TRANS ACTIVIST KILLS 3 CHILDREN, 3 ADULTS IN TARGETED ATTACK ON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL – Trans Activist Audrey Hale, who presents as a male, invaded a Christian school she previously attended and murdered 3 children aged 9 and 3 faculty. The murderer had maps on her that documented exactly how she was going to systematically murder children for daring to oppose her lifestyle choices. She also carried a manifesto which is not being shared by the media, for fear it might stigmatize transgenderism.
Leftists like David Packman blamed the Christian school for the deaths and championed the defiance of the transgendered woman for delivering “justice” to Christians who reject the lie of Satan that men and women do not exist.
This follows on the heels of trans militancy campaigns that include calls from transgendered people and their “allies” to use violence to teach those that reject trans ideology a lesson.
America has a founding tradition of live and let live, but transgender activists want more than to be “tolerated,” they want their claim of human reality to be forced on everyone else by any means necessary. It is time to consider whether tolerating “transgenderism” is tenable post-Nashville now that we realize the murderous outcomes of indulging mental illness rather than trying to actually treat it.
Transgendered people are suffering a mental illness that should be treated in a way that leads them to accept their actual reality. Leftists are using transgenderism as a weapon to assault Christian values and American constitutional rights, threatening us with more suicides if we don’t surrender our own beliefs and values to the transgendered community. The treatment of transgendered people by indulging their illness is leading to the premature deaths of transgenders, and now, the militant radicalization of people who now feel emboldened by the DNC-CCP and its corporate and state organs to act violently against others for simply rejecting their Satanic beliefs.
The compassionate response to a transgendered person is to bring them to face their actual reality, not to mutilate their bodies and make them dependent on life-shortening drugs for the rest of their diminishing lives. The way we treat transgendered people is just as horrible as the way we treated the mentally ill when we gave them lobotomies and sterilized them. One day, the transgendered activist of today will hate all the “favors” leftists have been giving them, “favors” that have only led to their further harm by the very same leftists that pretend they actually care about them as human beings.
If you truly love transgendered people, you won’t indulge their mental illness anymore than you would a schizophrenic who thinks they can fly and is about to leap off a 10-storey building. You would stop them and get them to see the reality, that they can’t fly. You wouldn’t push them off the ledge, like the left does every day to these afflicted people.
One suspects many transgendered people have already figured out how their community is being used as human shields to advance an ideology of fear and hate that demands nothing short of a police state to protect the lies such an ideology must tell to gain such power in the first place.
Anyone with even a passing familiarity with modern firearms knows about the AK-47. In fact, we discussed it here, as part of another series. The AK-47 is so well known because it is so widespread, having been handed out at no- or low-cost to so many rifles, that they now appear on national flags and crests.
Flag of Mozambique, showing an AK-47 in the canton. Public Domain.
But the AK-47 was not the first weapon to have this kind of impact. This article is the first part of a two-part series on the rifles that had a similar impact to the AK-47. One of those is still all over the world. This one, however, is nowhere near as well known today.
Gevär m/1867, from the Armémuseum (The Swedish Army Museum) collection. CCA-4.0
As the American Civil War raged, weapons using metallic cartridges began to appear, both in the hands of civilians and on the battlefield. While flashy weapons like the Henry and its descendant from Winchester Repeating Arms are better known, those weapons’ use in the military sphere was very limited. Early cartridge revolvers because popular with cavalry, but the Winchester remained almost solely a civilian weapon.
Armies are conservative by nature. The reason for this is understandable, given the stakes – when a business gambles on new technology, and the new tech fails, that is a very inconvenient; it might even be sad, if it causes the company to fail and costs workers their jobs. In contrast, if an army gambles on new tech and it fails, the consequences can be catastrophic out of all proportion to the technology. Case in point, the mitrailleuse.
Muzzle view of a Mitrailleuse, Les Invalides, Paris. CCA/3.0
The mitrailleuse was supposed to be France’s ultimate war-winning weapons system, able to sweep the Republic’s enemies from the battlefield like wheat before the scythe…The problem? It was kept so secret, no one ever trained the French artillery to handle it, and thus no one ever realized what it really was: a simple volley gun that could be loaded moderately quickly, and didn’t have much better range than the regular French rifles.
When it came to rifles in the post-American Civil War era, militaries around the world weren’t stupid – they knew that breech loading, metal-case cartridge rifles were the wave of the future…but which one was the best to use? Many countries tried various designs from their arsenals. Many other nations, unable to afford the infrastructure to mass-produce their own internal design, did what states have always done:
They went shopping.
The Remington Company of Ilion, New York, had been making firearms and ammunition since 1816. While it was legendary for its staggering levels of management incompetence (it finally folded permanently in 2020, broken into several pieces), it managed to produce a long and majestic line of firearms. And its first real “smash hit” was the Rolling Block.
The single-shot Remington Rolling Block began in 1863 as a slightly different design. Modified to strengthen the breech mechanism, by 1867, the rifle had matured into a solid weapon. It was rugged, reliable, and – most importantly for armies – was the last word in “soldier-proof”: it literally cannot misfire during loading, and cannot fire unless the breech is fully closed. The action was so strong, it needed virtually no modification when smokeless powder was developed in 1884. The only real danger was the chance of a misfired cartridge “cooking off” while it was being removed from the breech.
Remington Rolling Block breech mechanism. CCA/3.0
Remington’s rifle was made in a vast array of calibers and chambering’s. Remington would happily cut barrels for any cartridge provided by the customer. Mechanically much more simple than some thing like a British Martini-Henry and vastly more reliable than the Prussian needle-fired Dreyse rifle, the Rolling Block quickly took the military world by storm.
Although the Rolling Block was never adopted in any great numbers by the United States (due to a very parsimonious Congress), it was adopted by at least forty-seven nations over its lifespan, a staggering achievement for a time (~1880) when there were only about fifty-five “nations” in the world recognized as such.
From the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, to Peru, Qajar Persia and the Papal States (YouTube link), the Rolling Block fought wars, guarded walls and stood in parades for nearly fifty years. It was party to one of the oddities of the Spanish-American War (YouTube link), in 1898. Its last major war was actually World War One (YouTube link), where it served as a second-line rifle for rear area troops. It served countless hunters as far afield as Canada and the heart of Africa, and was “the other buffalo rifle,” next to the Sharps. The last version of the Rolling Block produced by Remington was the elegant “Number 7” target rifle (YouTube link), introduced in 1907.
But, as we will see next week, the Remington Rolling Block was buried in the public mind by a newly arrived competitor in the military rifle market, a rifle what would continue to serve for nearly a century in active military forces, a rifle so iconic, it will likely still be shooting when all the readers of this article will have passed beyond the Pale.
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INSANE SAN FRANCISCO COUNCIL MOVES FORWARD WITH UNCONSTITUTIONAL REPARATIONS PLAN – The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is going forward with their racist, unconstitutional plan of seeking to thug funds from one group of people based on race to give to another group of people based on race. Using the long-past “emergency” of slavery, the city that was never a part of a slavery system has decided to give blacks who are descended from slaves $5 million, exemption from taxation, and a $97,000 income for 250 years.
The plan seems so far fetched that even the race-grifting anti-American terrorist org called Black Lives Matter is not supporting it, accusing the supervisors of creating an unrealistic plan they know will never pass muster. In other words, they are accusing the mostly white board of virtue signaling.
Regardless, the actions should trigger criminal legal action against the board members, who are now in open defiance of the Rule of Law of our constitutional republic. One doubts very much that American DAs are present in the state of California.
The plan would mean that all households not exempt from taxation will be forced at gunpoint to pay $600,000 just to meet the initial $5 million dollar per slave descendent commitment.
One supervisor demonstrated the ruthlessness and illogic of the whole board when she commented after the vote, “Now the real work continues. As I’ve said before, we have to stay focused and stay together as a community because now it is 100 percent more prevalent that we cannot be separated or divided.” That supervisor is Shamann Walton, who made it clear that the “unity” is built around anti-whiteness and black supremacism, while also demonstrating themselves to be out of touch with simple logic. You cannot have unity when you burden one group of people in a way that destroys their ability to pursue their own prosperity and happiness just to give state favor to a special class of people, based mostly on race.
Logically, we would understand that the majority afflicted to give special privilege to the minority will not feel in unity with that group, but rather great enmity will build, between the afflicted and the pampered.
QANON SHAMEN REMAINS IN PRISON DESPITE VIDEO EXONERATING HIM – The Biden administration’s political activist lawfare assassins, also known as Federal Prosecutors, denied the plain evidence that exonerates wrongfully convicted American Jacob Chansley of leading an insurrection against the Federal government at the Federal capitol on January 6th, 2021, the day that seditionists from both parties certified an unconstitutional mass mailer election.
They then made claims which were quickly refuted that what was not shown in the video was that Chansley had to be forcefully removed from the capitol. A video release showed Chansley in fact left peacefully, following the instructions of police peacefully, and even thanking them for their service.
In addition to that video, another video release shows Chansley reading tweets by President Donald Trump telling the protestors to go home, and encouraging the protestors to go home.
DNC henchman Chuck Schumer (D-NY) stood in the well of the Senate openly calling for a private news outlet to ban Tucker Carlson and prevent him from showing any more January 6 videos on their network, a move that was lauded and supported by DNC henchman Mitch McConnel (R-KY), revealing the true party, the DNC’s uniparty (with the RNC serving as controlled opposition to the pro-CCP, anti-American alliance), that is in charge of our republic, while itself hating everything America and Americans stand for.
MORE “AMERICAN” CITIES PUSH FOR NON-CITIZEN VOTING – DNC-Controlled formerly American cities are being run into the ground by Woketarian, anti-American, anti-human policies. Adding to that list is the latest trend among the anti-American left, pushing for non-citizen voting. The District of Columbia is joining Chicago, NYC, and San Francisco in moving to make it “legal” for non-citizens to vote in “American” elections, an act of sedition in and of itself, but not if you imagine these lands are the nation of the DNC, a nation at existential odds with our own.
The President of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, an American election integrity watchdog group, said of the overt acts of sedition by the largest political party in America, “When foreign nationals who have no stake in the future of our country are allowed to vote, it undermines the importance of citizenship and the more than century long [struggle] for black Americans to gain the right to vote. Foreign nationals are diluting the power of black Americans
CANADA PUSHES REGIME CHANGE IN CHINA – Canada’s Foreign Minister, Melanie Joly, recently made statements regarding Russia that are sending shock waves throughout the international community. Joly said, “We’re able to see how much we’re isolating the Russian regime right now — because we need to do so economically, politically and diplomatically — and what are the impacts also on society, and how much we’re seeing potential regime change in Russia.”
The Russian Ambassador to Canada, Oleg Stepanov, attempted to give the minister some cover, saying that her remarks may have been an “awkward slip of the tongue.” Experts worry the comments could give Putin more power at home as he will be viewed as the one man standing up to western bullying, connecting the war in Ukraine with Russia’s existential fight with the West simply to survive.
BIDEN WANTS AMERICANS TO HAVE DIRTY CLOTHES TO “SAVE THE PLANET” – Under the guise of saving the planet from man-made global warming, the Biden Administration’s Energy Department released a proposal in February to create higher “standards” of efficiency for washing machine manufacturers. The manufacturers say the Biden-dictated changes will render washing machines ineffective, resulting in Americans simply refusing to buy the new Woketarian junk this Kingly decree will create.
Travis Fisher, a fellow for the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Energy, Climate, and the Environment, said of the move, “When you’re squeezing all you can out of the efficiency in terms of electricity use and water … you by definition either make the appliance worse or slower,” said Fisher, who serves as a senior research fellow at the foundation’s Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment. “Why are we so focused on the energy output, as opposed to if it’s helping me wash my clothes? That standard has kind of gone off the rails.”
CHINA GETS MILLIONS FROM U.S. TO CREATE A PANDEMIC – While American leaders are warning of China’s continued existential threat to American liberty, leftists continue to defend China, even calling the effort by anyone to ban their spy software, TikTok, an infringement on free speech (which they don’t actually believe in). They do so in the face of recent news that the Wuhan Lab in China, where Dr. Anthony “I am the science” Fauci sent millions of taxpayer dollars to pay for the development of a biological weapon of war, double-billed the government that unconstitutionally, and in violation of international war laws, sought to fund the villainous venture.
Despite China’s overt assault on the American republic, “American” investors continue to be willing to prop up the deadly enemy, with Morgan Stanley economists now openly encouraging investment in the police state nation, which uses the wealth gained from American investors and trade to prop up its efforts to undermine the American republic at home and abroad, with the sometimes tacit, sometimes overt approval of the Democratic Party and its high-placed members who make millions selling America to China (including Joe “the mass mailer President” Biden).
DEI OFFICER AT STANFORD JOINS STUDENTS IN CHILLING FREE SPEECH OF JUDGE – Anti-American students at Stanford University yelled racial epithets and other derogatory comments at Fifth Circuit Judge Kyle Duncan for having American values and beliefs while on their anti-American, anti-human campus.
The violence, the intimidation against an American citizen because of his beliefs alone was incited and joined in by the DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) officer, who made it clear that DEI Officers are de facto DNC police state party enforcers, collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to enforce the DNC’s woketarian code on students.
After the Dean of Stanford’s Law School apologized, the Marxist-trained anti-American students demonstrated their lack of understanding of the first amendment, the right to free speech, by equating their violent intimidation of a speaker with “free speech,” to the cheer of the DEI officer, the Democrat Party’s de facto thought police enforcer, Tirien Steinbach, who never met an American she didn’t want to silence.
The dawn of the 19th Century heralded perhaps the greatest explosion of technological development in human history. While technologies in most areas had been advancing slowly for centuries, a little-understood combination of factors combined to radically reshape human societies, developing – for better or worse – faster in one hundred years, than at any other point in human history. Steam engines radically reshaped transport on land and sea, opening broad new ranges of products, both agricultural and manufactured; the telegraph radically altered patterns of human communication; medicine suddenly evolved from speculation and bloodletting to observable and testable practices, radically reshaping human mortality rates. The maturing of electrical power generation, transmission and use resulted not only in the telegraph and the light bulb, but of an early form of fax machine.
Caselli’s pantelegraph tinfoil mechanism, 1866. Public Domain.
In firearms technology, the developments were just as radical. In 1800, the only personal firearms out there were flintlock muskets (aside from some pretty radical one-offs). Less than thirty years later, the percussion cap significantly changed the calculus, by making the musket vastly more reliable. By the end of the 1860’s, self-contained rimfire and centerfirecartridges had begun to dominate the battlefield. Well before the end of the century, smokeless powder and functional machine guns had begun to fundamentally alter infantry warfare.
This steamroller of technological advancement held true in the world of artillery technology, as well. The muzzle-loading cannons of 1800 gave way to breech-loading guns by 1870…Which is where our story actually begins, when artillery met steam power, but off the railroad or warship.
Edmund Louis Gray Zalinski, (1849 – 1909) was a Polish-born American soldier, military engineer and inventor. Born to a Jewish family in Kórnik, Prussian Poland in 1849, he immigrated with his parents to the United States in 1853. Lying about his age to enlist, he joined the US Army and served during the Civil War. Commissioned a 2nd LT in an artillery regiment from the state of New York, Zalinski served on the staff of General Nelson Miles. While not much is known of the details of his exact service, it was apparently enough to see him offered a commission in the Regular Army after the war, which is a notable thing, given the drastic post-war cuts in manpower and budgets. During his career, he served as an artillery officer at the Fort Jefferson military prison in Florida (where he authored an appeal to President Andrew Johnson to pardon Dr. Samuel Mudd, who had been convicted as a conspirator in Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, for the doctor’s service during an outbreak of Yellow Fever at the prison), and as a professor of military science at MIT (the Massachusetts Institute of Technology). During this time, he patented a number of inventions, including an artillery sight.
In 1883, Zalinski witnessed a demonstration of a pneumatic artillery weapon, designed by D. M. Medford of Chicago, Illinois. Zalinski began working on the idea, and eventually designed his own pneumatic gun. While the Army was not initially interested, the US Navy was intrigued. As chemistry had advanced, it had started to create high explosives, that were far more powerful than the older black powder; however, these new explosives were very unstable, and were liable to detonate when fired in a conventional gun. The Navy, wanting to find a way to use the new tool, thought that Zalinski’s new system might be the answer.
USS VESUVIUS Dynamite Cruiser, 1888-1922. Photo: H.C. Peabody. Public Domain.
In late 1887, the USS Vesuvius was laid down at the William Cramp & Sons yard in Philadelphia, PA; she would be commissioned some six months later. As fitted out, the Vesuvius (named for the Italian volcano) carried three 15-inch “dynamite guns” (a term coined by the press), that could each throw a 500-lbs shell (called a “torpedo”, because – Navy) out to about one-and-a-half miles, adjusting the range by varying the air pressure. Without a war to fight, however, the ship was mostly relegated to the dreaded “dog & pony” circuit, visiting port towns to help them celebrate various holidays. In South America, the Brazilian Navy also fitted a 15-inch model to an auxiliary cruiser named the Nichteroy, which was later sold to the US Navy, which named that ship the USS Buffalo.
15inch ‘Dynamite Gun’, mounted on the Brazilian Navy ship Nitheroy, 1892. Photo by Marc Ferrez, 1982. Public Domain.
Wanting to stay as far ahead of the game as possible, the Navy also commissioned the USS Holland in 1900, to see if an 8-inch version of Zalinski’s gun could be used on a submarine.
USS Holland (SS-1), the first submarine of the U.S. Navy, showing the 8-inch dynamite gun muzzle open at the bow. Taken in 1898. US Navy Photo.
Following a two-year stint in the yards for repairs, Vesuvius returned to the fleet in 1897, as relations with Spain worsened. These tensions would soon lead to the Spanish-American War, in 1898. While the Vesuviusperformed well in nighttime raids on the Cuban city of Santiago, the ship was saddled with a number of flaws, not least of which was the fact that it was very difficult to aim her main guns, as they were set deep into her hull, instead of being mounted in more conventional turrets. This led the Navy to convert the Vesuvius into a torpedo test vessel in 1904, stripping her of her ”dynamite guns” and replacing them with a variety of torpedo tubes.
U.S.S. Vesuvius, c. 1890-1901, showing its main gun barrels protruding from its deck. Library of Congress. Public Domain.
As well, the US Army would abandon their experiments with Zalinski’s guns. The Army, which was responsible for coast artillery defense, had installed a number of 8- and 15-inch guns at various forts around the country. But, by 1900, the “dynamite guns” had all been dismounted and sold for scrap.
“Battery Dynamite” at Fort Winfield Scott, San Francisco, CA. Photo c.1900. Public Domain.
The reasons for the abandonment of Zalinski’s design are simple: the development of stable high explosives and the limited range of the guns made the “soft-launch” of the pneumatic guns irrelevant, as both issues were easily overcome by conventional artillery. As well, the low velocity of the shells forced them to fire at a high angle, limiting both their accuracy and impact force against armored targets.
While it is neat to speculate on “what if,” the fact remains that pneumatic artillery, although playing an interesting and important role in late-19th Century artillery, has had its day: the support infrastructure to operate pneumatic guns, even using modern technology, is not sufficient for use in combat, even using rocket assist to increase their range.
There’s no reason to reinvent the wheel.
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