A Philosophy - If You Can Get One (repost)

The Ominous Parallels | 1980 | Leonard Peikoff

[Noumenon]

Excellent choice! It’ll never let you down. Mine shoots better than I do. What caliber did you get?

Did you hear about the Chicago Tribune editorial calling for the repeal of the Second Amendment. What treasonous, elitist bastards. Hang each and every one of the editorial staff.

[Lady Jag]

That is opposite of what it was like when I was a kid and it's depressing.

[Lurker]

What caliber did you get?

I picked up a used P230 in .380 for $225.00. As a matter of fact I just returned from the range with it.

Now no knocking my choice of caliber ya' hear?

At 21 feet I can put the whole mag in the K5 area of a police sillouhette target strong hand, and 4 out of 7 in the same area weak hand.

I bought it because it's small and very concealable. It slides right into my fanny pack and 2 spare mags fit quite easily into my pants pocket.

In this manner I can completely comply with IL laws which say that any firearm must be 'unloaded and completely enclosed in a case' yet be available for use in about 5 seconds. Not ideal, but it's the best I can do right now.

I also took the opportunity to put a few hundred through the new Springield XD-45 compact I picked up last month. I put a LaserMax on that one.

The XD is one sweet shooting little pistol. It ate everything I fed it from hardball to 185 gr HP's, to 200 gr HP's, and 230 gr HP's flawlessly.

It ain't as perty as a 1911, but it's got some neat design features. In the 'compact' configuration it holds 10 rounds of .45 ACP. But with just a mag change it becomes a full size 'Service' model holding 13 rounds.

At 35 feet using the laser I can keep that entire mag inside an area the size of my hand. At 21 feet, well it ain't even fair.

4 guys and one young lady wanted to shoot it. I told 'em as long as they were feeding it their ammo to have fun. I wanted to work with my new OSIGD pistol.

The 230 ate hardball just fine. I also put a box of that Glaser Powrball through it. Not a single hiccup.

I'm going to retire the Bulldog as my "Best I Can Do Right Now" carry piece and use the Sig. I know the .44 spl has a lot more ooomph to it, but the semi-auto Sig is much faster to load.

The ballistic tests on the Glaser ammo seem decent enough considering the cartridge. I'll take 8 to 9 inches of penetration with reliable expansion.

Now all we have to do is get the lawsuits filed to bring IL into compliance with the Heller decision and we'll have open carry. After all, Justice Scalia did specifically point out the "AND BEAR" portion of the 2nd.

And the Editorial Board of the Trib are not only treasonous, their f****** stupid, too. They don't realize that repealing the 2nd would have absolutely NO effect on the fact that I have a right to arms.

But I'm going to stop by Colonel McCormicks mansion this afternoon and see if he's reached 30,000 rpm in his grave yet. Were he alive he'd fire every single one of 'em.

I'm going to pen a review of the Springfield and post it here. I'll ping you to it when I've got it finished.

Best,

L

[Noumenon]

No fuss over the caliber from me. My 'summer carry' is a good old (or maybe it's guten alt) Walther PPKs. Sure, it's a piece of finicky German engineering. Run a couple of mags through it and it's ready for a cleaning if you want it to function reliably. And when you take it down for a thorough cleaning, do it in a large plastic bag or a class 10 clean room, as you will never find some of the little springs that are bound to pop out and fly God knows where.

Having said all of that - the PPKs has such a natural point in my hands that I could put one up a perp's nostril at 15 feet easily. Milk jug sized objects are dead bang gone at 30 feet. So the point is that the accuracy and the handling go a long ways towards making the .380 a an effective caliber for soft targets and up close and personal. Especially with the right ammo. That same is why your SIG is such a gem. If I had the spare change, I'd love to have one for myself. SIGs are utterly reliable in ways that the Walther is not, especialyl after the first two magazines. I've run thousands or rounds through my 229 in .40 with nary a hiccup.

[Lurker]

That same is why your SIG is such a gem. If I had the spare change, I'd love to have one for myself.

They had the Sig for 225.00 and a Colt Mustang for 575.00. Now I really would have preferred the Mustang, but for the price it was the Sig hands down.

Did a couple double taps with it at about 10-12 feet. Ever shot a winner, man. Now the Sig has seen a bit of use and there are some wear marks on it. But the smith who looked at it said it's just some honest wear.

He did say that I shouldn't try to put any fancy hollow points through it as that model doesn't really like much more than an round nose FMJ configuration. Hence the Powrball ammo.

Put a whole box of that through it and it ran fine.

As Shrek said "That'll do Donkey."

My best to you and yours my friend. We dodged a real bullet the other day.

I wish I'd thought to say something so cogent and I can't right now recall the Freeper who did. But the post of the week was "What you can barely hear over the wailing of the liberals is the sound of tens of thousands of safety catches quietly being re-engaged on rifles all over the country."

That about sums it up.

Take care.

L

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping.

[ForGod'sSake]

This is the type of peeps we need to worry about.

Would that it were true. Fact is, we have all but lost the cultural battle to incessant busybodies who think their highest calling in life is advising others how to conduct their lives; all the while striving to eliminate competition of every type, at every level. Think about that and the ramifications. What happens to the achievers? The ones that can move the culture forward instead of backward.

These busybodies are latter day marxists who applied Gramscii's principles to a fault. Maybe it's because we didn't see it coming; that we thought we were invulnerable to the seduction of socialism. The notion that we were safe from "attack" from abroad left us with a false sense of security? So it would seem "The Long March Through the Culture"(Institutions) has probably succeeded beyond their wildest dreams and very likely, ahead of schedule. Gramscii, you'll recall, offerd this alternative to communism's brute force style, when he correctly noted that America could not be beaten by conventional means. And so, "The March" began...

I've said it before, and I believe it moreso today, the cultural busybodies have the upper hand when dealing with their enemies -- us. The nature of do-gooders is such that they feel compelled to run the show; conservatives, on the other hand and for the most part,just want to be left alone to go about their lives without interference from government.

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -C. S. Lewis

How to beat 'em? IMO, it's unlikely they can be beaten at their own game, which leaves few alternatives. If fact, maybe just one -- they have to be eliminated. But will conservatives take up arms to eliminate the threat? Or is it possibly too late for that even?

[Noumenon]

Bump for review

[ForGod'sSake]

Bump for your thoughts...

[Noumenon]

Edge of the abyss bump.

[ForGod'sSake]

Edge of the abyss bump.

So it would seem. We have lost the war of words because it had become their turf. The language of the tyrants and their enablers tickle the ears of the unwashed. I'm afraid it's all over but the shooting. Whether THAT will actually happen or not is an academic exercise that will gain us nothing either. Even so, I'm not sure there are still enough able bodied men who care enough for the country and its founding ideals to take up arms and defend it. My generation of boomers, though willing for the most part, is fast becoming unable to answer the call. I get winded walking out to my mailbox and back so any bad actors would out of necessity, have to come to me. Could happen...

As you probably know, the following generation(s) have been steeped in collectivist ideals and utopian group think for decades. The good news for them is, they will never miss the personal freedom and liberty we grew up enjoying because it has been exorcised from their psyches. Besides, the responsibilities required for self government and the duties self discipline and self sufficiency are such a bore. Just ask any of 'em...

[The Westerner]

As relevant today as when he first publiished it in 1982.
Wonder what Peikoff would say about the election. Knowing him, he’s probably not voting as it’s doubtful he can support a Republican who is not staunchly pro-Laissez Faire.
What say you, Noumenon?

[Noumenon]

Peikoff, purist that he was, would probably reject Trump, and he certainly have nothing to do with the mass-murderer wanna-be Hillary Clinton.

Paralyzed by his own orthodoxy, sad to say.

Which doesn’t necessarily make him wrong in his observations.

As I said in an earlier comment on this article,

“The problem is that by refusing to think, or philosophize, we arrive at the likes of Obama followers-worshipers. They’re all willing to hand it over to him - to hand over their own intellectual and spiritual sovereignty. History is very clear on the outcome.”

“They’re looking for Utopia. What they’re going to get is hell.”

And here we are.

[The Westerner]

He can see farther ahead than us because he thinks in principles, therefore he accurately can predict, based on a candidate's stated ideas the grave mistakes that will be made. In principle, Trump *is* going to take us down the road to who knows where because he is a man of action. He doesn't integrate his ideas, nor does he hold a philosophy that has any consistency. As you know. Heck, I lived for a decade in his city and know what Republicans there are like—like Giuliani who cleaned up the streets and made things livable again. But they usually are more like Kennedy Democrats on social issues, which I prefer. Trump is cut from the same cloth, is a pragmatist.

But my reason for being a Trump fan is his breaking the apologetic p.c. mold and because he loves America, period. If I have to endure another 4 years of anti-Western diatribes, I'd rather move to Galts Gulch, wherever it is!

[Noumenon]

We are on the same page wrt Trump. He’s the mold breaker, the disrupter of the status quo. He is the Randian actor who values achievement over the exercise of power.