he “moved on” to a softer target. One with limited entrances and exits, and one with no ‘counterforce’ to face. In short, there is a reason armored cars have armed guards and police carry guns. It makes them a harder target.

I don’t like war. I don’t like killing. I don’t like security checks at doors. I have hearing loss of a kind that means any live gunfire without ear protection will leave me permanently deafened (more than I already am) so I can’t practically use a gun without preparation (i.e. plugs AND muffs). I don’t like any of this (Islamic Murderers included). What I like doesn’t matter.

“Reality just is.” -E.M.Smith

Our political class needs to understand that and embrace it. There is an objective reality. It is full of bad actors. The best way we have found to date to deal with it is to be armed and dangerous ourselves. I’d love to see a better way, but one does not exist at this time. (The world still has police and armies…for a reason.)

Part of that reality is that “Islam is NOT your friend”. Read your Koran. It states, several times, “Do not take Christians to be your friends” and “Do not take the infidel to be your friends”. So I am not insulting Islam or Muslims by stating to act in accordance with their Koran. Islam is apart from all Christianity and all Jews and all of everyone else, by their own rules. Do not, ever, expect “assimilation” to western culture. It is just not going to happen. The only allowed assimilation is you, to Islam.

Worse, Political Islam is the action arm working to convert the world to Islamic Rule and Sharia Law. Just ask them, they will tell you. (Well, most of the time… but the Koran specifically advises to lie to the infidel when desirable… so it’s more reliable to read their published works.) The Mosque is not just a “funny church”. It is also a cultural center and used by Political Islam to push the agenda of dominance.

Those realities “just are” too.

As a necessary consequence, it is a requirement to do surveillance of mosques. The ones indulging in Political Islam must be identified. The actors pushing that dominance agenda must be identified, and ejected from the society. ( I don’t really care how).

The whole ideology of dominance and death dealing must be extirpated in the West. Until that is done, it’s Groundhog Day at the Islamic Murder Coral. Only the weapon of choice will change.

In Conclusion

There is no conclusion. Not until the Ideology Of Murder is exterminated, the groups pushing it are exterminated (ISIS only the latest, and not the last), and Islam has a “Reformation” that lets it let go of it’s murderous tenets. Until then it is a culture war between two very incompatible cultures, and in a war, those who are unarmed are buried. Right now, we are burying 49, them 1. We need to “up our game”. A lot.

Playing kissy face and sucking up will not make this any better, and only encourages more attacks and ‘dominance seeking’ as you are signaling weakness and submission. What works with all bullies is force in their face. What always fails is being nice and polite. “Peace in our time” fails. “Peace through superior firepower” wins. That is the clear lesson of history, and of anyone who has been on the street alone at night in marginal places. Anyone who has dealt with bullies knows this too. Political Islam is just a global bully, and it must be confronted with force, in every place it exists. There can be no safe haven, not even in the Mosque (or perhaps especially in the Mosque). The rabble that follows the bully dissipates when the bully is beaten. Getting in the occasional street fight just makes them look stronger. Half measures (as our POSTUS likes) don’t get the job done.

I would also suggest to the LGBT Community that there is a clear choice here. Islam wants you dead (see the laws under sharia and in Saudi). The Democrats want you cheek by jowl with lots more islamists. The Republicans want to defend you from them. Maybe it is time to check out the Log Cabin Republicans and get a concealed carry permit.

You can’t run away (there is no such place as ‘away’) and you can’t quit the fight (they will not stop until 100% of the world is Islamic and under Sharia). You have no choice but to “be among them“…

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