A Mother’s Day “rally” for Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense. It’s a slam dunk for the pro-gun control media. But here’s the thing: the rallies were a damp squib. There’s no evidence that “thousands” of Moms turned out for anti-gun agitprop. But there’s plenty of evidence that the news media is in the tank for civilian disarmament. Click here for a NY media story about a Bronx rally with a strangely framed picture of four supporters captioned “hundreds of moms marched to end gun violence in the Bronx Sunday.” rawstory.com calls the Chicago rally “a large group” with an equally dubious (quantitatively speaking) photo and video. I reckon that the mainstream media’s complicity is the main thing keeping the pro-gun control side from drying-up and blowing away. Which it’s busy doing anyway. Not that you’ll hear that on your local news.
My decision to buy was due to buying my first rifle. I’ve been shooting handguns for 20 or so years, but never owned a rifle.
The customer service at Center Mass Group is top notch. No lie here folks. I left a message because I was having trouble ordering and they called me back. Me, a nobody from Fly Over Land. I wish I could tell you who I spoke with but they were polite and succinct.
Their website is sorted and I got my book in less than a week, a signed copy. I say a signed copy because though I’m not a collector of fine reading materials, I’m tickled this one is signed because it’s the best book on shooting I’ve ever read, and I’ve read a bunch. If you’re into…what is it called…”Tacti-Cool” then you’re wasting your money, this isn’t the book for you. On the other hand, if you want to shoot better, MUCH better, you’ll want to read this, twice, and go to the youtube vids, often.
Look, there may be nothing new or earth shattering in this to a seasoned veteran of combat but the way it is explained, the exercises shed a good bit of light on the situation of shooting.
Now is when I kick the dirt and look at my feet. I’m re-training myself on how to shoot because of this book. Not easy, but I’ve retrained myself to play trumpet once, tuba and baritone (yes, I was a band kid) so I understand muscle memory. I’m not good again, yet, but I will be.
I’m trying to figure out where the guns are. I guess its fine if you want to do post something not gun related, but maybe doing it on another site might be better? I come here for my daily gun fix.
You can find more a hundred times more “moms” demanding action at the Designer Shoe Warehouse.
As of now, I’m forming Responsible Gun Owners Against Dumpy Female Gun Grabbers. Anyone want in?
Careful, man. Those dumpy moms are mean.
How can they expect me to read, “moms demand action”, and not snicker, or think of milfs? It’s impossible.
Maybe if somebody started giving these moms some action they wouldn’t be so worked up. Who wants to protest after sex?
I don’t think MILF when I see this motley crew.
Their husbands. They’d protest before and after.
At least this news report mentioned that gun violence is down. Now if only they would have an articulate individual to counter the anti’s. I just chuckle when I hear the anti’s say “it’s for the children!”
I suspect this is more like Mitch Albom’s screw-up from a few years ago where he wrote an article and was not even at the damn game!!!! http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/columnist/mediamix/2005-04-13-media-mix_x.htm
$20 says these “journalists” are merely copying the media announcement the anti-gun groups send out and then uploading a photo from their Facebook page. Any one wanna take that bet??
the key is to BUST them like Albom was and shame them into reporting the truth
Hey guys, does it not amaze you how every time an article starts with “Hundreds show up to…”, somehow there never seems to be photographic evidence of the so called hundreds? Now why would that be?………………..Journalistic bullsh!t…………….
BTW – kinda ironic that there is a story about restricting gun violence (yeah, whatever), and when you click on the link for the story about the Bronx march above, you get this right above that story: http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/181953/police-search-for-suspect-who-robbed-man-bringing-flowers-to-his-mother-s-grave
You can’t make this crap up.
It may not be good, but calling it the worst videogame ever (or even implying it might be) shows a distinct lack of videogames played.
Boring? Yes, but it is miles above the tripe being put out on a monthly basis. Solid mechanics, especially in multiplayer, contribute to a good amount of fun.
That so much of the review focuses on the single player is also telling. Really the single player in CODs has been secondary to multiplayer, and while Battlefield is far better, they are VERY different in their goals. BF is not COD and they aren’t trying to be the same. COD is an arcade shooter, focused on tight mechanics and competitive, fast-paced gameplay while BF requires more teamwork.
Born and raised there. 17 injured is just a bad Saturday night.
Wow, I guess I grabbed it just in time. Literally, 27 minutes ago. It’ll never really be “gone”, though. Not as long as the Internet as we know it even a little bit exists.
Hang on a second… why is the firearm and its source significant in the case of officer Terry’s murder, but not in every other case where someone is killed by an illegally purchased weapon. Do we honestly think that the criminals that committed this crime would not have attained a similarly capable weapon via other sources? Saying that a gun is a tool and that the evil lives (or doesn’t) in the person behind it has to apply to all cases. Regardless of the politics behind the case.
Am I seeing a double standard where there isn’t one? Please help me out here. The 2A and all of our other civil liberties need to be defended against both R’s and D’s. I don’t think its worth undermining a core argument when to score political points.
Whoa! Nice pair of 38s!
I love dogs…we have three, all rescues, all smaller breeds. We walk them several times a day, and I always carry. We live in a nice neighborhood, but people don’t take keeping their dogs leashed or in a fenced yard seriously. My wife refuses to carry a pistol, and used to walk the dogs by herself on her lunch break. Last year she was charged by a large mixed breed dog. It came from of the lake-front common lots we have for launching/docking boats(private lake). The dog was at a full sprint, and about thirty yards away when she screamed loud enough for the dogs owner to hear. He yelled and the dog turned back. When I got home from work she told me about it. She asked (politely) the owner to please leash his dog. He flatly refused. After I relaxed I walked over and knocked on their door. I introduced myself, and again explained that he should leash his dog if he was going to have it outside his yard. He told me no. I informed him that if his dog ever charged us, I would defend myself, my wife, and our dogs. I didn’t say I’d shoot his dog, nor did I even mention a firearm. The guy just said, “thanks for your concern, I guess you’ll have to do what you need to…” I couldn’t believe it.
We have another neighbor who has a beautiful German Shepard Dog. I’ve spoken with him about the weakness of the invisible fence he uses. He explained that his dog is really nice(which she is), unless she sees a small dog, then her prey drive takes over and she wants to kill it. Our smallest dog weighs 7 pounds, and would be killed instantly if a big dog got ahold of her. So far we’ve been lucky, and the dog has stayed behind the invisible fence (but charges right to the edge aggressively). If we walk past that house and the dog is out, we stay to the far side of the street, and my wife knows to keep out dogs between myself and the GSD. The thought of having to shoot a dog almost makes me sick, especially when it’s the owner’s fault that their dog is not controlled.
My dad was a police officer in Detroit for years…the only time he ever had to fire his weapon was when he was attacked by two dogs. (They’d received a call about dogs running loose(as did animal control) he and his partner arrived first. The dogs were on the complaintants porch. The people in the house were asked not to come outside, or disturb the dogs, as they seemed tired and were resting on the porch. Of course the people rattled the front door, and the dogs ran around to the back yard. My dad saw this as a good thing, as he could simply close the gates, and wait for animal control. That was a good idea until he realized that one half of the gate was missing. By then the dogs were at a full run, growling directly at him. He tried to make it back to his car, but couldn’t. So he turned and fired, twice. He wasn’t happy about it, and even today, over thirty years later gets upset talking about it. I agree that the police are often way too quick to shoot a dog, and even unjustified at times. But there are times when police officers, like the rest of us, have to defend themselves.
Writing this post reminds me of this story from 2007.., The woman that was killed was the mother of my wife’s coworker at the time…it was horrible, and I can only imagined how different it might have been had she been armed when she took her walk(she used to walk and feed horses that were kept nearby).
http://blog.mlive.com/chronicle/2007/09/livingston_county_man_91_woman.html