I like me some dark black humor and that was a good jab at the current situation.
A friend who’s still a student told me last night he brought his 22 lr from home to plink with. I chuckled and said, “You have 22 for it right.” He didn’t realize the crunch had tightened the noose around even 22 ammo.
I don’t know how long this crunch is going to hold out, but I can tell you I am watching bulletin boards for the moment when guys start trying to sell ammo to make a mortgage payment.
I got about halfway through this and realized that if a damn whitetail deer can run 150 yards after being plugged by a .30 cal rifle bullet then why should I expect a bad guy to stop and drop dead after a single hit from a handgun round?
Freiheit – Comment to Let’s Talk Terminal Ballistics 3 – The Myth of Handgun Stopping Power
February 14th, 2013
[First if you haven’t been reading Tim’s series on Terminal Ballistics, I recommend you do. There are a lot of myths out there and many of them are stubborn and have serious trouble dying despite evidence and science to the contrary.
Second, this is exactly why magazine capacity limits are total crap. Go read this section most importantly and then ask yourself, “Why wouldn’t I want to carry as much ammunition in a single magazine as I could?”
There is no magic bullet, well maybe a 50 BMG, but still the idea of a person stopping magically merely because it was God’s own caliber is a myth. Especially with regards to pistols. That isn’t to say, as Caleb rightly points out, there are reasons to prefer one caliber over another, but it’s not for the reasons many throw out there. -B]
I remember distinctly in high school a cop describing the horrors of a DUI accident scene. Me thinks this officer either didn’t get the memo or the cop from high school was lying.
Either way this officer definitely should have known better. At least his department gave him unpaid leave. Would be better if they canned his ass.
State Sponsored Criminal #523: Gary Poage
Because it’s only a problem to drive under the influence if you’re not a cop.
In an adult lifetime spent debriefing firefight survivors, I learned that the almost universal epiphany in the aftermath of such events was the realization that when you fight to survive, you’re really fighting to return to the people you love…the people who define your existence.
Massad Ayoob – On Valentine’s Day
February 14th, 2013
[I love my family more than anything. It serves my family no benefit to be lying dead in a ditch. To fight for my family though, to fight for myself, those two things most greatly benefit my family and loved ones.
Just the same as Massad points out fight the political battle before us for the people you love. Don’t get cocky or complacent. Many claim that X bill won’t move forward or that X bill couldn’t possibly pass.
Look at what happened in New York. It was a blitzkrieg that took us all off guard before we had a chance to retaliate. But that was New York you say, it couldn’t possibly happen in a state with decent support for firearms. Really?
Let’s look at Colorado now shall we. Do you want to reevaluate that assumption?
Listen folks, it sucks, there is no question we’re in a serious fight. We cannot fall victim to pride, we cannot fall victim to over-confidence. Our opponents did that and look at where it got them over the past decade. We cannot underestimate them and their capabilities. Each day we move from the tragedy that brought this fight before us, the closer we move to safety, but there will never be a magical time where our rights will be safe. The price for liberty is eternal vigilance and the sooner you realize this the better.
I love my family more than anything and that’s why I am considerably more politically active than usual. Usually I just use the written word when dealing with politicians this time around I have resorted to using the dreaded box known as the telephone. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. I can tell you if the enemy gets an inch, they will do all they can to make it a mile.
I’m going to state this here and now, I will not waver, I will not cower, I will fight by any means necessary, to defend the inalienable right to keep and bear arms, endowed to us by our creator and merely enumerated in the Bill of Rights.
There are some who think that they do not need to support us, who don’t care because it doesn’t affect the guns they use. The bad news is you either support the right to arms or you do not. It’s quite simple really, Join or Die.
Join or Die
All profits go to the NRA.
-B]
They dropped 9 additional charges including unlawful detention. The whole incident overall is very disturbing, especially since the incidents go all the way back to October 2010.
Remember though, many claim that the police should be given a monopoly on force because they are somehow anointed and worthy of magical trust. I’ve got more to add on that but I’m still letting my anger subside.
State Sponsored Criminal #522: Scott Womack
Because when you pull over a hot chick, make her strip for you, you’re a cop right you just need to make up an excuse.
Came across this one tonight, read for the first time today.
The bill in question is SB 5737. Contact your state representatives, though I have also learned of another important tact. Contact those in charge of the committees examining the bills. If you can get the committee to kill the bill it’s better overall.
In this case it is the Law and Justice committee, and you should contact the following people:
My state rep informed us last night that bills are starting to lock down on whether or not they will actually be moving forward. By the end of next week he said bills that haven’t even got through committee won’t be going anywhere.
We’re in the home stretch. Keep up the pressure, yes it’s tiring, exhausting, and honestly shouldn’t even have to be doing this fight. Instead there’s a group of individuals who constantly insist on throwing us under the bus.
Mission Impossible ft. Lindsey Stirling – ThePianoGuys
So yesterday Sebastian came across a video and they had closed comments but you could do the thumbs up or down rating. The video in question started making the rounds. Low and behold they all the sudden disabled the rating system on the video. I think I might see why because here’s the snapshot of the ratings when they disabled it.
The dislikes started coming in hard and fast. This got me thinking.
Gun control proponents claim that gun owners are nothing more than a bunch of inbred, uneducated, knuckle dragging neanderthals. They claim to out number gun owners in support for their cause. I have a problem though, lets look at the Candle Light Vigil video stats. Click the “i” button in the upper right for stat info.
While yes it doesn’t have the views, lets look at the positive to negative vote ratio… Lets do the same to my LAPD police qualification video.
Again, very strong positive viewing rate. We can do the same with a video from the NRA.
That’s a ratio of 3 to 1 in support of the video.
It was noted by Sebastian that the gun control movement is a movement of old white people. Old people are not necessarily the best at using or understanding technology.
So a couple different options to explain this discrepancy and their love of reasoned discourse.
1. Gun owners are not the uneducated knuckle dragging neanderthals they claim us to be. If we are in the minority, we are in fact more educated and technically literate as we have a larger presence on this series of tubes known as the internet.
2. They are in fact a movement of old white people with very limited support from the younger generation. Their projection of us being a group of uneducated hillbillies is merely a reflection of how they view themselves.
3. They are actually in fact the minority position and cannot garner support overall. If we assume an even distribution of technically skilled and adept people on each side, this would indicate that gun owners far out number our opponents.
Given my personal experience, people who support the right to keep and bear arms are often extremely intelligent. To give you a quick example, the members of the 2nd Amendment Gun Club at Washington State University were predominately engineering majors and no one was going for a BA, everyone was working towards a BS. While every group will have outliers, the assumption that all gun owners are uneducated and not very intelligent is blatantly false.
This would point towards option 1 as well as option 2 as being most likely. Option 3 is also quite likely because even in places like Facebook the Brady Campaign fails to generate the kind of support in likes that is enjoyed by the NRA.
I think their unwillingness to stand up and defend their position through comments and general video ratings has exposed the truth of their soft underbelly. We have a fight on our hands and we just need to keep up the work.
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