According to the most thinly-sourced CNN report of all time – and that’s saying something – police have responded to a report of shots fired at a Sparks, Nevada middle school. ABC News (who posts an actual photo of the school) reports that the suspect “has been neutralized.” Which means he’ll be described as a slavering, blood thirsty, card carrying Tea Partier and NRA life member. At least initially, until someone who actually knows something talks to the press. Here we go again.
UPDATE: nydailynews.com reports,
A gunman at Sparks Middle School was killed along with a second unidentified victim, RGJ.com reports. The two victims hospitalized are described as two male minors, a Renown Regional Hospital spokeswoman told the paper. An earlier report identified one victim as being 12-years old.
well, guy 1 on the top left isn’t going to stop a damn thing with that set up.
That CNN report makes me long for the days of print media, when somebody couldn’t just say, “Screw it, hit Post! At least we had it first!”
cartoon news network… que the hysteria & speculation circus!
Does anyone here really advocate open carry? If so then I’d love to hear your arguments for that choice.
I think it takes more guts to open carry, personally. My thinking is that I don’t want the crazed shooter or criminal to know I have a gun. I’m playing defense. And the bad guy knows the snap count!
BTW, not all liberals are anti-2A.
No, but they often vote for and support candidates who are.
Ahh, Middle School. That time where you look at your life and wonder ‘How much would getting hit by a schoolbus hurt?’
I don’t necessarily disagree with him, I have said it before and I’ll say it again. Just because you can do something, doesn’t mean you should. Carrying around rifles and open carry handguns in populated locations does nothing other than alienate the people around you. Heck even in the old west they stopped the open carry of firearms pretty fast when a town started to develop.
In rural areas its a bit different, that’s fine, like you see people in Alaska carrying big cannons on their hips for bear etc.
IMHO concealed carry is how you should carry in a city, open carry should be left to the woods. Also all these demonstrations do is cost the firearms movement political capital; if were trying to persuade mainstream multiple issue voters to come over to our side carrying around an AK at a public park is a poor way of doing it.
I tend to agree that what is appropriate in one circumstance is not appropriate in another. It one thing to carry rifles and shotguns while hunting, or at a rally (political speech) but having an AR slung over your shoulder in an urban mall just to go shopping? Far better to have a pistol, and better still to have it concealed. Call it situationally appropriate dress. You don’t wear a tux to go hunting, and you don’t wear camo with an AR over your shoulder to go to the opera. Once upon a time, a man carried his weapons openly to show he was no threat–today it is just the opposite. Don’t scare the sheep.
Now if the SHTF, all bets are off. Carry whatever you want however you want. But that scenario hasn’t happened yet, except in localized areas of natural disasters.
So basically to sum up this guys comment, he is scared of guns, and anyone not “man” enough to be scared of guns as well is a “pussy” and “inferior” since they take it upon themselves to take self defense into their own hands. Between this guy and the previous “micro penis” guy the liberal base seems to be both obsessed with their lack of penis size, and worried about being manly enough. I present to you the product of progressive femenization of males.
A friend who lives in Sparks says:
“a latino shooter (and likely latino victims, given the part of town)
likely Norteno vs Sureno gang war”
The article makes mention of the Updated gun “shooting better” I see this all the time when shooting a gun that I have not fired before.. The first few magazine full or cylinders full of ammo will be the best that will come out of the gun until several boxes worth have totally familiarized me and my muscle memory becomes established for the firearm and groups shrink to equal and better those first get acquainted rounds from the gun.
I have seen it in others as well, it is very strongly seen in the shotgun sports of trap, skeet and sporting clays.
Why it happens is a question for me… Is it because I am concentrating on the systems of shooting the new gun and hence overcoming bad habits as I make sure the safety is off and the slide is in battery? I don’t know and perhaps those with more experience of teaching shooting would like to comment.
I do know that as a flight instructor in the 1960s we learned about learning curves and that it was normal for them to dip below previously attained levels of skill before they started to climb again up to the next level of experteese. And I suppose something of the sort would be expected of shooting which is another activity where intellectual progress must be combined with motor skills improvements.
I think you’re onto the answer. It’s that with a totally new pistol you’re working the fundamentals harder, shooting slower and are less self conscious about your shooting since it’s a ‘new gun’. Once it’s no longer new you lose focus on the fundamentals as shooting it becomes less novel and your attention wans, you shoot faster and you’re less comfortable for a while as you expect to see improvements.
In time you become unconsciously competent and begin to reap the benefits of experience without thinking through the fundamentals. Where at first you were ‘testing’ the guns abilities and next you were testing yours, finally you’re seeing what the two of you are capable of together.
Holy hell… “some people were shot…” Is considered reporting now?!
That face, “welp it’s cold , but the Internet demands testing!!”
Criticizes CNN reporting, posts link to NY Daily News…..
Journalism is dead. We should just give those jobs to monkeys slapping keyboards.
I have a strong feeling that Nevada is going to become the next gun rights battleground after Californian “progressives” cross the border.
I agree. May I direct your attention to:
http://www.kfdm.com/template/inews_wire/wires.national/2af9f827-www.kfdm.com.shtml
And away from:
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/brooklyn-youths-attack-couple-racial-attack-cops-article-1.1490901
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/South-LA-Killing-Breaks-Citys-Homicide-Free-Streak-228548511.html
http://nationalreview.com/article/361717/reality-check-healthcaregov-john-fund
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/10/20/uk-afghanistan-army-idUKBRE99J06T20131020
Etc.
I don’t know why libturds like Mutt Bores are so concerned about the size of another man’s penis. Maybe they own Extenze or that pecker pump contraption that’s guaranteed to turn the average Joe into a sexual tyrannosaurus. If so, I wish that Bores would stop spamming me, because while I appreciate his fascination, I simply do not want a 9″ penis.
And furthermore, Mr. Bores, I do not care that my pecker is smaller than your boyfriends’. We will get along just fine if you continue to enjoy theirs while keeping your hands and mind off of mine.
A Croatian pocket gun heavier than the competition pretending to be an American, yeah sign me up.
It’s not a pocket gun. It’s a subcompact. The extra mass makes it a more stable shooter especially in 45 ACP. I am not a big fan of either class of guns for primary carry. As far as I am concerned you carry these for backup or special circumstances, I hear a lot of “it’s too hot in the summer to carry a compact or a full size.” Well how about this, carrying a gun is an adult activity. Dress like one. God made Hawaiian shirts for warm climate carry.
That POS will not be happy until he shuts this entire country down.
From an engineering standpoint I think you have two problems….
First, I think you are probably correct about increasing production equaling slips in quality. I’ve been there myself. When you have operators assembling widgets at a rate of 10 per day, then suddenly ask them to produce 100 per day they focus more on hitting their production rates than the quality of what they are producing. They’re under pressure to make shipments or their bosses will be reaming them…
At the same time, I think you also have an influx of new models without proper testing (something that I have experience with also, unfortunately). Along the lines of RF’s earlier post regarding a new AR model every other day, you have companies rushing to cash in on the uptick in firearms sales. They’re rushing things. When you’re rushing a new product release things get missed. Prints don’t get thoroughly checked, incoming material isn’t inspected as tightly as it should be, quality controls for machining/assembly aren’t as robust as they should be…
Both of these things lead to the seeming abundance of recall notices (again, unfortunately, something I’ve dealt with 🙁 ). Engineers rushing to release, operators rushing to build….
Spot on about the increased production. Anyone who has ever worked in a factory can confirm: when demand skyrockets and the workers are forced to do 12+ hour days 7 days a week, they get tired, pissed off, cranky, and generally do poor quality work.
No matter how big you are, chances are there’s someone bigger.
No matter how strong you are, chances are there’s someone stronger.
No matter how good you are, chances are there’s someone better.
When you meet the guy who checks all three boxes in a dark alley, be glad you have your gun.
I’m not a dealer, but IMO the only reason we know about problems today is due to the internet.
The uninitiated might think the Gen 4 was Glocks first debacle.Yet, in the last decade Gastons shop had problems with the NYPD G19 and WMLs on G22 Gen 3s .The reason the Gen 4 defects seem so bad is because we’ve got video proof of the matter today.
Same deal with 1911s, IMO.If someone gets a bad gun they run to YouTube and boom, another nail in the coffin.I won’t recount earlier quality failures like the original Bren Ten and the S&W Sigma.
IMO, most problems with guns these days are associated with their owners, not the factory which made them.
:My observation from life is that the people who feel so insecure and so threatened by the world that they can’t walk in public without carrying a gun are pussies.”
I think reading this showed me, who feels insecure and threatened.
“They don’t understand that what they’re doing is easily recognizable by most or that they’re exposing their insecurity and ridiculous lack of awareness in a very public way. I feel bad for them, because they seem so earnest. They just don’t have enough awareness or self-awareness to be embarrassed.”
I think someone needs to look in the mirror to see who is walking around in condition white.
It went full auto.
RF, I believe this is one of the best pieces you’ve ever written. Seriously well done.
Such a mixed bag of reviews. It seems as though, people with the .270 or .243 are satisfied, while the ones with larger bores, (30-06 and .308) are somewhat dissatisfied. Myself, I just bought the .270 and am extremely pleased with the $357.00 purchase.
Takes one to know one, Pal.
There is no reason to isolate a specific section.
The entire document is a pack of lies, unworthy of intellectual consideration and a disgrace to these United States of America.
If we had an Attorney General worthy of the office, Malloy and Cuomo would be indicted on treason charges.
Yet, we stand at this disgraceful precipice because too many foolish voters elected people like Malloy, Cuomo, and Obama.That’s a history lesson we should remember,because we cannot afford to repeat it much longer.
Fvck Kalifornia… sorry it needed to be said. Especially after somethin like this. I know a lot of the POTG reside there and fought like hell for your rights but the fact remains it is one seriously fvcked up state.