My .357 will set them off but I have to be entertainingly close.
Rolf Nelson
May 1, 2005
While “Boomer Hunting” at Boomershoot 2005
”Entertainingly close” meant within about 20 feet which is well within the “blast zone” of smoke and dust.
Update: Video is here.
The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference — they serve a place of honor with all that is good.
George Washington
Liar: A lawyer with a roving commission.
Ambrose Bierce
The Devil’s Dictionary
A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
Don Corleone
The Godfather, bk. 1, ch. 1 (1969)
You both observe that he frequently evades responding to your points. That means he can assemble his points with a quick copy-paste, or hand the job to a trollbot.
If you and Rolf are building huge dielectical muscles and/or using/building a library of arguments, more power to you.
I understand that engaging ‘the enemy’ in public debate is important. Since you aren’t going to convince Henry, you should take your considerable knowledge and skills to a forum where persuadable people are more likely to see your points, counterpoints, and the opposition’s evasions.
Don’t let this asshole steal any more of your life.
Sean Flynn
Wed 4/20/2005 9:46 AM
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
William Burroughs
(b. 1914)
U.S. author. “The War Universe,”
taped conversation (published in Grand Street, no. 37;
repr. in Painting and Guns, 1992, in a slightly different form.
When it comes right down to it, you probably won’t shoot anybody that you morally don’t believe deserves to be shot. For the most part, your biggest problem will be pulling the trigger when you really need to rather than pulling it on someone that shouldn’t be shot. You need to envision the situations that you might need to shoot someone and make the decisions ahead of time. Make your decisions independent of gender, age, and race. The little 12 year old blond kid, that looks a lot like you, with a gun demanding your tennis shoes is just as likely, or more so, to kill you as some dirty, fat, stinking, scraggly haired, scumbag.
Greg Hamilton
Self Defense Instructor
Nov. 19, 1995
By now the British have fairly written into law the position that a personally owned firearm may only be acceptable for “sporting purposes.” Teddy Kennedy used this idea in the 1968 gun law, despite the fact that we in America are protected, at least theoretically, by the Second Amendment, which has nothing whatever to do with sport. Various sorts of legislators are still at it, and the BATF takes the notion of “legitimate sporting purpose” seriously, even though this would appear to be obviated by the supreme law of the land. This is a fight in which we all must continue to participate. Self-defense has nearly come to be a misdemeanor on the face of it in Britain, where the subject is conditioned with the belief that whatever happens he (or she) must not fight back. If the wimps prevail in the next election, you may be sure that America will then gain on Great Britain on the road to serfdom.
Jeff Cooper
From Jeff Cooper’s Commentaries
Vol. 4, No. 9
August 1996
[Note that this was said in ’96 and his concerns about Great Britain are now being realized. – Joe]
Doug Weil is wrong to assert that there is a positive relationship between a country’s level of gun ownership and murder or other crimes. Such results are only possible when a very selective set of comparison countries is used. In many countries, such as Finland, New Zealand, Switzerland, and Israel, citizens own guns as frequently as Americans, yet in 1995 Switzerland’s murder rate was 40 percent lower than Germany’s, and New Zealand’s was lower than Australia’s. Finland and Sweden have very similar murder rates but very different gun ownership rates. Israel, with one of the highest gun ownership rates in the world, has a murder rate 40 percent lower than Canada’s. When one studies all countries rather than just a select few, there is no relationship between gun ownership and murder. The televised debate that Weil refers to was sponsored by Handgun Control, they picked the participants, and they insisted that I be the only academic allowed to defend my study at that forum. He apparently forgets about the independent academics who flew to Washington at their own expense to support the integrity of my research. My data set has been made available to academics at 36 universities. No one has had any trouble replicating my results. Anyone who would like to see what Black and Nagin did (e.g., selectively throwing away 86 percent of the sample) should look at the January 1998 Journal of Legal Studies or see my soon to be published book (More Guns, Less Crime).
John R. Lott, Jr.
3/27/98
Referring to an article entitled:
Carrying Concealed Guns is Not the Solution
by Douglas Weil, Sc.D.
March 26, 1998
From http://www.intellectualcapital.com/issues/98/0326/iccon.asp
Of course, small arms are not the root cause of conflict in these and other regions. We cannot ease every tension or prevent every fight. But we can help make bad situations better by doing more to ensure that arms do not fall into the wrong hands. We can help governments that want help to keep dangerous weapons off their streets. And we can make it harder for the forces of extremism and hate to get the weapons they need to carry out their destructive designs.
U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright
Remarks on the Occasion of Receiving the
International Rescue Committee Freedom Award
New York, New York, November 10, 1998
[That philosophy is working well in the Sudan right now, huh? And it worked well for Germany when they passed the Weapons Control Act of 1938 keeping guns out of the hands Jews. –Joe]
Gun control? It’s the best thing you can do for crooks and gangsters. I want you to have nothing. If I’m a bad guy, I’m always gonna have a gun. Safety locks? You will pull the trigger with a lock on, and I’ll pull the trigger.
We’ll see who wins.
Sammy “The Bull” Gravano
Washington Times, 9/3/99
What Harriet Beecher Stowe did in 1853 [showing the horrors of slavery in Uncle Tom’s Cabin] John Ross has done for today’s struggle for individual freedom…Read it!
Aaron Zelman
Executive Director
Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership
On the book Unintended Consequences
If it ever becomes times to shoot someone, do they need to be shot a little? Or a lot? If that time comes you should shoot early and often — until the threat is over. If you shoot a “set”, such as a double tap, you may stop shooting too soon.
Greg Hamilton
Self Defense Instructor
February 5, 1997
Sucks to be the good kid.
James Huffman-Scott
2004
Referring to all the money and attention given to his sister Kim.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of The United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
Samuel Adams
The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms like laws discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some WILL NOT (original emphasis), others DARE NOT (original emphasis) lay them aside… Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world depraved the use of them;… the weak will become a prey to the strong.
Thomas Paine
Literature
Thoughts on Defensive War (1775)
An explosion may be defined as a loud noise accompanied by the sudden going away of things from the places where they were before.
Joseph Needham
Science and Civilization in China
The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military. The hired servants of our rulers. Only the government — and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws.
Edward Abbey
The Right to Arms
[New York, 1979]
I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumbling down
I feel my heart start to trembling
…
Carole King
I Feel The Earth Move
From the album Tapestry
[Today is a Boomershoot Adventure day]