In the End, Guns Will Decide: "Today I picked up my Mossberg 500 Tactical 12-gauge shotgun with a pistol grip and a short barrel. It is not for game. I hate hunting." @ AMERICAN DIGEST

January 1, 2016

In the End, Guns Will Decide: "Today I picked up my Mossberg 500 Tactical 12-gauge shotgun with a pistol grip and a short barrel. It is not for game. I hate hunting."

Woke up this mornin'
Got yourself a gun
Mama always said you'd be the chosen one
She said, 'You're one in a million
You got to burn to shine'
That you were born under a bad sign
With a blue moon in your eyes

But you're one in a million
'Cause you got that shotgun shine
Shame about it, born under a bad sign
With a blue moon in your eyes

The Church and Scripture teach “thou shalt not kill” certainly, but that commandment refers to the “innocent and the righteous.”

Someone coming at you with murderous intent is neither innocent nor righteous. The Church teaches it is not only your right to defend yourself and your duty to defend others, even unto his death. We shoot not to kill but rather to preserve innocent life, ours and others. If the aggressor is killed, this is not intended but still allowed. The gun I bought is primarily for home-defense, even though we live in a very safe neighborhood, and our house is wired up with an alarm system. Still, I think it is my responsibility to have a weapon at home to protect my family from whatever threat may come down the street or through a window some night. Today I picked up my Mossberg 500 Tactical 12-gauge shotgun with a pistol grip and a short barrel. It is not for game. I hate hunting.

With my Mossberg 500, I stand in solidarity with them and with what I view as a very healthy gun culture in the United States. Our gun culture is one of the things that makes us like unto our forefathers who knew we must be willing and able to, individually and with others, defend our lives and even our rights. That the Europeans do not understand this is yet another reason to buy a gun.

But my reasons go beyond home-defense and solidarity. They are also political. I bought a gun, Obama, and there is not a damn thing you can do about it. My gun is a statement to all those like him who hate the Constitution. This is who we are as a people, utterly unlike that continent of Europeans who have outsourced their own defense to Americans for more than half a century.

Like you, I rely on social order and social structures to defend me and my family against danger. But, I am no longer sure we can rely exclusively on those. I am no longer willing to count myself among the weak, the trusting, or children who rely exclusively on others to protect them and theirs. I think of all those innocents who have been gunned down in mass shootings by nuts or Jihadists and I wonder how many of them in their dying moments wished they had a gun.Today I Bought a Gun - Crisis Magazine

Posted by gerardvanderleun at January 1, 2016 4:24 PM

"We shoot not to kill but rather to preserve innocent life, ours and others."
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That is the most important part of that thing, and the least likely to be heard about.

None of my guns have ever killed any human being but they always stand ready to prevent killing.

This idea is lost among the nervous ninnies until the time that they need a gun to preserve their own life and don't have one. They expect, no, require, the rest of us to follow that line of absent thought too.

These people are well aware of the killing that is going on, as all of us are, but they somehow detach themselves from it, believe it can't happen to them. When we decide to prevent others from harming us they go into full blown melt down in all the various ways.

They are part of that 80million. Jan to Jun 2017.

The rest of us will be a little less *infringed* in Aug though there may be a foul stench in the air from the poisonous vermins that have been exterminated. Keep your damp bandanna close.

Posted by: ghostsniper at January 1, 2016 5:59 PM

Art,
Thou shall not kill was from the Old Testament and directed to the Jews. Even after the Big 10 came out from God through Moses, God commanded Jews to exterminate entire non-Jew populations. God has his reasons.

Christians can turn the other cheek and love their neighbors, but we can also draw the line at them raping and killing our wives, sons and daughters.

You may not be looking for violence, but violence is looking for you.

Posted by: Snakepit Kansas at January 2, 2016 7:19 AM

The Old Testament was God's relationship to a corporate community. The New Testament is God's relationship to you personally.

On community issues, community safety, I think the OT is to be taken as a good point of view for --if not the actual mechanics (stoning)or demographics (children)-- a healthy society: punish/reject/cast out those who refuse to assimilate to the community's standards. Welcome the stranger and don't deny his desire to join himself to your culture, but the "stranger" must embrace your culture. Deal justly with your neighbor, don't take advantage of the traveler or stranger among you, but don't tolerate the suborning of your community structure.

In matters more personal, you'd do best to check in with your personal relationship to a living God, and whatever he tells you to do, do it.

"Lord, what shall this man do?"
"What is that to thee? Follow thou me."

Anything more, any over-thinking and meditating on what Jesus would do leads only to this: He would, and did, die for the unrighteous. He did not do it as a suicide mission, He did it to open a very particular and powerful door to us all. If you're just dying because it will make you feel morally superior, righteous and good-- if you're doing it for your own standards-- it's for all the wrong reasons. Unless your death will bring about the healing of the nations, you'd do better to live and serve the living with your life, than serve your own house of cards with your death.

Posted by: Joan of Argghh! at January 2, 2016 11:00 AM

It finds my pretty ordinary life out here in the sticks a fantasy. See what massive exposure to the media will do to a person?

On the 21st of Dec, just as the sun was touching the horizon as it were, I laid a level on the top of a deck post and scribed a line with pencil in perfect alignment with it. I took a back saw and cut a narrow slot on that line 1/16" deep. I taped both sides of the line then I infilled the kerf with thick medium blue paint indicating the shortest day of the year.

On the 21st of June I will do the same thing and infill with red paint indicating the longest day of the year.

It will then be encapsulated with multiple layers of polyurethane for weatherproofing.

All the other deck posts, some 31 of them, have finials, but this one. Future generations will look at these lines and wonder what they mean.

I do this stuff everywhere all the time.

Posted by: ghostsniper at January 2, 2016 6:45 PM

It pays to look around before buying. I fired a friends Mossberg and liked it and was going to buy one but took a look at the Remington 870 first. I liked it too. Found another friend that had an 870 and he let me try it out. I was convinced. So I bought 2. One was the marine magnum with 4 shot extension tube. I also put the magpul stocks on it. The plastic safety was troublesome to me in the Mossberg and indicative of potentially other cheap problems. 1000 rds through each of my 870's and not a single failure. My Winchester Model 12 has over 10,000 rds through it and works perfectly. Thinking about getting a Remington 12ga autoloader just because.

Posted by: ghostsniper at January 3, 2016 1:45 PM

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Now get an extra-full choke and about 3 dozen boxes of #4 Buck Shot (minimum size) and practice on targets at 50 yards and under. Depending on your barrel length and sights, I'd say you ought to be able to consistently hit a 9 inch bull at that range and possibly 75 yards.
Look into a shell called Dead Coyote, which is a personal favorite.
By next week, you should be sporting a bruised cheek on your shooting side.
Best of luck.

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Posted by: Howard Nelson at January 2, 2016 9:06 AM

'OurTurdStone'

What wonderful wordsmiths here at American Digest Gerard.

My clear favorite though is ghostsniper.

His fantasy life is by far the most vivid hereabouts.

Feliz año nuevo!

Posted by: ARTHURSTONE at January 2, 2016 2:29 PM

Was perusing the offerings at Gander Mtn. recently. Ordinary selection, but I was fascinated at a pair of soccer mom's who were pistol shopping for the very first time. Errbody buying power tools these days.

Posted by: Will at January 2, 2016 4:18 PM

Our local Dick's is knocking out Maverick 88's - the poor man's Mossberg and made by the same for $180. I'm told they are moving a lot of them and all with the 18.5" barrels.

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