WPRI Rhode Island is reporting on new criminal safety laws passed by the RI House.

With this bill, we are finally saying we will not tolerate these dangerious [to criminals] weapons,” Rep. Justine Caldwell continued. “our neighboring states have already prohibited highstandard-capacity magazines, and we should join them in refusing to accept the risks they present to Rhode IslandersIsland [criminals].”

So she wants to ban boxes with springs in them because she is afraid. Ok.

The house rejected a number of amendments including all grandfathering clauses.

So if this bill passes a bunch of subjects in RI will suddenly have to get rid of their magazines or face charges if found in possession of standard capacity magazines.

Of course they have no problems violating the constitution.

Article I, § 22 of the Constitution of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations provides that “[t]he right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” Article I, § 24 states that “[t]he enumeration of the foregoing rights [of the Constitution] shall not be construed to impair or deny others retained by the people. The rights guaranteed by this Constitution are not dependent on those guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States.”

Having reached the point in life where I’m old and look more like a victim to young animals, I carry everywhere and try and keep my head on a swivel.

Fox News is reporting that four animals lay in ambush waiting for victims. An elderly man was shoot during the ambush. Four suspects are being sought.

I don’t see the race of the victims but the still picture of the animals meets our standard stereotype of the sort of animals that haunt parks looking for vicitims.

Likely there were drugs involved, but that’s just my guess.

A Texas deputy on assignment at Uvalde after the shooting was fired for being intoxicated.

While not on duty, he was in the temporary barracks. He was so drunk he was deemed a danger to himself or others.

Texas Deputy on Assignment in Uvalde Fired for Off-Duty Drunkenness: Police

Man trying to enter Gadsden school shot to death while attempting to take officer’s gun, officials say

AL.com reports that man was attempting to break into a school and and SRO’s vehicle. When they attempted to arrest him, the suspect tried to take the officers gun.

This lead to the suspect slowly reaching room temperature. A happy ending.

That Clay Watkins wasn’t willing to pay $8 for LaCroix sparkling water. He had to buy a store brand.

NPR is reporting that elites are actually having to make spending decisions. That they’ve actually noticed that amounts are smaller and prices are up.

The Labor Department is reporting consumer prices are up 8% or more over last year. What they don’t say in those numbers is that only certain things are counted as “consumer prices” so the fact the price of gas has doubled doesn’t really get included in those numbers.

Of course it is being blamed on the pandemic. You see it was happening BEFORE Joe got in office.

And it is just the Ukraine war that got people to notice inflation, the Putin price hike, don’t you know.

But the only thing that will stop inflation is if we plebs stop buying things…

From the New York Post

A hard-to-find key to a locked classroom door was the ultimate reason police waited 77 minutes to enter a Robb Elementary classroom to kill a gunman, stopping the massacre that claimed the lives of 19 students and two teachers, the under-fire police chief said.

Oh, it was their inability to find a key that kept them from entering the room.

“Not a single responding officer ever hesitated, even for a moment, to put themselves at risk to save the children,” Arredondo told the newspaper. “We responded to the information that we had and had to adjust to whatever we faced.”

The door jamb was steel so they couldn’t just kick it in. I don’t know, I’ve seen a few police rams designed to do exactly that. And every fire and rescue vehicle I know carry those magic pry bars. I’ve seen fire fighters open doors in contests in less than 30 seconds.

The door to the classroom that Ramos was in had a steel jamb and could not be kicked in, Arredondo told the paper. He spent more than an hour in the hallway trying dozens of keys.

The school district police chief also tried to justify his decision not to take his police radios into the school with him, believing he needed both hands to take down the shooter instead of holding the devices that might give away his position if the gunman heard them. Arredondo also did not have a bullet resistant vest, he told the paper.

“Our objective was to save as many lives as we could, and the extraction of the students from the classrooms by all that were involved saved over 500 of our Uvalde students and teachers before we gained access to the shooter and eliminated the threat,” Arredondo said.

But Arredondo’s decision not to take his radios in with him meant he did not know that students were calling 911 from inside the two classrooms the gunman targeted, begging for police to stop him.

In Robert Heinlein’s book The Number of the Beast they endup in a world where justice is an eye for an eye. The example given is that of a man found guilty of hitting a pedestrian and leaving. The pedestrian survived.

The punishment? They tied the man to the road and drove over his legs, the same as the victim. They then stood around and waited while the guilty screamed and begged for 45 minutes. At the end of 45 minutes the rescue team went to work. The same 45 minutes that the original victim waited before rescue arrived.

I think we should find a suitable punishment for Pete Arredondo, a monster.

A bunch of “street racers?” took over a street in LA.

During the takeover, gunfire broke out.

Stay safe out there people. As Miguel says “Stay away from places where bad things happen.”

A number of conservative sources have a policy of never saying the name of a mass murder/shooter in their media. My policy is the same, I hope that J.Kb. and Miguel follow.

When some asshole murders people in mass their name and deed gets splattered across the media. This leads to more people trying to get their names in the news papers.

There have been three kids suspended from the local high schools because they made threats of shooting up the schools. They will not be allowed back until the investigations complete.

From what I know of the situations, all three of them were just mouthing off and had no real intention of doing harm to themselves or others.

So, moving forward, expect to see the salty language “Some asshole” when events happen.

There are enough other place out there plastering their names and pictures in headlines that we don’t need to contribute to the social contagion.

New York Post : Illegal immigrant cleared in Kate Steinle’s death gets time served for gun charge.

And again we see how there are two tiers of justice. There is the kill someone while a felon in possession of a firearm gets you time served (7 years) while a grandmother taking selfies in the capital still hasn’t had her trial and is being held without bail.

The judge warned “this is your last chance. If I see you again…” 5 other times judges said “this is a chance” or “this is your last chance” but because he didn’t end up with the same judge he just got deported.

My prediction is that we will hear about this guy when he kills somebody else sometime in the future.