- Bystander sees masked robber holding store clerk at gunpoint. Bystander pulls pistol and shouts, “Don’t move!” Robber turns. Bystander shoots. Family member of this (chronic) robber whines, “If his (the customer) life was not in danger, if no one had a gun up to him, if no one pointed a gun at him — what gives him the right to think that it’s okay to just shoot someone? You should have just left the store and went wherever you had to go in your car or whatever.” As sick, depraved, cruel, irresponsible, and Snopes-clan inbred as that sounds, what’s even sicker is that that’s precisely what anti-gunners would have us do.
- 1000-yard rifle built on a 2×4. 🙂 (H/T T.)
- Yes! It’s about time that the federal government found the courage and integrity to go after those greedy monopolistic … er, piano teachers.
- People who fall for lottery scams. Some spend their whole life savings and still don’t believe they’ve been duped. Hm. Does that remind you of
any good taxpaying citizens anybody else you know?
- “My First Mistake.” Hint: It involves a corpse. And a drainpipe. And is a terrific, if weird, little read.
- I was going to use this (and may still use it) in a Deep Thought blog. But for the sake of tab clearing and personal evaluation: “The 14 Habits of Highly Miserable People.”
Great story about the “Mistake.” 🙂 I’ll have to look up that author.
“My first mistake”….
ROTFL!!!
Curt
I like that Savage 1000 yard gun. It’s got the StraightJacket tensioned-barrel setup though, not a stock Savage barrel. I have had an idea for a tensioned-barrel gun for years but I could never find a gunsmith willing to try it out. In fact the idea looks somewhat like what those guys did, “bedding” the barrel shroud rather than the action to the stock, except in my case it would have been glued in. Oh, well, yet another unfinished project…
Thanks for the link to the piano teachers. I can’t understand why people put up with this meddling, but I think I understand how it happens. John Taylor Gatto wrote about this phenomenon:
http://johntaylorgatto.com/underground/prologue8.htm
1. Be afraid, be very afraid, of economic loss. I wonder how many times the author has been on the edge of being homeless, and/or had a vehicle repossesed. Sure, “nothing ventured, nothing gained”. But it’s pretty easy to give out advice, and quite another to be realistic about your situation.
That barrel system is quite pricey. I’d rather spend the money on other things, particularly when acceptable accuracy is achievable without it. But yeah, it’s pretty cool. The Dan Wesson .357 revolver had a tensioned barrel system, and IIRC was pretty accurate.
re: Bystander. That actually brings up the one thing about carrying that I’m rather unsure of.
I am going to assume that when career robber “swung around” in this instance it’s a pretty smart assumption the good guy’s self was in danger. And therefore shot in self defense. Although bad guy’s gun wasn’t actually pointed ON him yet. My confusion comes from the situations handled differently – – I was in Nevada when they had the IHOP shooting, and knew of people there who were carrying, or had a gun they could get to quickly. While some disturbed individual walked around the parking lot and into the restaurant just randomly shooting and pointing his gun at people. And yet the gun owners did not shoot back. (And they were not shot, either.)
So my unsureness happens when I wonder where that line gets drawn (excuse the pun) not only to begin with but in the midst of mass people scenarios. Specifically tying these 2 same but different situations together, I would assume anyone around IHOP would have been in the same danger as the robbery guy was. Both had split seconds to make that decision.
If I had been in either situation I know I would feel personally threatened. And hiding in both instances isn’t a guarantee one would be safe, either. I have the personality where I’d rather do as much as possible to avoid it escalating to the point where I’d have to be attacked before I felt it was ok to shoot, and doing so in mili-seconds. But it seems those seconds are really gray areas. I also realize that this all changes from state to state, too.
So because of my own confusion on “when” I try to read all the discussions that I find on this. Which sometimes doesn’t end the confusion, depending on where I’m reading, but it’s a start.
“As sick, depraved, cruel, irresponsible, and Snopes-clan inbred as that sounds, what’s even sicker is that that’s precisely what anti-gunners would have us do.”
Absolutely, until one of those anti-gunners is the one having the gun pointed at them. Then it’s an entirely different whine about where were the police(with guns)? Why didn’t anyone help?
If the samaritan had turned around and left, the next headline would be about the callous folks of this country who just blindly step over the dead guy on the sidewalk or who do nothing to help some other victim. Damned if you do. Damned if you don’t.
Eh, I wouldn’t worry about it. Most sane people are not going to come down on the side of the robber’s next of kin. This is one the gun grabbers are not getting any sympathy for. Certainly not for the notion the victim should have been left to the mercy of the robber.
Me, I would have shot the bastard without warning him.
According to the 14 Habits of Highly Miserable People, I am much happier than I thought. Yay! Time to celebrate!
What part of “Don’t Move” didn’t the guy understand?
It’s not the stock. It’s the barrel and the action, although some barrels do need to be mounted a certain way.
Here’s an idea! Disband the association and “get together informally”. Which I think should happen anyway. Associations paints targets on people’s backs.
Let me guess, they were based in Nigeria?
Clank! Clonk! Heh heh!
Hmm, didn’t say anything about Growling!
On another note, here is Jim Rogers, the famous investor saying something about the Fed.
http://www.moneynews.com/newswidget/Jim-Rogers-abolish-Federal-Reserve-incompetent/2013/11/29/id/539206?promo_code=125BD-1&utm_source=125BDTelegraph_Media_Group&utm_medium=nmwidget&utm_campaign=widgetphase1
The image of smoker’s lungs being weighed, rinsed until pink, and weighed again is a keeper. I will probably mention that little factoid to my kids when they reach a certain age.
From the “Misery” article: “The real art is to behave in ways that’ll bring on misery while allowing you to claim that you’re an innocent victim, ideally of the very people from whom you’re forcibly extracting compassion and pity. ”
The author had to have been studying my dad. That describes him to a T.