The Rabbi

Probably Barney Frank. You can bet he never banged an underage girl.

Good thing you don't believe in kicking a man when he's down.

If you don't carry a Glock 19 with an Ashley Big Dot front sight, you might as well lie down in the gutter and die.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/kennedy;_ylt=Aup.ZmuvAhmmJoQKHhDjJfqs0NUE So the report is that Sen Kennedy has a malignant brain tumor, which caused his recent seizure. I am sorry about that. I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Typically people with brain tumors last about 6 months. I sincerely hope he beats it and makes a recovery. And then I hope he decides that he'd rather spend time with his family than in the Senate, because among senators I'd like to see retired his name is way up there.

That wasn't funny.

Actually it isnt. But it isn't worth fighting it out here. So lets agree that if you want something with the lowest chance of failure, buy a revolver.

Yeah. But I want one in the Ruger SP101 platform, not the Charter2000 which is available today.

If they came bad from the factory then they didnt fail, they weren't serviceable to begin with. Big difference. In any manufactured item there is a tolerance level of rejects, out of specs, etc etc. When you take that level into effect it is accurate to say revolvers never fail. Now I personally have had mine lock up in competition after one round. Things can happen to them. That's why a backup is always a good idea. But they are far less susceptible to failure, especially operator error, than semis.

As an overall percentage those "examples" are irrelevant. In a study of NYC cops over a 20 year period there was not a single instance of an officer's revolver failing. If you want 100% reliability, get a rock.

Lets see what happens after the conventions. I don't think people appreciate how out of favor the GOP really is. I agree Obama is a lousy weak candidate. But McCain isn't a lot better. Remember, at this stage George Bush had just won the Gulf War and looked like a shoo-in for a second term while Bill Clinton's campaign was struggling along.

I was thinking more along the lines of a NAA Black widow in .17hmr. But I dont know how much damage that would do. The Judge is an ungainly big ole thing, hard to carry on a bicycle.

In East Nashville Shelby Park is a popular place for people to walk, walk their dogs, etc. Unfortunately, from what I can tell, there are packs of feral dogs roaming around that will attack, especially other dogs. It is a city park and there are likely other people around. What would be the best caliber/platform for this application? I ask as someone who has never shot anything more animate than clay. In the old days dogs were a problem for bicyclists so there was a "velo-dog" revolver invented, 5.6mm I think. I wondered what the modern equivalent would be. And yes, I've thought about sprays.

I think a lot of us can agree on that.

Might be someone else's. Maybe he just sold it for full price as a "classic" to some rube.... If I could get my hands on a Cosworth Vega I'd be happy...

You mean you would NOT want to look like this guy???

That's an interesting thesis. Why don't you go do some research on the constitutional convention that led to its adoption and see if you can discern why they would change the wording like that.

Not a decade or two. I remember a NY Times article about 1977 that basically said the GOP was finished. Their membership was at record lows and they were getting beaten all over. By 1980 it was a different story. Four years of Pres Obama and maybe the GOP will have a clue and run Bobby Jindal of LA and Jeff Flake of AZ. What scares me about a Pres Obama is that he will be largely immune, in the early days, to criticism because no one wants to be seen as a racist.

I am mystified by this statement. How is "with a view to prevent crime" intended to bar certain segments of the state from owning/carrying guns? Unless you mean convicted felons and the like. And I'm fine with that.

She won't. For the right price....

I have one of these right now. Out of morbid curiosity I decided to pull the side plate/grips and see what the story is. I can categorically state that these owe nothing to the Colt Dick etc. Nor do they resemble a Smith. The design seems to have been the work of Satan, with input by Lorcin Engineering and production help by Taurus. I spent half an hour getting it back together, and all I did was remove the side plate and grips. The gun will work OK as a truck gun or night stand gun. But once it breaks, that's probably curtains for it.

Gerhard knows a thing or two about design and metal work. No question about it. I guess they've produced a stinker or two but not many.

Its a double edged sword. If you dont intervene and the kids are being abused then it's a problem. If you do intervene and the kids are not being abused, its a problem. And no bureaucrat wants to sit in a chair and answer to someone asking him "if you had information that a child was being abused, why didnt you do something about it?" So the tendency is to over-react. Tough situation, no easy answers.

I want to know what you tell the wife. Then I want you to give lessons to all the rest of my customers. You wouldnt believe how many guns I could sell because every swinging dick through that door won't buy a gun because the wife will kill him if he comes home with one more.

People believe that Elvis is alive and OJ is innocent. Whatever the original intent of the old constitution it is meaningless for interpreting the present one. The U.S. Constitution mandates a census every decade. The original constitution further mandated that slaves be counted as 3/5ths of free people. With the end of slavery that clause was moot. But we still have a census. By your reasoning the census is racist. And it isn't.

Summary: We are re-living the 1970s. Obama will get elected and the GOP will be crushed at the polls. And that isn't a bad thing. They say history repeats itself first as tragedy, then as farce. I think we have skipped the first phase and gone straight to the second. Everything I remember as a child in the 1970s is coming back, but diminished. So we had enormous inflation that brought a big social cost. We have inflation again,albeit not as much. We had an unpopular war that seemed intractable then. We have an unpopular war now, but not nearly as costly. There was a nostalgia for the 1950s then (remember American Graffitti?) and there seems to be a nostalgia for the 1970s now. With oil companies making money there are calls for a "windfall profits tax" like in the 1970s. That was a bad idea then and it hasnt aged well. There was an idea that government regulation would solve problems. That was a bad idea then and it hasnt aged well. Sarbanes-Oxley, USAPATRIOT, and the mortgage bail-out are all examples of gov't being "proactive". All of them bad ideas. Anyone remember streaking? An article in this AM's Wall St Journal was all about public nudity in Vermont, where there are no statutes against it. Make no mistake, it's the 1970s all over again. And the worst feature was the politics. The GOP was reeling from Watergate and the Dems were eating their lunch in every election. The party of Richard Nixon and Nelson Rockefeller died in the 1976 election. I see the same thing today. The GOP is going to get killed at the polls this year. And it's their own darn fault. The Reagan Revolution and the Contract With America are gone, totally forgotten amidst earmarks and bridges to nowhere. The GOP has fallen over itself to dole out largesse in an attempt to bribe people with their own money. For this they will be sent to electoral ignominy. Justly so. This means it is virtually certain that Obama will be the next president. Get over it. He's the Black Jimmy Carter, never meeting an authoritarian thug he couldn't sit down with. Get ready for four years of having our backsides kicked by the likes of France and Syria. Bush already set the tone by going to Saudi Arabia and asking, yes asking, them to increase oil output. And being told no. Expect lots more of that in an Obama Administration. As the guy in Animal House says "what are we supposed to do, you moron?" We need to work on local elections. We need to find candidates who represent freedom and push them. The TNGOP is a mess, a bunch of rich frat boys partying on daddy's money. I can name two politicians who are worthwhile: Marsha Blackburn and Mae Beavers. That's it. If we get our own house in order we can withstand the coming stupidity of Pres Obama.