get a 20 guage Pump Shotgun and ....automatic handgun?
do you mean semi-auto pistol, and not, a MP5 / Uzi.....just asking.
Posted on 06/30/2008 6:31:59 PM PDT by pharmamom
I would appreciate feedback on my site. Is it too female-oriented? Is it too over-the-top?
I want a gun. Two guns, actually. I want a shotgun that makes that “ca-chick” sound that causes an intruder’s bowels to loosen, and I want an automatic handgun that I can keep in my purse (where rodent lovers keep their so-called dogs. And just what do they do if those…things…ate something disagreeable and have a blast of diarrhea while en suite?). And in happy coincidence, Justice Kennedy says that’s all right by him. I was waiting with worms on my tongue for the Erudite One to make his determination about our right to bear arms. (A big, wet sloppy kiss to the brilliant reader who recognizes that comic allusion. Bueller? Anyone?) National Review Online has a wonderful point-counterpoint on the Heller ruling in their Bench Memos blog. (Here is the link: http://bench.nationalreview.com/.) Of course ScotusBlog (http://scotusblog.com) covers it. (Perfunctory Disclaimer: While I am Queen, I am NOT an attorney. Nor am I a linguist, although I do double-duty as The Grammar Queen.) Reading through all the commentaries on the ruling (my freakin’ Acrobat ran off to join Cirque du Soleil here in Vegas, so I can’t get to the actual ruling), a couple of thoughts sprang, like Athena fully-formed, from my forehead.
No one with a brain in their cranium (ok, that lets most libs off the hook) could imagine that our Esteemed Forefathers would have let anyone take away their personal firearms or tell them that they could only use them in their function as militia men. Can I get a 14 year-old in here to roll her eyes and say, “Puh-leez?” Unfortunately for those of us who wish common sense were more, well, common, but oh-happy-day! for attorneys, all those guys seem to have believed that some things go without saying. Like my right to blow to smithereens anybody who wishes to deprive me of my life or my property. Little did they know that the modern control-freak would use their omissions to suck away our liberties slowly by slowly (side note: we will cover that little turn of phrase shortly; I used to think Tobie made it up), chief among them, our right to self-defense. Gotta run to the slots tournament; more shortly!
ADD Digression: Only in Vegas can you have a forthright conversation with a total stranger about whether he noticed the ginormously-breasted woman who cut between us in line. (He did. In fact, he so thoroughly made note of her bosom that the slots tournament checker-inner had to tell him three times to pick his machine assignment token out of the box.) We agreed they were real, and HE claimed such mammarian endowments are not his cup of tea. That should put me right in the running.)
Back to the glaringly obvious: While God created Nature bloody in tooth and claw, He instead gave us an internal super-computer and thumbs. With these, we have come up with a variety of ways to kill things, including other humans. When we are finally frolicking around with the Seraphim and Cherubim (the ones with six wings), and lions and lambs are nuzzling, we won’t need so much as a butter knife. In the meantime, none but the most committed pacifist would feel that in the face of imminent and serious/fatal attack, one should just go quietly (or to borrow from Obama, bring a knife to a gunfight). I would bet David Souter a blowjob, that if a stone killer had him cornered, he would want more than a personal firearm tidily unloaded, locked up and protected by a trigger guard. But maybe he could disarm the bad guy with a potent dissenting opinion (one that makes more sense than his in Heller, one hopes).
The intelligent men who wrote the Constitution and amended it (one may note to protect the individual from the depredations of the State), being on speaking terms with St. Thomas Aquinas and other believers in Natural Law, only had a few words to say about weaponry. Frustratingly, they weren’t on very good terms with conjunctions and The Elements of Style (what is up with the extra comma?), so the 2nd Amendment poses a conundrum to those who don’t adhere to idea that we should be able to shoot other people who are themselves preparing to shoot us. This syntactic brain fart on the part of the Framers provides fertile ground to modern progressives who think they know what’s good for the rest of us; thus, we get random utterances about hunting (see non-sequitur in the OED) and clauses (Schoolhouse Rock, anyone?).
So while the libs are hypertensive (and hyperbolic) about Heller, we should just clear away the dust and confusion by rewriting the damned thing: The right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed. Since about 70% of the public agrees with me, WWAQ, that is what shall be done. (Not that one may infer (take note, Dennis Miller) that public opinion often is persuasive to the Queens.) Then we can argue incorporation and reasonable restraints, so the Bar will have something to keep them occupied (Idle hands are the Devil’s workshop.)
Now, having used a lot of words to say that, I must note that any gun-totin’ by Queen1 must remain in the realm of the fantastical. The gun safe or trigger guard hasn’t been made that would thwart Max. (Although I had a psychiatrist I called on run out to his car, retrieve HIS gun safe to show me, and challenge me to open it. Dumbass, I didn’t say that I could figure it out. ) When it comes to sheer ingenuity and blind luck, Max is The One. Sigh. I will remain gunless and will have to rely on Henry to pose an adequate deterrent to ill-wishing trespassers. Better than Rocky, I suppose.
Update on Monday, June 30, 2008 at 08:20PM by Queen1 Complex electro-chemical processes in my brain led me here: Do you think the Dazzling Dissenters would be on-line with me bludgeoning someone to death with my gun safe?
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USB or HMDI?
Took me a minute. That was speedy. Whatever it is, it needs to be high-speed; I have a limited attention span!
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Using FR to promote your site?
Automatic handgun?
Good luck with that.
Try not to make experienced gun owners look like kooks.
Commas, suck, rocks!
name’s Ash, housewares...
Remington 870 and .357Magnum.
You should probably be pretty set with those.
And whatever uppers you’re on, I’ll take a handful.
On second thought, I like Red Sox’s idea.
Semi-auto shotgun? Sign me up
The Sig-Sauer P232 pistol loaded with Mag Safe ammo should be on your person at all times
Sorry! I’ll fix it. I just meant a pistol rather than a revolver. Anyway! I meant input on the blog, not the guns. If you read farther down, you’ll see I have to remain gun-free.
Interesting, quirky.
I subscribed to the RSS.
:)
Mine holds 8 rounds and let me tell you it is a bitchin gun and it sits right next to the bed.
Thanks!
And all you clinging gun nuts: I FIXED IT AND NOTED YOUR INVALUABLE INPUT.
You wanted input, you got it.
Take an introductory course on handguns. My girlfriend wants a gun, she wants to learn how to shoot. She wants to carry for personal protection.
I’m sending her to some very good instructors. After that, she may change her mind about guns. That’s what she needs to discover.
When you write.....”I want a gun. Two guns, actually. I want a shotgun that makes that “ca-chick” sound that causes an intruder’s bowels to loosen, and I want an automatic handgun that I can keep in my purse...”....you play into hte hands of gun grabbers everywhere. They have no sense of humor.
I got the bated breath thing.....
;-)
I must dissent.
I have owned both a 12ga and a 20ga 870. Great field guns.
But the placement of the safety made me retire them from home protection duty. The safety is a little button right on the trigger guard. In the dark I don't want to be fumbling with it, trying to figure out whether pushing it to the left is safe or fire.
I got a Mossberg 500. The safety is on the top. To fire you push the safety toward the bad guy. Easy as spittin.
The Mossberg 500 J.I.C. (Just in case)
As a plus, the Mossberg 500 is the only shotgun to pass the US Army's Mil-Spec 3443E test.
I agree about the Mossberg but if you are using for home defense, get the police model of the 500 series in a 12 gauge. Not a hunting gun, but great for defense and has that lovely unmistakeable snick—snick sound.
It’s basically got the stock cut down short (but legal) so its easy to use in close quarters. And as noted, the safety is a push button in easy reach of your thumb at the base of the barrel so you can get to it in the dark.
The Restrictors don’t have a sense of humor about anything. That’s what makes them dangerous.
Good with bated breath...now: who said it and in what context?
Love your screen name.
How well does the Mossberg work for those of the left-handed persuasion?
It is truly an ambidextrous gun since all functions (pump slide, safety, trigger, loading)worked by your hands are equally available to either hand.
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