You know…. I realized that I’m getting tired of fancy dancing.
Yeah… it’s not supposed to make any sense… yet. But some of you may be able to figure it out.
Author: hsoi
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Older kiddos heading to a 4-H summer camp next week, so we had to do a little shopping. Wife recently dumped a bunch of our water bottles due to BPA concerns, so we needed to buy some new BPA-free ones.
While at the Academy, I had to stop by the gun counter.
Picked up a box of Remington Golden Bullet, the value pack (525 rounds… the “insta-arsenal”). It’s not my favorite .22 LR (I like the Federal Champion target bricks better), but it works better than things like Thunderbolt. I could only get 1 box, but hey… I’ve been searching for decent .22 LR for a while now so I’m happy. Whoo!
Who needs a new website?
Everyone’s all buzzing over the new Brownells website. I never found their old website all that bad, but it certainly wasn’t as sexy as the new one. Next time I need to shop for something they sell I certainly will give their website a more thorough look.
What I would like to see in a new website is one for Smith & Wesson. My quest for a snub-nose revolver continues, and I’m narrowing down what I want, but being able to do more direct comparisons would be really nice. Yeah they have some ways to “find what you want” but it’s just not as good as some other sites at helping you browse through their entire catalog, compare, and really figure what model is right for you.
What would also be really neat if S&W did was put their entire history online. A good used gun is a fine thing and finding a good used snub is just fine with me. It would be awesome if Smith had their entire historical catalog online. There’s just the cool history value of that, but it also would allow folks a one-stop repository to know about all past Smith & Wesson firearms to be able to research and say “yeah, a used such-and-such would fit my bill as well as a new such-and-such, or perhaps better”.
Ah well, just have to keep my Google-Fu high while I do my homework.
Your early Father’s Day moment…
The Pulse of Radio reports: Alice Cooper has made a career out of being scary on stage, but he’s also experienced a moment or two of fear as a father. Alice, who has three grown children, reminisced to The Pulse of Radio about the time he caught his then-teenage daughter, Calico, in her bedroom with a boy. “And there’s this really good-looking guy sitting on her bed and she’s taking a shower,” he said. “I look at the guy and he knows that I’m gonna… and he goes ‘Oh hello Mr. Cooper! Cali and I were just trying on clothes.’ And I went ‘either this guy is really good or he’s really gay. I hope that you’re really gay because if you’re that quick in order to become gay, getting caught in my daughter’s bedroom’ and Calico looked at me and she says ‘no, we were trying on dresses.’ And he was gay and it was a relief to me!”
Ah, the things one has to look forward to when your daughter becomes a teenager. 🙂
I figure when the day comes that Daugther starts dating and some boy comes to pick her up, my conversation with the boy will be simple:
You make her smile, you make me smile.
You make her cry, I make you cry.
🙂
Monty Python predicted the future
Who knew that Monty Python predicted so long ago what Internet flame-wars would be like. 🙂
Let the numbers do the talking
Howard Nemerov looks at the Brady Campaign’s own data (along with some FBI data) examining how states with high “Brady Scores” also have larger police forces and also greater incidents of violent crime.
I thought more police == less crime. I mean, the police are there to protect us, right?
Those “right to carry” states…. there should be blood flowing on the streets, people solving all of their problems with guns. They certainly shouldn’t have less police and lower violent crime. That’s unpossible!
But hey… the facts speak for themselves.
Criminals don’t want to get killed. When they know people could be armed, they tend to take a different course of action.
An observation
Funny how the “armed self-defense” approach is A-okay at the macro scale in HI, but Heavens forfend they should entertain the notion of plain citizens being armed to protect themselves from footpads and highwaymen, ooooo nooooo.
Quote of the day
Make your choices. Do not whine and snivel if they become problematic.
– Skip Gochenour
Is it worth dying for?
Kellene reminds us what a concealed handgun license is for.
I sympathize with the victim in many ways: a personal violation, taking of your stuff, being fed up with crime, being fed up with criminals and parasites. I’m hip to it all. But going after someone like this — chasing them down, shooting wildly into the air or ground — isn’t wise and is potentially asking for heap loads of trouble.
In any situation like this you have to ask yourself: is it worth dying for? If it’s not worth dying for, it’s not worth pulling your gun out for. Sure, you could run after these guys and try to get your stuff back, but unless you can answer “yes, this is worth dying for” keep your gun in the holster.
Micro-stamping, well-intended but useless
Via Sebastian I’m referred to a great article by The Arizona Rifleman on why microstamping is useless. Intentions may be good, but we know what paves the road to Hell, right?
The biggest issue is that if it’s aimed to stop crime or help police solve a crime, it just won’t do that. Either the criminal will avoid the microstamped guns, will modify their microstamped guns, or use microstamping to their advantage to cast someone else into the mix — likely an innocent person — and either frame them or just cause mounds of legal trouble for the innocent person. There’s just too much risk of problem and increased cost in this, and no benefit towards the desired goal.
If you can demonstrate a way to hurt the criminals and not hurt the law-abiding citizens, I’m all for it. But when the efforts do exactly the opposite, how can one lobby for their support? unless I guess you like helping criminals and hurting law-abiding folk.
