The Truth About Guns

“Allowing employees to have near, immediate access to firearms, at work, creates an element of risk that is unacceptable.” Mark Hogan, vice president of security for FedEx, quoted in Guns-in-Parking-Lots Foes Speak Their Piece [2012 via tnreport.com]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLdElcv5qqc

My father survived four years of starvation and slavery to raise a family and build a thriving commercial enterprise. Peter Farago’s advice on business: take in more money than you spend. His advice for life: persistence. That’s it. Just that. If you want something, keep after it. That’s how Kirsten Joy Weiss approaches shooting. She logged hundreds of thousands of hours training to become the NRA small-bore National Champion. When it comes to “trick shots” KJW keeps after it until she gets it done. No editing out misses to make it look easy. Because it isn’t. Persistence never is. But it does make success that much sweeter. You know, eventually.

“Nowhere else in the world do the laws on firearms become the playthings of politicians and lobbyists intent on manufacturing cultural conflict. Nowhere else do elected officials turn the matter of taking a gun to church into a searing ideological question. But then, guns are not a religion in most countries.” – E.J. Dionne in The gun supremacists’ folly [at washingtonpost.com]

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Once upon a time a derogatory comment on TTAG re: Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America jefe Shannon Watts (above right) showed up on a mainstream antis’ website. Dan and I quickly decided that we had to extend our “no-flaming” policy to the subject of our posts – not just TTAG, its writers and fellow commentators. We didn’t want to give the antis anti-gun agitprop ammunition. Although it’s proven difficult (I’m looking at you Dirk and Ralph), especially on our Facebook page, we’ve adhered to that policy. JK sent us this image making the rounds on Twitter. See? Our commenting policy is like that old adage everything in moderation. Except moderation.

SIG SAUER has for a long time been engraving small batches of their handguns to order. They offer a program in which outside organizations, such as law enforcement groups or military units, can design an engraving pattern to be put on a handgun to commemorate…well just about anything. But SIG doesn’t do it for everyone — just the organizations whose principles they agree with (sorry, Moms Demand Action, no commemorative P226 pistols for you!). At the NRA Annual Meeting this year SIG unveiled their NRA commemorative P227, emblazoned with the NRA logo. They say some of the sale price will be donated straight to the NRA itself. You in?