Comments on: Exercising my Second Amendment rights

By: Bookworm Room » Can’t talk now — I’m busy thinking

Bookworm Room » Can’t talk now — I’m busy thinking — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:09:25 +0000

[...] weeks, I also hope to augment my political and domestic posts with descriptions of me, once again exercising my Second Amendment rights. We’ll see how NavyOne’s imaginative and generous idea plays out. Share With [...]

By: Paging All Bay Area Gun Experts |

Paging All Bay Area Gun Experts | — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:31:19 +0000

[...] blogger up with some instruction. Go here and read her comments below. Or peruse her own blogpost about her previous experiences. Did I mention that a big-time celebrity quoted her on his [...]

By: Bookworm Room » If you’re good with a gun

Bookworm Room » If you’re good with a gun — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:04:44 +0000

[...] I enjoyed my single outing with a weapon, I don’t think I’m ready for prime time yet. Share With [...]

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:23:42 +0000

I am eagerly awaiting your second experience, Book ; )

You must know that you have our very best regards and encouragement in this aspect.

By: gkong3

gkong3 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:25:26 +0000

Danny: You have to understand, our neighbours (I’m from Malaysia) and we have a different understanding on the role of ‘guns’.
You see, we pay lip service to the fiction that if we can restrict guns to the ‘right’ people (i.e. police and security forces), that makes life safer for everyone else – because your common hoodlum can’t get them either, see? Of course, your common hoodlum will simply hold a knife to your throat, but let’s not talk about that…
Strictly speaking, Malaysia does not ‘ban’ guns (but the present condition of gun ownership in Malaysia should serve as a sobering reminder to 2nd Amendment proponents what gun control could look like). Rather, the government licences them. If you can demonstrate that you need firearms for work-related purposes, or because there is a current, constant, credible threat to your bodily safety, then you will get the licences. You will also get ‘grandfathered’ licences, and if you are in East Malaysia (or the more remote areas of West Malaysia), hunting licences.
In other words, the only people who can apply for gun licences with any real hope of getting them are ex-mil or ex-cop, security forces, sundry law enforcement people (judges etc) and the ‘elite’ (politicians, tycoons, royalty etc), and hunters.
There are in fact Malaysian gun shops – and some of them even have Web presences.
The Malaysian government does see its people as cattle to be milked of votes every 5 years, though.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:14:10 +0000

Sure, Danny, his independence from reality.

By: Danny Lemieux

Danny Lemieux — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:24:58 +0000

So, Book…is Mr. Book’s real problem that he is the last, living fossil of Liberalism in your family? Maybe it’s his way of declaring his independence. Doesn’t he wonder why so many close to him disagree with him?
Just FYI, one of my own b-in-laws is the same way…my wife’s oldest sibling. Typically Liberal, he brags that he doesn’t have to listen to other people’s opinions because he himself has figured out how the world works. Typically Liberal, he will also tell you in the same self-delusional breath that he is a true “intellectual”.
Regarding your first target, it’s impressive enough that you may want to inscribe “0.357 Magnum” across the top in large block letters and keep it to post in your front window should your neighborhood ever suffer a spate of robberies or home break-ins.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:34:40 +0000

He thought that was too long a wait but, when he actually got his hands on my brother-in-law’s unloaded revolver, he was very intimidated,

He’ll be more intimidated once you blow up a watermelon and tell him that’s what should happen to somebody’s head.

This is to eliminate the wonder and curiosity factor. Any skill, under intense training, should start becoming very boring and predictable. It’s when things are new that people get nervous and start forgetting what they shouldn’t forget. And the curiosity of kids are more dangerous than other kinds in this situation, because their instincts tell them that self-preservation will be furthered by finding more about the world but parents think they can hide kids behind a bubble forever. Neither is completely true. You learn too much about the world before you’re ready and you can die due to lack of preparation. At the same time, nobody knows what will happen so keeping people in a bubble doesn’t do them any good because you won’t always be by their side telling them what to do or what not to do.

Human preservation is much better through distributed individual successes rather than central control, but human society is ordered through a hierarchy so we still operate under the principles of a hierarchy.

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:30:20 +0000

A Ryder BB gun? Are you crazy? You can shoot your eye out with one of those things.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:28:56 +0000

We have promised him a youth gun safety and training class when he is 12.

Get him a BB gun. One of those red Ryder thingies. I’ve heard that the shooting mechanisms are exactly the same, except, obviously, there’s more bullet drop.