“At 1:30 a.m. on Valentine’s Day this year, Carmen Tarleton left her rural home here and drove through the frigid dark to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston,” nytimes,com reports. “Her doctor had called hours earlier with the news she had been waiting for: a suitable donor had been found. She would get a new face. Almost six years had passed since her estranged husband broke into her house one spring night, beat her with a baseball bat and soaked her with industrial lye that he squirted from a dish-soap bottle . . .
The attack nearly blinded Ms. Tarleton, a nurse and mother of two, and burned her beyond recognition. She lost her eyelids, upper lip and left ear. What remained of her face and much of her body was a knobby patchwork of scar tissue and skin grafts, painful to look at and far more painful to live with.
While we congratulate Ms. Tarleton and her medical team for their courage and perseverance, and celebrate her return to something approaching normalcy, perhaps she should have been armed, carrying at home and shot her husband during the attack. God knows what he might have done to the children—other than trying to kill and disfigure their mother. Just thinking out loud during National Domestic Violence Awareness month.
Here’s some more news from that campaign via hill.com:
Vice President Biden will visit the headquarters of the National Domestic Violence Hotline in Austin, Texas, next month to commemorate National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the White House said Friday.
The hotline, which provides 24-hour support to the victims of domestic violence, was established in 1994 as part of the Violence Against Women Act — Biden’s signature legislative accomplishment.
In a speech earlier this year, Biden said his work on domestic violence was “the single most important cause of my life.”
Maybe “Double Barrel” Joe Biden would like to share his thoughts on shotgun-based home defense. Again, just sayin’ . . .
are the quiet models ca legal?
I love the pictures. That should be an AK meme… it makes it look more like a mountain bike than the people killing death machine we all know it is.
The writers of The Wire laid it all out for everyone to see. They called it “cooking the books”, just like accountants do. Human behavior is rather uniform across this planet. We didn’t get to the top of the food chain by being dummies. If you make rules, you can be assured that there will be someone, somewhere, who will figure out a way around it.
Just saying…. none of these “protected species” in either Asia or Africa were endangered prior to the europeans arriving. I don’t think the people who created the problem should be trusted to solve it, especially since those that are trying to solve have already gotten all of the ivory they wanted and are merely cutting off the supply for everyone else.
Honestly… It looks like a tacticooled out BLACKHAWK! ripoff… What’s the differentiation?
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Thanks for this review. I saw this, and, “That’s my AK” ! – When folks ask what I have most people have no idea what I’m talking about when I say M+M M10-762. (Maybe now they will.) Made (or finished, at least) here in Colorado, too!
I tell them it’s a Romanian variant and they tend to ‘harumph’. For the reasons stated above. (One LGS has a Century WASR-10 going for $850; I don’t know what it is about Colorado and AKM variants but they’re impossible to find here, so they demand a stupid premium. )
Recently I let a doubter shoot it at the range and the reaction was “Huh. That’s pretty nice.”
I’ve had nothing but good luck with mine. Never a malfunction, nothing. I replaced the ‘stock stock’ with the Phoenix KickLite adjustable stock, too, which is nice. True the sight mount is a bit high, and I do use a MI side mount. I also added the Tapco slotted muzzle device to counter muzzle rise and that does a nice job on recoil too.
I guess I’d have to underline like Joe said: Value for money on this one. You can get cheaper AKMs, you can get better AKMs, but I looked for a while and didn’t find anything at this price/value ratio.
Thanks for the review, confirms pretty much what I felt about it!
I once prosecuted a domestic violence case where the perp hit the woman so hard with a Dan Wesson .357 that the grips came off! She’d shot him on two prior occasions with a .22, but he got out the hospital within a week both times. (both shootings ruled justifiable). His own lawyer said he was a psycho who would kill someone eventually. I wanted to tell her so badly, “Lady, you need a bigger gun!” But I couldn’t b/c of my official position at the time.
Ms. Carmen’s tragic story is a lesson for us all. Teach your daughters to shoot, b/c restraining order is just a piece of paper.
I was born legally blind in my right eye (I only have a tiny bit of peripheral vision in that eye) and with 20/90 vision in my left eye with correction. I also have a few other eye related issues in the left eye that makes things difficult for me. I’ve been told by entire life that I could not do things, that my disability meant that I was somehow subhuman and should be discriminated against (my severe dyslexia and dysgraphia didn’t exactly help things). Instead of this discouraging me this discrimination and mistreatment inspired me to become what I am today. Despite some activities and tasks being significantly more difficult for me, I give it my all and more often than not thrive. Shooting is one of those activities. I may not be able to get perfect accuracy with iron sights at midrange but give me an optic or target at close range and I’m as good as you can expect for someone at my experience level.
Well, I will have to changing my drawstroke, as my index finger is indexed parallel to the trigger when drawing. Of course, the index finger only goes into the trigger guard when I have decided to fire.
ESL differs from civilian disarmament in one major respect: it works.
Those places depend on all our giveaways, and to an extent on our good will and that of Europe.
Messing with endangered critters, or by inaction permitting them to come to harm, opens the way to the withholding of aid and various kinds of sanctions.
In order to preserve millions in American feel-good money, they’ll spend a few thousand doing their jobs — however callous and anthropocentric their private thoughts on the natural world and its preservation.
Robert owns something that shoots 5.7×28?