When Piers Morgan heard that Iowa issues concealed carry permit to legally blind citizens, the lame duck CNN talk show host was apoplectic. He used the blind people with a gun? meme to beat the hell out of his pro-gun guests, not one of who had the balls to say “So ‘effing what?” TTAG’s Armed Intelligentsia pointed out that blind people A) have a right to keep and bear arms and B) have a pressing need to protect themselves from bad guys. Anti-gunners would clock the video above and point out that the blind man couldn’t see it coming. Literally. The People of the Gun know that brandishing a gun is a great way to stop an attack in its tracks. And using it against an attacker may be the only way to save your life. See what I mean?
A beautiful piece of design and engineering with spectacular machine work, much like the Swiss Luger and higher end Mausers from a time when precision craftsmanship was an end in itself
I’m legally blind and I’ve had to draw my handgun in self-defense. I have no doubt that I was targetted based on my Disability, and the responding officers even brought this up independant of my thoughts. In my case unless they caught me coming or going to work, it would be an extraordinarily bad idea. But still..
More on that here: http://www.buckeyesforconcealedcarry.com/were-vulnerable-off-campus-too/petes-story/
My daughter is totally blind, and I taught her, when she was 10 years old, to shoot and be safe with a gun. I would trust her with a gun more than I would trust some lamebrain wussy Brit with a microphone.
Gun laws do not stop criminals! Please VETO VETO VETO!! truth about guns??? Guns protect guns save lives! You people do not speak for me or my family or my friends! Your supposed truth is nothing more that misguided lies
Ugh. You stay classy, Philly.
Videos like this are why I have a CCW…at least I can in Philly with only moderate fuss compared to most 90% dem-voting cities.
Also, those blue-light cameras are as worthless as 99% of surveillance cameras out there. Yes, it proves that a human-shaped thing beat another human-shaped thing, but a positive ID?
I think the blind man could see better than that camera.
Stay classy indeed. Don’t you like how people (I counted 3) just stood there (or walked away) and watched? So much for the, “we are supposed to be safe in public because there are other people around” meme.
Bought a dark angel kit right before the article here but sadly, I dont have anything near what I feel is an adequate level of first aid training. Time for some google fu and budgeting I suppose.
Fact or fiction?
More like faction friction.
Unless you truly are trained and understand how to assess and treat a casualty, I do NOT recommend carrying tourniquets and especially any hemostatic agent such as Quick clot or even quick clot gauze. The improper use or application of just these two tools can do more damage than help.
Those here who know, already have their kits set up and know what they are doing. Those who do not (which is the vast majority of you) should stick to a few rolls of Kerlix, a couple packs of compressed H&H gauze, a roll of coban, a roll of medical tape, and a roll of gorilla tape. Anything requiring more than this will be taken care of by someone more trained and experienced than you.
So they contaminated and ruined 200 tons of iron, just to destroy guns that their owners didn’t want anyway. The iron was probably worth $4,000 to $6,000 a ton (2 to 3 dollars a pound). 200 tons equals $800,000 to $1,200,000! Now the stuff is just “pot metal”, and that is worth a lot less. So who paid for the ruined iron? How much did that cost the taxpayers?
I don’t say anything. EXCEPT if they are handling their firearm in an unsafe manner LIKE IF THEY INADVERTENTLY POINT THEIR GUN AT ME!
Then I might say something.
That has happened.
Regardless of what is said about emotion, people will always see “living children > gun rights”.
Of course, most here know that disarmament does not lead to fewer dead children, but you will very rarely convince anyone by responding with “rights” to their “dead children”. Regardless of what your views on rights are (an ideological debate related to the state and its Constitution), keeping children alive will always be more important to a lot of people. We can win on both children and rights arguments, but only referencing rights in response to children will do little.
Frankly, some of these open carry protestors give the best possible fuel to the anti-gun agenda that I’ve ever seen. I’m pretty hardcore gun rights, but taking an AR to the local Starbucks is ridiculous. Police get a free pass on OC, but they carry holstered handguns unless they are responding to a felony call.
If long rifles are OC’d, then protestors should make a realistic effort to look normal. OC in a suit, nice clotures, etc. If this is a PR campaign, then make it so. These gentlemen look pretty good and have smiles on their faces. The super paramilitary “operator” look plays into the negative stereotypes that the antis love to perpetuate.
I bought a Henry lever action .22 several years ago during the Wisconsin Sesquicentennial. The store I bought it from, Safari Sporting Goods, had several that he sent out for engraving. The engraving was for the Sesquicentennial. Very beautiful. Here’s the the thing, since the rifle is very beautifully engraved, I have never shot it. Looks good though. I think it has the octagonal barrell, not certain though since it is safely tucked away in the gun safe.
For plinking purposes, I have an old Savage 6A that, according to my father, belonged to granddad that he learned to shoot in the late ’30s and dad learned on in the ’50s. I also have Winchester .22 pump action that I have dated to 1907. Cool that one. If I ever decide to shoot it, then it will have to live up to the Savage and the 10/22 I owned.
I will start with this saying” Few are writers Anyone can be an editor”.
I will also say that I agree with pretty much everything said here
But…
I don’t think this is an open letter to Shannon Watts. This is a sermon to the choir and will not be heard by members of MOM’s nor policy and law makers.
This will sound very much like the argument happening here on TTAG about open carry.
In public, a holstered pistol while wearing khaki’s and a Polo demonstrates your RKBA, a slung AR while wearing Camo, helps get anti-gun laws past.
This open letter is more akin to the AR open carry approach.
Do you want to argue your points in turn or just leave a bad impression in the reader where they think by your insults that you don’t listen to reason either.
If your target is non-gunners and women in particular then consider these kind of changes that change the tone.
First-Mr McGuirre
Second-Suggestion
disorganized message
Sometimes confusing message
hordes of motherly minions
many faithful but misguided members
something I’m sure you learned at…
Something you made use of at…
provide a nice safety net for your fatuous followers
insulate your followers from legitimate arguments
as riddled with ignorance
not being educated about fire arm use
illogical lemmings have an insatiable hatred of the Second Amendment
have not thought through the importance of the Second Amendment
Your cronies
The people that currently feel as you do
Your members make so many illogical leaps, it is impossible to have a substantive conversation
Your members often make inconsistent arguments
I know that respect of the constitution isn’t your organization’s forte
I know you have difficulty with the 2A
Lose the insults or give the target reason to ignore you.
”Your call for less guns in the home is equally ridiculous”
“Your problem is…”
“But fixing these problems would require original rational thought”
“My second suggestion for you is to hone your message”
This applies to you as well Mr. McGuirrel
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