Sunday, October 02, 2005

WarOnGuns Voicemail: Two Seconds


I decided to give the Audioblogger feature a test run.

this is an audio post - click to play

Fortunately it's the weekend, when site traffic slows down--so if this is a flop, not as many people will be there to point and laugh. I can find one mistake, but hey, at least I did the thing in one take and didn't say "uh." Plus, thanks to the miracle of duct tape, you can't hear the kids fighting in the background.

This commentary originally appeared in written form on GunTruths.com, and included an "Afterword:"

"Dennis Henigan of the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence drops the ball in front of a roomful of reporters, while trying to prove the efficacy of Saf-T-Lok, a purportedly easy-to-use combination lock in the gun's grip. Henigan fumbles and fails to unlock the gun in a well-lit room with no intruder at the door... Finally disengaging the safety, he apologizes, 'Most people aren't as klutzy as I am.'"
-From "Lawyers, Guns and Money" by Matt Labash, The Weekly Standard, Feb. 1, 1999

"Again, I learned from Massad Ayoob what has become known throughout the self-defense industry as the Tueller Drill. To our amazement, everyone in our class demonstrated that any person, no matter his age or physical condition, can cover twenty-one feet from a standing start and plunge a knife into a target in an average of 1.5 seconds..."
-From "Armed & Female" by Paxton Quigley

1 comment:

  1. As I was listening to that a video was running in my head -- one that doesn't exist yet but would go great with that audio clip (just the way you recorded it) as the sound track. The only part I cannot quite see is how to make visual the "...Unfortunately, some people say ..." line.

    I think the audio makes the idea being conveyed much more vivid, at least in this case.

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