Star Wars: Rogue One Review : No Spoilers

If you took a group playing a Star Wars RPG w/ a really good GM and another group playing SW: X-Wing minisw/ a nice collection, this is what you'ld get in visual form.

No scrolling. Straight into the film.
CGI of Ep IV characters was really well done.
70's haircuts and tech. Nice touch.
Lots of combat
Lots of cool vehicles, ships, guns, and uniforms.
Relate-able characters. The droid was the best.
What is it w/ little Chinese girls standing in the streets crying during battles?

All the media hype about the movie being anti-Trump blah blah blah.....?  Throw all that crap out the window.  Just another made up issue to try and generate clicks and controversy. 

It's not going to do as well this weekend as hoped but not because of nonsense or boycotts, it's the weather.  We were one of only about 2 doz people in the theater at a prime time.  Ice everywhere. The entire complex was practically empty.

I and the spawnlings enjoyed it immensely. It will be added to the collection.

Winning

Heard on the radio this morning.

Lake Land College offers Concealed Carry ClassesPosted on December 14, 2016Lake Land College is offering two-day Introduction to Concealed Carry classes at Accuracy Firearms in Effingham, Ill.Four weekend classes are available: Saturday, Jan. 21 and Sunday, Jan. 22; Saturday, Jan. 28  and Sunday Jan. 29; Saturday, Feb. 4  and Sunday, Feb. 5; and Saturday, March 4 and Sunday March 5.  All classes will meet from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.Instructor Dwayne Beccue has designed this class to educate the student about handguns best suited for personal defense, how to carry them safely and how to deploy and use them efficiently in the context of a Dynamic Critical Incident.  The class will also cover the laws pertaining to the appropriate and lawful use of carrying handguns in public.The cost is $150 for the two-day class.  To register, go to www.lakelandcollege.edu/learn, choose the class date and enroll.  Students can also call Admissions & Records at 217-234-5434.  Drop date for a refund is five business days prior to the class.  For more information, contact Vivian Bales at 217-234-5087 or email vbales@lakelandcollege.edu.

Miss Sloane *Spoiler Alert*

Lots of reviews have talked about the inane 'surprise ending' but of course haven't mentioned what it is. IMDB and Wiki haven't put it up the full plot on their sites yet.

Not that that's going to stop anyone.

Want to know what the 'shocking ending' is?  Read below the ads.

Sloane sacrifices her career to take down the 'gun lobby' along with their evil supporters in Congress and get background checks passed because she's suddenly grown a conscience and guns 'r bad m'kay. 

Yeah.  Real surprise there. 

Cook County's Xmas Gift To Criminals

The Cook County State's Attorney's Office has a new policy concerning retail thefts.
Felony Review will not be approving felony charges unless the property in question is valued over $1000.
However, if felony charges are based upon the offender's prior criminal history, then charges will not be approved unless the offender has ten or more prior felony convictions.

Go ahead and walk out of the store w/ a couple of 4K tv's.  It's only a misdemeanor now (and probably pled down to double secret probation).

I'm sure this is going to work out just wonderfully.

H/T to SCC

No Sympathy

From the latest Brady "We need money" email:

In December, we remember the anniversaries of the shootings in San Bernardino and at Sandy Hook Elementary School, as well as my own son Tyler who lost his life to senseless and preventable gun violence on December 22, 2012. I could let all this tragedy get me down, but instead I'm inspired to fight even harder to end gun violence in America, so no parent is in my shoes.

The lady's name is Delphine Cherry, the Chicagoland Brady Campaign Chapter President.  I did a little digging.  In 1992, her daughter, Tyesa Cherry, was killed.  From a Trib story:

As she left Chestnut Station Theaters, Tyesa Cherry was struck in the head and killed by a stray bullet from a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun. The gun was allegedly fired by a 14-year-old gang member who was fighting with another youth while waiting in line.

This was during the height of Chicago's handgun ban. The movie?  Juice.  A 1992 film about violent gang thugs killing each other.  And the theatre?

During the early-1990’s, the theatre gained notoriety when a young woman was shot and killed in front of the theatre, and the theatre was known throughout the 1990’s of notorious for gang activity and the quality of films went down.  

20 years later, her son was killed:

Hazel Crest Village Manager James Whigham said Tyler Randolph was targeted by an assailant who walked up to him Saturday night and shot him to death about 8:15 p.m. in the 3500 block of Birchwood Drive. Randolph was taken to a hospital but was pronounced dead a short time later at a hospital, Whigham said.

They go on:

Whigham said the public is not in danger after the attack because they are working under the assumption that the shooter was a "known offender."
"It doesn't appear to be a random act," Whigham said.

Why wasn't it 'random'?

Cherry says that in 2011, Tyler received a phone call to pick up a friend in need. The friend, she says, had stolen a purse outside of a Family Dollar. After Tyler picked up that friend and brought him back to the Cherry house, Hazel Crest police soon arrived. While Tyler faced the police at the front door, the friend escaped out the back door. With Tyler’s phone confiscated by police, they later locate that friend as well as Tyler and arrest them both, according to Cherry.

So at the very least he was an accomplice to a crime and was involved in the local criminal culture.

So the mother's response is to join a group that does everything it can to restrict and punish those who follow the laws, get the licenses, training, etc.

This is just one reason why I don't take 'Gun Safety' groups seriously.

Lawson Family Home Fire.. Help Needed

The family home of David and Colleen Lawson burned down. While some made it out, several of their relatives perished in the fire.  This is THE Lawson's, of McDonald v Chicago and also being a wonderful couple in their own right. 



They've done so much for us, the firearm owning community, now it's time to return the favor and show the world we're a family.


Help them out and spread the word.