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I like the folks at Powerline who have been blogging as long or longer than I have but in their review of the gun control “deal” there are some questions so obvious that I find it incredible that they are not asking them:

Investment in Children and Family Mental Health Services

What does this actually mean? Does it mean what it usually does basically a slush fund for various liberal NGO’s and funding activists? Does “Drag Queen Story Hour” qualify as such an investment?

Under 21 Enhanced Review Process

Will such a review be simply a check of juvenile court records or will it be something more? Will it check to see if an under 18, say , tweeted something against Gay Marriage? Objected to multiple pronouns? Insisted there were only two genders? Why would you think the left would not use these as part of such a review process?

Intervention Orders

Why does Powerline think the “more libs on the public payroll” which is the phrasing they use will not use this for interventions again as above? Why do they think these same libs are letting people go based on Race and have held the J6 defendants for over a year and are using political prosecutions against political foes will use this honesty?

Funding for School Safety Resources

What does this actually mean? Who determines what these resources are and how they provide safety? Given that the left’s pols can’t define “man” or “woman” how can we trust them to define “school safety recourse” in such a way as to fund their agenda or determine that any type of conservative thought, expression or action is “unsafe”?

And last but not least:

” it could have been a lot worse. ” (emphasis mine)

Seriously? During a year when the dishonest and dishonorable left are running for the hills is our standard for passing a hodgepodge of “gimmes” for the left that “it could have been a lot worse?” Are we really going to pass regulations that are going to be expanded and amended over the year in order to weaponize these rules against conservatives? Why are we going to trust these people who won’t condemn or even talk about the attempted murder of a Conservative SCOTUS to apply these rules fairly? And if you choose to argue that the Democrats who are negotiating this deal are not the crazies, why do you think that these folks who are too cowardly to stand up to their crazies now will do so when the chips are down?

If you want to know how we should deal with the left’s demands on gun control we should give them the same answer that Michael Corleone gave to the Senator trying to shake him down.

Until we see actual evidence of good faith from Democrats give them nothing. ignore their proposals, their demands. I’ll give the last work to Kurt:

 The left can only impose its will when it convinces us to choose to let them do so. They have to make us care. Look at them. They are a gaggle of mutated misfits, neurotic chicks, academic parasites, grievance hustlers, and femmy doofuses who can’t do a push-up. They can force nothing on us. That’s why they attempt to enlist the power of the state to do it for them, but their real power comes from us going along

Update: Ok I know this is going up at the same time as the base post but I added it after it was ready to be scheduled and it perfectly illustrates why we don’t need to give them a thing:

A passerby saw a man “aggressively” trying to get into the school building. When the man was unsuccessful, he tried several other doors, all of which were locked. The responsible observer called to report the man, the school principal put the building on lockdown and called in a police officer who doubles as the school resource officer, and that officer called for backup. If the reports are correct, the chain of command worked smoothly thanks to decisive action and quickly followed protocols.

The resource officer reportedly engaged the would-be invader, who then also allegedly attempted to forcefully enter a marked police vehicle and to take the officer’s gun. More police officers rushed to the scene to help, and the assailant was shot and killed. According to the city’s school superintendent, the schoolchildren who were there “seemed to be unaware the incident occurred.”

In other words, a man who “aggressively” tried to break into a school and take the firearm of a police officer was stopped because doors were properly locked and police officers acted bravely and urgently.

We know how to stop these guys but that’s not the goal of the left, it never has been.

Nothing says: “I care more about what people think of me than the people I supposedly take care of.” like a priest encouraging someone in mortal sin to receive communion.

Justin Bieber talked about Ramsey Hunt Syndrome. I had it once a few years ago. I had just left the doctors and gone to lunch when suddenly I was having trouble drinking from my straw. My wife came out the bathroom, took one look at me and rushed me back to the doctor who sent me to Worcester. It really stinks and it took weeks for me to be back to my normal self. I wish him luck.

When I see the left go nuts on the Jan 6th committee and not say a word about the attempted Assassination of Justice Kavanaugh all I can think of is the renegade Englishman on the French Prize ship in the book Commodore Hornblower in a dead panic as the British longboat is about to board her ignoring his false warnings of Smallpox. The left is in a dead panic over what is coming and can’t deal. They are going to get a lot more violent before they implode. It will not be pretty.

This story at Instapundit about Boston about to go full “Defund the Police” really worries me. One of the real accomplishments of the Baker administration has been to prevent the insanity that has turned California unlivable from migrating here. There has already been a short term migration to places like my city as people run from Boston. If they go the whole hog then I really will be able to get 2 mil for my house because people will be desperate to escape. Glad I saw the Sox earlier this month because if this goes through I won’t be going back.

Seriously “Sudden Adult Death Syndrome” SADS? A disease that we never saw before the Vaccine? Why not be honest and call it “Vaccine Suddenly Kills you” VSKY” and be done with it. The degree that people are willing to lie to themselves to avoid the obvious when it’s uncomfortable never ceases to amaze me.