Buyout 5
Jun05
Some of you saw this coming. My readers are astute!
Starting tomorrow, Mel and I will be at A-Kon 25, in Dallas, TX (where we live). We should be there with Jennie Breeden, Fred, Shinga, Mookie, Shark, Blair, Steve Bennett, and many more. Come on by and say allo. And buy our shit. We need the money.
I want to buy your shit, but I am having trouble getting an answer to the question of “do you ship to Switzerland” and “does it cost extra”
Answer these two simple questions and some of my money will become yours! 😀
Completely off-topic, but I sure wish Canada had strong gun control laws.
OH WAIT
Obvious fiction, or a false-flag operation. Everyone knows that you can’t get an automatic weapon in Canada, they are illegal there.
Clearly, they were imported from that backwards country immediately to the south; you can just walk into a gun store and buy an automatic weapon there.
Crime happens regardless of the laws. That’s why it’s crime. There are always nutters out there who want to kill, and they will always find ways. However, the access to more efficient means of mass murder can be controlled, and in Canada’s case (and as a Canadian), I think it works – for Canadians, in Canada.
Incidences like that are far lower than in the US, per capita. I can’t access the raw data from the office, but you can find the link here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/12/14/schoo-shooting-how-do-u-s-gun-homicides-compare-with-the-rest-of-the-world/
There are many reasons for this, but one of them is that handgun ownership is very difficult (I know the Moncton shooter used rifles), and there is no culture of guns for personal defence (except against bears). Generally speaking, we’re pretty comfortable with guns, in our own way.
Americans have their culture, and their constitutional right to bear arms. Fine. That’s your right and privilege, and I defend that, even in the face of some of my more anti-gun country men. But Canada is not the US, and our laws and culture are not yours. Using a (very rare, even when the population differences are accounted for) shooting in Canada to make a point about your views on gun control is a bit crass. It’s an outlier. Nowhere is free of loonies killing people, guns or no- but we do have stronger gun control laws, and we have far lower incidences of gun homicide.
All mass shootings are outliers. The points being made are not crass or unjustified – they tie in directly with what you’re saying. Canada and the US have massive cultural differences, Canada has better mental health care, Canada has tighter gun restrictions; and yet the same sort of tragedy can happen there as here. (They do differ in that the Moncton shooter appears to have used more-deadly fully-automatic rather than semi-automatic weapons; to my knowledge, fully-automatic weapons have not been used in a US mass shooting since before the NFA of 1934.) This defies the frequent cry of “if we enact strict gun control, we can stop this sort of thing from happening,” and this is why we’re pointing this incident out.
Your point about handgun ownership has some validity–the overwhelming majority of US shootings are done with pistols against one or a small number of people (and, as Kellerman & Reay found in 1988, take place in subcultures that essentially don’t exist in Canada). However, most of the recent gun-control initiatives in the US have not targeted handguns or the most common US shootings; they have targeted “assault weapons” and the rare mass shootings.
Not really a fair comparison – Canadian culture is so non-confrontational as a whole that even if there *were* an armed citizenry, they’d probably still wait for the officials to act.
“YOU SEE THIS GUN?”
“Oh, hey, eh, that’s a nice one, let’s go have some beers and shoot targets while we work out our problems.”
“… okay, who’s buyin’, eh?”
This sounds like Minnesota….
Yeah.
That’s about the size of it. ::
You know, in UK he might have been mistaken for a smoker going through withdrawal crysis.
That bad, eh?
This is when Mick gets a call from one of the girls saying “BTW if anyone gives you too much trouble we stashed a .44 and a pump action shotty under the counter.”
Mick carries, anyway.
You think tom isn’t carrying as well?
Besides, i’m pretty sure a massive revolver or a shotgun is going to tell someone to “Fuck off” more than a 9mm/40/45 Semiauto is.
Though a gun is a gun.
(i’m probably not portraying myself in the best light here….)
Wouldn’t this be a perfect time for one of those “We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone” signs? Mick could point to it and say “Today, you’re it. Get Out!” If Tom persists in being an ass, just call the cops and charge him with trespassing, because he refused to leave. Not like they need his money anyway.
It’s a gun shop. He has an entire wall of long-guns from which to choose – and cabinets FULL of pistols. He hardly needs be told where to find them.
Not loaded.
That would be silly. Though a couple of loaded mags behind the counter could work, unless they have action/trigger locks.
I’ve never known a gunstore that kept the display guns loaded, or kept loaded magazines handy for them.
OTOH, pretty much everyone who works in a gun store (not WalMart; a real gun store) is wearing a pistol, and in every shop where I’ve been behind the counter, there’s a loaded rifle or shotgun (not for sale) back there.
As I was told my first day as a gun pimp, “If anyone comes in here to rob us, you can pretty much count on them planning on killing all of us.”
I dunno… Some of the stories I’ve heard of people trying to rob gun shops at knifepoint… I think sometimes it’s just that people aren’t very smart.
Oh, THAT is a given.
Also: Sometimes The Fates just don’t like you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA7WJLisbk0
“The most impressive part… the officers did it all without putting their beers down.”
EPIC.
Priorities, man. Gotta keep your priorities straight. 😀
I’ve seen loaded magazines in belt-pouches on employee’s belts.
But as noted by others, I’ve seen loaded firearms on belts more often.
There was some dimwit in Delaware about a dozen years ago who tried to rob Miller’s Gun Center (well-known gun shop in New Castle, the other big one that’s well known is X-Ring). He walked past a *marked state police cruiser* to do so. Needless to say he didn’t get far. He was lucky to only be arrested and charged with robbery.
Yup. I remember that one – Funny as hell. B) Also, that shop is just down the road from both a DMV AND a state police troop. AND it’s a shop that’s *always* full o’ folks…
Yeah, I’m local. 😀
DChil’s comment just brought up a thought…
I suspect that at some point, some idiot will try to mug the ladies for their bank bag. And get a rude surprise.
Alex looks pretty hard-core. If I were a mugger, I’d think twice, maybe three times.
What about Heidi?
I wonder if she got her 92FS back or if she got something else.
Given that she killed a guy recently, I wonder whether she might be a bit…ah…gun-shy if it came down to it again?
Not only did I totally see this coming, I applaud you for going there. It was obvious, but not in a bad way so much as a properly set up gag kind of way.
Girls haven’t gotten as far as the green sign yet, eh?
“We reserve the right to Mick’s mother.”
Nah, wait til the girls get ahold of the board.
I’d like to see a woman really take on the whole “owning guns is just a substitute for a small penis”. I serious doubt these people don’t own guns because they have penii so large they can bludgeon attackers into submission with it.
Oh, I’ve gone there with some of my anti-gun friends. “Way to dis me and my fellow female gun owners…” (Yeah, I’m a chick.)
I would like to think that my gun goes hand in hand with my big penis. Is my reply when I get the usual: “substituting for something” crowd.
The two ranges where I am the CRSO are owned by a woman. I am one of the managers at the second location and half of our staff are ladies. Most of them are more knowledgeable about firearms than most of the guys working at the big box stores. It will be interesting to see where this plot line goes.