Government Has Known from the Start There is a Right to Own Machineguns

“Feds Say Wyoming Man Has No Right To Make His Own Machine Gun,” Cowboy State Daily reports, citing developments in the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming. “Jake Stanley DeWilde in January sued U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives (ATF), saying the government wrongfully denied his application to build his own M16 machine gun and a federal ban on such weapons is unconstitutional.”

Of course, that would be ATF’s position. And their excuse, “that courts have consistently ruled that the Second Amendment protects weapons in ‘common use’ but does not protect ‘dangerous and unusual weapons,’” get a legal boost from of all people, the late “originalist” Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in his District of Columbia v. Heller opinion. For reasons of his own, he felt he had to help advance that idea in the minds of those trying to justify infringements.

You have to wonder what it takes to get through to some of these guys.

Yes, it’s unconstitutional, and that can be demonstrated logically and legally through the case and the law Scalia cited.

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Audrey Hale: Former student left map and manifesto after shooting six at Nashville Christian school

Salient part:

In answer to a question as to whether Hale’s transgender status might have any bearing on a motive, Chief Drake said: “There is some theory to that. We’re investigating all the leads and once we know exactly, we will let you know.”

He said that the attack was targeted.

A manifesto and a map were discovered at Hale’s address

Chief Drake added that while there was no known history of mental illness, it was a lead that was being investigated.

He also said Hale had been considering targeting another location – which was not identified – but had apparently decided not to because of the level of security around it.

Tennessee Legislature Moving to Allow 18-Year Olds to Conceal Carry Firearms

A bill that would allow those 18 years old and older to concealed carry and obtain a permit in Tennessee now has different versions moving through the Senate and House.

House Bill 1005 lowers the age of permits to 18 and changes the term handgun to firearm in Tennessee code. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Chris Todd, R-Madison County, is aimed at matching a court agreement between the Firearms Policy Coalition and Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti following FPC’s lawsuit against Tennessee’s current law, which restricts through between ages 18 and 21 from receiving permits.

That court agreement was approved by a judge in mid-March.

Senate Bill 1503 had an amendment added this week from Sen. Brent Taylor, R-Memphis, in the Senate Judiciary Committee that will prevent long guns from being openly carried.

Senate sponsor John Stevens, R-Huntingdon, said the legislation is also aimed at being in line with the United States Supreme Court ruling in New York State Rifle v. Bruen.

“In Bruen, the Court was clear that the constitutional right to bear arms is a right that pre-exists our nation,” Stevens said. “The right of self-defense is not a right granted by government. It was given to us by our Creator. The Founders preserved that right in the Second Amendment.”

Tennessee’s Department of Safety and Homeland Security has previously opposed portions of the bill, including when the House passed a bill last year to low the permit and carry age to 18 and it was not passed by the Senate.

But Elizabeth Stroecker, Director of Legislation for the Department of Safety and Homeland Security, said the department did not oppose the legislation if the amendment was added.

The bill was approved and will next be heard by the Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee. In the House, its version of the bill was put on a special Driver’s License Calendar in the Finance, Ways and Means Committee.

If competing bills pass in the different bodies and agreement cannot be reached, a conference committee will be created on the matter.

Gov. DeSantis Signs Universal School Choice Into Law: ‘Monumental Day in Florida History’

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, R., on Monday signed universal school choice into law, resulting in the Sunshine State becoming the 4th state to pass such a law.

Florida House Bill 1 expands available school choice options for all 1.3 million students in Florida by eliminating financial eligibility restrictions and the current enrollment cap.

DeSantis’s office claims the legislation will “further cement Florida’s position as the nation’s leader in school choice.”

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The Problems With Just Getting Guns Out of People’s Hands as a Solution to Gun Violence
New study sees Chicago harassing and arresting people for paperwork violations, damaging their ability to live and work, without demonstrable effect on gun violence

When hideous murders committed with guns make national news, as in today’s Nashville school shooting, it is a natural reaction on many people’s parts to call passionately for just getting more guns out of more people’s hands, by any means necessary.

Those concerned with civil liberties and police abuse of the innocent have long worried about the effects of privileging mere gun possession arrests. A new study from the Marshall Project highlights some of these problems, via examining data and interviewing arrestees from Chicago’s attempts to manage its violence problem with more gun possession arrests.

Chicago police seem to have adopted a pattern of pretextual stops—looking for any excuse to pull someone over and interact with them—in order, they hope, to find a gun without a proper permit to own or license to carry. (Getting both those things can be quite expensive in terms of both time and money, disproportionately affecting the poor living in violent neighborhoods who most strongly feel the pull toward having a gun for self-defense.) Gun law enforcement in Chicago, the Marshall Project finds, “overwhelmingly focuses on possession crimes — not use.”

The heart of the study’s findings:

From 2010 to 2022, the police made more than 38,000 arrests for illegal gun possession. These arrests — almost always a felony — doubled during this timeframe. While illegal possession is the most serious offense in most of the cases we analyzed, the charges often bear misleading names that imply violence, like “aggravated unlawful use of a weapon.”

Police continue to insist that every gun out of someone’s hands, even if it involves arresting that person and increasing mass incarceration of the nonviolent and highly harming that person’s ability to work and rent in the future, is all for the good; after all, that gun won’t be used by that person to harm anyone. (It is almost always the case that those guns would not have unjustly harmed anyone even minus the arrest and confiscation.)

But there is no particular evidence that harassing or arresting those who have harmed no one has “substantially reduced shootings in Chicago. In fact, as possession arrests skyrocketed, shootings increased, but the percentage of shooting victims where someone was arrested in their case declined,” that latter point a strong indication that mere possession arrests are not a sensible high priority for police for whom gun violence should be their only concern when it comes to guns, not paperwork violations. But the Project found that “nearly 60% of the 31,000 new felony cases pursued by [the state’s attorney of Cook County, Illinois] in the past three years were for illegal gun possession; roughly 4% were for homicides.”

Among the gun arrests the Marshall Project were able to analyze from raw data, “Most people [arrested] had no arrest warrants out, nor were they on supervised release, probation or suspected of being in a gang. In most of the incidents we analyzed, police were not responding to 911 calls about a person with a gun.”

The fight against mere possession becomes a generalized excuse for harassment of citizens: “In arrests where possession was the most severe charge…we found that more than 7 in 10 began with a simple traffic violation. After this initial stop, police often used some other justification for a search. Officers often did this by citing the smell of marijuana. Although Illinois legalized cannabis in 2020, smoking while driving is still prohibited.” And, “in a third of the stops, we found the person arrested had their gun owner’s permit, but not the license that allowed carrying the loaded gun in public.”

The enforcement is hugely disproportionate racially. “Although Black people comprise less than a third of the city’s population, they were more than 8 in 10 of those arrested for unlawful possession in the timeframe we reviewed.” Convictions lead to a year or more in prison, and merely the arrest can mess up the life of someone who has harmed no one via “damning criminal records, time on probation, job loss, legal fees and car impoundments.”

As Reason‘s C.J. Ciaramella has previously reported, the overzealous search for guns owned without proper paperwork has led not just to pretextual traffic stops that ruin innocent people’s lives but to violent raids on homes, often not even the homes where the alleged illegal guns were supposed to be.

As the Marshall Project (who although close-focused on Chicago in this study “identified several other cities with similar trends,” including Houston, New York, Cleveland, Baltimore, and Memphis) quotes one of the victims of gun possession arrests they interviewed, “I’m scared for my life — and I gotta go to prison because I fear for my life, for my family’s safety? Because we’re not fortunate enough to live someplace else?”

March 28

1566 – The foundation stone of Valletta, Malta’s capital city, is laid by Jean Parisot de Valette, Grand Master of the Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem, commonly Knights Hospitaller, since 1798 known as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

1776 – Exploring along the California coastline, Juan Bautista de Anza selects the sites for the Presidio of San Francisco and Mission San Francisco de Asis in present day San Francisco

1918 –  During World War I, General John J. Pershing cancels 42nd ‘Rainbow’ Division’s orders to travel to Rolampont for further training and diverts it to occupy the Baccarat sector of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north eastern France, the first American division in the war to take over an entire sector on its own.

1920 – An outbreak of tornados beginning in the Midwest from just east of Springfield Missouri and spanning further from Illinois, Indiana and down to Georgia results in over 150 people killed and 1200 more injured.

1946 – During the early days of the Cold War, the U.S. Department of State releases the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.

1978 –  In case of Stump v. Sparkman, the Supreme Court hands rules that the judge who made a controversial order of involuntary sterilization of a minor woman, requested by her mother, had personal immunity from a lawsuit.

1979 – Due to a coolant leak at the Three Mile Island’s Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the reactor core overheats and partially melts down.

1990 – President George Bush posthumously awards Olympic champion runner, Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.

2003 – During the invasion of Iraq,  USAF Air National Guard A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft mistake a column of British tanks for a nearby formation of Iraqi tanks, and attacking the British tanks, kills 1 and wounds 5 soldiers.

 

Poor Huffpo.

Heller, McDonald and Bruen are Affecting How State Legislatures View Pending Gun Control Legislation.

[Heller and McDonald] allowed opponents to wage new battles against longstanding gun laws. When District Judge Roger Benitez overturned California’s 34-year-old assault weapons ban two years ago, he pointed to Heller, saying that under the decision, “it is obvious that the California assault weapon ban is unconstitutional.”

Because the Heller ruling applied to guns in common use, the sheer volume of semi-automatic rifles in America protects them under the Second Amendment, according to Mark Oliva, a spokesperson for the National Shooting Sports Federation.

“There are currently 24.4 million of these rifles in circulation today,” Oliva said. “To put that into context for you, there are more of these rifles in circulation today than there are F-150s on the road.” …

Eight more states have laws similar to California’s assault weapons ban that could be affected if the Supreme Court ultimately weighs in.

The expectation that these laws may be doomed is already complicating the politics of passing new ones like them.

In New Mexico, Democratic Gov. Michelle Luján Grisham has repeatedly urged the legislature to send her an assault weapons ban to sign this session, but lawmakers tabled the effort — partly over concerns that it wouldn’t withstand scrutiny in federal court.

“There’s absolutely no point to passing new laws which federal courts will strike down and which are clearly going to be deemed unconstitutional,” state Sen. Joseph Cervantes, a Democrat, tweeted last month.

With those lawsuits still playing out, the future of gun policy remains in flux. But that legal panorama makes it hard to imagine clear lanes for reform in the near future.

“We’re in a very difficult spot with that Bruen ruling,” said Miranda Viscoli, co-president of New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence. “Even though it was only about concealed carry, it’s just made everybody afraid who wants to pass common sense gun violence prevention legislation.”

— Roque Planas and Paul Blumenthal in How the Courts Are Strangling Gun Reform

Nashville murderer identifies as Audrey Hale
Account noted on Linkedin.com as using pronouns “he/him”.

But wait, so it’s a weirdo trans whatever, this means the timeframe it will take to go down the memory hole by the MSM will be measured in hours. I suspect Wednesday at the latest.

Formerly Audrey Hale, Nashville Christian grade school shooter was a transgender Samantha Hyde, 28.
Covenant School Shooting leaves 3 children, 3 adults dead, active shooter suspect identified as 28-year-old Samantha Hyde, of Nashville, TN shoot dead by police

Samantha Hyde Death – Police say 28-year-old Samantha Hyde, of Nashville, Tennessee has passed away after she was shot multiple times by officers. Samantha Hyde died after she arrived at a Christian school armed with a rifle and opened fire, killing six people. The deadly incident left three children and three adults dead on Monday. The suspected shooter was fatally shot by police at Covenant School in the city’s Green Hills neighborhood, authorities said. Officials have not published the victims’ identities or ages, but all three people who were killed worked at the school.

Nashville shooter is “Audrey Hale”, a biological female that identifies as “He/Him” on their LinkedIn. Authorities believe the transgender shooter previously attended the Christian school which means, of course, they deserved it
reports identify the Nashville shooter as “Samantha Hyde” a biological female that identifies as “He/Him” on their LinkedIn. Authorities believe the transgender shooter previously attended the Christian school. The Instagram account “Sam.hydeurkids” has been deleted, but Will be memory-holed as it doesn’t fit the agenda
The gunman was identified as a 28-year-old white woman from Nashville, and she was armed with “at least” two assault weapons and a handgun, according to police. On Monday afternoon, Nashville Police Chief John Drake stated that the three youngsters had been identified and their families had been informed. “For now, I’m not going to mention the ages, other than to say that seeing this and the kids as they were being escorted out of the facility literally moved me to tears,” Drake stated. In the aftermath of the shooting, officials had previously built a reunification facility nearby, where pupils from the school were taken.
According to Drake, police’s early investigation shows that the shooter was once a student at the school. He had no idea when she might have attended. According to Don Aaron, a spokesperson for the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, officers entered the first story of the school building and began clearing it when they heard gunfire on the second level. When the officers moved upstairs and saw the gunman firing, they “engaged” her. He claimed that two of the five responding police officers fatally shot her.
The shooter entered Covenant School through a side entrance and moved from the first to second floors, “shooting many bullets,” according to Aaron. President Joe Biden addressed the attack on Monday afternoon during a broadcast address. “It’s sick,” he admitted. “It breaks my heart. “The greatest nightmare of a family.” Biden stated that the administration is “watching the situation very closely” before urging Congress to adopt his assault weapons ban, as he did following the January mass shooting in Monterey Park, California. “We must do more to prevent gun violence,” he added. “It’s tearing our communities apart and ripping at the very spirit of our country,” Biden concluded. “Our children deserve better.” “We stand, all of us, in prayer with Nashville.”

 

Let me tell you of The Days of High Adventure™

About 20 years ago, AK bought a Remington 700 ADL in .243 Winchester off a co-worker hard up for money. Had a good scope on it, power/brand I can’t remember

Using Remington factory ammo, neither AK, nor I, couldn’t get it to shoot any better than a 6″ group @ 100 yards using the competition level facilities of the Springfield Benchrest Rifle Club at Billings Missouri , even after  checking everything over from the scope mount, to the bedding of the receiver and for any binding of the barrel in the stock plus giving it a preshoot ‘standard’ barrel cleaning with Hoppe’s 9

Leaving only the condition of the bore as the final cause of the crappy grouping, I used the old original model electronic Outers Foul Out and using the solvents for both powder and metallic fouling back and forth over and over, about 4 hours later the device indicated I had a ‘clean’ barrel.

Using the same factory ammo as before, at the same range and shooting bench, I then shot several 3/4″ 3 shot groups at 100 yards. I’ll have to add that AK rose to the challenge and managed to keep a group well within 1″ as well.

While the man in the video is correct that the DOD never regarded metallic fouling to be problematic. The fact behind that is the DOD didn’t and doesn’t care all that much about smallarms barrel life, or the money involved in scrapping a possibly salvageable barrel, because if a barrel develops any accuracy problems, the way the problem is resolved is not fixing the barrel but simply replacing it. Ask me how I know.

The man is also correct about gilding metal jacketing ‘filling in’ the irregularities in a bore, but then makes a leap of illogic that therefore metallic fouling is never a problem. Of course he then goes crackpot by calling those who don’t go along with his belief liars.

The man has come to his opinions from his long, but apparently narrow experience. Take them for what they are.

Nashville shooting: White House presses GOP on assault-style weapons ban

President Joe Biden is seeking to put pressure on congressional Republicans to pass an assault weapons ban after three children and three adults were killed during a school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee.

“He wants Congress to act because enough is enough,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Monday. “How many more children have to be murdered before Republicans in Congress will step up and act to pass the assault weapons ban?”

Schools should be “safe spaces for our kids to grow and learn and for our educators to teach,” Jean-Pierre said, adding Biden had been briefed on the situation and that the White House is coordinating with the Justice Department and local officials. She defended Biden’s gun-related executive orders and the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which incentivized states to introduce so-called red flag laws.

“I don’t have the data” on the effectiveness of Biden’s unilateral action, the press secretary said.

Biden will address the shooting at a small-business event Monday afternoon, she added.

Six people are dead, as well as the shooter, after a 28-year-old woman opened fire with two assault-type rifles and a handgun Monday morning at the Covenant School, a private Christian school in Nashville.

32 states and counting: Why parents bills of rights are sweeping US.

When it comes to parental bills of rights, not all legislation is created equal.

The House on Friday narrowly passed House Resolution 5, known as the Parents Bill of Rights Act, which would amend existing federal education laws. A Parental Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution also has been proposed.

Multiple pieces of proposed legislation at the state level seek broad protections for parents, using language such as to “direct the upbringing” of their children. A bill in Arkansas, meanwhile, revolves around medical records when a child is removed from parental or guardian custody. And legislation in Connecticut would create a bill of rights for parents of students learning English as a second language.

WHY WE WROTE THIS

A desire for parents to have greater say in the education of their children has resulted in a tangle of partisan wars and policy changes.

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USA Today actually frames scope of mass shootings correctly

When it comes to framing the discussion around mass shootings, USA Today has a, well, let’s call it a spotty track record. After all, they’re the same ones who thought the chainsaw bayonet was an actual, common thing that people attach to their AR-15s.

That doesn’t help their credibility in the least.

Yet it seems they’re trying to do better. For example, a recent story actually gets a few things right with regard to the awful tragedy of children being killed by gunshots. Basically, school shootings aren’t as big of an issue as many think.

More than two-thirds of parents worry a shooting could happen at their children’s school, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. But home is a far more dangerous place for kids.

In the five years ending in 2022, at least 866 kids ages 17 and younger were shot in domestic violence incidents, according to an analysis by The Trace of data from the nonprofit Gun Violence Archive; 621 of them died. In that same time frame, 268 children were shot at school, 75 of them fatally, according to an analysis of data from the CHDS School Shooting Safety Compendium, a federally funded tracker launched after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in 2018.

All told, three times as many children were shot in domestic violence incidents as in school shootings and eight times as many died. The majority of those children were intentionally shot by a parent, stepparent or guardian – the very people expected to protect them.

Now, don’t think this is a pro-gun or even gun-neutral article. The author works for The Trace, so you know it’s still anti-gun.

However, the truth of the matter is that whole mass shootings get a lot of attention, they’re a small fraction of the violence that can claim a life.

That applies to kids as well.

Where the author doesn’t really step up, though, is in telling you there are 73.6 million children in the United States.

While the loss of any child is tragic, the truth is that those numbers above are for a five-year span, so if you break it down annually, things look different.

Take these domestic shootings, for example. That’s 173.2 per year.

According to the CDC, in 2020, 607 kids were killed in car accidents. That puts those numbers in stark contrast.

None of this is to say that we don’t have an issue. The idea of any parent or guardian killing the child in their charge is troubling, to say the least. It’s representative of a very real problem, one we need to address as a nation in some way, shape, or form.

However, additional gun regulations–something the author does seem to favor later in the piece–aren’t likely to keep children alive. After all, a violent parent or guardian has alternatives for taking a child’s life if that’s what they want to do.

It makes more sense to deal with this at the source in the first place by addressing the reasons for domestic violence. Undermine that and you have nothing to worry about going forward.

Well, by now you’ve heard about the shooting at the Presbyterian school at Nashville by a so far unnamed, but identified 28 year old woman who apparently was a former student.

I have no words to express my sadness at the death of the children and the staff of the school. I hope the lessons that will be learned will be taken to heart by other schools and  be used to increase their security.

A Re-Declaration of Independence.
Tyranny is already upon us. To defeat it, we must first learn to reject its premises. And to say so aloud.

Be it so understood:

I refuse to “unpack white violence.” I reject the idea that my existence “perpetuates white power structures.” I will not — and in fact cannot — “examine my implicit biases.” I’m an individual. I refuse to grant determined interpretive communities authority over my being. My meaning is mine. It is what makes me me.

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I’m not taking any “journey” to “discover” the impact of my “privilege” on “black and brown peoples.” I will not become “anti-racist” or “anti-fascist” to satisfy your demands. I reject Cultural Marxism. I am an individual. I’m not defined by my color, my religion, my sex. I’m Jeff.

I will not “respect your pronouns” or “celebrate” your “queerness.” I am hostile to your sexualizing of children. I reject your neologisms, your “triggers,” and your desire to control my speech. I know who and what you are: you are my presumptive master, or else the Useful Idiot who empowers him. But I will grant you and your ideology no power over me.

I reject “equity” because it is collectivism disguised as virtue. I reject “inclusivity” because it is inorganic, superficial, and contrived. I reject mandated “diversity”: I will not surrender to the Crayon Box Mafia, nor to the gender changelings who pretend I am a construct answerable to their whims.

“Cultural appropriation” is merely culture: it expands to include, and it makes up the very fabric of a pluralist society. There’s no such thing as “digital blackface.” My whiteness is not “violent”; my sex is not “oppressive”; my religion doesn’t concern you; and my children are not yours to mold. Your beliefs will not be imposed on me. The State will not parent my sons.

“Queer theory” is “critical race theory” is “critical consciousness” is the Marxist rejection of the individual as individual. Cultural Marxism is determined to raze norms, sow chaos, tear families asunder, and reduce being to collective conformity. I reject its premises as fully as I reject its adherents. I will not comply.

I will not mouth your slogans. I will not denounce on command. I am not your tool, and you are not my minder. I reject your social hectoring. I find abhorrent your authoritarian urges. I laugh at your disingenuous outrage. From me you will receive no apologies. I reject your premises entirely, and I hereby reclaim my time.

My speech is my own. I reject each of your excuses to silence me. I don’t ask for your protections. I can filter information without your interference, and I despise your presumption to protect me from myself.

I am your sworn enemy, as you are mine. I will not perform for you. I will not read from your script or dance in your follies. I utterly reject your revisionism, your ahistorical impertinence, your presentism, your self-appointed expertise. I will not bow before your theorists, nor admire your social prophets.

I am not a disease. My existence doesn’t “warm the planet.” I’m not interested in your “sustainability” concerns. I am not yours to manage.

I won’t eat your bugs, live in your pods, surrender my cars, or without consent be packed into your cities. I reject your charity. I unmask your intentions. I know what a woman is; I know that any member of any racial group can practice racism; I know that 2+2=4, regardless of how contingent you wish to make reality. I despise your ideology. I refuse your relativism. You are not the Elect, and I am not answerable to the various neuroses you wear as badges of honor.

I know you better than you know yourselves. You are conditioned. Programmed. Automotons who believe themselves sentient beings. Your intolerance of “hate” is not a virtue. It’s a ruse. An excuse to practice your own intolerance and luxuriate in your own hatreds. You are a self-fulfilling prophecy. You are that which you claim to despise, and I am that which you claim to be.

I see you. Clearly. And I aim to misbehave.

I strive to be self-sufficient. I honor the founding ideals of my country, and I work to live up to their measure. I recognize the great fortune of my birth. History does not frighten me. I reject your blood libels: I am not responsible for that which I didn’t do, nor are you victims of what was never done to you. I will not proclaim your goodness while knowing your evil.

I am a free man. You wish to take me from me. You will fail. I will win. And God willing, I will live to spit on your graves.

Outlaw.

 

Best Response to Global Warming is to Do ‘Nothing’, MIT Climate Scientist Says

MIT climate scientist Dr. Richard Lindzen said this week that humanity should do “nothing” about global warming and should focus instead on “resilience.”

In a March 21 interview with Andrew Bolt of Sky News Australia, Lindzen — an atmospheric physicist and emeritus professor of meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) — declared that climate alarmism “is exploiting people’s ignorance to promote fear and use it as a lever.”

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said last week, for instance, that “warp speed climate action” is urgently needed to stave off the coming climate Armageddon. Every country “must massively fast-track climate efforts,” Guterres declared, because the “climate time-bomb is ticking.”

“We need climate action on all fronts — everything, everywhere, all at once,” Guterres urged.

According to Lindzen, such alarmism is not shared by the bulk of the scientific community.

“A large number of scientists are saying, yes, indeed, it’s warming,” Lindzen acknowledged. “And they might even add that perhaps there is a matter of concern. Relatively few that I know of who even support the narrative would ever say that this is involving an existential threat.”

Asked point blank, “What do you think we should do about global warming?” Lindzen replied: “Nothing.”

Lindzen, known for his research on the dynamics of the atmosphere, including the study of atmospheric tides and the interactions between the atmosphere and the oceans, said that there is “pretty universal agreement” that “if the whole Anglosphere and the European Union were to shut down completely, bury all industrial activity so we don’t generate CO2 … its impact on climate would be negligible.”

“The rest of the world is going to continue and they’re now dominating emissions,” he explained. “So no matter what you believe about climate, our actions will do nothing about climate.”

The professor went on to say that in terms of policy, “If you truly believed that it was an existential threat, then the only thing you could do is build up your resilience.”

Building up your resilience “means making more, having people wealthier, because we see throughout the whole world if you are a poor country, if you’re not resilient, natural disasters cause immense damage, pain, suffering, so on,” he said.

“In the developed world, similar disasters cause much less damage,” he added. “So your aim would be resilience. Instead, we’re choosing to make ourselves less resilient. And that makes no sense at all, no matter what you believe.”

“Point of fact, I don’t think there’s any threat on the horizon. And the best thing to do is to make society wealthier,” he concluded.

Lindzen has argued forcefully that the human-induced effects of greenhouse gases on the climate are overstated and that natural variability plays a larger role in climate change than is typically acknowledged.

He has also contended that the scientific community is too quick to attribute changes in the climate to human activity and that more research is needed to fully understand the complexities of the earth’s climate system.

March 27

1513 – Spanish Conquistador Juan Ponce de León reaches the northern end of the Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida.

1794 – The United States establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of 6 frigates.

1814 – During the War of 1812, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Red Sticks, a part of the Creek Indian tribe, at the Battle of Horseshow Bend of Tallapoosa River in central Alabama, effectively ending the Creek nation’s involvement in the War.

1836 – During the Texas Revolution, on the orders of General Antonio López de Santa Anna, the Mexican army massacres 342 Texas prisoners of war at Goliad, Texas.

1866 – President Andrew Johnson vetoes the Civil Rights Act of 1866. His veto is overridden by Congress and the bill passes into law on April 9.

1886 – During surrender negotiations between Geronimo and U.S. Army General George Crook, photographer C. S. Fly takes several pictures of Geronimo and his band,  the only known photographs taken of American Indians while still at war with the United States.

1899 – Emilio Aguinaldo, age 30, the first and youngest President of the Philippines, leads Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine–American War, being defeated at the Battle of Marilao River.

1915 – Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the U.S. is put in quarantine for the second time, and for the rest of her life.

1943 – U.S. Navy Task Group 16.6 intercepts, engages and forces a withdrawal of Japanese ships off the Soviet Komandorski Islands that were attempting to reinforce the occupying Japanese garrison at Kiska Island.

1964 – The most powerful earthquake recorded in North American history,  at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes Southcentral Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.

1975 – Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.

1976 – The first section of the Washington D.C. Metro rail system opens to the public.

1977 – On Tenerife,  in the Canary Islands, KLM Flight 4805 and Pan Am Flight 1736, both Boeing 747 airliners, collide on the airport’s main runway, killing all 248 passengers and crew aboard the KLM plane, and 335 of the 396 passengers and crew aboard the Pan Am plane. This is still the deadliest aviation accident in history.

1990 – The U.S. begins broadcasting anti-Castro propaganda to Cuba on TV Martí.

1999 – Over Kosovo, a USAF Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk, piloted by LTC. Darrell Zelko is shot down by the Yugoslav 3rd Brigade of the 250th Air Defense Missile Brigade firing a S-125 Neva SAM-3, the first and only F-117 to be lost in combat.

2000 – A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills 1 person and injures 71 other people.

2002 – A Palestinian moslem terrorist suicide bomber kills 29 people at a Passover seder in Netanya, Israel.

2020 – The nation of North Macedonia becomes the 30th member of NATO.