Important Stuff -- Or Not: I'm Armed

Saturday, March 31, 2007

I'm Armed

So, right after work Saturday, I made my way the 25 miles to the Dulles Expo Center, where something called The Nation's Gun Show was going on. Wow. After working with these metrosexuals for all these years, I'd forgotten how good a firm handshake feels. It took me two hours to quickly stroll around all the tables. I saw every kind of knife, sword and firearm imaginable, from blunderbusses to things that looked like weapons out of a post-apocalypse science fiction movie. Anyway, after much internal conflict, I walked out with a Springfield Arms XD-9. It's the first time I've even touched, much less owned, a handgun in 40 years. Next step is to find a shooting range that gives handgun instruction. Although I was an avid shooter when I was a kid, I think I need a refresher. Then the fun begins. Although I'm in the process of applying for a concealed carry permit, I'm going to open carry for awhile just to see how people react. There was a time in this country when the sight of an armed man didn't even draw a second glance. It was a much more civil society back in those days. As our society has become more coarse, it has also become more sissified. That seems like a contradiction, but that's what's happening. The same people who turn pale at the thought of people exercising their right to self-defense are vulgar, ill-mannered and have no idea of how to behave in a normal social situation. With few exceptions, the Baby Boomers and their Yuppie offspring have done a terrible job of rearing their children.

4 comments:

DAKOTARANGER said...: Congradulations on becoming a citizen and not a subject.

A good discussion site on self-defense is http://combatcarry.com. They have links to holster makers

pistolgear.com (more aimed to the XD) midwayusa.com are good places to order shooting supplies.; 3:25 AM
Mark said...: Good job! Now try to refrain from using it on some of the people who are vulgar, ill-mannered and have no idea of how to behave in a normal social situation and turn pale at the thought of people exercising their right to self-defense.; 8:44 AM
Tonto said...: Ok now that you carrying...has it changed the way you walked??

Have you had a John Wayne moment?; 10:06 AM
Lone Ranger said...: Actually, I already walk like John Wayne. It's one of the things my ex used to pester me about -- Pilgrim.; 9:42 PM

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Talking Points

I don't use talking points, I create them.

1. Hate makes people stoopid.

2. There is nothing so impenetrable as a closed mind.

3. A stupid person is not someone who can't learn, but someone who refuses to learn.

4. It is a small mind that has no room for God.

5. You can take Stalin out of the gene pool, but you can't take Stalinism out of liberals.

6. The best way to sabotage a bad plan is to follow it to the letter.

7. The race card is the first refuge of people who have nothing to say.

8. Ignorance is the cornerstone of arrogance.

9. Which is more racist, to hate someone who is not white or to assume someone is racist because he is white?

10. Children are not stupid. If a child is taught, the child will learn. If a child is not learning, the child is not being taught.

11. To express righteous indignation, one must first be righteous. And that's a label that doesn't stick to liberals.

12. Profanity is ignorance made audible.

13. An open mind is a liberal's worst enemy.

14. Paternalism is the purest form of racism.

15. People who bend the truth, usually bend it in their favor.

16. If you always stand in opposition to liberalism, you will never be wrong.

18. Life is simple. People who make it complicated usually have an agenda.

19. Getting your news from the corrupt, liberal media is like sticking your head in the sand, except you don't get grit in your teeth.

20. Liberals' emotional development stops at the age of 16.

21. To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell the truth.

22. Idealism seldom matches up with reality.

23. Those who don't hate communism have never lived it.

24. This was a much more civil country when men walked about heavily armed.

25. This economy will never heal as long as Obama keeps picking at the scab.

26. Liberals don't think outside the box; they ARE the box.

27. You cannot change the hearts and minds of liberals, because they possess neither.

28. There is no such thing as a kind liberal.

29. Reading Democratic Party platforms is like reading the history of human rights abuses and crimes against humanity in this country.

25 Immutable Truths About Liberals

Over the years I've been writing this blog, I've been throwing out little self-evident truths that seem to have no exceptions that prove the rule. I've made a list of some of them and will add to it as I remember them or make up more. Most of this list I've come up with myself. A few I've borrowed from others.

1. Always expect the worst from a liberal and you will never be surprised.

2. Never try to reason with a liberal. They disregard any evidence that conflicts with their beliefs.

3. You can always tell what liberals are up to by what they accuse conservatives of doing.

4. Liberals don't debate, they argue.

5. The only standards liberals have are double standards.

6. Liberals feel, conservatives think.

7. Whenever you don't understand a liberal's motives, just look for the money.

8. Liberals cannot be embarrassed. They lack the gene to blush.

9. The Liberal Golden Rule is, "Do unto others but scream bloody murder if they do unto you."

10. Liberals don't have leaders, they have demi-gods.

11. There are no honest liberals. If they were honest -- especially to themselves -- they would be conservatives.

12. A liberal's business is nobody's business, but everyone's business is a liberal's business.

13. Liberals have an inflated sense of self-worth. They are like house flies that criticize the air-worthiness of a Stealth fighter. (Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, ad infinitum are morons.)

14. Liberals lack a sixth sense that conservatives have in abundance -- common sense.

15. Liberals never stop hating.

16. There are only two types of liberals -- the deceivers and the deceived. The difficulty is telling them apart.

17. Every time liberals get on their high horse, they get bucked off.

18. Liberal programs are so wonderful that they have to be forced on people.

19. Liberals always choke on their own medicine.

20. When given a moral choice, liberals always come down on the wrong side of the fence.

21. The only way liberals can build themselves up is by tearing others down.

22. Liberals not only refuse to learn from their mistakes, they refuse to admit them.

23. Liberals have only two political positions -- blind devotion and blind hatred.

24. Liberals are incapable of attacking the message, so they always attack the messenger.

25. Liberal diversity is only skin deep.