OK the headline’s a bit of a stretch. But it’s true that gun grabbers are snoopers, looking to stick their noses in where they don’t belong. They have no right to interfere with gun owners’ individual, human and/or natural right to armed self-defense.
But the grabbers think they do. In their minds they occupy the moral high ground. You know: do it for the children.
So dancing in the blood of innocents—almost literally in this case—is not just acceptable, it’s necessary. And if the artist formerly known as Snoop Dog was a wannabe gang banger in the day, well, that’s OK. Because mendacity, hypocrisy and stupidity are no barriers to entry where self-righteousness is concerned.
Nice harmony though.
a minor tech note: when trying the “email us” button at the header I get instructions to use “the email app on right side” but I can not find that app on the TTAG sidebar. No rush to reply if your resident IT guy is busy practicing 3gun skilz….and it may be an artifact of the klunky Kindle browser…
Barf.
A film-industry friend of mine moved to LA. His first job: working on an Ice T music video. His role on the shoot? Gun Checker. He stood by the door with a table and a row of cubbies. As Ice T’s friends (working as extras) came in, they would turn over their guns to him, he’d stow them in a numbered cubby, then give them a reclaim ticket to pick them up again on their way out.
There were a lot of guns. I wonder how many were legal?
In any case, he told me the tips were fantastic.
To bad the cops didn’t shoot him when he was Snoop Dog.
Whilst you might think that it is possible to stamp out the urge for self preservation, it really is not. You see the Founding Fathers got it right. I give you their words penned so many years ago:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Brewing on the subcontinent is a recognition of the right to self defense. That in fact the age old peoples of that subcontinent have been put upon by their rulers both foreign and domestic. In this modern time that voice is sounding out. It is hard to stifle the will of the Creator. While a different culture to ours, they are our brothers and sisters in the human race.
http://www.gunowners.in/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/9966950/Gun-applications-by-Indian-women-double-since-Delhi-rape-case.html
If they were truly as essential as marketed everyone would have one. They’re not.
In the final volley of any good spirited conversations I have had with anti gun people I know, it always comes down the the SAME EXACT issue. They are scared of having a gun around, or they do not trust themselves with a gun. They are plagued by their own insecurities.
Single-strap Atom bag by Patagonia is $45. Smaller, but really is “covert,” given the lack of molle and the Patagonia tag. Off-body carry is a bad idea anyway.
$110 bucks for an AWOL bag? Lemme think about it.
We need to be more than just defensive. The voices of those who demand ‘Compromise’ will view a ‘small’ infringement of our right to keep and bear arms as ‘fair’.
Proactive movements to regain liberties are required. “Repeal the NFA” could be a rallying cry. Then, when they demand compromise, say “we will look for delisting of supressors/SBRs and allow new select fire weapons as a compromise for a background check overhaul”. That will probably shut them up.
Illinois WILL be a shall issue state. We have the votes, we have the court ruling, and the clock is ticking.
We need our own media outlet.
What allowed the Black Civil Rights movement to progress was the enthusiastic cooperation of the national media, who was unafraid to show the government at its worst.
Today the media may as well be another Federal Bureaucracy as far as firearms are concerned, and its killing us softly. With every slanted anti gun article ,and hit piece we lose a vote , and probably more then that. The anti gun movement would die a quick death if 20/20 had a panel interview with a group of home invasion survivors who used firearms to save themselves.
In central FL there is no end in sight. .22lr and 9mm are like gold here. 5.56 is also pretty rare.
Me I guess I have been lucky. 2 of the last 3 times I went into Wal-Mart they had ammo. Over the 2 trips where they had ammo I was about to pickup 1 box of .22lr Winchester White Box 555 rounds at $23.99 and 14 boxes of .22lr Remington 225 at $9.95. 3700 rounds of .22lr certainly improved my ammo levels. Granted this is some crappy ammo but it was still there. Ammo is coming in more and more frequently and in larger amounts but it will likely take months before ammo has come in large enough volume to actually keep ammo on the shelf more then a few hours.
Thanks
Robert
So, my years of martial arts training, which includes hand to hand, sword, staff, knife etc. means i’m still a “wuss” because I am willing to use a firearm as well? The only cowards and wusses with guns are the criminals. I’d love for the only weapons tthat exist be melee weapons, I’d love to carry my sword on my hip and not worry about some thug with no training killing me from 20 feet. Only way for that to happen is to find a genie, wish all guns away, wish all gun factories and shops away and wish for the knowledge of how to build firearms disappear. But since that won’t happen, as long as my enemies have guns, so will I.