Wednesday, March 17, 2010

The Day the Earth Stood Still

It used to take an advanced alien with a giant robot to lock everything up.

Now, in MA anyway, it seems a shotgun shell will do the trick.

[Via Ed M]
Posted by David Codrea at 3/17/2010 01:33:00 PM

8 comments:

Tom Wolff said...

The article doesn't say if it was a live round or not, so I left this comment over there. I wonder if they will publish it:

First off, I am laughing in a combination of amazement and disgust at some of the comments left by the “rabbit people”. Such fearful and paranoid responses are WAY overboard. To think that this is the same state where everyday armed citizens led the Revolution? Oh, well…

On to the issues and some RATIONAL analysis:

Depending upon whether it was an expended round or a live round, I would bet even money that one of two things happened here:
1 – That an empty, useless shell fell out of the garbage truck, as suggested above.
2- That some HS kid had a live round of their own in his/her jacket, either from shooting over the weekend and they forgot about it, or that they thought it would be “cool” to bring a live round to school. Either way, they realized that it was not wise to maintain possession of said round and dropped it before entering the school. (Silly forgetful/impetuous HS kids, ya know?)

As to finding such an object, I can think of 4 RATIONAL options:

If you don’t know anything about guns, either take the fired, empty shell and toss it in the trash (it is harmless garbage to anyone but a reloader) or give the live round to someone who DOES know about ammo and guns. CALMLY. It CANNOT hurt you!

A cop is an option if you feel inclined to imagine the worst case
scenario. Bear in mind that school shootings, although highly publicized, are extremely rare. Use your judgment WISELY.
That applies to everyone, shooter or non-shooter alike.

If you are a shooter, your knowledge is vastly superior.
If it is an expended round and you own a shotgun and reload, inspect it and either toss it or keep it. If it is a live round, inspect it carefully and either render it useless or take it home and fire it out of your Mossberg, Remington, Benelli, etc.

It’s like finding a dollar that someone dropped…

(PLEASE, NO whining from the “rabbit people”, OK?)

3/17/2010 4:30 PM
Carl Bussjaeger said...

And remember, this is the same state where they blow LiteBrites and DOT traffic counters.

3/17/2010 4:59 PM
Carl Bussjaeger said...

Argh. ...blow UP LiteBrites and traffic counters.

Then again, it is Mass...

3/17/2010 5:02 PM
BrianF said...

Tom W.,
Handing a live or spent round to a cop in the state of MA could have you ending up in jail if you have not paid the mandatory firearms and ammo tax (licensing fee). State law makes no distinction between a harmless piece of brass and a live round, and without the required approval..well, you get the picture.
The real solution would be to stop the pussification of the masses.

3/17/2010 9:16 PM
Tom Wolff said...

BrianF,
Thanks for that intel. I didn't know that MA was that FUBAR, but then again, I shoulda known. :)

Odds are they would actually persecute ya on that, too.

Regardless, I have no intention of crossing the Mississippi in a northern way ever again, or even going to the Left Coast, so I am relatively safe here in the Rockies
for now. Did I reiterate "for now"?

Back to the point, if I had known that, I would have advised to either pick up the "offending shell", live or not, and quickly pocket it, or RUN! :)

3/17/2010 9:40 PM
Anonymous said...

Sadly, I still have family up there in that sad, sorry state. When I go up that way, I usually stay at family in NH and encourage my poor MA relatives to visit me there.

Me? I left there five years ago, and will never move back there again.

3/17/2010 9:52 PM
W W Woodward said...

I used to wonder how those folks could re-elect T. Kennedy over and over, term after term.

This answers my question. It's obvious. A single amoeba has more grey matter and backbone than does every one of the rabbits who posted comments under this article.

Their patriot forefathers must be looking down upon them with disgust and shame.

[W-III]

3/17/2010 10:27 PM
Tom Wolff said...

WW,
Come on, now. There were a few others who laughed at the spineless ones aside from myself. So not ALL.

How they kept voting for the cowardly
such and so that let a woman drown, I do not know. Maybe the mental disease of collectivism conflicts with coherent thought. I agree with Ann Coulter (may she gain 30 pounds of muscle) on that issue.

Regardless, when David or Pete (WRSA) or even Mike (Sipsey Street) posts an article that links to another Constitutional atrocity, I am finding it more and more difficult to keep my internet "mouth" shut!

HotAir, Michelle Malkin, American Thinker, JohnGaltFla, Denninger,
321Gold, HumanEvents, even Rush and more. Forget Beck, he sold out a long time ago. Oh, and Survivalblog, a must. John Wesley Rawles has a good head on his shoulders.

In closing, I agree. The warriors and intellectual giants of old Mass
would disown these people who usurped their dreams of the future and turned them to fecal matter.

Purely disgusting and shameful. Let us remind them of their heritage at every opportunity. At least a few will waken, and that makes a difference.

3/18/2010 1:55 AM

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