QuietDan

Yeah, I make ALL my decisions based on what the Chi-Coms have to say about it -- mostly by doing the exact opposite while flipping them off.

  Most muskets will mount a 19 inch bayonet . . . pointy little triangular things, boo-boos don't heal too well.

Westboro withdraws? Put away the baseball bats.

The bigger newspapers used to have a "Chinese Wall" between the advertising department and the newsroom. It used to be they just about weren't allowed in each other's spaces. And, "Upstairs" in the Publisher's suite used to not descend into the work-spaces without a lot of warning and was short-stopped at the Managing Editor's door. Don't know about now.

Four more PMAGs locally and four more online on back-order for reserve.   A few hundred more rounds of 9mm for reserve.   A thousand more small rifle primers for reserve.   I've got . . . enough . . . including a reserve I pretend I don't have.   Saving for a rainy day. . . . a little at a time over a long time means no panic in preparedness.

It's a long drive home in a van with the windshield baseball-batted out.

Cue the banjos . . .   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tqxzWdKKu8   Ned Beatty squealing like a pig :   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gLN3QoN-q8

Here's the video of Piers Morgan losing his mind:   http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/12/19/piers-morgan-calls-pro-gun-advocate-unbelievably-stupid-dangerous-you#ixzz2FVObHNAH

  Bayonet-lugged AR-15 with bayonet attached, up the kazoo. The Muammar Gaddafi treatment.

I agree!   And I'm not ragging on you, I'm bragging on the Marines. My son is one!

A Marine would have to be dead to be unarmed.   A knife. A rock. A stick. A fist full of car-keys. His fists. His teeth.   Improvise, Adapt and Overcome.   Semper Fi.   I'm thinking he's on to something. Any number of Vets would be glad to guard schools.

Compare the AR to the World War II vintage jeep.   For starters, the design is battle tested and its defects have been engineered out of it after being depended upon in combat for around 50 years. It is a reliable, stable tool. As citizens, we paid for the engineering, and now it is available to us for use.   Additionally, with CRC tooling, many small but respectable shops can turn AR components out in quantity at quality. There are many third party vendors that make accessories to enhance the utility of the tool. This especially includes all sorts of optical sights that increase accuracy.   Also, essentially everyone in the military and all veterans are familiar with the tool and many are very proficient with it.   Also, because it is a military caliber tool, ammunition is available in sufficient quality and quantity to be widely and cheaply available. This simplifies logistics. The ammunition can be reloaded, and the brass casings are widely available. This can keep the cost down and allow for special purpose ammunition production.   The AR of course does not have the "selective fire (automatic)" function that military M16s have and that otherwise smart people pretend they don't understand. A military M-16 can fire in full automatic mode, or three round bursts, but a civilian-available AR cannot. Smart but slippery demagogues - wicked individuals all -  pretend there is no difference.   We here could go on and on.   ******************************************************************************   A few words regarding the "trust" thing. I think many folks here essentially "trust" you on a personal and professional basis.   Perhaps your editors and your headline writers up the chain will read this as well: We don't trust the editors. They seem to have agendas. I personally don't trust the headline writers - they can take a very well crafted and straightforward story and swing it far-left in just a couple of bold-faced words. This has been mentioned before and bears repeating.

God Bless Texas!   They don't screw around down there.

  Is it just a random thing against all websites, or is it some sort of concerted attack because of the current gun issue climate? . . . Unless you don't want to say . . .

Everybody else is screaming and yelling and wailing and foaming at the mouth. The NRA is wise to not waste their breath and to let everybody else vent their spleen and make fools of themselves for a while. When everybody settles down and moves onto the next feeeeeelings story, the adults can come out with more sensible points. Right now it would be like pissing into the wind.

Post a link to the article, please, so we can re-distribute on Facebook and other forums.

Welcome to TGO, from Smyrna!

Reichstag Fire, Chicago Style.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire

Not close enough yet. Closer than before. Not discussing my tipping point.

Regarding "some attempt by Obama to start a national "debate", and that's perhaps a good thing (no harm in expressing points of view)"   Actually, I do see harm in this, and here's how: It won't be an actual national 'debate.' All points of view will NOT be expressed in the percentages that exist in the country. The "points of view" will be manipulated by the media, and anti-gun forces will get the lion's share of attention and support. It would be like holding a debate in which the anti-gun creatures get an hour to make their points, and pro-gun forces get three minutes to make their points, with the moderator mocking them and interrupting the whole time.   THAT is the type of "national debate' they'll be looking for. It will be masterfully manipulated.

I'm thinking that an EO end-run around Congress AGAIN, but this time on a sensitive topic, would make some things start tearing loose. I really don't think it would go well, that there would be significant push-back, some of the various States would take action to counteract or repudiate it, and "Over Reach" would be on everyone's tongues.

I went around 1100 and it took about 15-20 minutes to get into the gun show, not too bad, as we spent time talking with other folks in line and it made the time pass. The gun show honored the $2 coupons posted here and I passed the $1 coupons to those next in line.   I have NEVER seen such a crowded gun show, absolutely packed, almost shopping-by-standing-in-line. I got some 9mm ammo that I came for. I was surprised there was still a good selection of stuff on the tables, it felt like it was being picked clean by locusts.   However, my active duty military son was kind of flash-backing on the "crowded marketplace" feeling of the throng, and there was hardly a place on the ends of the aisles to stand, so we left. I was surprised the Fire Marshall didn't cap the crowd size, one more out, one more in.   I'm not griping about the crowd, I'm thinking it's kind of awesome that so MANY folks would turn out for the gun show. I don't think the vendors were surprised, as they had stacks and stacks of stock, I guess.  I'm thinking the crowd volume was partly because it's so close to Christmas, partly because of the Connecticut school shooting, and partly because The Obammunist is the best damn gun salesman in the discovered universe.

I pray that there are no more mass shootings in this country.   I also pray that if I am present where a mass shooting begins, that I would be armed and able to do something about it.   The first is a Hope Against Hope Prayer, the second is an Action Prayer.

I do not trust anything about the God-Emperor Barack Hussein Obama.   He and his staff have already made it abundantly clear that they will "Not Let a Crisis Go to Waste."   A mentally ill 20-year-old kills his divorced mother in a rage, steals her guns and her car, and drives to her school to massacre all her kindergarten students.   There is a long litany of gun control laws on the books that make this highly illegal in addition to extremely tragic, with flags and warnings and sign-posts along the way calling out the extreme danger building.   Clearly a crisis that cannot go to waste. Enter stage left, the God-Emperor Barack Hussein Obama and his Court Jester, Bloomberg the Ludicrous, Mayor of New York; Dancer Emanuel, Mayor of Chicago; and all their silly minions and sycophants.

Speculation, but you might have a situation where there was a divorce and the woman ended up with her former husband's guns just to spite him. Happens often enough to mention.