Thing is, like every middle eastern country, the natives are big on threats and rhetoric and short on action.

And, in the end, if we are so worried about terror threats here in the US from middle eastern folks, then maybe we oughta start tossing them out if we are so afraid of threats. (Note that I am not saying we should toss all immigrants, just those that are known to DHS and might be threat, be they citizens or not)

One more thing: Iran has been an opponent of the US for monger than many of my readers have been alive….Ever since the Shah was deposed (and possibly since even before that). Ever since Jimmeh Carter had a cowards approach to the invasion of our embassy there and subsequent embassy prisoner debacle in 1979, they have been an enemy of the US. 

Pretty much this message:

Only Career Diplomats can handle the job. Without them, diplomacy can’t happen.
These people DESERVE the jobs they have. It’s not fair to just fire them.  (He forgets that Barry Obama fired ALL of Bush’s ambassadors shortly after taking office).
It takes a trained Career Diplomat to do the job. (forgetting that nearly every president has appointed people he feels can be relied to speak for the President, often acquaintances or respected figures from business)

The final line in this screed:
“We Deserve Better”.  As if being a diplomat somehow makes one special.
And that, right there, is why we need to clean house.

What caliber did he use?

.357 Sig.
Not 9mm, not .40, not even .45 ACP.

.357 Sig.
(Pretty much the ballistics of a .357 magnum in an auto style cartridge).
(ok, not exactly, but close…..forget the minutiae here and concentrate)

Mass matters, but velocity matters as well.

The .357 Sig delivers a pretty good combination of both.

Is there a perfect cartridge for defense? Probably not. But the .357 is probably one of the cartridges on the “ideal” category.
Would a 9mm have done the job? Maybe. .40? Likely. .45? Most probably.
Placement matters as well, and by all accounts, his aim was good and his placement was spot on.

What you carry is your choice. I want a cartridge/bullet/firearm combination that helps me to get the job done should I ever need to. (and I hope and pray that I am never in the position he found himself….but that I can do as well if I am). 

(I can’t back this up anywhere, so take it for what it is worth)

Seems that he and his boss met with Barry Obama as guests

But you likely won’t hear that on CBSMSNBCABC. (as yourself why not??)

And yet the current DNC meme is that Trump is a puppet of Putin, yet we have LOTS of evidence that Barry was the puppet of the Islamic leadership.

HT: Kenny

Embassy security used “Stun Grenades”and “tear gas” to drive them back….

This is US sovereign soil. The Iraqi police (“Security Forces” have failed to keep the mob outside the walls. Were it up to me, I’d not use non-lethal force to protect the compound and the people within.

I’d use whatever force was required to keep those walls and gates secure.
Send a message. “Don’t fuck with the US”.

Do I want to see people killed? No, not at all. But being nice or using “Non lethal” force works for only so long…..Especially with a mob of folks like that.

A pile of dead bodies works better. Once they breach the gate, then all bets are off. If the Iraqi government wants to protect it’s citizens, then they need to step up and provide security outside the walls. Letting a mob run amok inside the walls is, in itself, a message.

The US too needs to send a message. Being nice doesn’t send the appropriate message.

It is all well and good to be nice if your opponent is rational. If they aren’t, then one must Stop Being Nice. Nothing says “Don’t fuck with the US, this is a line you cannot cross than wounded or dead members of the Mob.

If you keep on being Nice, then you end up with the same sort of situation that Carter gave us back in 1979.

Enough is enough. Stop being Nice. Be Firm, instead.

People respect firm, I would bet good money that it will only happen once. Then the Mob will respect the boundaries.

Seems the Texas shooter (now at room temperature) followed his advice. 

71 years old.

I’m not sure I could do that well.

And I practice fairly often.

Could you do it?

The shooter in the Texas Church at White Settlement has not yet been identified.
In most incidents like this in the past, we know the identity and ideology of the shooter.
This time, not so much.

I wonder why? Perhaps because this time it was conservatives who were targeted and the shooter isn’t a member of a “right wing” group?
Perhaps there is another reason…I dunno

ETA: Keith Kinnunen. But no other information. Which is wierd, ’cause normally we have all sorts of data immediately after an incident. 

She said “she was suffering from abdominal pain and had vomited.”

She died in a hospital shortly thereafter.

Of what?
Would they tell us if it was something highly contagious?

Why would Congolese folks come to the US via Mexico, anyway?