Matt seeks to avenge his parents. I'm just trying to get some cough medicine. But in the blogger army, all ends are obtainable by one means.
(Yes, I'm leaning back too far; it's been about ten years since I fired a shotgun. But I went 7 for ten on the last two rounds, she said defensively.)
Sticking to the music theme what would be the appropriate soundtrack for the days events.
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Send lawyers, guns, and money?
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Bikini Girls with machine guns?
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Any other suggestions?
At least you don't know where I live...
If that's who I think it is, email me . . . I've been trying to dig up your email address for ages . . .
head down on the stock,
butt firmly in the shoulder pocket,
eyes on the bird,
swing though,
slap the trigger.
what a rush
Shawn's item seemed vaguely naughty to me.
I can see why he'd want your head down on the "stock", but what on EARTH does he want with your butt in his shoulder pocket?
And the best part of all is that the Lovely Megan is using a genuine semi-automatic assault shotgun. Frankly, shooting a few rounds of skeet, trap, or sporting clays is a helluva lot of fun. Next time, how about being on the operating end of a belt-fed? Thanks for sharing the pics.
Those clay pigeons will think twice before they try to infringe upon the inalienable rights of the Atlantic bloggers again.
Aren't you supposed to wear hearing protection?
If you look really closely Megan appears to be wearing earplugs.
Hey Megan - feel free to stop by our event in Idaho next year. I'll make sure you have a press spot.
I'm afraid my experiences working as an EMT in Hartford have made it impossible for me to ever participate in romanticizing guns. But hey, enjoy.
In the first image, the earplug is obvious on the guy in the ballcap. There is indeed a spot of the same color in Megan's ear.
BTW, there just happened to be a post today at one of the gun blogs about not using the proper upscale over-under shotgun for clays.
Incidentally, if you could work out a way to connect this recreational activity to 9/11, the Giuliani campaign would be grateful for your input. Thanks in advance!
Freddie: Thanks for bringing us down with your "real world" perspective.
Don't you know certain upper-middle class types like to pretend they're gangsters/cowboys/plastic-bird-haters? Isn't that worth a few thousand gun-shot wounds?
(Seriously, not a gun control type at all really, but the pleasure people seem to derive from shooting at things, living things especially, has always struck me as quite weird).
I only know two EMTs so, I'll acknowledge that's not a representative sample. Both are shooters and firearms instructors.
However, I have known too many people who like to play the whiny pseudo moral high ground game. But hey, enjoy.
Max: your comment was directed at Freddie, but I find it funny that you point to a "moral high ground" motive, while invoking the exact same profession as Freddie in response. Perhaps both experiences are vaild.
Or is invoking professions, or anyone really, only appropriate when they agree with you? Otherwise they are "whiny". And "pseudo".
"Max" writes: "However, I have known too many people who like to play the whiny pseudo moral high ground game. But hey, enjoy."
How nice of Senator Larry Craig to pay us a visit. But he's a nasty, naughty boy for doing it under a pseudonym.
Cool pics, thanks for sharing! Girls with guns, mmmmm :-)
Andruw,
Try it, you might like it.
Personally, I love playing darts. I love it so much that it's leading me to reconsider my political stance, which has always been pro-darts-control. I know about all these gang-related dart killings going on, and I know that statistically someone who has darts in the home is vastly more likely to injure a friend or family member with them than to use them to repel an intruder. But...darts are way fun! And I'm starting to think there may be something to this argument that if everyone carried darts around all the time, it would deter the badguys or, in the worst case, perforate them.
brooksfoe: It may be fun and games to you, but as a victim of darts violence I don't find any humor in it at all.
It's all fun and games until someone who's had too much to drink misses by about 3 feet and pierces your flesh with the cold, cold steel of a dart.
All my dreams of dancing at the Bolshoi died that horrible day as I looked down and saw the dart protruding from my calf like the lance that St George used to kill the dragon.
So laugh it up, funny boy. I hope nobody in your family is ever tragically injured in such a manner.
Well Freddie I too am an EMT, Yes gunshot wounds are nasty but I see more PT's messed up in MVA's so I do not romantacize automobiles but heh to each his own.
Hey andruw, where exactly do you think the meat in the grocery comes from?
Jens: "but what on EARTH does he want with your butt in his shoulder pocket?" you put the gun butt into the meat "pocket" formed by the anterior deltiod and pectoral muscle. It protects your shoulder from recoil (though it looks like Megan is using low brass and a semi-automatic shotgun, so recoil is not so much of a problem.)
Megan is wearing earplugs...people usually wear earplugs instead of earmuffs in shotgunning because the earmuffs can interfere with shouldering the gun.
For the snobby intellectuals on this board, sporting clays is like nintendo, but louder, enjoyed in the company of others, and done in the fresh air and sunshine.
Hunting is one way to get give your family meat you know is not drugged/hormone injected; a great parent/child pastime that teaches them self discipline, patience and respect for nature; great exercise if bird hunting or spotting and stalking; and a cheap way to control the deer overpopulation problem.
For our EMT friend, after cleaning a few deer and wild pigs and seeing exactly how grisly a buckshot or .30-06 shot is to the animal, you develop an abiding respect for guns and an appreciation for how fragile bodies are. There is probably no way to track this, but I suspect that gangbangers and school shooters are not the kids who were taken hunting when they were younger.
Old guy who is a sometime EMT as well.
Gunshot wounds suck.
So do missing thumbs from woodworking tools, massive internal injuries from falls using climbing gear, etc.. but that doesn't stop many from enjoying the associated devices.
Granted, guns are tools of a different ilk but come on - Get off your high horse.
People can enjoy developing skills with all manner of dangerous/deadly tools for many reasons the key however being mastery.
What you decide to do with those tools from that point on makes for the real debate.
And as an EMT, you have to laugh through some wincing at some of the gunshot wounds like the thigh to scrotal shot from the "gangsta" who jammed his pistol into his pocket after jacking a guy.
Poetic justice can be funny as hell.
Careful! Those shotgun games are terribly addicting. Try it just once and pretty soon you'll need your skeet fix two or three times a week. Worse, it's a gateway thing. It leads straight to trap and then on to sporting clays. Next thing you know you won't have time for fishin'! Lost a lot of good family members that way, I have.
When you're as slight as you are, Megan. Leaning into the recoil slightly will help keep you stable for the gun swing/trigger slap/recoil.
I love the smell of gun smoke.
And, you've moved up quite a bit in my esteem, since you aren't afraid of guns.
Keep it up.
Guys, tune down your sarcasm filters, okay? When I said "Enjoy", I actually meant it. I have very complicated and conflicted thoughts about guns, and I do think that this particular blogger-crew has a very hard time acknowledging the huge costs rampant gun violence has had on our society. And I think there's a tendency for gun lovers to want to totally exclude discussing the very real downside to an armed society. But I was not saying that Megan was wrong for posting this, or that you guys are wrong for enjoying gun ownership.
I was just sharing my personal experience and how it has effected my personal preference. I wasn't trying to moralize. Jeez.
For our EMT friend, after cleaning a few deer and wild pigs and seeing exactly how grisly a buckshot or .30-06 shot is to the animal, you develop an abiding respect for guns and an appreciation for how fragile bodies are. There is probably no way to track this, but I suspect that gangbangers and school shooters are not the kids who were taken hunting when they were younger.
Which is precisely why things like this scare me. Matt Yglesias, for instance, is precisely the kind of "guns are cool", "I wanna be Rambo" guy that I don't want handling guns. Lefties with guns scare me because they tend not to have been raised with them and don't take them seriously.
Since when Freddie, do you get to be the "moral authority" for everyone else? I certainly reject your claim. If others actions don't affect your life, rights or property, you have very little reason to impose your will on them. Can you let other people have some freedom, eh? And as noted above, there are plenty of other things in this world that cause death and destruction. For example, maybe we ought to criminalize anal sex because it tends to spread AIDS? Or would such consistency hurt your pointy little head?
Hmm....
That first photo is rather pathetic. I'd recommend putting away the guns for the time being, and picking up the knife and fork. Put some meat on those bones, young lady!
Since when Freddie, do you get to be the "moral authority" for everyone else?
Okay, seriously, when did I ever say anything like that? I just posted saying that my initial post wasn't intended as moralizing snark but just a separate opinion, a different perspective. I recognize that it seemed that way, so I explained myself.
In the larger sense-- this is a blog comments forum. If you're looking for a judgment free space, I'm afraid you've come to the wrong place. I won't pretend to be able to separate my morality from my politics. This, I genuinely don't get-- "If others actions don't affect your life, rights or property, you have very little reason to impose your will on them."-- are you really suggesting that laws concerning gun ownership don't affect the lives of the non-gun-owning population? It's precisely the fact that we live in a community that makes that kind of broad rule irrelevant to real life. As I said-- I'm conflicted on gun ownership. But I don't think I'm out of line to have an opinion that's different than your own.
"But I don't think I'm out of line to have an opinion that's different than your own."
Not a problem with that statement at all, Freddie. I think the concern is the seemingly 'normal' next step for those conflicted with gun ownership, i.e. No one should own them, or there should be more gun control laws. Makes the six-gun toters (like me) a wee bit more sensitive than we were before Brady, et.al.
You shoot clays the same way I do -- I like to let a few breeding pairs go. ;-)
Ah, I see Megan is prepping up for the first day of Troll Season. Don't forget to try your hand with a deer slug or two -- some of those trolls have light armor plating that tends to impede the efficacy of a standard buckshot load.
Top caption: "He just shot my hair!"
Bottom caption: "Son of a..."
So has trap shooting become another ecumenical, yuppie corporate bonding outing? I presume pictures from the pistol range will not be forthcoming.
"the huge costs rampant gun violence has had on our society. "
@Freddie: How about the rampant lack of discipline in the government schools, or the rampant lack of teaching young people to have respect for others? I would submit that working on those two factors would go a long way toward eliminating gun violence. Certainly faster than outlawing guns.
I hope your finger isn't on the trigger in the first pic
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