Think it’s hard to buy a gun in San Francisco? New York? You’re right, it is. Because it’s far too dangerous to allow guns in the hands of individuals. Easy access to firearms leads to “gun violence” and even mass killings. Just ask our friends who toil away in the cause of civilian disarmament. And if you think it’s difficult putting your hands on a heater in certain US coastal backwaters, imagine how hard it is in, say, southern China. Merely attempting to secure one is probably enough to get yourself thrown in a labor or reeducation camp. Yet somehow mass killings still happen there, too. From bbc.com: “An attack by knife-wielding men at a train station in Kunming in south-west China, has left at least 27 dead, the state news agency Xinhua says. Nothing is known so far about the motivation behind the attack, in which 109 people are said to have been hurt.” . . .
Got that? About 130 people in a crowded train station. Seconds counted and the secret police were only minutes away. The “knife-wielding men” who planned the attack (no doubt making use of high-capacity assault knives bought via the internet) were surely counting on the fact that none of their intended victims would be able to put up any kind of armed resistance. Translation: no good guy with a gun. Probably no one with so much as a knife either, as packing one in the Middle Kingdom is likely outlawed, too.
Of course, here’s only one rational, common sense response to this kind of carnage: tough, meaningful knife control. Registration of all blades in excess of four inches, those with finger grooves or a choil. Destruction or confiscation of cutting tools that don’t meet those limits. But you just know that, as always, other more enlightened countries – those tranquil places where people can walk the streets free of the fear of senseless, random knife violence – will be out in front of the US in this critical area. If only we were open-minded enough to learn from their example.
I don’t mind someone drinking responsibly (that is not getting drunk) and carrying or driving. As long as you don’t overdo it.
What’s interesting is that buried in the last paragraph is an offhand remindr that mass knife attacks are not uncommon in China….
Damn, them mofo was motivated!
It was a group of mofo’s, apparently, but yeah, still.
If I had to choose a way to be on the losing side of a murderous rampage, I’d take a gun shot over death-by-slash-attack any day.
‘Course above both of those, I’d choose to be armed and have a chance to defend myself.
Two things. First off, in Belgium, Stella is the beer you find lying at the bottom of the metro tracks in a paper bag or in clusters of empty cans in the bushes behind the schools. I lived there for two years so I have a little experience. Maes and Jupiler were held in higher esteem. That said, I grew up like every one else here in the States drinking Miller and Budwieser and dammit, I like Stella. My problem is paying “premium import” prices for it. So don’t apologize for drinking it, just know that you’re paying too much for it.
Second, carrying while drinking. I applaud you for taking the stand. Certainly that will be differnt for anyone and if you do, you take on an additional responsibility. But IMHO, no different than when you decide to drink and then drive. You have to be mature and know your limit, in other words – moderation. Not everyone can handle it. It’s not for everyone. And we all here about the cases where a person got drunk and bad decisions are made. But in truth, that happens anyway.
All beers are swill since Hamm’s, Lone Star and Dixie stopped brewing their own.
And please — never, ever pour me any of that Anchor Steam sh1t. It actually tastes like it might be steam from an anchor.
As a rule, professional journalists are most likely not to be entrusted with firearms.
We entrust teenagers every day in this country with vehicles that are capable of killing, injuring and damage property with little more than a few hours of teaching and a few hours of practice. The vast majority of gun owners spend an astronomical amount of time in comparison learning how to shoot, how to maintain their firearms and practicing good safety habits. Why is it so hard for people to see this?
Those pussy legislators in Rhode Island supposedly keep trying to save the population by clamping down on their knife length. Just in a short number of years, they’ve gone from 4″ down to 3.75 to 3.25 and they are now down to 3″ in length.
Truth be told, if the population there ever woke up out its delirium, they’d realize that it wasn’t for the people’s safety but the safety of the legislature, once the people realized how bad the corrupt legislature was screwing them. What was once a staunch example of colonial resistance has now turned into a population of sheep.
Was just at the freedom store today. They have everything. Prices are still up there but down a bit from what they were. Don’t expect much in the way of price drops since it might get warmer by August and demand might go up. Just a guess.
Anyway, personally, yeah, I’m good. I even have lots of .22
On another note, I wonder if this Ukraine bidness is going to effect supply of all that cheap 7.62 coming from the factories there, or the other makers in Russia. Yes, I know they don’t use it in their armies but I was thinking embargoes, disrupted production and what not. Just to be safe I ordered a couple cases last night. Hate on haters! 😛
I have a supply of 54r, x39 and x18. I worry that barry is going to use Putins military moves to punish him by cutting off the supply of Russsian ammo being sold here.
Although the philosophy behind Constitutional Self-expression is sound, we really don’t need people who don’t know the subjects they are discussing, and are totally unfamiliar with the processes of logic and critical thinking, to be writing wrong-headed, factually incorrect editorials for mass consumption. We therefore recommend a licensing/permit system, with appropriate educational qualifications, for anyone who wants to commercially distribute written accounts of news and opinion. How does that grab you, H-Jeb?
Thank you very much for, in my opinion, the only valid review of the R-51. Honestly, I suspected the recoil would be a problem as I own a Walther PPS and PPK, both are not fun guns to shoot with anything close to a defensive load. Actually, my Sig 938 is the most comfortable shooting very small handgun I have ever owned.
From the first photo I saw of the R-51 the trigger looked like an afterthought. In tactical shooting, and this is the market this gun was made for, the trigger pull and reset are important issues and a deciding deal breaker for me. I own a HK P-30L, which is a great feeling, excellent shooting handgun with a terrible trigger; long hard DA pull on the first shot then a good SA pull, but with a very long reset. You find yourself pulling against the frame instead of getting off quick secondary shots. Sounds like reset will be an issue with the R-51 also. The R-51 trigger also looks like it may pinch when pulled.
If the gun is the same basic dimensions of a G-19 they why would anyone want to give up a winner for a horse with known problems?
Lastly any gun that a 10 year old can’t put back together and be assured it will work properly does not belong in the market place, especially in the defensive market, The average gun buyers I see at the shows are hard pressed to field strip a Glock.
I carry a Sig 938 and at the present it looks like it is going to continue to be my choice for carry for a long time, or at least until Sig finally produces a 938 HD model in all stainless.
And in China, occasionally they have a derranged person light up a gallon milk jug filled with gas on a bus and will kill twice that many innocent people. It isn’t the weapon, it is the crazy.
Yes, people should be aware of the many roadblocks we put in place to deny the citizen the right to carry, they should also be trained to the high standards of law enforcement(be able to hit a small circle at 10 yards on an innocent civilian), further fixed it for you hjeb.
Well done sir.
What I find most annoying if you can call it that is that people get their panties in a bunch. The reality is most are responsible. Sure there are individual outliers but over all we see crime drop and people go about their lives safer. But then again when has the antis argument ever been based in reality?
Yep. A northern liberal editorial staff.
“The Herald-Journal was acquired in 1985 by the New York Times Co., and was a member of the New York Times Regional Media Group through 2011. The Herald-Journal became a member of the Halifax Media Group on Jan. 6, 2012.”
Pennsylvania has no law whatsoever regarding intoxication and carrying a firearm. There is no restriction on going into a bar or restaurant that serves alcohol, while carrying under a Pennsylvania License to Carry Firearms.
Somehow doesn’t seem to be a problem. If people are dumb enough to get inebriated and do stupid things with guns, they tend to find themselves prohibited persons pretty quickly.
That’s a pretty impressive staircase. Is that a wire or string running across the bottom, to keep the professor, or one of his students, from injuring themselves ascending the stairway ? That’s about as effective as a “gun free zone” declaration. Where has logic and reason gone bye-bye to? URANUS?
Best thing for the prof to do is duck under the wire, ascend the spiral staircase, and throw himself off the balcony. If there is one.
.22 NOT. .223 not so bad, but 50% more expensive than since Sandy.
Did I read that right? If I take my car out in public it then becomes public property? Can I just borrow a sheriff’s deputy car any time I want for a while to test this theory of a car in public is public property?
Does this also mean I have no 4th amendment rights while driving my car according to this guy?
“State police have so far rejected some 300 applications from people who are prohibited by statute from having one of the new cards, including, for example, people who have two or more DUIs or a domestic violence arrest within the last five years, Maton said.”
Wouldn’t be a b!tch to spend all that money and time on 16 hours of required classes plus the $150 (non-refundable) application fee, only to be rejected because of those two times you got drunk, beat up your wife and went for a drive? Gotta wonder what those 300 people were thinking.
It sure is a bitch. In fact, I just checked my status online: Denied.
For the record, I was arrested once, around 7 years ago, for domestic violence. Charges were dismissed, as it was a bogus arrest and the accuser never actually showed up or even so much as submitted a statement. I was also voluntarily admitted and released for depression/suicidal tendencies ten years ago. I saw a psychologist and took medication for a short while.
My option now is to wait until I am notified by mail what “preponderance of evidence suggest that applicant is a danger to themselves, others, or society”, and then “the aggrieved party may petition the circuit court in writing in the county of his or her residence for a hearing upon the denial”. So what’re the chances that after being denied by a so-called impartial board I’ll get a license from Cook County? Probably zip.
That also means that I dropped $225 on the class, $60 for fingerprinting, $150 for the application, 70 rounds of .380, and two days of my time on a denial. Total cost: about $475 and 24 hours including class, travel time, and application time.
So much for a natural right.
bobby, thats amost as beautiful as the old NJ(I believe) law that said you could have a handgun, it just needed to be partly dissassembled. I thought we were past the right to defend only being in the home.
“Conviviality”. If you haven’t read it, read TOOLS FOR CONVIVIALITY, by the gentle, joyful anarchist author, Ivan Illitch, who also wrote CELEBRATION OF AWARENESS, and other great books!
One of my crazy inner voices claims that I’m Jesus’s crazy brother who got locked away in the basement and nobody’s been allowed to talk about. And I’ve got new information from the Father of Manifestation: No, you are NOT your brother’s keeper. Your brother is your brother’s keeper. Mind your own business and play with whoever you want to however you want to. It’s OK to share stuff and do group projects and everything, whatever comes up between whoever want to do it together.
And that “go to heaven after you’re dead” schtuff is a trap. It’s death itself that’s Hell. What we’re supposed to do on Earth isn’t to make our soul worthy to enter heaven – your spirit is immortal anyway. But our task is to pull down enough of the riight kind of healing spirit essence to power our Will-body to transform us from self-replicating to self-sustaining.
</One of my crazy inner voices>
“restrict gun rights without a felony conviction for the first time in state history”|
Well they sure did their research, huh? A quick glance at a 4473 would show that you lose your gun rights if you’re convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence, smoke pot, have a dishonorable discharge, ever visited a loony bin, or have a restraining order against you. None of those require a felony conviction.
The technical term for anything that Mr. Miculek does is ‘pluperfect.’
Without being pro or anti towards any group, does the women’s voice on the recording sound altered. Could it be a man trying to sound like a woman?
Also, since the Lt Vance was not told he was being recorded is the recording legal? Is the “woman”: on the tape opening up herself to arrest?
If your religion of choice calls on you to give up the right to self-defense, it isn’t the right to self-defense that needs to be reevaluated.
I’m glad he’d rather have his brothers and sisters walk in the sheep’s footsteps rather than the shepard’s….
Are we not to fear the Lord? Oh… Feeling anxious… Blame God… Argh!
I guess I’m not “saved” enough. +1 Paul T. McCain. Nobody’s bashing Muslims, Jews,Hinduism, Sikhism, etc. Pretty much CHRISTIANS. Ad hominem indeed.
Ok folks riddle me this ! It may be minutes until the first responders show up. And those guys might not be the popo. Ems or fire dept. Sooooo…do you do like the Zman and use the ubiquitous cell phone to call your lawyer or wife or friend? Or do you stand with gun like a statue?
Its hard for me to figure out what this guys angle is. He says mostly the right words, they seem a bit hollow though.
Gentlemen? The study listed in the post is good, you want more? LTC Dave Grossman covers this ground quite thoroughly in On Combat, I believe in the second chapter, and be sure to read the entire book.
If you have never been in an adrenalin rush situation you really can’t understand how freely you will talk, given the opportunity.
It’s a fine video for what it is. Sometimes I’m not sure what the crowd here is expecting…
at least no burglars will come to his house.
im sad he didnt heed uncle joe’s advice to the fullest. youre supposed to fire off two blasts in the air outside, not inside.
cmon man…