...And Rudy Does Too!

"Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do and how you do it." - Rudy Giuliani

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Can anyone read this and not be scared? Here is a man, who according to all polls stands an excellent chance of being our next president - saying that war is peace, freedom is slavery, the whole ******* Orwellian doublespeak dictionary.

Note to the world: 1984 WAS NOT an instruction manual.

John Edwards Likes Using Force

This:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070902/ap_on_el_pr/edwards_2

TIPTON, Iowa - Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards said on Sunday that his universal health care proposal would require that Americans go to the doctor for preventive care.

Require? As in, threaten someone with death or jail if they don't comply? That kind of require?

"It requires that everybody be covered. It requires that everybody get preventive care," he told a crowd sitting in lawn chairs in front of the Cedar County Courthouse. "If you are going to be in the system, you can't choose not to go to the doctor for 20 years. You have to go in and be checked and make sure that you are OK."

If you can read this paragraph and not want to drag this man into the and kick him, you're not a real American.

He noted, for example, that women would be required to have regular mammograms in an effort to find and treat "the first trace of problem." Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth, announced earlier this year that her breast cancer had returned and spread.

Edwards said his mandatory health care plan would cover preventive, chronic and long-term health care. The plan would include mental health care as well as dental and vision coverage for all Americans.

...and what do you think Democrat-endorsed, government-run-and-required psychologists will say when you answer that you own guns and don't really trust or like the government?

"The whole idea is a continuum of care, basically from birth to death," he said.

The former North Carolina senator said all presidential candidates talking about health care "ought to be asked one question: Does your plan cover every single American?"

"Because if it doesn't they should be made to explain what child, what woman, what man in America is not worthy of health care," he said. "Because in my view, everybody is worth health care."

Edwards said his plan would cost up to $120 billion a year, a cost he proposes covering by ending President Bush's tax cuts to people who make more than $200,000 per year.

$120,000,000,000 as an estimate? He's going to pay for this by wiping out the tax cuts that have rejuvinated our economy? What's he going to do when his plan runs double what he "proposes."

Edwards, who has been criticized by some for calling on Americans to be willing to give up their SUVs while driving one, acknowledged Sunday that he owns a Ford Escape hybrid SUV, purchased within the year, and a Chrysler Pacificia, which he said he has had for years.

"I think all of us have to move, have to make progress," he said. "I'm not holyier-than-thou about this. ... I'm like a lot of Americans, I see how serious this issue is and I want to address it myself and I want to help lead the nation in the right direction."

He said he would not buy another SUV in the future.

The Ford Escape, the first hybrid SUV on the market, gets an estimated 36 mpg in the city and 31 mpg on the highway.

Brings to mind this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozambique_Drill

News

In the intervening time, I've:

-Worked a lot.
-Got a 100% on a writing assignment.
-Bought a USP Compact 9mm.
-Done a lot of writing.
-Watched Fred Thompson declare his candidacy. This is the first time I've ever been excited about a presidential candidate. We can only hope he wins.

Living For

I'm sick of living for someone else. It seems like what I want to do always takes a backseat to what is right, what is financially responsible, what is common sense, what is good, what I should do.

I wanted to buy a PTR-91...but instead I'll dump that money into stuff I should buy.
I wanted to take a year between school and college and just work...but I went to college.
I wanted to take this semester off and just work...but I'm going to school.
I wanted to ask a girl out...but I didn't, to preserve our friendship.
I want to ask another girl to go see The Kingdom...but I won't, because it'd be messy whether or not it worked.

I'm sick of always doing the right thing, the good thing, the common sense thing. I can't seem to behave like my brother, and do whatever I want, whenever I want, damn the torpedoes. But somehow, I just can't cut loose of doing the right thing, all the time. I'm sick of my own inability to let go.

I think this next line's from Lost:

"It's ok for some people, Jack. But not for you."

Grrr...It's 11:45 at night, and I'm depressed about all of this. And I know it, and it's influencing what I right. I'll feel differently in the morning. Actually I won't, I just won't admit it.

Gun Stuff

So on Saturday night I go to Gander Mtn. I'm looking to drop nearly a thousand dollars on a USP Compact.

The people in the gun department don't know how to use their computer system to find one for me. The guy says he'll take our information and call us when he has some time to work with the computer.

The next day, we decide to go back, but we decide to call first in case they dug up anything the night before. The man on the phone says they can't do any ordering (WTH?!). We go, and wind up talking to someone we've never met before. He says they CAN order stuff, and manages to find 5 USP Compact 9's, Variant 1 versions, for between $850-$950. He takes our information and says he'll call us if he finds any used versions.

An hour later, we get a call at home, he's order a new and a used. Not only do we have no obligation to buy, but he's waving the $25/gun shipping fee, because TPTB have decreed handguns may only be shipped overnight.

My USP should be here today or tomorrow.

Yay!

School Again

I'm here in school again. Sitting at yet another computer.

School's not SO bad. Business class is entertaining, because the teacher is about 80% Libertarian. You know it's going to be a fun class when she says "If you trust the government to take care of you, you end up eating stale bread on the Russian Plateau."

Economics is taught by a man who doesn't speak much English.

And Business Writing looks to be fairly easy, though it incorporates all the elements that made me hate Business Writing Intro so much. Peer review...urgh. Makes me wanna take a claw hammer to my computer.

So Here I Am...

Sitting in a another computer lab.

Waiting for class to start for the semester. One hour and eighteen minutes left.

I don't feel comfortable blogging my usual stuff in a public place. Don't know why, I'll probably get over it though.

I'd rather be working. There I get paid to put up with aggravation, and I occasionally have some fun. Here I pay to be aggravated, and there's never ANYTHING fun.

Yes, I'm in a foul mood about this.

Shooty Goodness

Well, my mom (who's been to the range approximately 2 times) said we'd go at least once this summer, before I go back to college. Given that I go back on Monday, and work a bit in between, yesterday was the last day to go.

We loaded up the Walther .22, the CZ452, CX4, and Beretta 92, and then me, she, and my brother all rode out to the range.

Woulda been a little nicer if the people one lane over hadn't been so interested in running more lead through their XD45 than went through the last 9 John Woo movies. Mom doesn't like loud bangs, especially from 5 feet away.

But, she blew the center out of the target at 25 yards with the CZ. Moved on up to the Walther, and did passable with that. Took 2 shots with the CX4, and hit a bullseye with one shot, but didn't like that. One shot with the 92, and it was time to go.

I didn't have the advantage of someone coaching me to shoot with various .22s. I went from nothing, not even airsoft to a .40S&W carry pistol, and from there to an Honest-To-God battlerifle. It didn't take me long to become accustomed to the use of a gun, but I guess it takes other people longer. Oh well. She did quite good.

I Am SO Going To See This...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMei5nctinc

Classic Michael Mann film here. Jamie Foxx, good acting, tight scripting, good camerawork, neat dialogue, great combat sequences, .308s, badguys getting their backsides handed to them...

Like a poster I saw once said: "Tell those boys with their laundry on their heads it's washday, and we're bringin' the Maytag."

What's Going On

Not a whole lot happening in Vincentdom. Lots of work. Lots of gearing up for school. Lots of running. Some shooting. The stock fell off my HDR again, I need to write ACE about fixing this. You spend +$200 on something, you expect it to work.

I finalized my financial objectives for 2008. I'm gonna have to get a start on them right after I get my USP later this month. It'll take me 1.5 years to complete 1 year's worth of financial objectives. Ah well, such is working on a deadline. Most of the stuff will probably be banned in early 2009.

Outrage

http://washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070804/NATION/108040062/1001

I'm not going to cut and paste because it's two pages. Paraphrased, the DemCong played fast and loose with the rules, and because they did so, they passed a bill allowing criminal aliens to collect government benefits.

WHY we're having a reasonable debate on this is beyond me.

WHY we're not trying everyone on the "criminal alien" side of this debate for capital treason charges is ALSO beyond me.

Shooty Goodness

Been out to the range twice in the past 5 days.

First time went out with just the Storm and the .22. The Storm is a fantastic rifle. Low recoil, accurate, only problem is those damned American peep sights. Hate 'em. The Commies know how to make a rifle sight.

Kept all my shots on piece of printer paper at 75 feet, grouping them nicely, even in rapid-fire.

Friday we took my Sig and my dad's 1911 out, ran 100 rounds of steelcase 45 hardball between them. The Sig was mystifying. Shot left from a sandbag. Shot beautifully accurate standing the first time, and then the second time could not get 1 out of 8 on paper. The 1911 of course performed beautifully. Standing, I fired a group at 45 feet you could cover with an index card. The first three formed a nice little "V," all the sides touching. Two vertical from that, and then a final three in a nice tight group. Lovin' it.

Gun Sales Rise After Cheshire Home Invasion

Gun Sales Rise After Cheshire Home Invasion
Security Company Says Phones Ringing Off Hook
July 26, 2007
http://www.wfsb.com/news/13763446/detail.html

NEWINGTON, Conn. - State gun sales have shot up in the daysafter the wife and two daughters of a prominent Connecticutphysician were killed, according to a local gun shop owner.

Scott Hoffman runs Hoffman's Gun Center on the Berlin Turnpike. In the past few days, following the triple homicide in Cheshire,Hoffman said that people have been rushing to his store to buyguns for themselves and their homes.

"They're scared," he said. "They're scared for their own personal safety and their family's safety, their children's safety and they want a way to protect themselves."Hoffman said that the most popular weapon for both men and women looking to defend themselves is a defense-grade shotgun.

Hoffman credited the gun's popularity to the short waiting period -it can be obtained in two weeks as opposed to waiting 90 days for a pistol permit."We sell about 8,000 guns a year, and I'd say a majority of them are for self-defense," he said.

Channel 3 Eyewitness News reporter Jessica Schneider reportedthat residents questioning their sense of safety following the home invasion have also been calling companies that install security systems.

Joe Mitchell of Associated Security Corp. said his company's phones have been ringing off the hook."I had 15 phone calls on my phone by 9:30 in the morning," he said.

He said that security systems aren't meant to protect valuables anymore, that many people use them to protect their lives.
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Some people GET IT!

Note how long it takes to get a gun there though. 3 months for a handgun, 2 weeks for a shotgun. There's a label for that - I call it failure. Failure by the people to elect the right politicians, failure to strongarm them out of passing bad law, and finally, failure to punish them for grievous abridgement of the human right to self-defense.

And by punish, I'm not meaning VOTING them out of office.

"In certain...extreme situations, the law is inadequate. In order to shame its inadequacy, it is necessary to act outside the law. To pursue...natural justice. This is not vengeance. Revenge is not a valid motive, it's an emotional response. No, not vengeance. Punishment."

US Senators call for universal Internet filtering

US senators today made a bipartisan call for the universal implementation of filtering and monitoring technologies on the Internet in order to protect children at the end of a Senate hearing for which civil liberties groups were not invited.

Commerce Committee Chairman Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) and Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Vice Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) both argued that Internet was a dangerous place where parents alone will not be able to protect their children.

“While filtering and monitoring technologies help parents to screen out offensive content and to monitor their child’s online activities, the use of these technologies is far from universal and may not be fool-proof in keeping kids away from adult material," Sen. Inouye said. “In that context, we must evaluate our current efforts to combat child pornography and consider what further measures may be needed to stop the spread of such illegal material over high-speed broadband connections."

"Given the increasingly important role of the Internet in education and commerce, it differs from other media like TV and cable because parents cannot prevent their children from using the Internet altogether," Sen. Stevens said. "The headlines continue to tell us of children who are victimized online. While the issues are difficult, I believe Congress has an important role to play to ensure that the protections available in other parts of our society find their way to the Internet."

The measures they are calling for include directing the Federal Communications Commission to identify industry practices "that can limit the transmission of child pornography" and requiring the Federal Trade Commission to form a working group to identify blocking and filtering technologies in use and "identify, what, if anything could be done to improve the process and better enable parents to proactively protect their children online."

"In its zeal to protect kids from predators and potentially inappropriate content, Congress must not trample the First Amendment rights of Internet users," Center for Democracy and Technology said in a statement submitted to the Committee today.

They highlighted the finding of a report prepared by diverse group of people including individuals with expertise in constitutional law, law enforcement, libraries and library science, information retrieval and representation, developmental and social psychology, Internet and other information technologies, ethics, and education found that “public policy can go far beyond the creation of statutory punishment for violating some approved canon of behavior.”

"[T]he most important finding of the committee is that developing in children and youth an ethic of responsible choice and skills for appropriate behavior is foundational for all efforts to protect them—with respect to inappropriate sexually explicit material on the Internet as well as many other dangers on the Internet and in the physical world," the Thornburgh Committee concluded.
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I'd try to fisk it, but it'd wind up turning into a Guns post instead of a Government post. If you think you should be able to "filter" the internet, you should be fired from Congress and given a one way ticket to the Soviet Union or China, which ever totalitarian state fits your personality better.

Licensing Roadblocks Generate Revenue by Seizing Cars

Licensing Roadblocks Generate Revenue by Seizing Cars
Roadblocks in California and North Carolina generated significant revenue from licensing infractions and automobile seizures.

Roadblocks in California and North Carolina generated significant revenue from licensing infractions and automobile seizures this week. North Carolina state police have begun experimenting with short-term "safety checkpoints" that contrast with the more traditional approach used in California.

Troopers in Rocky Mount, North Carolina set up a roadblock on Riverside Drive that lasted just thirty-minutes. Joined by the city police, the troopers were able to issue $75 tickets to anyone neglecting or choosing not to wear a seatbelt. Forgetting a driver's license at home yielded $160 citations. The intention behind the short-term roadblocks was preventing motorists from using cell phones to warn friends and family to avoid the road and its inconvenience. According to police, the location of each roadblock spreads quickly.
So basically they're trolling for minor, victimless infractions. Rocky Mount NC PD, meet the 4th Amendment. And while you're at it, a discussion of the intent of the 2nd might be in order too...you know, why they wrote it, that sort of thing.

Traditional four and six hour roadblocks in California this week allowed two police departments to seize 119 vehicles likely to yield $140,000 in fines and fees. In Gardena, 1489 motorists traveling on Redondo Beach and Crenshaw Boulevards between 10am and 2pm yesterday were stopped and ordered to show their paperwork. The effort yielded 62 vehicles seized over licensing violations each of which will likely net $1200 in towing and storage fees. Officers were able to issue another 34 tickets for seatbelt and window tinting issues. No drunk drivers were identified.
The whole purpose of these checkpoints was originally to catch drunk drivers, no? I can't see where this gets called a success. They inconvenience nearly 2,000 drivers, seize dozens of vehicles over minor infractions (do they call a cab for you if they impound your vehicle, or do you walk?), and they can't even claim it was a success according to their original intent.

"We were only there for four hours and under 2,000 cars went through the checkpoint," Gardena Police Officer Carl Freeman told the Los Angeles Daily Breeze newspaper. "That means almost 2,000 drivers got educated."
Of course those drivers got educated you self-righteous pig with delusions of adequacy. They got educated as to abuses of power, they got educated as to what it feels like to hear "Papers, please" inside American borders, and they got educated as to abridgement of their God-given, Constitutionally-guaranteed rights. Mr. Freeman (irony there is strong, isn't it), should be tossed in prison, IN uniform.

The city yesterday received a $468,445 grant of state and federal gas tax money from the California Office of Traffic Safety to conduct additional DUI roadblocks.
State and federal gas tax money. So now I'M helping to pay for unconstitutional behavior by the NC police department. Beautiful. Do they have a 5 year plan for checkpoints as well?

In the city of Bakersfield, another 1300 motorists were subjected to a search at at Chester Avenue and 40th Street allowing police to collect 57 cars. The roadblock, funded by state and federal gas tax money, lasted from 7am to 1pm. Only one suspected drunk driver was identified.
Well, at least this one was a success. 6 hours, 1300 motorists' rights abridged, one drunk driving SUSPECT caught. Notice how the police were "allowed" to collect 57 cars. I don't think there was any deniable permitting going on there.

There's What Is...

The gasoline price-hike gives me hope that this time nothing will change. Deep down I know that it will, but what happened last time gives me hope.

When the price of gasoline rose quickly through the three dollar level, and into the fours, do you remember what happened?

Not a whole lot.

We had a lot of people whining and complaining on TV and on the radio, and in print. The oil companies are gouging us! Save us from eeevvvviiilll big OOOIIILLL! But nobody actually went out and did anything. Sure, Toyota is in the process of converting ALL their vehicles over to hybrid, but that’s nothing new. When gas climbed into the $4.20 range, Americans didn’t cut their driving at all. The auto manufacturers didn’t go out and invent fifteen new electric or hybrid cars. Detroit is still trying to convince the average American man that he needs a truck capable of hauling the Statue Of Liberty. The soccer moms are still rolling in their $30,000 SUVs. With the exception of a handful more Priuses on the road, nothing’s changed.

This was the public shaming of the “Bush Went To War For Oil” crowd, but nobody showed up. Too bad.

And that’s what gives me hope. When prices rose last time, NOTHING happened. I fear this time will be different.

Today the federal minimum wage gets a hike up to $5.85 per hour, an increase of $.70, or a little more than one seventh. For a full-time minimum-wage employee, if this first wage-hike were the last, they would be receiving an extra $1,456 per year. In another six months, minimum wage gets bumped up to $6.55. Another $.70 increase. Another $1,456 per year.

In exactly 365 days, business owners will be forced, upon threat of jail or violence, to pay their minimum-wage employees roughly 27% percent MORE do to exactly the SAME work they were doing yesterday. Whereas before your standard minimum wage laborer earns roughly $10,700 before taxes now, they will soon be earning nearly $14,000.

But this is a good thing, right? Right?

For the first time in history, single mothers will no longer have to choose between baby formula and electricity. Families will become self-sufficient. Poverty in America will end. No child will go to bed hungry again.

This is a good thing, right? Right?

No. Because there’s what is, and then there’s what others think should be. There’s the ideal, and then there’s reality. There’s the way it’s supposed to be done, and then there’s what actually happens.

Do you really think there are not going to be consequences for each full-time minimum wage employee being paid an extra $3000 dollars per year? Do you think that every business in American can soak up an extra $3000 loss per minimum wage employee?

This is where I fear the gas-price hike was an abnormality.

Because this time, there will be an effect following the cause.

As businesses are forced (at pain of jail or violence) to pay roughly 1/3 more for exactly the same work, since a business cannot long operate like the federal government and run at a deficit, they will have one of two choices. First, they can pass that new loss onto the customer. Prices have already been rising across the board for the past year. In order to stay in business, companies are going to have to jack their prices up EVEN further, just to make ends meet. They’re still carrying the same product, but now they’ve got an increased overhead. This will hit the retail sector especially hard, as retailers generally run on an incredibly tight budget. In order to survive financially, prices WILL have to rise. Will consumers continue paying, say, a third more for the same product? Of course not. Absolutely not. Hopefully they will, as they did during the gas price hike, or companies are going to face even MORE dire financial straits.

The second course of action is to lay off employees. Imagine, in your place of work, if all the salaries were doubled. Do you really believe all of you would be there a year from now, all earning twice as much for the same work? Of course not. Absolutely not. At some point the market will not bear the price increase and the only way to stabilize the financing is to let some of the employees go. So, in order to support the wage hikes, we’re going to lose some of our minimum wage employees, who will then be unemployed, and because of the wage hike all over, they will find far less work than before.

Meanwhile those employees who were earning MORE than minimum wage will have to pick up the slack of losing some of those minimum wage employees. The same work still has to get done, but now there are less people to do it. Would YOU stay with your current job if they eliminated a quarter of the employees and added their duties to yours, WITHOUT a corresponding increase in YOUR wages? Of course not. Absolutely not.

That’s because there’s what is, and then there’s what others think should be.

If government could tinker with wages as much as they would like, what is unreasonable about setting the minimum wage at $10 per hour? (Wait, Donkey candidate John Edwards wants to do just that!) How about $20 per hour? Why not $50? Why not just give everyone $100,000 every year? That’d be a novel solution to trying to end poverty.

Or, if we’re in the business of discussing moronic government interference, we could, as Donkey candidate Barak Huessein Obama suggests, link the minimum wage to price increases.

This is much like what will happen soon, only his idea involves a continual escalation. As retailers jack up their prices to account for the increased overhead of their employees being paid a third again as much for the same work, the buying power of the minimum wage employee will remain the same. Say they get their 27% more money – if prices rise at a similar rate, what has changed? What. Has. Changed?

This is all incredibly ironic of course, because the Democratic party has two other favorite economic drums that it likes to bang without rhythm. The first is immigration. The recently-killed amnesty bill would’ve legalized 12 million criminal aliens. These newly pardoned, newly minted citizens would thereby be eligible for the minimum wage, becoming as employable as the American citizens their employers favored them over. The whole reason there IS a problem with criminal aliens in this country is because American employers don’t have to pay them as much as non-criminals. Between paying a Mexican $3 to work the fields, or raising their wages to attract Americans, the standard farming organization would rather pay the Mexican. It’s absolutely logical business: What is financially better? Paying your employees $3, or paying your employees $9. What will keep your prices low, and you in business for longer?

The Democratic party wants to make 12 million new citizens, and immediately put them out of work.

The second hobby horse of the Democratic party is the shipping of American jobs overseas. American businesses don’t do this because they like having Pakistanis who don’t speak English running their phone-tech-support services, they do this to save money. They’d rather pay foreign wages to Americans – but American wages are cost prohibitive. So, we run into the problems outlined above: Raising prices, cutting services, firing employees, or closing the doors and turning out the lights. For the second time, a business is not like the federal government – they cannot run forever on a deficit, and when a private individual prints money like it’s going out of style it’s not called devaluing the currency, it’s called counterfeiting.

These are facts. You can raise the minimum wage, but in doing so you’re going to kill businesses, put employees out of work, and raise prices for consumers (who will respond by spending even less of their money). You can ignore the consequences and play havoc with the market over a fuzzy, feel-good idea, but eventually that train will run you over.

Because there’s what is, and then there’s what others think there should be. There’s the ideal, and then there’s reality. There’s the way it’s supposed to be done, and then there’s what actually happens.

There’s what IS, and then there’s what others think should be.

The Brave One

http://www.firstshowing.net/2007/05/31/brave-one-trailer/

Go. Watch the trailer.

Gives me the warm-and-fuzzies.

Harry Potter

The final book of that poorly written and repetitive series is out tonight. I had to work.

I cannot comprehend the mental retardation that leads someone to stand for an hour out in a parking lot waiting for a kids book, this book especially. It's like the Star Wars fans who'd camp out for 72 hours before the movies.

The one saving grace of the night: teenage GIRL WIZARDS. Short skirts, button-up shirts, sweatervests, and capes. Damn. We should do this more often.

Recent Movies

Seraphim Falls

Good movie, with a psychedelic ending. Seriously, I thought the ending was going to show that both characters were on drugs or in hell or something, it was that messed up. Don't bother renting it. Liam Neeson was cool though.

Live Free Or Die Hard

Excellent movie. Almost as good as the original. Saw a 10pm showing the same day I went to the range. Not enough swearing though. That's what Die Hard is - a barefoot smart-alec running around swearing and killing people.

John McClane didn't chicken out about hitting the woman though, which is different for an action movie. Shows that someone on the writing staff has some guts.

I'll probably go see it again.

Shooty Goodness

Sorry for the lack of updates. I came in at a breath under 40 hours last week, and will be again this week. At least I update more than the GeekWithA.45.

Got some trigger-time with my dad and a friend on Monday. HDR, 1911, and most importantly, 2 shotguns, a Remington 870 and a Browning Light 12.

Had a few double feeds with my HDR, but it ran flawlessly with some of the new ammo I picked up, so another case of that will be ordered shortly. Grouped very well, if a hint low. Which is not a problem. Bad guys wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

The shotguns were incredible. We were shooting lowbrass #8 birdshot, and the Light 12 felt like there was no recoil. It was interesting shooting and seeing the wooden target stand just erupt with splinters. The pump was a lot more fun. I could work it quickly and accurately, and there's something primitively satisfying about a pump shotgun. Sort of like sitting around a fire at night, or smelling cooking meat. It feels natural. On the other hand, I didn't have it shouldered properly, and my arm now feels like someone's playing Inna-Gotta-Da-Vida on it with a tire iron, and this is two days later.

But, shotguns don't scare me anymore.

I'm going to try and find a Saiga 12, and there's $350 Benelli home-defense gun at Gander that I want to look more closely at.

It was a good day at the range.