I have a love/hate relationship with target stands. In fact, you might say it was a target stand that got me started down the road to the life I’m currently living. That’s because my first handgun buddy used to take my family and me out into the woods for a day of casual plinking. A contractor by trade, he hand-built the target stands we used. After the third or fourth trip, he told me that I’d better go take a class, because he was tired of me shooting his target stands instead of his targets. (Ouch!)

via Target’s last stand | Cornered Cat.

Kathy is a hoot. I have the pleasure of knowing her and she is a great instructor to boot.

And don’t forget to buy her book or I shall be displeased.

In the Miami Herald ZOMG! files we find this article starting the following way:

Picture this: teachers packing heat as they teach children their ABC’s and 123’s.
The scenario has many parents and teachers envisioning a nightmare, and they have gone out of their way to tell state legislators so.

So pundit/writer/BSer/Journalist?(nahhh!) Kathleen McGrory colors her piece from the start. The rest of the article, specially the “interviews” are a headache to follow. So what’s the legislation about?

The House K-12 Education Subcommittee voted 10-3 in support of a controversial bill that would give principals the power to choose certain teachers and school employees who would carry concealed weapons on campus. The schools would have a choice of either arming a school employee or hiring a separate safety officer, who would also carry a firearm.

But all was not lost. At least one Democrat used her brain:

I imagine that being a teacher, she felt that just standing in front of a shooter with nothing more than a ruler and a shush might not be the best way to go home alive.

For a proposal that is all about choice, it is amazing that most of the pro-choice party hates it. Then again it is only a valid choice if they impose it.

And you wonder why kids are sucking at school.

Just got back from WallyWorld doing ammo hunt, specifically for 22 LR for SWMBO. I was lucky since they just had finished putting in the shelves the ammo they just got from the regular shipments.

Six solitary boxes of Tula 7.6sx39.

That was the whole shipment. Six boxes. At least I have a boomstick that eats that particular ammo so I asked for the six boxes…..nope, I could only buy three and at $5.16 per box which is double what I paid the last time I bought per box.

And on my way back to my vehicle (with barely two magazines worth of ammo) I heard the following exchange between a Mom and her 8-9 year old son in the parking lot:

Mom: “Stop acting up or you’ll get it!”
Son: “You hit me and I’ll press charges.”

God is wise. He did not see fit to bless us with kids…. mostly because if a kid of mine would have said something like that to me or his Mom, I would waterboard his sorry ass with kerosene.

When the cost of guns increases, buy ammo. When ammo is too expensive, buy training. When you can’t afford training, invest in practice.

via Unit cost averaging | VolkStudio Blog.

A short and very sensible post by Oleg Volk. It is obvious, yet we miss it. I hate when that happens.

“Your folk never used all this sheit (sic) to protect my folk from your slave-holding, murdering, adulterous, baby-raping, incestuous, snaggle-toothed, backward-a**ed, inbreed (sic), imported criminal-minded kin folk.”

via Alabama lawmaker’s email: ‘Slave-holding, murdering, adulterous, baby-raping, snaggle-toothed kin folk’ | al.com.

And that would be a statement via email sent by State Rep. Joe Mitchell (D-Mobile)

But we are the bigoted ones, right? The sad part? He’ll be re-elected.

Just compare:

Versus…

And to add insult to injury, there is an auction for an autographed Jim Carrey glossy, funds to be used for the acquisition of a new spanking GUN!

I almost forgot. What do Hollywood Lib-types do when they piss people off? Well yes! they get somebody with a gun to protect their asses!

Quoting reader IanK: This irony is not just thick, it’s non-newtonian. Any attempt at cutting will result only in previously unfathomable thickness.

UPDATE: EBay removed the auction for the Carrey autographed pic. No explanation given…not that we needed one, right?

I’ve been dealing with some medical family issues and that means having to go to building structures with patients and doctors and microbes, etc. As you can see, I am not fond of Hospitals and that goes triple when a loved one needs a procedure so my mood was not the best when settling the bill. As I was dealing with the doctor’s office manager, I pulled my credit card and form of ID, namely my driver’s license and my Florida’s CWP fell off the wallet and right smack on the desk in front of the fella. He took a look at the card and said “A CWP! I love you!”

I was a bit taken aback. Yes I suspect the gentleman was of the softer side of males but it was not because of that but by the actual friendliness which he expressed. We got to talking as he was finishing my fleecing paperwork and he admitted that he had one too and that he had decided to arm himself after being victimized at a convenience store/petrol station. I congratulated him on taking his own safety serious and reminded him that we were in the fight for our rights as we are being attacked by politicians. He was slightly aware of something going on, but not at the level we do (we as in hard-core pro 2A activist.)

At the next visit, he warmly received us and I gave him my last Keep Calm and Carry sticker I got from the GRPC. He was happy and to my amazement, proudly showed it to everybody in the office who was envious for the gift. It the struck me: There is indeed more of us that I even figured out. They just simply are not as active or visible or thoroughly engaged as some of us.

This is good news. We have more supporters than I thought (not that we were short to begin with) and that means less chances for the opposition to forcefully install their jackbooted laws on everybody. These “low intensity” gun owners might not be as active as many of us, but they are sympathetic to our views and less prone to buy into the B.S. spouted by the Antis.

Our goal is to keep spreading the message no matter how tiresome it can get sometimes. It has a dual purpose: to get those doing the fence thing to see things our way and to get our low intensity gun owners to be aware and not being intimidated by the bullies of the You Must be a Victim Lobby.

Basically we get our rest when we bet the opposition or are sucking roots from the bitter end. An occasional vacation is allowed.