Regardless of the precise definition—30 rounds. 11 rounds, 8 rounds—I get why the gun control advocates would call an ammunition magazine an “assault clip.” It sounds scary. And I understand the reference to kids. Let’s call it pathological pathos. But the multi-colored peace sign? That’s just funny. Gerald Holtom designed the original peace sign in 1958 for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, whose motto was “ban the bomb.” The stickers appeared on plenty a Volkswagen Beetle; the Toyota Prius is the Bug’s latter day incarnation. So it all works perfectly; including the fact that the nuclear bomb’s threat of mutually assured destruction kept the world safe from nuclear war. Just as privately held “assault clips” keep Americans [relatively] free from crime and government tyranny. I wonder if anyone else got that. [h/t DrVino]
This is the image I get from the “Assault Clips”:
http://recordsetter.com/world-record/binder-clips-attached-face/494#contentsection
Are we sure that’s not ironic…? Cause it sure seems satirical in its cliche’ and the fact that it manages to use two words to make a meaningless phrase.
I think the only time one of my “CLIPS” hurt a child was when my niece accidentally put a bit of her hair in the follower while loading a magazi–er, uh “CLIP” during one of our range days.
Ban Idiot antigunners.
Nails on a damn chalk board.
Conservatives don’t cotton to slogans. When they finally produce one, it’s never the sort of rallying cry capable of sending people to the ramparts, such as “Yes We Can!” or “Bush Lied, Kids Died!” “27 Million Americans Can’t Be Wrong” is a wry observation, not an urgent call to battle. “Annoy the Media, Vote Bush!” — barely qualifies as a suggestion.
Conservatives write books and articles, make arguments, and seek debates, but are perplexed by slogans. (Of course, another reason Republicans may avoid bumper stickers is to prevent their cars from being vandalized, which brings us right back to another mob characteristic of liberals.)
By contrast, liberals thrive on jargon as a substitute for thought. According to Le Bon, the more dramatic and devoid of logic a chant is, the better it works to rile up a mob: “Given to exaggeration in its feelings, a crowd is only impressed by excessive sentiments. An orator wishing to move a crowd must make an abusive use of violent affirmations. To exaggerate, to affirm, to resort to repetitions, and never to attempt to prove anything by reasoning are methods of argument well known to speakers at public meetings.”
Liberals love slogans because the “laws of logic have no action on crowds.” Mobs, Le Bon says, “are not to be influenced by reasoning, and can only comprehend rough-and-ready associations of ideas.”5 He could be describing the New York Times and other journals of elite opinion when he describes periodicals that “manufacture opinions for their readers and supply them with ready- made phrases which dispense them of the trouble of reasoning.” Ann Coulter, ‘Demonic’
Wow. I normally avoid punditry at all costs (see my comment upthread about the mainstream media), but that really made a lot of sense.
I believe two particular uses of the Hi-Power in TV and film made the general American public aware of the handgun.
The earliest that I remember is from the TV show “I Spy” with Robert Culp and Bill Cosby (1965-1968). Culp’s character always had a Hi-Power floating around and boy did it look sexy to a young kid. It made the PPK carried by the contemporary James Bond/Sean Connery look puny and very European anemic.
The other use of the Browning was in the movie “Serpico” (1973). The story is based on the real life story of NYPD cop Frank Serpico who got caught up in the corruption of the department of the time. He finally co-operated with “outside agencies” and became a hunted man by his own cops. The best line of the movie is when he buys the Hi-Power and is asked by the gun store salesman if he “is going to take on an army?”. To a public very familiar with the revolvers carried by cops of the time, the Hi-Power was like something out of Science Fiction. “What the hell kind of pistol is that?” was heard quite a lot where the movie played.
All you really need to do is go to two websites and you’ll learn all about this:
http://www.heyjackass.com/
http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/
Change “ban” to “buy” and it will work for me. (Although I don’t believe I’ve seen assault clips for sale anywhere.)
It’s the pistol grip that makes it super deadly.
That shoulder thingy looks like it would splinter.
Well thats a no brainier.
And gangmembers in Chitown are…overwhelmingly black and Hispanic. As the cheese eating surrender monkeys say, “Quelle surpris!”
Right on the paint!
My daughter is a teacher. She says this in reference to “paper” clips that the kids shoot with rubber bands. Probably not true but it feels good.
Ban assault clips sure, anything over say, 8 rounds. My Garand isn’t one to take those extended clips anyway…
Starve and wither, troll.
You missed the humor. A clip is not a magazine. The Garand’s internal magazine loads with an 8-round en bloc clip. Your Glock or AR doesn’t have a clip, it has a magazine.
Even then, a little nukey never hurt nobody.
That’s got to be the official “I’m an assh0le” sticker of the new generation of morons.
I believe “Nuevo Douche” is the term you are looking for.
Go ahead, ban an imaginary thing…..I don’t know if any rifle/gun that utilizes a so called “Assault Clip?
Shouldn’t the word banana be in there somewhere.
The banana is driving.
Just when I thought aggies couldn’t get any worse, they take over a TTT law school, boost enrollment (just what my profession needs), and hire an idiot who wants to repeal one of the guarantees of my liberty.
“Hmm, let’s change this amendment because I don’t have any life experience to realize the importance of it.”
Guess they didn’t teach history where she went to get her degree.
No felon allowed to own a gun. You lost that right.
“Anything that shrinks to size and power of government in our lives is a good thing for
The People Of The Guneveryone.”Fixed it for ya.
Great article, Robert.
Nicely done, sir.
Have a cigar. You’ve earned it.
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It’s uncanny. Like reading my own diary.
So for those who detest the TSA, how do we improve the situation and what do we replace the TSA with?
Serious question.
I don’t see private security working. If private is always the answer and it can work in cases of national security, why don’t we privatize the FBI and the Army? We could have competition driving different law enforcement agencies or armies to offer the very best in service at the best price. Many of us who have served can attest that there’s “the right way, the wrong way, and the Army way” with the Army way often being the least efficient and most time consuming.
But, when push comes to shove, the Army (and the other branches) are still the guys you call. And they’re federally funded and controlled. No matter how screwy things get, we’re probably not going to a private the military or a private FBI replacement. It’s not just an issue of money – it’s an issue of the federal government feeling a responsibility and of the public feeling that the federal government is responsible for doing something.
If the TSA were disbanded tomorrow and a plane was taken out of the sky over Dallas on Friday, people would howl and scream. They would call on the federal government to explain how that could happen and why the TSA was disbanded. I bet there would even be guys on here lamenting the government’s incompetence. People would demand blood and formulate conspiracy theories… “Yep, them Gubbermint boys are responsible, that’s why they disbanded the TSA last week. They was a plannin’ on takin’ that plane out over Dallas and they needed the TSA out of the way to do it…”
So from the point of view of elected officials and government appointees, some of whom are concerned with their jobs and some of whom most assuredly do care about protecting people, something has to be done. SOMETHING. Right now, that something is the TSA.
I’m no government apologist, but it seems like an impossible situation to me. If the government does nothing, they’re going to be held responsible the next time a terrorist group attacks us by using an airline or hijacks a plane. If they do something, they’re hated for having TSA agents sort through your skivvies to make sure you’re not trying to smuggle a fragmentation grenade onto a plane.
So what solutions do you ladies and gents offer instead?
This resolution could be a real whopper.
Groan. . .
Best article I have read in a while. Well done!
I think armed insurrection will happen if the government (state, federal, etc.) launches a wave of door-to-door confiscations/searches. I mean, are all the people who tooled up in NY with AR-15s just going to surrender them quietly? And if so, why’d they buy them?
“…These portals were designed and approved by TSA which is important,”
Well that is more than obvious.
The local Zoo, the local Subway/Metrorail, and amusement park can all manage to create a one-way exit using only a simple turnstyle that won’t slow down large crowds leaving an area AND doesn’t rely on electricity or any employee monitoring.
Like this one…. http://www.feraltrade.org/shipping_image/1291_sanysidro_usa_exit_turnstile.jpg
Regarding Ypres:
1 Billion (with a B) projectiles?! Holy crap! WWI isn’t overlooked the way Korea is, but it definitely plays second fiddle to WWII and Vietnam in the US history books. I think I’ve managed to learn more about it than a lot of Americans over time. Still, I’m dumbfounded at the sheer amount of “fuck you” thrown around in that one battle. It’s such a strange juxtaposition, all these hundreds of tons of munitions being dug up in Belgium during one of the most peaceful (if incredibly tense) periods in Europe since the Romans slaughtered anyone who dared disrupt the peace. “Peaceful, evolved, blah blah blah” Europe sitting with mountains of unexploded, human-made and -directed pain, relics of a nasty history.
Kind of brings the history books to an all too nasty life.
Great, I’m trying to wax poetic. That rarely ends well…
Look up Ypres (pronounced Iper) some time, there is a major monument to foreign soldiers there (tons of British) It is a gorgeous city near the French border that has a huge influx of British tourists each year. The entire city was demolished during WWI, the trench warfare just went back and forth over that area. estimated over 500 million soldiers died in the span of a few months over a mile or two of ground. I highly recommend you go to that town if you can.
Joyeux Noel is a great movie about the christmas truce that happened all over that area of Belgium and France.
Drove all the way from Rhode Island and you had to stop at Austin…
Protect kids, ban stupid adults.
I had the WORST experience with Wilson. Ordered a ULC Carry through my local approved dealer and waited over a year and a half with ZERO status updates or correspondence from their company. Absolutely terrible. They quoted me $2100 when I ordered the weapon. Well, I held them to task and they finally revealed that “oops, the Wilson rep that we used to work with has been gone from the company for over a YEAR”. Are you kidding me? Bill Wilson, if you want my thousands for one of your guns, you had better damn well provide better customer service than that. By the way, when the new rep was contacted, he offered me the same gun (plus a now 12 month build time) for $2800! That’s right; they wanted another $700 from me for their screwup because the market was good for them. Greedy, selfish, crummy customer service. Their guns may put men on the moon but I’m eternally disgusted with Wilson Combat. Terrible!
Dan, great article. Thanks.
“Despite the Belgians having more men under arms than all English-speaking countries combined in 1939”
— I am very surprised to read that statistic. I am having trouble imagining that the combined numbers of British, American, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand forces were less in number than Belgium. If one includes all the native speaking auxiliary troops (ex: India) under the control of the UK’s Empire then the combined number goes even higher.
The Browning is a classic and did inspire the CZ which is the make I’m going to own someday,
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Abraham Collins
Running off skilled individuals who would work hard and create great amounts of tax revenue solely on the basis of disgust for rights enumerated in the US Constitution?
You are unmatched in your foolishness. The Bill of Rights is not to be trifled with, and chasing off productive members of your state economy is perhaps the most idiotic and foolhardy display of pride anyone could ever display. Sacrificing your golden goose all for the false promise of statist tyranny. It’s incomprehensible. . .
Come on guys, at least they are going after Democrats:
“In states which were at any point in time a part of the Confederate States of America, this tax shall be equal to 10% of an individual’s income.”
The “yelling ‘fire’ in a crowded theater” comment is actually most likely a reference to a specific event, the 1913 Italian Hall disaster in Calumet, MI during the copper mining strike. Though far from the only incident of someone causing panic by inferring danger, it would have been fresh in the court’s mind, having been major nation news mere years earlier, and it had a particularly large death toll (73, mostly children). Also, since the culprit has never been found, the court undoubtedly was looking for a way to make it possible to try them with something more harsh than existing laws would allow.
Sorry, I had a class that was working with the Parks Service to prepare a proper memorial service for the event’s centennial, and had to do a lot of historical digging. That comment actually came up a lot in local news articles.
BRAVO!!!!
So the anti gun nuts are also saying it is illegal to yell fire in a theatre, when there really is a fire, do tell?
Don’t think it is a troll. I think it is satire by Dick Head (Richard Cabeza is the name of the site contact). His email is [email protected] and the “how the bill of rights should look” where he inserted a “Tweet” text in the image is clearly satire. Instead of a contact section, there is a “Hate Mail” section. And the owner posts on ar15.com supposedly