Random Thoughts
Random Thoughts. We all have them. Here are a few of mine from the last few days:
Judge Shopping
If you are a leftist and you want a favorable judicial ruling, you go to San Francisco Federal Court to file your lawsuit. Remember that bad cases make bad case law. You know that at the SF Federal Court, you will get a reliable leftist activist 
judge (because they all are), to hear your case and rule in your favor.
Causing the adults in the room to spend years and possibly millions of dollars to get the case to the US Supreme Court to get it corrected. But if you are a conservative, you go somewhere like the Northern District of Texas where there is only one Judge, who happens to be pro-freedom, and he will rule in your favor.
Funny that now Senator Chuck “U” Schumer wants to make sure you can’t do that. He wants to force those lower court districts to have more than one judge. Hat’s off to Attorney Mark Smith at the Four Boxes Diner in his YouTube video “Anti-Gun Senator Tries to Stop 2A “Judge Shopping”“. He pointed out this bit of backroom arm twisting. The linked video is worth watching if you want to know how the sausage is made.
Fake Data?
Professor John Lott, PhD. sends out a weekly email newsletter. This week’s newsletter was incredible because it highlighted two things:
- underreporting of crime since Covid
- that 92% of violent crime does not include the use of a firearm!
This new research, I think is really important. The American news media has been working overtime to convince people that violent crime is dramatically falling, and castigating Americans for falsely believing that crime is increasing. However, new research shows that Americans are right and the media is wrong.
Arrest rates have plummeted since COVID. In 2022, only 20% of reported violent crimes, and 4.5% of reported property crimes in cities with over one million people, resulted in an arrest. As arrest rates have fallen, people have been less likely to report crimes to police. This led to criminals committing more crimes, as they have little to worry about. The end result is that reported crimes have fallen even as total crimes have risen. To show how law enforcement is collapsing in these large cities, only 8% of all violent crimes and 1.4% of property crimes result in an arrest.
But, there is a big problem with using the FBI Uniform Crime Report data on crimes reported to police because victims don’t report most crimes. More importantly, the number of crimes reported to police falls as the arrest rate declines. If people don’t think the police will solve their cases, they are less likely to report them to the police. While the violent crime rate reported to police fell by 1.7% between 2021 and 2022, the National Crime Victimization Survey shows that total violent crime (reported and non-reported) rose from 16.5 to 23.5 per 100,000. Violent crime in 2022 was above the rate the last year before the pandemic in 2019 and above the average for the five years from 2015 to 2019.
Professor Lott’s article is linked here for you to read: “The Collapse in Law Enforcement: As Arrest Rates Plummet, People Have Been Less Willing to Report Crime“.
Additional research, also from John R Lott, PhD, shows that over 92% of violent crimes over the last eight years ending in 2022, did not involve guns. It doesn’t exactly fit the frequent claim that violent crime is a gun problem.
I hope you will look at this. And, so that it gets a lot of attention, please share it: “Percent of Violent Crime Not Involving Guns Falls Slightly, Averages 92.1% Over Last Eight Years“.
October 7th, Can It Happen Here?
The short answer is YES! And I fully expect it will while we have such a weak and compromised President in the White House. TownHall.com editor and author Kurt Schlichter wrote a piece on March 25th, 2024 that you should read. “America is Going to Be Targeted for a Massive Terrorist Attack, Will You Be Ready? Describing an October 7th type of attack, I know I am ready and I hope you will be too. Please stay Ready at All Times. Be it ChiCom or ISIS, you are America’s first responders. But then, we are Iowans and we are used to taking care of business.
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Shoot Straight, Speak The Truth, and Never Surrender Our Liberties.
Dave Funk
President
Iowa Firearms Coalition
Dave is 100% correct! Are You Ready? IT, is coming your way! What about your elected legislators, what do YOU know about them? We live in one of the Bluest sections of town.
Our State Senator is opposed to firearms in ANY way, shape or form…in any place, for any reason. She has told us so on many occasions! Confiscation is her goal. She would prefer to see us dead rather than being able to defend ourselves!
Our State Representative is one of those Fat FemBoys who would sell you and your family to Hamas NOW. That is what we know about our politicians in the Capitol. Elections are coming, we will exercise our rights to kick their miserable carcasses into the street.
What about YOU, what do you know about your politicians? The IFC knows about each and every one. Elections are coming, will you stand up and do the right thing? The “Right Thing” includes your membership in “The IFC”. Renew your membership, make your voice heard, support The IFC…NOW!
Very well said. I just pray that more people will take the blinders off so they can see the truth for themselves. The level of lies and hate the left spread is mind numbing. My family from way back were democrats I believe it was because thats what Grandpa was and by golly you should all be that way. My oldest brother switched to republican when Regan was running. And it started me thinking that hey why can’t we vote for the other guy. And years later I switched to republican I don’t remember who was running at the time. I just remember looking at both sides and really listened to what each one said and looked at the party performance over the years. And made a informed decision and became a republican because I believed that they were better for the country. To many people blindly do what a friend or family member does and they don’t think for themselves. It is the same with the talk of gun control. Anyone who has a mind can tell the only thing that the democrats want is to control the people. They know all the ideas they talk about for saving the children has nothing to do with saving them. It’s about control of the only people who will obey their bad laws. Criminals never obey laws. You want to stop school shootings so do I. The only way to do it is by making them a hard target. And for a side note they cry save our children but say it’s OK to murder them when they are not born yet and can not protest to save their lives. All children should and must be protected weather they are in schools or the womb! Thanks for reading