Deadly face is no substitute for due process.
Jayne Lyn Stahl
Another Poster Child for the NRA
October 7, 2007 at 22:34:36
[Yeah, it was a typo. But even correcting that it’s still a pathetic attempt at rational thought. She gets her facts wrong, she has no idea what the rules and laws are for the use of deadly force, and she reaches irrational conclusions. As Uncle said, “I don’t think I’ve ever seen so much stupid in one place.”–Joe]
Someone apparently believes they can read my mind from reading part of my blog. And she thinks I have problems:
By Sheryl, 10-07-07
I checked that guys site out, very disturbing. I found the home life thread especially very disturbing. Any grown man that likes to brag about intimate relations with his wife on a public blog has some real personal problems. Using sexual terms to generate more search engine hits in conjunction with posts about his children saddens me. What an awful environment they must have grown up in. It frankly disturbs me even more that such a person has access to assault weapons and explosives.Such a dark world we live in.
I left the following comment but was told “Akismet thinks your comment is spam, so it will be moderated first.”
Sheryl, I regret to inform you that you are unable to read my mind or my motives. The only thing truthful about your comment is that which you shared about yourself–you are disturbed.
Update: Interesting… someone else’s comment, again very negative, showed up but my comment and that of Miss C don’t. Does the moderator have an agenda?
There is something very different about this one. It was a police office that went nuts:
A sheriff’s deputy shot and killed six young people in the northern Wisconsin town of Crandon before being killed himself after a manhunt, according to media reports on Sunday, quoting police and witnesses.
The Forest County Sheriff’s Department said seven people were dead, including the shooter, Tyler Peterson, 20, according to media reports.
Five of the victims ranged in age from 14 to 20, and the age was not available on a sixth, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported on its Web site.
Another victim was in critical condition, the newspaper reported.
Peterson, who was accused of storming into his ex-girlfriend’s house, was shot by the Crandon SWAT team, the newspaper said. Peterson’s former long-time girlfriend was among the dead, it said.
If we are not allowed to have guns then how are we to protect ourselves from the cops with guns that go nuts?
That’s mostly snark on my part.
It’s a terrible tragedy and it makes me sad to hear of it. It’s a small town of about 2000 people. Everyone in that town will know at least one of the victims. Barb and I went to high school in a town of about 3000 (Orofino Idaho). The degree of separation between any two people in a town that small is at most one or two. That whole town will morn.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mohandas Gandhi
[I thought of this after reading of the tragic shooting of all the people in Wisconsin yesterday. Just because one cop goes nuts and starts shooting innocent people doesn’t mean all cops should have their guns taken away from them.–Joe]
De inimico non loquaris sed cogites
Do not wish ill for your enemy … plan it.
Jack L. Patterson
Baltimore, MD
June 20, 2007
[There are others that have used this as their .sig line but Patterson has used it more than any other that I can find. I have been unable to find the originator.
I’m thinking of the anti-gun bigots at the moment…–Joe]
I said it would make them squirm. And both the Gun Guys and Josh Sugarman are doing just that.
Kim’s last name isn’t Huffman but I’ll send an email to get that fixed. Check out our pictures with the other People of the Gun.
But it’s no wonder we are concerned about privacy, because we are all “lawbreakers”, We all break the law, but few of us are criminals. The problem is that simply attracting the attention of the police is enough to put the best of us at risk, because we break the law all the time and it’s set up to make that happen!
John Gilmore
March 28,1991
A transcript of remarks given at the First Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy
[Remember what Ayn Rand said and Huffman’s rule of firearms law.–Joe]
[Heavy sigh] My youngest is in college now so this just wouldn’t have the impact it would have 10 or 15 years ago. Maybe it would be a nice gift for some nephews and nieces.
This is the story I heard at Gun Blogger Rendezvous 2006 I most wanted to tell. I’m glad Uncle shared this in public so I could comment on it.
Basically, some people need to be shot. People that claim everyone is just like everyone else and predators just need to be “understood” or some such thing are ignorant. There are evil people that will never change and will be a threat to others as long as they are alive. Read the epiphany a former psychologist (Uncle) had when attempting to counsel one of these animals.
I don’t advocate individuals hunting these animals unless you have a license and tag. The premeditate taking of even sub-human life should be carefully considered with the appropriate checks and balances. Defending against an imminent or in progress attack from one of them is another matter. Remember the following four rules and repeatedly apply them until the threat is eliminated or you can no longer acquire a sight picture:
In case you haven’t tested it out recently (as in the last day) Microsoft’s search engine was just updated and for the first time has search results on par with Google. I know the test methodology for this claim but I’m not sure I’m at liberty to reveal it but I am of the opinion they did a good job measuring this and that the claim is accurate. “On par” is not good enough to win and I expect MS will pull ahead of Google in the near future.
Having an alternative to the anti-gun owner bigots at Google is important and now you don’t have to compromise on search results. Now if I can just get the message to the right person to get MS to give us an alternative to AdSense so I can drop the Google ads in the right margin of this blog.
In winning our Independence, and to make certain that it could never happen again, the Founders wrote that the Citizen was to be SUPREME AUTHORITY, and that our authority was to be backed by force, forever. In their living this reality which they knew could occur in any age, any era, any administration, the reality of life today was that liberty must always be backed by citizen force.
John Longenecker
Original Intent–Citizen As Supreme Authority–Liberty — How American Gun Control Is Adverse To The Public Interest In An Abuse Of Due Process
[There are lots of great quotes in this whitepaper.–Joe]
Two non-partisan, respected federal government agencies recently examined gun controls and found no statistically significant evidence to support their effectiveness. In 2004, the National Academy of Sciences reviewed 253 journal articles, 99 books, and 43 government publications evaluating 80 gun-control measures. The researchers could not identify a single gun-control regulation that reduced violent crime, suicide, or accidents. A year earlier, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on an independent evaluation of firearms and ammunition bans, restrictions on acquisition, waiting periods, registration, licensing, child access prevention laws, and zero tolerance laws. Conclusion: none of the laws had a meaningful impact on gun violence.
Robert A. Levy
September 27, 2007
The D.C. Gun Ban: Supreme Court Preview
[Via Uncle.–Joe]
Uncle reports having problems with Google being bigots. I had similar problems a while back and had similarly unsatisfactory results. I really wish there were a good alternative to getting advertising on my blog. I don’t get a lot from them, currently about $0.80/day, but it pays my Internet related bills.
Here is the story of my experience with Google:
Thursday night we left the Huffman-Scott compound in the care of Caleb, Kim, and Xenia and headed to Missoula Montana. The next morning we went on a walk along the Clark Fork River:
We continued on to our time share condo in Columbia Falls and today went hiking in Glacier National Park. We hiked to Avalanche Lake. It is stunningly beautiful country. But it is also Grizzly bear country. And of course operational firearms are “illegal” in National Parks. I put illegal in quotes because the people that enacted and enforce that “law” are in violation of 18 USC 242. I’m hoping the Parker/Heller case will be a stepping stone to fixing that issue.
It’s a small world. Over two miles off the road up a rocky hiking trail, at the edge of Avalanche Lake, we had the couple on the left offer to take our picture together. We agreed (picture above this one) and we took a picture of them together with their camera for them. We talked a bit and Barb asked where they were from. “Idaho”, they said. “Where in Idaho?” we asked. “Troy”, was the reply that shocked us. Troy is about ten miles from Moscow where Barb and I have our home. It turns out that Barb works with one of their friends and knows several of the people they know.
There is a loop at the bottom of the trail, about 1/2 of a mile long, that is suitable for wheelchair bound people. Some of it is almost artistic in layout.
We are still in Columbia Falls at our condo. No easy Internet connection. I’m sitting in the lobby of the lodge to get a connection. Blogging will be light for a few more days.
Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I’m used to having a few guns around to protect me.
Loretta Lynn
[Not all celebrities are gun grabbers. Add Loretta Lynn to your list of common-sense people.–Joe]
There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.
Ted Nugent
Firecracker Films have changed their contact person for the “Gun Families” documentary they are making. I’ve updated my post to reflect the changes.
They are still actively looking for people. If you have kids under 12 that are reasonably knowledgeable shooters please consider getting involved in this.
I probably will get in trouble, as I have before, for using the word “porn” in the same post with one of my daughters. But I’m 300 miles away at the moment and figure everyone will have enough time to cool off before I get home.
Anyway, on Saturday I took some pictures of our daughter Kim as she checked out a Saiga-12 with a 10-round detachable magazine:
Caleb, my son-in-law, says he always listens to Kim and does what she tells him to. I think she was telling him to do something when I took that last picture above…
We spent this weekend out camping in an Idaho mountain meadow, in an “open range” area (where cattle wander free, and are branded for later roundup). Aside from being stunningly beautiful, with the fall colors coming on and the abundant wildlife resulting from recent logging operations (you did know that logging results in copious new foliage for the grazing of deer and elk, and cover for small game, didn’t you?) there are quite a lot of cow pies.
Grass and water go in one end of the bovine, you see, and cow pies are what come out of the other end. The name applies whether the bovine in question is male or female. That saves you the trouble of determining whether a given pie is a cow pie, a bull pie, or a heifer pie, etc..
I’d been doing some shooting out there with several firearms, and asked my 10 year-old daughter to get out her .22 rifle. She wasn’t much interested until I pointed out that she could try shooting at small pieces of wood floating in a pond. She quickly discovered that if you place a bullet just under the floating stick it will jump 15 feet into the air. That got her attention, and she was soon asking for more ammo. She’s a fairly new shooter, so her hit rate wasn’t very good, and she lost interest until she discovered that a fresh cow pie will explode if hit with a .22 Long Rifle hollowpoint.
In other words, her shooting may not be minute-of-angle accurate (one M.O.A. equals one sixtieth of a degree) but she can shoot “Minute Of Cow pie” (M.O.C.) which allows her to enjoy a 100% hit rate on these impromptu, reactive targets.
She spent the rest of the afternoon shooting cow pies with a big grin on her face (and me laughing to myself, thinking how wonderfully stereotypical, North-Idaho-redneck an activity that was).
For further study, I picked up some beer cans (probably discarded by some pale, leftist San Franciscans who thought getting drunk and littering in Idaho would be a hoot) filled them with water and shot them with various calibers. It happens that a .223 Remington cartridge, pushing a 55 grain, hard-jacketed spitzer at around 3,000 feet per second will cause the water-filled aluminum can to burst out in all directions, yet still hold together in one piece, whereas a soft lead sphere of .495″ diameter (50 caliber patched round ball – the patched ball is an American innovation that was used with deadly effect against King George’s officers during the Revolution) traveling at about half that velocity will blow the can into several pieces, scattering them up and out about 15 yards, leaving the base of the can still holding water where it stood (I picked up the pieces and took them home if you must know, leaving the meadow cleaner than we found it).
I also discovered that you can hit gallon jug-sized targets at 200 yards (you do travel with a rangefinder, don’t you?) with a little youth model .22 rifle, zeroed at 20 yards, if you aim about 5 1/2 feet high. You have enough time to bring the rifle down and listen/watch for the impact at that distance.
Ain’t freedom grand?
