Two tales got here throughout the transom over the weekend from X that each contain weapons and supply insights into the minds of eccentric personalities whose actions may endanger others, however largely themselves.
The primary got here as a video with commentary by Jason B. Alexander, a self-described “journalist” who’s “providing to coach supporters of the Palestinian folks all I learn about self-defense.” His acknowledged motivation is that he anticipates retaliation in opposition to “leaders and organizers of the Palestinian motion” by “Israel and its supporters” following the focused assassination of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, DC. His {qualifications} look like that he “was raised within the Bronx, within the Nineteen Seventies. I do know alot.”
To show his talent, he goals a scoped air rifle out his window and fires it, then walks the viewer to a goal in his yard that he says, “is about 50 yards.” He exhibits a close-up of a paper goal with a number of holes in it, factors to 1, and claims, “I received a bullseye.”
I’m providing to coach supporters of the Palestinian folks all I learn about self-defense.
I used to be raised within the Bronx, within the Nineteen Seventies. I do know alot.
After the assassination of two Israeli brokers in Washington, DC, by Elias Rodriguez, Israel and its supporters may be anticipated to… pic.twitter.com/RuuBlVkfZ4
— JB Nicholas (@JasonBNicholas) Might 22, 2025
Whereas there’s no strategy to validate when that shot was fired and from what distance, it’s hardly a outstanding achievement, nevertheless it does make some questions honest: Why an air rifle? And, since he doxes himself publicizes his handle, apparently so the web can’t be used to hint communications, what do the individuals who dwell behind him consider him firing it of their course with no stable backstop?
Alexander confirms in a subsequent remark that he’s the topic of a information account that relates the time he killed a person with a “sawed-off shotgun” and “spent almost 13 years behind bars.” That might make him a “prohibited individual.”
And whereas New York legislation is unclear on felons with airguns, 6 CRR-NY 180.3 on Fish and Wildlife provides confusion into the combination:
“The phrases firearm or gun shall imply any rifle, pistol, shotgun or muzzleloading firearm which by drive of gunpowder, or an airgun as outlined in subdivision (b) of this part, that expels a missile or projectile able to killing, wounding or in any other case inflicting bodily harm upon fish, wildlife or different animals.”
Maybe Mr. Alexander’s talent at saying he’s certified to coach others to place down Israeli retaliation will give Mossad operatives motive to pause. Then once more, maybe his time can be higher spent mowing his garden and cleansing his room.
The second occasion is one other head-scratcher, coming from “Christopher,” an “08’ Obama delegate and unbiased CD1 congressional candidate” who was complaining that Republicans do nothing on weapons and block makes an attempt to regulate them, When challenged on being a gun-grabber, he responded by claiming to be a gun proprietor himself, after which “proved” it by posting a photograph of him holding a pistol to his head together with his finger on the set off.
I am going to c4 with my pal once we get a number of hours on our weekends on the identical time pic.twitter.com/rI9CLhqEh7
— Christopher (@tennismd7) Might 25, 2025
When challenged for violating cardinal guidelines of gun security, he wouldn’t again down from insisting the gun was empty and he’d checked it himself. True, it doesn’t have {a magazine}, and he might have even cleared the chamber, however that doesn’t alter some inconvenient truths.
Cavalier attitudes towards the 4 Guidelines originated by “Gunner’s Guru” Col. Jeff Cooper, whom Christopher presumably is aware of higher than, result in careless errors over time. That’s evidenced by common gun homeowners and “skilled” law enforcement officials inflicting negligent discharges as a result of they “thought” the gun was empty and touched the set off.
Additionally, as gun homeowners, now we have an ethical obligation to conduct ourselves responsibly and safely. That’s very true for a would-be politician. Posting photographs like this for the world to see disregards that not everybody who does is aware of why it’s harmful and should emulate it themselves. That’s significantly true of younger folks attempting to impress others. And talking of individuals with no gun dealing with expertise, one in every of Christopher’s proposed “options” to “make the nation safer for all of us [is] we are able to do gun buybacks…”
Disregard that no much less an authority than the DOJ’s Nationwide Institute of Justice concluded years in the past in its “Abstract of Choose Firearm Violence Prevention Methods” that:
“Proof: Gun buybacks are ineffective as usually applied. 1. The buybacks are too small to have an effect. 2. The weapons turned in are at low danger of ever being utilized in against the law. 3. Alternative weapons are simply acquired. Except these three factors are overcome, a gun buyback can’t be efficient.”
They’re additionally used to supply inducements to folks, who by no means heard of Cooper’s Guidelines and should not know the right way to take away {a magazine}, or clear a chamber, or preserve fingers or anything from touching triggers, to choose weapons up and transport them to assortment facilities. That hardly “makes the nation safer for all of us.”
It will be a waste of time to depart replies to both Jason or Christopher. Their minds, similar to they’re, are clearly made up and immune to being modified and to accepting that they might not be as “proper” as they suppose they’re. That’s what makes this a studying expertise for all of us when coping with intractable individuals who act like they know all of it. None of us do.
I’m reminded of an article I did a long time in the past on “sensible weapons,” the place I sought recommendation from a former Navy SEAL and professional’s professional, offering weapons and ways coaching to elite army combating personnel, civilian legislation enforcement tactical specialists, and approved safety professionals. With candor typical of true professionals, he admitted up entrance that “our employees doesn’t know all of it, nor have we ‘arrived’. We’re in a continuing state of studying and contemplate ourselves perpetual college students.”
Evaluate that to the presumed warfighter coach who shoots pellets out his bed room window and the man who insists it’s OK to place a gun to his head, each of whom refuse to think about that those that don’t “respect their authoritah” might have some extent.
I do know who I’ll hearken to.
About David Codrea:
David Codrea is the winner of a number of journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun proprietor rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The Struggle on Weapons: Notes from the Resistance,” is a repeatedly featured contributor to Firearms Information, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Fb.
