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Ezra's Got a Gun
23 Sep 2007 09:45 am
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Et tu, Ezra? Oy vey!
Did they find his collarbone in Norfolk?
God, you people are stupid.
sweet. My father and my uncle are in the trap shooting hall of fame. I started shooting at the age of 8, and I still shoot trap at least once a month, and I'm as liberal as they come.
There is a rivalry between the people who shoot on the east coast and the people from the Midwest, east coast targets are just harder to shoot at, we deal with an ocean breeze. I learned to shoot at a club in CT that was right on the water.
WTF?! Ezra is left-handed?! Oh man....
1) I thought only girls used semi-auto shotguns (gas operated mechanism soaks up recoil.) Most of those things are kinda impractical for East Coast grouse or pheasant hunting -- too heavy to hold at the ready while walking the fields. Of course, if you're like Dick Cheney and like to shoot large numbers of farm-bred pheasants-- that are slow because of atropied wing muscles --then semi-autos are just the ticket.
2) But for real hunting, go with the Remington 870 Wingmaster. Used to be a good gun right out of the box, but now you have to replace that stupid beavertail handle with a corncob handle and cut off that stupidass sighting rib on top of the barrel. Do that and you're down at 6 and 3/4 lbs -- same as a Purdey or Aya but with 4 rounds. 8 if you add on a mazazine extender. Good for shooting grouse winging through the laurel --or Vietcong running through the jungle.
3) PS Tell Ezra his form sucks -- he needs to hold his left elbow higher.
Can we get some pictures of the bloggers armed and flashing gang signs?
Is there even a sign yet for a blogger gang? Maybe both hands with fingers curled down, as though on a keyboard?
Blogger gang sign: Curl inward fingers and thumb of dominant hand, as if holding a cylinder. Move wrist back and forth rapidly. Hold hand at waist level for maximum effect.
Matt's a fun guy. It's a good bet he arranged this outing.
They need a new category in that big, what-cha-ma-callit, yearly blog contest. Matt would win "Most Lovable Blogger", at least until he becomes an insufferable powerbroker in times to come.
If Ezra gets his way and we get Nationalized Health Care, we'll have to ban skeet shooting, since minimizing accidental gun shot wounds will help reduce health care costs.
This pic doesn't necessarily mean Exra is left handed. In fact, he is probably "left eye dominant". I'm as righty as they come (physically; politically the exact opposite), but I shoot with my left eye.
You can tell which eye is dominant by holding your hand out at arms length making the "OK" sign. Look at an object through the hole your finger and thumb makes with both your eyes open. Close one eye and then the other. The one eye in which the image moves the least is your dominant eye, and that's the eye with which you should shoot.
Thank you for enjoying this week's episode of "gun safety tips from a liberal"...
This picture captures the essence of the purpose of the 2nd Amendment. Because without guns, who would keep the clay pigeons at bay, I ask you? Who!?
Oh please, you don't have to be conservative to exercise your 2nd Amendment rights. Or in this case, lefts.
[insert Eddie Izzard joke here]
Two bloggers I usually enjoy reading take part in, and promote, America's dysfunctional gun culture. I don't get it and I have a little less respect for what they write.
That's interesting, ckt.
I've never touched a gun in my life, and I have some degree of handgun fear, but long guns seem a lot more my thing.
You shouldn't pick on Ezra's form. He probably learned to shoot like Dick Cheney did--jacking tame deer and farm raised grouse from the front seat of a Suburban. Of course Cheney had a driver so he's a right winger.
Another prematurely paunchy soon to be ex-liberal, staring down the barrel of middle age. It's a bit sad. Why don't you guys just trade in the pallid, zestless irony, pop-culture lefty stylings and college-lib veneer for the stolid establishment conservatism toward which you are all too obviously headed. You can save yourself and everyone else another 5 to 10 years of needless and dissipating procrastination.
Omigod. Is that a 20 GAUGE he's shooting? That's sure to elicit compliments at the gun range.
Something along the line of "Nice shooting, madam".
PS Ezra should also shift more weight forward onto his right foot and lean forward into the recoil.
Leaning backward is a subconscious flinch -- a sign you're scared of the gun -- and just lets the gun kick you harder.
Is that a 20 GAUGE he's shooting?
12 Gauge.
Neil, don't be such a canadian priss. And learn the difference between a handgun and a rifle, because the former is where the 'dysfunctional' culture resides. We Canadians have tons of rifles; lots of good hunting not far from you.
Long guns are cool. I have a 20 ga pump. When you chamber a shell, nothing else sounds quite like it. Shooting clay pigeons is fun. We in the Rocky Mountain region, like the coasts, do get a bit of wind to contend with as well. Winds speeds are about 15 - 20 mph as I write this. But, I like pistols, too (.22, .38, 9mm). Reloading makes it interesting, but cleaning brass is a pain. My husband painted a sign on the barn that reads: Never Mind the Dog, Beware of My Wife.
"Two bloggers I usually enjoy reading take part in, and promote, America's dysfunctional gun culture. I don't get it and I have a little less respect for what they write."
Nah, Neil, that's the functional American gun culture on display, the one the gun control movement is doing it's worst to extinguish. The dysfunctional one you'll find on display in the more dangerous neighborhoods of D.C., and gun controllers pretty much leave that latter culture alone, as it provides such a handy pretext for attacking the former.
"Nah, Neil, that's the functional American gun culture on display, the one the gun control movement is doing it's worst to extinguish. The dysfunctional one you'll find on display in the more dangerous neighborhoods of D.C., and gun controllers pretty much leave that latter culture alone, as it provides such a handy pretext for attacking the former."
Having been both skeet shooting and pheasant hunting with my deceased dad, I'm unable to discern anything "functional" about the photos Matt has decided to insert in his blog. That is, other than to suggest that Matt and his buddies are "just one of the good old boys" (disdain for all things "Olive Garden" excepted).
Are we to assume Matt, Megan, and Ezra will soon be making a jaunt to the Canadian Rockies in search of "wild game" to fill their families' deep freeze? Perhaps Megan will divulge her favorite summer sausage recipes or her favorite jerky spices.
As to the vast conspiracy to deny NRA members their constitutional rights to explosive tipped bullets, well,.., get over it. Apparently, the second amendment is the only amendment that is absolute. And apparently my right to not be shot by some gun nut in rural Iowa (let alone the "dangerous hoods" in D.C.) is superceded by your right to own and use surface to air missiles.
The "anti-gun nuts" - why can't I refer to them as such since they clearly have no concept of reality as much as the so-called "gun nuts"? - get all upset because somebody owns a handgun.
It's called "fear".
As in cowards.
That's it in a nutshell.
There's no "crime control" involved. There's no "trying to save lives" involved. These are the same punks who'll support the US military when they bomb civilians in every new war. It's pure cowardice. These punks are just scared of people with more violent technology than they have. So they turn to the government - the ultimate in violent technology (except when it runs up against an insurgency, of course) - to do what they're too scared to do themselves - disarm the people they're afraid of.
It's truly pathetic.
It's also stupid - because it can't be done.
Here's the reality. It's not physically possible to control firearms - or any other technology - any more than it is to control drugs - or any kind of criminal actions in the first place.
There are probably over a hundred million firearms in the US (almost all of them owned by "law-abiding" citizens (unfortunately). The last time the US government tried to get rid of even the fully automatic weapons, there was at least 100,000 full auto weapons in the US. The Treasury allowed a one year grace period to register any unregistered weapons. ANOTHER 100,000 weapons were registered during this period.
Which, of course, means that there are at LEAST ANOTHER 100,000 full auto weapons that will NEVER be registered no matter what.
Criminals don't register weapons.
And the over one hundred million weapons in the US doesn't even count the number of weapons world wide which will flow over our porous borders should anybody manage to actually crack down enough on legal gun sales in the US to eliminate the aboveground market.
Real smart - ban guns. Start another huge underground black market like the drug market. Make the criminals even richer than they are.
Morons.
So live with it.
Have a nice day.
Punks.
Not sure if you were referring to me, Mr. Hack, because I don't recall suggesting "...ban guns". And, consider that you may be wrong in assuming I don't own a handgun.
And you kinda lost me in the "These are the same punks who'll support the US military when they bomb civilians in every new war. It's pure cowardice. These punks are just scared of people with more violent technology than they have. So they turn to the government - the ultimate in violent technology (except when it runs up against an insurgency, of course) - to do what they're too scared to do themselves - disarm the people they're afraid of."
Would that be the gun nuts or the anti-gun nuts? Afraid of whom, the vast criminal gun cartel or Uncle Jim-Bob's sub-machine gun and "Ruby-Ridge" fetishes? Because I'd suggest that both might be due at least a smidgen fear, though, obviously there is no link between the two, right?
Then again, maybe you weren't referring to my suggestion that the gun conspirists maybe breathing in a bit too much of the lead they are using to make shot for their muzzle-loaders...
What catches my eye is the pinko ear plugs.
"I don't get it"
Hee hee hee.
"Why don't you guys just trade in the pallid, zestless irony, pop-culture lefty stylings and college-lib veneer for the stolid establishment conservatism toward which you are all too obviously headed"
From your lips ...
bloggers are flabby.
"Are we to assume Matt, Megan, and Ezra will soon be making a jaunt to the Canadian Rockies in search of "wild game" to fill their families' deep freeze?"
No, we're to assume they're not going to be robbing a 7-11, which is MY definition of "dysfunctional". Your's, apparently, is "enjoying an activity I don't particularly like, even if it harms no one."
I would appreciate if you flipped the photo horizontally, making Ezra to shoot targets right from the center...
-leftie
(Attention, nutpickers: a comment in this blog just endorsed killing people based on their political views.)
"Your's, apparently, is "enjoying an activity I don't particularly like, even if it harms no one."
Well, no, actually, it's not. If the kids want to "blow something up" in a family friendly environment, then all the power to them.
In my case, dad taught us kids to take guns seriously, because, after all, they were intended to "kill stuff". So you can imagine I'm a bit startled and confused by an image of a chubby blogger (writing for the Atlantic, none the less) wearing a Punisher t-shirt and holding two shot guns (but, hey, that's got NRA safety video all over it!). Is this intended to suggest that gun owners and users are unthinking killing machines or the opposite? The subtleties are lost on me.
I also don't quite comprehend the mortal fear of being assassinated in the local 7-11 (or one of the "bad" neighborhoods) as compared to the fear of a weekend warrior discharging his weapon whilst trying to adjust the nifty action figure that came with that t-shirt. (BTW, loved Punisher, and Thomas Jane is to die for...)
Man, have you ever got a low threshold for "dysfunctional"; Loosen up some!
Brett-
Fair enough.
But please consider that the statement that "The dysfunctional one you'll find on display in the more dangerous neighborhoods of D.C., and gun controllers pretty much leave that latter culture alone, as it provides such a handy pretext for attacking the former." may not be an accurate description of those who wish to see a reasonable regulation of firearms in this country.
And (btw, please don't take this statement too seriously) you may want to reconsider your choice of Matt and the gang as your poster children for your second amendment rights.
"may not be an accurate description of those who wish to see a reasonable regulation of firearms in this country."
Of course it isn't. But I was speaking of the gun control movement, not "those who may wish to see a reasonable regulation of firearms".
Given the way things are going in the US I recommend all liberals buy a firearm and practice using it. That skill might come in handy when conservatives try their coup d'etat in December 2008.
Re Northern Observer "That skill might come in handy when conservatives try their coup d'etat in December 2008."
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"Liberals" are sellouts and loudmouthed pussies. They've always been that way -- it is their nature.
"Afraid of whom, the vast criminal gun cartel or Uncle Jim-Bob's sub-machine gun and "Ruby-Ridge" fetishes? Because I'd suggest that both might be due at least a smidgen fear, though, obviously there is no link between the two, right?"
I have no idea what you're referring to as "the vast criminal gun cartel" - maybe Remington?
As for the "Ruby Ridge" nuts, they're not terribly relevant - except when one blows up a Federal building. And since personally I'm all for blowing up Federal buildings - at least when I'm not in one - I couldn't care less about them.
Aside from a few such types being chased by cops and using automatic weapons over the years to defend themselves against the cops, most of them appear to just stockpile weapons and write nasty letters to the mainstream media.
I'm rather more concerned by your average asshole mugger with a firearm - although the one time I got mugged, he used a knife. And those guys will get guns - if they can afford the black market prices - regardless of how many NRA members you disarm.
My main point, which you ignored, is that it is physically impossible to disarm this country.
The reality is that crime is not particularly stimulated by the presence or absence of firearms in a given country. To the degree that it is stimulated, it is also reduced if the average citizen has access to a weapon. So it's basically a wash, statistically.
Controlling guns - again, a physical impossibility in this country - really does almost nothing to control crime. You might get a reduction in cop shootings in a country with few guns, such as England. But again, you get guys like Carlos the Jackal who wanders into the country with a gun and caps two French cops who were in England tailing him. None of which is relevant to the US - where if the cops carry guns, the serious criminals will, too. And if they can't get them "legally" - which most criminals with a criminal record can't already - they'll get them illegally. Plenty of National Guard armory robberies in any given decade.
So it's all pointless. It's all based on a complete lack of comprehension of the reality of crime and law enforcement, coupled with simple fear of an armed person which is then disguised as some moralistic desire to prevent "even one death" - which, like all such approaches, ignores the number of times a weapon prevents deaths.
The "if we can prevent one death" is exactly as rational as Dick Cheney's "one percent rule" - except it cuts both ways. If you can prevent one death by having a gun, where's your argument?
But that has to be ignored because the real reason lies elsewhere - in the emotions of the gun control fanatic.
The NRA doesn't even understand what's going on here. Their arguments have never been adequate to counter the nonsense about gun control.
Frankly, if I was the NRA, I would support a total ban on firearms. That would start a huge black market, guns would be available on every street corner for $50, and there'd be no way the state could ever get rid of them. Plus you wouldn't need all the "registration" crap any more! Everybody would be armed to the teeth, the prisons would be overflowing with "illegal gun owners" just like they are with "drug dealers".
Of course, that's the point. The gun control people want anybody who believes in gun ownership to be put in jail. That's the only way they'll feel safe from such people. It's pure cowardice - and the ulterior motive beyond that is that NOW, when everybody is disarmed, they don't have to worry about implementing whatever social theories they happen to believe should be forced on everybody. And there's no lack of those.
Both the conservatives and the liberals believe in forcing people to do "what is right". And the fact that a bunch of ornery humans are armed makes that a risky approach.
So feel free. Ban guns. I'll always be able to get one when I need it. I'm already facing another ten or twenty years in the Federal pen if I even put a hand on a gun. But when I really need one to defend myself, I'll be able to get one - and I'll use it.
Those who are afraid of guns won't be able to do anything but blog when the state shakes them down. They're already demonstrating that. Bush and Cheney are going to attack Iran. Nobody does nothing but deny it will ever happen.
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I suspect there's a good joke to be made here about "lefties," but I am far too sick at the moment to make it, and thus must do the "there's a good joke here" cop-out. I apologize.
Posted by Aaron S. Veenstra | September 23, 2007 9:56 AM