Snake oil. Can only detect an exposed firearm. And then, all the service does is call/text people. Sure it may save a small amount of time, after the crim decides to go kinetic, but as even the service says, it’s not perfect, or fool proof.
Hundreds of schools across U.S. using AI to help detect guns
SO NOW IT’S THE 22D ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11: One thing I guess I didn’t believe 22 years ago is that America would elect such a feckless President in 2008, and stand idly by while he flushed our global position, and security, down a left-wing toilet. But we did — and then we did it again in 2020 — and we’ll be paying the price for a long time.
We said “never forget.” Well, we haven’t forgotten the heroism of people like Rick Rescorla, the Flight 93 passengers, the firefighters who charged up the WTC stairs, or the volunteers who set up the American Dunkirk evacuation of lower Manhattan by boat.
But we have forgotten the criminal negligence of our political leaders and intelligence services that got us to that point. We should have purged the incompetents then. Instead, they’re still running the show. The country is still sound, but the people in charge of it have only gotten worse.
God bless America. We need it.
I don’t mean this to sound gloomy. But Americans consistently shrink from the realities of both international and domestic politics and that’s not good. I think the coming decade will be a dose of reality, for better and for worse.
Glenn Reynolds
We all know New Mexico goobernor Grisham issued an Emergency “Health Order” suspending concealed and open carry of guns in New Mexico even for concealed carry permit holders.
Over the weekend, at least four lawsuits, two of which seek immediate injunctive relief, have been filed.
National Association For Gun Rights is the only one I can find at the moment
Group sues after New Mexico governor suspends right to carry guns in Albuquerque in public
Seems everyone else concerned know the goobernor stepped in it.
The most salient part of the article is this ⇓.
Bernalillo County District Attorney Sam Bregman, who once served as a Democratic party leader and was appointed by Lujan Grisham, on Saturday joined Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller and Police Chief Harold Medina saying they wouldn’t enforce the order.
“As an officer of the court, I cannot and will not enforce something that is clearly unconstitutional,” said Bregman, the top prosecutor in the Albuquerque area. “This office will continue to focus on criminals of any age that use guns in the commission of a crime.”
Bernalillo County Sheriff John Allen said he was uneasy about how gun owners might respond.
“I am wary of placing my deputies in positions that could lead to civil liability conflicts,” Allen said, “as well as the potential risks posed by prohibiting law-abiding citizens from their constitutional right to self-defense.”
September 11
9 – In the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, the Roman Empire suffers the greatest defeat of its history, losing 3 complete Legions, with the Rhine river being established de facto as the border between the Empire and the Germanic tribes for the next 400 years.
1297 – Scots jointly led by William Wallace and Andrew Moray defeat the English at Stirling Bridge
1565 – 8000 relief troops from Spain inflict such heavy casualties on the Ottoman moslem forces that had besieged Malta for over 3 months, that they retreat from from the island.
1609 – Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan Island
1683 – Coalition forces of the Holy League, including the famous winged Hussars led by Polish King John III Sobieski, lift the siege of Vienna, Austria by Ottoman forces.
1697 – Coalition forces of the Holy League inflict one of the most decisive defeats in history on the Ottomans at Zenta, Serbia
1777 – British forces under General Howe defeat U.S. forces under General Washington in battle near Brandywine Creek, Pennsylvania.
1789 – Alexander Hamilton is appointed the first Secretary of the Treasury.
1813 – During the War of 1812, British troops arrive in Mount Vernon, Virginia and prepare to invade Washington D.C.
1814 – British army and naval forces converge on Plattsburgh, New York at Lake Champlain and are defeated by U.S. Army, Militia and Naval forces waiting for them.
1944 – The Allied invasion of Germany during World War II begins near the city of Aachen
1905 – A derailment of the 9th street train above West 53rd Street entering 50th Street station in Manhattan is the worst accident on the New York City elevated railways, with 13 killed and 48 seriously injured
1919 – Due to political unrest causing concern among the U.S. companies involved in the fruit import business, the U.S government has U.S. Marine Corps troops deploy to Honduras, during the “Banana Wars” of the early 20th century.
1941 – Construction begins on The Pentagon.
1950 – President Truman approves military operations in Korea north of the 38th parallel
1954 – Hurricane Edna hits New England as a Category 2 hurricane, killing 29 people and causing over $42 million in damage
1961 – Hurricane Carla hits the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the second strongest storm ever to hit the state, killing 43 people and causing over $326 million in damage
1973 – A coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet topples the socialist administration of President Salvador Allende.
1974 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 212, a Douglas DC-9 crashes in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing 70 of the 78 passengers and 2 of the 4 crew aboard
1990 – President Bush addresses a joint session of Congress stating conditions that Iraq must withdraw from Kuwait completely.
1991 – Continental Express Flight 2574, an Embraer EMB 120, crashes in Colorado County, Texas, near Eagle Lake, killing all 11 passengers and 3 crew aboard.
1992 – Hurricane Iniki, hits the Hawaiian Islands of Kauai and Oahu, as a Category 4 hurricane, killing 7 and causing over $3.1 billion in damage.
1997 – NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
2001 – In a series of coordinated attacks, moslem Al Qaeda terrorists hijack 4 passenger jet aircraft and use them to crash into towers 1 & 2 of the World Trade Center in New York City, and the Pentagon, killing 2,977 people. The passengers of the 4th jet, United Airlines Flight 93, attempt to retake it from the hijackers, and succeed in keeping the hijackers from completing their mission to crash it into the Capitol Building in Washington D.C., who instead crash it in Pennsylvania.
2011 – The National September 11 Memorial & Museum opens on the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
2012 – The U.S. diplomatic compound and special mission annex in Benghazi, Libya are attacked, resulting in four deaths; Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, US Foreign Service officer Sean Smith; CIA contractors Tyrone S. Woods and Glen Doherty. 2 operational members of 1st SFOD-D, on a separate mission, volunteer to accompany the relief forces, resulting in them receiving their respective service’s Navy Cross and Distinguished Service Cross for their actions in combat.
2021 – Nationwide ceremonies commemorate the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks
All the other ‘smith degrees offered by schools are 2 year associates
Oklahoma school to offer nation’s first bachelor’s in gunsmithing
State officials could have a new weapon in their arsenal as they try to lure gun and ammunition manufacturers to Oklahoma.
Murray State College leaders say the school’s gunsmithing program could become a huge economic development driver thanks to a $10 million legislative investment that will allow the college to offer the nation’s first bachelor’s degree in gunsmithing.
With backing from the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, campus officials approached lawmakers in the spring with a pitch that expanding the school’s gunsmithing program to offer four-year degrees could turn Oklahoma into a hub for gun businesses and manufacturing.
“The idea was this is an investment in an industry that can locate in our state, and regionally, we have the ability distribution-wise to become a powerhouse in this,” Murray State College President Tim Faltyn said in an interview.
Although the funding measure passed overwhelmingly, some lawmakers questioned the new investment in a college that’s located in the district of House Speaker Charles McCall, R-Atoka.
‘Major shift toward embracing modern technology’
Murray State College has offered a gunsmithing program since 1979. Annually, the school admits 30 students to its two-year degree program at its Tishomingo campus.
Challenge to N.M. Governor’s Ban on Public Gun Carry in Albuquerque and Surrounding County
From the motion for a temporary restraining order in Nat’l Ass’n for Gun Rights v. Grisham, filed yesterday in New Mexico federal court (paragraph numbering removed).
Governor Grisham issued Executive Order 2023-130 (the “Executive Order”) on September 7, 2023…. In the Executive Order Governor Grisham declared that a state of emergency exists in in New Mexico due to gun violence.
Based on the Executive Order, [N.M. Secretary of the Department of Health Patrick Allen issued “Public Health Emergency Order Imposing Temporary Firearm Restrictions, Drug Monitoring and Other Public Safety Measures” dated September 8, 2023 (the “PHE Order”)[:] …
[1] No person, other than a law enforcement officer or licensed security officer, shall possess a firearm … either openly or concealed, within cities or counties averaging 1,000 or more violent crimes per 100,000 residents per year since 2021 according to Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program AND more than 90 firearm-related emergency department visits per 100,000 residents from July 2022 to June 2023 according to the New Mexico Department of Public Health [which, according to news accounts, includes only Bernalillo County, where Albuquerque is located -EV], except:
[A] On private property owned or immediately controlled by the person;
[B.] On private property that is not open to the public with the express permission of the person who owns or immediately controls such property;
[C.] While on the premises of a licensed firearms dealer or gunsmith for the purpose of lawful transfer or repair of a firearm;
[D.] While engaged in the legal use of a firearm at a properly licensed firing range or sport shooting competition venue; or
[E.] While traveling to or from a location listed in Paragraphs (1) [sic] through (4) [sic] of this section; provided that the firearm is in a locked container or locked with a firearm safety device that renders the firearm inoperable, such as a trigger lock….
Bruen states that the appropriate test for applying the Second Amendment is: “[1] When the Second Amendment’s plain text covers an individual’s conduct, the Constitution presumptively protects that conduct. [2] The government must then justify its regulation by demonstrating that it is consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation. Only then may a court conclude that the individual’s conduct falls outside the Second Amendment’s unqualified command.” … The Carry Prohibition flatly prohibits Plaintiffs from carrying handguns (or any other firearm) in public for self-defense. Therefore, Plaintiffs’ burden under step one of the Bruen analysis is easily met for the same reason it was met in Bruen….
In Bruen, the State of New York conceded a general right to public carry. Instead, New York argued that that the Second Amendment permits a state to condition handgun carrying in certain areas on a showing of a “need” for self-defense in those areas. The Court held that to “support that claim, the burden falls on respondents to show that New York’s proper-cause requirement is consistent with this Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.” After an exhaustive analysis of the relevant historical tradition, the Court held that New York failed to demonstrate that its law was consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation….
If New York’s “proper-cause” requirement for public carry failed Bruen’s second step, New Mexico’s flat prohibition of public carry under any circumstances necessarily fails Bruen’s second step as well. The Court can reach this conclusion without reviewing any of the relevant history, because as a matter of simple logic it is not possible for New Mexico to demonstrate that a flat prohibition on public carry is consistent with history and tradition when even a proper cause requirement for public carry was not….
Plaintiffs [also] desire to go to private businesses open to the public while lawfully carrying a firearm for lawful purposes, including self-defense, without first obtaining the express affirmative permission of the person who owns the property. The Carry Prohibition prohibits that conduct. Last month, in Wolford v. Lopez (D. Haw. 2023), the court issued a TRO and preliminary injunction enjoining a practically identical Hawaii law. Hawaii argued that there was historical support for its prohibition on carriage on private property without consent. After examining the historical record submitted by the state, the court rejected its argument. It wrote:
… The State has not established that the portion of [the statute] that prohibits carrying firearms on private property held open to the public is consistent with this Nation’s historical tradition of gun regulation. Because the State has not met its burden, Plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits of their challenge to [the statute] to the extent that [the statute] prohibits carrying firearms on private property held open to the public.
The historical record has not changed since last month. Like Hawaii, New Mexico will not be able to show that the Carry Prohibition’s prohibition on lawfully carrying firearms into private businesses in Affected Areas open to the public without first obtaining the express affirmative permission of the person who owns the property is consistent with this Nation’s historical tradition of gun regulation. There is no such historical tradition. Therefore, the State is unable to carry its burden….
I intend to blog the other side’s argument when it becomes available. (You can read the full order, which is written to last until Oct. 6, here.) In the meantime, here’s the relevant part of the New Mexico Constitution’s right to bear arms provision (enacted in 1971):
No law shall abridge the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms for security and defense, for lawful hunting and recreational use and for other lawful purposes, but nothing herein shall be held to permit the carrying of concealed weapons.
City of Las Vegas v. Moberg (1971) interpreted the 1912 constitutional right to bear arms provision (“The people have the right to bear arms for their security and defense, but nothing herein shall be held to permit the carrying of concealed weapons”) as indeed invalidating laws that ban both open and concealed carry of guns. The argument in this federal case doesn’t rely on the state constitutional provision (likely because federal courts generally can’t issue injunctions against state governments violating state law), but I thought it worth noting, since the New Mexico Governor is of course obligated to comply with the state constitution.
Joe Biden was in Hanoi on Sunday, meeting with Vietnam’s Communist Party leader, General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng.
After the meeting, he made some remarks and took a few questions from the press. We probably don’t even have to say anymore that it didn’t go well, you can just assume that there are going to be big embarrassing issues.
Biden started in confusion about whether it was evening there (it was).
BIDEN: "Good evening, everyone. It is evening, isn't it? This around the world in five days is interesting. Well, one of my staff members said, 'Remember the famous song, Good Morning, Vietnam?' Well, good evening, Vietnam." pic.twitter.com/PjvBtiVcLN
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 10, 2023
I think he was trying to make a joke about “Good Morning, Vietnam,” which was a famous Robin Williams movie, not a “famous song.” And maybe that’s not the best movie to bring up when you’re in Vietnam. As my colleague Andrew Malcolm observed in his post about Joe Biden’s visit, Biden said his Afghanistan withdrawal would not be as bad as the Saigon panic, but then it was.
But that was the good part. It was all downhill from there once the presser started. Although to be fair, it’s not much of a presser when he limits it to five preselected reporters that “they gave me here.”
2 YEARS? Well, it took the goobernor long enough.
Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin has pardoned a father, Scott Smith, who was convicted of disorderly conduct for protesting a school-board meeting after his daughter was sexually assaulted by a male wearing a skirt in a girls’ bathroom.
“I spoke with Mr. Smith on Friday, and I had the privilege of telling Mr. Smith that I will pardon him, and we did that on Friday,” Youngkin told Fox News Sunday. “We righted a wrong. He should’ve never been prosecuted here. This was a dad standing up for his daughter.”
“His daughter had been sexually assaulted in the bathroom of a school, and no one was doing anything about it,” the Republican governor added before asserting that the school’s superintendent had “covered it up.”
In August 2021, Smith denounced Loudoun County educational administrators for failing to protect his daughter. Smith was confronted by law enforcement and forcibly detained at the time, sustaining injuries to his face and mouth. The following month, the concerned father was arrested and later convicted of two criminal counts.
“What happened to me can never happen to another American again, and it was kind of a bittersweet moment for me to accept this pardon,” Smith told a local ABC News affiliate from his home in Leesburg, Va., on Sunday.
“I think it’s pretty clear and convincing to the public that what happened to me that day should have never happened,” the father said.
An official statement released by the governor’s office on Sunday echoed Smith’s concerns and the need for greater parental oversight of schools.
What physicians get wrong about the risks of being overweight.
In fact, a 2013 paper—which analyzed nearly 100 studies that included more than 2.8 million people—found that being overweight slightly reduced mortality risk. (That wasn’t the case for those considered obese, with a BMI at or above 30.) A 2016 analysis of around 240 studies did find a link between being overweight and higher mortality, but the effect was small.
Mathur felt that both studies had methodological problems, such as not controlling well for factors such as diet and physical activity.
“My own exposure to public health messaging suggested that an overweight BMI was a risk factor for mortality,” she said. But after reviewing the research she concluded, “That’s just not an evidence-based perception, considering the literature as a whole.”
September 10
1570 – Spanish Jesuit missionaries land in present day Virginia to establish a mission to the local indian tribes.
1607 – Edward Wingfield is ousted as first president of the governing council of the Colony of Virginia; he is replaced by John Ratcliffe.
1608 – John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.
1776 – One of the members of Knowlton’s Rangers, Captain Nathan Hale, volunteers to stay behind the lines to spy on the British in New York City, after the Continental Army is forced to retreat from lower Manhattan.
1813 – A U.S. Navy fleet defeats a British fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie. The U.S. commander, Captain Oliver Hazard Perry, sends the message of victory: “We have met the enemy and they are ours…..”
1833 – President Andrew Jackson shuts down the Second Bank of the U.S.
1846 – Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
1858 – George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora while at the original Dudley Observatory near Albany, New York
1897 – A Luzerne County sheriff’s posse kills 19 UMW (United Mine Workers) Union immigrant miners while on a strike of the Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Company in Lattimer, Pennsylvania.
1932 – New York City Subway’s third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
1939 – The Royal Australian Navy submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the Royal Navy submarine HMS Triton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy’s first loss of a submarine in World War II.
Canada declares of war on Germany.
1977 – Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.
1979 – President Carter pardons 4 Puerto Rican nationalists for assaulting and wounding several Representatives while Congress was in session in 1954.
1991 – The Senate Judiciary Committee opens hearings on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court.
2002 – Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, becomes a full member of the United Nations.
2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, is powered up for the first time.
2017 – Hurricane Irma makes landfall on Cudjoe Key, Florida at Category 4 intensity after causing catastrophic damage throughout the Caribbean resulting in 134 deaths and $64.76 billion in damage.
‘no such thing as a state public health emergency exception to the U.S. Constitution’……
Sounds like the newest set of damage control talking points got emailed out for the parrots
I support gun safety laws. However, this order from the Governor of New Mexico violates the U.S. Constitution. No state in the union can suspend the federal Constitution. There is no such thing as a state public health emergency exception to the U.S. Constitution. https://t.co/kOhLMtaOl2
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) September 9, 2023
I support gun safety but there is no such thing as a state public health emergency exception to the U.S. Constitution. https://t.co/6GfbOZLc7g
— David Hogg 🟧 (@davidhogg111) September 9, 2023
Stacy Davis Gates, president of the Chicago Teachers Union, labeled private schools as ‘segregation academies’ in 2018. Last month she called those who supported school choice ‘fascists’. She enrolled her son in private school this month.
Here’s your mirror, Stacy. What changed? It turns out the public schools in her neighborhood are craptastic. She still sends her two daughters to a public elementary school. Perhaps they don’t have dreams of being athletes. It turns out that she was “forced” to send her son to private school. She’s all about the victimization of raising “a black boy” in America, you see.
MEET THE NEW PRINCIPAL OF JOHN GLENN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Fox News reports that the Western Heights School District in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has installed a drag queen as principal of the John Glenn Elementary School. Fox has confirmed that the new hire, Shane Murnan, is “a drag queen who goes by the name of Shantel Mandalay.” Although Mandalay’s Facebook account has since been deleted, the article provides screenshots of him in his full drag glory.
According to Fox, Murnan was employed as a drag queen at a venue called “The Boom.”
Students are entering college unable to write.
K-12 public education has failed to prepare incoming college students how to write at the public level.
In a desperate attempt to catch high school graduates up to speed, many universities are providing remedial writing classes to college students.
About 68% of those starting at two-year public institutions and 40% of students enrolled in public four-year universities took at least one remedial writing class between 2003 to 2009, according to an original report from the Department of Education.
Average math and reading test scores dropped significantly from 2019 to 2021, according to a 2022 study by two Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA). It seems likely that the 2016 figures would be much worse if they were resampled in 2023, after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dr. Megan Kuhfeld, one of three NWEA study researchers, told Campus Reform Aug. 30 that “It seems likely but with two caveats: (a) the students in our study have not reached college yet so it is hard to extrapolate from middle school test results and (b) colleges may have changed their criteria for routing students into remedial courses as a results of the pandemic, which would also change the proportion.”
The remediation statistics from the NWEA study indicate that many incoming and current college students are not prepared for university-level coursework. As such, numerous institutions are offering remedial writing courses aimed at preparing incoming freshmen on how to write at the college level.
