OR: No place but Portland

[philip964]

https://news.yahoo.com/portland-driver- ... 25175.html

Man brings AK-15 to a sword fight.

Better article with video of the AK-15

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... RIFLE.html

I saw your Katana and raise you a rifle.

[Liberty]

I want to get me some of that AK-15, It will look good in my gun rack next to my AR-47.

[NotRPB]

I want to get me some of that AK-15, It will look good in my gun rack next to my AR-47.

MUST BE COLLECTABLE TOO

[philip964]

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireSto ... s-81680276

Sentenced to ten years in prison for drawing and pointing his gun at anti fascist rioters in Portland.

Has no remorse, and even wrote a letter to Derek Chauvin the police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd.

[Excaliber]

The Portland police chief is implementing a new strategy to reduce the escalating levels of deadly violence against his officers:

Begging violent criminals not to be so mean to his cops.

No, really. Details here.

[philip964]

https://www.lawofficer.com/female-barte ... -bathroom/

Don’t live in Portland.

[Rafe]

https://www.lawofficer.com/female-barte ... -bathroom/

Don’t live in Portland.

Multnomah County Circuit Court found Cassie McIntyre, 40, guilty on Wednesday of second-degree bias crime and harassment following a two-day jury trial, The Oregonian reported.

A second-degree bias crime. Hm. I had to go do some digging on that one. From what I can find, here is the most relevant section of the Texas Penal Code, §12.47: https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs ... .htm#12.47. Basically:

If an affirmative finding under Article 42.014, Code of Criminal Procedure, is made in the trial of an offense other than a first degree felony or a Class A misdemeanor, the punishment for the offense is increased to the punishment prescribed for the next highest category of offense. If the offense is a Class A misdemeanor, the minimum term of confinement for the offense is increased to 180 days.

That seems a lot more reasonable to me than having a whole separate set of "bias crimes" of differing degrees. The news article said, "McIntyre was accused of 'misgendering' and physically shoving Larsen during a confrontation..." So I wonder if the two-day trial was over the simple assault or was it more about <GASP!> the "misgendering" part and the female employee of a privately owned establishment not wanting "a trans-identified biological male and self-described Marxist" using the women's restroom?

I used to enjoy driving around Oregon--and western Washington, for that matter--when I occasionally traveled there in the '80s. Man; the list of places I don't want to bother with has increased rapidly as I've gotten older.