Posted on 12/10/2007 7:17:07 PM PST by jazusamo
I'm one. But it just doesn't surprise me.
That's why you need a dog, too. The dog is not there to protect you; he is there to make sure you have the time to protect yourself.
“Why’d you shoot him 44 times?”
“Ran out of ammo.”
LOL. How true. I just love this man.
I was advised #4 Buck, even more pellet count and in the confine of a house would still be devastating, with better coverage/less wall penetration. Dont know exactly the size diff, but the balls are still fairly large...8*)
My thought, too. He described the democrat party candidates exactly. Too bad so many Americans don’t understand that.
The Nobel Prize is not awarded to anyone who is the least bit conservative.
It is reserved for leftists, socialists, communists, thugs, mass murderers, and liars.
But then, I think you already knew that.
It takes practice (unless you’re very gifted) to shoot a pistol. Once a year (if that often) being qualified with a GI pencil isn’t enough. At the range I was comparing the police shooters with the other pistol shooters there (who probably shoot about a hundred rounds a week). Last time I was at the range I saw a lady being taught to shoot an automatic by a man who seemed to be pretty good. At first she had trouble staying withing the target frame at 15 yards. After about fifty shots she was hitting the center of the target with a group you could cover with your palm. But you need to stay in practice. I know an ex NY-police armorer and range officer who told me he had cops show up to qualify who couldn’t get their pistols out of their holster.
I qualified expert with the Army’s Colt .45 automatic. Not an easy feat when you consider that the weapons we used were so old that the barrels rattled in the carriage and the targets had been shot so many times they had holes big enough to put your fist through. I was convinced that I would have had a better chance to qualify by throwing the damn thing at the target rather than shooting at it.
I have a feeling that that vote is unanimous!!!
That’s one of the few weapons I was never required to qualify with and I was a 111. I bought a commercial Colt Government Md in the sixties and still have it. They are a fine weapon if one takes the time to learn to shoot it.
It was the hand weapon of choice by the military for about 80 years, so yeah, it was a fantastic weapon. Of course, I think the one I was issued was made in 1911. Still worked fine, but accurate? Not even close. Now, if I had had one that was newly minted with competition bushings, etc. . .
“Any Freepers w/ an opinion on #1 Buckshot vice #00 for home defense”
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A while back here in FL, a thug got a well-deserved dirtnap by brutally murdering a Polk County deputy, killed his dog and wounded another deputy.
An excerpt from a story about his end of life:
“That’s all the bullets we had, or we would have shot him more,” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd told reporters.
http://crime.about.com/b/2006/10/02/florida-cop-killer-shot-68-times.htm
I do too, it's a classic line. lol
“Ran out of ammo.”
A lot of years ago a friend was involved in a bar fight, I saw the whole thing and my friend started it. I went to his trial, the fix was in, a plea deal where he would get probation and a fine.
The judge asked him, "Mr. Redfield, I can understand why you might have hit the man once in anger but why did you hit him again"? My friends answer - "He was still twitching your honor".
That smart ass answer cost him two weeks in the county jail.
My first cousin, not a Katlick, retired as a Lieutenant of Detectives on the Manhattan District Attorney’s homicide squad. He picked up a law degree before he retired and went into criminal law, often representing police officers on behalf of the PBA. In his twenty years on the job he never drew his revolver once. His firm came to represent the officers accused in the shooting of Amadou Diallo. He never directly expressed an opinion about the case, but the vibes I was getting was that he had a very low opinion of the behavior of the officers involved.
Considering Diallo didn't have a gun and didn't kill and wound cops or other civilians, I can see why.
He also wasn't even breaking any laws, he was up at 5:00 AM busting his hump delivering newspapers to support his family. The Kops assumed any black man up and about at 5:00 AM was up to no good.
Your sarcasm and sarcastic criticism doesn’t take away from the legitimate point I made: this man, Sowell, deserves major recognition, doesn’t he?
Yes, he does.
But you already knew that, didn’t you?!
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