I always liked Tennessee, especially the Knoxville area.

Indeed, and we should reclaim that meaning for the word ! :-)

Got both. :-]

I don't know where you live, but unless you're in socialist heaven like Fairfax VA or Baltimore, MD, or even San Francisco, you may be surprised how many people have guns at home but never let anyone know. Personally, though, if SHTF happens (Baltimore style or worse), those that don't have guns by now can have fun on their own. I do not intend to be Don Quixote and save them from their own kind.

Just an opinion - unless you have really lots of practice with it, by the time you pull the hammer, you may not need it anymore. The thumb safety is much faster and can become part of the muscle memory as you draw. Or go to a somewhat larger gun that has 911-style palm safety, like Springfield XD.

Jan, I completely understand. Jefferies is a moron feeling totally at home with the moronic audience. And every place where his vocabulary fails him, he substitutes the same profanity. At least when George Carlin did it, he had style and used it strategically, not as an alternate dictionary.

You mean in the Old USA? Don't look for it in the New USA.

I would love it! As far as I know I'm the only person in my neighborhood that has firearms. Lately, I have been wondering what would happen when/if the SHTF.
I believe it was the intention of the founding fathers that the 2nd Amendent to the Constitution is to maintain the individual safety of each citizen by the right to bear arms. There should have been addendum to the 2nd: That the states will not infringe their will nor interpret the 2nd amendment.

Geeze. We sure watched a different video clip! (at least in our own minds.)

Jan
(And you will have to try a lot harder than that if you want to offend me.)

Wherever I live I own guns, and will shoot the ass off anyone who tries to take them, so is the question even relevant?

that's the catch, Kristopher!!! -- j
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well, gun control (imho) is being able to hit your target!!! -- j
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Absolutely. Where guns are "controlled", people are really free.

To each his (or her) own, but I didn't really find it anti-gun rhetoric at all. I took it more pro-gun and the funniest part of it to me was when he said that's almost exactly what you (and I) would say. I actually laughed and I don't laugh that much, never have.

Please take no offense in my remarks, none intended, just expressing a different opinion on something we obviously agree on, gun rights..

I don't like the wording "Where guns are allowed"

Better that we should just shoot any bastard that wants to Disallow them!

Every freedom we have came from the end of a gun!

.357 with jacketed hollow points. Speed loaders are a good idea. I prefer the S&W K frame. Taurus makes one that's a 7 shot.

A 380 is a 9mm short. It doesn't have quite the impact, but it is a good, close range weapon for stopping muggers and home invaders .I like it because it is so easily concealed, but it is a lot more than it looks like. Ruger also makes some small 9mm, but I can't vouch for them personally. I also have a S & W 9mm which holds 15 rounds. I take it to the range, but don't usually carry it because it is quite a bit larger. The weapon you carry... and all that.

You remind me of the first pistol I bought back in the 70s.
I had been threatened for some police beat stories I wrote when I was a newspaper reporter.
Now I just plain want to have a 9mm for once in my life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler_%2...

Unfortunately, I think that gun opinion will continue to pendulum. I am watching - it may be a good indicator for the feeling of the country as a whole. Perhaps in the future we will be able to better predict how an election will go by what the % gun sentiment is.

Jan

I watched the first few minutes. Perhaps the rest was better, but I did not feel like wading though unfunny anti-gun rhetoric to get to the possible funny parts.

Jan

Y.E.S.!

Well, your requirement for a hammer you can thumb back rules out my favorite carry pistol, but I'll mention it any. Look at the Ruger LCP 380. It is very thin and light 6 + 1 , double action, no safety. I carry it every day an hardly know it is there. Totally reliable.

Allowed by whom?

I prefer to live where the government has few and clearly defined responsibilities and largely butts out of peoples' lives including any regulation of firearms beyond egregious cases, e.g. mass murderers shouldn't have firearms.

You remind me that I need to hit the range soon as well.