kenw

Easy for you to say... you're still young and stupid.

I'm bumping this up. I've been feeling stale lately, and this may get the juices flowing again.

Stay away from M6 Internet hosting. While I was developing the njShoot site, I opened a one year agreement with them for hosting. For a variety of reasons, I went with a different hosting company, and, since I had a one year agreement with them, I just let the account languish and expire. It expired on 4/7 of this year. Yesterday, I got a payment confirmation that they sucked another $119 out of my credit card for another year. I had received a couple of e-mails in March informing me of the pending expiration, and I just let them sit, believing that the account would expire, and all would be well. Apparently not. I've been going back and forth with them since yesterday trying to get the charge reversed and the account closed. They are not being particularly cooperative, and are becoming increasingly hostile to my request. The next step is contacting the CC company to dispute the charge, and the BBB to file a complaint. Keep clear of them.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that they're not really out to get you.

This is destined to be bad... The Dems have one-party hearings on a subject near and dear to their hearts. They come up with "recommendations" for a new, sweeping roster of laws and regulations further hobbling the Constitution and our rights to possess firearms and/or do so anonymously (in the rest of America). The Republicans denounce the recommendations as onerous and draconian, as spitting on the Constitution and pissing on the graves of the Founders. Keeping in mind that the Constitution and its meaning are no longer taught in our schools, the Dems rebut the argument as being totally outdated and irrelevant, and that the protection of our children is far more important than clinging to a ratty old document full of ancient ideas written in a simpler time by people who could have no possible conception of the complexities of modern society and global necessity. It goes back and forth for a few months, and slowly comes to a boil as every word uttered by any Republican against the new recommendations becomes a voice over Democrat campaign ads depicting urban gun violence and Mexican drug cartel massacres. Brilliantly planned and executed, the ads mobilize Obama's core demographic to "Save our children from the Republican gunslingers" at the same time the "Save our grandparents from the Republicans who want them dead" O'care ads are running.

Rhetorical, right??

This really is Lynn's nightstand drawer (cleaned up for the photo). My M&P (and light and cellphone) is on the other side of the bed. When we're anywhere else in the house, Lynn either carries her little pink revolver, or it's within her reach. I sometimes keep something near me when we're in different rooms, sometimes I depend on her catlike reflexes to defend me. When we leave the house, everything goes in the safe... when we come back, it all comes back out.

Smoke, If your heart isn't set on the Glock (or even if it is), try to get together with some of the forum members at one of the regular range meetups. Not only will you get to shoot more guns than you can imagine, you'll get to meet a generally nice bunch of people who can help you with pretty much any issues and answer any questions you may have about the guns you're considering.

We just shipped Lynn's P22 back to Smith for repair. She called Customer Service, and they sent her an instruction sheet and prepaid FedEx label. Packed it in its original case (without any of the other stuff), put it in a box with some bubble wrap, called FedEx for a pickup, and gave the box to the driver. When she informed him that the box contained a firearm, he told her that she had no obligation to tell him that. A couple of days later, she called Smith to make sure they got the box. So far, so good.

Gotta love Miller. He's nothing if not consistent. Wrong, but consistent Behind the curve, but consistent Single-minded and fanatic, but consistent Out of touch with political reality, but consistent.

"The gun will scare them away." Yeah, that's a good one. It's gonna jump out of the drawer and make a scarey face at the burglar/rapist/junkie/psychopath that still keeps coming into my bedroom after I've already announced that I'm armed, have called the cops, and set off the alarm in my car. It isn't an "accident waiting to happen". It's a "deliberate capable of happening".

First of all, Frank, congratulations on quitting smoking. I'm sure only you will notice the increase in grouchiness. People are interesting. Even "gun people" sometimes surprise me. I put the photo of Lynn's XD in the drawer in my Flickr stream. It's in a couple of product photography groups, and a couple of general gun groups. I got this comment on the image: "Gun is in condition 1, an accident waiting to happen." I'll just ignore it.

You gotta go with the one that chooses you. You'll know it when it happens.

Yep. I have 9 of those lights strewn around the house, garage, cars and camera bags.

Lynn's nightstand drawer.

Greetings and welcome.

Yeah, we really are a great bunch of folks. Humble, too. Welcome to the asylum.

Welcome to the group.

And Michael Jackson is still dead.

Welcome to the community.

Greetings and welcome.

Good choice. Have fun with it.

No, I'm pointing out the universal desire of politicians to find a single group to blame for the perceived woes of the general population, and to rally the majority of their supporters in a single voice against that group. I'm in no way comparing the results, simply the strategy of dividing groups and setting them against each other in an ill-informed and misguided effort to place the responsibility for (insert social problem here) on a particular segment of the population. I repeat, I'm not implying any moral equivalency to raising taxes and the Holocaust. That would be insane. Much like implying a moral equivalency between mass murderers and 2A advocates. Equally insane.

Happy Birthday, Eric (and the other 2 guys who I don't know, too).

Part of Hitler's success was his ability to polarize the population against a common enemy, find ways to blame them for everything that was wrong in the country, and, without going into any real detail, convince the population that he had a plan to end their woes. For Hitler, it was the Jews. Here and now, it's the "wealthy". Same plan, different target.