Ed Gardner, a communist, tries to defend looting and rioting.

The Liberal Gun Club does not and will not equate the value of property with the value of human life. We believe those who are and continue to be oppressed do not need to be told by mostly straight, white folks how to protest or how to grieve.

We firmly believe shooting people to protect property is wrong, regardless of if its your television or the corner drug store at risk.

We firmly believe shooting people because they are protesting is wrong. So is running them over with cars.

Looting and rioting IS a legitimate form of social protest, and without it it, years ago in Boston Harbor, things may have ended differently.

Looting and rioting for the sake of it, is not the same, and should be roundly condemned.

Being able to tell the difference is important. Understanding that there may be more than one type of group involved in these events is also important.

This is rich.

First of all, he defends social protest that in effect, breaks things, destroys private property (for which some families have worked for generations), and steals time from you without compensation (road interdiction via the protests and riots).

Just because.  He doesn’t respect your private property, and claims it for his own.  If he didn’t claim it for his own, he would have no right to destroy it.  Thus for communists.  It all belongs to the commune.  What you’ve worked for your whole life belongs to someone else.  God’s laws concerning the ownership of private property and covetousness don’t apply to him or his ilk.

Then this staggering proposal: his project is equated with the Boston Tea Party.  The American revolution, which removed the tyrannical control over food, lives, weapons and wealth claimed by King George, is falsely equated with control over those same things by the mob.

Moreover, the East India Company was a subject vassal of the king, not a private company owned by individuals.  The damage done all had to do with the king’s property, and “The crews of the ships attested to the fact there had been no damage to any of the ships except for the destruction of their cargoes of tea.”

He gets it exactly backwards.  The colonists protested against corporate ownership of their property, heavy taxation, gun control, and having to get permission to hunt the king’s royal forests.  God owns the animals and gave man right of dominion over them.

He wants to return to the days of tyranny, where everyone owns your property, not you.  Whether King George or the communist mob, a tyrant is a tyrant.

Go find another way to justify your destructive project, little boy.  You failed miserably with this attempt.

Here is the full warrant affidavit.

It’s called lying in wait to kill someone, and it’s categorized in the Scriptures as murder.

So much for his “self defense” claim.

David Codrea.

How Anderson Manufacturing “should have known” that a private party who legally acquired one of their products would then transfer it to the killer is not explained, because it can’t be. It would require psychic powers. The plaintiffs and their lawyer are looking to blame a party with deeper pockets than the dead killer’s “estate,” and they want the court to ignore the separation of powers and usurp authority by legislating from the bench. They’re also trying to end private sales and overturn PLCAA, major gun-grabber goals as per the Democrat Party platform …

It would be laughed out of court if someone stole or purchased an F150 and then ran into a sidewalk jogger, and Ford ended up in court under the claim that they should have known their truck was going to be used to kill someone.

But that’s exactly what these fools would have a jury believe, and juries are stupid enough to go along with it.

That’s why, in general, I do not trust any aspect of the American “justice system.”  It’s more than just that prosecutors have too much discretion, and it’s more than the fact that anything you say to police that exonerates you is inadmissible in court as “hearsay.”

Even if something does go to the jury, a jury is a cross section of America, at best, and therefore cannot generally be trusted to administer justice.

The PLCAA should never have even been necessary.  It is so because the American public is stupid and gullible, but even with it, some idiotic jury might still be swayed by a pit viper in a suit.

The body may pass away, but there is no R.I.P. That’s for the uninformed. There is eternality.

This thug has learned that the hard way.

Michael Forest Reinoehl, who killed Portland Trump supporter Aaron Danielson, died in Lacey, Wash. My sources are telling me U.S. Marshalls went to arrest him.

— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) September 4, 2020

Dean Weingarten.

On 29 July, 2020, Daniel Schilling went to clear trail about a mile from his cabin in Alaska. His dog returned home without him. His wife was very concerned. Searchers found his body, killed by a bear, where he was working. An empty can of bear spray, with the safety off, which had been discharged at the site, was also found.

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How much of his decision to take bear spray, and not a revolver, was made because of the claims of bear spray effectiveness?

Prior: Black Bear Kills Unarmed Woman In Unprovoked Attack; Bear Spray Fails, Gun Works.

Don’t listen to the “experts.”  Dean is an expert you can listen to.  And listen to your common sense, sometimes no so common among men.

Carry bear spray if you want.  I don’t choose to.  But always carry a large bore handgun, and keep it within reach.  If it’s in your backpack, you won’t have time to get it.  If it’s near your encampment, you won’t have time to go back and get it.

The same thing goes for big cats, feral hogs and coyotes.

Dean Weingarten.

Wisconsin Statute 948.60 regulates the possession of a dangerous weapon by persons under 18 years old. In paragraph (2) (a) it states:

(a) Any person under 18 years of age who possesses or goes armed with a dangerous weapon is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

Paragraph (3) lists exceptions. (3)(c) excludes most people who are under 18, except those in violation of 941.28 or 29.304 and 29.539.

(c) This section applies only to a person under 18 years of age who possesses or is armed with a rifle or a shotgun if the person is in violation of s. 941.28 or is not in compliance with ss. 29.304 and 29.593. This section applies only to an adult who transfers a firearm to a person under 18 years of age if the person under 18 years of age is not in compliance with ss. 29.304 and 29.593 or to an adult who is in violation of s. 941.28.

Statute 948.60 only applies to a person under the age of 18 who are in violation of 941.28 or not in compliance with 29.304 and 29.593.

What does it take to be in violation of 941.28? Here is the statute:

(2) No person may sell or offer to sell, transport, purchase, possess or go armed with a short-barreled shotgun or short-barreled rifle.

In the statute, short-barreled shotguns or short-barreled rifles are those which require a special license under the National Firearms Act. In general, those are rifles with a barrel less than 16 inches in length or shotguns with a barrel less than 18 inches in length, or either which have an overall length of less than 26 inches.

The rifle carried by Kyle Rittenhouse, as an ordinary AR15 type and does not fall into those categories, so Kyle was not violating 941.28.

Was Kyle in violation of Wisconsin statute 29.304 and statute 29.539? These statutes deal with hunting regulation and with people under the age of 16 carrying rifles and shotguns. First, statute 29.304:

29.304  Restrictions on hunting and use of firearms by persons under 16 years of age.

(b) Restrictions on possession or control of a firearm. No person 14 years of age or older but under 16 years of age may have in his or her possession or control any firearm unless he or she:

Kyle is reported to be over 16 years old, so he was not violating statute 29.304.

How about statute 29.539?

29.593  Requirement for certificate of accomplishment to obtain hunting approval.

Kyle was not hunting, so statute 29.539 does not apply.

To sum up: Wisconsin statutes 940.60 only forbid people under the age of 18 from possessing or carrying dangerous weapons in very limited cases. If a person is 16 years of age or older, the statute only applies to rifles and shotguns which are covered under the National Firearms Act as short-barreled rifles or shotguns. People who are hunting have to comply with the hunting regulations, and there are general restrictions for people under the age of 16.

If only folks at Politifact and the rest of the MSM were that good at research and analysis.  They can only dream and wish.

I really don’t like pasting ugly things into the pages of TCJ.  In fact, I don’t even really like sending you to these pages.

But for those of you who have any doubts about the ugly history of Mr. Rosenbaum, it’s been found.

Once you’ve seen it, you can’t un-see it.

Here.

Here.

Here.

Here.

Here.

Here.

Kyle Rittenhouse is still in prison.

Medium.com (via reader WiscoDave).

Earlier this summer, the Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Lab in Tennessee set about crunching data on more than 40,000 genes from 17,000 genetic samples in an effort to better understand Covid-19. Summit is the second-fastest computer in the world, but the process — which involved analyzing 2.5 billion genetic combinations — still took more than a week.

Time on this computer is heavily leveraged and a lot of code writers and researchers use it.  I suspect that they didn’t use every processor, and it would be interesting to know how many CPU-hours were tallied.

When Summit was done, researchers analyzed the results. It was, in the words of Dr. Daniel Jacobson, lead researcher and chief scientist for computational systems biology at Oak Ridge, a “eureka moment.” The computer had revealed a new theory about how Covid-19 impacts the body: the bradykinin hypothesis. The hypothesis provides a model that explains many aspects of Covid-19, including some of its most bizarre symptoms. It also suggests 10-plus potential treatments, many of which are already FDA approved. Jacobson’s group published their results in a paper in the journal eLife in early July.

According to the team’s findings, a Covid-19 infection generally begins when the virus enters the body through ACE2 receptors in the nose, (The receptors, which the virus is known to target, are abundant there.) The virus then proceeds through the body, entering cells in other places where ACE2 is also present: the intestines, kidneys, and heart. This likely accounts for at least some of the disease’s cardiac and GI symptoms.

But once Covid-19 has established itself in the body, things start to get really interesting. According to Jacobson’s group, the data Summit analyzed shows that Covid-19 isn’t content to simply infect cells that already express lots of ACE2 receptors. Instead, it actively hijacks the body’s own systems, tricking it into upregulating ACE2 receptors in places where they’re usually expressed at low or medium levels, including the lungs.

In this sense, Covid-19 is like a burglar who slips in your unlocked second-floor window and starts to ransack your house. Once inside, though, they don’t just take your stuff — they also throw open all your doors and windows so their accomplices can rush in and help pillage more efficiently.

The renin–angiotensin system (RAS) controls many aspects of the circulatory system, including the body’s levels of a chemical called bradykinin, which normally helps to regulate blood pressure. According to the team’s analysis, when the virus tweaks the RAS, it causes the body’s mechanisms for regulating bradykinin to go haywire. Bradykinin receptors are resensitized, and the body also stops effectively breaking down bradykinin. (ACE normally degrades bradykinin, but when the virus downregulates it, it can’t do this as effectively.)

The end result, the researchers say, is to release a bradykinin storm — a massive, runaway buildup of bradykinin in the body. According to the bradykinin hypothesis, it’s this storm that is ultimately responsible for many of Covid-19’s deadly effects. Jacobson’s team says in their paper that “the pathology of Covid-19 is likely the result of Bradykinin Storms rather than cytokine storms,” which had been previously identified in Covid-19 patients, but that “the two may be intricately linked.” Other papers had previously identified bradykinin storms as a possible cause of Covid-19’s pathologies.

As bradykinin builds up in the body, it dramatically increases vascular permeability. In short, it makes your blood vessels leaky. This aligns with recent clinical data, which increasingly views Covid-19 primarily as a vascular disease, rather than a respiratory one. But Covid-19 still has a massive effect on the lungs. As blood vessels start to leak due to a bradykinin storm, the researchers say, the lungs can fill with fluid. Immune cells also leak out into the lungs, Jacobson’s team found, causing inflammation.

An awful lot of smart people (e.g., Paul Cottrell, J.C., EMCrit, etc.) have said just about from the beginning that this was a blood disease first, not a lung disease [first].  You can Google “Happy Hypoxia” and see that Dr. Cameron Kyle-Sidell said from the first weeks of this disease in NYC that it wasn’t an ARDS disease as advertised by the CDC.  At last look, the idiot “experts” in my home state were still pushing this notion.

And Covid-19 has another especially insidious trick. Through another pathway, the team’s data shows, it increases production of hyaluronic acid (HLA) in the lungs. HLA is often used in soaps and lotions for its ability to absorb more than 1,000 times its weight in fluid. When it combines with fluid leaking into the lungs, the results are disastrous: It forms a hydrogel, which can fill the lungs in some patients. According to Jacobson, once this happens, “it’s like trying to breathe through Jell-O.”

This may explain why ventilators have proven less effective in treating advanced Covid-19 than doctors originally expected, based on experiences with other viruses. “It reaches a point where regardless of how much oxygen you pump in, it doesn’t matter, because the alveoli in the lungs are filled with this hydrogel,” Jacobson says. “The lungs become like a water balloon.” Patients can suffocate even while receiving full breathing support.

The bradykinin hypothesis also extends to many of Covid-19’s effects on the heart. About one in five hospitalized Covid-19 patients have damage to their hearts, even if they never had cardiac issues before. Some of this is likely due to the virus infecting the heart directly through its ACE2 receptors. But the RAS also controls aspects of cardiac contractions and blood pressure. According to the researchers, bradykinin storms could create arrhythmias and low blood pressure, which are often seen in Covid-19 patients.

The upshot is that there is hope for those who are badly affected.

As Jacobson and team point out, several drugs target aspects of the RAS and are already FDA approved to treat other conditions. They could arguably be applied to treating Covid-19 as well. Several, like danazol, stanozolol, and ecallantide, reduce bradykinin production and could potentially stop a deadly bradykinin storm. Others, like icatibant, reduce bradykinin signaling and could blunt its effects once it’s already in the body.

Interestingly, Jacobson’s team also suggests vitamin D as a potentially useful Covid-19 drug. The vitamin is involved in the RAS system and could prove helpful by reducing levels of another compound, known as REN. Again, this could stop potentially deadly bradykinin storms from forming. The researchers note that vitamin D has already been shown to help those with Covid-19. The vitamin is readily available over the counter, and around 20% of the population is deficient. If indeed the vitamin proves effective at reducing the severity of bradykinin storms, it could be an easy, relatively safe way to reduce the severity of the virus.

Other compounds could treat symptoms associated with bradykinin storms. Hymecromone, for example, could reduce hyaluronic acid levels, potentially stopping deadly hydrogels from forming in the lungs. And timbetasin could mimic the mechanism that the researchers believe protects women from more severe Covid-19 infections. All of these potential treatments are speculative, of course, and would need to be studied in a rigorous, controlled environment before their effectiveness could be determined and they could be used more broadly.

I’d say this was a good use of FedGov resources at ORNL, and the CDC and NIH is still as incompetent and lethargic as ever.  Or perhaps they never intended to create anything but fear and panic.

The rioters and thugs don’t care that there’s a child with him.  He apparently didn’t care enough about his daughter not to put her in harm’s way.  This isn’t some political protest with civil discourse.  It’s a communist revolution.

The police were of course nowhere to be found, not that they would have done anything anyway.  They would have shown up if the father had unholstered a weapon because it would have been streamed to Twitter (and Jack Dorsey wouldn’t have taken it down because Jack Dorsey is a communist).

So you see, they’ve set this up to be this way.  They beat people up, even kill people, and if this provokes a response of self defense, they stream it to Twitter and call the police on the man, who then gets arrested by the police who wouldn’t do anything to stop it to begin with.  Then, the communist prosecutors charge the man with crimes, and he isn’t around to raise his daughter.

Folks, Americans are going to have to be smarter than this, politically, tactically, and concerning the art of war.  Because that’s what this is.

War.

AMERICA: Vile Far-Left #Antifa & #BLM chase a father and his young daughter because they are #Trump supporters pic.twitter.com/HyUQMsPnTD

— Jolene Bunting (@jolenebuntinguk) September 1, 2020