Who says pink camo doesn’t work? Hatsan’s new Alpha Youth air rifle in ‘Muddy Girl’ camouflage will basically disappear in your younger daughters’ hands. As long as she likes pinking. Beyond the cute factor, though, the Alpha Youth was designed with younger, smaller shooters in mind. I’ve got a couple of younger, smaller shooters in the family who are itching for some good weather to help me test it . . .
This airgun is petite in all dimensions. It weighs 5.3 pounds, has a 13-inch length of pull and requires only 15 pounds of effort to cock. Velocity from this break-barrel spring piston gun is a modest 495 fps with .177 lead pellets.
It comes with high-profile Tru-Glo fiber optic sights, which are super-easy to explain to new shooters. It’s also got an automatic thumb safety; these drive me crazy on shotguns, but for youth air rifles they’re a pretty good idea.
Pink camo isn’t my personal cup of chai tea latte, but anything that gets younger shooters in the door is good in my book.
Maybe someone found five steel cans full of P22’s in their back yard?
Okay, which one of you kids spilled paint all over the air rifle?
In earlier times, when swords were the weapon of choice, a large percentage of the population went around armed in some fashion, and, at least in 1000 years of medieval through Elizabethan England, the rates of violent death are many times our own. I think that culture has as much or more to do with the murder rate as weapons do. In an honor/shame culture, violence will be higher than in a guilt culture. All said, I sure like the option of being armed.
Not only fear, but fear of what MIGHT happen.
This is the road we’ve chosen…laws (and the legal system in general) working in the fantasy land of “what if” rather than sticking to what it does sorta well…”he did.”
Laws should in general not be based on what might happen, but to respond to what has happened. You killed someone? Legal trouble. Robbed a bank? Legal trouble.
Might someday do something someone thinks is a bad idea? For that matter, we could extend their “logic” ad absurdum.
If only there was a way to get a free gun to shoot them… like a Walther P22 perhaps?
I reiterate my question…”why the delay on arrests?”
For all the saber rattling, why is the State NOT arresting those who they have names and addresses for? They have had this information for over two months, they claim they are GOING to do it, but why the delay?
My speculation is that the longer they can draw this out in the press and pop culture (including the blogosphere), the more entrenched the memes of “criminal” “felon” and “domestic terrorist” take hold.
They do NOT want this in the courts…not yet, anyway. They KNOW the law is crap and indefensible. They knew it all along is my guess.
So, their delay is galvanizing the gun rights folks both in CT and across the country. With that galvanizing action comes a lot of talk and keyboard action that plays right into “those gun owners are the violent bad guys.”
Memes take time to grow into a life of their own…to go “viral,” I guess. All this yacking in the press, in press conferences, on tv, in blogs, newspaper op-eds…the battle IS being fought as a propaganda war.
And in that battle, they have time on their side. The longer they can make us look like the fringe kooks to the great “public,” the more likely those labels stick.