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Romney does not represent entrepreneurship, he represents corporate raiding and outsourcing, the very things that have destroyed the American small business world. The true entrepreneur is behind the eight ball with both political parties. Republicans and Democrats are both Progressives. The Democrats are Populist Progressives and the Republicans are Corporate and Elitist Progressives. We need to quit drinking the Kool-Aid and bring both parties to task for how they have ruined this country.

All states have a provision somewhere in their legal statutes that states that all of the "Castle Doctrine" Stand your ground" and self defense provisions do not apply if the adversary is a police office going about the conduct of his business. In short, a LEO can pretty much shoot anybody he wants to consider dangerous as long as he is on duty. If you don't know he is a cop and are afraid for your life you are still wrong, he is a cop and you cannot threaten or harm him. Cop walks.

Detroit, and by that we mean the auto industry because you can't separate that industry from the city, failed for multiple reasons. Auto manufacturers misread and and misunderstood Market driven sales. They quit making cars people wanted and made cars they thought they could make huge profits on. Unions got greedy and priced American Labor right out of the market. The Industry executives showed lousy leadership and worried more about their own fortunes and less about real profit from sales. European and Asian factories, bombed out during WW2 finally rebuilt and offered quality competition, American Auto Manufacturers did nothing to respond and compete. The Auto industry, the unions and the workers themselves brought on their own doom. Quit blaming politicians, from either party. This was a free market failure (where somebody didn't pay attention to the market), and it went down without government intervention. The later bail outs were just a weak attempt to pick up the pieces and were too late to do any good. If I buy another American car (and I probably will) it will be a Ford, they know how to meet the market.

"Your Senators and Congressmen may or may not see your emails, but they can’t ignore bundles of mail. " Sending emails to Senators and Congresssmen is an exercise in futility. Yes, they can ignore carloads of email. In most districts they are running unopposed, if they just vote for themselves they have the majority of votes. You will vote for the party's selection if you vote. Until we start identifying ourselves as Americans and not lackies of the two political parties, you do not have anybody at the receiving end of that email that cares. The Senators and the Congressman/women will vote as their wealthy "patrons" tell them to. The treaty is so much hot air, the UN is in no position to enforce it. It won't get past the Senate or USSC anyways, it is unconstituional and would not be binding in the USA no matter who else signs it. Too many rich patrons of our government (the real bosses) would lose money on their arms sales if this got through. If you haven't figured anything else out, the "rich bitches" are no going to lose money!

To paraphrase the juror at the Jack McCall trial in Deadwood, SD "Somebody get a rope!"

Most Mexicans are more American Indian than Spanish. This leads me to believe that ethnicity in this case simply means whether your primary language is Spanish or English. Language is a factor in ethnicity but it isn't the only factor. Given this definition, a U.S. born citizen of Mexican descent is actually an American Indian, not-Latino or Hispanic.

SPYDERCO Native. In my watch pocket of my jeans or the left pocket in my khakis.

I carry S&W snubbies EDC. I use a S&W 317 with CCI CBs for indoor target practice in my garage. I find that a daily firing of 50 CBs into the bullet trap keeps my accuracy a lot better than the once a week .38 runs to the indoor range alone. I still make the range trip, but I am shooting much, much better with the .38s due to the .22 firing at home. I am firing at a range of 10,15 and 21 feet, which,IMHO, are true snubbie parameters. The trigger on the 317 does match the trigger pull on the carry guns. The reported heavy trigger pull of the LCR .22 may not allow it for the same use. Does the .38 LCR have the same heavy trigger? If so, than the .22 LCR still would be useful, if not in fact, almost necessary.

Best two westerns IMHO: "Stalking Moon" Gregory Peck " 3:10 to Yuma" Glenn Ford and Van Heflin

With all the Republicans yelling that we need Romney in office to keep our guns, I know nobody is looking at the guy's past record on guns issues. He was and still is the most anti-gun person in the whole bunch of candidates. In Massachusetts he backed every anti-gun bill that came along. I am an independent but backing a known anti-gun candidate does not make feel warm and fuzzy about my gun rights being protected. Obama is a very strong maybe anti-gun president but Mitt Romney is a known and proven anti-gun candidate. We gun owners are not on real safe ground this election!

First off, I don't "sneak out" to meet an intruder, he will have to enter my "safe room" (My master bedroom) and I don't really see anybody backing into the room! Bedroom door locked and wife on the cellphone to 911. Me aiming Mossberg 500A at doorway. If door is broken open shoot and rack 5 and then reload. Post sounds to me like someone needs to rethink "home defense" and start practicing some drills. The Wyatt Earp approach really sucks in the statistics, you usually get killed too. If I learned anything from Victor Charlie during my six years in RVN it was to make the the enemy come to you. Ambush is the most effective method, believe me. It's your house and you know the lay of the land better than they do. Tactics,tactics, tactics! Sound tactics and a .22 beats a ,45 ACP in your cold clammy hands because you let the other guy decide the game.

Although, through three years as a sniper in RVN I did use my rifle "for real" many times, (with telescopic sight and careful aiming), I only had to use my hand gun (old Remington-Rand .45 1911A1) three times in all six years I served "in country". Each time I used it I could not remember afterwards if I actually aimed it or if I ever saw the sights. Adversaries were very close and moving towards me and am pretty sure I just pointed the whole gun at them. I now practice mostly at close range (< 25 feet) and use a modified fast sight picture point method of firing. I am pretty sure that if I ever, *** forbid, have to use my J Frame against a civilian BG that I will not remember any sight picture afterwards! BTW, I was a GUNSITE graduate before two of those shoots in RVN and I can guarantee you I did not use a "Weaver" position to fire either! When an adversary jumps out of nowhere and is moving toward you fast from under 25' all of those neat "competition and school" moves go right out the window. I really feel like most of us who carry need to practice more realistically, close in and not too fancy. Point shooting or any of its modifications is definitely a more natural way to shoot in a SD situation.

I carry J Frame revolvers since I left LEA but when I did carry for duty I liked the G19 or G23. I have small hands and the gun fits me perfectly. I own a G23 (3rd Gen) and it is the only centerfire semiauto I do own now. I keep current with it just in case my"assistance" would ever be needed again. Prior to carrying Glocks I carried a Colt Commander, similar size.

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Platforms: Democratic Party Platform: Support the poor, s***w the rich. Middle class are rich. Republican Party Platform: Support the rich, s***w the poor. Middle class are poor. I am Middle class. So I am s***wed either way!

I have a good buddy who has the short barreled GP100. It is an excellent, well made SD carry gun. If a GP100 ever happens to just fall in front of me at a good price I will not hesitate to buy it. Ruger makes some really tough handguns. Again I stick with S&W because I work on my own guns and I know the S&Ws.

During my 30 year USMC career I was a member, several times, of the base pistol/rifle teams. After one successful season, the base commander sent us to GUNSITE as a reward. I took a Series 80 Colt Commander and a Series 80 Colt Officers Model as my weapons. I had numerous Feed and Eject problems with the Officers Model, mainly due to the slide recoil cycle( short stroke). I ended up using the Commander (the consumate self defense 1911 in my opinion) most of the time. When I had an opportunity to attend the Senior (Advanced) course I just took the Commander. The experience was limited, but the OM had been well broken in (excess of 500 rounds) but the Officers model just didn't perform any where as well as the Commander. Several trips to the gunsmith and factory with numerous polishings, etc. did not solve the problem. I have always believed that it was an ammo issue and that the little gun was ammo picky more than an overall design defect. If I had the patience and had worked more with matching the pistol and ammo, I believe I eventually would have come up with a reliable combination. I love Colts but I didn't really want a gun that only worked with one brand and ballistic mix in ammo. If they quit making or modified the ammo, the gun would then have been useless. I sold it to somebody else. My brother has the Commander and still carries it every day. I carry S&W revolvers, ammo isn't really an issue!

My favorite revolver in any barrel length. I think S&W has established the state of the art for a carry and rough field DA revolver in the 686. you have the best of the Model 66 and the Model 27 in one revolver.

I tried CT grips and didn't much like them. The laser slowed me down. I felt like I was in a "Arcade" mode with the laser. I do use my sights but it is a very quick sight picture type shooting. The only sight mod I use is that I paint my front sight a semblance of International Orange with good fingernail polish. I practice the hold on the pistol enough that the rear sight lines up on its own. "Orange on target , fire!" Close range shooting with a snub is all practiced body position and a quick fix on the front sight. At the range (<25') that I am likely to need a gun, all that fancy target stuff I learned at Parris Island and Gunsite are going to slow me down and make me dead! If I were back on duty, I would practice more aiming and longer range stuff, but now I need to be able to put everything in a 5" circle fast!

I tried several different grips on the 640, including Pachys but I shoot best with the stock banana grips, which also conceal better. Although it is the .357 Magnum rated version of the 640, I long ago decided that it was actually my .38 +P gun! Hurts like Hades to shoot .357 rounds in it, but handles well with the +P rounds, especially the SPEER 135 Gr.

The 686 has a 2 1/2 " barrel and I find it still comfortable to shoot, using the Speer short barrel Magnum ammo. I stick with the short barrels because they are easier to draw and clear clothing and are better for weapon retention in a real close encounter. For the close in (<25 feet) envelope I train for, the short barrels are plenty accurate. I left out #4, my S&W317 .22 that I shoot for practice. . I try to shoot 30 rounds daily with this gun, just to keep the reflexes up to snuff. I fire CCI CB Shorts at a Bullet trap at 10. 15 and 21 feet (longest measured shot in my house) The snubbies require very fine eye to hand coordination to be accurate. They are not guns for a "Once a Year" shooter!

There have been many references to short barreled revolvers or "snubbies" in these posts. What I find somewhat disconcerting is that all of the short barreled revolvers are lumped together as one class of handgun. When ammo is discussed or methods of carry are covered, there is generally a mixture of information in one thread that actually tries to come up "one rule for all" when it comes to selecting weapon, ammo and method of carry for a short barreled revolver. With 30 tears of Active duty in the USMC, two years as an LEO and a Civilian with a HCP for several years now I have determined my own needs for a self defense weapon. For reasons all my own, which may or may not pertain to anybody else out there, after over half a century of carrying a semiauto I have settled on the revolver for personal protection. I am just going to throw around a few of my own personal thoughts on recommending revolver systems for personal protection. The beginning of determining your "personal armament" is to determine your real needs. I am a short, balding, older ( 69 YO) man who does not look at all threatening. My looks belie a life of training with and carrying a handgun. I have carried and used a handgun in combat. I attended two separate courses of instruction at Gunsite (When "Colonel Jeff" was still an instructor there). I practice daily in a home range with a S&W 317 that closely approximates my carry weapons and I fire at an indoor range biweekly with all three of my revolvers. I do not state this for bragging rights but to show that I comply with an imperative for snubby systems and that is that you practice often to master the capabilities of the weapon system. Even though familiar with my weapons and somewhat prepared for combat, I use my physical appearance to avoid conflict as my primary defense. As I age, I have become much more skilled at using herding techniques and staying clear of known or apparent danger zones. In short, I have become the consummate "Gray Man." I am retired and live in a very well policed and quiet rural community. Again environment matches needs. I find it difficult to meet all my defense needs as and have the freedom to dress appropriately with just one weapon. That doesn’t mean everybody will, some do not modify their mode of dress that much, so one weapon surely would do. Guns: I prefer to stick with one family of guns. I have chosen Smith and Wesson but the Ruger equivalents ( S&W 642/Ruger LCR, S&W 640/Ruger SP101 a and S&W 686/Ruger GP100) are of equal quality. I left out Colt because they are no longer in production and I prefer to stay with systems are that are currently still being manufactured, preferably in the USA. I do my own armorer work on my weapons and have purchased all of the S&W videos (AGI) and manuals. Thus I can keep up this group of guns. Grips: after twice dropping and dinging up a S&W 637 with wood grips when my hands were wet, I came to the conclusion that there are good reasons for rubber grips, ugly as they are. Holsters: Go for quality holsters, enough said. Ammunition: The ammo I show below has proven itself for terminal ballistics and for easy recoil recovery in the selected weapons. Each weapon has one big limitation: weight. The gun’s weight will absolutely determine its capability to recover after a shot with any given ammo. Those who claim all kinds of super grips and special techniques for recoil recovery are disregarding the basic laws of physics. More going out the front (bullet weight and velocity) means more coming back to punish you (recoil) No design in a revolver is going to change that. If you are going to fire the weapon enough with carry ammo to be proficient, you have to have the recoil level such that you can physically handle the weapon for rapid fire. System#1: Light Clothing deep concealment. S&W 642. Stock boot grips, Bianchi Speed Strips, Hornady (standard pressure) .38 Spcl 125 gr. XTP/JHP and a GALCO Pro 158 Pocket Holster. System#2: Heavier clothing Outer garment (sweater or jacket) for concealment. S&W 640. Stock “banana†grips, Safariland Speedloaders, Speer .38 +P GDHP 135 gr. Short Barrel and a Bianchi 105 Minimalist belt slide. System# 3: House (bump in the night) and country walks . Usually a long outer garment worn outside of trousers to conceal weapon (Gray Man, remember?). S&W 686. Hogue Overmold grips, Safariland Speedloaders, 357 Magnum 135 gr.GDHP Short Barrel and a Bianchi Accumold Belt Slide.

Has everybody forgotten the grandstand landing on a carrier in a fight suit and flight jacket proclaiming "Mission Accomplished"? All presidents use the victories gained in their term for political gain. This not new to Obama guys!

The issue for many of the Reps was not an issue of anti gun as it was an issue of whether the current bill isn't written to violate property owners rights. In the backlash of the Florida SYG law concerns, they are getting leary of violating any rights. What they were calling for was a more careful legal review before putting this into law. Protecting others rights isn't being PC, it is doing the job right the first time. If it would be found that the current bill would violate property rights after passing into law, the law would be declared unconsitutional by the courts and everything would have been act of futility. No matter how the Martin/Zimmerman issue is settled in court, Florida lawmakers are already in the process of reviewing that state's weapon laws. What will undoubtedly occur is a massive rewrite of all of their weapons laws. This does not bode well for Florida gun owners! The reps here were just trying to avoid this type of quagmire. A long history of legal decisions have already determined that Property rights over ride the individual's rights to do as he pleases on somebody else's property. The Second A will be trumped by property rights in court every time. Is it worth p****ng into the wind and lose all of your gun rights? I for one would rather they take their time and write a law that can stand up to court review. The crucifixion is just bad taste. He had the right to say it, but it doesn't help the issue.

I'm sorry but I don't buy recommending a .22 LR,.22 Mag or .25 to anyone for self defense. Obviously the lady is not a combat vet, so she is not going to go into the "Gunfighter mindset" when confronted. So we can forget the "shooting his eyes out" accuracy argument here. Although a small caliber gun can and does kill, it doesn't stop. The goal in SD is to stop the trouble before it gets to you. A .22 to the body is just an "adrenaline trigger" and really likely to PO the aggressor into even more violent action. You are presenting the same argument as the car buyer who asks for "A little car that gets 41 MPG and goes 150 MPH." You can have one or the other, mileage or speed. in handguns you can have stopping power (with hard recoil) or you can have soft recoil (with no stopping power). it just doesn't come both ways. You may have to look to some other method of security for the lady.