http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqk0ysr69rE
I’m not sure what drugs our friend had ingested before he decided to pull his firearm. Just as I’m not sure how he came to be in the back of a cop car. Or if that’s the best way—or time— for a cop to disarm a backseat druggie. But I am sure that firearms “incidents” are like airplane “accidents.” They’re almost always the result of a series of unfortunate events and/or a number of mistakes. You know the old gun guru adage “don’t do stupid things with stupid people in stupid places”? It’s true both as a list and a sequence. If you recognize that something is awry, don’t compound your problems. Avoid both gunfights and negligent discharges by remembering to “be mindful” (as they say in drug counseling). Slow down, think about what’s going on, think about your options and then act decisively. You’d be amazed at what doesn’t happen when you know you don’t want it to.
I I just don’t understand what I did wrong…. My guess is being on drugs and then pulling a revolver in the back of a Cop car. Lucky for the officers that this guy wasn’t more intent on using that gun. I figured you were usually searched before getting into a car though.
“Newtown showed the nation that you can’t ‘other’ this away. You can’t say ‘this only happens in black neighborhoods or poor neighborhoods or to people out walking dark streets alone at night.’ This can happen anywhere.”
Oh the irony. This could be injected into any one of a thousand pro gun articles and would fit perfectly. The truth is, that statement is a huge part of why I carry. Sometimes, there’s no amount of preventative measures one can take that can prevent the bad guys from finding you. It can happen anywhere, and at anytime.
An elementary school, in a low crime town of ~50,000 people; how many people thought that some psycho was going to come and shoot up the school that day? A mother pushing her year old toddler in a stroller down the sidewalk in a residential area, in the middle of the day, on a weekday; how many people would expect a couple of demons to attempt to rob her and shoot her baby in the face because she didn’t have any money?
When people ask me why I don’t leave the house without carrying, I simply point out stories like those.
Holy police state! Cops in full military garb, beating the guy afterwards. That, and the fact that they didn’t catch the gun in the first place doesn’t give me the warm and fuzzies.
Right, because you’d be all hugs and kisses after some dude pulled a gun on you..
I bet they never do a half @$$ed patdown again.
I can only imagine how they felt after realizing what that guy coulda done to them…
The next guy is probably getting the rubber glove treatment.
“Newtown showed the nation that you can’t ‘other’ this away. You can’t say ‘this only happens in black neighborhoods or poor neighborhoods or to people out walking dark streets alone at night.’ This can happen anywhere.”
Why didn’t she just say, “The rest of the country needed to wait for rich little white kids to be gunned down to care.” Someone should slap the s*** out of her.
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And, because they’re continuously awesome, of course The Pirate Bay is hosting a couple Defense Distributed files, including The Liberator.
“Guns also should be redesigned so that they don’t go off accidentally when dropped, Hemenway says.”
Done and done. Now we can move on.
Back in ’83, in a fit of handgun macho I bought a Charter .44 Bulldog to carry while on the road for a college. Bought some Silvertips for it but didn’t fire it for 9 months. When I did, what a surprise! Despite lots of dry firing, the trigger was still gritty. Recoil was horrendous. Worse than .44 magnums I’d fired. After 10 shots, my index finger bled from the sharp trigger, while the middle finger bled from the trigger”guard”. Accuracy was B-27 acceptable at 10 yards,and the Silvertips exploded gallon water jugs spectacularly. Figuring I was likely to need it in a hotel room, I fired one round without muffs. It felt like a pencil had been jammed in my left ear! The next day I went to my LGS and traded it for a used police S&W Model 10 heavy barrel with a butter-smooth action. Moral: a gun you’re not afraid to shoot is better than a cannon that scares you.
My idiot younger sister married a guy from NZ where Kim lives. She ultimately divorced him, but the few years she was with him were a trip.
He really thought he was smarter than Americans in general, even though he very clearly wasn’t. One time we debated whether or not it was King Solomon who was noted for his wisdom, for example. He was positive I was thinking of King David and continually argued the point in the face of facts. He refused to admit it was King Solomon who threatened to cut a baby in half when two women claimed to be its mother.
I will never forget this one time when my sister told me she had to “talk him down” when he saw a Police officer with a gun on his hip at the DMV. When I asked what she was going to talk him down from doing, she couldn’t answer. But she did told me he almost started crying and said he didn’t understand America.
Gentlemen, we cannot assume that people abroad respect our right to bear arms in any way. People outside of the USA have not had the rights we enjoy for a long time.
If only the children had been taught proper gun safety… “If it could only save the life of one child”. Instead of being good teachers we as a society stick our head in the sand. I say not my child because she has been taught properly but I know her friends from school have not.
Since he was not cuffed, I am guessing he was a transport. It wouldn’t have been PC to pat him down if he was.
I’m all for a gun safety class… in the context of being in school. We already have sex ed taught in several different years, starting in 5th grade. Why not put a component inside health class about gun safety?
Guns aren’t going to leave this country (and liberals need to get that through their heads), so there is NO downside to teaching EVERY kid in EVERY school proper ways to stay safe.
This, instead of schools demonizing guns and suspending kids for L-shaped poptart pieces, is the logical thing and the safe thing for everyone. Hey democrats… “If it just saves one kid”
Jewish Marksman was right on the money with the rear sight – the author mentioned he would have issues with long shots but not being able to lower the sight *could* cause an issue with a 100 yd. zero – assuming you could get a 100 yd. zero, or settled for a further distance, you’d be fine with longer shots.
While some of the comments are a bit harsh, I’d agree that thoroughly reading the rule book (multiple times, then once more for good measure) and getting some match experience are going to help you more than anything.
You know how I learned to safely handle a firearm when I was 18? By reading. I read Cooper and learned the four rules by heart before even touching the 1911 that my father gave me. No one in my family were or currently are gun people. I read everything I could get my hands on to learn how to operate firearms safely and efficiently.
I have no use for people who want to force me to attend some class to be able to own a gun. You want to attend a class? Fine. Go do it. But don’t force me to waste my time.
I took my state’s hunter’s safety course and the basic rifle portion of Army ROTC training voluntarily, but I would never want to force people to do these things in order to exercise a right.
Stupid people are going to be stupid regardless and antis are always going to despise us. They are our enemies, we shouldn’t cater to them.
Leave me alone, Barrett et al.
My high school ran everyone through a week long Hunter’s Safety course taught yearly by one of the regular teachers with material from the state game management department.
We didn’t need to own a gun or fill out a 4473, just be the right school-year.
Why do we have to consistently rag on this type of training? What else would you have them train on? You got what you got, training is not perfect. You have to use what you can, not like you can put real people out there to shoot at? There are solid things taught in these classes, sure maybe people think it looks dumb but who cares, if it saves your life…. A lot of this ragging just sounds like excuses for not training.
good thing people didn’t make their own weapons before the advent of a 3d printer…
oh wait the Sten Mk I-Mk VI, the Błyskawica. the KIS, the Pleter 91, the Pat Luty style SMG, the Metral SMG, the IRA’s Avenger SMG, the international Ordnace Mp2 SMG, Bechowiec-1
“Danao City makers manufacture .38 and .45 caliber revolvers, and semi automatic copies of the Ingram MAC-10 and Intratec TEC-DC9 submachine guns”
what’s next licensing lathes and machine shops? As a Korean American just like Senator Yee I can say with utmost certantity that he’s a complete tool. the 2nd Amendment saved my dads business and probably his life in CA when the rioters were burning down korean businesses. My old man had an AR15 ( which is now CA ILLEGAL) which was pretty much the same weapon system he used in the korean army, to protect what was his by right against dozens of looters when the police were unable to protect him and while the NG was still being mobilized.
Those cops are lucky this fool didn’t shoot them. I know they have a tough job, but they should be ashamed of the half ass pat down.
Obama has done more for gun sales than Hilter!!
These so-called “troopers” (thugs in uniform) deserve a really, really good beatdown.
Coming in after more than 200 instances of commentary wisdom, I feel completely safe in airing my own gaseous pronouncements without endangering any other minds.
Gun training, yes, absolutely, mandatory but NOT for gun owners. Everyone. Starting in preschool if feasible. Start simple, graduate, next level lessons. You don’t graduate, you don’t even get to drop out if you don’t complete and pass each course. Gun safety, gun history, gun care, gun facts, self-defense uses,hunting, etc.
Everyone.
And no, Piers, you’re not going to see classrooms full of little kids shooting each other accidentally or otherwise. You don’t need to fire guns to learn about them. Just like (I presume) you don’t copulate in sex education classes or climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Geology 101. And nobody. No. Body. Nobody gets anything, not a driver’s license, not a library card, not a job, not a coupon for 10 percent off, nothing, until he/she/it passes all the courses.
Everyone. Yes, even media elites. It won’t help them report facts. I understand that. I’m just saying, real inclusive like, everybody.
As for shooting proficiency, them that wants it should get it, privately, buy their own ammo (I know, I know, but let’s assume there’ll be some by the time this no-chance idea becomes law of the land), pay for their targets and so on. If the mandatory gun courses are done right, I’d guess most people would want to at least fire a gat a few times to see what it’s all about, a la sex ed class, I reckon, sorta maybe.