'Gun Death' China Edition

Stealing from Weer'd's playbook, we had an unpossible occurence in the gun-free utopia of the Chinese People's Republic.

28 dead and 113 injured by a mass knife attack at a train station.

So even if it were only the 5 suspects killed, that's over 5 dead and 22 injured by each one. (Edit: Some news agencies are reporting 10+ assailants)

So I don't believe this actually happened since we've been told over and over there could never be a mass killing w/ a knife.

The Ukraine Mess

So there's reports and images all over the news stating that Russian forces are/have entering the Ukraine en masse.

 
This one shows a unit of 2S1 Gvozdika self propelled artillery allegedly in-country.


Others show convoys of BTR's and masked troops.

So what is the US going to do.  I'm thinking about the same as when Russian invaded Georgia and slapped them around for awhile.  IOW nothing.   What's the world going to do?  I'm thinking the same thing.

Gun Show Weekend

Budget is a bit tight right now so I'm going to limit my purchases today to guns, knives, .308 & .223 dies, shell holders, batteries for the calipers, a case trimmer, walnut media, primers, bullets, brass and a rabbit fur-lined cod piece with a Swastika on it.

Oh yeah, and I'm down to my last 8 bricks of .22lr so I'll be on the look out for that too.

5000 and Counting

The first 5k licenses for concealed carry in IL were mailed out today.  

The wailing of the 'Mom's Who Haven't Got Any Action Lately' is music to my ears.

QOTD- editorial oversight edition

I was listening to NPR yesterday and heard the following gem...

"Residents(Syrian) were being dragged out of their homes and beaten with barrel bottoms."

I think they meant rifle butts but hey, barrel bottoms might catch on.

Mom's Demanding 'Action' Don't Understand 'Concealed'

The adult dating site while whining about the new CCW law:

“If I see someone carrying a gun in public, in a store, how do I know if they have a permit or not?” Chen said. “Unless they paste their permit on their sleeve, it’s hard to tell a criminal from a law-abiding ‘good guy’ with a gun.”

Well for one, if they're not trying to rob you or the store while pushing their shopping cart and picking up a package of Doritos, you probably have nothing to worry about.  But we all know that's not really the issue, this is:

“I will definitely avoid patronizing a store that refused to post the sign,” Decraene said. “I want to feel safe while I’m shopping.”

It's got nothing to do w/ ACTUAL safety, it's her 'feeling' safe that's important and what MDA thinks laws should be based on.

And their supporters are just as stupid.

I say you should prove it. No one can tell. You can say anything. People should be able to feel safe while shopping or running errand.

Prove what you idiot? License holders have already 'proven' to the police that they haven't committed any crimes, are mentally stable, and have jumped through all the other hoops demanded to get the license in the first place.  Why should anyone have to 'prove' anything to you or any of your ilk? And again  the 'feel safe' routine.  I don't 'feel' safe w/ you being allowed to vote or breed.  I think you should have to 'prove' you're competent to do either.

It's OK.  We understand that to you, all firearm owners are stupid, knuckle-dragging 'untermenschen' and you would have no problems w/ uniformed authorities saying to us 'papieren bitte'.

Finish This Statement: Registration Equals.......

(Insert answer here)

A Nation of Men, Not Laws

In DC, the same prosecutor who declined to charge media pundit Gregory for illegally having a 30 rnd magazine, on television, is throwing the book at a guy for having a single, spent, shotgun shell. 

These are the types of actions taken in the cause of 'safety' and 'common-sense' gun laws.  Is it any wonder we distrust any and all attempts to pass more laws?

Movie Review: Ender's Game

Full disclosure, it's been quite a few years since I read the book but I still remember much of it vividly.  That being said, I really enjoyed the film adaptation. Unlike some (many), it wasn't just the names of the characters/title and some piece of crap that Hollywood put together, for the most part, it stays true to the premise and storyline of the book.

There are of course some changes and many of the scenes don't get as indepth as the book leaving some of them, for want of a better word, hollow, ( I needed to explain some parts to the SO who hadn't read the book) but overall the screenplay does a very good job of capturing Card's world/vision. 

The most phenomenal part, to me at least, were the special effects and visualizations. When I first read the book, I envisioned the 'Ansible' battle scenes on a screen much like what you'ld see on the old Space Invaders' video game.  This movie took that, and the team competitions a the school, to a whole new, state of the art, level w/ fantastic graphics and imagery.

I'ld give it a 4/5 stars.  May not buy it but I would definitely watch it again.

CSGV is Jealous...

...that they don't have any membership to take advantage of a VISA membership program like the NRA has.

They managed to get a dozen people to show up for a 'protest' at the VISA offices. (comments disabled on the video of course). to drop off a 'petition' w/ 5,100 signatures.

I'm sorry but I bet Visa makes exponentially more than that each month from NRA members using the card.

A dozen protesters?  There were groups larger than that showing up at the show today.

Here's the link to apply for the card.  I wonder how many new applications they will get due to Ladd Everitt and his band of merry nitwits.

And to show you just how dense these people are:

And one of the two 'Likes':

Yes, the 'liked' the claim that one of their supporters were going to be financially irresponsible and attempt to steal money from a cc company by not paying their bill.

Wow.

Defending 'Tactical Rifles Inc'.... Badly

The verbal wrangling regarding the lawsuit over a negative product review continues. Some of the defenders are not helping their case.  Example.  The accusation was made that 'SnipersHide' forum deleted the TR account and any 'positive' comments under threat of a ban.

Here's 'SnipersHide's response:

1. We did not delete David’s account, he never made one. Deleting an account does not block it, if he truly was prevented from speaking we would have banned the account. That ban would still exist. Deleting removes any blocks the site employs through the software. By David saying he had an account and it was deleted is one of those hard to prove things… however it does not pass the sniff test and I have yet to see David respond on any other forum to negative comments about his rifles.

Rebuttal:

Meanwhile David just emailed me the screenshots of his “invalid username” login on your website.

Hmm. Having an 'invalid username' means an account was deleted?

Here's the screenshot of my attempt to login:

I don't and have never had an account at SH.  Could an account have been deleted?  Sure, but an 'invalid username' screen isn't evidence of that.

But so far TR doesn't seem to have any real evidence that's been presented publicly nor, w/ the fact their lawsuit doesn't even seem to have been researched, doesn't do them any good from a PR standpoint.

Oh, and this:

we should have stood up for Dick Metcalf because his anti-gun employer and the guy who took his editor’s position threw him under the bus and the polly wants a cracker “bloggers” vilified him for something he probably only wrote half of and certainly didn’t select the title for.

'Probably only wrote half of'?  Really?  Evidence?

Howabout the FACT that he started repeating the same BS in every anti-gun rag across the US after his @ss got canned? 

Gun Show Weekend: Arcola, IL

Feb 22 & 23

Arcola Gun and Knife Show

Arcola Center rt-45 and main Arcola, IL

Bryan 217-460-2387

$5 entry,under 12 free with adult. show from 9AM - 4PM Sat, 9AM - 2PM Sun Sponsor: Arcola Guns. For table rental call Bryan 217-460-2387. Food and free parking.

DOOT readers get 10% off.