Into The Afternight: Our 3rd Shift O/T
13 repliesIf you’re still up and want to talk Chiefs, or just hang with fellow citizens of the Kingdom, this is the place.
Weapons tonight, as I sit here and wonder why talking about them at all should be the least bit taboo. Well, outside of condemning them and the owners who want to go on owning them, since they are bad people or something.
I’ve gotten less visible around here, but that’s because, in part, the unduly passionate of both political flavors strongly objected to me having and expressing my views, and I paid a high price for that, though I am still here. I may even be back up to the point where I’ll be ready to get back to slaughtering sacred cows again.
With that, time’s yours.
I found this odd. While I normally front-load any fancy beers I may have, in order to better enjoy the flavors, I noticed something odd while drinking the Blue Moon Belgian White I snitched from my wife’s stash. To my surprise, the usual wear and tear of lagers actually improved the experience, perhaps subduing the ability to taste certain flavors a bit, like bitterness, it allowed the floral notes to come through in a very nice way.
I like to try to learn something by personal experience every day, and that’s a 2-fer.
If you think about it, were it not for the internet marketing segmentation this guy would never have come to realize that the old “White people” music was there for them, too. A pity that copyright misers do what they can to stop them, when just giving them a reasonable cut of normal ad revenue would provide a ton of free promotion while sacrificing the full percentage of a teacup for the majority of a tankard.
Reaction videos are actually a social good, a way to bridge gaps that have been artificially created for unrelated reasons.
fuck it dude, let’s roll
I have the ’55 Browning version in 380 acp, shoulda kept the 38 Chief Special sub nose (still in the family)
responsible gun ownrerhip/control is not an issue imho
I agree about responsible gun ownership. What I object to is the fundamentally dishonest approach “gun control” advocates gravitate to. They want sweeping bans of perfectly ordinary rifles because some media-celebrity nutjob decides that randomly shooting people will improve the world, and uses a rifle with a detachable box magazine to do it. The reality is that when it comes to homicides, long arms account for a tiny fraction of them, and the ones involved were primarily shotguns.
Add in some statistics that are deliberately misrepresented, such as counting suicides the same as homicides and classifying those under the age of 25 as “children”. The restrictions they propose are neither reasonable nor sensible, but the most important aspect of it is that their stated goals can never be reached by anything short of universal confiscation – which would minimize it while depriving tens of millions of people the positive benefits of lawful gun ownership.
You could just as well say that because a small number of Democrats are criminals, we must ban all Democrats. Idiotic.
shotgun ownership should be a requirement for anyone more than a 30 minute drive from a responding authority.
that said no one “needs” to own multiple banana clips for an AK whilst in possetion of an AK.
that said it is illegal to have more than 3 rounds in a 7 shot pump whilst hunting in many staes..which seems rasonable.
others require a 357 sidearm when hunting bear in grizzley territory.
a complex subject that has been long been ignored on the large scale.
Precisely, it’s extremely complex, as evidenced that there are approximately as many private AK-47 owners as there are actual M-16 owners. FFLs are expensive, and conflating normal semi-autos with full auto capable weapons is misleading, as is typical of news reporting on the topic of gun control.
As for what is or is not reasonable, I fail to see why those who consider ownership itself to be unreasonable should have any voice in the matter. Granted that they are completely dishonest at the big-voice level about it, but that’s also pretty obvious. It’s also obvious that a kid playing with a toy gun should not be shot on sight by a police officer whose cruiser rolled across open grass right up to him. That man should never be allowed to be carried a pistol again, since prison time and disbarment from the profession were apparently not options.
But while those adults involved directly bear the lion’s share of the responsibility, let’s not leave out that it started with a tip from a concerned citizen who was pretty sure it was a toy. Such is the level of gun panic in this nation, and the police may have it worst of all, to lethal outcomes. As for the NRA, those who change to become the mirror image of that which they revile deserve no more respect than that which they revile. Going with what is expedient, as seems all the rage these days, is often effective, but it also has an erosive effect that cannot be ignored.
To quote you the other night “congress shall make no law…”
that is not stated in 2A though…
Quiet again. Welp, I’m not supposed to be the entertainment, just the host. The purpose of these threads is for them to be available to those who want to use them. Meanwhile, here y’all go, learn something.