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I'd look for an NRA marksmanship class, if you have your heart set on formal instruction. A good bullseye class will get your fundamentals tuned quicker than a self-defense class. I feel I improved a lot by just reading books and watching videos from acclaimed shooters. Proper grip, sight alignment, and trigger control are pretty cut and dry. You're either doing it right or you're doing it wrong. Almost all of the books tell you the exact same thing about these points. Which stance is best seems to more debatable and at least a dozen books have been written than focus mostly on these stances as the basis for their shooting "system". Deciding which stance worked best for me early on did me the most good. From there I read up on the shooting systems that used that stance.

Whether you call it unwed mothers, broken families, or dead beat dads, it's a symptom of societal breakdown...not the cause. We can't keep telling welfare recipients they lose benefits if they work a little or stay married or have fewer kids without them gaming the system. ...AND... We can't keep downplaying the role of responsible parenthood without seeing a nanny-state step in to raise our kids for us. BUT most of all... We can't judge everyone else with one set of moral values through legislation and NOT expect a backlash. I firmly believe that some moral values are inherent and come from out instincts, but most come from centuries and centuries of religious influence. Atheists, Christians, Muslims, and others seem to all agree on a core set of moral values (like killing is evil and not being productive is bad for society and mistreating people we don't agree with is wrong) as belonging to humanity, regardless of where the ideals come from. Likewise, the general belief that a strong family unit is a good thing is true. Sure there are strong parents that can do a good job alone, but 2 strong parents are always better than one. In all fairness, one good strong parent and one piece of crap parent may be worse. Still, that comes from us downplaying the importance of morals. If either/both parent(s) is a drunk, abusive, absent, neglectful, and/or weak minded, the kids don't stand much of a chance turning out well. ..BUT, how do you legislate that?

I question how much of this loss can be attributed to the teachers' union types being miffed. They're usually registered Dumbascraps, so few would be voting in a GOP primary. On the same note, us pro-carry folks aren't in the majority either, not even here in the South. However, the NRA adds were very well done and they exposed how she kept legislation from getting an up or down vote on the floor. That stinks of dirty politics and being in the pocket of fat cats like FedEx. So, I hope it's her dirty politics that earned her loss as much as anything else. Last thing I want is another bullseye painted on the backs of gun owners and the NRA.

So let me get this straight...this presumably busy executive waited in line all that time behind paying customers with more undoubtedly behind him and he actually thinks his free water is going to harm CFA? They lost more money in wasted napkins and ketchup in the past 10 minutes than his silly cup of water costs. I can't believe this guy earned a business degree from somewhere.

I bought one of those Guard Dog lights too. Not sure of the output, but it was $15. It has a charger for the battery and has a plug to accept a remote switch. I've had it almost a year now and it's been pretty good so far. Holds a charge okay and is bright enough to be worth what I paid. I'm too cheap to spring for a big name light, so I decided to compensate thru redundancy. I keep 2 in the car, half a dozen or more around the house, and a couple in my work bag. I'll have to check out this Eagle Tac, sounds like it's right up my alley.

Hey! I like Starbucks too and I'm not a lib, LOL. Plus, they made an unpopular decision with some of their customers not to adopt a corporate "no gun" policy not long ago. So, despite all the smelly hippies in Birkenstocks and cut-off shorts, I appreciate Starbucks and will support them as well. Kudos, to him for it too! Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. A few years back, Whoopi Goldberg publicly made some leftist comments (forget what they were about). As a consequence, one of the companies she did commercials for dropped her, citing that she was too controversial to represent them. She made a huge deal out of it, saying they were violating her 1st amendment rights. Fact is, you can say what you want and if enough people agree (Dan Cathy) you are a hero. If too few agree (Dixie Chicks), you become a trivia question answer and disappear. This is NOT the same as discrimination, because we get to choose whether to punish or reward the speaker with our wallets....THAT'S THE WAY CAPITALISM IS SUPPOSED TO WORK!

Friday the other side is supposed to be staging what they've decided to call a "Kiss In". They want homosexuals to go to Chick-fil-A and sit around kissing in an attempt to disgust the other patrons and show how strong their cause is. That event has some pretty big shoes to fill. When all is said and done, we'll see which side it makes more economic sense to pander to. I'm sure a lot of people who showed to support Dan Cathy's 1st Ammendment rights. Others likely showed up to support his religious beliefs. Unfortunately, I predict that if the media gives this the coverage it deserves (it's a pretty freaking big deal) they'll label them all gay-bashing, narrow-minded, zealots, who have no right judging the lifestyles of others...just saying.

I had an iPhone 3GS for sale on CL. After 5 or 6 ridiculous lowball offers I told a particularly annoying guy I'd think about his $75 offer. Next time he pestered me I told him I just sold it for $80 a few minutes ago. He was mad as hell, 'I'd have given you $80 for it, jeez'. So, I said, 'I wish you would've offered me that, the other guy was a real jerk'.

+1 on the canine early warning system...seems to work. Last time I ordered pizza, I saw the pizza guy get completely off the porch and go all the way back down 3 steps when he heard how deep my American Bulldog's bark was. I like to make a show of holding her back like she's a stone-cold killer when I come out to pay. Hope the neighbors see too.

Beautiful pup!

I'd like to agree that it has little to no chance of passing. However, politicians have been known to wilt in the face of pressure before. All it would take is complacency on our part. If they don't hear from us in as many numbers as they are hearing from the other side, who knows what they'll do?

Got room up there for one more?

If someone had tried to interfere, I believe the media would prefer to hear that it be some gangbanger with an illegally owned Jimenez .25 acp shot back (missing with all 6 rounds of course) than for an HCP-holder to have fired one/two well-placed shots, stopping the bad guy.

My prayers go out to the victims and their families. I can't begin to imagine the grief, fear, confusion, and anger they must be battling with right now. While I wish nothing but ill for the spineless coward that committed this evil act, I'm glad he's alive, so he can answer questions and be made an example of. However, I do resent the fact that this will cost the taxpayers millions of dollars. I'm not looking forward to the spin that media and the left will put on this, especially right before the election. This is NOT the kind of fuel that I want them to have right now.

Congrats Jesse, hope I see a guy with a stainless P95 and a big ol smile at the shooting range this weekend. If I do, I'll say hi. Where do you shoot at?

Of the guns I've ever sold/traded, I miss the Ruger SP101 the most. It was the hammerless snubbie and was great for pocket carry. Changing out $5 worth of springs made the trigger feel like butter too. It was way smoother than most revolvers I've shot.

I'm with you in spirit, but sometimes jail is worse than a beating.

I have a 15 year old daughter, so I know how angry they can make you. However, I don't care if she was stealing stuff off the Internet, that's no excuse for this kind of a beating. This guy's a psycho and so is his wife. I think they both deserve some prison time.

sounds like *SOMEBODY* has a problem with commitment

I hesitate to call myself a Conservative, b/c of the baggage that comes with it. Some people fail to see a distinction b/w fiscal policy and social policy. I'm VERY fiscally conservative, but I want to stay out of peoples' business. That doesn't mean I want their business shoved in my face either, though. Most important, though, is that the gov't has to quit picking winners and losers in the economy. They punish success through the tax code and that makes me furious. I'm sick of the class warfare crap most of all.

Even on her knees behind him, the physics don't seem to work. Maybe if she pulled the trigger and it ricocheted off a sidewalk straight or something similar, I'd believe it maybe happened while the gun was still holstered.

I'm all for term limits for congress anyway, so bring on the "FIRE EVERYONE" concept. I'm all for it. Now that everyone in Washington is a career politician, they'll never pass laws to prevent it. So how do you position a new party to be viable? Please vote here ==> http://www.tngunowne...le-were-in-now/ <==

Someone pointed out in another forum that America needs to vote our convictions instead of voting for the candidate we think can win. I'm dying to know what most people think is the most viable platform to challenge the status quo. What do you do? Can you be wishy-washy enough to take the whole center and say to hell with the right and the left? Do you alienate the left and those left of center to pander to the right? Vice Versa?

You guys are awesome! I'm glad to see so few of us falling for the "support American car company" crap. By the time I was old enough to drive, Japanese cars were widely known to be cheaper, better-built, and longer-lasting than American made vehicles. While Detroit was putting out the Citation, Omni, and Pinto...Japan was shipping over Sentras, Corollas, and Accords. Fast-forward 30 years later, Detroit still doesn't get it! The Japanese and Koreans aren't smarter. They don't have any secret techniques we don't know about. They don't use materials that we can't get our hands on. They don't have any insight into consumers' minds that we don't have. Yet, this is the best Detroit can do? The bailouts are going to make it worse! You think Detroit was mired in apathy, short-term greed, and over-reliance on the government before? Wait til the next time they're in a pinch. The taxpayers will be expected to bail them out again now that there's a precedence.

Since they came out with the Gen4s that fit my little girly hands, the grip angle is the only major thing I can complain about. I added a Grip Force Adapter and that helps, but it still feels a little unnatural when I switch from any other gun to the Glock at the range. I think a previous post hit the nail on the head, Glock fanboys make more people hate Glocks than the guns do. Likewise overzealous fanatics of anything turn me off, even if they have good intentions to start with.