SchrodingersCat

Planning my revenge from inside the box

[Secretary Sean Duffy @SecDuffy]

This is Margaret Swan, a great-grandmother stabbed to death 20 TIMES in a random attack in the middle of the day on Atlanta’s public transit. Her murder was the second horrific attack on MARTA in a week.

I want ANSWERS from Atlanta. The number of assaults, robberies, and rapes on MARTA’s trains is MORE THAN THREE TIMES the national average.


MARTA has 15 DAYS from today to provide:

- Security spending

- Safety plans for riders and workers

- Detailed action strategy to prevent crime and fare evasion

Margaret’s family DESERVES ACCOUNTABILITY. No one should be forced to fear for their safety on public transit.

[i/o @avidseries]

A typical exchange in the pre-Musk era.

The account which made that first (racist) comment was, of course, safe from threat of suspension, but my account, stating something that was neither inaccurate nor racist, wasn't.

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

I need you to picture something for me.

It is New Year's Eve. The year is 2011. Blanchard, Oklahoma.

There is an 18-year-old girl alone in a mobile home. Her husband — 40 years her senior, her best friend, her protector — died of lung cancer six days ago. On Christmas Day. She buried him, came home, and now it is New Year's Eve and she is holding a three-month-old baby boy.

Her name is Sarah McKinley.

She hears a knock at the door. She looks through the peephole. A man she does not know — a man named Justin Martin who had showed up at her husband's funeral under the pretense of offering condolences — is standing on her porch. He says he is a neighbor who needs help. Her gut says something else entirely. She tells him to leave.

He doesn't leave.

He goes to the back door and tries to force his way in. He is not alone. There are two of them. And through the door, he tells her: "Let me in or I'll kill you."

Think about that for one second. Her husband is six days in the ground. She has a baby in her arms. She is 18 years old. And a man is threatening to kill her while trying to break down her door.

What Sarah McKinley did next is the part the gun control crowd does not want to talk about.

She put the bottle in the baby's mouth. She grabbed her 12-gauge shotgun. She grabbed her pistol. She pushed a couch against one door, went to the bedroom, and called 911. She had two guns in her hands and an infant in her lap, and she stayed on the phone with dispatcher Diane Graham for 21 minutes while those men worked to get through her door.

At one point she asked the dispatcher a question that should be on the wall of every legislature in America: "I've got two guns in my hand. Is it OK to shoot him if he comes in this door?"

Dispatcher Diane Graham said: "I can't tell you that you can do that, but you have to do what you have to do to protect your baby."

Twenty-one minutes. She held the line for twenty-one minutes.

When Justin Martin finally kicked through that door and came toward her with a 12-inch hunting knife, Sarah McKinley pulled the trigger.

He was pronounced dead at the scene. His accomplice was charged with first-degree murder under Oklahoma law — which holds that when you commit a crime and a death results, you are responsible for that death. No charges were filed against Sarah. Oklahoma law was perfectly clear on why.

No charges. Because the law recognized something that the gun control lobby cannot bring itself to acknowledge: she had every right to be alive.

The media gave this story exactly the coverage you would expect for a story that destroys the narrative. A few days. Some local coverage. A brief appearance on a cable talk show. And then it disappeared. No Everytown fundraiser. No congressional testimony. No orange awareness ribbon for Sarah McKinley. Because she survived. And the gun control campaign has no use for survivors.

Now let me give you the data behind what you just read.

John Lott — University of Chicago economist, researcher of 13,312 statistically controlled regressions across every county in America — found that approximately 95 percent of the time a gun is used defensively, it is NEVER EVEN FIRED. A woman opens a curtain and points a gun at a man kicking down her door, and he runs — straight into a wall in one documented case — and no shot is ever fired. No dead body. No 911 call. No news story. And no awareness campaign.

Between 760,000 and 3.6 million defensive gun uses occur in America every year, depending on which survey you use. The Department of Justice's own floor estimate is 65,000. A JAMA study from March 2025 put the number of DGUs where a firearm was actually discharged at 489,000 annually. That is almost HALF A MILLION times in a single year that a law-abiding person used a firearm to stop a crime being committed against them or someone they loved.

You do not hear about them because nobody died. And nobody died because the gun was there.

The Supreme Court has already settled the question of whether the government is required to protect you. DeShaney v. Winnebago County, 1989. Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales, 2005. The answer is no. No legal obligation. None. You are your own first responder. That is not a political argument. That is settled constitutional law from the highest court in the United States.

So the political class that just told you the government is not required to protect you... is also the political class trying to disarm the Sarah McKinleys of this country.

Think about what that actually means. An 18-year-old widow with a baby and a 12-gauge is the reason a three-month-old boy grew up with a mother. Take the gun out of that story and tell me how it ends differently.

I will wait.

Quinn's Law Number One. Liberalism produces the opposite of its stated intent. They say they want to protect women. They want to disarm the tool that kept one alive on New Year's Eve while she sat on a bedroom floor with a baby in her lap and a man threatening to kill her on the other side of the door.

I am DONE with the performance. I am done with the orange shirts and the awareness months that suppress the data that would actually SAVE the people they claim to be fighting for. The research is not ambiguous. The story is not ambiguous. The law is not ambiguous.

The gun does not make you violent. It makes you hard to kill. And for people who want to hurt you, that distinction is everything.

But what do I know — I am only a combat medic who has spent his entire adult life trying to keep people alive, a father of four daughters who sleep safely in their house, and a science teacher who believes the data matters more than the fundraising cycle.

IF you agree:
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@JoJoFromJerz @atrupar @GuntherEagleman

[Batya Ungar-Sargon @bungarsargon]

The same people who call anyone who voted for Trump a Nazi are now lining up to defend an *actual Nazi* who proudly sported a tattoo of concentration camp guards for 18 years until he ran for office. And they have the audacity to pretend anything Trump did comes close to that.

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

Everyday, the left finds new ways to demean women and our biological uniqueness.

Dems in NY just replaced “mother” with “gestating parent” in state law.

The only thing worse was when Gov. Evers called us “inseminated persons.” That still takes the cake.
https://t.co/LRFLkwn0SJ

[Rasmussen Reports @Rasmussen_Poll]

California: How do you get a batch of thousands of election ballots but not a single one, not one, for a specific top candidate?

You don’t.

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

I don’t recall voting for this Judge to be President.

[SchrodingersCat @CocoPie13]

@SecRubio

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

Call your congressman

DM The White House

Tag @SecRubio

We have more than enough anti-American military journalists here already. There is zero reason for us to import more from India and the UK 👇

[Randy Fine @VoteRandyFine]

Never in my lifetime did I think a Jew, @SenSchumer, would stand up and justify electing someone with a Nazi tattoo on their chest.

Democrats are so desperate for power that they’ll embrace evil to win.

People willing to embrace evil to gain power should never, ever have access to it.

[Save Women's Sports USA (Dave) @boolou2020]

To be fair, Abraham deserves his own meme . I made one for him. 🤷

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83]

11 trans people have been murdered in the United Kingdom since 2000. All of them were killed by somebody they knew.

In that timeframe, 20 trans people have committed homicide in the UK, including one stranger killing.

There is no trans genocide.

There isn’t even any real persecution.
When it comes to homicide, trans people are the safest demographic in the western world, and it’s past time that members of that community stop pretending to be the most victimy victims ever to be victimized.

[Jeff Clark @JeffClarkUS]

+1 Fresh off threatening DOJ lawyers to resist Trump or be chased to the ends of the earth and find themselves disbarred, Harry Litman is now warning new lawyers who are needed to fill DOJ vacancies -- vacancies he and his ilk are the ones creating using terror tactics -- that they should turn down offers to join DOJ, or their careers will be "tarred."

Instead, if they help Trump, they will not be able to get high-paying legal work when they leave DOJ.

Watch as he claims it's a black mark on your record, if you agree to work for @DAGToddBlanche. (Only working for Merrick Garland or Eric Holder can advance your career in BigLaw.)

Summary: Communist legal pressure groups are trying to create their own vicious cycle to destroy DOJ and undermine the presidency. If they can't run the place as a Democrat majority operation, then the place must be destroyed. That's their evil attitude.

I illustrate the negative cycle they are trying to create below. And note, they gin up these acts of destruction all while claiming that they really love the institution of DOJ. No, what they love is their own power. Nothing else matters.

No one can disagree with them about permissible options under the law or they will destroy the professional reputations and livelihoods of those who would stand in their way.

It is not an exaggeration to call these Bolshevik/Alinskyite tactics.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Steve Hilton RAGES Against Democrats Trying To STEAL The Governor's Race in California With Weeks of Counting Votes: 'We are NOT Going to Let Them Steal This Election! We Are Going To Win'

Hilton: “This is what happens when you have a party that’s been in power for so long. There’s no accountability, there’s no pushback.”

Benny: “Say they plan on stealing this election, what will you do?”

Hilton: “We are NOT going to let them do that. The state wants change.

There’s this unbelievable rule that ballots can arrive 7 days after election day. We are very confident SCOTUS will rule it ILLEGAL, this insanity of voting 7 days after election day.”

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

We need to ask...

If the organization at the center of America's entire post-Charlottesville "democracy" infrastructure had a supervised informant (or worse, agent provocateur) inside the event that justified building that infrastructure...

... what does that make the infrastructure?

THREAD END.

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

Optimism is not the belief that everything will be fine, but the belief that problems are SOLVABLE, combined with the willingness to actually go solve them. That thesis has built every good thing we have.

[Richard Grenell @RichardGrenell]

I want to thank the @FBI officials for very quick work finding and arresting this guy - and @TheJusticeDept for getting a conviction.

Left wing violence is getting worse.

[Curtis Houck @CurtisHouck]

POWERFUL: @BUngarSargon SLAMS Graham Platner and Democrats lining up to defend him...

"Well, I'll just say my grandfather's whole family was murdered in the Sobibor concentration camp. Graham Platner doesn't just have a Nazi tattoo. For 18 years, he had a tattoo of the concentration camp guards on his chest, and he knew what it was. He knew what it was. And to hear people compare that to anything else in the public sphere in America is insane. And it is insanely offensive. These people who are defending him called me, and every other MAGA person a Nazi for ten years, because we voted for someone who we thought would improve the lives of working-class Americans, and now they are lining up and defending a guy who had a Nazi tattoo -- which he knew about -- for 18 years. It is so insane to act like anything Donald Trump did was anywhere close to having a Taunton Cup on his chest for 18 years. This guy is a Nazi, and Democrats are lining up behind him because they think he can win."

[C3 @C_3C_3]

California is going to take 37 days to count 9 million mail in ballots with 0 of the voters showing ID.

This is totally fine with John Thune.

Think about that.

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

If you can only count half your votes on election night in just a single city, you're cheating.

[Department of State @StateDept]

SECRETARY RUBIO: "There's no doubt that when you have people showing up with pre-printed signs 24 hours after Nicolás Maduro was arrested and extradited to the United States, that's not an organic movement. Someone's paying for that."