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I guess I really am a contrarian

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel once referred to me as a contrarian.

And I suppose I really am.

For example, cialis sale and the other day, medical I realized that back in the 1980s when everyone loved .45 caliber 1911s, I carried a Smith & Wesson Model 39 9mm.

And now, when everyone and his brother seems to be swearing by plastic 9mms, I carry an all-steel 1911 .45

Check back with me in another 20 years. I’ll probably be carrying a plastic 9mm while everyone else is swearing by their GE Hand Lasers.

1 comment March 20th, 2012

“Guns not allowed” signs make people less safe

Not just because they create “gun free” zones that can very easily become “free fire” zones.

But because they force people to handle their weapons in public and manipulating a weapon is much more dangerous than leaving it safely in its holster.

For example: this morning I needed to go into a bank that prohibits concealed carry. I was in a vehicle without a lockbox in and I had a passenger. Before I went into the bank, cialis canada treatment I had to draw my weapon, drop the magazine, and eject the round in the chamber. The entire exercise was carried out in the close confines of a vehicle with another person in the car. I left the unloaded weapon and took the rounds with me. When I returned to the car, I repeated the entire process in reverse order. Doing this in the bank’s parking lot was much less safe than it would have been if I had just left the gun in its holster, went into the bank, did my business and came back out.

I did all this as safely as I could – observing all the rules of safe gun handling – but it’s indisputable that the odds of the gun going off once I started manipulating it were higher than if I had just left it alone in its holster.

So by not allowing me to lawfully carry my weapon into their lobby, the bank actually increased the danger to themselves, their customers, and their neighbors.

But, as usual, I doubt logic had anything to do with the bank’s decision to post their sign.

8 comments March 16th, 2012

There’s no such thing as a disarmed Marine

You know what I love most about the U.S. troops in Afghanistan being told to leave their guns outside Leon Panetta's tent when they met him?

It assumes a 20-year-old U.S. Marine would be completely incapable of killing a 74-year-old man with his bare hands.

1 comment March 15th, 2012

Apparently, some civil liberties…

…are more equal than others.

20 comments March 14th, 2012

I’ve been distressed for a long time that hypocrisy is no longer something to be ashamed of…

…but I never thought it would actually be represented as something you should be proud of:

Two Cheers for Double Standards – NYTimes.com.

1 comment March 12th, 2012

So basically, we just have a lot of crappy shots?

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via Homicides down, shootings up in latest Milwaukee crime report – JSOnline.

Add comment March 6th, 2012

I love Jim Croce’s song “Operator”

But it occurred to me, viagra generic decease today, buy cialis that anyone born in the last 20 years or so probably doesn’t know what the hell he’s singing about.