Homeowner Versus Three Masked Men

How would you respond to three would-be bad guys "approaching" you in your own driveway? Cockeysville homeowner shoots at three masked men in driveway confrontation

Baltimore County Police said the men, all wearing masks and armed with a handgun, confronted the resident around 10:40 p.m. in the 10000 block of Greenside Drive.

The resident told officers the suspects threatened him, then he drew his own weapon and shot at them.

One was found dead near the scene. The other two went to local hospitals for treatment of injuries.

Cockeysville, Maryland, is about a 15 mile drive north of downtown Baltimore.

So how should one man defend himself from 3 attackers? These guys had one gun between them. What if they were using a knife or knives? Would their being armed with clubs make a difference?

The two guys who survived are facing charges. Two men face attempted home invasion, firearm charges after Cockeysville driveway shooting

The two men face charges of attempted home invasion, assault and firearm-related offenses.

They are being held without bail.

And of course, neighbors were shocked. Deadly Halloween confrontation between homeowner, masked men rattles Cockeysville neighbors: "It's very scary"

You are not protected by your zip code, not even in suburbia. Click thru for the typical comments.

Self-defense is a human right, and it sounds like the authorities are treating this like self-defense, though you can never be sure in a Blue State.

EV Charging Infrastructure Failure

Can government encourage people to drive an electric car? Well, they can outlaw internal combustion engines, but they can't make people like it. We get the following story out of Australia. Thousands of public EV chargers are coming, but they could be unusable

Electric vehicles only make sense under very limited circumstances. One of those is that you have dedicated off-street parking, and can install a charger for your own use. In other words, you own your own home.

About a quarter of motorists don't have off-street parking, making it difficult to charge an EV at home.

In inner-city areas, the proportion is much higher.

At least in the area of Australia, that they are talking about, EVs are about 3 percent of the vehicles on the road.

Three percent.

So how much "dedicated" EV parking do you want to inflict on people?

A dedicated charger on Ocean St, North Bondi, has had 988 sessions over the past year.

A kilometre away, on Glenayr St, an undedicated charger of similar power has racked up 40 sessions. Another, on nearby Curlewis St, has had just four charging sessions in 12 months.

"A lot of the dedicated ones are getting between two and three sessions a day, and the undedicated ones are getting a session every two days," Mr Weinberg said.

Click thru for the details, if you want. I recommend the video, which hits the high points and covers a few other items as well.

This is the MGUY Australia video Another EV charging idea that will NEVER work

A regular petrol pump will deliver 30 liters of fuel per minute. And each of those liters will store over 30 megajoules of energy. And if you do the maths, that is an energy transfer of over 17 megawatts. 

The fastest EV charging stations anywhere on the planet are barely a tenth of that and require vastly expensive infrastructure and massive connections to the grid. Yet any simple fuel nozzle in the world beats it by a factor of 10. 

Compared to a Tesla quote fast charger unquote, it beats it by nearly 50 times. Do you start to see how far behind EV charging really is?

The video is 12 minutes long.

Reason Number 57 You Never Leave the Back Door Open

Apparently North Carolina alligators appreciate a decent bagel. Who doesn't? 3-foot alligator strolls into North Carolina bagel shop

No, this is not the opening line to a cheesy joke. A North Carolina bagel shop owner was startled on Thursday when a 3-foot alligator wandered into his shop. Whether the reptile was seeking a bagel with cream cheese has not been determined.

The video at F*c*book is pretty good, and very short. Click thru.

Hat tip to SenseiOfSarcasm at X. (She does have an odd history with reptiles, including a very large turtle at her front door, and an incident that came to be known as Vomit Lizard.)

The photo above is of an random alligator, not a part of this story. Click thru for the video.

Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 7 November

Wombat-socho is up first with In The Mailbox: 11.04.26 (Morning Edition)

Don Surber: Did France just save America? [No.]
STUMP: Election Day 2026 – Westchester County Blues

The Right Way - Top of the News

I have no words

EBL - MAGA Midterm Wipeout 🌊🌦️🤮

Blue Wave
Celebrate a victory for two days, mourn a loss for one. No getting around this though, this was an ass whoopin of Trump and the GOP.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 5 November 2026: Worsenisation Edtion

The hackers who destroyed food in European supermarket freezers for the second time recently also hit blood banks. (Yahoo)
Fortunately it seems that the blood banks aren't run by idiots

Small Dead Animals - Wednesday On Turtle Island

Carnival Carney’s Canada: Hunting ground. Vandalizing a cenotaph. Our secretive government.
The New Islamo-Marxist America: Trump critic. Americans voted for this.

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 11.05.26

Glenn Reynolds: Trump’s Next Act
Mark Steyn: Election Night in America, The Morning After, and Mutiny of the Maine-iacs (and more)

Vlad Tepes - Indigiqueer and other dialectical neologisms, The Allison Inquiry and more: Links post 1 for Nov. 5, 2026

3. The problem is that this kind of thing is so astonishingly common now, that we could, and many do like RMX news, make the entire content about showing incidents of Muslims and illegal migrants raping, stealing from, beating and killing indigenous Europeans.

The Glibertarians - Wednesday Morning Links

It’s a bloodbath. There’s no other way to put it.
Maybe they ought to leave her a length of rope. They’d be doing the world a favor.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Bloodbath in Tech Stocks in Wake of Midterms

At PJM Eric Florack reacts, Vance Wants an ‘Honest Conversation'? Fine, Here’s One and Stephen Kruiser sees that After the Blue Wave, Ron DeSantis Has Entered the 2028 GOP Chat.

Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 11.06.26 (Afternoon Edition)

Andrew Torba: Our Message To The GOP
Upstream Reviews: Time At The Top & All In Good Time

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 11/5/2026

Finnish Court Jails Russian Captain Over Baltic Sea Cable Sabotage
The Russian captain was ordered jailed for three years and six months and the crew member, an Azerbaijan national, for two years and 10 months.

Once again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 11.06.26 (Evening Edition)

Dana Loesch: Susie Wiles Out!
Don Surber: Democrats ready to abuse their power

Maggie's Farm - Wednesday afternoon links

House Recap: A grim defeat for Republicans, but with Trump in White House, Dems will be hamstrung
How Trump Blew It

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 11/5 /26

The price of war is high, but the price of passivity in the face of nation-destroying evil is invariably higher.
When A Warhawk Is Actually A ‘Peace-Monger’

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Muslim Candidates Ride Democrats’ ‘Blue Tsunami’ Into Power As The Red-Green Alliance Rises

ABC: Always Bet on Change Bruce Mehlman
Trump Lost the Election. Conservatism Wasn’t on the Ballot. Dr. Robert W. Malone

I leave you with Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #4376 from 90 Miles from Tryanny, REDS……DALEYBABES from DaleyGator, Midweek Memes from Granite Grok, Thursday Memes … from Granite Grok, Inbox Clean Up Randoms.... and Your Weekly Dose of Politics and Current Events from Wirecutter

Texans Are Still Armed

Home invaders are still getting shot. Homeowner shoots intruder during burglary, police investigating

The homeowner told officers he was awakened by an unusual noise coming from his living room and, when he went to investigate, encountered an unknown male inside the home. Police said the homeowner fired, striking the individual.

The guy who got shot ran, but police found him after a short search of the area. He was flown to San Antonio for medical treatment.

Police said criminal charges against the suspect are pending as the investigation continues.

Del Rio, Texas, is about 140 miles west of San Antonio.

Self-defense is human right, and southwest Texas is a long way, both figuratively and geographically, from New York City.

He Ran Like a Rabbit

If you break into homes, you will eventually find an armed homeowner. Jefferson City burglary ends with homeowner firing gun | Crime | KOMU

A reported burglary in Jefferson City on Sunday resulted in the homeowner firing a gun and the suspect fleeing the scene.

Cops searched, but could not find the suspect.

Jefferson City, Missouri, is about 100 miles west of St. Louis.

Perhaps this guy will reevaluate his life choices. Right after he changes his shorts.

Self-defense is a human right.

Fool's Game

In late October, WXRT's Saturday Morning Flashback was revisiting 2002. Doesn't seem appropriate in some ways, but it was 24 years ago. And we get a song I don't believe I had heard before.

I was disappointed in in the music from 2002 overall. There were some wonderful songs, but they were stuck in the middle of a bunch of songs that sounded like copies of each other. I have maintained for a few decades at this point that the suits running the American (and some of the British) music industry have tiny minds that can only copy what they saw 10 minutes ago.

Though 2002 was the year we got Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. We didn't know we were living through the golden age of cinema. Even the bad movies from that time are better than 99.4% of the drek we have gotten in the past decade^‡. (What was the last comedy you really laughed at? What was the last Sci-Fi or Fantasy movie or TV show that was wonderful?)

And though I don't think you will need them, I am going to try to remember to include a link to the lyrics in posts going forward. It will probably not last.

This is "Fool's Game" by Bonnie Raitt from her 2002 album Silver Lining.

‡ It is almost like something happened in 2016 that caused Hollywood to lose its mind. I can't think what it might be. Though I know the woke was going strong before that. Even before GamerGate, the woke had invaded comics, and was moving into movies and TV.

Friday Links - 6 November

Another abreviated Friday Links. The Insanity continues without pause. I hope everyone had a good week, and if not, it's over. (Or it will be shortly.)

Bayou Renaissance Man starts us off with Creating a crisis - or responding to signals we can't yet hear?

I'm sure many readers are aware of the sudden rush of articles and media reports, recommending that we make sure we have enough supplies stockpiled to take care of sudden, unexpected shortages. Periods range from a week to 90 days.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 4 November 2026: Call Me Fishmeal Edition

Microsoft has made Windows 11 suck 20% less if you are running with just 8GB of RAM. (Tom's Hardware)

It is at least a step in the right direction. Albeit after a double marathon in the wrong direction.

The Other McCain - MIDTERM ELECTION RESULTS HQ

Republicans have been slaughtered in this election. How bad is it? Ohio hasn’t elected a Democratic governor since 2006, but that’s what they did tonight.

The Silicon Graybeard - SWIFT space telescope reentered this morning

To tie a "completed" ribbon on the stories here about the SWIFT gamma ray observing satellite, SWIFT crashed to Earth today, November 4th, 22 years after its launch.

William Teach at Pirate's Cove - Cost Of DSA Policies? $49 Trillion

That’s a big number. Would $355K per household over 10 years be more manageable?

The Silicon Graybeard - Blue Origin publicizes some upgrades to New Glenn

Blue Origin announced two significant upgrades to its New Glenn rocket today, Nov.5, intended to reduce the cost of manufacturing the rocket as well as increasing its capacity for payloads to high energy orbits well beyond low and medium Earth orbit as well as to the Moon.

Adaptive Curmudgeon - The Octoberfest Conundrum

There I was, riding a dirtbike through the forest. I was happy as a clam. I had no idea where I was specifically but I had a general idea. That’s all I needed. The weather was ok and I had time to “find my location” before sunset. I had not a care in the world.

Alcohol Can Be Hazardous to Your Health

It can cause you to do stupid stuff that ends with you getting shot. And Texans are still armed. ‘Not Your House, Bro’: Man Shoots Guy Trying To Enter His Apartment After Halloween Party

Police believe that the guy who got shot was intoxicated, and tried to enter the wrong apartment. This was in an apartment complex, how large they don't say, but the people in the aprtment he broke into did not recognize him, so probably large.

[Houston] Police investigating the incident say the intruder lived at the apartment complex, but was intoxicated and may have been trying to enter the wrong unit after leaving a Halloween party.

Hell of a way to end a festive night.

There was a fight, and the guy who did live in the apartment, ended it by shooting the other guy. He was taken to a local hospital in critical condition.

“At night, when someone’s coming into your house, you do not have a duty to wait and decide if it’s a mistake or if this is just some drunk guy,” FOX 26 Legal Analyst Chris Tritico said. “You can take action to defend your property and yourself, and that includes deadly force. In this circumstance, when it may have just been a mistake, the homeowner doesn’t have to wait to decide. You can use deadly force.”

Self-defense is a human right, and Houston hasn't quite morphed into Boston.

Another 3D Printed Gun Out of Brazil

Impro Guns has the information. Hybrid 3D Printed SMG (Oct 24 2026, ES Brazil)

Another hybrid 3D printed SMG design using square tubing for the upper receiver with a Glock mag AR9 type lower.

Click thru for the photo.

Can you outlaw guns if they can be produced so easily?

No One Calls 911 After Double Shooting in Chicago

CWB Chicago has been counting the number of people who have to wait because the Liberal Mayor of Chicago doesn't like ShotSpotter. 2 critically injured shooting victims wait 8 minutes for someone to call 911 on a block once covered by ShotSpotter - CWB Chicago

I'm not surprised that no one called 911. Saddened? Yes. Surprised? No.

Two badly injured shooting victims appear to have waited at least eight minutes for someone to call 911 after they were shot in Bronzeville overnight. The shooting happened on a block once covered by the city’s ShotSpotter network, which Mayor Brandon Johnson shut down more than two years ago. The gunshot detection system notified Chicago police of gunshot locations even when humans did not. Johnson’s administration has yet to deliver the promised replacement.

The victims, a 19-year-old man shot in the head and a 15-year-old boy shot in the stomach, were found in a crashed vehicle near 50th Place and South Washington Park Court, directly behind Provident Hospital. The boy was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital in critical condition.

Bronzeville is a neighborhood on the south side of Chicago. It is about 4 or 5 miles south of The Loop, on the lakeshore.

The hat tip goes to Second City Cop: 97 and 98

Brandon Body count closes in on 100!

SCC has more commentary. The story linked at the top of this post, has more information on what has happened since Chicago stopped using ShotSpotter, including names of victims. That is information you won't find in most of the media.

The ability to keep gunshot victims alive is based on several things. One of those things is how long it takes to get the victim to a trauma center. Eight minutes is enough time to bleed to death, if the injury is severe enough.

Technology isn't always the right choice. (See the story about the refrigerators in European grocery stores.) But this seems to be an instance where technology can make a real difference, which is probably why the Left hates it so much.

Don't Bring a Knife to a Gunfight

Trying bad stuff in Polk County, Florida, is a bad bet. Knife-wielding migrant stopped by armed citizens at Polk County Dollar General

Natalia Gaviria from Colombia, who is currently living in Kissimmee, Florida, went to the store in Polk County, and pulled out a knife. She was "intoxicated."

Sheriff Grady Judd had a few choice words.

“I didn’t stutter. She pulled out a knife, and she’s waving it around and threatening customers,” Judd said. “One of the managers starts running customers out the back door because she is afraid that she’s gonna stab some of them.”

At one point, Gaviria stabbed a soda bottle, Judd added.

That is when two armed civilians stepped up and held Gaviria at gunpoint until police arrived.

Click thru for more comments from Judd; he never disappoints.

And no one will be shocked to learn her immigration status.

Furthermore, Sheriff Judd revealed that Gaviria was in the country illegally from Colombia.

Judd had a comment on that, aside from noting it.

Polk County, Florida, is roughly halfway between Orlando, and Tampa. Self-defense is a human right, and Sheriff Grady Judd is a national treasure. (Hat tip to Breitbart)

October in Chicago

HeyJackass! brings us the October Wrap-up

How times have changed. An October with this kind of warm weather in 2020–2022 would’ve been more of a bloodbath (which they were) and even then, crime would still have been down.

The final tally for October 2026 is 35 killed, by any means, and 108 shot and wounded. This compares to 72 killed, and 294 shot and wounded in 2020, and 67 killed, 249 shot and wounded in 2022.

Click thru for the demographics of the victims, stats like #ShotInTheAss, Selfies,

So is this level of improvement a good thing, or are we just numb to the current numbers? I have no answer. I believe that in a truly civilized society, there would be more recognition of Right and Wrong. The Left hates the very idea of Right and Wrong, because it is too much like Good and Evil.

Still, it is better than it was, though now the chaos seems to have moved to Europe.

Virginia AG Demonstrates Complete Lack of Gun Knowledge

This would be funny, if he wasn't in a position of authority. Virginia AG: AR-15s Are Really Just Machine Guns That Shoot Semi-Automatically…Or Something

This is in a brief to the Supreme Court, about the case involving AR-15s, and the states that ban them.

“AR-15s are machineguns, except that they — at least to start — have semiautomatic fire rather than automatic fire,” [Virginia AG Jay] Jones also writes.

Read the whole thing and be disappointed in our politicians.

Hat tip to Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit

WHY IS IT THAT PEOPLE WHO WANT TO BAN GUNS NEVER SEEM TO KNOW MUCH ABOUT THEM?

I really need to create a category for Lawyers Behaving Stupidly.

Wednesday Link Roundup - 4 November

William Teach at Pirate's Cove starts us off with Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

Bustednuckles has math.
Don Surber has highlights of the week.

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 11.02.26

Don Surber: Poland Belongs To The Poles
Elizabeth Nickson: Our Governments Have To Stop Hurting Us

EBL - Saturday Night Girls With Guns

31 October 1776: General Greene at Fort Lee, NJ
EBL: George Washington and the Battle of White Plains

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony -Daily News Stuff 3 November 2026: Crunchy Frog Edition

Yes we have no frozen bananas, part the two: Hackers have hit supermarket freezers across Belgium and Sweden, turning up the defrosting units, pushing temperatures up to 50C and destroying food. (Tom's Hardware)

Small Dead Animals - Sunday On Turtle Island

The Democrat Party’s America: Somali values. Sleazy Democrats. A Somali marriage.
Conman Carney’s Canada: Stories to make you puke. A yard in Montreal.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Today's the Day

At PJM, Ashli-Meghan Eskeldson hears an Expert Accuse El-Sayed of Hiding Muslim Brotherhood Ties Behind a ‘Modern’ Image and Tim O'Brien says Men Know That Abdul El-Sayed Is ‘That Guy,' Which Is Bad News for Him.

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 11/2/2026

The cryptocurrency industry is pouring more than $200 million into congressional races ahead of Tuesday’s midterms, mounting a massive bipartisan spending blitz to elect crypto-friendly lawmakers and advance its agenda in Washington, CNBC reported.

Political Hat - News of the Week (November 1st, 2026)

Paper straws worse for the environment than plastic ones: study
A damning study out of South Korea has revealed that paper straws might actually be worse for the planet than plastic ones

Don Surber - HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK

ITEM 21: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said people owning RAM on their PCs is wasteful, and that it belongs in data centers instead.
And he wonders why people hate data centers.

The Glibertarians - Spoooooky Links

“…and give it to them, good and hard.”
I shouldn’t laugh as hard as I did about this.
“Well, see, Team Red was even worse!”

Bacon Time!!!! - Sunday Linkange

Pirates Cove Are These The 50 Best Horror Movies Of The 21st Century?
Freedom Is Just Another Word.. .Saturday Memes…

Maggie's Farm - Monday morning links

Why Do They Despise Musk?
NYC public schools deceived me into thinking my son was a straight-A math student —but he can’t do fractions, basic algebra

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 11/3 /26

Its TV columnist, a former Democratic operative, tells readers to avoid Fox News on election night
The New York Times Is Getting Really, Really Ridiculous

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Creation (Musk) vs Destruction (Democratic Party)

One Ongoing Scam Cost Medicare $15 Billion. Can Washington Shut It Down? - Christopher Jacobs
Russia’s Economic Decay Undercuts Putin’s Global Ambition - Pavel K. Baev

I leave you with Sunday Funnies for 11-01-26 from Stately McDaniel Manor, Sunday’s Post Halloween Meme Drop 11-1-26 from Midwest Chick's Place, Election Day Libturds ~ AM from Woodsterman, DALEYBABES from DaleyGator, and Monday Memes from Granite Grok.

Relatives of Dead Criminals Don't Like Self-Defense

From Raleigh, North Carolina, we get the standard lament. Parents of NC Pizza Hut robbery suspect question why worker fatally shot their son

The media love to serve up the grieving family members, in this case the parents, when someone is killed in legal self-defense. Why? Because the media hate guns, and gun owners, and think you should have to rely on the state for your own protection, even though the state cannot provide it.

Police said Grace Jr. and two other people tried to rob a Pizza Hut in the 3200 block of Freedom Drive. During the incident, an employee fired his own handgun and killed Grace Jr.

Of course the parents don't believe that their son would ever hurt anyone. Little Michael Grace Jr. was a model citizen, right up until he decided to commit felony robbery.

Even though their son was in the process of committing a crime, the family thinks his death was undeserved and unjustified.

The guy who shot Grace, shot him in the side of the head near the ear. Another article says the employee shot an "armed robber." So I'm assuming that he took the time to line up the head shot because Grace Jr. was threatening someone. The Professional Journalist™ writing the article linked at the top of this post couldn't be bothered to say.

Hat tip to Miguel Gonzalez and Only Police can do that!

I do think it is interesting that the crowd that accuses police of shooting people indiscriminately are the same one demanding that only police should do the shooting … just like Liberal politicians want.

BTW. The other two miscreants ran like rabbits.

As for relying on the state, when seconds count, police are only minutes away. Also, SCOTUS has said that police do not have the duty to protect you. (See the Castle Rock v Gonzales decision, or the Warren v District of Columbia decision.)

Self-defense, and defense of others, is a human right.

Man Who Attacked Chicago Firefighter Had Outstanding Warrants

Is anyone shocked? Man who tried to attack Chicago firefighter had EIGHT outstanding warrants - CWB Chicago

A shirtless guy in Chicago attacks a firefighter, with a female cop standing right there, with her taser out. According to CPD, she deployed the taser, but nothing happened to our bad guy. The firefighter had grabbed a Halligan bar from the truck. He put it to good use.

The man who gained internet fame this week after charging at a Chicago firefighter—who then struck him with a steel prying tool—had eight outstanding warrants, according to Chicago police.

Yes, eight.

Note: The internet generally thinks the woman cop didn't use the taser, but I will give her the benefit of the doubt. A little, anyway. I think you can hear her fire the taser in the video, though it is probably too late for an accurate shot. Fancy technology can fail. A steel bar with a pointy end not so much.

The firefighter’s first swing with the Halligan bar missed, and Brown kept coming.

But the second swing dropped Brown like a sack of potatoes. Or, as CPD put it in its charging statement, “the victim struck him with a blunt object.”

32-year-old Lamar Brown is now charged with aggravated battery of a firefighter and aggravated assault of a firefighter, in addition to whatever those warrants were about.

If you're not aware, a Halligan bar is the premiere prying tool used by fire departments across the county. It was designed by an FDNY fire chief, Hugh Halligan, in 1948. They will get a firefighter through most locked doors when used with their axe.

If they didn't cost $300 or more, I would own one. Pry bars are important prepping tools in some parts of the country, where digging out of hurricane or earthquake or tornado debris should be on your list of things to be able to do.

The videos of the incident on YouTube are mostly blurred. This is not.

Guy goes after Chicago firefighter with female officer standing right there. Firefighter smacks him in the face with a halligan tool 😂 https://t.co/ZN4rlhe7aS

— Donut Operator 🍩 (@DonutOperator) November 2, 2026

Linger

The album that brought us today's song is not quite a concept album. It is "inspired by" Mayan Culture. So maybe it is a concept album.

Here is a link to the lyrics, though I don't think they are required.

This song is "Linger (Piano Version)" by Epica from expanded edition of their 2005 Consign To Oblivion. "Linger" was a bonus track included on the CD, and this version was included only on the expanded version of the album. The lyrics were written by Simone Simons, the vocalist.

Cheaters Are Going to Cheat

Right or Wrong? Good or Evil? The Left only cares about power. Kansas postal worker indicted for stealing Republican campaign mailers | Fox News

A federal grand jury in Wichita returned an indictment Tuesday charging Kelly R. Cram, a 59-year-old postal worker, with stealing thousands of pieces of mail including hundreds of political flyers all related to Republican candidates, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Kansas wrote in a release.

Is anyone shocked? (Hat tip to CPRC.)

I am shocked that there would appear to be some justice coming, though I will believe that when he is convicted, not just charged.