My Gun culture Brings the LOLz
My favorites are “We’d Rather Pass Feel Good Legislation than think”, and “Attention Criminals Do not use a Nail file to remove this Microstamp”
We have registration of all guns sold in this state (both public and private sales) and it has solved ZERO crimes.
But again, if these people cared about stopping crime they’d have done something useful, anti-gun people JUST want to ban guns.
I debated weather to respond to this or not, and what to say if I did respond.
I’ve just decided to clarify my position.
OK so first this is a response to a comment by somebody who claims to be a friend of Lynn Thompson and Cold Steel knives. Go read his response, its well written and quite frank.
So let’s clarify a few things. First up I got a LOT of flack about about my observations of Lynn and his physical condition. I do not know Lynn Thompson, and have never met him. Everything I make are just observations from his promotional videos. I have no way to confirm or disprove what this gentleman says. I’ll defer to better judgement and concede the point, but I will note that I’m not alone in my observations, true or not.
As for some of the techniques I took issue of he directed me to Lynn’s blog with some responses.
I’m not going to get into details, as I’d be exceeding my skill level, but I’ll say that in the video Lynn quotes the Jeff Cooper Four Rules of Gun Safety, and then disregards rule 4 in his “Shooting rounds into the dirt”, and “ripping Fire” through a mocked-up building. They are dangerous, and I cannot advise anybody to practice or put these techniques into use. I find techniques like this, to be vastly more responsible and safety-oriented for a similar concept.
As for techniques for “States of Lawlessness”, personally I’d rather conserve EVERY round I have with me, and attempt to get every shot fired into the vital zone of a target…or not shoot at all. Even in a riot the laws apply (tho sadly only after the fact) and discharging a weapon in somebody’s direction is some grade of Assault whether the shots are hits or misses, and whether the misses are intentional or not.
Living and working in the Boston Area I have some very real concerns about such an event, given the issues, and construction of the Big Dig tunnel. That being said, if you are stuck in a riot or a total collapse of society, unless you can fortify a building or bunker and hunker-down with multiple long-arms, and enough people to keep an active sentry, your survival in such a situation will be more a factor of dumb luck than anything else.
OK last are some comments that I think were taken the wrong way. (and frankly I don’t blame them, as the above clarifications are made mostly because I probably came off more dickish than I deserve)
First up, I’ll say I don’t own any Cold Steel products, but I have several close friends who keep Cold Steel blades handy, and I’ve handled several products, and have seen large portions of their catalog in my travels. There are cheap knives, and there are quality knives, and Cold Steel is most certainly the latter.
Besides their product quality, I really like their business model. They make many functional reproduction weapons, and further updates of “Classic” designs like their Recon Tanto:
And they make a bunch of weapons that are really cool and outrageous, but never to an extent that the blade loses functionality at least in some capacity.
As for me laughing at the videos here’s a good example:
These demonstrations show the quality and durability of the blades….but also they’re just fun and outrageous. The same can be said about Lynn point-shooting melons and water-bottles with big-game rifles. Its silly and fun, and that’s what I take them as. I have not, and would not laugh at the Cold Steel products…with the exception of the above DVD series. Cold Steel just exudes quality, and I don’t think the DVD series is up to that standard from what I’ve seen.
So I guess I should close with an apology. I probably came off as a bit more catty than was fair. Certainly I would say that Cold Steel and Lynn Thompson are good people, and our ally’s in the battle of safety and personal freedom. They make cool knives, and knives designed for self defense as well as utility, and Mr. Thompson and his company are strong supporters of our second amendment rights. I still don’t think this video series appears to be up for their standards, and some things I’ve seen are ill advised, but some of my comments were unsupported observations that were likely unfair.
If my comments got me Persona Non-Grata status with Cold Steel, that would be unfortunate, but not unfair. Hopefully that isn’t the case.
Whenever carry laws, or laws where those lawfully armed can more easily carry in their automobiles, those who use the metric of “Gun Death” often say that people will be shot over traffic disputes and parking spaces.
On the morning of September 6, Colorado Springs Police say that two men got into a fight at at 1300 Cheyenne Blvd. as a result of a traffic dispute. During that fight, Robert Gott, 71, suffered a head injury after having struck the ground.
The antis are smart enough and don’t claim that guns CAUSE violence, but just that they turn what would be a non-deadly fist-fight into a “Gun Death”.
Yeah they say “Fist Fight” like its a good thing.
Let’s logically look at this. I think most of us have been involved in a fender-bender or other such minor accident. Some have been in major accidents, and ALL of us have seen people exchanging insurance information on the side of the road.
I can’t imagine many of you have seen an accident where the participants got physically violent. There is a certain type of person with so little control over their temper…also by nature they tend to be the people who have been arrested for assault before, so can’t legally own or carry guns.
Accidents, being accidental means you don’t choose who you hit. You know what keeps Mr. Fisticuffs from murdering you? If he thinks he might get shot for taking a swing.
Death has an interesting way of getting somebody to make informed decisions.
h/t Wallphone
This is funny!
I love games where you have the ABILITY to kill others, but can choose not to without impeding gameplay. Games like Thief and Deus Ex are some of my favorites.
Also Nethack has the whole “Permadeath” thing from the start. The Game itself deletes your savegame when you die.
This is how I play.
Miguel found this lady, The wife and I are HOOKED!
WOW
Orlando LIVE – Kaleigh Baker – “Train Gone By” from Concrete Lion Pictures on Vimeo.
What a VOICE!
Was listening to my copy of Soul Caddy today, and I was AMAZED at how ironic this song sounds now.
Now Steve Perry said in an interview that he had met Tiger Woods in his travels, and thought he was such a nice and cool guy that he wrote a song about him.
Of course these days when you say “Tiger Woods is a Swinger” you don’t think “Golf Club”.
Much like this song, I don’t think the intents were ironic, but it sure is now.
This was submitted by Wallphone for the “Gun Death?” Files, but I dunno if it fits, but its too strange just to move on.
Cruel thugs stabbed a helpless hedgehog and then waited for a wildlife refuge to rescue it so they could break into their empty office and steal computers and cash worth 10,000 GBP.
I knew a guy who as a teen they would send a guy to the far side of their small Maine town to throw a brick through a store window so the small number of cops would investigate, so they could drag race on the other side of town.
Strange.
Another Topic from the Penn Jillette Nerdist Podcast was this “Song Poem”
Man now decades later and Jimmy Carter remembered as an incompetent failure, and the worst insult to our current President is the comparison between him and James Earl Carter.
Powerful Irony…to a slick Disco Beat!
nor-FUCK! Which is the ONLY way to say it.
Borepatch sent me this image with this message:
Too racy for my blog. May be funny for yours, though.
“Send it to Weer’d! He’ll post it!” 😉
LOL! I have a coworker from Austria and one day we got to talking and I asked her to pronounce “Steyr Mannlicher”. The “Steyr” part isn’t too difficult for my tongue, so I generally say it more-or-less the “right” way (with a thick Maine Accent)
But “Mannlicher” uses sounds I was unaware the human mouth could make, and mashed together in such a way that as soon as I get one sound right the following noise my mouth makes sounds like a cow falling down a flight of stairs.
So yeah its a “Man-Licker” rifle, and I laugh like a 12-year-old every time I say it!
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