Remember Her.

I got this haunting image from the Bugscuffle Gazette:

This is Iryna Zarutska seconds after being stabbed by a feral animal. She was already dying at this point.

She could be your daughter.

She could be my daughter.

Just a woman, who grew up in a country where her street smarts weren’t tuned to deal with the feral criminals and crazies found in nearly any American city. She was merely exercising her profound privilege by commuting home from her job in a pizza shop on the rail.

Take a good long look at this picture. At the moment this frame was taken, that poor girl is already dead. What has just been done to her could have been done in the waiting room of a level 1 Trauma Centre, and it wouldn’t change the outcome one bit.

I want you to burn this image into your brain; and the next time you’re in public and you think your smartphone is more fascinating than watching the people around you, I want you to remember it. – Lawdog

True. But, before that size up the room. Think whether you need to be there at all.

It’s not her fault. She had every right to expect safety on a train in a southern city. She wouldn’t have known. And if she were American, I’m sure her head would be full of woke nonsense that would’ve gotten her hemmed up the same way.

I’d be beside myself if that were my daughter. Hell, my youngest was assaulted by a crazy on the subway in Chicago. I was ready to fly up there and go full Death Wish. No Shit.

Take a long look at the expression on that girl’s face — and for those times when your CCW gun is, well, just too inconvenient, I want you to remember that expression.

Understand the terror in her face. And when training — physical training, weapons training, MUC training, whatever training — is too much of a bother … remember that terror. – Lawdog

This is all true. But a petite blonde girl shouldn’t have to do that. Innocents should be protected. A gun would not have helped her here. The lesson here is to be alert. If you are a woman, don’t go near the wildlife. That’s lesson #1.

That said, I’ve upped my carry game by acquiring a brace of Smith and Wesson M&Ps, a shield in .45 and a Bodyguard. They are probably the best for me, but the old man in me wants to carry his 1911, like Clint in “Grand Torino”

Ever notice how every once in awhile you come across somebody you shouldn’t have fucked with?…[spit]…that’s me. – Clint.

A better option would be to follow old Remus’ advice and simply not be around that bullshit.

The answer isn’t to pack heat, although it’s what you must do these days.

The answer is to route the imbeciles that allowed this to happen. Starting with that DEI Magistrate that let him go without bail. That ignorant shithead should never have been in the position to start with, having zero law school under her belt, let alone bar membership. The second head that needs to roll is the idiot mayor, blonde Karen wig-hat and all:

This idiot has been busy blaming the messenger, asserting that this is all a big right wing dog whistle. All this excitement just gets the MAGA crowd fired up. No conception that innocents shouldn’t be murdered in her city because one of her employees let a criminal lunatic off the hook.

She’s a failure. She needs to be ousted.

Route these idiots, then lock up the loons and ne’r do wells.

The rest of the tribe is busy claiming racisms. Really? An animal slaughters an innocent woman in public, without remorse, and we need to consider bad feelz for the rest of the tribe? The demented killer needs a GoFundMe? Clean up your own house before you point at mine.

Dude needs to be swinging from a gibbet. The hell with his feelz, if he has any at all.

We need to bring back asylums, point blank. What lunatics aren’t out in the streets are merely warehoused in prisons. We also need to look harder at a three strikes law. Dude shouldn’t have had 14 arrests before he murdered this woman.

These fools better wise up and do something before the rest of us decide to start taking care of business.