Students protest letters full of typos and errors.
Of eight letters published, seven of them are full of grammar and spelling mistakes:
“I know I wont wont my eletive tooken away. wht about the sped kibs? Hae you thought about that!”
I make my share of mistakes here, but I try to not openly assault the written form of English. Thanks to Bitter for the link.
Like take a pristine WWII era Remington Rand 1911 and hack it to pieces “customize” it.
Like I’ve said, I don’t even like 1911s and I know that you just don’t do that. Whether or not a gun appeals to me as a carry firearm does absolutely nothing to the fact that in this case, that 1911 is a piece of history, it was carried in WWII by someone’s grandfather.
You just don’t do that.
Update: Confirming the post in comments, we have been had. Looks like someone was trolling and got busted.
Slow fire video up at Boberg Engineering.
This one did play correctly in my browser, and gives you a slightly better view of the mechanism during firing.
It’s like a cool drink on a hot day, and I’m not even that into S&W wheelguns.
So I can hear insightful commentary on issues that have been in the blogs for 2 or 3 months now.
With a new Senate power, GOP gun-rights advocates stall on Michael J. Sullivan’s confirmation. They’re protesting the bureau’s strict enforcement of record-keeping rules for gun dealers.
I’ve been reading about this for literally months now, LA Times. Way to be on the cutting edge of news here. Beyond the fact that it’s about 2 months behind schedule, the article gives a fair (for the LA Times) shake to FFL holders, and represents their quotes and the quotes of their supporters in the Senate fairly.
Despite that, I can’t shake the feeling that this editorial is one step away from whining about how the ebil gun lobby is holding up the appointment of the Sullivan to the BATFE; and that all they really want is to make sure that everyone is in compliance with the law.
Sorry, but that dog don’t hunt. When you’re running dealers out of business for paperwork violations and messing with the livelihood of guys that I know, you’re not just enforcing the laws anymore.
Just for a moment, I want to talk about my favorite thing on the internet.
That would be Dr. McNinja.
It’s a webcomic. It’s hilarious, filled with action, and my little brother even scored me an autographed copy of the first print edition of the comic for Christmas.
Honestly, if you want a laugh go read it. I’d put adds for it all over the place if he’d ask. If you’re not reading Dr. McNinja, you need to do so immediately if not sooner.
In open carry, despite what the comments in this post might have you think.
In that, Sebastian was linking to the post I had here about a Cal State campus being locked down because someone saw an out of uniform ROTC kid walking back to his dorm with a parade rifle. The firestorm got started because initially Sebastian misidentified the gun as an M16, then I pointed out that it was actually a de-commed drill rifle and I figured end of discussion.
Seems as I wrong, as some people took exception to this comment.
If I saw someone openly carrying what looked like an M16 around campus, I’d probably be a little alarmed too.
This sparked a discussion about why you or I would be alarmed if I saw someone, not in a uniform, toting an AR around a college campus. The side of the argument opposite mine is of the belief that you shouldn’t be alarmed by it, because there’s nothing inherently threatening about someone with a rifle, and I can understand that point to a certain extent. Sebastian and I (and others) feel as though the context of the situation (kid on campus with gun out of uniform) would be sufficient to raise the hair on my neck and cause a certain level of alarm…at least until I’d had time to assess the situation. That’s the key part; I would be alarmed because seeing a rifle on a college campus is not a normal situation, and things that are outside the norm (especially when they involve firearms) are sufficient to alarm me.
My alarm would only last as long as it took me to examine the situation, for example, if that same rifle was being carried safely and the carrier him (or her) self didn’t trip any other perceptual alarms, I’d file it under “that’s odd” and be on my way.
My part in the conversation took a bad turn when I expressed a deep sense of frustration with a commenter who has been a long-time reader of both Sebastian and myself. My frustration wasn’t based on the current conversation, but rather the history of discussions that we’d previously had wherein I oft felt like I was slamming my head into a rather stubborn brick wall. The wall didn’t notice, and I ended up with a headache.
I’ve expressed before that I believe that open carry is a good thing, and that I’d like to be back in place where the open carrying and display of firearms is considered acceptable in public; but we’re not there right now. This is where I often come to the divide with other supporters of open carry, because I don’t feel like we should all strap iron on and go play outside. Just like concealed carry, open carry is about moving in stages; we’re not going to win by tying on a hog leg and going to market.
Rather, I feel like open carry needs to be gradually pushed into public awareness, because if you want it to be accepted, you can’t go around scaring middle-class soccer moms. That means that open carry on college campuses is pretty much out the window for now (with the possible exception of Utah), and so is open carry in a lot of other places for the same reason.
Virginia is a good example of how open carry can proceed in a good manner; because they have a culture of it, and because VCDL does a great job with that local issue, they have begun to really foster an environment where open carry can thrive. It’s all about moving incrementally; and I think they’re doing a good job.
I’ve said before that I support open carry, because it’s well in line with my personal philosophy; I continue to support open carry. But I support doing it intelligently, don’t go walking around a bunch of cops with a .45 tied on and swagger about with a “this is legal you can’t touch me” attitude, because that hurts our case. Same with toting your drill rifle openly on a California campus, even though it’s a deactivated rifle it doesn’t help our case. Open carry, but do it intelligently. Don’t scare whitey.
Of anti-gun writers bemoaning that no one is talking about gun control during this election season.
Since then, we’ve had the sound of silence. When Tim Russert brought up gun control during a Democratic debate in Nevada, the candidates seemed to stiffen, as if he’d made a tasteless joke.
However, just because we have some success in making the gun issue one that even Democrats are afraid to touch doesn’t mean we should back down. I agree quite wholeheartedly with other bloggers who are concerned that we’ve developed tunnel vision as a movement, and have focused so exclusively on protecting our 2nd Amendment rights that we’ve neglected the other 9 amendments in the Bill of Rights.
I want to keep seeing the New York Times and Daily Kos run editorials where people are crying that they can’t get the gun control issue brought up at the national level, because it means we’re winning this particular battle. But I also want to see it in local papers, so that the next time some legislator in your state thinks it’s a neat idea to ban “assault weapons” or microstamp bullets that they are going to think twice about it.
I’ve had Google Analytics on this blagoblag for about a month now, and the sheer amount of raw data that I get is truly staggering.
For example, if you’re reading this right now, there is about an 8.3% chance that you’re reading it from Deepinnaheartof Texas, and a 3.3% chance that you’re reading this from Indiana.
I also want to extend a special “Thank you” to the 9 people who have visited this site more than 200 times in the past month, with the added suggestion that maybe you should go play outside or something. I’m kidding of course, without you to feed my massive ego, I would surely shrivel into a ball and die.
I do want to say thank you again to my readers, both the regulars and the new people. I am having a tremendous amount of fun doing this, and I hope you are as well.
Fairfax, Va. – At the request of the Bush Administration and 51 members of the United States Senate led by Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID), the National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service prohibition of firearms on agency land will be revised in the following weeks. The National Rifle Association (NRA) is leading the effort to amend the existing policy regarding the carrying and transportation of firearms in National Parks and wildlife refuges.
Not “may be”, or “could be”, but “will be revised”. It looks like the changes will have the National Parks match state lands in whichever state they’re located in, which is great for Hoosiers. As you may or may not know, Indiana state law allows people with Carry Permits to carry concealed in State parks, when this goes through, we’ll be allowed to carry in National parks in Indiana as well.