San Francisco 49ers linebacker Patrick Willis has animal lovers and gun haters all aflutter. According to bleacherreport.com, he announced to all the world that his property is now down one reptile thanks to some quick work with a pellet rifle. Clearly, in the view of a number of commenters at his MyFace page, Mr. Willis lacks any semblance of humanity for so heartlessly killing what looks to be a 4-5 foot snake he found coiled on his patio. As someone named Auntie Clymax screeched, “So he’s proud of killing a harmless gopher snake. Yay! That just tells me he’s probably a big, cowardly pussy who beats women as well.” Q.E.D. The Niners list Patrick at a beefy 6’1″, 240 lbs., so he can probably handle himself quite nicely when it comes to on-line hostility. As for the snake, nice shootin’ there, Pat.
Actually, just displayed his ignorance. Gopher snakes are not dangerous. Feed on small rodents, lizards, etc.
Well JPD, I would think that all the small rodents and lizards would be grateful to Pat for eliminating one of their predators in the area. Get over yourself.
Kind of surprised a pellet gun took it down… Now how does one cook a snake like that?
Hryan, I have a cheap off the rack Crossman pellet rifle. .177 caliber that shoots north of 1000 fps depending on the ammo. At backyard ranges it would have no problem taking game up to and including raccoons. It’s definately not a toy and I have no doubt that at back yard ranges it could inflict a serious, even lethal injury on a person. All for 99 bucks and no paper trail.
A poll of officers has been conducted about enforcement of gun laws. It is very heartening that they do not support it. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
http://guardamerican.com/index.php/blog/34-jurisdiction/513-front-line-officers-favor-resistance
Gun grabber should not be football fans so they are irrelevant lol
Sending google-foo to find gopher snake recipes!
It’s great to see that in their personal life NFL players are not playing to and crying with the gun-grabber zealots in comparison to the NFL management.
I’ve shot my fair share of snakes out at our lakehouse with a .22 LR.
Anyone outraged by this is a D-Bag wuss that would scream like a girl at the sight of a snake.
I breed snakes, and I was upset about it…
And no I don’t scream at the sight of a gopher snake (well, maybe with joy, any Pitouphis is a pretty rare find where I am).
Well done Pat… No seriously, they taste best well done… 🙂
It’s magic, the genie is out.. There is no stopping this now. It won’t win a war, but it is changing history.
This gun will turn out to be one of the cult guns of the century. And we thought that we couldn’t run out of mods on an AR15. People are going to get pretty inventive with this one.
“As someone named Auntie Clymax screeched, ”So he’s proud of killing a harmless gopher snake. Yay! That just tells me he’s probably a big, cowardly pussy who beats women as well.””
Remember, this woman drives a car on the same roads as you do and she will be voting for Hillary. Therefore, buckle-up and vote next election.
Poor Lee has been too busy thinking of these things to take his kid to the park…. …where he can see any random kid push another out of the way on the monkey gym, the slide or sand box or walk up to another kid, thwack him upside the head and take his toy.
These behaviors are hard wired – more so in others – and trying to tell people to go against their urges is as helpful as restorative therapy is for gay men.
The level of discourse in this once great country has devolved to outrage over something as mundane as this.
Some people need to do something important with their lives.
I have to come down slightly on the side of the snake lovers. If Patrick is a rural Tennessee boy then he knows what venemous snakes looks like and surely knew that this one was harmless to humans.
A friend of mine hates the black snakes that visit her yard to go after the baby birds that she loves to watch. She is well armed but she doesn’t shoot them. She asks her husband (or me if I am there) to pick them up, put in them in a box and take them to a park near her house.
My personal policy on wildlife is that if it’s not a threat to humans, domestic animals or something I would eat it gets to live.
I know a few country boys that would never be able to tell the difference. Just because you were raised in the sticks, doesn’t make you an expert on all things wildlife.
I am really starting to want one of these just for collectible coolness.
Agreed, especially in the .22LR version.
New Yorker Magazine? A publication of Conde Nast, division of Advance Publishing Company. Owned by the rabidly anti-gun billionaire Newhouse brothers. They also own the Stat Ledger (NJ) newspaper and others, all of which have been pushing for the new draconian NJ anti-gun laws.
They also own the Discovery and other cable channels. Funny, because some of their shows portray firearms in a positive way. Hypocrites!
That description conjures so many images of the Springfield PD from The Simpsons.
Except this was real life. Sigh.
I have to say I’m really disappointed , but not surprised, by some of what I read in this thread. It’s one thing to not agree with your President but the contempt and utter disdain is sickening and a disgrace to the fighting man (and woman) that this very thread references.
When I was in the service I definitely disagreed with the President at the time (first Bush). I thought and still think he didn’t have the best interest in me and Americans like me. But as a serviceman I would follow whatever lawful orders given by the President disseminated to me.
You don’t think our enemies read things like this? This is what they feed on. Believe me they will use it if they can see an advantage to it. Don’t think so? Check your history. Enemies have used sickening disdain and bias is past wars when was really a poor example to all it’s citizens. Yet those citizens, despite those obstacles performed bravely with enemies on multiple fronts.
I’m not gonna to write a dissertation here but many here speak as if our current President doesn’t know his hand from his elbow. I’ll tell you what , if that is indeed true then imagine what this county would be by a man who LOST an election to a man who can’t tell his hand from his elbow?
I don’t expect President Obama to know anything about a bayonet since he’s never been in the service. Hell, alot of people who WERE in the service don’t know what a bayonet is.
By the way, I remember it as “SPIRIT OF THE BAYONET!! KILL KILL KILL”. Not one “KILL”, you want to make sure he’s dead three times over. lol
Totally forgot the moves though, was it “slash, thrust and then strike with weapon”?
Here is my favorite part:
The gunfight in Watertown was so intense that bullets came flying through a home about a half a block from the shooting scene.
“They landed right near our staircase, near the pedestal and the other near our closet,” said Harry Ohannesian, who showed CNN several bullet holes in his house. “They went through one, exited, went through another closet and landed under the staircase.”
Gee, would have sucked if someone had been between the bullet and the staircase at that moment. Good think the cops are so highly trained, huh?
Holy shit. They just found some random SUV and unloaded into it?
These guys are dangerous. Anybody could of been in there and the police had no clue what they were shooting at.
I saw a study 1 time that said that people under stress in a shooting situation routinely shoot until their weapon is empty irregardless of the effect the fire is having on their target. When police officers were routinely equipped with 6 shot revolvers when confronted with a deadly threat fired 6 shots and some continued firing even after their guns were empty. Sort of like the civil war soldiers that loading round after round into their muzzle loaders without firing.
Fast forward to when people now routinely carry guns with 16 bullets in them and guess what? They fire until slide lock when put into a shooting situation.
I saw some of this in my military days. We come under fire and we were equipped with m16’s with full giggle switches. It didn’t matter how many shots were fired at us, sometimes just 1, it always became a mad minute.
Some of the posters and commentors for TTAG have never been shot at. And I hope you never are. But, and I’m not beeing insulting here, if it does happen most if not all of the training you have will be discarded in a primal urge to survive.
I was lucky the first time I was under fire, I had experienced men around me that could keep a noob from doing something stupid that got him killed.
“I have a duty to uphold those laws without question.”
Judas here’s a Heads Up, your duty is to protect the citizens and the US Constitution
Not take the same position as those tried at Nuremberg, though you may believe as they did it will not sheild you from justice!
http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html
almost assuredly if they meet a threat while under “condition white”, they soon will be under “condition brown”. just sayin…
Hey, it’s one snake for Pete’s sake! Chill people. After all, he did it for the children…..
For the majority, people rarely change their nature. Sheep will remain sheep.
I noticed when I pack heat I scan people alot more completely out of the corner of my eye. While it is bad to stereotype, it probably is worthwhile to be better prepared in the end than to be oblivious to it all
stereotyping/profiling/discriminating based on apearance being considered “bad” is bad.
Most would continue demanding that the state provide them security, asking for increased patrols, lighting and surveillance cameras.
I know it’s off topic, but why is the dog off leash? Not the most responsible choice, even if the dog is obedient and friendly…other dogs, kids, etc could pose all kinds of trouble for little Fido if the owner has no way to physically control him.
yay. was any Bloomberg money wasted? Only 26.980 billion to go.
I don’t know if it’s nature or nurture. I just know that it’s smart.
If I had the money to buy that knife, I would just set that amount back towards buying another gun and skip the knife.
This is an awesome write up.
I think you nailed it with the connection between the 1st and 2nd amendments. That is why this whole story about a plastic gun is so interesting. Very insightful post.
A felony in WI with or without a CWP. How stupid is that.
So… Why don’t the championship matches have check-in inspections to ensure that all firearms used in that competition comply with the rules of the day?
As my grandpa would say “One of the ways to measure a man’s character is to see how he handles his mistakes.”
I think my grandpa would’ve like this guy.
I need a 3D printer to “role my own” pellet gun just for S&G
i own both .308 an 30-06 mossberg atr 150gr. put any 150gr.bullet in 30-06 either hits hole of 1st bullet fired or eigth inch higher. mossberg atr great in my book .308 is stevens 200 yes it shoots great but not like mossberg , getting ready to buy .308 in mossberg atr ill let you know if it hits same. but if you are looking for long distance an less drop get 7mm rem. mag. in savage its got it all. put it against any gun in from 300 win. mag. down. with 150gr. bullet. but thinking hard on 165gr. hope tis helps. 7mm the gun look at drop an compare. but the main thing is the man behind the gun that counts.
I’ve been to the UK a couple times in the past ten years, and each time I’ve seen police carrying MP5s all around the greater London area. I’m not really sure where or when the myth of the “unarmed Bobby” was supposed to exist. It certainly isn’t in modern times.
That being said, I’ve had online discussions with people in the UK who still claim that there are no guns in the UK – none at all. I then pointed them to the laws that define their (albeit extremely limited) ability for private citizens to own firearms, and then the argument shifted to “well, may be you can own them under certain restrictions, but there’s no good reason to.” Oh, you mean except for the multitude of cases of home invasions and gang crime involving knives and (imaginary?) guns.
The person could never explain why or how gangs still manage to get guns, and seemed to be in denial that they actually have them.