Probably I am the last idiot that has seen this, but I have to say I got caught unaware of this little Facebook thing (No, I did not read the terms of agreement when I signed up) but I am wondering if they even have an idea of how many shooters display their wares and activities via this system.

If they ever start deleting, they are gonna have a long job ahead.

PS: Would this be considered “/or Gore”?

The few unlucky people that have been instructed by me, receive several mantras and the first one is: The first casualty of carrying concealed is the Ego.  When you decide to have a gun with you and to travel outside your home, you will learn to endure the verbal “slings and arrows” and that they are not there to right wrongs, defend maidens’ honors soiled by a mouthy sailor or to stop any petty (or major) crime in progress that offends your sense of order in society. In most localities you are not allowed to defend property and I do not recall one state where you are allowed to pursue and use deadly force against anybody once the crime has ceased.

We have this case in Detroit where a home owner, Tigh Croff, arrived home to find it being broken into and now he is facing hard time for chasing down and killing one of the perps. It was the third time that his house had been broken in during the same week and I am guessing he was incensed like anybody else would be. But he had a gun and an unchecked ego:

“He turned around and looked dumb. He had that ‘mercy’ look,” Croff told police after the shooting, per Detroit Police Sgt. Gary Diaz. “I told him he was gonna die, and I shot him.”

Ego, just like alcohol, does not combine well with firearms. Words don’t hurt, gang rape in the local house of detention does.

Sign that is found at the Chappell Hill Bank in Texas.

According to their website their motto is “Modern Banking with Old Fashioned Courtesy.” Check the pics of the inside of the bank. Five gives you ten the cashier has a coach gun under the counter.

I wouldn’t mind having a branch here in Miami.

Seriously, if you haven’t shot one, stay away, they are seductive as hell.  We are talking Angelina Jolie in bouncing off a chain link fence or Gwyneth Paltrow being “unmummified” kind of seductive.

In the era of Wonder Plastic Pistols, there is something to be said for this crafted chunk of steel. The feel in your hand is that you will demand respect and you will get it. It is Old School-Been There-Done That feel that you get once you shot a couple of hundred rounds. The old “Making Rounds Count” takes on a new and important meaning since you can’t spray and pray out of the situation. Only hits count goes from a cute saying to a way of life. Even the most ferocious .45 caliber aficionado, the usual critic of any caliber “that does not begin with a 4” will bow his head to a .357 Magnum. It is the spatha of the post-Industrial Age.

I finally shot an IDPA match last Saturday with my trusty S&W Mod 65-2 (4″bbl) with 357 Magnum reloads instead of the .38 specials and by all the gods of burning sulfur, I loved it. I know that it is not the recommended thing to shoot in competition because of the recoil, but I don’t really give a darn anymore. It is a joy to see the Safety Officers being caught unaware and jumping just a little at the boom-noise, to see the dirt geyser erupting out of the berm and see the darn steels being knocked down with authority, not as a suggestion.  And I am not even loading the darn cartridges to max specs but they do shake the props and release curses from the mouths of nearby shooters.

I am gonna be so much more hated at the club from now on. 🙂

Back in the day, there were less people worried about what the rest of the world would think about us and what we did. 65 years later somehow we turned out to be the bad guys because we dropped the big one in Hiroshima while the poor peaceful Japanese nationals were farming, playing with kites, doing origami and having fun with Ikebana. And we now have some people in Japan demanding an apology for dropping the Bomb.

Bullshit. They deserved it.

Nobody talks about Japanese atrocities, Nankin, Mongolia, the Death March, the “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere” which was Japanese for “we are gonna steal your stuff, rape your women and behead everybody on the way out.” And nobody has apologized for that and even more creepier shit.

If anything, Hiroshima (and Nagasaki) should serve as a reminder to America’s enemies that we shouldn’t be trifled with. If you piss us big enough, long enough, we are willing to convert your cities in glassy parking lots or at least the future sound stage for the remake of The Road Warrior.

This is part 1 of a great article by Mike Seeklander about compettitive shooting and the skills that you can fine tune for self defense situations. Here is an excerpt:

During my time in law enforcement, I keenly remember hearing this statement: “That competition stuff will get you killed on the streets.” This was sometimes followed by a polite refusal of my invitation to attend a match (I invited those around me every month). More than once I heard, “I’ve always wanted to do that, but I’d better get some practice time in before I go, thanks anyway.”

Wow!  Get some practice time first?  What happens if the stuff goes down tonight? Will you tell the bad guy to wait until after you practice to start the fight? I think not.