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The Answer to Sam Zeil’s White House Question: Why we can buy “weapons of war” at the local store

I was impressed with the 18-year-old Sam Zeif who spoke at the White House after the Parkland, Florida school shooting. He lost his best friend and was very sad about it. He spoke very intelligently and was extremely articulate. But he asked a question that deserves an answer, and a lot of people who don’t shoot much, or understand the philosophic premise of the Second Amendment are asking the same question. Young Zeif said it a couple of times, he wanted to know why he could still buy “weapons of war” at the store and suggested that we’d all be better off if America adopted a similar policy as Australia—and had a general gun confiscation policy. I heard that and a natural tension went up my spine wanting to defend the basic assumption. However, I don’t blame the kids so much for not understanding the scope of the situation, they have learned it in their schools and in the temperament of their intuitional interaction. Yet most gun owners know and understand otherwise, and that knowledge is often traditionally transferred from generation to generation for a reason that is specific to American culture and is why we can go to the store and buy weapons of war. Young Sam apparently has not had the benefit of this generational exchange, so I’ll offer it here for him and those of a like mind.

Whenever I buy a new gun it is always a magical experience. I love every single new one and the thrill of it never stops. Guns always represent power and strength and the bigger and meaner the better. Being weapons of war is a very foundational way to look at them, but what they represent is aggression and defense. Yet ultimately, they stand for freedom, freedom from aggression, freedom from authoritarian rule, freedom from any sinister forces that might want to steer your life in a direction of their choosing, not yours. Having big, mean, powerful guns means you are on equal terms with even the most vicious aggressor out there in the world that may have ill intentions toward you, and having an option against those forces brings about freedom that only a gun can yield.

The world that many rock stars have sung about, and what Sam Zeif by default articulated does not exist. There is no institution in the world that is completely trustworthy, especially with our lives. We may wish for that to be the case, but even in the Parkland school shooting there were so many hired people who failed from the institutional point of view that no reasonable argument in their defense can be made. We would be fools to trust completely that the FBI would do their jobs 100% of the time. We’d be idiots to assume that local law enforcement will get it right in every circumstance. In the Parkland shooting there are reports now that up to four officers near the incident failed to confront the shooter, so even those officially sanctioned to use guns get it wrong a lot of the time—more than is acceptable. That doesn’t mean we should scrap our society into anarchy, but it does mean that we need another layer of security in our lives that is individually driven. We should leave it to the professionals—those we pay to worry about security and the laws we make as a society, but we should always look to ourselves first.

To assume that if all the guns in the world were confiscated that we would all by default fall into a society of peace is just ridiculous. Human beings probably have at least 100,000 more years of evolution before the basic natures of our existences change for the better, where aggression isn’t part of our interaction with each other. People are always competing with one another, there are always bigger people, smarter people, faster people, better looking people, etc., who will leverage their talents and abilities against others to acquire what they think they need to live. It was only through the invention of the gun and the general distribution of reading through the printing press that freedom from static institutions began to falter and the cultures of individuality began to spring up around the world, most notably in the early American colonies for which our Constitution was written. Before people could read things for themselves and defend what they acquired through that knowledge with personal defense, societies were strung together through kingships and nobility. The gun freed us all from that enslavement.

But go to any corporate environment and you will see the same primitive mechanisms at work, people using whatever skills of superiority they have over others to acquire advantages for themselves. War is a trait of human beings, even two nicely mannered women will fight over who has the best flower bed, the best pie, or even the largest diamond ring. It is in the nature of human beings to be competitive, even if the foundations are rooted in destruction. But when a person has a gun and they are smaller than another person with a gun, they are both suddenly equal. Guns are the ultimate equalizers, having guns puts everyone on the same footing essentially making firearms a major contributor to the furtherance of a human species working toward objectives that supersede the typical primitive motivations of past millennia. Many of the advancements made in America are because of the gun, not in spite of them. People who might in any other society be pushed to the back of the pecking order line were able to profess their ideas about things knowing that they wouldn’t be gunned down in the street for professing them, because everyone is armed and retaliation is always a possibility. For the first time in the history of the world, individuals had power over the institutions so they could contribute to the nature of existence. If the threat of retaliation is not present, such as a big person being tempted to abuse a person of smaller stature, too often with humans an abuse of that relationship will take place because the larger person can, then the smaller person will find themselves in a weak position individually. If the smaller person has a gun, suddenly the size of the other person no longer gives them an advantage and a more equal exchange of information is possible leading to a better relationship.

Owning weapons of war even though nobody of a right mind ever thinks of using them for a destination of violence eases a mind that may always be concerned that the size of institutions may inhibit their options in life. Having big scary weapons in personal possession means that the big scary authorities who have lots of weapons of war will think twice before kicking down your door in the middle of the night to abuse their authority—just because they can. When there are people out in the world carrying around big scary weapons to prevent terrorists from attacking the foundations of our society there must also be checks in place to keep law enforcement from using that power to abuse their authority to take the possessions of people they are supposed to be watching over. We all hear of cases where traffic cops pull over a car full of girls and have forced them to perform sex acts to get out of expensive fines. Or cops detain an attractive woman and force them into a state of undress accusing them of carrying dangerous weapons just so they can have the power to strip down a beautiful woman. It happens much more than it should. The people we pay to protect us are much less prone to abuse that relationship if they have to worry that people might shoot back if they abuse their authority. We’d hope that such a thing might never happen but just looking at the abuse of the FBI against the Trump administration tells us that even at the highest levels of our government that trust is only as deep as the threat of danger that might come back at the perpetrators. Without that threat, abuse often happens in any relationship.

Ironically weapons of war are the foundations to a civil society. You will never see a lot of pushing and shoving going on at gun events where everyone is armed with a gun. Big people, small people, smart people and dumb people all treat each other respectfully because in those meetings everyone is truly equal because it’s not the biological gifts that we have which make us that way, it is the invention of the gun that takes over and puts everyone on equal footing. By taking away the temptation for aggression it forces everyone to treat each other fairly and with great respect. That’s why you don’t see mass shootings at gun shows or NRA events—and why those people tend to be very polite and respectful. The gun is an invention of equality and it works wonderfully.

So to answer Sam’s question, why can he go to the store to buy weapons of war, well, because those weapons are needed to keep human beings on an equal playing field. Institutions by themselves cannot be trusted, they often do abuse their power and so long as that is the case, which isn’t necessarily a learned behavior, but a biological one, equality must be achieved between people through an inventive process. The beauty of a fine weapon that is big and scary is that it gives the owner the ability to function in life with a level of equality that has never been possible prior to the invention of the firearm. Having that firearm forces others to deal with you at a level of respect that is unmistakable and takes away the temptations to abuse relationships for the gain of a one-sided exchange. If young women had more guns in an open carry part of their fashion, they would get harassed sexually a lot less. Because the natural relationship between a large man of 250 pounds is to show superiority over the 120-pound woman. But when she has on her hip a nice Glock or a Smith & Wesson revolver, the large man will treat the woman differently because his size and strength are no longer assets that he can claim superiority over. She is just as strong as he is just because she has a gun. If he has a gun as well, then the two are truly equal.

Traditionally when a father or grandfather gave a young man his first gun, the gift wasn’t just a weapon of war, it was an assignment of equality that let the youth engage with the world on an equal footing—even among his parental peers. For instance, the implication of the dad to the son, “you are now as strong as I am and I trust you enough to give you this gun.” Many such people never use their guns in any kind of aggressive manner, but they know if they needed to, they could and that leads to a society of greater respect in personal exchanges. If the behavior of Nickolas Cruz, the shooter in the Parkland massacre, were to be studied correctly it would be revealed that the kid was small, had been picked on for much of his life and his parents failed to give him a good philosophic foundation to live with. So he turned to the gun to become superior to his oppressors. If people at the school also had guns, then Cruz would not have such a claim to superiority that he had on the day of the shooting. But taking guns away doesn’t solve the problem—Cruz was still a kid who was picked on for being such a small person, humans are always looking for leverage over one another. Only in an equally armed society do we actually have the basis for a proper interaction based on fairness. That is why we have weapons of war for sale at an area store. They are essential to a proper and justice-based society.

Rich Hoffman

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Why to Love the NRA: Give Wayne LaPierre the credit to stand tall when everyone else failed

If you really want to piss me off then drag me into the insanity of what I would consider very stupid people desiring to engage me into their bad decisions. I’m pretty open-minded about what people do with themselves and how they live—that is, until they try to make me a part of it. Then I have no tolerance, because if there is one thing I truly desire in life it is to live well, and the way I want to. My life is not the possession of anyone else. Its mine, and I love it. Honestly, I don’t need a firearm to protect myself. But if someone threatens my life they’d be an idiot to think they are going to walk away from that engagement alive whether or not I happen to be carrying a gun or not at that moment, because I know how to protect myself and the people I care about. However, a gun is the most efficient way to equalize a conflict with someone with ill intentions, and these days due to many social breakdowns, that threat is greater than its ever been before. Even in a week when President Trump has let us down with a move to the left on gun control and I find myself at odds with people like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity on the issue, it was so nice to hear Wayne LaPierre speak on behalf of the NRA at CPAC.

My membership to the National Rifle Association is one of my most treasured memberships. I am proud every time I see the words, “NRA.” I am equally proud of my membership to the Cowboy Fast Draw Association, which is an NRA affiliate. Those are some of the finest people I know and not to brag too much, but I know a lot of people. I’m a business professional that does work with many hundreds of people all over the world so I’m not living in some cave in Montana when I say how much I love the NRA. It’s not some wacko group of right-wingers like the gun hating press would like you to believe, they are good people who want what America has always been about, the pursuit of personal freedom—and the support of guns is the most efficient way to protect that freedom.

The gun haters want, and expect that society at large has all the answers that an individual may need in their life, which is pure fantasy on their behalf. If you’ve ever been to Europe or get a chance to go you will quickly get an idea what left leaning people want to do to the United States, they’d like to replicate European culture. But what Europe has is a deep history that is at the heart of everything that they are—they are a people always looking back at what they were, not what they want to be. America is different, it is a country always looking forward at what individualized potential might drive forward culturally. And to facilitate that optimism, individual freedom is encouraged and treasured, whereas in Europe its frowned upon. Even on the topless beaches of France and Spain where women declaring themselves liberated and equal to men sunbathing with their breasts exposed we see the basic foundations of collectivism, because the women are cheapened into a collective entity as opposed to a sanctimonious specimen of a treasured loved one holding her treasures for the father of her children in the most idealistic individual fantasy of love, honor, and privacy. In America we don’t necessarily like to share ourselves with the world as we guard against the unwanted appraisal of others as innovation pours forth from our minds hoping to ride the waves of capitalism to a better life, and we protect that life from encroachment by parasitic personalities with a gun.

If we look just at the case of the many institutional failures of the Parkland assassin Nikolas Cruz, who was rejected by his school, kicked out so to preserve the sanctimonious public school. Over a seven-year period the local sheriff’s office visited Nikolas Cruz 39 times due to concern over the kid’s behavior. 39 times! The FBI directly had tips on Cruz and failed to act on those observations. When the shooting happened a hired gun that was supposed to be protecting Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School by the name of Scot Patterson took up a defensive position outside the school never engaging the active shooter for over four minutes. Patterson resigned in the aftermath in disgrace. His failure cost 17 lives. But then there was the tape delay on the security cameras and the slap stick cops’ scenario of the police radios trying to figure out what was happening. While Cruz had already killed his targets and was having a sit-down meal at a local McDonald’s, the police were viewing videotape that they thought was live of the shooter moving from the third floor of the school to the second, only to be embarrassed by the revelation that they were watching something in past tense. The killer had already come and gone. It was only by luck that one alert officer an hour later thought correctly that he had spotted Cruz apprehending the killer. It wasn’t just one failure that caused the death of 17 people and wounding many others, it was several—really a failure at every level of the supposed safety nets that were supposed to be in place. Yet the anger leveled at Marco Rubio at a CNN anti-gun forum was astonishingly brutal as everyone there advocated for more of that kind of mess. More laws, more police, more mental health screening, more, more, more institutional control mechanisms when we just observed that even the ones in place had failed at every level.

When it really comes down to it we are all we really have. We must guard our own lives with responsible action and through that effort, others around us are saved. The only real solution to most of our modern problems is an improvement of individual action. If everyone took care of themselves and declared responsibility for their lives, then a lot of these problems would go away. We don’t have a gun problem in America, we have a responsibility problem. And the reason things are so dangerous these days is that responsible people, good people are at risk from the many lunatics out there especially on the political left who are starving for attention and salvation created from their rotten lives and they want what good people have. Guns have always provided a barrier of protection for individuals against those who would seek to take from them what they personally possess—even their very lives. At the most fundamental level, our lives are our most treasured possessions, and the destitute of our species do not have any collective right to the merits of our lives. They don’t get to walk across our yards unimpeded, they don’t get to drive our cars. They don’t get to molest our children, our wives, even our mail boxes without the threat of engagement—because all those things are products of our individualized lives and the hours of hard work it took to build such a life. The world of our institutions may have good intentions, but as we have seen, when lazy minds inhabit those institutions from the FBI to the local police, to the ultimate failure of Scot Patterson we can’t trust them and there has never really been any evidence that we ever could.

Every gun grabber who ultimately wants to confiscate all our firearms in America and send us to the league of nations around the world drowning in socialism and repressed governments perpetually looking into their own pasts—to their better days—expect us to trust completely the many intuitions that failed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School case. They have president Trump’s ear about stricter background checks, but what about the crazy ex-wife who wants to burn her husband with false accusations of misconduct because she is jealous of the next woman? Would that husband pass a background check if there is a pending case with a traumatized former wife? What if she is really jealous of his guns and she makes up some story of abuse, and acting on that the police come and take all his guns away? Is that fair to the man who did nothing but decide he didn’t want to be married to the woman? And those are just a few examples that most people can relate to in some way or another—there are countless ways that someone’s background check could be corrupted to lose their Second Amendment rights, and that is what the NRA is fighting against. The NRA stands against all those left leaning encroachments because ultimately the gun is there to protect individuals from a world that has a tendency to fail under institutional control. Our best hopes for the future are always in the conduct of individuals. So even if a man makes a mistake and runs off with a girl half his age and the ex-wife is upset about it, he shouldn’t lose his right to possess firearms. He may need that right for other things going on in his life—because all life has value, and deserves to be protected from the aggressions of others who might have intentions of dark design.

It is for all these reasons that I love the NRA so much and because of this aggression against the gun culture of our nation, I feel compelled to make more gun purchases, to support the industry. Gun makers, sellers, and the people who buy them are some of the best people you will find anywhere in the world. Not very long ago I was on the balcony of a very rich man in Japan overlooking some of the most expensive real estate in the world. This was a guy at the top of the world and could literally have anything he wanted, but do you know what he desired? He was in love with images of a Montana rancher who had a big pickup truck and a shotgun in the back window, and even a concealed carry gun under a warm jacket overlooking a vast plain of endless horizon. The NRA protects that very specific lifestyle from the jealous hordes around the world who secretly want what America has, and will do anything to get a piece of our lives. And the only real protection we have is ourselves and the guns we carry. Because as much as we’d like, we can’t trust anything else.

Rich Hoffman

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Guild Socialism: The real problem behind schools, activist students, and gun control debate

I understand what President Trump is doing listening to anti-gun advocates and the really sad stories of loss that have come from recent school shootings. But it is deeply disturbing to even let the anti-gun forces gain just a small victory in how they are exploiting children to advance the general public-school position against an armed society. The only term that comes to my mind that properly articulates the situation as that of guild socialism which is the rule of, by and for mediocrity. “When brute force is on the march, compromise is the red carpet,” which Ayn Rand stated many years ago in response to the Berkeley riots. “When reason is attacked, common sense is not enough.” What is going on is that children raised in these public schools have been taught all these progressive positions and have been loaded like guns themselves for an awaiting target to spring forth at a moment’s notice—all funded by our tax dollars to work against us. Then when a crisis like the Parkland shooting does happen, these kids wherever they reside are ready to strike at their targets in behalf of the education institutions that created them. Suddenly its OK to have kids skipping school to protest our American gun culture, and out of thin air, expensive buses are on sight to bus these students turned activists to state capitals to wreak havoc on our governmental process through the brute force of demonstrations. The primary culprit is a brand of guild socialism that is at the core of our education system for which we are all instructed, and corrupted at early ages, and it is the real crises for which we are challenged.

After all the events of the past week it was good to hear that President Trump was supporting concealed carry in the classroom for teachers who are inclined to meet this very specific 21st century challenge. It is even better that my local sheriff in Richard K. Jones of Butler County is leading the nation-wide charge on the issue. If we are looking for an immediate solution to the crises of school shootings we must put guns in those gun free zones and be ready to defend our lives and the lives of our children when required. The obvious next step is to attack the problem culturally. For instance, watch the old western The Gunfighter from 1950 starring Gregory Peck. It’s a great classic western about the pressures of being the absolute best gunfighter from his time, where every young man looking to make a name for themselves wants to challenge the aging legend. The older and wiser gunfighter just wants to retire to a good life in California with his wife and son, but his legendary status chases him to the ends of the earth until he meets an eventual death. There are a lot of very good lessons about life in that movie which would serve our youth today. But what do they get as a cultural reference point in their art? They get The Hateful Eight—a movie about nothing but killing and betrayal set in the West, but having nothing to do with values of any kind. Watching movies like The Hateful Eight, can anybody expect an adopted kid like Nikolas Cruz, who lost his new father at a young age, then lost his mother just a few months before he went on the killing rampage in Parkland, Florida now causing so much commotion? He was kicked out of school because the institution there rejected him leaving him virtually defenseless in the world. It doesn’t take much to feel sorry for the kid, but once he turned that anger toward society in general he deserved to be shot dead just for being a menace. What is really tragic however is that in a different time under similar conditions if the young Cruz had exposure to films like The Gunfighter and a barrage of films by John Wayne, he may have chosen a different path in life—and maybe have stayed at his employment at The Dollar Store and worked his way through to some level of success at life. Instead, everywhere he went there was something negative, including the school he attended, which was more concerned with guild socialism than in individual development of their students.

Whenever you hear from someone, “it’s not my job,” you are dealing with the resulted education of a participant in guild socialism, where a guild of occupational endeavor rally to each other’s cause for the benefit of a collective whole—such as a labor union or even a baseball team. When people accept a position of mediocrity in favor of comfortable lack of responsibility for greater issues, the villain ultimately is guild socialism. The kids being used in these school shootings have a foundational premise that is rooted in the guild socialism that they learned in their public schools—that they are students/activists for progressive causes and should not be expected to be anything else—least not defenders of themselves or are responsible for the way they conduct their lives. They were taught that other people out there in the world are in charge of their safety and thus need to be coerced through mass force to change their behavior if the kids are to survive into the future. And for most kids, they don’t know any better, so they accept that premise without question. The premise of guild socialism however was taught to them by the public education institutions to begin with, which is where all these problems begin.

We are guilty as a society in giving a blank check of value to our public education system. We want to believe that educating children is of a high, moral endeavor. But we seldom concern ourselves with what we are teaching our children, and this has had a terrible effect on many generations of students who have now accepted guild socialism as the ethical behavior in a competitive world. This means that nobody is really responsible for anything, including behavioral issues, and that through thuggish protest individual rights can be destroyed through group assimilation. Case in point, if enough kids scream at politicians with CNN running the cameras to bait the debate, then the assumption is that change is mandated because of the democratic process of majority rule. It is never considered that every one of those children might be wrong, and that they were taught incorrectly from the beginning to believe what they do while a minority in the world may actually have the true answers. Guild socialism practices over many years has devolved our social awareness to such a degree that nobody is responsible any longer for anything, only groups can mandate the morality of our world—and that is a false premise that will only lead to epistemological destruction of the basic foundations of our civilization.

I support Donald Trump on most things he’s advocated, even through times of intense controversy. I think contextually you might say I have great love for him as president of the United States. But I don’t support everything, his yielding to age limits, back ground checks and bump stock restrictions will only fuel the gun haters by thinking that they can continue to use children and the power of guild socialism to change our society. Like it or not, the Second Amendment is there to keep our own government in check, because as we learned with the FBI, government does go bad and can be used against us. In my view, the government is a lot better off with Trump running things than at other times, but we are still a country with massive debt and a society on the verge of panic if they lose their electrical power and access to food for more than a week. Guns, “military equivalent” grade weapons are needed for a civil society because if government goes bad, and natural disasters erode away the basics of all humanity, there is no other way to protect our private property—including our very lives. Guild socialism believes the opposite so of course they will not support the position I’m advocating, but that doesn’t make them right and me wrong because they outnumber my opinion, it simply makes them advocates of change from what we are as Americans into something else using the masses to sell it—and that something else isn’t good.

Rich Hoffman
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The New Han Solo Book Covers Look Great: But isn’t Disney against guns?

To say I’m looking forward to the new Solo: A Star Wars story would be a mild understatement. I am enjoying each new piece of information that is coming out now rapidly for the upcoming May release of the highly anticipated movie. Just yesterday the new books for the movie were teased which largely come out in May and on most of the covers were images of Han Solo holding his famous blaster in what I think are very traditional cowboy artwork reminiscent of the 1940s to 1950s0—the “golden age of Hollywood.” They are the kind of thing that many of us older than 50 grew up on as kids and I find it refreshing to see. But the mother company of Disney who is benefiting greatly from all this Star Wars merchandising, everything from Star Wars figures sold at Target and Walmart to the films themselves has positioned themselves in this new #onelessgun movement prominently and most disgustingly where another one of their companies, ABC showed a lady cutting up her gun in a workshop so that nobody could use it again. The anti-gun stance of Disney is extremely hypocritical and is worth a bit of analysis.

As I’ve said, I’m a fan of the Disney product and I like Disney as a company—especially in the traditional sense. But what is disgusting is that the head of the company doesn’t seem to understand what the tail is doing, they don’t connect cause and effect at all. Concerning the new Han Solo publication art, what if they didn’t have characters holding guns in their promotional material—do they think they could sell the movie? If kids couldn’t buy action figures to shoot at each other would they even want to play with them? Of course, Disney knows that young boys aren’t going to by Star Wars toys unless there are cool guns to play with. Kids aren’t buying Star Wars toys to simulate cooking, or domestic needs in playing house. Guns are as much of what makes Star Wars popular as anything is, and without guns, the story would be pretty boring.
This brings us to the broader issue of Hollywood taking a stance against guns yet producing in nearly every blockbuster they make a story that prominently features guns. It’s kind of like a porn actress preaching celibacy before marriage. You can’t play this issue both ways. The stories we like as human beings are typically about the drama of life and death situations for which the gun plays a key narrative. To the young boy who looks at covers of Han Solo brandishing a powerful looking gun, the fantasy is to use that gun to fight for the kind of personal independence that everyone wants. The gun is the means to personal protection and asserting oneself in a dangerous world. This is typically what is at play when children play with guns to shoot at each other, they are creating the roots for their primary foundations of independence which will go with them for the rest of their lives. Disney understands this basic concept in marketing strategy which is meant to reach into people’s subconscious and inspire them to go see the new movie that has a cool gun on the poster.

Yet out of the other side of their mouth they support these gun control measures which run counter to everything that the human race stands for. From their elevated progressive vantage point that isn’t based on any kind of reality, but only in hope and personal desire from their timid vantage points, Disney hopes to use their media position to change human behavior—which is where they go wrong. This is also why the mainstream media and entertainment companies that have moved so radically left of center are struggling to figure out why they can’t move the needle on Donald Trump or the gun issue in the slightest. Not with all the protests, or all the programming they commit to the matter, people love guns wherever they are in the world. Guns sell movies, books, comics—just about anything they are put on because what the gun represents is personal freedom which every human being craves in some form or another. Therefore, we can conclude that companies such as Disney are not culture shapers so much as they are cultural reflections. They can make money and benefit off the art they produce so long as it is aligned with human need, and guns are. But if they think they can change the human need from their art, they don’t appear to be able to.
Disney as a company has not had much success with original material, often they have made most of their money off pre-created ideas—fairy tales that had already made their mark in our human mythologies. What they’ve done best is to take those stories to the next step of marketing and consumer reach—which is what they are doing with Star Wars. True, the new Star Wars films and television shows are not as good as they were original creations from George Lucas, but they still offer people something in the realm of entertainment and mythology. Disney isn’t powerful enough to change people’s minds about guns, violence, or political desires, but they can feed the needs that are already there.

That’s of course is not always the case, sometimes a truly great artist can change the minds of people and they often try, such as in the case of the musical group, The Beatles. They were obviously advocating for a left of center political world, and they did pull people in that direction. What seems to be happening in entertainment is that artists judge each other based on their social impact in the art they create. For instance, people might look down their nose at Dwayne Johnson because he makes so many blockbuster action movies and is getting very wealthy off them, but he doesn’t seem to be trying to change human culture for the better, and until he announced that he wanted to run for president against Trump in 2020 he was not considered much of an “artist” in Hollywood. In the entertainment community being an “artist” means being a “change agent.” It is the ultimate power of their ability to manipulate mass audiences—to actually change the behavior of the human race, and it appears to be a grand fantasy that most in entertainment have. Even with all their wealth, they still judge each other based on their “change agent” appeal.

This obviously seems to be the case with ABC News, they want to think they can move the needle on gun control by featuring some overly emotional woman who cuts up her gun in a workshop and wants to be featured prominently as a hero for it. That might be fine if ABC and their parent company Disney were consistent, but they aren’t. On the very same day that ABC featured the crazy anti-gun lady, Disney put out the art work for the new Han Solo movie which featured the hero on all the book covers holding a gun. You can’t have it both ways Disney. Unfortunately, you have to pick. Do you want to give the public what they want and hope they continue coming to your theme parks, which I enjoy doing? Or do you want to be a “change agent” using your media platform to change the human race? In doing so you will likely lose most of your core audience, because they will reject your philosophic premise. I will go see the new Han Solo movie enthusiastically, because he is a hero who uses a gun to instill a brand of justice that I can agree with, and its good entertainment. But if Han Solo were to become a bleeding-heart liberal and anti-gun zealot—you can bet that I’d be the first person off the ship. Because that’s not entertainment to me, its political propaganda from a bunch of spoiled brat artists. And I don’t want anything to do with them—or their beliefs.

Rich Hoffman
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The True Intentions of Gun Control: What’s really behind the protesting strudents of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School

Unwittingly, the suddenly very articulate and activist students who were all over the Sunday shows in the wake of the shooting at a school in Parkland, Florida have identified why schools are vulnerable to violence and why there will be a lot more if the correct solution is not put in place. The kids, bless their little hearts, have no idea what role they play in the whole experience—they are young minds just expressing what they’ve been taught in public school and it is rather shocking to see how quickly they organized around the matter—and how quickly the anti-gun lobby grabbed onto their innocent hides to ride a magic carpet to reform for their cause. These kids who survived the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting are planning a march on March 24th in Washington D.C. to impose gun restrictions and an assault weapons ban on the rest of us for the primary purpose of social change to reflect the collectivism and desire for a primal order articulated in our education system. Guns represent a social commitment to individualism whereas the banning of them represents a surrender to the order of the masses, the herd mentality that constantly wants to forgo social advancement and return to the campfires of yesteryear. It reminds me of the relevance of an Ayn Rand quote from her classic work titled Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution.

“When numbers are substituted for morality, and no individual can claim a right, but any gang can assert any desire whatever, when compromise is the only policy expected of those in power and the preservation of the moment’s “stability,” of peace at any price, is their goal–the winner, necessarily, it is whoever presents the most unjust and irrational demands; the system serves as an open invitation to do so. If there were no communists or other thugs in the world, such a system would create them.” Ayn Rand 1965 commenting on the Berkeley riots in California.

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From the early part of the 20th century to the present our education system by a default of philosophic interpretation adopted the mode of gang rule to suggest the furtherance of our future as a civilization and no matter what mass effort we name it, labor unions, communists, socialists, progressives, liberals—the intent was always the same derivative of the philosophy for which people functioned—their core ideas in the face of a challenge. As a hobby I study the rise and fall of ancient civilizations and I can say emphatically as archaeologists are just starting to come to terms with the idea—that societies don’t fall because of crop failures, flood, or even cosmic events, they fail because they always follow the Vico cycle back to the primitive states of our existence. At a certain juncture they make the decision to head back to the fire, the hunter and gather mindset where a tribal leader guides people to salvation or death and everyone is in it together to be unceremoniously buried in a pile of dirt at the end of their lives—or eaten by some wild animal. America went through this period at the turn of the last century and made the decision in the public education system to adopt the views of the primitive instead of the resolute individuals which typically advance society always forward with valor and great invention.

Public education as it was conceived and formulated later by mass labor union influence and political dystopia is a group think concept. It isn’t about developing individuals to function well in the world, but in adopting to the pressures of group associations and learning to navigate the peer pressures of those groups. So it should come as no surprise that the young students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School were poised so quickly to become front line activists against gun ownership—as they were taught the foundations from the time that they were all little kids functioning within the liberal group environment of public education. Without even thinking about it while shock was still roaring through their community they fell to their default modes of operation and became anti-gun activists that the institutions of our day sought to use in order to further their goal of returning society back to the primitive, pre-gun state of the world. The fantasy of the political left is to turn each nation into a big collective tribe where the intellectuals of our institutions serve as grand tribal leaders, so their hopes always are to demean individual rights in favor of group acceptance, because their primary strategy is always to use the numbers of opinion to leverage reality against morality.

Thus, there is no solution to the gun problem in schools because the schools themselves create the entire problem. It was the schools which failed to convert the shooter into a productive citizen. When the assassin Cruz was then a student at the same school, he was expelled, which is an ultimate rejection of his peers and sent off into the world to fend for himself as a troubled young person. Since the school’s mode of operation wasn’t individualized care for the philosophy of its students but mass acceptance of peer pressure and a kid like Cruz was too damaged and likely too independent to adhere, the kid fell through the cracks to become a social menace. That same system of insanity that is ultimately at fault for creating the problem in the first place then had their peer groups already formed to advocate against any blame they might have in the matter by also furthering their own cause against individualism—the gun.

By attacking gun rights—the school which represents the same institutional failed philosophies of the past going back to Ayn Rand’s quote about the Berkeley riots are using every tragedy possible to further their strategic objective against the basics of American morality to substitute numbers for the basic ethics of reason. To suggest that this many hurt and scared students marching on Washington D.C., and that this many Republican donors, and politicians, and angry-scared moms means that gun reform should occur. The question of whether or not gun reform would actually work is not a topic of consideration because we are measuring success or failure on the panicked masses which were inspired to be in such a lackluster state because of their public educations in the first place.

The main issue isn’t whether or not we have laws against bump stocks, or “assault weapons” its if we have a society that truly is driven forth by individual responsibility and endeavor or group consensus in spite of what reality defines. What gun control advocates are for which these kids from Florida are now a part of is that we must define reality based on group opinion. If enough people believe something then we are supposed to accept that new reality regardless of what facts might say on the matter. This then becomes the aim of our entire public education system for at least the last hundred years, likely longer—that mankind was wiser when we were primitives sitting around a campfire taking orders from a tribal chief. The political left in the modern sense wants to be that new tribal chief and they have prepped our society to take orders without question and to rally to their cause when a crisis occurs. By taking away guns in even a small form, the political left inches closer to a victory they have forever sought—the destruction of individuality and personal opinion which exists outside of group consensus. Here is another quote from the same book mentioned earlier:

“Some went so far as to maintain explicitly that intellectual certainty is the mark of a dictatorial mentality, and the chronic doubt–the absence of firm conviction, the lack of absolutes–is the guarantee of a peaceful, “democratic,” society.”

What that means is that the political left has protected itself from the kind of scrutiny that I am proposing here for when they are caught in this grand scheme toward reversion. They call it progress, hence the term “progressive” but in actuality when it truly is “regressive.” The political left and their hold on our education institutions are meant to create enough absence of firm conviction, where individualized efforts are challenged and even eradicated to preserve their intentions of taking mankind back toward a tribal mentality—and they’ve been trying to do that in North America since frontiersmen on the fringes of civilization confronted the Indian and beat them in battle after battle essentially because one had the gun and the other had magic dances and arrows that they forged with flint rocks found in river beds. The gun is the key to further human advancement, the abandonment of them is the path back toward a tribal status fulfilling the Vico cycle of our modern time from a democracy, to anarchy back to a theocracy. And that is the core issue at the very foundation of gun control.

Rich Hoffman
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Guns Are What Make America Great: Coming to terms with reality

In the wake of the mass shooting in South Florida which occurred in February of 2018 we need to make some basic things clear as a foundational argument. I agree, we should change gun laws so that we don’t have more violence in our schools by disturbed people. But the solution isn’t feel good gun laws which provide a false security blanket over the eyes of our most liberal American citizens who are suffering from their own psychosis indicated by their political affiliation. Their view is similar to a child pulling their bed covers over their eyes to avoid being eaten by a monster that lives under their bed. If the monster wants to eat children, a flimsy layer of covers won’t stop the violence from happening. It only covers the eyes of the victim from the possibility, and that is all liberals want to do in the wake of gun violence. They want to cover their eyes to the real problem and hope that it doesn’t happen again. This is a typical liberal approach to just about everything and it stands against the basic nature of what America is all about.

America is a lot of things, it’s a nation of immigrants, it’s a nation of capitalism and private property. There is a big reason that Siberia takes up approximately 10% of the earth’s landmass yet it as the economic development of a kid’s lemonade stand whereas the vast expanses of land in America known as the West has at least a McDonald’s every thirty miles in every direction—and that is because of private property ownership and incentives which are fundamentally protected by personal firearm possession—a decentralized element which allows such vast expanses of land to be developed for the enterprises of human thought. No matter where you go and what you do in America it is the right to personal firearms which defines our nation under a common thread of philosophy. We are a nation built on guns and of course America’s enemies understand that. If they want gun control, they essentially want to change the nature of America from what it is to what it isn’t.

When you visit England, what do you think of as their cultural heritage—tea? Ships? Monarchy? What about Germany—what do you think about in regard to their culture, beer, pretzels, Hitler? Japan—samurai swords and sushi? How about Spain, bullfights and cheesy men who want to sleep with our wives? Every nation has their thing which defines their culture, and in America it is the gun. Guns are what binds all Americans together, young and old, rich and poor, man and woman, black and white—no matter who, what, where, and how, guns are what define our nation and always have from the very beginning of revolution to the westward expansion. Guns made our nation and to this very day are important parts of our culture.

It was my wife’s birthday over the weekend and we went to LaRosa’s by our home to celebrate it. It was a Saturday night and we were talking about militarizing public schools with metal detectors and military personnel to prevent school shootings in the future. I explained to my family that within LaRosa’s that night there was a crowded dining room and among the occupants I estimated that there were at least five to six concealed carry holders there. If a terrorist of some kind were to barge in and try to shoot the place up, they would be engaged promptly by the concealed carry holders. Some people may be injured, but the aggressor would not have his way with the public. He would be shot dead, maybe worse. And the same could be said of every place containing people all across the country. The reason there is peace and stability in America with so much money floating around in a free society is because so many people are carrying guns, bad guys never know who is or isn’t and it forces them to behave themselves.

Liberal people do not understand human nature, it is part of their personal psychosis which has contributed to their intellectual deficiency leading to their liberal attributes to begin with. I can sympathize that they are too soft natured to want to handle a gun, or that they have hope that humanity can be trained away from violence and the desire to take what other people have. I can also see how they might be seduced by the work of Karl Marx and to just make everyone equal, give all the private property to the State and eradicate guns from our lives so that we can live in a utopia. Being people who aren’t prepared to deal with reality, such things may seem appealing. But history says what you get is not a great world of philosophic understanding, you essentially get Siberia, a vast wilderness of little economic activity because nobody really owns anything and there is nothing to protect if they did. Earth first advocates and environmentalists might find that idea appealing too, because they see the human race as inferior to planet earth and would like to see people removed from climate influence. Again, we aren’t dealing with irrational people when we talk about the political left. They are people often suffering from various degrees of mental illness so they aren’t prepared to talk about guns—only that they think civilization should not have them.

But look at the human condition and the way its evolved. Look at the toy aisle in Wal-Mart or Target where superhero action figures occupy one entire section, and each action figure has some kind of gun so that kids can go home and play with them. Go another aisle over and there are Lego sets with the same kind of message. Go another aisle over again and there are the Nerf guns which allow kids to shoot at each other harmlessly—for the sport of it. Go to the video game section and you’ll see that most of the top-selling games are first person shooters like Battlefront, Call of Duty and Doom—where guns are the feature attraction of the whole experience. Then go to the television section and see what they are playing on the demo screens—action movies filled with guns. Americans love guns—they love them deeply. Guns are so much a part of American culture that many don’t realize just how much. And that’s not going to change. We aren’t going to see a liberal push away from guns, I think the next generation because of their video game exposure and other modes of entertainment will be more pro-gun than ever. What they lack is parental guidance, which makes them more dangerous, but the love of guns is still there—probably stronger than ever.

I went to GameStop to do a little shopping for some fun stuff and I was met at the counter by a really scary looking young lady covered in tattoos and body piercings. She had blue hair and looked like she was the lead singer of a punk rock band. But I had a question about the release date of the new game coming out this fall called Red Dead Redemption 2, which is a western video game. You might recall that I thought Red Dead Redemption way back in 2010 was the best western I had ever been exposed to, so I am looking forward to the sequel. Well, this girl became very emotional with excitement. She wouldn’t stop talking about how excited she was to finally play this new game which had been delayed for three years, and was finally going to hit the shelves in just a few months. The game is all about shooting other players, and has typical western themes and obviously to this clerk, she was very excited about it. If the game was all about bagging groceries do you think she’d be so excited? Of course not.

I lived a normal childhood, one that is very close to what we watch at the end of every year with A Christmas Story. The right of passage back then as it still should be was that we get a toy gun from our fathers and grandfathers before we are five. When we are six to eight, we get our first Red Ryder BB gun. They sell those at Wal-Mart too, not because the retailer is psycho about guns, but because that’s what customers want. They even come in a pink version for girls these days because getting your first gun for a kid is a big step into adulthood. By the time kids are 12 to 16 they should get their first 22 rifle. And of course, the initiation into adulthood is that a 21-year-old can purchase an AR-15, a Glock, or even their first 12 gage shotgun. Speaking personally, it was one of the proudest days of my life when I bought my Smith & Wesson .500 Magnum. I don’t go out and shoot people up with it, in fact it never crosses my mind in daily thinking about it. But if I wanted to I could disable a car with it, and that is great to know for self-defense. Knowing that I don’t have to worry about somebody coming and taking away my private property allows my mind to think about other kinds of things which contributes mightily toward the “invisible hand” of Adam Smith’s capitalism. The right to have a gun to protect yourself from villainy is the best deterrent of those villains from taking action in the first place.

Our gun laws should be changed from being too strict to having them be a lot looser. Schools should not be gun free zones. If teachers and administrators were allowed to carry, then they wouldn’t be sitting ducks when some aggressor does show up to get revenge on former students they are having problems with. I don’t think we should have gun free zones anywhere, in any business, any school, or any government building. Guns are a tremendous part of our natural American heritage and its time we embrace that aspect of ourselves instead of letting timid liberals define our culture based on their personal insecurities. If there had been concealed carry holders at any of these school shootings over the last couple of years, or even in Vegas during that concert tragedy, there would be a lot less carnage. Likely, we wouldn’t have even witnessed the attempt because the villains would understand that their chances for glory would be greatly minimized by the concealed carry holder. The answer to gun control is to have more guns not less and to loosen up possession not to further restrict it.

As we’ve seen in the FBI just this year, we can’t trust law enforcement fully to do their jobs. That’s not going to change tomorrow, police are people just as anybody is, and if they get caught looking at dirty pictures on the internet while sitting on the side of the road trying to nail speeders, and they miss a big occurrence because of it, an apology later won’t bring back our loved ones. Courts are slow, police are slower, and the FBI is about as incompetent of a police force that I’ve ever even considered. I wouldn’t trust them with a bag of groceries, let alone the life of someone I care about. But I do trust people who obtain concealed carry permits. Why, because they have a personal incentive to protect themselves and the people around them. The same reason I trust people driving in a car coming from the opposite direction from coming over into my lane and hitting me head-on. Sure, it does happen, but not enough to keep me from driving a car. People with guns are safer to be around than people who don’t have them—and that is a unique attribute to being an American that we all share. If there is one thing that symbolizes American life, it is the gun. The gun is the secret to our success and the way to embrace that is with lesser rules, not more. That is the only way forward and the sooner everyone realizes that, the better.

Rich Hoffman
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The Wonderful Idea Sheriff Jones Has: I’m willing to make a deal to see it happen at Lakota

Let me say that I am very proud of Sheriff Jones from my county of Butler, Ohio. In the wake of the school shootings in Florida, and elsewhere, Jones has stepped forward to offer CCW classes for school employees free of charge so if such a catastrophic event should happen while they are employed within the schools when an attack happened, they’d be prepared to take action to stop the carnage. What Sheriff Jones is talking about is a real solution to a real problem and it shows leadership that the country as a whole could follow. I am very enthusiastic about his proposal, so much so that I am willing to make a deal to my own school district of Lakota—to support this generous offering from Sheriff Jones. If 5% of the school employees within the Lakota school system take the Sheriff Jones CCW class, when it comes time to pass the next school levy, I won’t stand in the way with opposition. That wouldn’t be due to a sudden support for higher taxes, but years ago when people asked me what it would take to get me to support a school levy at Lakota, well, this is it. I could actually feel good about how my money was spent if my local school district was the first in the country to adopt a policy that could show everyone else how to solve this dire problem.

Everyone who knows me understands how much I am against out of control budgets and escalating costs of public employee contracts, so this is no small matter. But bigger than that is this very much-needed expansion of understanding firearms and using them for personal protection in the name of everything that is good. What Sheriff Jones is proposing is a very good idea that has behind it a desire to protect the best and brightest in all of us, and a CCW is the best way in these modern times to accomplish that task. The more good people who are a part of the concealed carry community, the better, and safer everyone is. It is no different from training to be a first responder in your place of business. Nobody would argue that learning how to perform CPR or general first aid to a co-worker in need could be a bad thing. When the fire department and police arrive, such scenes are turned over to the professionals, and the same would happen with concealed carry holders. They would serve as first responders to a threatening situation and protect those around them from the kind of carnage that happens when bad people turn to evil to wreak ill intentions. In the grand scheme of things, I can’t think of anything better than this idea from Sheriff Jones to help solve a problem that is only getting worse, because the indecision and fear of guns that most people have prevents a solution. Learning how to control that fear is the first step to solving this crisis and I would be willing to bend a little bit to see it happen.

Rich Hoffman
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‘Let Trump Be Trump’: Perhaps the greatest story ever told

If Hollywood wasn’t so anti-Trump and anti-American, they’d make a lot of money off a film version of Let Trump Be Trump, the highly sought-after book by Corey Lewandwowski and David Bossie. I finally managed to get a copy and read it and I have to say, it was one of the most inspirational books I have read in a long time. It’s a real Rocky story about global politics that anybody from any party would have to admit is very inspiring. Love Trump or hate him, the story of Let Trump Be Trump is one of the great ones of all time. I mean really, is there anything bigger or more profound than a maverick billionaire against all odds possible winning the presidency of the United States? I don’t think so, I’ve spent many hours and hundreds of thousands of words contemplating it, but after reading the new book by Lewandowski and Bossie this thing should be made into a movie starting production tomorrow. The whole way through the book I kept thinking of Oliver Stone’s film The Doors only in reverse, where Jim Morrison was a dynamic force that changed the music industry for evil with bold audacity, Trump has changed politics from a vile, corruption infested enterprise to a thing of optimism and wonder. This is a story that needs a movie to tell the back story of how Donald Trump became the leader of the free world and if Hollywood doesn’t make the movie, maybe we should. I think I’m up to the task, in calling some of the old producers that I’ve known in the past and see if we can’t line up some money because this is the story of the century.

I never thought Donald Trump wouldn’t win the election. As everyone knows, I write an article every day here at Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom and have for nearly a decade. I have a very busy life filled with lots of people who want my attention, some of it good, some of it bad. I got involved in politics a bit years ago and have since sort of worked the parameters to make the world a better place and realized very early in the process that it should be business people in politics, people with proven track records who come with their own money so they aren’t tempted by such things once in office, who should be elected. So when Trump threw his hat in the ring, I was an instant supporter from day one. I saw him as a dynamic solution to combat the corrosive problem that was very static and in both political parties to the point of paralysis. Once it was clear that Trump was going to win the Republican nomination I even stopped writing on this site for a few weeks, because I never thought Hillary was going to win the election. She was too corrupt and had too much of what people were sick of. I never believed the polls which said she would win, because I had my own ear to the ground and knew what real people thought, and I was all in that there was an unrepresented voter base out there that was being deliberately ignored, and that Trump would win easily. I even thought so after the Access Hollywood tape. My belief in Donald Trump never wavered in the least, I thought from day one that he would win and never thought his candidacy was in any kind of trouble. But I did often wonder what people working on the campaign from behind the scenes thought. Now with the book Let Trump Be Trump, I know and it is just such a fascinating story.

There are a lot of reasons to love Donald Trump. I feel fortunate to have been able to see and meet Trump several times now so I’ve seen the story from the side of the fence that was targeted to #MAGA, the show business side of Trump. But as I’ve shaken his hand and watched him work rope lines I often have wondered what the real guy was like, because most people are disappointing once you meet them behind the curtain. For me the best part of Trump and why he is a great president that is really turning around the economy and leading the nation in such a positive direction comes down to the weekend that the Access Hollywood tape was released and how the media leaked the information to the campaign looking for a response the day before. You might say I’ve been studying the Trump campaign for several weeks now because I view it as the most important thing that has happened in modern times. It was a real revolution that occurred without a single shot of rebellion, it was all done by voters who for the first time in perhaps any of our lifetimes was able to pick their republic representative authentically. I read several books before reading Let Trump Be Trump, especially the Michael Wolff book very carefully to get an understanding of what it was like in the daily grind of the Trump campaign and eventually the presidency—what the roles of Kellyanne, Bannon, Lewandowski, Hope Hicks and the Trump kids really was like—who did what, who liked whom, how they all handled things in the trenches and I certainly have seen certain patterns emerge—which makes the whole thing that much more improbable. The success of everything Trump actually comes down to something the political left is terrified of, which has now been revealed as the key to the most basic foundations of the philosophy behind politics. Trump has uncovered it and we have it now forever.

It wasn’t the Russians who got Trump elected. It wasn’t James Comey and the FBI. It wasn’t Jeff Zucker the former president of NBC who was now running things at CNN. it wasn’t even the members of the Trump campaign team. There were a lot of bodies left in the wake of the run for the White House and there will be a lot more before it’s all said and done, because for the first time in history where such democratic republics have tried to hold fair elections for the benefit of actual representative government, a truly self-driven individual ran for president and won. He did it by being his own person and functioning from the passions of those around him who were seduced to the cause by the single attribute of a unified persona that was unwavering, which brought out the best in people while under extreme duress. Trump won the election because of the way he handled the Access Hollywood scandal, it turned out to be the best thing that could have happened because it opened the door to be able to hit Hillary so hard on that second debate in Saint Louis. Trump couldn’t have hit her that hard if Hillary hadn’t started it with the antics her campaign was trying to pull, and when Trump stood up for himself, he essentially flattened the entire political establishment which is still recovering. And to what effect? Look at the stock market. Look at North Korea actually attending the Olympics and speaking with South Korea. Look at the tax cuts, the deregulation, and the actual discussions about infrastructure. There are a lot of things to love about the presidency of Donald Trump and when he’s done with his time in office America will be a much better place. Even his political enemies will be better off, because that’s the nature of a business guy as opposed to a political hack. That is a great story of itself, much of what will be told at a later time once everything manifests. But the story of how it came to be as chronicled by Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie is a remarkable one indeed, maybe even the greatest story ever told not just because its true—but because it happened at all.

Rich Hoffman

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The FBI Wasted $10 Million on the Russian Probe: Begging for a second, third, forth even a fifth chance

The FBI special investigation into the Trump campaign, a political witch hunt from the very beginning cost around 6.7 million dollars as of the end of 2017. Add another few million dollars to the antics so far explored in 2018 along with what remains of an investigation into “obstruction of justice” as to why Trump fired James Comey in the first place and we can easily say that the whole exercise cost 10 million dollars to essentially conduct a hatchet job against a sitting president. while everyone seemed content with the 13 Russians that were indicted for injecting themselves into the 2016 election process there is obviously much more to the story. Rush Limbaugh was on the air when the FBI dumped the story on a Friday afternoon in the middle of the shooting story from Florida leaving many to wonder why. The primary speculation was that it was embarrassing that this was all the FBI had after spending so much time and money, but I’d like to go one step further, and also to remind everyone that this entire investigation was a hit job from the beginning and that it cost a small fortune intent to overthrow an American presidency. Just because the Trump administration has been vindicated in the process it does not take way from the gross abuse of power and money that transpired to arrive at this juncture.

We obviously will never know the details but I’ve seen enough to connect the dots reliably. The FBI has been, and is at the mercy of President Trump and this closure to this part of the special prosecution investigation is a peace-offering. The massive corruption that we have witnessed between James Comey and the Hillary Clinton campaign is enough to put many participants in that corruption into jail, and with the evidence of the two officers conducting a sexual affair revealing all the juicy details there isn’t much defense that the FBI can hide behind. It’s as bad of a corruption story, and abuse of power that has ever occurred among an institution conceived by a human mind. They know that under the Trump Justice Department, the FBI is at the mercy of the president so given the level of their guilt, this has instigated a behavioral change, especially in regard to the special investigation probe that was always meant to distract the president of the United States into slipping and falling in the process, because the field agents and top management wanted Hillary Clinton to win the election. They abused their authority to have an impact on the election results to a much more dangerous level than any Russian did, so let’s not forget that.

Meanwhile this stupid kid in Florida, Nikolas Cruz who shot up a school killing many people had been tipped off to the FBI as a person of interest on January 5th 2018, just over a month ago. Obviously, the FBI was too busy trying to put an end to the Trump presidency to act on the information. We all know how much time Lisa Page and Peter Strzok spent texting each other while on company time, and about the types of things they were thinking about. Just consider how many FBI agents there are out there doing the exact same thing right now—bored out of their minds and clearly more interested in trivial matters—no wonder they didn’t act on the violent indications from Nikolas Cruz. And this isn’t the first time either. The FBI was tipped off about the 9/11 attackers almost 20 years ago and they failed to act then too. I’m sure the FBI would be happy to say that they save us all daily from many thousands of potential threats and that sometimes they miss it. I think that’s a line of crap. I think the agents are lazy, entitled, and spend their time-wasting it, as opposed to actually do their jobs. And that’s how this kid fell through the cracks inspiring governor Rick Scott from Florida yesterday to call for the resignation of the current FBI director Christopher Wray.

Wray has been a bit of a pain in the ass, as a Trump nominee he has sought quickly to put the FBI back on top of things publicly after the Russian investigation has divided support for and against the famed FBI’s reputation. Surely Trump seeing the lackluster behavior of Wray has every right to want to take back the pick, so the school shooting puts a termination of employment on the table for the president to consider without driving forward more speculation of obstruction of justice. The FBI bungled badly the Florida shooting case and somebody needs to pay the price. I mean we aren’t looking for an overactive FBI that is running around arresting everyone who might be a threat, but Nikolas Cruz had all the signs leading up to an act of mass murder that anyone could understand. Yet the FBI was more interested in the politics of their overall positions instead of doing what we hired them to do in the first place. As more and more people looking for some sort of social safety blanket want more gun laws, they look to the FBI to enforce those laws. What good are laws if nobody wants to enforce them, and we don’t have some place to put people in jail because they are overcrowded and run by labor unions and regulations which prevent doing what often needs to be done to criminals to keep them in line? Cruz was left alone, and he did the unthinkable and the FBI is looking very bad for it.

The revelation that no Americans colluded with the Russians, that is was the Russians themselves action alone to help elect Donald Trump to the presidency was a peace-offering given in the middle of a news hurricane on a Friday dump day hoping to inspire the president to not act on the information he has to fire not only Wray, but many, many others as well. The conduct of the FBI has been disgustingly inefficient and expensive and the heart of their intentions on blaming a bunch of foreigners who aren’t even in America is the only way they could step out of the corner they painted themselves into leaving minimal footprints in the wet paint showing their escape. They have a lot to be ashamed of, not only in the premise of their Russia investigation, their assistance of crimes from the Hillary Clinton campaign—and many other things—but in their complete ineptness in the field not catching obvious losers like Nikolas Cruz before he shot up that school in South Florida.

The FBI might say they couldn’t have done anything about Cruz, but if they were doing their jobs, they could have. The kid was on a watch list, so who was doing the watching? Instead of playing on their phones all day, the FBI should have been monitoring the comings and goings of Cruz and been there when he made his move. The technology is there to know that what Nikolas Cruz had in his back pack as he took a Uber car to the school that day to shoot it up wasn’t books and spray paint. The kid made a very conscious decision to go to that school to kill and he wasn’t hiding anything about it. The moment he made his move, the FBI should have been there to stop it, or at least prevent some of the carnage. Instead Nikolas Cruz had time to go into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and murder 17 people and hurt many others—then left to get a snack at Wal-Mart, and McDonald’s. Only a local officer acting on instinct managed to identify Cruz over an hour later making the arrest. Where was the FBI? They weren’t even close enough to monitor the kid once shots started. If I had to guess, the people who should have been watching the gunman were probably playing on the internet thinking about things they shouldn’t have.

The news therefor on a Friday afternoon in February, 2018 about Russian indictments wasn’t about the special investigation probe in any way, it was about a peace-offering to keep the presidential wrath away from a FBI that was soaked with stupidity and ineptness. Not only have they been embarrassed on the national stage by becoming political hacks against the Republican Party, but they missed an act of domestic terrorism that was obvious with more than hindsight armchair quarterbacking. If the FBI couldn’t do something about Cruz given all the information they had, then they have presented themselves as worthless—not worth the tax money we spend on them. And that is what the FBI is after in essentially shutting down the Russia probe investigation, they want to keep their jobs and beg the president to give them a second chance—or in this case a third, fourth and fifth chance. They have been caught wasting a lot of money and blood is on their hands as they allowed themselves to get pulled into the corrosive politics of our times. And Trump holds the cards to their future. Isn’t that an interesting change of fate?

Rich Hoffman
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Public Education is the Primary Cause of School Shootings: Aligning responsiblity with the desires of the human race

Think about what we are dealing with here, a kid who was nineteen years of age who had just shot up a bunch of his former classmates at a south Florida public school, visited a restaurant at a local Wal-Mart, then a McDonald’s calmly trying to get away from the crime. Luckily, he was arrested before he had a chance to do more damage. He was able to inflict so much carnage and fear without a single cop to confront him, not even the armed designated protector who was supposed to be protecting the school he just assaulted. That person was nowhere to be found. And the first, and really only thing liberals want to talk about is gun control instead of the real root cause of the problem which they are largely a major part of helping to create. The little 5’ 7” Nikolas Cruz one year suspended from that same school Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida had been rejected from the education system that assumed it could do everything for kids such as this. In a lot of ways, Cruz is the perfect example of what public schools assume they can do, but always fail, and that is to be substitutes for parental guidance. Here was a kid who had lost both of his known parents bringing a lot of trouble to Cruz’s young mind and when he needed the school most, they expelled him sending him into the world intellectually defenseless. The kid lived in a very diverse community yet he became an unapologetic racist only to fume in anger to such a boiling point that he made a conscious decision to shoot up the same school that had caused him so much pain and liberals want to take away guns so that kids such as this don’t have that option to discharge their anger. Liberals are so stupid and emotionally driven that they just don’t comprehend that it was they who created the personality of Nikolas Cruz in the first place and that guns or not, people are going to get hurt when they are forced to interact with the failures of their public education system.

I wasn’t happy at all with what I saw in the moments after the shooting, which was a bunch of kids and teachers hiding in every corner of the building like sheep waiting to be slaughtered. Then the police storming the building like petrified authoritarians telling all these compliant little public education products to put away their cell phones and to march single file out into the parking lot where they would be frisked like criminals and embarrassed beyond reason. In the aftermath many of those same students would go on news programs and talk about their experience with such great emotion that the networks soaked up the good television that the tragedy provoked in their viewership. There was lots of talk about loses, and broken hearts, and the terror of the moment—but nobody did anything to talk about the primary problem of these liberal institutions that had created the mess in the first place—a system that produces so many compliant kiss ass kids that use peer pressure to instigate behavioral changes, and when a certain percentage of their population which they call “loners” refuse to comply and fall through the cracks they have no answer for what they’ve sent out into the world to be a menace to us all. They simply blame the guns, not the minds they ruined in the process.

Like many people watching the drama unfold on television my wife and I talked about what we were seeing. My wife suggested that more cops be put into the schools. That’s when I reminded her of some of the cops that were in our school when we were growing up. Cops aren’t the answer. One of the cops that was assigned to our school did everything he could to try to sleep with my wife when she was just a young freshman, and of course she wasn’t the only one. Cops as much as we like to portray them as instruments of fearless justice are just people like any of us. The police academies aren’t putting out great warriors committed to justice at any price filled with valor and a love of goodness—most of the time they are over reactive drama queens looking for attention and love in all the wrong places. If you put more cops in schools where the authority figure of such seasoned adults is mixing with the vulnerability of students taught to be compliant little boot lickers, there will be a lot of abuse of authority and sex going on that nobody wants to see. I’d say that its human nature especially for young females to be easily seduced by the cops in the halls of their schools who have guns and power to meet with them privately for sex. And females in such roles as cops are going to enjoy their ability to seduce the star football players and campus studs over their rivals the other young girls because of her authority. It doesn’t take much when you put males and females together—especially when one is give great power over another to see the blooms of sex occurring creating another kind of abuse beyond the potential violence of gunfire. While it may make everyone feel better to shift the responsibility of action, and valor under fire to some third-party to protect everyone, ultimately it is just a lack of courage that we are dealing with that just exacerbates the situation of protection because such a society only breeds more Nikolas Cruz types.

The cause of school shootings or any situation where an individual desire to lash out at a mass collection of people is a lack of personal valor and responsibility in our society which emerges right out of our public education society. Our schools are such failures that they are at the center of all these problems, including the Las Vegas shooting—the slow reaction to danger, the assumption that authorities have everything under control, the desire to assemble in mass collections of people for safety, entertainment and intellectual stimulation through group appeal. The failures are endless and actually do lead to little bits of insanity. Some of that insanity is like the kid from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who was auditioning to be the next great liberal politicians from South Florida—an irritating young person who clearly used the tragedy to launch more claims of gun control but really found himself seduced by the cameras and desperation of his classmates and adults around him to launch a public campaign that will likely last his entire life. Others are the kids like Cruz who haven’t yet shot up a school, but have been thinking about it. The police who suddenly had something to do and justify their large payrolls, the mothers who suddenly had something tangible to fear crying on television not because they were really sad about the event, but because it gave them a platform to unload all their personal insecurities. There was plenty of fault to go around as to why some loser like the assassin Cruz, the employee at a local Dollar Store, went on a rampage to kill people for all the failures in his own life. Gun control doesn’t begin to solve the problem—it simply makes people who are already desperately screwed up feel good for a short while as they avoid the real failure—our public education system and the type of people it produces into adulthood—messes of existence that are never prepared for action when it’s needed, whether that action is stopping a potential terrorist, or buying milk at the local grocery.

Because of the constant coverage on all the networks of this shooting I turned off the news and played my PlayStation 4 for a while, games like Battlefront, and Doom, and several other games that involve lots of guns shooting bad guys. Before that I was looking at paintball supplies because it is getting warmer and I was thinking of getting some equipment to shoot at other people on the many courses in my area that provide that experience. Before that I stopped by Premier Shooting in West Chester where 96 Rock was hosting a promotional activity at the gun range in the lobby. I was there to pick up some ammunition for my .500 magnum—because I was getting low. As I was playing the shooters on my home video game counsel I was thinking about the millions of kids who were also playing online with me, and wondering what it was about having the ability to shoot at other people in a playful way that was so appealing to so many people. I mean we could all chose to play a number of games, golf, football, bowling, anything. But the most popular games are the shooters—why? That’s because we all have a little warrior left in us from our primal beginnings and the ability to fight is still something we value as a species. Liberals have tried to educate that out of us, but they have failed, and in the cases of Nikolas Cruz they failed spectacularly. We live in a society where Disney sells Star Wars figures at Wal-Mart complete with guns for those figures to play fight with. If the toys didn’t have guns, nobody would buy them. We love guns in our society—the romance of using them to defend goodness from the clutches of villainy is a strong impulse to action. And the solution to our present problem is not to edit guns from our life, but to come to terms with them for the betterment of the human race—so that repressed feelings of lacking control do not cause us to run from one danger to another—such as in the perverted cop, or the over dramatized FBI agent who lets kids like Cruz fall through the cracks because they are too busy with interoffice affairs to do their jobs properly, or the teachers who want to establish a society of weaklings depended on mother government for the rest of their lives—the source of our trouble is our education system and how it aligns with our true desires as people. And until we deal with all that, there isn’t anything we can do legislatively to solve this problem of violence. The only solution is to meet it head on with more powerful guns in the hands of more competent people.

Rich Hoffman
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