0400: Awaken. Today is the day I make a leap into the “gaymer’s” world. IDPA. I have no clue what it stands for, but I saw it on a commercial when watching an episode of Tac-TV. Apparently, LAV even shoots it sometimes. I figured that alone made it worth trying.

0405: Coffee. Black. With gunpowder in it. Makes a man hard.

0415: Brush teeth. With Break-Free. Because, F*** You. That’s why.

via The Firearm Report | An Urban Operator’s First IDPA Match (Part 1).

The neighbors almost called police I laughed so hard….

The sad part, I have seen people like this at matches and I suspect how the second part might end.

Via Tom W. @ Facebook.

Shooting in Oregon last August.

Lesson One: The shooter had all the indicators of not being a nice person plus the big flag having his hands where they could not be seen. Bad juju there. Turned out that he had a gun and was ready to use it.

Lesson Two: The Idjit Attacker managed to hit the magazine release and shortened his firepower. A good thing for the Oregon Trooper.

Lesson 3: The Trooper was hit but he managed to place at least one good shot on the Idjit.

Responding officers found (Trooper) Zistel suffering a gunshot wound. They found Allen’s car a half mile down the freeway, parked on the shoulder. Allen was dead, shot once in the chest.

via Oregon State Police video captures fatal freeway shooting: ‘I’ve been hit in the side’ | OregonLive.com.

Last I heard, Oregon State Troopers carry the Glock 22 (.40 S&W) shooting the 165 grain Remington Golden Saber round, by any standard not a bad combination. Still the Attacker managed to pick up the lost magazine, reload, get back in his car and drive for a mile. I don’t think I need to explain much.

Points to ponder…

Usually I can’t wait for guys like Tom Clancy to die….

……So another paranoid old man, another lifetime member of the NRA, another registered better-red-than-dead voter has died.

via Lament for Tom Clancy – The Daily Californian.

That is the way Meg Elison, Advice Columnist & Literary Beat Writer at The Daily Californian starts her “homily” to Tom Clancy. Oh but she loved his work! Just hated the individual with sheer passion.

Clancy was a Conservative, no doubt about it, but he was not too vocal about unless asked. He kept pretty much to himself writing books and getting pissed at how Hollywood screwed his work.

Ms. Elison’s column is however a good reminder that there are people out there that not only hates us for what we stand for but they want us with no vital signs if possible. And it is not simple political rhetoric but a deep conviction that they would not mind having us take a long trip inside a nice cattle car via Amtrak.

I have to remember to bring this pic up more often.

Hat Tip to The Gun Wire via Twitter: @thegunwire

Florida Carry has become a major thorn on the side of those in Florida who chose to ignore Second Amendment Rights and the Laws that protect Gun Owners.

I cannot think of a better gift to the boogeyman of local Florida governances.

“Recognition for a job well done. Florida Carry lead attorney Eric Friday is awarded a Sig AR15 at GRPC 2013 for protecting the rights of FL gun owners.”

Hat tip to Sean Caranna (ugly guy on the left)

The incident earlier today in DC with the lady going nuts with her car is bound to disappear in the next 48 hours or maybe a wee bit longer since there was a child involved in the action.

But the initial reports of shots fired around Capitol Hill soon turned into a gun battle between the woman and everybody with a badge in DC. At times they made it sound as if she was shooting wildly down the road. As usual the initial reports were heavy on sensationalism and quite short in truth as it turned out that the only shots fired were by LEOs to stop the woman.

However, our friends did not wait to make political hay out of the incident. Unfortunately there was no blood in which to tap dance and they ended looking like idiots:

And assorted Twitter posts:

By now, tails are tuck, crow has been eaten and the bags of confetti have been relegated to the closet of bloody celebrations.

And somewhere in Indiana, tears run down the face of the Plastic Gardener as she bemoans the injustice provided by the gods. Her Iced Hazelnut Macchiato Soy Starbucks drink tastes sour all of the sudden and provides her no joy.

On an earlier post related to the Westgate Mall attacks, I used the term “appropriate and aggressive use of the gun.” I have been trying to come up with a nice and appealing way to say what I have to say, but sometimes you have to go full frontal and tell it like it is, no matter how some people may take it.

A wee bit of history first. On 17 December 1996, the Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Amaru took over the Japanese embassy in Lima, Peru and held 72 hostages for 126 days. MRTA although less fanatical that the defunct by then Shinning Path Terrorist/Cult group, they had no qualms in being quite nasty if needed. At the end, Peruvian Special Forces attacked and retook the embassy with only one hostage dying and that was not at the hands of the terrorists but because the gentleman had a heart attack as he was being taken outside by the soldiers. All terrorists were killed and this was controversial for one reason: the teams that attacked the different concentrations of terrorist were closely followed by “mop-up” teams that made sure none of the terrorists were alive to continue making mischief even if they were wounded and apparently surrendered. After the rescue was over, the complains about excessive use of force and outright executions were made, but the response from the military was that their aim was to rescue the innocent whatever the cost and that included making sure the terrorists were no longer a threat. The same tactic was used in the Moscow’s Nord-Ost Theater hostage crisis against Chechen terrorists including women carrying explosive vests that were under the effects of a sleeping agent and out for the count: They all got a bullet to the brain.

How does this apply to us carrying a concealed weapon every day? Haven’t we talk and argued day in and out about using a gun to stop a threat and contained within what the law allows us to do? Yes and it still applies, but when it comes to a terrorist attack by multiple individuals with no regard for their lives and much less for our lives, the rules change drastically. A terrorist attack by fanatical islamists is simply warfare brought to your doorstep (or your table at the food court in the mall) and a new defensive strategy must be adapted to it.

Getting the hell out of the location is still priority number one. If that fails, finding a location which is away from the fracas and easily defensible is the alternative. But in trying to achieve any of the above goals, we may come face to face (or if we are lucky, our faces looking at their backs) with those trying to kill us. If the gods of warfare smile upon us, we may be able to either shoot first or accurate (hopefully both) stopping the terrorist. But it is then a tactical and moral imperative to make sure that the terrorist is not able to do any more damage  by properly placing a bullet inside his head assuring his death.

This new generation of terrorists are not only fueling their rampages with jihadist fanaticism but also by ingesting drugs that increase their aggressiveness and threshold of pain. These additions make them continue even when a normal body would be begging to shut down. Tactically it would be foolish to shoot one of these examples of the modern communion of religion and chemistry in the chest, watching go down and assume he is neutralized. The last thing you want as you are trying to evacuate the area is the surprise of the bastard getting back up and repaying your kindness with assorted shots to your rear. And even if you manage to leave before the Terrorists gets back up, he will get back into action and probably kill other innocent people before his internal system finally collapses.

I forget where I read ” A head shot is always honest.” or words to that effect. We should strive to make these misguided souls to be as honest and peaceful as we can make them if nothing else for our safety and the safety of others.

Be warned that these are my particular thoughts for this very narrow scenario. I do not know what kind of legal consequences a person might face by applying that extra shot to the brain pan of a terrorist. I know that there will be the usual amount of Monday Morning Quarterbacks wringing their hands and demanding that the DOJ and the ACLU launch an investigation on the possible abuses of human rights against the poor misunderstood bastards, but really you will be facing that onslaught of bullshit alive.

It is up to you to accept, mull or totally discard the above rant.