Tuesday Links - 28 April

William Teach at Pirate's Cove starts us off with Horror: War With Iran Accelerating Climate Doom

If only Trump had just let Iran get their nuclear weapons this wouldn’t be a problem

Clayton Cramer - Yes, Racism Remains a Problem in Some Parts of America

Now, if this [Yale] student wanted to argue that kids coming from poverty were going to have trouble competing, that might be an interesting argument, but not every BiPOC is coming from poverty and there are white Harvard students who also come from poverty and underprivileged backgrounds. (At least I hope so; there are plenty of J.D. Vances out there.) But no, this/student is playing the white supremacist tune, saying every black is inferior.

The Feral Irishman - We Can Only Hope

"The $PLC is not going to survive this": Conservative legal expert Mike Davis says DOJ indictment shows "clear fraud".

The Other McCain - Yet Another Democrat Has Failed to Assassinate President Donald Trump

Democrats are crazy and evil, but also utterly incompetent:

Smitty - Newly Released By Chris Cassone: “The Art of the Stomp Box” Is A Treat. (Click thru for a Musical Interlude.)

Chris Cassone is an old and dear friend of the blog, having recorded arguably the best blues ever:

Legal Insurrection - We discovered 15 years ago SPLC was “creating fictitious hate so that they could then fundraise off of it”

My appearance on the Scott Jennings Radio Show: “Joining us now to discuss this indictment is Cornell University Law Professor William Jacobson… He’s been sounding the alarm on the SPLC for 15 years.”

The Feral Irishman - 40 Year Anniversary Of The USS Missouri's Recommissioning Will Be May 9th and 10th...

In 1986, the legendary USS Missouri returned to active service, marking a new chapter in the ship’s extraordinary history. Four decades later, the Battleship Missouri Memorial is proud to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the ship’s recommissioning.

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: Down To The Wire

Will the Senators make the playoffs? It all depends on the Kansas City Royals and the Minnesota Twins.

Lone Star Parson - Prep Up

Data centers are springing up everywhere, have you noticed? Sure you have, and what kind of data will these centers collect? Yours, obviously.

Again from The Other McCain - ‘Pretending Not to Know’

As David Mamet said, Obama must “pretend not to know things” (and encourage others to join him in that pretense) or else the very existence of the Democratic Party might be jeopardized, because everybody would realize what a colossal scam it is (as all honest and intelligent people already do).

Geeks + Gamers - Marvel, DC Writer Deniz Camp Sparks Backlash After ‘Missed Again’ Post Following Trump Assassination Attempt

Deniz Camp is a comic book writer who has worked across Marvel, DC, and independent publishers, building a growing profile in the industry over the past few years.

Again from William Teach - Place Like Detroit Have To Get Ready For Climate Refugees Or Something

Are people really clammoring to move to high tax, high crime Yankee cities?

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 28 April 2026: Top Geek Edition

A new AI datacenter planned for Box County, Utah, will use more than twice as much power as the rest of the state combined. (Tom's Hardware)

The datacenter will use 9GW of power once it is completed, and the entire rest of Utah currently uses around 4GW. Drawing that much electricity from the grid might prove impractical, so the project managers chose a site near the Ruby Pipeline, and the datacenter will be powered by on-site gas generators. A lot of them.

Chicago Contrarian - Chicago Prosecutor Refuses to Join the Anti-Trump Mob

Cook County’s State’s Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke understands that cooperation with federal law enforcement matters more than left-wing political theater

In today’s Chicago and Illinois, merely behaving like a grown-up counts as an act of rebellion.

The Gun Debate Trap

Professor David Yamane at Light Over Heat gave a TEDx presentation. Escaping the Gun Debate Trap

On March 22nd, I presented my thoughts on “Escaping the Gun Debate Trap” at TEDxWakeForestU.

My idea worth spreading: The gun debate traps us in a false choice between rights and safety. We escape this trap the same way we escape a finger trap: we release tension by moving toward each other. Curiosity makes this possible. Democracy makes it worth doing.

This is the video: Escaping the Gun Debate Trap | David Yamane | TEDxWakeForestU

Claude AI Deletes Company's ENTIRE Database

It took 9 seconds. AI isn't a bubble... Or is it? Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue

This incident actually teaches 2 lessons:

1. DO NOT Trust AI. Do. Not. Trust. Artificial Intelligence
2. If you're paying someone else to manage data, are you sure they are managing it correctly?

The founder of PocketOS has penned a social media post to warn others about the “systemic failures” of flagship AI and digital services providers. Jer Crane was inspired to write a public response after an AI coding agent deleted his firm’s entire production database. The AI agent’s misdemeanors were then hugely amplified by a cloud infrastructure provider’s API wiping all backups after the main database was zapped.

Anthropic's Claude is one of the handful of AIs that are everywhere. Like ChatGPT and Grok, it just doesn't usually get as much press.

A copy of data on the cloud is not necessarily the same as a backup. A backup that has not been tested for recovery, is not a backup. It is Schrodinger's Data. It might be there when you need it, and it might not. In this case, it was not.

In the meantime, please follow a thorough backup regimen and be careful out there. This isn't the first time we've seen an AI go rogue and start deleting important databases.

Hat tip to Clayton Cramer and HAL 9000 Coming to a Company Near You, Soon! "Run away, Sir Robin"

Never rely on AI for anything critical.

Electric Garbage Trucks Are Trash

Is anyone shocked? A story out of the UK: Council bin lorries to be replaced with new diesel fleet after electric trial failure

A council plans to replace its “ageing” bin lorries with a new fleet of diesel vehicles after attempts to go electric were unsuccessful.

This is a (relatively) rural part of the UK. Wakefield is about a 75 mile drive east of Liverpool, or about 185 mile drive north of London. The problem seems to be mainly around charging infrastructure. They were not able to get grid connections for enough charging stations for the required fleet.

In 2022, senior councillors agreed to spend £4.9m to introduce zero-emission battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and an additional £1m on charging infrastructure.

This is the MGUY Australia video ⚡️Battery electric RUBBISH trucks are GARBAGE! 💩

Not only are electric heavy vehicles vastly more expensive to purchase in the first place, but they also have poor range, requiring more frequent charging stops, and those charging stops can take hours rather than the minutes it takes to fill up a diesel tank.

And then there is the base cost for the charging infrastructure... The video is about 8 and a half minutes.

Nineteen Eighty

Sometimes when a musician tries to recapture the feeling of his youth, he succeeds. I think Joe Satriani has done just that. It might not be exactly right for Metal for Mondays, but since I make the rules... And he is a phenomenal guitarist.

"The year that American Gigolo, The Shining, Raging Bull and Caddyshack came out, I just wanted to rock," Satriani said. "‘Nineteen Eighty’ is my high-energy, throwback instrumental soundtrack to that year."

Satriani previously said he wrote "Nineteen Eighty" to sound like his first band, the Squares. That group "dialed back the guitar solos and histrionics to try to create a cooler New Wave vibe.” [Ref. Ultimate Classic Rock]

This song is "Nineteen Eighty" by Joe Satriani from his 2020 album Shapeshifting.

Latest Assassin's Manifesto

From David Strom at Hot Air: Manifesto Released: He Believed All the Lies the Democrats Now Claim They Never Said

As I spent the evening scouring the internet for information on the assassination attempt last night, I ran across a ton of posts from lefties claiming that it was either staged—a fan favorite—or that the motive might never be known.

Hasan Piker was quite angry that people pointed out that he, just the other day, talked about harnessing the left's assassination fantasies as a way to organize followers.

But then Hasan Piker...

The Democratic Party is now a hate group. I don't say that lightly, but as even a few social scientists have noted, there is an assassination culture on the left. And it's not just Trump. The anti-Israel movement celebrates Hamas, talks about #resistance and the necessity of violence to achieve social change, and the Democrats embrace these people as their next generation of voters.

Read the whole thing.

Officer John Bartholomew

End of Watch. Chicago police officer fatally shot at Swedish Hospital remembered for kindness, public service

Bartholomew, 38, who had been with the police department for a decade, was identified by the Cook County medical examiner’s office as the officer fatally shot Saturday morning at a North Side hospital.

He was shot alongside a 57-year-old officer who was in critical condition as of Saturday afternoon.

It used to be a wonderful city.

The Direct Impact of Banning Fossil-Fuel Generated Electricity

The Democrats of Illinois are bent on destroying every bit of industrial capacity. Even electricity is leaving blues states - Don Surber

This is the reaction to the 2021 Climate & Equitable Jobs Act, which the Chicago Tribune called “one of Gov. JB Pritzker’s signature accomplishments, requires Illinois to phase out the burning of fossil fuels for electricity by 2045 and sets an earlier 2030 deadline for closing certain gas-fired plants.”

Instead of waiting for 2030, an energy generation plant in Elwood, Illinois, was sold off. Six of the nine gas turbines are moving to Texas. (Just load them up on a flatbed truck and off they go.) The other three will continue to run for a while. Those three have been purchased by a non-profit out of Wisconsin. (There is a carve out in the CEJA law for non-profits that own gas turbines.)

The underlying article is actually an editorial from the Chicago Tribune. The Tribune seems surprised that passing silly laws could have detrimental impacts on the local economy.

War Games - Hollywood Meets '80s Tech

The 1983 movie War Games is still one of my favorites. This video is a bit nerdy, even by my standards. But I don't care.

A lot of the details are nonsense, but it got the smell right. It understood what computer culture felt like in the early 1980s. a smart kid in a bedroom, a modem, a pile of obscure hardware, weird blinking lights, late night modem dialing, and the sense that if you knew just a little more than everybody else, you might accidentally open a door that you were never supposed to find. And that is why this movie still works on computer people.

Of course most of it is Hollywood cheating. If you ever used a dialup modem from the 1980s you know that the screens didn't work that quickly. And that's just one part of it.

When I discovered computers were a giant mathematical puzzle, I wanted one. My parents were convinced that they were just expensive toys, so I didn't get one. (They were expensive.) The IMSAI 8080 was one of the premiere computers of the day that you could hope to have in your home. That was the home computer in the movie.

The question is not was the computer real, because it was. The question is where did the movie actually cheat? And in reality, War Games cheats all over the place. It cheats on what the front panel is doing. It cheats on what the monitor is doing. It cheats on the modem. It cheats on the voice. It cheats on the AI. And yet somehow by cheating in exactly the right places, it winds up feeling more authentic than a lot of movies that were technically more careful.

Wargames Movie Magic: Where it Cheats - IMSAI & WOPR! It is a 16 minute video, so grab a coffee.

Self-Defense Is Legal in California

California District Attorneys hate that. Barstow man acquitted of murder, manslaughter in fatal shooting

A jury acquitted a Barstow military veteran of murder and manslaughter Wednesday following the fatal shooting of another man two years ago, records show.

Patrick Dull, 52, was found not guilty of both charges in the Victorville branch of San Bernardino County Superior Court on April 22, according to court records and documents.

He showed up at one o'clock in the morning and threw a rock through a window. The guy he had a beef with was not at home, but his family was. He came back at 2:15 a.m. while the homeowner was boarding up the window.

Dazzi approached Dull from behind, made threatening statements and then charged toward Dull on the front porch of Dull's home, the attorney said.

The homeowner made one shot to the torso, and called police. The DA really wanted self-defense to be illegal. (The DA was not available for comment.)

Barstow, Califronia is about a 115 mile northeast of Los Angeles, on the way to Las Vegas.

Self-defense is a human right, but DAs in blue states don't want it to be a legal right. (Hat tip to USA Carry)

Trust the Science

Just don't turn your back on disgruntled scientists. Scientist accused of poisoning co-worker’s water bottle after being denied promotion, authorities say

According to a criminal complaint, a person who works at the Influenza Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin‑Madison noticed an odd smell coming from his water bottle on April 4 and said it tasted strange.

He also reported an odd smell coming from his shoes and a grocery bag, and told another employee, who then called police.

A lab test of the water bottle revealed a high level of chloroform.

41‑year‑old Makoto Kuroda confessed to that, and putting paraformaldehyde - an extremely toxic substance - in the victim’s drink.

Why? Because the victim didn't follow all the rules.

Kuroda also allegedly became upset when the employee was promoted and Kuroda was not.

But trust the science.

California EV Sales Crash

The headline says Tesla, because the media hate Elon Musk, but the article says all, or most, EV manufacturers are in trouble. Tesla's California sales crash 24% as state's EV market plunges to lowest since 2021 | Electrek

What that 24% represents is the number of Teslas registered in California, in the first quarter of 2026 compared to the first quarter of 2025.

The state’s overall zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) market share has plunged to just 13.7% — the lowest level since Q4 2021.

Tesla's sales crash of 24% is not the dig that the folks at Electrek want you to believe. It isn't good, but as Nerdrotic says, this makes Tesla the tallest midget in the room.

The broader picture is even more alarming. Total ZEV registrations in California dropped 40.2% year-over-year in Q1 2026, falling from 95,520 to just 57,111 units. ZEV market share plunged from around 21% in 2025 to just 13.7% — a level the state hasn’t seen in over four years.

The carnage was widespread among EV brands. Mercedes-Benz ZEV registrations collapsed 81.9%, Chevrolet dropped 59.6%, BMW fell 58.9%, Ford declined 58.8%, Kia dropped 48.2%, and Rivian plunged 35.9%. Even Hyundai, which has been gaining ground in the EV market, saw a 30.4% decline in ZEV registrations.

So what are people registering? Hybrids and gas vehicles. Hybrids had a 20.9% market share, as measured by registrations, and gas vehicles were 61.1%.

The hat tip goes to MGUY Australia and his video California CARNAGE: EV sales CRATER by 40% in Q1 2026. The video is about 9 minutes.

Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 25 April

The Right Way starts us off with Top of the News

Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark - 90 Miles From Tyranny
A warning from Britain’s Iranian diaspora - Blazingcatfur

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 04.22.26 (Morning Edition)

Dana Loesch: No One Asked For This
Don Surber: Obama is tired of Trump winning

EBL - Why is America a Superpower?

Geographical determinism plays a part (it helps), but it is not the only thing though...
AoSHQ: Morning Report 04.23.26

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 23 April 2026: Double Stacker Edition

The Pentagon wants $54 billion for drones. (Ars Technica)
Shockingly, even Ars Technica doesn't claim this is an outrageous idea, merely an expensive one. I can't speak for the commenters. I haven't read the comments, and won't.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Circuit Court Judge Nixes Virginia Gerrymander

At Althouse, "'If the Democratic Party is to flourish in the future,' Mr. Platner told me, 'it needs to be an antiwar party.'" The guy with the Nazi tattoo. The Persian Jewess @persianjewess, "Over 70% of the East Village voted for Mamdani"

Small Dead Animals - Thursday On Turtle Island

The Democratic Party’s America: Victor Davis Hanson – Trump’s toughest battle and Trump changed the rules. One giant fraud.
Stores You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: No infidels allowed. The lynching of Melanie Gill.

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 04.23.26 (Evening Edition)

Shark Tank: George Moraitis Addresses U.S. Blockade Of Iran, Praises Trump
Shot In The Dark: Depreciated, also, The Eternal Half Hour

The Glibertarians - Thursday Morning Links

Gas Near $4, but US Still Beats Global Prices
Housing crisis hits all ages as homeownership declines nationwide

Flopping Aces - The Week in Radical Leftism, 04/24/2026 – More from The Nation!

Sadly I have a feeling that I’m not the only Catholic out there who thinks that Trump is more Catholic than the Pope. And no, that’s not because I think Trump is a saint – it’s more of an indictment of the church’s current leadership..

Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 04.24.26

Don Surber: American exceptionalism lives on
First Street Journal: A Philadelphia Inquirer sob story about a poor, poor, misunderstood murderer

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 4/22/2026

Brussels Scrambles as Fuel Shortages Hit Europe
The European Commission is set to unveil an emergency energy package on Wednesday, in an arguably late attempt to confront a rapidly evolving energy crisis.

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog - LinkSwarm For April 24, 2026

The Iran war remains mostly in suspended animation. The blockade is still in place, and the IRCG tried to attack a couple of ships in the Strait of Hormuz, without notable effect.

Vlad Tepes - Canada is a place that needs watching: Links 1 for April 24, 2026

1. RFK Jr offers a few words on Canadian death care
2. Rural land owners react to the high speed rail scam
3. Is the actual system in effect in Canada becoming clear yet?

Political Hat - Quick Takes – Euthanasia Danger: Danger Zone; Making Suicide Prevention Illegal; Canada Must Kill The Mentally Ill

Suicide hotlines and other such resources have traditionally been about preventing suicide. Now, Scotland is looking to prohibit preventing assisted suicide.

Maggie's Farm - Wednesday morning links

Mamdani’s Folly: Capitalists Have Already Solved the Grocery Problem
Dozens Of Governments Will Take Fossil Fueled Trips To Try And End Fossil Fuels

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 4/ 23/26

A horror story of nightmarish abuse . . . and he’s back on duty!
A Syrian Muslim ‘Caregiver’ for the Swedish Elderly

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: down on the problem farm

• EU holds first summit without Orbán as Zelensky joins leaders in Cyprus Antonio O'Mullony
• If Iran Won’t Deal, Here’s What Comes Next Lance Gordon

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 04/23/2026

Good analysis of Virginia election anomalies here, which discusses disappearing votes, and there is a list of counties where thousands of votes just disappeared here.

I leave you with Midweek Memes from Granite Grok, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #3604 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, Thursday Memes … from MaddMedic, and Friday's Political and Current Event Memes from Wirecutter.

Floridians Are Heavily Armed

The bad guys continue to not get that memo. St. Petersburg homeowner fatally shoots intruder in Kenwood, police say

How would you respond to an uninvited guest breaking into your home, shortly after midnight?

A homeowner who was awakened by the man’s attempts to get into the home told him to leave. When the suspect continued to try to break in, the homeowner opened fire, hitting the man at least once, police. He died at a local hospital.

Kenwood is a neighborhood in St. Petersburg, Florida. It is about 2 miles east-northeast of downtown.

There were three adults and a child home at the time.

So the shooter was, I take it, protecting his family.

The shooter has not been charged, because self-defense is legal in Florida. It is also a human right.

Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0.

Department of Education Drops the Hammer on Useless Degrees

From the University Herald: The Department of Education Just Proposed a Rule That Could Cut Federal Aid to Thousands of College Programs. Here's How It Works.

The April 17 NPRM Establishes a Single Earnings Test for Every Postsecondary Program in America — From Culinary Certificates to Law Degrees — With Federal Student Loans at Stake for Programs Whose Graduates Don't Earn Enough

This is, if memory serves, basically the same test given for for-profit schools. It was instituted because some administration (Obama?) decided that some programs were just scams. The usual suspects got a carve out. If you were a "regular university" you got a free pass. This facilitated stuff like the various studies majors, and the other insane degrees.

Hat tip to Clayton Cramer, who sums up my take on degrees that don't pay for themselves.

Is there value in programs that do not contribute to a decent paycheck? Certainly. But the government need not subsidize a program that satisfies your desire to learn about Victim Studies.

There used to be a lot of talk about how Germany (and maybe a few other European countries) pay for college educations. I'm not sure what the current situation is, but 30 years ago, Germany didn't pay for everyone to go to college.

If you scored high enough on test taken, basically at the end of high school, AND you were going to major in something the Germans felt was worthwhile, (i.e. engineering, pre-med, etc.) then they would pay for your education. If you didn't score high enough, or you wanted to major in something they didn't care about, you didn't get free tuition.

Of course that was before Germany decided to destroy their industrial base by making electricity expensive and unreliable at the same time.

Long Train Runnin'

Another selection from WXRT's Saturday Morning Flashback. This is from their March 21st show.

This song is "Long Train Runnin'" by the Doobie Brothers from their 1973 album The Captain and Me.

Is the Ivy League Calling for Killing Old People?

One professor certainly seems to be. The Ivy League Is Decadent and Depraved : The Other McCain

Very seldom do I use the same headline twice in one week, but seldom does an idea as monstrously bad as Samuel Monyn’s attract my attention. To summarize as succinctly as possible, Moyn’s argument is this: “Old people have too much stuff. We should kill them and steal their stuff.”

Is that overstated? Not so much.

The title of Monyn's book is Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It. McCain asks, how would that title sound if you substituted a different demographic?

The headline “Jews Are Hoarding America’s Potential” would probably not be published by the New York Times, nor would the author of such a piece have a book deal with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, let alone a tenured faculty position at Yale Law School.

Haters gonna hate. Read the whole thing.

Friday Links - 24 April

William Teach at Pirate's Cove starts us off with Bummer: Chicago Has Already Cancelled This Year’s Cinco De Mayo Celebration

I have to wonder: how many Mexicans actually celebrate this? It actually seems more of a holiday adopted by Americans as a reason to drink, as pushed by beer manufacturers

The Other McCain - IT’S ‘STOP THE LOBSTER’ DAY!

After I called it “Spanberger’s lobster” last week, many others have taken up that phrase to describe the crustacean-like shape of the district that Democrats would inflict on Virginia if today’s referendum passes.

Chicago Contrarian - Bizarro Chicago: Criminals Get a Pass, Police Get the Blame

In any rational society, the focus of government — and the concern of the public — would be on the people actually committing violence. The goal would be simple: stop the criminals.

But in Chicago, the obsession is different.

Alice Jones Webb at Take It Outside - Take It OutsideYou Just Can't Get There From Here

I headed out to the hunting property on Tuesday afternoon to pull down my treestands. Logging started on Monday, and there was heavy equipment parked everywhere. They’d cut right up to my first stand, opening the canopy in a place that’s always been thick, dark, and dank. The naked stumps and the harsh light cut wrong. It felt like walking into my house and finding someone moved all the furniture.

My Nerdy Home - Disney Reveals Snow White Resulted In $170 Million Dollar Loss [VIDEO]

They had to do so many re-shoots, that movie was completely dead on arrival. It was DOA from the first moment that Rachel Zegler opened her mouth.

The Gun Writer - Why the Trace has problems with guns, gun owners and the truth

Chip Brownlee’s recent story about Emergency Risk Protection Orders, known as ERPOs, which was published online by the Trace is actually well written. It’s completely wrong and chock-full of anti-gun propaganda, but it is well written.

Professor Yamane at Light Over Heat - What a Danish Newspaper Got Right About American Gun Culture

Guntubers — firearms influencers on YouTube and other social media platforms — are reshaping who gets into guns and how. That’s the story Danish journalist Anders Tornsø Jørgensen was chasing when he contacted me recently. It’s one I’d been thinking about already in my Substack post and video, “Did the New York Times Accidentally Discover Gun Culture 3.0?”

Peter Sweded - IT BEGINS: Court orders COMPENSATION for vaccine death

A Greek court has ordered the state to pay €300.000 compensation to the family.

Meep at STUMP - Congressional Mortality Update 2026: RIP, Rep. David Scott, 80

Rep. Scott was 80, and people had already been commenting on his health in 2024. His district is a lock. I doubt anybody will be screaming conspiracy.

The Silicon Graybeard - The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is complete

The NGRST is heading for the L2 Lagrange Point, currently the home of the James Webb Space Telescope, the European Union's Euclid infrared space telescope and a place for passing visitors, such as the Escapade mission on the way to Mars (bottom of that post).

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 22 April 2026: Fresh Baked Edition

Amazon meanwhile is investing $25 billion in Anthropic, as part of a deal where Anthropic spends $100 billion over 10 years with Amazon. (CNBC)

The money on the bus goes round and round...

Ace of Spades HQ - China Made a Ton of Risky Loans to Third-World Nations to Bring Them Under Its Sphere of Influence. Now Those Loans are Turning Bad. China Wants the US to Bail It Out.

This is such a disgusting demand to even make that I'm 90% sure that the "US" Congress will agree to to it.

Geller Report - THE MAMDANI ACT: Lawmaker Introduces Bill to Deport Immigrants With Extremist Ideologies

Mamdani may have served some good after all. Who’d a thunk it?

Concealed Carry at St. Louis Gas Station

The underlying story happened in early April, but escaped my news filters. Armed Citizen Shoots Teen Who Allegedly Pointed Gun and Opened Fire at St. Louis Gas Station - USA Carry

A 15-year-old was shot and wounded after he allegedly pointed a gun at a man and opened fire at a south St. Louis gas station, according to police. The man returned fire, striking the teen, and remained at the scene to cooperate with investigators.

Based on the reporting done, and the summary of Missouri law that is given, this appears to be legal self-defense.

Based on the facts reported by police, the man appears to have acted in lawful self-defense. Missouri law recognizes the right of a person to use force, including deadly force, when facing an imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm. A person who has a gun pointed at them and is being shot at is facing exactly that kind of threat.

Gas stations are becoming, or are, a problem area. You're distracted by doing something. Your car is unlocked. You have your keys handy. It seems to be a place that carjackers and other bad guys are targeting. Maybe that has always been the case, and I am just noticing.

Self-defense is a human right. Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0.