TTAG’s raison d’être is to explore the ethics, morality, business, politics, culture, technology, practice, strategy, dangers and fun of guns. But maybe RF left something off of that list: poetry. Srsly? There’s no reason an inanimate tool can’t inspire a few stanzas of verse. They certainly seem to have caught the fancy of poet Maya Angelou. “’I do like to have guns around,’ she told Time’s Belinda Luscombe when asked if she shared her mother’s fondness for firearms. ‘I don’t like to carry them. But I like — if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them.'” We can relate. Other than that carrying part, but to each her own. Anyway, she’s even used one in a defensive situation . . .
“I was in my house in North Carolina. It was fall. I heard someone walking on the leaves. And somebody actually turned the knob. So I said, “Stand four feet back because I’m going to shoot now!” Boom! Boom! The police came by and said, ‘Ms. Angelou, the shots came from inside the house.’ I said, ‘Well, I don’t know how that happened.’”
Sounds like someone who makes her living crafting words into art has learned when it’s best to STFU.
F.Y.I.
That 1.6 Billion rounds of ammunition that the Department of Homeland Security ordered covers a few years — and most if not all of the pistol ammunition is hollowpoint.
I love it. The Department of Homeland Security issued purchase requisitions for enough combat ammunition (hollowpoints) to wage a domestic war for 22 years — at the same consumption rate as the peak of foreign operations in Iraq/Afghanistan — but they don’t have any training ammunition.
Maybe that explains why they purchased so much combat ammunition: they knew their agents would be poor marksman (because they have no training ammunition) so they ordered lots of extra combat ammunition.
Their strategy actually kills two birds with one stone:
(1) DHS gets all the ammunition they want.
(2) Their giant order consumes almost all domestic production capacity resulting in extremely scarce ammunition availability for citizens who become relatively defenseless.
1000000000
Gawd dayum! I want some!
Westchester County, New York. I’m a libertarian kind of guy, and up until the SAFE Act, thought Cuomo was an okay governor. Now I despise him and pray for the miracle that would be his defeat. (Fat chance.)
I think we’re splitting into two nations, one where freedom is valued and one where it is not. Blue states are lost, as far as I am concerned. I expect to see a few more go slave before this is over.
As for guns, things in New York are so confused I had to rush buy a lever-action rifle in .44mag before April 15 because it had a ten-round magazine. No one on the state “help” line could decide if that was going to be legal or not. “We never thought about lever-action” is the actual quote. Well duh, a lot you didn’t think about.
I put a ton of money into buying extra 10 round magazines for all my guns as well as two guns I plan to buy one day.
I am feeling oppressed, beaten, and genuinely worried for the future.
But I am taking action, writing, donating, marching, and most importantly (I think) taking as many newbees to the range as possible.
Guns and ammo? Not really important to me right now. I had a decent stockpile well before Newton and kept it up. Pulled wayyyy back on my shooting since all my money went to that lever-action and all those magazines. Prices are coming down, check gunbot, and I won’t need to seriously restock for a few more months.
At least I got my AR last October. Now I have to decide if I am going to comply and register, or pray for a SCOTUS overturn before April 15, 2014.
Oh to live in Arizona again.
Yea pretty typical. Soon they will be shooting us in the face while they leisurely walk across the border with cocaína in hand. After they walk across they will land a job that could have went to my cousin but he was undercut by price. They will then get an apartment, have a US born kid, and apply for government aid. After they get aid, they will spend that money to by blackmarket firearms through gun trafficking channels because they will all be banned. They will then use that blackmarket firearm to rob me and my cousin. The money they get from the robbery they will use to buy a house that my other cousin was planning on buying but now the owner has a better offer.
Way to go Grandma!
We should start a junior and senior responsible citizen program. When folks show proper use of a firearm to defend themselves they get a nice certificate from us showing they were recognized for the responsible use of a firearms to defend themselves and their family. I know it doesn’t mean much but honestly folks like this deserve it.
Background checks to get on planes?! Come on! That does not happen. Plus, stores DO background checks! The governor is talking over the interviewer for political grandstanding effect. It’s an ad nausea moment. Really.
If I got on the air and started talking out of my behind with fictious knowledge I would end up with a dead Mic and no air time. Freedom of the press indeed.
Every time I see Malloy on the tube I feel somehow diminished. And nauseous. Really. I mean, would you trust him if he was in the next stall? And if he was standing next to you in the salles de bains, you know that he’d be peeking, right? Go ahead, tell me I’m wrong.
The ULTIMATE GOAL of Intl Communisim is the destruction of America, it was true in 1922 and it is true today.
America cannot be destroyed as long as it’s PPL are armed.
Communists will NEVER stop trying to disarm Americans!
Here in NJ, if you are somehow magically able to get a carry permit (I’ll wait while you all stop laughing at how unlikely that is), hollow points are illegal. You can use them at home or at a range, but not for self defense anywhere else.
I make a point to bring this up whenever I talk to any non-gun owning friends in an attempt to educate others. I guess the state would rather FMJ’s go through and through to hit other bystanders than actually have an effective result on the intended target.
Of course, police are exempt….
“Even my own mother believes this”
Nick, take a deep breath. Now take another.