Reason Magazine discusses having armed citizens everywhere so that we have no more soft targets.
From the comments this link seemed quite interesting.
“The average number of people killed in mass shootings when stopped by police is 14.29. The average number of people killed in a mass shooting when stopped by a civilian is 2.33“
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19 responses to “No Soft Targets”
Speaking of not being a soft target, anyone out there know anything about what the trigger break on a revolver should feel like?
we should have armed the first graders at newtown so they could shoot back! no soft targets!
Good idea. Let’s have a good, old Knabenschiessen here.
Does that make the police accessories after the fact?
Captain, I think you’re jumping the gun. DAESH starts them young but with knives first.
We need common sense knife control.
[…] WHAT WILL ACTUALLY REDUCE MASS SHOOTINGS: No Soft Targets. […]
Yeah, use a steel plate, cast iron frying pan, old model T engine block, slab of kriegstihl, whatever, it’s all good.
“we should have armed the first graders at newtown so they could shoot back! no soft targets!”
Clearly we need common-sense comment control.
[…] Thanks to an Instapundit link by Sarah Hoyt, I see Simon at Classical Values has an interesting post up. […]
Occasionally, a gem appears at Reason, though rarely from the usual aggregation of authors, who seem more concerned with Purity, than actual Reason.
It is an interesting comment of the times on how many people in the country embrace cultural suicide and a helpless population. Keep your head down, don’t draw attention and maybe the crazies with the bombs, guns and machetes won’t notice you.
I liked Reason back when Virginia Postrel ran it. Since then they’ve turned into a libertarian Mother Jones, mostly not interesting enough to read.
Magazines I don’t subscribe to anymore:
Reason
National Review
The Spectator [London]
The American Spectator
Print libertarian/conservative writing has really gone downhill last decade or two. These publications, and I mean NR in particular, just aren’t interesting or entertaining to read anymore. Just boring drones regurgitating the same old same old conservawooze. Midgets shitting on the shoulders of giants. I’m looking at you, Rammesh Pannuru.
when I hear the word culture I reach for my gun! attributed to heinrich himmler and your average ignorant southern white trash red neck.
Hanns Johst
http://www.quotecounterquote.com/2011/02/whenever-i-hear-word-culture.html
Sure, talk trash about arming children, but ignore the truth that if even a single teacher, or the principal, or a janitor at Newtown had been armed the death toll might have been much smaller. But that doesn’t fit the liberal narrative so you must change the subject by introducing a ridiculous strawman.
Regarding an earlier question, the single action trigger break on a well tuned revolver should feel like the snapping of a flexed glass rod. Most do not, feeling more like dragging a nail file across sand paper.
I fired a new Sturm-Ruger .357 recently, I’m more familiar with semi-automatics. What I found is if I give the trigger a long, slow pull the cylinder rotates into position, the hammer pulls back and… nothing, doesn’t drop with the trigger pulled flush with the frame. If I give it a good yank it fires, but that can’t be right. Is that something a gunsmith could address, or is it just a crap pistol? Or both.
Anyway, all kidding aside I’m sympathetic to the idea of arming teachers.Except when I remember the bunch of loonies, sadists and child molesters in my elementary school. I’m not sure public schools were ever a good idea. They’re as bureaucratic and incompetent as any other government enterprise. For example, my 6th grade teacher, Mr. Horowitz used to have screaming shit fits and temper tantrums, in class, and assaulted students. I don’t think I want a nut case like that anywhere near a gun, he might have shot us. I’m not kidding.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rauDnu5J3E4
OK, here’s a question for y’all librals:
What, exactly makes a rifle an “assault weapon”?
Hint: it’s not anything to do with a plastic stock, pistol grip or carrying handle, or anything about how scary looking it is.