Strip searches: how a little bit of your soul dies every time

It's stories like this where I ask myself, "Why the HELL couldn't you have become an entrepreneur or engineer or anything else?

Crowd Control; Occupy LA & Ron Gochez

My latest on Street Carnage is up.

I really can't stand radical collectivists. Or the ACLU. Or the National Lawyers Guild.

But I especially can't stand Ron Gochez, and his ilk.

TANSTAAFL - Los Angeles' Gun Buyback - a waste of money and a bad way to reduce crime

Come one, come all! Welcome to to one of the most futile exercises in modern law enforcement! Some really smart people, like someone who failed the California Bar four times think that you can reduce crime by giving away gift cards for groceries for ANY guns, in any condition.

Do you have a rusted, .32 caliber revolver where the firing pin busted off and it won't shoot? Handgun = $50!!

How about a .22 caliber, single shot where the entire trigger group is thoroughly corroded - the only way it is lethal is if it is used as a bludgeoning object. Rifle = $100!!!

And a $200 gift card for an "assault rifle as classified in the state of California"! Uhm, no way does anyone turn in a working semi-automatic rifle (or even fully auto) that works for this amount. You can't even find these so-called assault rifles anywhere in the county (let alone all of California), and when they do show up for $2000 a piece they get snatched up within seconds of the store opening its doors.

According to John Lott and anyone with the ability to think rationally, no criminal is going to turn his primary tool in. If he did, it'd be to either a) get rid of a weapon used in a crime or b) get rid of a crappy gun and use the money towards a better, working gun. I'm sure Ray Ray, Jose or Tyler will be showing up to this to turn in their primary tool.

Most guns used in crimes aren't these guns being turned in. If a gun is used, there's a really good chance it was stolen. The only way a gun buyback reduces any crime is by depriving the potential thief or burglar of a weapon. If you turn it in, they can't steal it now. Is that worth all this promotion and outlaying of cash?

Whatever - this city's going to hell in a handbasket. The illegitimacy rate is astounding, the poverty rate is not to be believed, the schools suck (even with social promotion and bogus standards, the dropout rate is one out of every five.) and if people think that giving up a good source of self-defense for a few days' worth of groceries is a good idea then they deserve what they get. What I do care about is the 2 - 4 hours worth of fucking paperwork I would have to complete should anyone turn in their guns that they don't want anymore that I am now saved by this futile crime reducing endeavor. I'm full Ron Swanson on this issue: go ahead, do your foolish, ill-advised, feels-good-but-does-no-good leftist thing - I'll root for the smart person getting $50-$100 for paper weights.

Using Twitter to Expand Liberty

Dear (Celeb, Journalist, Politician, Media Member, etc.) affiliated with Liberty:

You could really help out the liberty movement by following your Twitter followers back.

Long story short; if you follow back your followers, you then allow them to follow more people and thus have a much broader reach, thus spreading ideas about Life, Liberty, Private Property & Free Enterprise.

If you're wondering WTF I'm even talking about, please allow me a quote from @dbargen's excellent blog on this matter:

Twitter has a 2k follow limit. Before they allow you to follow more than 2000, you have to have a balance of followers: 91% or 1821 followers and then twitter will allow you to proceed past 2k.
You can simply wait until your following numbers reach 1821, but for now you cannot follow back any of those new followers. Note: Even after you pass 2000, you will need to maintain a balance of approximately 90%. However, it is easier to do with larger numbers.

The more Twitter followers of yours that you follow back, the broader their reach will be. Please help us out.

Thank you in advance & God bless.

Thank you, Sarah Brady.

Finally out of the Twitter Gulag.

“@criminalsunion: We accept your invitation to join your mafia, @bradytwitt! twitpic.com/6ugsp9”OMG too great!#VictimDisarmament
— Francisco Murphy (@bluesidetales) April 20, 2013

Then we had Sarah Brady immediately flip out.

@bradytwitt I was just retweeting something @criminalsunion tweeted.
— Francisco Murphy (@bluesidetales) April 22, 2013

And we have our smoking gun. Because @bradytwitt now has me blocked. Well done.