It’s been a couple of weeks since the mob violence in downtown Louisville.  Since then, there have been a couple of comparatively minor incidents, and of course, this weekend is Thunder Over Louisville.

Here are a few highlights from the news:

First and foremost, Mayor Fischer would rather that those of us who carry a gun for self defense not do so at Thunder.  He promises that new surveillance cameras and the horde of police that will be in the area will take care of any problems that might arise.  Of course, the police haven’t been able to keep downtown Louisville from turning into a parking lot with the attendant road rage after Thunder in the past, so you make your own decision.  I guess it’s better that the herd animals not be able to resist the jackals who are smart enough to wait until the post-fireworks pandemonium to start breaking shi… I mean, expressing their frustration with the current socioeconomic situation in Louisville.  No word yet on whether Mayor Fischer will be leaving his police escort behind and taking his family to mix with the crowds and walk a mile back to his car in the dark.

Next, we have a representative of the Louisville Friends of Police reporting that rumors of police masking crime in Waterfront Park by assigning crimes to other addresses are untrue. Honestly, I’m going to wait until I see hard data on this.  How many crimes have been reported and documented in Waterfront Park in the past 10 years, and how many have been assigned to businesses within a block of the park?

Finally, we have a leaked memo from the FBI that claims that a local gang, composed mainly of middle schoolers, is to blame for all this ruckus.  Apparently 14 year olds have enough charisma to get a few hundred people to rampage through downtown, break stuff, steal other stuff, and lay a beating on people who happen to be in their way.  Also, there appears to be a special ‘gun train’ that travels across Louisville with firearms that are easily stolen.  If you’ve ever written a real intelligence report, that thing is just embarrassing.

So there we are. A mayor who would rather that law-abiding citizens rely on the presence and power of the police to protect them while they’re a member of a big juicy target group, a police representative who wants us to know that the police have never, ever faked a report to make the city look better, and the FBI getting involved with local gang activity.

Enjoy your Thunder, Louisville.  For me and mine, we’ll be staying home.   By the way, if you’re a gun owner and would rather go somewhere that you’re more welcome, the Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot is this weekend too.  There’ll be plenty of thunder there too, and if you come out on Friday night, I’ll even sell a raffle ticket for some guns to you.