Posted on 12/14/2012 4:35:45 PM PST by RandallFlagg
We all know what happened today.
We all have felt an immense sense of sorrow for those victims in Connecticut.
And, we know what's coming.
I'm posting this thread for us to gather our resources.
Before doing so becomes illegal.
Keep your powder dry, my FRiends.
Don’t forget the key role of first person shooter video games. In WW1, only a small % of soldiers could aim at another human and pull the trigger....in trench warfare and across no-mans-land! Their marksmanship training was only at round bullseye targets.
By VN, the military and psychologists wanted to improve the %s of actual aimers/shooters/killers in battle, so they used reactive popup targets that appeared and disappeared quickly. The targets usually had enemy soldier painted on the sillhouettes. The combat kill rates went up significantly.
For the last 20 years, the hesitancy to shoot another human has been obliterated with constant brainwashing via first person shooter “games.”
The guns have always been there. The new factor is ultra-violent movies (Tarantino etc) and especially first person shooter video “games.”
I hope I’m wrong about it all.
I don’t know what the CT high-cap mag laws are. I think the Bushmaster rifle might have been illegal in CT as well.
Obama will use the CT example to push a natinoal ban on high cap mags. The rifles, I don’t know what he’ll try. The mags are the low-hanging easy fruit. No mags over 9 rounds means 90% of pistols and semi-auto rifles will be useless.
You can keep your pistols and rifles, you just can’t load them........
Thanks, cyn.
The grip angle for one. The lack of a tactile loaded chamber indicator is another.
I have had similar issues with the Glock pistols, so I just ordered two backstrap ‘adjustment’ devices which cant the grip more to the 1911 shape by adding to the back up higher than the middle of the grip. I look forward to testing them on my 40 cal Glocks first. They currently ship two for the price of one, in black or a light coyote tan. Company CEO is a cop in OH. The shape allows a better ‘purchase’ on the grip and keeps the hand closer to the bore axis for control and aiming. The one I tried at our range seemed to reduce felt recoil muzzle flip, too!
Hmm, yes, that's a little bit like learning martial arts without an instructor to teach discipline and restraint. Military basic may not be a 'sweet' experience but there's a lot of human support all around as well as purpose. All a video game does is give you a score and wait for a re-start.
Sounds like a cool idea. They weren’t available when I was looking at striker fired pistols. As a long time 1911 shooter the XD just “fit” better.
The glock modification product can be found under 'gripforce.com' and has a beavertail which protects the meat of the grip hand from slide bite.
Ammunition links here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2969072/posts
Thank you for your assessment. The following is only my opinion—fodder for thought and a little different. I see high visibility: long fields of view, and only a very few friendly people. IIRC, you more often see built-up stuff or growth/concealment and relatively gobs of strangers all around you when not at sea. Different perspective here—a perspective lacking in some ways on my part, I’ll admit. No potential “zombies” here, as the few of them saw declines in their government-derived incomes, went through foreclosures, threw minor tantrums and hightailed it to more populated places.
There weren’t any first person shooter games before I went through 13 weeks of OSUT training—not the more realistic kind seen during and since the ‘90s, anyway (not even the early Doom game). Yeah, we fired at the silhouettes that went up and down on most of the M-16 ranges, although there were quite a few other kinds of ranges.
But other training methods may have had more to do with our willingness to mobilize and do our main job. Won’t go into those publicly here, and you already know about and have experienced most of them firsthand. As for first person shooter games, IMO, anyone who would feel more compelled to shoot innocents because of those would be ate the ___ up (psychotic), so to speak (confusing reality with fantasy).
Drug abuse might be a bad combination with civil interactions, too. So might apathy learned from growing up under sociopathic single/divorced parents (recent mass murders).
Consider the rearing environments of third-world, young killers of nations of peasants living in squalor and their lack of reluctance to kill enemy. Even green ones have displayed the emotions of lizards about the matter. Different outlooks on death in general in many places, perhaps?
Criminals, we know, don’t realistically consider consequences, and quite a few of them had upbringings similar, more or less, to that of Charles Manson. Remember his mother’s notorious activity. ...whole nation of parents, in various ways, similar to her around us now. Maybe it’s not healthy for a nation to be a whorehouse.
And maybe we’re only seeing a correction like that of the Great Depression, only greater (little interruption in the social playtime progressions of the elite folks there). Maybe the sun will rise in a brighter tomorrow, after we learn a few basic lessons about how to live right. Real conservatives prefer to conserve certain traditions. Hopefully, we’ll all learn more about that, difficult as lessons can be.
Can’t get blood out of a turnip or real, big revenues for a nation out of debtors and only a few government-connected monarchs in control of so many natural resources. We need a sufficient manufacturing base again and repeals of regulations to make way for it.
My Wife just turned me on to this site:
http://ultimateconcealedcarry.com/
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