All I know is this: when the end comes, and we find ourselves before Crom in the great mountain cave, and he asks the riddle of steel to see if we are worthy of Valhalla... the answer better not involve birdshot.
”But in the end all of these ideas just manufacture new criminals when the problem isn't a lack of criminals.” -JRB
Whoa whoa whoa...let's not get ahead of ourselves. Have you ever gone to see the HS crush working at the cheap strip club? Sure, she only vaguely gave you the time of day in HS, but now...money talks buddy, money talks. Just sayin', if you can read a crappy article from the NRA Rag, you can probably sleaze your way down into something that we'll put in the "regrettable but fun" category. I honestly think this is something @misanthropist, @jetfire, maybe @OlongJohnson, and even maybe @SouthNarc can provide feedback on.
In the mean time, I'd rather use a battle axe to defend myself than a 12-gauge loaded with birdshot. They are both contact distance weapons for lethal effect, might as well use the one that has a better pedigree in killing people.
Last edited by RevolverRob; 12-04-2019 at 01:55 PM.
It seems the NRA now hires cyber day laborers to write their articles.
They pull up in the NRA pickup truck to a vacant lot where unemployed writers equipped with laptops and starbucks are milling around. The driver gets out of the truck and calls, "Look, I need one shotgun article and one article on a beginners guide to variable power scopes."
The unemployed writers push and shove among themselves, as though they were jockeying for a position on the last chopper out of Saigon, and the first two who make it into the back of the pickup truck get the job.
Last edited by Ed L; 12-04-2019 at 02:33 PM.
Link that goes with the story:
https://www.oregonlive.com/clackamas...uspect_in.html
“There is no growth in the comfort zone.”--Jocko Willink
"You can never have too many knives." --Joe Ambercrombie
I wonder how many comments hit the desks of the editors after this came out? This is the second NRA magazine to have a silly shotgun article in recent times. They have had decent ones on the shotgun myths in the past.
Is anyone geekish enough to remember when Thor of the Marvel Universe was time slapped back into the past and met Crom? Or when Conan the Barbarian met Elric of Melnibone in a Marvel comic? I loved Elric as a character and would you want to have Stormbringer as your HD weapon? Your family might not like it.
I met Michael Moorcock in TX. He moved to Bastrop and did a book signing at a San Antonio Barnes and Noble. One of my students was his babysitter or cat sitter. I forget.
As far as nonlethal applications of bird shot, a colleague of mine was bird shooting (or birding, whatever they call it). His hound goes off and comes running back towards him in a panic. The dog is chased by a pissed off large emu. Said colleague fires a load of birdshot in the ground before the emu to richochet (or so he said) into the legs of the monster bird attacker. This chased it off. He didn't want to hit it directly have to deal with a dead emu. There are or were emus on the loose in TX, released when the pyramid schemes for these things fell. I've seen them on trails years ago.
Last edited by Glenn E. Meyer; 12-04-2019 at 02:52 PM.
Sorry, I moved two states away to go to college and stayed there until middle age. The only randoms from high school I ever ran into were dudes. One was taking tickets at a movie theater (and later became a youth pastor - not even Catholic, AFAIK) and the other was slangin' ads for a crappy rag. Neither regrettable nor fun, really. At least for me.
Last edited by OlongJohnson; 12-04-2019 at 03:00 PM.
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