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Just a piece of cold steel
Houston Chronicles ^
| April 23, 1999
| L. Malcolm Seal
Posted on 04/30/2008 4:36:36 PM PDT by Ptarmigan
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To: archy
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posted on
05/01/2008 4:03:41 PM PDT
by
Squantos
(Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
To: Ptarmigan
GUNS are great, It was GUNS that destroyed the power monopoly of teh aristocracy in Europe and brought democracy into the world.
A lifetime of training as an armed knight was worthless when facing a determined peasant with a musket.
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posted on
05/01/2008 6:20:06 PM PDT
by
ZULU
(Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
To: Ptarmigan
I wish I had a gun made out of Reardon metal.
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posted on
05/01/2008 6:22:56 PM PDT
by
Sawdring
To: archy
That’s a nasty pile of steel!
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posted on
05/01/2008 6:42:50 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
To: ironwill
Congrats! This sheepdog has a new H&K P30 in transit to me. I should get it early next week. It was a GIFT from my wife, btw. She doesn't really like my taste in guns for my love of a double action first shot. She much prefers her own 1911 Commander in 45ACP. This August marks our 20th anniversary. I knew she was a "keeper" from our second date. First date to church and the second to the range. I recommend that all single sheepdogs (pups) take this path when developing a relationship. It's so much more likely to last and be happy.
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posted on
05/02/2008 6:20:07 AM PDT
by
ExSoldier
(Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
To: Ptarmigan
Yet, I am but a cold piece of steel - THE great guns slay from a league away, the death- bolts fly unseen,
And bellowing hill replies to hill, machine to brute machine,
But still in the end when the long lines bend and the battle hangs in doubt
They take to the steel in the same old way that their fathers fought it out--
It is man to man and breast to breast and eye to bloodshot eye
And the reach and twist of the thrusting wrist, as it was in the days gone by!
Along the shaken hills the guns their drumming thunder roll--
But the keen blades thrill with the lust to kill that leaps from the slayer's soul!
For hand and heart and living steel, one pulse of hate they feel.
Is your clan afraid of the naked blade? Does it flinch from the bitter steel?
Perish your dreams of conquest then, your swollen hopes and bold,
For empire dwells with the stabbing blade, as it did in the days of old!
--Donald Robert Perry Marquis, The Bayonet, 1914
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05/08/2008 1:00:18 PM PDT
by
archy
(Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. [from Virgil's *Aeneid*.])
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