Quote of the Day: Rubberbaron

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Weerd Beard

In reading discussion of this issue I found this quote by rubberbaron

I’m a writer on the internet (huzzah!) and was approached by Robert Farago to write for TTAG. I did end up writing a few articles for the site, but he and I never clicked. Our email exchanges were rather stupid, with him always asking for my writing to be more confrontational or asking me to make it different in abstract ways, by using buzz words and meaningless adjectives.

I’ve written many places around the web and never had anyone edit the content of my work before (most editors adjust for typos, etc, and/or give feedback), but Farago would alter my writing to make it fit in with his vision for the site, which made me look like a shitty writer, I thought. He’d insert jokey lines that were completely absent of my tone. Some editors do this, but you rarely do it to someone who you brought in for their specific voice.

In the end I only wrote a handful of articles, made a couple of bucks (he was late in payment but did pay), and we went our separate ways. While I wouldn’t say my time there was horrible, since the job was very passive, I can say I hated having him as an editor.

Very interesting indeed. It doesn’t surprise knowing my various interactions with the man. Also interesting that he presses authors to be “More Confrontational” in what sounds like for the pure sake of drumming up controversy. Also explains why he has such a nefarious co-author .

As they say in Serenity, “You can’t stop the signal!”

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DGU New Hampshire Style

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Weerd Beard

Don’t B&E in New Hampshire, those people are free.

A Merrimack woman scared off a morning intruder who kicked in the door to her apartment after she retrieved a handgun which was kept in her home exactly for this purpose, police said.

Now the anti-rights types might say those who keep a gun for home defense are paranoid and are 458 times more likely to kill a family member, or other such hooey.

I think this woman would be pleased to tell them each individually, or as a group what she thinks.

Good on her for such fast thinking and preparation, I very well could have saved her life.

h/t Gen

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Like Clockwork

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Weerd Beard

This comment lead me to this page.

Again Robert Farago stealing the works of others, and then being rude and disrespectful when asked to give attribution or take it down. I’m not one to look into the legality of this, the works stolen from me was a gift-banner from reader Bluesun and rides at the mast-head of a blog I do purely for fun and for the good of the cause. I don’t have any damages for it, and I suspect Farago will fight any claim made against him incurring damages of time and treasure to me. Instead It doesn’t take much effort to point out that if Mr. Farago IS in the legal right using the images he takes without attribution, permission, and often with the expressed disapproval of the rightful owner, it shows clearly that he views all others in the community with open contempt.

If you read The Truth About Guns, I must ask you, Why?

Oh BTW Mr. Toombs, who has raised this current complaint appears to be quite the photographer, he also has a really neat blog here that has some neat photos and gunnie goodness.

Keep us posted, Ben. But in the least, pass the word on about your experiences with this swine.

**UPDATE**
Linoge points out more discussion here. The Truth is the LAST thing The Truth About Guns wants us to hear.

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“Gun Death” Background Checks

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Weerd Beard

Obviously background checks are the solution to everything.

A judge ruled Wednesday that a couple charged with killing a neighbor whose body was found outside in a box will be jailed without bond until an evidentiary hearing….They were arrested Nov. 14 in Southern California after the body of 58-year-old Harold Myles Shilberg was found Nov. 9 outside an apartment building on East Fremont Street in Las Vegas. His body had multiple cuts.

Authorities said a bloody saw and clothing were found in the apartment of the suspects….Police said the couple was videotaped at a rental store in Las Vegas buying a garment-sized box like the one in which Shilberg was found.

So what will it be. Background checks on saws? Background checks on garment boxes?

Or maybe because this isn’t a “Gun Death” we shouldn’t get so worked up about little things like murder?

h/t Bob

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The Failed Hunt For Opposition

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Weerd Beard

A a little while back I posted this video where just some random pizza boy was quoted in a pro-gun news story just to give the story an appearance of “Balance”. Watch this piece all the way through.

They picked some random beta male for the word of opposition. And it wasn’t necessarily the word of opposition just that he wouldn’t buy a gun for a Christmas gift. Maybe that too personal and you just want to HELP somebody buy a gun on their own. I own a few guns that I bought thanks to a Christmas or birthday check, cash, or gift certificate.

Tho I’ve also given guns as gifts too…so who knows.

Still its not like they could easily find anybody who was opposed to this, nor were any of the anti-freedom activists easily accessible.

Another sign that hating guns is becoming more and more a thing of the past.

h/t Unc

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Walls of the City Exclusive!

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Weerd Beard

Linoge unboxes the Crimson Trace Laser grip designed specifically for the Gen 4 Glocks. What makes this awesome is A: The Product isn’t yet available for general sale. and B) Linoge is not keeping or using it, instead it is a donation for the Soldier’s Angel’s charity.

I will note that he’s a few hundred bucks shy of two-grand. Can we band together to fix that…preferably with overtravel?

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Why We Need Reciprocity

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Weerd Beard

Hop over to Mike’s and see this picture

State lines aren’t some magical force-field. Heck most of the time they aren’t even clearly marked, and given that we don’t live in a soviet state, there’s nobody checking your papers at the border, so there are times when if a state boundary IS significant some silliness can be had. Like when I was younger my folks and I would hike the same mountain every year. The Mountain was in Maine, we lived in Maine. To get to the mountain we needed to drive into New Hampshire..then back into Maine…then back into New Hampshire…then back into Maine again. The road slithered like a snake across the boarders of the two states. There were road signs spaced about a quarter mile apart for our sheer amusement.

Still if Dad had a permit to carry in Maine, suddenly he would be committing a felony…even if he was open carrying which is legal in both Maine, and New Hampshire, because both Maine and New Hampshire both define carrying in the car as “Concealed”.

Now can you tell me what’s different on one side of the line vs. the other? Its not distinctive, nor do any rules of self-defense apply. Hell you can STAND in one state, and shoot people in the next, so its not even like the laws are protecting anybody (not that people who bother with permits suddenly don’t get concerned when it comes to Murder vs. Justifiable force).

Mike is safe to carry any way he wishes on one side of the line, but not on the other. There are lots of lines like this for anybody who carries a firearm, and the more you think about them, the less they make sense.

So erase the lines.

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Glad We Have To Sign for Sinus Meds…

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Weerd Beard

Found this story.

A woman has been arrested for attempting to make methamphetamine inside a Walmart store using chemicals she was “too broke to buy”….”She didn’t have the money to make the purchases of the chemicals that were needed so she was taking what was needed in the bottle,” Officer David Shelby told Fox 23.

The only injury was to an officer who received minor injuries when the chemicals in the bottle burned his hand.

Halfmoon was arrested last month in a meth-manufacturing sting. She was released just two days before her Walmart arrest.

So no word in the story if she had all the right stuff for meth in her little caustic bottle, but still, isn’t it nice that we have to go through all this bullshit to buy sinus medication to STOP people from making meth, and I suspect she was using this method which is all sorts of reacting chemicals cooking in a sealed bottle, which runs a high risk of a dangerous explosion…think about that in a Wal Mart!

Also I must throw the “Bad Justice” tag in there, because she had JUST got out of jail for making meth. Good job, revolving door system!

Can we just call the War on Drugs a defeat and move on with our lives? These creeps will always be able to cook and acquire this shit. I’ll just say we don’t see the massive deaths from drinking bad bathtub gin, or attempting to strain sterno that you saw in Prohibition ages. You also don’t see the organized crime rings, and gang violence over the distribution of booze.

You think legalizing drugs will cause problems? Well look at the problems we HAVE!

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“Gun Death” Hay Baler

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Weerd Beard

Of course accidents also count in “Gun Deaths”. There are things vastly more dangerous than guns in that regard.

A farm worker died from severe crushing and compression asphyxia after he became trapped in a baler at a farm near Mossburn.

Daryl David Rolton, 58, of Edendale, died after he became trapped in the baler and was crushed at a Centre Hill Rd farm between Mossburn and Te Anau in March.

Brutal. And a shame. But it wasn’t a gun. Odd that people who use the metric of “Gun Death” want to restrict guns when somebody is accidentally killed or injured by a firearm…but they never seem to care about things like cars or hay balers when they kill…

h/t Wallphone

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Desperation

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Weerd Beard

A few other people have been talking about this proposed bill.

A Milwaukee lawmaker is proposing to make gas stations off-limits to Wisconsin residents carrying concealed weapons, even if they have a permit.

The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Josh Zepnick, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that many station owners, employees and customers are among his constituents and have been victims of violent crime.

First up it shows the typical stupidity of the anti-freedom types. They always feel the need to conflate lawful gun owners with criminals. When Wisconsin opened the doors to people seeking carry permits, drug dealers, and gang soldiers weren’t among the ranks. Same goes to say that the thugs robbing gas stations are NOT lawful gun owners, and will NOT bother with getting a carry permit, and therefor won’t care. Miguel points out that this minor law won’t deter people who are setting out to commit a major violent felony like robbery, assault, or murder.

Of course this also adds the added danger to public safety which is lawfully armed people disarming in a relatively unsecured place like a car. This runs a risk of the gun discharging, and cars are an easy target for theft…especially at gas stations.

But there’s a bigger issue here. The loser who drafted this idiotic law admits it isn’t going anywhere. Still all the anti-rights channels are linking this story and sending praise for this fool and his fool’s errand.

This is how desperate they are. Of course there’s huge talk of National Conceal Carry Reciprocity, but that’s because it very well may pass the Senate, and I give it a 50/50 on the President signing it into law. But this is one of those perennial laws that has been submitted constantly for decades now. Nobody said peep about it back in the 90s because the bill was DOA…just the same as when various idiots present a bill to remove the Electoral College, or remove the term limits on the Presidency.

Still they talk about this bill because its all they have left. They are losing everywhere at such a rate that they no longer know what victory looks like.

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