Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Another dumb idea

The pistol cam is a device to provide lights, action, camera as soon as a weapon is drawn from the holster. The New York State Police are testing this idea.

Anytime a legislative body (composed of anti gunners, non-gunners, and a sprinkling of NRA members) decides to mandate equipment for firearms, you should grab you guns and run for the hills.

I may have my differences with law enforcement training and proficiency, but I would not want a device that activated a camera and a 120 lumen bulb hanging off the end of my gun should I ever have to draw it.

Why? Glad you asked...

  1. Many enounters requiring fire arms occur in low light. (So why would I want to tell the bad guys exactly where I am?)
  2. Most encounters happen at a distance of 10 to 15 feet. (There are enough things happening right then, that I would not want to be bothered by a hunk of unnatural metal hanging off the end of my gun.)
  3. This thing looks like it can snag on just about anything. (So great, I get it tangled up in my clothing or belt and meanwhile the bad guy shoots me.)
  4. This pistol camera only activates once it is drawn from the holster. (What good does that do me? If I have reached the point in a event where I need to draw my gun, alot has happened already. None of this will show up on this handy-dandy camera.)

At best, the pistolcam is going to show where the gun was pointed and where the bullet went (maybe).


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Saturday, April 12, 2008

Hey Barack!

I must be one of those bitter, gun-toting, religious nuts Barack was talking about. I don't trust government. I don't trust democrats, and I certainly don't trust Obama or Clinton.
At a San Francisco fund raising event made the following comment:
"You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them...And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.

And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
Gee it is tax time and I just paid my taxes that totalled well in the high five figures. So yes, I am bitter at the waste and abuse and the seemingly endless belief that I have unlimited resources to fork over in taxes.
Yes, I own guns and I shoot guns and I believe in the 2nd Amendment. It is in the constitution.
Yes, I go to church. Not one a screwed up church like Bracks', but one that actually preaches the gospel from the pulpit.
I'm not sure what antipathy towards people means, but I am tired of tax and spend and spend and spend liberals.
I'm not anti immigrant, I just want people in this country go through the same rules and hoops my family went through to come here.
Finally, I am proponent of free and fair trade, not tariffs designed to hike prices and drive us further into recession.
I guess I am just not enl;ightened enough to vote for the liberals.

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