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Daily Digest: If It Saves One Child

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Armed guard at El Dorado private school in Scottsdale Arizona (courtesy myfoxphoenix.com)

Carrying a gun in Rhode Island means I can’t slip into Condition White. If nothing else, I have to be aware of who might be aware that I’m carrying a gun in case they freak. I find that particularly ironic when I’m in a target rich/gun-free environment, especially one filled with children. There I am, the only armed first responder should a maniac pull a Newtown, worrying about being mistaken for a bad guy. Still, as the Brits say, needs must. I need to protect my daughter. So I protect my daughter. It’s the same primal urge that led parents to subsidize an armed officer at a Scottsdale school [story at myfoxphoenix.com]. Truth be told, it’s the same primal urge that drives civilian disarmament supporters. The crucial difference: we only have to be right once. They have to be right all the time. More boneheaded ballistic bombast after the jump . . .

Blaming the NRA for “gun violence” is like blaming the Mormons for Internet porn.

Thank God we live in Wayne’s world. 5 things harder to buy than guns marketwatch.com

Then again, New York:

I understand the politics of it, but I’m very proud that this state passed a comprehensive, common-sense gun-control law that is reasonable, that is balanced, that does not affect hunters, does not affect sportsmen,” Cuomo told reporters in Poughkeepsie. “It’s about keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill, about keeping the guns out of the hands of criminals. And that everybody should be able to agree on.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo usatoday.com

Man gestures whilst holding a gun at a weapons store in a market in Arhab

Works here. Works there. Works everywhere. “In the meantime, Yemen’s ever-fragile stability rests on the unsettling fact that, as Mohammed Abdul Lahoum, a tribal Sheikh and prominent politician put it, “Every side knows that if you’re going to bring your gun, somebody else has a bigger gun.” Gun Control, Yemen-Style theatlantic.com

Ruger mini-14 with bells on (courtesy fmgpublications.ipaperus.com)It’s all tactical. Guns Magazine April 2013

New York City fare jumper found with firearm lands himself 7 years in prison over $2. Any priors? nypost.com

Police: Inauguration performer’s killing was case of mistaken identity Any priors? cnn.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26Z8m48P3FQ

“Don’t blink. That’s enough time for North America’s wild hog population to grow larger.” D’oh! email blast from Winchester re: .44 Rem Mag extension to their Razorback XT ammo line.

Gun shows returning to TV? Lords of War on NatGeo tomorrow (Wednesday) at 9pm EST.

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Robert Farago is the former publisher of The Truth About Guns (TTAG). He started the site to explore the ethics, morality, business, politics, culture, technology, practice, strategy, dangers and fun of guns.

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  1. every person in LA county that has been raped, beaten, robed, or killed deserves a vote on wether or not it should be possible to get a ccw permit BEFORE you are a victim of a violent crime.

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  2. Dammit midway usa, since you make magazines, could you please increase the production of pmags? I need some and they are hard to come by right now… oh wait, I guess that is magpul that makes those. They kind of glossed over the fact that midway’s contribution’s to the NRA come from people rounding up their purchases voluntarily to donate.

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  3. My 2022 digested every bit of crap ammunition that I threw at it without a single complaint. Reliability-wise, the pistol has no equal. The accuracy aspect left me questioning. No matter what I did, I could not shrink the groups down to where I felt comfortable with the pistol. I ran a bunch of different loads off my single stage press and concluded that the pistol and I were just not going to get along.
    2 weeks ago, the SIG was traded for a beautiful stainless Beretta 92. Straight up. I think I came out ahead on that score.
    Yes, I still carry my P220. The elder SIG is tried and tested to the point that trust is ingrained. There was just no way I could work up that kind of relationship with the new Tupperware-SIG. I tried, I failed.

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  4. How would you feel if you took the time to send in some information for a prospective article, and they called it “overflow from the bilges”? I hope that is not what you meant to imply.

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  5. Nope, tried it – no work. But, the quote is good enough for me… same as “no racial profiling” which has TSA frisking little children & grandmas in wheelchairs instead of the women in burkas & all of the “Mohamed Atta’s” in the queue.

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