I Hope The Border Patrol Agent...

 ...who shot the man in Minneapolis (more at one of many sources) had probable cause or at least a reasonable suspicion to believe that the man, Alex J. Pettri, whom he shot, was posing a threat of imminent serious bodily harm or death to the law enforcement officers. I find it questionable in an objective manner.  Why do I find it questionable:

 

 First I must say, I think, there was plenty of evidence that the man was resisting arrest. Secondly, he seemingly attacked the officers or at least attempted to assist another person whom the LE officers were either trying to arrest or otherwise subdue. That seems very obvious from all of the videos I have seen of the event. Third, he allegedly was armed with a semi-automatic pistol. He reportedly was within his rights to do so but in my estimation was extremely foolish to have carried the pistol to an anti-ICE demonstration and then to get physically involved, evidently in a violent manner, in the way in which he did involve himself in a law enforcement operation. Fourth, the officer who fired the shots, evidently told his superiors that he feared for his life or limb or for that of the other LE officers present. I would guess, and as I just said this is a guess, that he thought the guy was going for his own pistol or if he had been disarmed as I have read elsewhere, then maybe he reached for one of the officer's guns or some other weapon. I can only guess because it could not be seen in any video that I have watched nor has the government released a statement from the BPA. Let me repeat something, I did not see a weapon in Mr. Pettri's hand(s) nor did I see him reach for an officer's weapon. That does not mean that he did not do so, it merely means I could not tell from watching a few videos if he did so. Fifth, no one from the government, like the chief Border Patrol Agent Bovino nor DHS Secretary Noem said that Mr. Pettri drew his weapon, attempted to draw his firearm or tried to snatch away an officer's weapon. Had he done so, it would have behooved government officials to come right out and say so but they did not and I must wonder - why not! Instead, Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino stated that because Mr. Pettri had a pistol and two loaded magazines it seemed to him that Mr. Pettri had gone to the demonstration to do maximum carnage to federal agents. DHS Secretary Noem essentially said the same thing later on. Now, I have to shake my head in disbelief that even one of them said that with little to no evidence to back that up. Let's face it, if such had been the case, why did Mr. Pettri not just draw and start firing at the officers and agents when he first saw them pushing down the other person with whom they had interacted? Yes, it could have been the case, that Mr. Pettri was armed  and had planned a premeditated deadly attack on the agents but I for one would certainly like to see proof of that instead of hearing what may well have been the biggest line of bullshit I have heard in years. I am not saying it definitely was bullshit, it actually could have been the case, but what is that claim based upon. The fact is Mr. Pettri, did not start shooting anyone. That is not to say that he did not pose an imminent threat of serious bodily harm or death to the officers and agents at the time he was shot. It is me just saying that is something that needs evidence, evidence other than that of him carrying a weapon that he was legally allowed to carry even if he foolishly carried it to such a protest. Sixth, where are the body camera videos of the altercation? Were the agents & officers not wearing body cameras, not even one of them? Seventh, what statements about the shooting were made by the BPA who fired the shots? Eighth, what statements were made by the other LE officers & agents who were involved? The list goes on and on of questions that need answers and evidence to back up the answers. What is not needed are statements from government officials saying that Mr. Pettri went to the demonstration looking to create havoc & carnage by shooting government officials, at least not without much more evidence to back up statements like that because it makes it appear as if the government maybe is covering for an unlawful shooting. Same goes for calling Mr.Pettri a homegrown terrorist as DHS Secretary Noem did in sum and substance.

 

Now do not get me wrong, both the governor of MN and the mayor of Minneapolis almost immediately condemned the shooting in essence indicating the BPA who fired the shots is guilty of an unlawful shooting as in a murder. Where is the evidence of that! They essentially indicated that Mr. Pettri did absolutely nothing wrong even in the face of video evidence showing he apparently impeded the federal agents & officers from carrying out their lawful duties. The videos showed the officers using less than lethal force in trying to subdue Mr. Pettri. Only after multiple attempts to subdue him were shots fired. If the officer was a murderer why did he wait so long to shoot - do you think maybe he had good reason (probable cause) for the agent to think there was an imminent threat of serious bodily injury or death to himself or other officials?

 

I don't have the answers but someone in the federal government had better come forth with the answers post haste, and those in state and local government should keep their hateful mouths shut until they have actual evidence to back up what they are saying. Otherwise, there is going to be more and more violence aimed at the agents & officers who are attempting to carry out their duties in rounding up, arresting illegal aliens (not immigrants), with the ultimate goal of deporting or imprisoning them. As it stands right now, this is one of the biggest cluster fuck I have seen in years.

 

All the best,

Glenn B  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have Not Posted In A While...

 ...because, to tell the truth, it pains me to see and even more so to think about what has been going on in this country of ours, especially in Minnesota. 

 

I will write about it briefly here but hope to stop long before mu stomach churns and I wind up barfing on my laptop.

 

The Democrats, leftists, liberals or whatever you want to call them have gone completely insane and I use the word insane in its legal sense. They no longer have a grip of the difference between right and wrong. This has been spurred on by Democrat politicians, the main stream media (aka: the mud slinging media and MSM) and allegedly from what I have heard by financiers like George Soros.

 

When a federal law enforcement officer defends himself against a potentially deadly attack in which a motor vehicle was essentially used like a guided missile, by the driver, who aimed it at him, then actually struck him and caused injuries. The extent of the injuries did not matter, what matters was that he perceived, in fact had probably cause to believe, the threat as one that could cause cause serious bodily injury or death to himself.  It did not not matter if he actually sustained actual minor or serious, he was 100% right to apply deadly force against his attacker - because of the the threat of imminent deadly force being used against him. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind about that. I very likely would have done the same. He is backed up by several videos, including one showing him being struck by the vehicle.

 

As far as I am aware, he has not received any support from a single democrat politician in Minneapolis, nor in the whole state of Minnesota; He also has not received support from the MSM, instead they seem to be trying to crucify him. The governor of MN said they will prosecute him - I ask for what - for self defense. If so, I challenge the governor to stand in front of an SUV while I drive it toward him (let's see if he thinks his life is in danger. Of course, that is a hypothetical situation. If I actually could run such a test, I would never drive the vehicle into him, nor would I suggest or condone anyone else doing it, as that woman did to the ICE officer. Afterwards, I'd have a lie detector test administered to the governor to ask him if he thought his life was in danger). I'd do the same thing, remember this is hypothetical, to the mayor. To make it interesting though, at the last moment of me starting to drive, I'd have a guy in a MAGA and tee-shirt, carrying an American flag, start screaming death to liberals, pull me from the vehicle, hop into it and then have him drive it toward, in my opinion, two of the most disgusting political hacks I have ever seen. I'd bet my life savings I could tell you the results of both lie detector tests if only because of the brown stains coming through the backsides of their pants.

 

Then there was the cameraman whom a crowd of liberal agitators/rioters confronted accusing him of being an ICE agent and had him apparently cowering in fear because he drove an SUV. One woman told him he had best drive another type of vehicle. Now they are doing exactly that of which they accuse ICE. Not only are they insane, in my estimation, but this shows I think that they are bat-shit crazy as well.  

 

Then there was the gang of them that entered a church during Sunday mass and harassed the worshipers. Talk about Nazi/Fascist tactics. I'd love to see them try that in a Red State. I find it a crying shame that the church goers did not beat the ever loving shit out of them - again, I am not suggesting anyone do so nor condoning such actions - yet it would have given me some satisfaction to have seen them get their arses whooped. I am a true believe in 'do unto others as you would have them do unto you' and if that is what they believe and are doing then it maybe, hypothetically at least, should come right back at them. As it is right now the Department of Justice is promising justice will be done over what appears to me to be an apparent civil rights violation.

 

Meanwhile, from what I heard on the radio news today, Tampon Tim (yes the governor of MN) has not even mentioned the cameraman being harassed nor the invasion of the church by liberal scum. Why not, well two reasons I would guess he has not mentioned it, as of when I heard the news: First of all he want to keep up his support of the rioters and agitators to deflect from his suspected involvement in 

Somaliagate, and secondly he is an absolute leftist anti- law and order kind of a guy in my estimation. I think, the same goes for the mayor of Minneapolis.

 

It truly all makes me sick; the fact these so called agitators and or rioters and their quest to invoke communism, socialism and anarchy by repeatedly violating the law and opposing enforcement of our laws, while in support of illegal aliens - all while opposing (often violently) the duly elected president of the United States of America Donald Trump, makes me want to puke.

 

All the best,

Glenn B 

 

 

Ignorance Is Bliss Until...

 ...someone gets nasty in defending it. Then it is just downright annoying. Take for example the guy who was at one of my tables at a local gun show last week. He was an old timer, probably well into his eighties, or at least his late seventies. He was talking to another younger guy who was with him while picking up several boxes of ammo I had for sale. As he did so with each, he mentioned the bullet grain weight written on each box, to his buddy. With one, it was apparently too small for him to read so he asked me what was the number on the box. He specifically asked me how much is the powder weighg of the cartridges.

WEll, my ignorance shone through at that moment when I said I had no clue. He said, it's right here on the box. I looked at where he had pointed on the box and I politely said that is the bullet weight. He immediately snapped back at me and in a huffy tone corrected me by insisting it was the powder weight. He then guffawed and told the guy with him it is the powder weight and that he has known that for sure for many years. He then turned to me and told me the same with another guffaw while yet again, in a not nice tone, insisted it was the powder weight. I just said, no sir that is the bullet weight. He laughed at me and my reply and insisted it was the bullet weight and mumbled something about him being a reloader. His laugh and tone of voice were not jocular nor friendly, they were a laugh and tone that you send someone's way when you are amazed by their ignorance or outrighg stupidity. 

 

I repeated myself once more in a polite way and he just laughed that laugh at me again and said he has known for years it was the powder weight. I was about to either look it up on the Internet, using my phone, to show him, but I think his buddy whispered something to him and he walked away after that saying he must have been wrong all those years. He said that as if he was dismissing an ignoramus, that being me.

 

Sometimes it is difficult to deal with potential customers in as much as staying cool and polite goes. He was one of those customers.  Another few verbal barbs from him and I would have told him to shove his smug attitude up his hole into where the sun does not shine. 

 

Now, I will admit, he had me wondering who was right, and  even though I was 99.9% sure it was me, I checked on the web. Turns out the grain weight listed on every box of brand name ammo, that I had at the show, was the bullet weight not the powder weight. I am wondering when I will read the news that a reloader in AR blew off his hands when his gun exloded.

 

All the best,

Glenn B 

True Grit - Leonard A. Funk - I Thought It All AI Balderdash...

 ...at first, when I was watching a video on YouTube. It is a long video, at least long for me to watch. Regardless of me at first thinking it phony, I watched and listened intently because it was a great story. It was a story about what real American heroes are made of; and if Leonard A. Funk was not an American hero, then no one was one. 

 

Watch the video, it's long like I said, about a half hour, but it seems to be true - at least all the parts of the actions he took under the conditions described.Whether or not he laughed in the German Officer's face, while having a machine gun pointed at his gut, that might be questionable and requires more searching but I, for one, would like to believe it true. Why? Because if that ain't what an American hero with true grit would do, then no one, anywhere or at any time, has ever done anything like it. By the way, I know he earned the Medal Of Honor, for the actions against the Germans as described in the video. Of that there is no question; I searched out his medal citation. He also won the several other medals mentioned awarded him by the USA (I saw them listed on his Tombstone in a photo independent of the video). I am guessing he was awarded the European ones as well. 

 

 

This guy had it all: guts, know how, ability, opportunity, motive (The Malmedy Massacre) and an excellent tool to do the job. He also actually had true grit, even the most brave among mankind probably would have surrendered in that situation; yet, he was determined and he persevered taking control and winning the battle.

 

Below is a link to his Medal Of Honor citation. If you do not believe the video read the citation: https://www.cmohs.org/recipients/leonard-a-funk. Below is a photo of him circa 1945, source Wikipedia. 

 

 

 

He also, as the video said & from what I found on Wikipedia, worked for the VA after he was honorably discharged from the army and he died as said of cancer at too young an age for a hero to die. I can only imagine what went through his own mind, let alone those of the German officer and the German troops as he started and kept on laughing. I have laughed like that before, uncontrollably, while caught in an absurd unwinnable situation that did not befit laughter, but certainly not under those conditions with a gun to my belly while facing odds like he faced.

 

We need more folks like him in this country, heck in the world. The truly odd thing is, I do not recall ever hearing of him before. Had you ever heard of him before seeing this post? Sure, as the video indicated - we have all heard of Audie Murphy and Sgt. Alvin York but of Leonard A. Funk??? Well, I may have heard of him way back, then again maybe not - I am just uncertain; yet, I am pretty sure I had heard the Truman quote before. So, maybe I heard of Funk too. Still though, I do not recall hearing about his amazing story ever before. I am an old geezer now and have forgotten more than many people have ever learned but I think if I had heard of him and that battle before, I'd remember - both him and his story are just that fantastic.

 

All the best,

Glenn B