As of noon on Sunday in the South Side of Chicago:
and all on the South Side, so the majority of the “vivtims” are black (I.E. of African descent)…..as are, likely, the perpetrators.
Several were one crowd arguing with another part of a crowd that led to someone shooting. One was a party. (Those victims were black).
Know how many people (of any color) cops shot?
We had a total of 14 people show to clean up the range…
Which is actually pretty good, close to 10%.
We didn’t get everything done, but most of it.
At least it looks like someone cares.
Dude couldn’t just say “Thank You”.
So on my way into town Friday afternoon, for a quick errand, I passed a guy with his trunk open pulling out the jack and spare.
25 minutes or so later, as I was passing back the other way, I see the same dude in the same place, so I turned the truck around and stopped behind him with the flashers and strobes on and ambled my way up to him. I figured he might be missing a jack handle or something…
He was struggling to get two of the 5 lugnuts loose.
As I had the cordless 1/2 inch impact with me, I offered to help. He allowed as that might be a good idea. So I pulled a set of metric sockets out, found the right size and got the lugnuts loose (they were REALLY tight) and he pulled the flat off and began to put the spare on.
He looked up at me and said “I’m surprised you would stop and help a black man”. I was stunned for a minute. Then I got angry.
“Well, brother, when I passed you going into town, I assumed you were competent and able to change a tire…when I went past 20 minutes later, and you were still there, I figured you either had an issue or didn’t know what you were doing…..So I stopped to help. The color of your skin didn’t enter into the equation….Sorry if my help was too “white” for you…..I noticed you didn’t mind my lilly white ass helping you… Probably gonna affect my decision to help the next guy with skin darker than mine though. I saw a man needing help..Your color didn’t matter to me, sorry mine mattered to you. Have a Nice Fuckin’ Day”.
With that, I picked up my tools, turned around, tossed ’em in the truck and left before I said (or did) something bad.
WTF? Godammned racist jacknoodle couldn’t just say “thank you” ? Nope, it had to be, somehow, about color. I’ve just about had it with this attitude ..that ALL caucasians are inherently racist….This attitude towards whites is getting to be bullshit. Gonna backfire too.
I’m still angry 16 hours later.
The first work party at the range today.
Cleanup and some dirtwork. Fixing the ravages of winter and all that.
Gonna be sunny and hot. Hope enough people show up.
That is targeting Asian People.
Funny how that part is ignored by the press, innit? They find Rce everwhere else, but they ignore (or hide) the fact that well over 85% of the crimes against Asians are done by people of African Descent.
who fights back against police while being arrested and tries to run gonna be a Federal Investigation?
At what point do we simply accept that these people are turds? Felony warrant, struggles, tries to run, drive at police, gets shot. Bodycam and other footage proves this.
This criminal life matters to the Media….and BLM. But not the 30 people shot on the South Side of Chicago last weekend. (not a one by the Police)….Those, becuae they were likely shot by other black people, are ignored.
Instead of railing at the Police and white people in general, they should clean out their own mess. Deal with their own issues. Stop making excuses for bad behavior, Stop covering up their own culture’s failings. Discard their trash and uplift the good, instead of the reverse.
Yeah, I know, “Racisssss”. Whatever.
ETA: “Dogsledder”, I saw your comment. Not gonna post it.
So here in Indiana, we have been suddenly bombarded with urgent messages on the Cell Phone EMS system telling us about the availability of Covid vaccinations (several counties over)….I got 12 messages today on the EMS Cell alert system… telling me that “Free J&J and Phizer covid jabs are available are availble in RVLT high school 730 w 25th ave, Gary”.
Not a real Emergency for the Emergency Message System.
Now this is how you get people to ignore real alert messages. Cry Wolf. In NO WAY is the availability of Covid shots an Emergency, nor Urgent, or anything but advertisement.
Not so oddly, the phone numbers for the folks responsible went STRAIGHT to voice mail.
I will follow up tomorrow.
11,863 to be exact.
That is the number of rounds that the Non-Ruger 10-22 took before needing cleaning due to malfunctions caused by soot in the reciever and bolt. (there was a LOT of soot there too). Up until the last 5 or 10 rounds, it was shooting a half minute of angle or so. Then it wouldn’t stay on the paper (or load without malfs) and I think the bolt wasn’t closing all the way or something……
It had been a year and a half since I had had to disassemble it for cleaning…So long, in fact, that I found the booklet that came with my other (made by Ruger) 10-22 and reviewed the disassembly process just so I was sure I remembered how….
Took a LOT of cleaning to get all that schmutz out of the bolt and reciever. The barrel was, surprisingly, clean. (Tactical Innovations bolt and receiver and a Whistle Pig aluminum barrel) The Kidd trigger was clean, so I left it alone.
Should be good for another 11+K rounds now. I’ll take it to the Range for my usual Tuesday morning meetup with Bill and others and see how it runs.
So the instructor who taught me my twin engine stuff asked if I could take her to the range and let her shoot.
Of course I would.
Schedules took a bit of time to mesh, but we did make it work and met up at the range.
A short, but thorough, safety lesson and some instruction on the parts of a pistol and a revolver, and we went into the range inself.
We started out with the Colt Woodsman, but it decided to be finicky (it does that at random times, never been able to fix it) , so we moved to the GSG/Sig 1911-22 and then the Buckmark with the red dot.
She did well, and wanted to try more, so then we moved to a P238 and then a Shield in 9mm….she liked the Sig but not the Shield.
Of course, she had to try the 1911 in .45, but she really liked the 238 best.
Out of time, we cleaned up and left the range.
She wants to go again.
One more person who, if not pro gun, isn’t gonna be anti-gun.
Apparently Google does not like all the Blogspot blogs. I get a warning about “Phishing” from all of the ones in my sidebar
You’d think that Goggle would not let that happen…..