Over the hump and on the downside into the weekend, readers, and you know what that means: the SFDB Weekend Widget is operational in the right sidebar. As always, we'll keep updating it through the weekend. Enjoy your evening Sift.
A- After some prodding, Gun Free Zone analyzes a recent shooting in Miami-Dade County during which a husband exercising his 2nd Amendment rights shot his wife after mistaking her for an intruder.
It is very probable that hubby’s sudden face to face with the wife was surprising and scary enough to provoke a basic reaction and the booger hook activated the bang stick.B- Blogging Black Miami tells us all about the West Perrine MLK Parade.
Mr. Ed Hanna and the parade organizers should be proud. There were not as many spectators as usual but it was a nice, ethnically diverse crowd, representative of Dr. King’s fight for the civil rights of mankind. I’m always curious if the folks who attend or participate in the parade really understand why we celebrate with a national holiday.C- Artlurker describes another kind of "CSA" that launched today.
For one price of $450, CSA members (but not necessarily members of LegalArt it seems) will each receive one work from each of the nine featured Miami artists: Jenny Brillhart, Kerry McLaney, Julie Friel, Gustavo Roman, Jason Hedges, Valeria Yamamoto, James Herring, Michelle Weinberg and Kathleen Hudspeth. Once a month for three months beginning February, three of the nine artists will congregate at a pre-disclosed location where CSA members can collect their works and meet the artists included in that month’s share.D- Photos from Art Deco Weekend are up at Miami Beach 411.
E- A new pop-up restaurant is getting ready to open and Eater Miami has the details.
Wasting neither time nor his winnings, Chopped winner Giorgio Rapicavoli, along with pal and biz partner Alex Cassanova, is opening a pop-up restaurant called Eating House, scheduled to start dinner service early February through August inside Cafe Ponce, an existing breakfast and lunch joint in Coral Gables. Eating House will only be open from 6 p.m. until 1 a.m. Tuesday through Sunday following the departure of Cafe Ponce's lunch crowd and staff when Rapacavoli and his crew will, explains a publicist, "turn the diner-style restaurant into a fun and funky, sort-of underground spot to grab delicious dinner and creative drinks."F- Eat It, Miami's feel good [and somewhat hard to follow] review of Miami Beach's Hogzilla takes a turn for the worse when they get the bill.
$2 for "rocks?" $2 FOR ROCKS???G- Thoughts from Discourse on today's SOPA protest.
Any bourbon drinker will tell you that cheap bourbon is for mixing at college football games, good bourbon is excellent over ice and Pappy Van Winkle only touches the glass and your tongue. The words "Woodford on the rocks, please" come out of my mouth multiple times on any given weekend. Never have I had a bar or restaurant add a charge for ice. Notice they did it again on the Patron shots that my buddies visiting from DC had for dessert. Yes, they drink tequila for dessert.
Much as I sympathize with the motives, I have never much liked campaigns that try to take the oppressor’s symbols (pink triangles, yellow stars, what have you) and turn them around into pride symbols. The origins stick.
Similarly, I get the idea of fighting censorship with quiet. See what censorship will get you? But I still don’t like it. So I’ve run a compromise, with an overlay on this site that you can click through.
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Prodding: Stimulate or persuade (someone who is reluctant or slow) to do something.
You asked once and the next post was the analysis of the case. I don't see that you had to do much prodding. And that brings us to the definition of another word:
Fib: a small or trivial lie; minor falsehood.
Every Gun Blogger has a troll. I reckon you are mine.
"Some prodding" I think is fair, Miguel. I suggested and gave a description of the story. Apparently Google was down or something because then I had to give you a link.
The problem as I see it is that you and your loyal band of misfits expect a certain response from me. I guess I'm supposed to be argumentative and spout anti-gun rhetoric because, well, isn't that what all people who aren't gun extremists do? When I don't, you're all disappointed and, apparently, offended.
Sorry if I disappoint and don't meet your expectations. No offense.
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More importantly, isn't this story the perfect illustration of why it's nuts to oppose common sense rules like mandatory gun training? By Miguel's "analysis" the guy violated three rules. If we made gun ownership as onerous as getting a license to drive, that guy would have undergone training to teach him to keep his finger off the trigger.
Alex, things like training and what to do with your wife's favorite pearl necklace after you've shot her were not considered by the Founding Fathers so, therefore, we should not entertain such measures.
I'm sure Miguel would agree.
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Not sure why you all waste your time with guys who think it's perfectly okay to carry .50 cals into Sun Life Stadium for a Dolphins game.
You can't talk to them.
Rick, as amazing as it may seem to you, I am not up to all the stuff that happens in South Florida. As a matter of fact my interwebs attention that day (and for the rest of the week) was in Las Vegas for the SHOT Show (A show that is the stuff of nightmares for the Sarah Brady and Ladd Everitt)
We do not expect a response from you, we kinda figured it out by now.
Alex: May I see your mandatory training and certifications to express your opinions? Who was the agency that provided you with such training and regulations? None, right? It is your First Amendment Right to express your opinion, Why would you demand mandatory training for the Second?
Also, Have you actually given a thought about equating driving with gun ownership? Let's review:
Felons can own cars.
You can teach driving in high school.
You can take your car to school.
No age impediment for anybody about owning a car.
You don't need a license to drive, register or own a car in your property.
You can buy pretty much the vehicle you want.
No background checks for buying a car.
Car rentals at airports and other public locations.
Should I continue ?
PS: The Driver License meme died sometime during the Clinton Administration, refresh your browser.
Anonymous, .50 caliber what? Plus, if there is a location in Miami Dade that makes sense to carry a firearm for defense, it would be Miami Gardens.
Rick, you are very welcome for the extra traffic I am bringing to your blog.
Let's see, Miguel: your 2nd amendment counterargument is irrelevant because I'm not talking about the homeowner not being allowed to own a gun. You admit in your "analysis" that he should have been better trained. Training does not take away your right to own guns.
Just for fun, yes, there's no training for speech, but that's because speech in and of itself does not cause physical or property damage. The Constitution doesn't take away the ability of the government to regulate activities for the common good. For example, although you have the right to represent yourself in court if you are dumb enough to do it, you can't represent others without proper training and certification. Or you can't drive a big rig. Or pilot a plane. And a long list of activities that while protected, are regulated. (I'm assuming here your wide-ranging definition of personal freedoms do not extend to allowing unqualified individuals to pilot a plane over your house. But I may be wrong.)
Your arguments about guns and driving, although flawed as well because you are raising a bunch of red herrings comparing apples-to-oranges specifics instead of sticking to the point, which is the ability of society to require training and certification for the common good, are also easily refutable:
- The state does limit your ability to drive, by suspending your license. Most notably for felony DUI.
- You can try to teach gun safety in high school, take guns to schools or eliminate age requirements. That the majority of people doesn't think those are good ideas doesn't mean that your freedoms were infringed when those laws were passed.
- I'm not an expert, but I'm pretty sure Florida's exceedingly lenient laws don't require a license or registration to keep a gun in your property (or even carry it with you outside of your property, as long as it's unloaded.) I know this because I have one. Let me know if I need to register it somewhere.
- Just like there are restrictions about buying certain kinds of guns in an operable condition, there are as many if not more restrictions about operating certain vehicles. Try running a Top Fuel dragster down your street.
- Background checks: you can have that one.
- Car rental: that's kind of silly, but you can certainly rent guns at ranges -with no background check of any kind, btw. I've walked into a couple ranges in Miami and been handed pretty impressive artillery, without so much as a "bullets go here" instruction.
Feel free to continue. Just because you chose to ignore a perfectly valid comparison doesn't mean the "meme died", much in the same manner that life continues happening alongside the ostrich with his head buried in the sand.
Actually Rick if you're going to ask someone for their reaction to a story it's common courtesy to actually post a link without having to be asked. end of sermon
"Just for fun, yes, there's no training for speech, but that's because speech in and of itself does not cause physical or property damage."
This has to be one of the dumbest comments ever posted. From Men Kampf to Das Kapital to an article in Newsweek magazine where the writer falsely accused the US Military to flush down Korans down the toilet thus causing a riot and people getting killed are some of the examples where free speech have caused damage. Still it is protected in this country and shall be protected.
"For example, although you have the right to represent yourself in court if you are dumb enough to do it, you can't represent others without proper training and certification"
And exactly what representing others without certification have to do with the question of the individual right gun ownership? You just admited that individual representation is a right but yet you somehow say gun ownership is not? Funny how that goes.
"- You can try to teach gun safety in high school, take guns to schools or eliminate age requirements. That the majority of people doesn't think those are good ideas doesn't mean that your freedoms were infringed when those laws were passed."
Seriously? You think Civil Liberties and the Bill of Rights should be regulated on a popularity basis? Anybody else see the amount of wrong in this statement? Last Monday did not remind you of anything similar?
"I'm not an expert, but I'm pretty sure Florida's exceedingly lenient laws don't require a license or registration to keep a gun in your property (or even carry it with you outside of your property, as long as it's unloaded.) I know this because I have one. Let me know if I need to register it somewhere."
Or even carry it outside the home loaded. Or even carry it outside the home loaded and openly. You may want to refresh your knowledge of Florida Statutes regarding firearms.
"- Car rental: that's kind of silly, but you can certainly rent guns at ranges -with no background check of any kind, btw. I've walked into a couple ranges in Miami and been handed pretty impressive artillery, without so much as a "bullets go here" instruction."
C'mon, is that the best you can do? Gun rentals in a range are the same as car rental at the airport? And you were handed artillery? exagerating a bit?
There is one big bit of difference between guns and cars: Guns are a right as recognized in the Bill of Rights. And that is why the meme died long time ago.
"- Just like there are restrictions about buying certain kinds of guns in an operable condition,"
I have an 19th century shotgun that is not in an operable condition. hammer springs are broken, one firing pin is missing and I am pretty sure the metalurgy will not withstand the pressure of modern smokeless power. You are saying I have an illegal gun? Would you point me out to the specific Florida Statute or Federal Law indicating such restriction?
The reason why the Anti Gun movement keeps losing ground every day is because it is not based in logic or law but emotions and statements that are demonstrable false. Same as Jim Crow and laws even before that, they intend to scare people into restricting rights as much as possible by creating a boogey man and then telling people he is after them and something must be done!
It is not working anymore. We are winning.
Feel free to drop by and continuing the whipping over my blog. I think Rick's blog got enough free traffic for the month.
I hate to resort to that old internet trope about people being comprehension-challenged, but Miguel, you are exhibit A. What does "in and of itself" means? And how many times I have to tell you I'm not talking about ownership, I'm talking about training? I'm not even sure how do you get the idea that the legislative process amounts to "regulation of civil liberties on a popularity basis". On FL gun registration, you were the one who said "You don't need a license to drive, register or own a car in your property"; I'm just pointing out to you the same is true for guns. (To carry outside the home you do need a license, perhaps it's you who needs a refresher.) And yes, I was handed a Howitzer at the range. Literal a bit?
Instead of going off half cocked, why don't you articulate the logic of admitting a near-fatal accident was caused by lack of training, yet refusing to consider making such training mandatory may help prevent other accidents?
BTW, you are not winning anything. Besides the Heller decision and AWB sunsetting, there are more common sense restrictions and regulations on gun ownership nowadays than at any time in the history of the country. Did you see that the NRA just lost an age-limits lawsuit today, in Texas of all places?
Well, yeah, thanks for the 4 visits from your blog today, Miguel. Yep, four. Thank goodness it's "free," whatever that means. Cogency has never been a gun extremist's friend.
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Forgot about your other misguided retort about your shotgun. What I was saying was exactly the opposite. The law does not restrict what you can own, only what you can operate: if the gun is rendered inoperable, you are free to own whatever you want. A machine gun, a tank, a cannon, a jet. Whatever you want to waste your money on. So when you contrasted it to "you can buy any vehicle you want", you were wrong as well.
Which REALLY sucks because I wouldn't mind owning a fully functional MBT as a daily driver. The major downside being...the monthly gas bill would be even more obscene than it already is. OTOH ohhh the benefits!
Wow, Rick; it's not just the dining room table. It's like Rooms To Go was having a yard sale.
A .50 cal is a bit too big to carry, and the Desert Eagle, while a fun concept, is worse to shoot than the .454 Casul. I'll just stick with the .45, thanks.
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