This week, Michael talks about the so called reasonable dialog on the regulation of the second amendment triggered by last week’s Internet Blowout regarding Dick Metcalf’s column in Guns & Ammo

via Down Range Radio #341: Regulating the Second Amendment | Down Range TV.

Go listen what Michael Bane has to say about the kerfuffle. And heed his words.  For me that pretty much closes the whole Metcalf affair.

Interesting video:

I love these kind of videos as they are great learning tools to prepare you in case you are faced with a similar situation. Armed robber goes into a Cell Phone store where two employees are working. He submits them a gun point, gets cash and leaves. There are two camera angles and they yield great info.

First: Beretta 92 or clone. Cocked & finger on trigger.
This is basically disaster waiting to happen. One loud noise, one startled robber and a bullets goes out the barrel.

The employees do the smart thing and just drop the cash on the counter.

Some falls to the ground and the bad guy, very obligingly goes after it.

Twice….

The bad guy loses control of the victims for some 3+ seconds.  That is plenty of time to do something if properly trained.

If you have quick access to an exit, even if it only leads to a back room with a door you can lock behind (red arrow), you may want to take it.

But we also have another person, in this case a pregnant woman with no obvious access to a safe area. We do still have an armed criminal on the store and the possibility that he may not want to leave witnesses behind or just shoot for the hell of it. Again, three seconds is a long time if somewhat properly trained with a firearm and mentally ready to do what needs to be done.
Here is a classic self-defense video. Robbery at a Motel 8 in Columbus OH, 2006.

And here you will find the news item and the comments of the employee. More lessons to be learned there.

Feel free to add your thoughts.

Now there is concern about the future of the Remington plant in Ilion, a Mohawk River town just east of Utica. It employs 1,300 people, making it the state’s largest gun maker.

In May, Remington posted a statement on Facebook criticizing the state’s new gun law as misguided and unconstitutional. It raised the possibility the company would relocate, although it said it would not do so “without considerable thought and deliberation.”

Since then, there have been media reports out of Tennessee that Remington officials have scouted possible sites near Nashville for a plant.

A shutdown of the Remington facility would deal a harsh blow to the struggling upstate economy and represent the end of an era.

via Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s new gun-control law targets gun makers – NY Daily News.

Almost 200 years of tradition down the drain because of petty idiots. At this rate and with gun companies moving away from the North east, give it a couple of decades and we can have another Civil War knowing that we have the manufacturing capabilities this time ..hehehe.

(cue enraged Libs calling me Insurrectionists in 5…4…3…)

I keep seeing this FAKE ad and I am getting a wee bit tired that some in our camp will actually believe the Bradys would be stupid enough to come up with stuff like that.
Whoever was the creator of this idiocy needs to shut down whatever version of photoshop he has and play Candy Crush or Farmville.

But what really ticked me off yesterday was somebody who actually defended it saying it accurately portrayed what the Bradys want. After trying to explain why this ad is more hurtful to us than the opposition, the gentleman still refused to budge. Right there I came up with the term Uranium People: Dangerously irradiating and too frigging dense to change or even understand what they do is hurtful to our cause.

It is THEIR side the one that has to resort to lies and misdirection to achieve their goals. It is their side the ones that makes outlandish accusations about our lifestyle. It is the artistic community on their side that create bigoted versions of what we look like, how we dress and how we behave… and that is find and dandy with me because lies is the best ammunition we have to shut them down.

We must remember that we are not trying to convince the Opposition that their ways are wrong; they are too mentally entrenched to change and they will rather die or we die than admit they are wrong. Our real target are those who have not made a final decision or may not even be aware of the fight for they can be recruited.

We are fighting without the benefit of an extensive media or even big coffers where we can dip and counter their propaganda on even terms. What we have  is the Truth and the stats to prove it plus the relentless determination of millions of activists, the true grassroots. But all that can be destroyed in a 2 minute TV mention of a fake ad by the evil Gun Nuts who disrespected not only a poor man condemned in a wheelchair but raped women everywhere. And only if we lose 10 people to their side, those are 10 people who would have come to OUR side but instead we let them walk because some silly bullshit by somebody with more time in the computer than actual functioning brain cells.

As I told the gentleman about his assertion that the ad was “fake but accurate.”

If I recall, Dan Rather said something along those lines. I also recall it did not do any good to his credibility and it achieved the opposite of what he was looking for.

Unintended consequences are a bitch. Don’t be Uranium, please?

Youth pastor Daniel Diaz, 33, was driving home from a church party with friends when he was shot and killed by an unidentified assailant in Pomona, Calif.

The shooting occurred just hours after a peace and prayer rally was held by community leaders against gun violence.

via Daniel Diaz, Youth Pastor, Shot Dead Hours After Prayer Rally Against Gun Violence In Pomona, Calif..

Sad when the biped animals do not respect a Man of God. I do believe in the power of prayer, but sometimes is more a question of Praise The Lord and Pass The Ammunition.

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