On the magical power of guns: some unlikely people share this delusion and are completely unaware of it. Some time back I was in a gun store run mostly by cops who sold mainly tactical guns, ammo and accessories. I’m a hunter, so I was there with a friend. I rarely go into such places. I was admiring one of the surplus high powered scoped rifles that had formerly been a SWAT weapon and mentioned that it would make a very good deer gun. The off duty cop who was working the counter then got into an argument with me over it because he thought it would be dangerous to let the rubes in rural areas use such powerful weapons and conjured up images of bodies lying everywhere in the state forests. Seriously. This from a guy I can guarantee you has never hunted a day in his life. Claimed to be a big supporter of the 2A.His experience with firearms is limited to his job and the shooting range. When I asked him about why he was interested in guns he actually said that he just liked to go to the range. Outside work, guns were a hobby for him, but one he engaged in with great vigor, even taking a part time job related to it. IOW he gets a kick out of shooting powerful weapons, and probably assumes this is the only reason anyone could have interest in them as well. He was engaging in a form of projection when it comes to hunters. To concatenate further, guns have a sense of magic to him, so he assumes they have this same magical power over everyone else.Guys like him like the idea of us going around with unscoped percussion cap muzzle loaders. I had a friend of mine almost shoot me with one once. He was coming back toward camp and a buck jumped out in front of him. He took a shot at it and hit my truck. My response to this was to sell him–practically give him–a muzzle loader with a scope. The scope forces you to see what you are shooting at. He never took a bad shot again.It is a case of a gun enthusiast who probably is one of the safest, most persnickety guys at the range, very much in control, because he is aware of how intoxicating shooting is to him. And he thinks it is the same for everyone else. These are the same kind of gun nuts who facilitate ridiculous regulations despite the fact that they love guns. In a philosophical sense they are ratio type thinkers trying to force their form of thought onto a world where it would be best to have at least some modicum of intellectus input. Theory vs reality.Comparing my own habits to his, I rarely, if ever, go to a range. I probably take about 50-100 shots total in a year. My biggest concern is if I am going to hit and bring down an animal I am shooting at, and not falling out of trees. Safety concerns? I wonder how many range shooters have had a shotgun fall out of a tree, hit the ground with the muzzle pointed at them, have it cycle a round, but not go off. And this with a slug, not bird shot. Things like this don’t happen with high powered rifles that are mostly bolt action with no cartridge in the chamber. IOW, a loaded shotgun with no bullet in the chamber is still a danger to you, but a high powered rifle is not. What I’m saying here is that guys who shoot at ranges cannot be expected to be experts in the appropriate uses of firearms, no matter how expert they are at shooting, reloading and ballistics. These are handy forms of information, but they are not the full picture.How many of you that were in the military considered your commanding officer who went through ROTC and officer training school to know more about your gun than you did? Especially if you were an NCO?I get no thrill out of the act of shooting itself. I don’t even get that big of a thrill out of the kill. I watch these guys on the hunting shows and how they are literally shaking with excitement after taking down an animal. The average hunter is nothing like that. Think about it. Those guys are so crazy about hunting that they film themselves doing it. It’s like having sex with a mirror on the ceiling and taking home movies. Normal people don’t do that. I get a feeling of satisfaction that a plan has worked out and that the freezer will get filled.My buddy also says he never saw that guy at the store again after that. Thinks the owner heard about it. Only time I was ever there.

A few comments on this most excellent podcast:1) The “social issues” of the 1980’s covered a number of things not mentioned, including the expulsion of religion, i.e., Christianity, from the public square (e.g., prohibition of religious clubs in in public schools, the Grove City Supreme Court decision, removal of religious monuments from public land), the mainstreaming of bastardy and homosexuality (e.g., the Murphy Brown television show, the removal of homosexuality from the DSM, AIDS “rights”) and the full implementation various feminist and racialist priorities (e.g., Title IX with, among other things, its gutting of men’s sports, racial preferences and reverse discrimination)3) When you talked about the “white faculty” at Harvard, I assume you really meant the “(((white))) faculty”…2) No one talks about federal deficits or the federal debt because it it almost entirely driven by entitlement programs, with defense spending the only other significant player. Support for a radical reduction in defense spending is very small, and calling for the reduction in entitlement programs is tantamount to political suicide. (Recall the image of heartless Republicans pushing the elderly in wheelchairs off a cliff.)

I work with dogs and there are many rescue dogs that have a clear preference for either male or female and they know instantly what sex is walking in the door. That makes the dogs I take care of smarter than most liberals

Is there a specific strategic reason why Jeff Sessions’s Department of Justice is prosecuting people for defending themselves against leftist violence while refusing to take any action against the violent leftists who incite these confrontations? I recall the attacks on people attending Trump rallies during the 2016 campaign, and the hopes that once Trump took power, there would be some “cleanup” operations against those thugs via the executive branch agencies like the DOJ and the FBI.Instead, the opposite is happening. Why are Trump and Sessions authorizing this? It is very dispiriting to anyone who might feel inclined to stand up for Trump in public. Not only will he not protect you, but he might very well send you to federal prison for defending yourself. Why?

It would be an earth shattering event if the Harvard case were to lead to the destruction of affirmative action, aka “quotas”. I have waited for this all my life. I’m not hopeful.

Antifa only works in coastal leftist cities. Cops who don’t work for leftist Mayors and / or Governors would simply round them up as soon as they made an appearance. Otherwise the local normals would beat and shoot them.

nice Black Sabbath intro!

The hedge fond maneger Ray Dalio has recently addressed the US deficit and said that huge cuts will come the coming years or the dollar as a world currency will be dropped. He calls it a national emergency and calls for political cooperation. I think nothing will happen.

I was busy this week and had not seen the Proud Boys news. As per usual, the video in the link is shit and I can’t tell what happened. The NYT article made it appear that the Proud Boys randomly attacked innocent bystanders who were fashionably dressed in black and had covered their faces with scarves to ward off an autumn chill. Can anyone enlighten me with the real story?

The NR crowd is giving McInnes the boot.https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/10/17/gavin-mcinnes-right-wing-violence-221578That immediately makes me somewhat sympathetic to him and his organization. In general it’s probably unwise to join any organization that is led by a comedian. Notoriety isn’t a bad thing for McInnes. It raises his profile and he gets him more hits for his radio show and videos. Gives him material for his act too. Notoriety is terrible for the Proud Boys fans. Arrest records, having one’s name out there on the internet for potential employers to find, stupid pictures that are on the Internet forever, etc…As someone else said in another comment, private is the way to go. Not sure how to get there. Even when our side does things on the down low, like just a simple email mailing list, the content leaks and everyone involved is exposed. Perhaps shunning the Internet as much as possible is the way to go.

do any of you guys think that the proud boys shouldn’t wear uniforms? I mean TRS has pool parties and there’s never been any fights – b/c its done on the down low. The fact proud boys have uniforms and that antifa knows what those uniforms are – simply means that they are inviting themselves to doxxing and attacks

zman – i’m not trying to blackpill here. But isn’t affirmative action still possible if done in a roundabout way? Kavanaugh will probably get rid of AA, but all that means is you’ll have states do a “top ten% of graduating class” rule. I really doubt Kavanaugh would write “anything less than test-only is unconstitutional”

Spring seemed to be the same this year. Very short, and all of a sudden it was summer. Very little time for some of the usual springtime things to happen. Not much of a year for wild mushrooms as a result. It also seemed to me that the deer had their fawns relatively late, and I’m thinking that the rut may come a little late, too. Slow onset to pre-rut activity. The oaks produced a large harvest of acorns, and the deer aren’t moving as much as usual for this time of year. Very few scrapes and rubs as compared to what we usually see this time of year. While the weather we had this year was outstanding for growing crops everything else seems off.

Very disappointed in Asians. It seems some populations don’t understand “divide and conquer” political operations. They are getting played. Once they “win” this fight and get these “race neutral admissions”, mark my words, the white percentage at major schools will go up, not down. It’s a scam to get rid of rules that force integration. Asians should read a book and look at there“allies”