“Compromise is a bad word these days,” Dick Metcalf, 67, told The New York Times of what he believes is the unyielding, give-no-ground ethos adopted by Second Amendment supporters in the U.S. today. “People think it means giving up your principles.”

via FOX News – U.S. – Latest Headlines – Former Guns & Ammo columnist speaks out on becoming ‘a pariah’.

To quote Ron White, he has the right to remain silent but he does not have the ability.

Following Metcalf’s dismissal, Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, told FoxNews.com Metcalf “absolutely did not” deserve to lose his post.

“If he suggested a ban on all guns, then I would understand that reaction,” Watts said. “But to say a fair exchange of ideas on how to stem the deaths and murders in this country because of gun violence is an act of heresy just reeks of no tolerance.”

When the enemies of your kin come to defend you, it becomes a big hint that you fucked up by several orders of magnitude. That you still have not figured out says a lot about your disconnect with reality.

I would not be surprised to see him become a spokesperson for some  “sensible gun rights organization.”

Elliot Fineman was co-gloating with Cease Fire Oregon on the shooting death of a Gun Shop owner.

Officials have charged a western Pennsylvania man in the shooting death of a longtime gun shop owner.

State police on Wednesday charged 43-year-old Jack Edmundson Jr. with homicide. They say Edmundson shot and killed 62-year-old Frank Petro inside Frank’s Gun & Taxidermy Shop in Saltsburg on Tuesday.

via Gun Shop Owner Shot, Killed in Store | NBC 10 Philadelphia.

Of course, history has shown us that it is the other way around for most of the cases where criminals decide is a good idea to attack a gun shop like it happened recently.

COLLINGDALE — The owner of the Suburban Armory gun shop fired a shot at two juveniles after they walked in the store and announced a robbery Thursday afternoon, police said.

No injuries were reported.

Two juveniles, ages 15 and 17, are in police custody and will be charged as adults with multiple offenses, including robbery, possessing an instrument of crime, reckless endangerment and possession of a controlled substance, Police Chief Robert Adams said.

via Police: Collingdale gun shop owner foils attempted robbery by two teens.

If anything, this is the main difference between Us and the Opposition: We know that there is no 100% Safe Anything.   The Opposition guarantees that their policies will give us a world free of violence, free cable tv and cheap fat-free buttered pop-corn.

They are so sure of what they sell that they are wiling to risk our lives to prove it. Of course, I do not feel all warm and fuzzy by being the test subject of a well know policy failure with a wee bit too radical consequence also know and Death or Grave Bodily Harm.

If the Opposition wants to believe & live their own idea, I have no problem with that. But when they try to force us to live by their standards and pay the price, that is when I get a bit annoyed.  If you feel that playing Russian Roulette with a 1911 is cool, go ahead; the rest of us will play the better odds.

Just hilarious.

And you will be lucky to see the almost unheard ” Multiple Factory Stovepipe Malfunction.” Why almost unheard? Because it only happens to true Operators when dey be Operatin’.

Hat Tip to Seth G.

There’s no doubt that the defensive shotgun is an awesome weapon. A load of buckshot–or slug–placed properly will usually give the bad guy extremely celestial thoughts. We used to say that his case would be pled to a Higher Court.

via The Select Slug Drill | Sheriff Jim Wilson.

If you have a pump shotgun at home, you have to read this article. The point he makes about patterning buck shot is very important. Years ago I took a shotgun class and the first thing we had to do is to figure out how buckshot spread at different distances.

The drill was simple: On a target,  tape 4 sheets of regular letter-size paper each marked with a different distance in yards (5-10-15-20). Start at 5 yards and shoot once at the paper marked 5 yards. then move back to 10 yards and shoot at the paper marked 10 yards…and so on, you get the idea.  By then you should have a pretty good idea how much the pellets open at certain distances and you can tailor your buckshot defense accordingly as in how far away can you deliver the maximum amount of pellets to the target in a vital zone and when it becomes inefficient or a crap-shot of missed pellets going where they are not supposed to.

One important detail: this pattern will work only with the specific brand and model of buckshot you are using. Do not assume that all shells will create the same pattern over the same distance: make sure! The smart among us (idiot here not included) will buy several different brands, perform pattern tests on all and then select the one that delivers the tightest pattern the farthest for that particular and individual shotgun. Yup, you cannot even be confident that equal make and models of shotguns will pattern the same with the same shells.

Once you know your shotgun/buckshot limit, then is time to transition to slug and to learn and practice the drill told by Sheriff Wilson.  Be slow, deliberate, patient and safe (do get the dummy shells) as you will be all thumbs on a drunken monkey trying to juggle all at once from the get go.  On Step 3, do not try to save/keep the ejected shell; forget about it. You are supposed to be training to perform the switch of shells because you need it right-at-this-minute and have no time to be adding an extra step or fishing for a rolling shell.

If you are able to find a shotgun class, take it. It is amazingly fun plus you will be amazed at all the things you can do (and cannot do) with a shotgun. Be ready to be sore the next day 🙂

On the previous post, I was wondering how in the hell The Moms came up with the 24 school shootings for 2013.  Bill Baldwin and Walt were kind enough to point out the link.

Same as with Slate and its list of people killed by guns and used by Illegal Mayors Against Guns, the Moms Demand follower used a list provided by the Daily Beast and let us say it brings the definition of creativity to the area of plain deception.

When you or anybody hears the expression “School Shooting” your mind immediately goes to a Columbine-Virginia Tech-Sandy Hook- type of attack: Gunman (men) going into a school and proceeding to massacre innocents.  This is now ingrained deeply in the collective mind of this country.  I am sure that both Moms Demand and The Daily Beast understand this fact, but they get deceptive in a “What the meaning of the word ‘Is’ is”. Here are some of the examples from The School Shootings You Didn’t Hear About—One Every Two Weeks Since Newtown.

• Gang shootings or suspected (2 cases)
• Suicide – No threat to anybody (5 cases)
• Suicide – Possible threat to others.
• Murder in front of a school while dropping kids off.
• One on One kills during sporting events (2 cases)

But I had to screen cap my favorites, specially the last two:

So basically, if it happened near the school building and there was a bullet involved, they call it a school shooting.

Is it so hard for these people to understand that they are hurting their already diminished reputation by pulling a stunt worthy of shysters in cheap polyester suits and loud ties? I don’t  mind it one bit as it gives us more ammunition and people still undecided will feel betrayed by this idiocy.

And that is why we win.

I beg your sweet pardon?

I have to say I choked myself a little bit.  Where did this person get the 28 school shootings since Newtown? That would be more than 2 school shooting per month, every month for the past year.

I have noticed that Moms and other groups are flexible with their definitions whenever is convenient.  Mass killings can be now any time when 2 or more people are killed by anybody and any reason,. So I would not be surprised that a school shut-down because of a crime committed nearby a locale of education is suddenly considered a school shooting. There has been a fair share of Violent Campus crime, so I would not be surprised  they are included in the mix.

So, other than the Arapaho High School incident (which does not help them much due to its outcome), I do not remember any more of these school shootings happening. Of course, I cannot be sure because The Media is in collusion  with the NRA to keep these School Shootings under wraps so both can keep profiteering from their unregulated  sales of fully automatic assault atomic weapons with 30 round assault magazine clips….. yeah, that might be it.