I just saw this posted over at Blackfive and it made my heart swell with pride. A group of artists have gotten together and made a CD for the troops over in the sandbox. What makes this extra cool is that if you're over there and you have a valid military ID card, the CD is free for you.
That just rocks! And just in time for Christmas, glorious.
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Friday, November 16, 2007
Oh, here's something to think about
Again from Syd over at Front Sight, Press is a nice article on a recent shooting at a highway rest stop. These are places where you really need to crank up your situational awareness. You just never know when some scumbag is going to corner you. There's all kinds of crazies out there and you do not want to be caught unarmed or unaware.
There's lots of great tips in this little missive and you should take all of them to heart. Try to remember some of the most important little rules when traveling our nation's highways.
1. Route yourself around GFW states like Illinois and Wisconsin. If they won't let you carry, don't go there.
2. Keep your head on a swivel. There is no excuse for someone sneaking up on you.
3. Practice, Practice, Practice. Have someone behind you screaming in your ear. Shoot on the move. Practice rapid reloads. The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in combat. Ratchet up the stress on your practice time.
4. Take the time to sit with your loved ones and explain to them precisely what you want them to do if the black flag goes up. In all of the writings I have seen on defensive shootings, I very rarely see any that address this. Your loved ones have to know what to do if you get encountered by a bad situation. You need to know where they're going to go and they need to know where you want them to go. That is for everyone's safety. Your and theirs. In that situation, you're drawing your weapon to protect your loved ones, make sure they know what to do also.
There's lots of great tips in this little missive and you should take all of them to heart. Try to remember some of the most important little rules when traveling our nation's highways.
1. Route yourself around GFW states like Illinois and Wisconsin. If they won't let you carry, don't go there.
2. Keep your head on a swivel. There is no excuse for someone sneaking up on you.
3. Practice, Practice, Practice. Have someone behind you screaming in your ear. Shoot on the move. Practice rapid reloads. The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in combat. Ratchet up the stress on your practice time.
4. Take the time to sit with your loved ones and explain to them precisely what you want them to do if the black flag goes up. In all of the writings I have seen on defensive shootings, I very rarely see any that address this. Your loved ones have to know what to do if you get encountered by a bad situation. You need to know where they're going to go and they need to know where you want them to go. That is for everyone's safety. Your and theirs. In that situation, you're drawing your weapon to protect your loved ones, make sure they know what to do also.
Just Too Cool NOT to Copy and Paste
I saw this over at Front Sight, Press and it's just too good not to share. Great post Syd, this is why I think you rock.
I don’t carry a gun…
November 13th, 2007 by Syd
I don’t carry a gun to scare people. I carry a gun because sometimes this world can be a scary place.
I don’t carry a gun because I’m paranoid. I carry a gun because there are real threats in the world.
I don’t carry a gun because I’m evil. I carry a gun because I have lived long enough to see the evil in the world.
I don’t carry a gun because I hate the government. I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government.
I don’t carry a gun because I’m angry. I carry a gun so that I don’t have to spend the rest of my life hating myself for failing to be prepared.
I don’t carry a gun because my sex organs are too small. I carry a gun because I want to continue to use those sex organs for the purpose for which they were intended for a good long time to come.
I don’t carry a gun because I want to shoot someone. I carry a gun because I want to die at a ripe old age in my bed, and not on a sidewalk somewhere tomorrow afternoon.
I don’t carry a gun because I’m a cowboy. I carry a gun because, when I die and go to heaven, I want to be a cowboy.
I don’t carry a gun to make me feel like a man. I carry a gun because men know how to take care of themselves and the ones they love.
I don’t carry a gun because I feel inadequate. I carry a gun because unarmed and facing three armed thugs, I am inadequate.
I don’t carry a gun because I love it. I carry a gun because I love life and the people who make it meaningful to me.
I Am Honored
I was reading through the links like I usually do and I noticed that over at KABA, I have been linked. Red's Trading post supplied a link to my rant about the new head stormtrooper at BATFE.
I'm pretty honored to be linked over there.
I'm pretty honored to be linked over there.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Test Post
I'm going to make this a test post to check a theory that I came up with yesterday concerning a 4 post minimum before you can get your stuff to appear on the aggregator at the Anti PC League. If you'll notice, I made my first post of the day about 2 hours ago and it still hasn't popped up over there so I'm thinking you have to have 4 up on the day to appear.
It didn't use to be that way. I may re-think this association.
It didn't use to be that way. I may re-think this association.
BATFE's new Stormtrooper
Apparently the BATFE has a new leader and since Ted (Chappaquiddick Killer) Kennedy likes him, I must come forth to despise him. The US Attorney for the District of Massachusetts and a lifelong resident of that same state huh? Wonderful. So, when is he going to resign his position as US Attorney so he can take over the SS,,,I mean BATFE? You surely don't think it's right for him to do both do you? Wouldn't there be some potential conflict of interest there?
So Teddy has a press release all pretty and flowery already released, the link to that is here. I think I may go through this with you.
In his book, Private Guns, Public Health, David Hemenway from the Harvard Injury Control Research Center observed that, “Each day guns were used in the commission of about three thousand crimes. The U.S. rates of death an injury due to firearms and the rate of crimes committed with firearms are far higher than those of any other industrialized country.”
I must have missed that, where did you get those statistics again? I believe you'll find them not quite true. By the way, how many violent crimes were stopped by the presence of an armed citizen?
Just last week, the International Association of Chiefs of Police – IACP – took a dramatic stand against the escalating gun violence in our communities – releasing a comprehensive report with 39 key recommendations to reduce gun violence. The Chiefs’ compelling report and specific recommendations are a clear call to action. Without further delay, Congress and the Administration need to do our part by enacting concrete reforms that will reduce crime and protect the safety of police officers and all Americans. We all know what needs to be done and it’s a scandal that we have done so little for so long.
We could do something to prosecute drunk drivers that kill people too. I don't think there's a statute of limitations on murder Mr. Kennedy. Let's take a look at these reforms shall we? Let's take a close look at the BS the leftards are spouting.
We need to close the gun show loophole once and for all.
What loophole is this? Licensed dealer to citizen is already taken care of.
We need to renew the assault weapons ban.
To do what? The last one did nothing more than ban cosmetics. It did nothing to reduce crime. Why do you idiots always need another law when the ones we already have aren't enforced?
We need to pass Senator Feinstein’s bill for stricter requirements on the sale of extremely dangerous fifty-caliber sniper rifles.
Yeah, so much more dangerous than anything else that you can see them being used in most of the really major crimes already because every criminal wants to try to lug a 40+ pound almost 5 foot long weapon stealthily into a spot with which to rob Mr and Mrs Jones.
We need to amend federal law to ensure that all cop killer bullets are banned.
Could we possibly get a few more buzz words into this article? Exactly which bullets are you referring to? A FMJ 30.06 round will kill a cop, or anyone else it hits. So will my .45 with a head shot. Which bullets are you trying to ban? Oh wait, you're a Democrat, the answer is all of them.
We need to do more to see that law enforcement has access to the newest and most effective crime-solving technologies – like microstamping.
Which I believe has already been shown to be of little use, horrendously expensive and unreliable.
The IACP’s impressive work in producing this ground-breaking report should not go ignored. I’m hopeful that we can work together, across party lines, to reduce gun violence, solve gun crimes, protect our police officers and do all that we can to make our communities safer. Perhaps our dialogue today will be one positive step forward in that direction.
The dialoge that will make our police officers and communities safer has already been written. In case you forgot it says....
THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED!
So Teddy has a press release all pretty and flowery already released, the link to that is here. I think I may go through this with you.
In his book, Private Guns, Public Health, David Hemenway from the Harvard Injury Control Research Center observed that, “Each day guns were used in the commission of about three thousand crimes. The U.S. rates of death an injury due to firearms and the rate of crimes committed with firearms are far higher than those of any other industrialized country.”
I must have missed that, where did you get those statistics again? I believe you'll find them not quite true. By the way, how many violent crimes were stopped by the presence of an armed citizen?
Just last week, the International Association of Chiefs of Police – IACP – took a dramatic stand against the escalating gun violence in our communities – releasing a comprehensive report with 39 key recommendations to reduce gun violence. The Chiefs’ compelling report and specific recommendations are a clear call to action. Without further delay, Congress and the Administration need to do our part by enacting concrete reforms that will reduce crime and protect the safety of police officers and all Americans. We all know what needs to be done and it’s a scandal that we have done so little for so long.
We could do something to prosecute drunk drivers that kill people too. I don't think there's a statute of limitations on murder Mr. Kennedy. Let's take a look at these reforms shall we? Let's take a close look at the BS the leftards are spouting.
We need to close the gun show loophole once and for all.
What loophole is this? Licensed dealer to citizen is already taken care of.
We need to renew the assault weapons ban.
To do what? The last one did nothing more than ban cosmetics. It did nothing to reduce crime. Why do you idiots always need another law when the ones we already have aren't enforced?
We need to pass Senator Feinstein’s bill for stricter requirements on the sale of extremely dangerous fifty-caliber sniper rifles.
Yeah, so much more dangerous than anything else that you can see them being used in most of the really major crimes already because every criminal wants to try to lug a 40+ pound almost 5 foot long weapon stealthily into a spot with which to rob Mr and Mrs Jones.
We need to amend federal law to ensure that all cop killer bullets are banned.
Could we possibly get a few more buzz words into this article? Exactly which bullets are you referring to? A FMJ 30.06 round will kill a cop, or anyone else it hits. So will my .45 with a head shot. Which bullets are you trying to ban? Oh wait, you're a Democrat, the answer is all of them.
We need to do more to see that law enforcement has access to the newest and most effective crime-solving technologies – like microstamping.
Which I believe has already been shown to be of little use, horrendously expensive and unreliable.
The IACP’s impressive work in producing this ground-breaking report should not go ignored. I’m hopeful that we can work together, across party lines, to reduce gun violence, solve gun crimes, protect our police officers and do all that we can to make our communities safer. Perhaps our dialogue today will be one positive step forward in that direction.
The dialoge that will make our police officers and communities safer has already been written. In case you forgot it says....
THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED!
NATIONAL AMMO DAY
Is November 19th and you need to run out and buy at least 100 rounds. Even if you don't shoot them off, do it to piss off the liberals.
And Again
I have been only a small voice in the ever growing mob that understands that laws that restrict or abolish the right of a law abiding citizen to carry a weapon into a particular place just make safe working environments for criminals. Here we go again, in Florida, where a teacher was shot outside a school in what appears to be an attempted armed robbery.
People, take a look at all of the mass shootings in the last 10 years or so. You know what all of them have in common? They all took place in a "gun free zone". Yep, all those laws restricting gun carry sure do help don't they? ** cue cricket chirps**
Well, don't they?
Washington D.C. Law abiding citizens can't have guns. They are the murder capital of the U.S. Violent crime is skyrocketing.
Britan, gun ban. Parents are dressing their children in Kevlar School uniforms. Yep, look like it's working just fine. Violent crime is on the rise.
Australia, gun ban. Violent crime is skyrocketing.
Everywhere that guns have been outlawed, the outlaws have guns and are actively preying on the unarmed. This has to stop.
People, take a look at all of the mass shootings in the last 10 years or so. You know what all of them have in common? They all took place in a "gun free zone". Yep, all those laws restricting gun carry sure do help don't they? ** cue cricket chirps**
Well, don't they?
Washington D.C. Law abiding citizens can't have guns. They are the murder capital of the U.S. Violent crime is skyrocketing.
Britan, gun ban. Parents are dressing their children in Kevlar School uniforms. Yep, look like it's working just fine. Violent crime is on the rise.
Australia, gun ban. Violent crime is skyrocketing.
Everywhere that guns have been outlawed, the outlaws have guns and are actively preying on the unarmed. This has to stop.
Remember the Tacoma Mall shooting of two years ago? How about Salt Lake City's Trolley Square shooting in February? Certainly nobody can claim ignorance of April's Virginia Tech massacre, or a string of public and private school shootings that dates back more than a dozen years.
The common denominator in every one of these deplorable crimes is that all of them happened in gun-free zones.
When was the last time you heard of a mass shooting at a gun store or a gun show, both places where firearms outnumber the people, and where there are doubtless a majority of armed citizens present?
Has anyone ever heard of a massacre at a gun range, where it is guaranteed everyone has a loaded firearm?
Doesn't that make sense to you? Elections are coming, don't you think it's time to vote out the idiots that pass these laws? We've given them a fair chance, it just doesn't work.
Here in Michigan, there's a group called the Michigan Coalition for Responsible Gun Owners and they actually have a business card on their website that you can hand to managers at businesses that don't allow guns informing them of why you are taking your business to a competitor that is 2nd Amendment friendly. We should all do this, everyday, everywhere. Start telling these people that we are all a hell of a lot safer when law abiding citizens carry. Don't forget to speak out when some gooney law enforcement person makes a dim witted comment about how "the officers never know who is in the car they pull over and they wouldn't be safe if Joe Average might have a gun". What a crock, they don't know who they're pulling over now. Joe Average is NOT going to turn into a raving felonious lunatic just because he's carrying a legal concealed pistol you moron.
Doesn't that make sense to you? Elections are coming, don't you think it's time to vote out the idiots that pass these laws? We've given them a fair chance, it just doesn't work.
Here in Michigan, there's a group called the Michigan Coalition for Responsible Gun Owners and they actually have a business card on their website that you can hand to managers at businesses that don't allow guns informing them of why you are taking your business to a competitor that is 2nd Amendment friendly. We should all do this, everyday, everywhere. Start telling these people that we are all a hell of a lot safer when law abiding citizens carry. Don't forget to speak out when some gooney law enforcement person makes a dim witted comment about how "the officers never know who is in the car they pull over and they wouldn't be safe if Joe Average might have a gun". What a crock, they don't know who they're pulling over now. Joe Average is NOT going to turn into a raving felonious lunatic just because he's carrying a legal concealed pistol you moron.
The misguided misanthropes who foster gun-free zones have a paranoid distrust of their fellow citizens that can only be a severe manifestation of social bigotry.
They dislike firearms and are terrified of the people who own them - and for all the wrong reasons. Armed, law-abiding citizens - especially those who have gone through the hoops of obtaining carry licenses - are statistically the least likely to ever break a law.
Yet, all data to the contrary, these gun control fanatics hold fast to the perpetuation of gun-free zones as a symbol, when it is clear that such places are nothing more than risk-free environments for criminals and lunatics.
Have you ever seen anything as true as this is? Yet the gun banners are so busy distorting the truth and adding 19 year olds in with the "dead child" statistics that they can't be bothered to actually look at the real truth. No gun ban has ever stopped a criminal from robbing and shooting someone. They're criminals asshole, criminals don't obey the law to begin with, what the hell makes you think they'll pay attention to one more?
Look, this is America. This nation was founded by armed citizens. Stop trying to remove our heritage. Stop trying to abrogate our rights. Stop being the domestic enemy I swore to protect the constitution from.
Have you ever seen anything as true as this is? Yet the gun banners are so busy distorting the truth and adding 19 year olds in with the "dead child" statistics that they can't be bothered to actually look at the real truth. No gun ban has ever stopped a criminal from robbing and shooting someone. They're criminals asshole, criminals don't obey the law to begin with, what the hell makes you think they'll pay attention to one more?
Look, this is America. This nation was founded by armed citizens. Stop trying to remove our heritage. Stop trying to abrogate our rights. Stop being the domestic enemy I swore to protect the constitution from.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Do You Remember...
When I posted the blog Not So Fun Facts? Well, look what I just found to go along with it.
This isn't funny people, play safe!
This isn't funny people, play safe!
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
I'm beginning to wonder
I joined the Anti PC League quite some time back and usually, when I make a new post, within a few minutes, it pops up over there for everyone else to enjoy. Quite frankly, I have a feeling that that may be the source of a lot of my views.
Over the last 3 months or so, I have started to notice that it has become very hit and miss over there. Sometimes, my posts pop up fairly promptly. Sometimes, they never appear at all. I'm starting to think that they may not love me anymore, or that they only love me part time (sounds like my ex girlfriend) and I'm not sure how to take that.
I think I'll give it a bit of time and see if things smooth out.
*** UPDATE ***
Everything I have posted today just popped up. Now I wonder if maybe one needs to post "X" number of things in a day to make the aggregator.
Over the last 3 months or so, I have started to notice that it has become very hit and miss over there. Sometimes, my posts pop up fairly promptly. Sometimes, they never appear at all. I'm starting to think that they may not love me anymore, or that they only love me part time (sounds like my ex girlfriend) and I'm not sure how to take that.
I think I'll give it a bit of time and see if things smooth out.
*** UPDATE ***
Everything I have posted today just popped up. Now I wonder if maybe one needs to post "X" number of things in a day to make the aggregator.
New Stuff
Syd is finally back at it over at Front Sight, Press and believe me, I missed him. He comes back with a bunch of great stuff as usual, but this article by John Farnam caught my eye.
I don't carry a 5 shot snubby, being on the well........rotund side, I carry a Springfield Armory 1911 A1 Mil-Spec 5". That isn't to say that those that carry a snubby are wrong or silly, just that right now, I carry a full size 1911. Many of you, reading this now (at least, I hope there are many of you) may well carry a snubby and if so, rather that than nothing.
Many of you may not have thought too much about tactics with your snubby though. This article addresses that pretty nicely and I think it's damn important to go check it out. Farnam is pretty smart ya know.
I don't carry a 5 shot snubby, being on the well........rotund side, I carry a Springfield Armory 1911 A1 Mil-Spec 5". That isn't to say that those that carry a snubby are wrong or silly, just that right now, I carry a full size 1911. Many of you, reading this now (at least, I hope there are many of you) may well carry a snubby and if so, rather that than nothing.
Many of you may not have thought too much about tactics with your snubby though. This article addresses that pretty nicely and I think it's damn important to go check it out. Farnam is pretty smart ya know.
Linky Love
I was just looking things over and noticed a new comment so, quite naturally, I went to see who left it.
It's from a blog called Common Folk Using Common Sense. I went, I saw, I liked, a lot. What I liked the most is that he linked me on his left hand sidebar. Well, let's look closer here...Oh Damn! He's a Rottie too? That's a link back, hell yes!
So, welcome him to the blogroll and visit him often, it looks like he has some great stuff up.
It's from a blog called Common Folk Using Common Sense. I went, I saw, I liked, a lot. What I liked the most is that he linked me on his left hand sidebar. Well, let's look closer here...Oh Damn! He's a Rottie too? That's a link back, hell yes!
So, welcome him to the blogroll and visit him often, it looks like he has some great stuff up.
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