Category: Shooting

Glenn Reynolds talks about the topic, and the idea that when we had more guns in schools, we had less school shootings. I think the extinction of high school shooting teams has been one of the greatest cultural losses we’ve suffered. Glenn notes:

Reader Gary Robinson emails: “We worry about kids and sex – so we have sex education in school. We educate kids about driver safety, drugs, healthy lifestyles and a host of other things that we have concerns about so kids learn safe practices. If we’re worried about kids and guns, why don’t we teach basic gun safety in schools?”

I would say that the effort by gun-controllers to “denormalize” gun ownership, and to portray it as deviant and dangerous, actually increases the allure of guns to unbalanced minds.

I agree with that. I think long term, we have to get shooting teams back in high schools. It would have been something I absolutely would have taken to as a kid, if it had been available at my school. I was not involved in sports as a kid, but rather was a band geek. I still would have done band, but if a shooting team had been available, I would have done that. It gets kids away from the video games, and gives them something to do that requires a degree of self-discipline to master.

Many gun blogs have been highlighting the fact that NBC Sports has decided to cancel “3-Gun Nation” in light of the Connecticut tragedy. I think that it is most useful to point out this:

Philadelphia-based Comcast Corporation, owner of NBCUniversal and one of the biggest spenders in lobbying money in Washington, has given $206,056 to Mr. Obama and $20,500 to Mr. Romney.

We cut the cord years ago and stopped giving over more than $100/month to support their Democratic donations. That’s just a reminder.

Besides, getting people involved with the shooting sports is much more fun than sitting around and watching them on tv.

I have to admit that it’s not every state where you can find people randomly driving by an Olympian posed with a gun on the side of the road and not have someone call the cops.

This image was shared by Pennsylvania native Jamie Gray, winner of the gold medal in women’s 50-meter three-position rifle this year, as she visited the new test range set up by Eley in Texas.

The shooting community seems to have a lot of people who spin them. I’m wondering if this is something unique about our community, or whether it happens in other communities. If it is unique, why? I mean, I suppose there are car buff yarn spinners who talk about the time they got into a stoplight confrontation with Richard Petty and totally smoked him, but are they so numerous?

This device for stabilizing an AR-15 pistol would seem to be for disabled shooters, but it’s interesting generally. I’d want a quick release strap for being able to put the pistol down, but this is about the closest I think you’ll get to being a cybernetic being with a pistol as an appendage. It would certainly make dual wielding more interesting.

If it any point it involves shooting him in the cheek, you’re doing it wrong.

Making boomerite more expensive. If Bernanke keeps running the presses to cover Barry’s wild spending spree, maybe Joe will be able use ground up dollars to make fireballs.

Apparently a State Senator in Indiana is all concerned about tannerite. I’m no expert on explosives, but isn’t tannerite a binary explosive? So what is he going to do? Regulate the precursors? All are common chemicals, and at least ammonium nitrate is already regulated if purchased in large amounts. No one is ordering tannerite mixed; that requires hazmat transport, which is expensive. People are ordering the precursors then mixing. The feds love regulating everything, and I think the reason even they haven’t made a move against tannerite is the understanding that such a move would be completely pointless for someone actually intending harm.