Free Shot Friday 4.16

 Sadly, there was another shooting on the news today. Apparently, a disgruntled fired employee returned to FedEx and killed several people. At this point, it doesn't look like any of the measures that gun control activists claim will stop violence actually work. The FBI was aware of his issues. A gun had been taken away from him. He had mental health issues. The list goes on. What would have stopped him? Another person with a gun. Instead of armed citizens, Biden wants more unarmed victims. When Facebook and Twitter facilities are invaded by armed crazies, they will understand the need for armed citizens. Biden is probably the most heavily guarded man on the planet, does he worry about the rest of us? No!!

Dr. Fauci is incapable of giving a specific answer. It's time to put him out to pasture. That's a polite term for "fire the bastard". Maybe they are afraid that he will come back and shoot up some federal building?

Gary Player's son has been banned from the Masters for holding a box of golf balls where viewers could see the label during a television shoot. His career path should lead him to NASCAR. 

Kids have been going to school in Florida for months. Here in NC, they are returning to school at last. If you think that "virtual learning" works, I still have that oceanfront property in West Virginia for sale.

Liberals who have been attacking Georgia for the last couple of weeks were busy criticizing Augusta National Golf Club this weekend during the Masters. The concept of "Private Club" is lost on liberals, although many probably belong to one. Why don't liberals protest in front of a clubhouse for the Outlaws Motorcycle Club and demand that they admit a more diverse crowd? Why don't those liberals sue Hell's Angels for discrimination? 

Joe Biden wants to banish "ghost guns". How many young black men in Chicago have been killed with a gun someone made from a kit? 

People in Chicago are angry that a policeman shot a thirteen year old who was shooting at other people. They are mad because he was a cop. They obviously don't care about young people killing each other in Chicago.

When did the killing of a white man by police last make the national news? Can you name the last white man killed by police? Yet more whites are killed every year than blacks.  Where was the last town burned and looted after a white man was killed by police? But there's no bias in the media, you just forgot where you read that.

How does looting a Wal-Mart or Target honor a dead person? How does burning your city advance your cause?

Facebook has banned people from sharing a New York Post story about the four houses (valued at over $3 million) purchased by a founder of Black Lives Matter. This woman is a Marxist like Bernie Sanders is a socialist. I think Sanders only has three houses.

There's a private, segregated club operating in our nation's capital and we are all supporting it with our tax dollars. It is the Congressional Black Caucus, which has never had a white member. Is this not the very definition of racism?

Biden has moved the withdrawal date for Americans from Afghanistan to September 11. Trump wanted them out by May 1. Obviously, September 11 is a symbolic date. How many more Americans will die for that symbolism between May 1 and September 11?

In January of 1838, Abraham Lincoln spoke to the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, IL. Here are a few points from that speech.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

I hope I am over wary; but if I am not, there is, even now, something of ill-omen, amongst us. I mean the increasing disregard for law which pervades the country; the growing disposition to substitute the wild and furious passions, in lieu of the sober judgment of Courts; and the worse than savage mobs, for the executive ministers of justice. This disposition is awfully fearful in any community; and that it now exists in ours, though grating to our feelings to admit, it would be a violation of truth, and an insult to our intelligence, to deny. Accounts of outrages committed by mobs, form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country, from New England to Louisiana;

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law. In any case that arises, as for instance, the promulgation of abolitionism, one of two positions is necessarily true; that is, the thing is right within itself, and therefore deserves the protection of all law and all good citizens; or, it is wrong, and therefore proper to be prohibited by legal enactments; and in neither case, is the interposition of mob law, either necessary, justifiable, or excusable.