Monthly Archives: September 2007

10 posts
Ordnance

Gun selection criteria

Repeat after me: real life is not Rainbow Six.

Sure, lots of guns have features of debatable utility that are somehow supposed to make them “tactical.” That doesn’t mean you need them. Nor should those be the basis for the selection of a self-defense firearm.

Essentially, the list of priorities should read as follows:

  1. Reliability
  2. Controllability
  3. Reliability
  4. Accuracy
  5. Reliability
  6. Ergonomics
  7. Reliability
  8. Caliber
  9. Reliability
  10. Capacity
  11. Reliability

See the pattern? The most important factors boil down to this: get a gun that works and that you can shoot well. Everything else is peripheral.

Videogames

Jack’s Back

Tonight marks the release of Halo 3. I’ll risk the possible lynching by a crowd of angry, pitchfork-toting fanboys and say it: I never really got what the hype was about.

Sure, it’s a competent first-person shooter, and the online capabilities are excellent, but c’mon, it’s pulpy space opera with guns. It’s good, but it’s not exactly the reinvention of the wheel or anything.

Anyhow, Master Chief’s back, riding a wave of advertising hype and testosterone into the videogame equivalent of Return of the Jedi. And, of course, Jack Thompson’s back as well.

Code Info Dump

Bowing out of the Browser Wars

I think it was Sartre who once wrote something along the lines of, “walking away in disgust is not the same thing as surrender.” Or maybe it was Camus. I’m pretty sure it was one of those Existentialists. Or maybe Absurdists. Probably just a little crazy, too.

In any case, insanity is defined as the practice of repeating the same action over and over again, expecting different results. That’s kind of my relation with Internet Explorer.

Ordnance

The importance of real instruction

Image heisted from Kathy Jackson

Everyone’s got a friend who’s “into guns,” just like everyone’s got a friend who’s “good with tools.” I wouldn’t trust anyone but a certified mechanic to service my brakes, so why would I entrust firearms training to someone who’s only a casual enthusiast?

Civil Rights

D.C. first, then the nation.

This chestnut comes from Laura Washington at the Sun Times: “If I had my way, the gun lobby would be looking at three yards and a cloud of dust. Let’s get organized and shove tougher gun policies right down their throats.”

This sort of thing is typical of the gun-control crowd, and gang, we’re only going to see more in the coming months.

Why? Because they’ve been pushed into a corner. They had their chance with the Brady Bill in 1994, and now they’re seeing the failure of their agenda on both local and national levels.