I admit that I've blogged some posts which didn't make the point I intended, over the years, but this author published one post that I absolutely don't understand.
Perhaps someone can explain it to me; I'm old, so my friends tell me, but I didn't think I was mentally feeble until I read this.
Proof I don't understand Kel-Tec's target demo
I mean, I've had a few customers I've thought were piss-drinkers over the years, but I don't know as I'd have called them that to their faces. Maybe I was doing it wrong. Bold strategy, Kel-Tec.
The Global Small Caliber Ammunition market is expected to generate over $4.05 billion value by 2022 at an estimated CAGR of 2.14% from 2016 to 2022.
The increase in defense expenditure for military modernization programs in developing economies, high rate of participation in hunting & sport activities, growing number of female shooters and rise in demand from private end-users for home/personal security, are some of the key factors driving the global small caliber ammunition market. Heightened civil conflicts and rise in terrorist activities across the world are expected to further increase the business prospects for the ammunition industry.
(H/T: Say Uncle)Translated:
We're shooting more than we ever did; the army is training hard; women are becoming more interested in the shooting sports and we're training for self-defense.
Besides that, the terrorists are scaring the crap out of us, to we're shooting more than we ... uh .. well, See above.
From my point of view, it's a Win/Win situation. On The Other Hand:
There's an old story about the king who spent his kingdom's treasure training his army. A wise man approached him and said "Oh King, you are spending your kingdom's treasure on arms, and yet your people starve!"
The king replied: "Yes, and then the uprising starts, I will be ready for it!"
(No, I don't know how that applies here, either. But it's a great story!)
Cannot a citizen who is open carrying a more effective pistol or maybe rifle take out a mass murderer? Generally the pistols/revolvers that can be carried concealed are not really suitable for shooting further than across the room and may be a marginal caliber. In parts of the country with warm weather year round it is have to carry a standard service sized sidearm concealed under a t-shirt and Bermuda shorts.
Just call me Anon. Try shooting one of the lightweight compact or sub compact sidearms both rapidly and accurately when using full power 40 S&W or 45acp.
November 08, 2015 12:47 PM
I'm pretty sure that "Call Me Anons" rides a white horse. Yes, I think it would be a wonderful thing if a Citizen could save a lot of lives by virtue of carrying a Major Weapon AND making sure that it can take out a terrorist from the other side of the Food Court. (It might be tempting to take out the "restaurant manager" at the same time, but that would be A Bad Thing. Tempting .. but still Bad. There might be innocent people present, too.) Being at the right place at the right time, and doing the right thing, is laudable. If the police (who will eventually show up) can tell the difference between the mass murderer and the guy with a smoking AR15 and a red do-rag around his head and a Sylvester Stallone Sweaty body and a smug smirk on his face ... Call Me Anonymous might even survive the experience. (No, I don't really believe that, but he seems like a genuinely nice guy and I wouldn't want to feel as if I hadn't made at least some effort to validate his life. As long as he had it, anyway.) But I don't really want to rescue the entire K-Mart or Wall-Mart or Wally-World shopping contingent on any given Black Friday. I don't prance through the Mall with an AR15 slung across my brawny shoulders and a couple of Banana-Clips poking out of my hip pockets in the hope that I'll stop America's Most Popular Mall-Shooter Of The Week. That's just so ... not me! I'm sorry if I don't sound like the super-hero type of Blogger (is there one?) and I don't want to disappoint my readership. So I'll tell this story just once, and then I'll STFU, okay? I've been shot at before. There is nothing (I know some famous writer that I can't remember said this before me, but ...) .. there is nothing so rewarding as being shot at and missed. However, my PERSONAL version goes something like: There is nothing so rewarding as not being shot at all day, and I intend to pursue that personal gratification every day for the rest of my life, thank you very much. Those of you whose personal mission in life is to save the world from tyranny and/or Shopping Mall Massacres, have at it. I'll gladly step aside and allow you all the glory. Remember that scene in the movie "Men In Black" (#1) where Wil Smith is issued his ordnance? He gets the "Noisy Cricket" and he's disappointed, "KAY ..... Give The Kid A Weapon!"
That's what **I'm** Talking about! No, it's not. That is SO not "what I'm talking about! For myself, I'll take a Belly Gun every day. No, it's not a large caliber. No, it won't take out a terrorist mission across the width of a shopping mall or even the width of the "Ye Olde Antique Mall Shopping Mart Boutique", but if some ass ...... jerk puts his pot-belly within reach I can put my sneaky/femininistic/no-testical-man little P3AT in his belly-button and extend THAT the the opposite side of the shopping mall. No, Brother, I don't want to save the world. Been there, done that, got the olive-drab t-shirt. I just want to save my own precious lilly-white ass, thank you very much. Yes,even the parts with pimples on it ... when I really think it through, that part is precious to me, as well. No, don't ask. I've said it before, I'll say it again: If the threat is so far away that I can't hit him with my .380, he probably can't hit me with his lever-action shotgun which he stole from the Terminator. So I'll just turn my back and run away! And I won't even feel guilty about that, because I know there's some Terminator-Wanna-Be with a black rifle and a couple of 30-round Banana Clips * who is just chomping at the bit for the opportunity to Take Down A Terrorist from across the street, and Save Western Civilization and The World AS We Know It!
(*No, I do NOT feel guilty about calling them "banana clips"; this is my blog, I can murder words before I murder people.)
So you all can do what you want to do, just give me a couple of seconds notice before you start blasting away across the shopping mall. I don't move as fast as I use to, so I would appreciate the advance warning. Otherwise, I'll just have to "Duck and Cover" like they use to teach us in school to do, in case the Ruskies drop "The Bomb" on us. Which ... may not be all that far-fetched. And that's all I have to say about it.
Portland Versus California: What’s driving migration? : Real Estate Agent PDX: It's amazing that this has ONLY JUST hit the blogosphere. Native Oregonians have been outraged at the California Migration for decades. The issue IS the relative economics between high-salary California and low-salary Oregon. Californians can sell their home for $X,XXX,XXX and buy a comparable or better (in their opinion) home for $xxx,xxx in Oregon. For retiring Californians, this is A Good Thing! For retiring Oregonians: not so good.
So there I was, sitting around at home when I heard a great commotion outside. It was a roar like a hungry Lion, and my first thought was: fast mover!
I've heard jet fighters before, albeit it was over forty years ago in Viet Nam, and the plane was an F-4 Phantom overflying the 1st Infantry Division NDP (Night Defensive Position -- a.k.a. "base camp) and the jet was within hundred of yards of the ground. That time it scared the pants off me as I sat leaning against the sandbags of a bunker on the perimeter.
This time I was safe at home, and I knew I was safe as houses.
But the adrenaline was rushing through my veins because it felt like I was being attacked.
I rushed to my window, hoping to catch a glimpse of the sky warrior. I was rewarded by the sight of an F-15 Strike Eagle as he egressed the city limits, and kicked in the afterburners.
My camera was not handy, and although I rushed to find it and put it on the window ledge so it would be handy if the arrogant (and lucky!) SOB chose to overfly Corvallis again.
No such luck. I heard the engines pulsing in the sunny Indian Summer skies several times, but he never actually overflew this small PNW college town again.
Bummer, dude.
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I love airplanes, and I particularly love Military Attack Planes. As a teenager I dreamed of becoming an Air Force Pilot, experiencing the thrill of thousands of horsepower kicking me in the seat of my pants as it booted me into the sky. I was much too young, and far too shy, to have ever experienced sex. If anything, I thought it would probably be a slightly less rewarding experience than flying a military jet in air combat.
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In my adolescence, my priorities changed, and somehow I never got around to learning how to fly in an airplane. Instead, I went to college; I was drafted into the Infantry, and somewhere in that progression I got married.
Still, something in that experience triggered a need to determine that yes, I had indeed correctly identified the F15, and to find out more about this war-craft.
During my search of F-15's I discoveredthis video from YouTube which illustrated the robust nature of the aircraft.
I was entranced by the concept of a jet fighter which could not only survive the daage, but landed safely lacking a wing.
In my continued search, I found videos which purported to depict non-jets which had survived the loss of a wing, including this one (which, after some examination, Among the most spectacular videos available. I found this one, where a sports competition airplane (prop-driven) seems to lose a wing and still land safely.
Unfortunately, there is some controversy about the validity of the video.
This video blatantly declares it a sham.
This video takes almost ten minutes to, supposedly, examine the "Speed Racer Loses a Wing and Still Lands Safely" concept ... in great detail. (Note: Most of the original video is included here.)
Since the rebuttals referenced "Knowledged ,Not Generally Known, I spent a little time researching RC ("Radio Controlled") airplane flying.
This video seems to support the proposition that small-scale radio-controlled airplanes are able to sustain flight modes which, in a large-scale ("Military Jets") mode would be non-viable. And, for the pilot in a full-size situation, would present counter-survivable conditions.
Here is the full-length (almost 10 minutes, in French with sub-titles) video which purports to explain in all detail why a speed-racer may njot have sur4vived a wing-and-a-prayer one-wing landing my not have actually occurred, but also why it was promulgated.
And again here is how rhe stunt may bed perforfmed with a Radio-controlled flyer: '
I'm not qualified to decide whether the original non-jet "wing and a prayer" video is accurate and untouched. I only offer this sub-segment for your entertainment. You have to decide for yourself whether you accept the thesis.
However, in support of the anti-thesis, here is a video which demonstrates how versatile small-scale airplanes can be. In a word, when it comes to unbelievable maneuvers, small-scale "RC" (Radio Controlled) airplanes cheerfully ignore the Laws of Nature to which full-scale airplanes must conform.
This video demonstrates how easy it is to stall a "Radio Controlled" airplane: well, it isn't easy, but it can be done by a Master RD flier
After all, isn't this the concept which seems to have been proved by the original F-15 Strike Fighter Video?
