Articles by Herschel Smith

News from Alabama.

An Alabama House committee Wednesday approved a bill that would allow the permitless carry of pistols in the state, sending an Alabama House GOP priority bill to that chamber.

The 8 to 5 vote on the bill from Rep. Shane Stringer, R-Citronelle, took place after an hour of contentious debate that crossed party lines.

Stringer argued that the legislation would allow law-abiding citizens to carry weapons without fear of legal retribution, and said permit laws did not deter crime.

“The fact of the matter is criminals don’t adhere to laws,” Stringer said. “They don’t obey the laws we have now. We cannot legislate an evil heart from Montgomery.”

The bill passed with an amendment that would require gun owners to declare that they were carrying firearms when asked by a police officer. But there was confusion about a second amendment proposed by Rep. Proncey Robertson, R-Mount Hope, that appeared to create separate penalties for bringing firearms in areas where they are currently restricted and led Stringer to call Rep. Mike Jones, R-Andalusia, not a member of the committee, to explain it.

Rep. Allen Farley, R-McCalla, a retired assistant sheriff for the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, said getting rid of the permits would amount to “defunding the police” and endanger law enforcement officers.

Uh huh.  Defunding the police and endanger LEOs.  I see.  This is a slight variation on the objection that “They sky is falling, the sky is falling, there will be blood running in the streets.”

That’s what they said about open carry in Texas.  That’s what they said about open carry in South Carolina.  That’s what they said about constitutional carry in Texas.  They said it in Arkansas.  That’s what they say everywhere.

It never happens.  But of course, he’s a retired LEO so he’s going to carry water for LEOs.

Anyway, it’s good that it left committee.  That’s where most bills die.

BANK Outages at all big 5 banks!
It’s happening.
Trudeau has crushed consumer confidence in the banks in less than 48 hours. Some ATMs are still allowing cash to be pulled out but going empty.
The bank has now locked up EVERYONES funds!
🇨🇦 🔔 pic.twitter.com/9CslynYJjD

— bu/ac (@buperac) February 16, 2022

They destroyed excavators, and they politely admit to it.

I accuse the @rcmpgrcpolice of committing crimes. Trespass. Break & enter. Mischief over $5,000. Breach of trust. Intimidation. The only question is: who ordered this illegal action? Kenney, Trudeau or Trudeau’s crooked commissioner Brenda Lucki? pic.twitter.com/sLtw8sTzHi

— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) February 14, 2022

In my book that makes them criminals.

Next up, they’re planning false flags, or at least, they’re trying to pin things on the truckers in an attempt to wow the stupid “Karens” of the country.  They also did the same thing at Coutts.

But the truckers in Ottawa are standing firm at the moment.

Cops.  What a bunch of hoodlums and gangsters.  Despicable and detestable.

News from Wyoming.

A bill that would attempt to block any state official or agency from enforcing laws deemed to violate the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has been filed in the Wyoming Legislature.

You can read Senate file 102 here.

The bill reads in part:

(a)  This state and all political subdivisions of this state are prohibited from using any personnel or funds appropriated by the legislature of the state of Wyoming or any other source of funds that originated within the state of Wyoming to enforce, administer or cooperate with any act, law, treaty, judicial or executive order, rule or regulation of the United States government that infringes on or impedes the free exercise of individual rights guaranteed under the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

Because the 2022 Legislative Session is a budget session, non-budget bills like Senate File 102 need a 2/3 majority vote for introduction.

Given the makeup of the Wyoming legislature, the 2/3 vote shouldn’t be a problem.  If it is, they need to throw the bums out.

This is weaker than the Missouri law which allows for lawsuits against LEOs who do that, as well as a prohibition on ever working again as a LEO in Missouri.

But this is a great first step.

I’m telling you, the FedGov hates these laws as seen by the drama surrounding the law in Missouri.

Every state should be doing this.

Report and video here.  I don’t think she was chasing the big cat at all.  I think she was running around out of her head screaming.

The dog is fine.

If it had been my Heidi-girl, a 90 pound Doberman, the cat may not have gotten out unscathed even if she had caught my girl.  I’ve seen Heidi run other aggressive dogs down, catch up with them, slide underneath them (like she was sliding into second base), and then come up with a bite grip on the dog’s neck with the aggressive dog about to go down and out for the count.

Fortunately, I was able to save the other dog and we didn’t have to make a police report.

I’m sure she would have tried to do the same thing to the big cat.  She may not have been completely successful against a cat of 130 pounds and she may have died, but she would have made the cat regret tangling with her and it wouldn’t have been a good day for either one of them.

The big cat probably wouldn’t have seen her as food anyway.  From what I understand, they are predators of opportunity.  Small dogs are on the menu.

If I lived in that area, I wouldn’t let my dog out without being there with a pistol.

Via WiscoDave.

Score one for the towing companies and Freedom Convoy.

No one wants to help New Zealand’s police commissioner tow cars from the Freedom Convoy away. Not even the military. pic.twitter.com/jpac0p6EnP

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) February 15, 2022

Source.  It took 36 beers to being him down.  Slower than a .44 magnum.

I agree with this decision.  Live to fight another day, don’t have RMCP visit your home.  You don’t want that.  As I said earlier, evolve your tactics.

Ottawa protesters don’t intend to leave.

Also this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN1l_2r4xqM

News from N.C.

A hiker who impaled their foot with a tent stake was rescued from the top of a mountain in North Carolina.

Crews were called at 11:50 p.m. Thursday about an injured hiker at the top of Shortoff Mountain in the western part of the state, according to Burke County Search and Rescue.

Two rescuers reached the hiker around 2 a.m. Friday and found the person was “immobile due to an impalement of the foot by a tent stake,” Burke SAR wrote on Facebook.

Rescuers and EMS crews “slowly and safely” helped the hiker down the mountain and got the person out of the woods by 10:30 a.m., officials said.

How on earth does one impale their foot by a tent stake when camping?  Anyway, don’t do that.

Views.

As much as I’ve enjoyed Sandy Banks’ columns through the years, I must take issue with her characterization of wild coyotes’ presence in her suburban neighborhood.

In truth, any “reign of terror” being perpetrated there stems from humans’ ubiquitous war on wildlife.

Banks concedes that human housing has invaded the coyotes’ natural habitat. Yet she villainizes them for adapting to our trespass.

Any “unrepentant hoodlums” are the residents who have dispossessed the coyotes; any “scourge” she perceives was wholly foreseeable, not “unpredictable.”

Rather than demonize coyotes for being coyotes, Banks should keep in mind that they aren’t able to earn a living by writing newspaper columns.

Sandra Perez, Santa Maria

Her view is irrational and inconsistent.  Let me prove it to you.

Her view is likely the one of an evolutionist.  Upon her view, men are animals and the Coyote is just another animal.  We must all learn to live together in one gigantic utopia and men are the dastardly ones waging war on other animals.

But you see, upon the evolutionist view, there is no such thing as evil, and thus if men are just animals, men are behaving like animals when they kill other animals, as a lion would in the Serengeti desert.  She has no business complaining.  She’s watching nature in action.

This is what Professor Alvin Plantinga would do.  He would explain how the naturalist view is self referentially incoherent and self defeating.

The proper view if that God created man in His image and gave him dominion over the animal kingdom.  Dangerous animals who kill men are to be put to death, and animals who destroy your property are thieves – and your property includes your beasts as well.

Even dogs are smarter than her.  They figured this out a long time ago, and they and men are friends.