I made a mistake this morning and slept in…
By the time I got to the range it was a three hour wait. Seems like everybody and their brother decided to get out and shoot this morning…
The rifle range was ‘guesstimating’ a two hour wait, and people were already bitching about the wind. I was going to do some sighting in with the ARs, but that would be useless in the wind, so I turned around and came home.
That was two hours wasted… Sigh…
In other news, I got this one from JP, and although it’s been around before, it does strike a chord, having grown up in the South.
Rattlesnake Logic….
After the Boston bombing the news media spent days and weeks trying to determine why these men did what they did. They want to know what America did to make these brothers so angry with us. They want to know why these men were not arrested before they did something so terrible. The media is in a tizzy about this new era of homegrown radicals and about why and how they can live among us and still hate us.
“Here in Arizona, I have rattlesnakes on my place, living among us. I have killed a rattlesnake on the front porch. I have killed a rattlesnake on the back porch. I have killed rattlesnakes in the barn, in the shop and on the driveway.
In fact, I kill every rattlesnake I encounter. I kill rattlesnakes because I know a rattlesnake will bite me and inject me with poison. I don’t stop to wonder WHY a rattlesnake will bite me; I know it WILL bite me because it’s a damned rattlesnake and that’s what rattlesnakes do.
I don’t try to reason with a rattlesnake or have a “meaningful dialogue” with it I just kill it.
I don’t try to get to know the rattlesnake better so I can find a way to live with the rattlesnakes and convince them not to bite me. I just kill them.
I don’t quiz a rattlesnake to see if I can find out where the other snakes are, because (a) it won’t tell me and (b) I already know they live on my place. So, I just kill the rattlesnake and move on to the next one.
I don’t look for ways I might be able to change the rattlesnake to a non-poisonous rat snake… I just kill it.
I know for every rattlesnake I kill, two more are lurking out there in the brush. In my lifetime I will never be able to rid my place of rattlesnakes.
Do I fear them? Not really. Do I respect what they can do to me and my family? Yes!! And because of that respect, I give them the fair justice they deserve…. Then I kill them…
As a country, we should start giving more thought to the fact that these jihadists’ are telling the world their goal is to kill Americans and destroy our way of life. They have just posted two graphic videos on the internet showing them beheading Americans and just recently burned a Jordanian pilot alive. They are serious enemies.
Barbarians! They are exactly like rattlesnakes. It is high time for us to start acting accordingly!
I love this country. It’s the government I’m becoming more and more afraid of…
How do we convince the jihadis to put rattles on their butts?
Beautiful weather here, no waiting at the range, friendly, good people… I would share!
Bummer about the range.
JMI- Dunno, but it’d sure make things easier…
Dammit- Yeah, but the commute is hell! 😀
WSF- Yeah, but my own damn fault. Sigh
Sprog #5/Son #2 and I went to the range today ourselves. I am woefully out of practice firing revolvers, but I did manage to try out my new to me old style Charter Arms Undercover, with the exposed ejector rod. I’m hoping next week when Sprog #6/Son #3 and I go to the range, it’s not quite as crowded and I can get on one of the 10 yard pistol lanes instead of having to use the 25 yard rifle lane for pistols.
I did bump into a local GBBL reader though. Somehow I’m famous 😀
You DID get to sleep in, right?
Comparing rattlesnakes to isis is an insult to rattlesnakes…
Understood. Don’t let it happen again. Lol!
I did the same thing, exhausted. Spent all day getting ready for a trial. Ugh. Many years of experience, and you can still get butterflies. Just now letting go for the evening.
And no time for the range. We are still all blessed.
3-gun this morning.
Reloading an 870 on the run is not conductive to good times…sigh.
+1 PH
Each time I see that, all I can think is that it is a terrible analogy. Besides the rattlesnake being the perfect analogy for the original 13 colonies, and thus for America in general, to imply that rattlers are bad because they can hurt you (and do so with deadly force) is ridiculous. To imply they are akin to ISIS is an absolute outrage for me and should be to any red blooded American. Rattlers, even though deadly have their just purpose in nature. Go ahead, wipe them all out and see what happens. It will be much as happened in Vietnam (I think I got the country right) several years ago when there was a government sponsored attempt to eradicate venomous snakes. Many, many, many of them were killed off. The result was that over the next couple to few years, the rodent populations their skyrocketed and destroyed their rice crops. Once snakes were protected again, and it took years for this effect, the rodent population started to decline and was again held in check by the snakes. Destroying ISIS, on the other hand, would only result in the reduction of outright evil and allow for goodness to expand.
If you would like to see a piece that should convince folks to stop equating rattlesnakes to ISIS and see them as a symbol of American strength and unity, go here: http://www.greatseal.com/symbols/rattlesnake.html
Please note that, as best I can recall, the piece they show appears to me to be a somewhat politically correct version, at least of it as compared to what I first saw of it many, many, many years ago during the younger end of my youth, in a natural history book about snakes. I specifically reference the part about Canada, in the currently linked version, as little more than balderdash added by some well meaning but politically correct peckerwood.
God bless America and the rattlesnake too!
Don’t Tread on Me.
All he best,
Glenn B
God damn, well I declare, have you seen the like. Their walls are built of cannonballs, their motto is don’t tread on me! The more I think of it, the more it galls me that some ill informed arsehat on the subject of rattlesnakes would tell us this about ISIS:
“Barbarians! They are exactly like rattlesnakes. It is high time for us to start acting accordingly!”
The truth is, if they were like rattlesnakes, in any way, shape or form, they would demand a great deal of respect, but if we gave them their due respect they would benefit us more than they would ever threaten us – just like America used to be to the rest of the world pre-Obama and pre-Clinton. We were the rattlesnake of the world.
ISIS, on the other hand, is pure unbounded evil let loose on the world.
Lest anyone think I m stealing, the cannoball quote was from the lyrics of Uncle John’s Band by The Grateful Dead. One of the best lines I have ever heard.
Late seeing this, but you know that any time that you find yourself scotched out of whatever range you’re at, all you have to do is give me a call and come up here.
All- Thanks!
Glenn- I see your point of view too… Maybe coral snakes are a better comparison???
Murph- .223/5.56 in that wind? I’d have wasted both of our times… And it was muddy as hell.