Re: Antigun Spin on Heller...Like a Mixmaster!

On Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:51:37 GMT, The Secretary of HomIntern
<cbcrfanexl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:52:42 -0700, Gunner Asch k'lamed:
>> On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:29:28 GMT, Cardinal Snarky of the Fannish
>> Inquisition wrote:
>> 
>>>> You left out the ability to *perform* from longer range, which the
>>>> handgun especially *endows*.
>>>
>>>That's kind of not a very strong argument for why gun nutz should be
>>>allowed to have guns...Even then, a skilled knife-thrower can kill a
>>>gun-wielder from a distance before the latter can get a decent shot
off.
>>>
>>>I know. I "just hate their freedum!"
>> 
>> Know many skilled knife throwers?
>> 
>> oh..Movies..thats where you get your deranged world view....
>
>No, the boasting of gun nutz. I know, I should learn not to listen to you
>guys -- that whole argument about knives being a good idea to bring to a
>gunfight was pretty bogus.

No...really..PLEASE bring a knife to a gunfight!!  Be sure to load up
on invective before engaging as well. Use liberally....snicker...
>
>> Interesting
>> 
>> Gunner, hand ax thrower
>
>Yeah, that has to be a ****ing huge difference.

Actually, it is. I can cleave your skull from 35 feet away with a good
hand ax. Good roofers hatchet is a marvelous tool.  In the old days,
they called it a tomahawk.... Cant do that wiith a knife., the skull
cleaving thing that is...well..my Kukri will, and the
parangs...shrug....then there is the Flemish throwing ax....shrug
again....

But on the other hand..I and a number of others out there tend to
enjoy trying to master unusual weapons of days gone by, for fun and
enjoyment. I can put a spear through you from at least 100 feet, on a
good day with an atl atl..all the way through..in one side and out the
other and lodge it some distance away. The only noise would be some
screaming and thra****ng around on your part, if I mis-cast the spear
into a spot not immediately incapacitating.  But you would bleed out
in mere seconds from that ghastly wound.  I can stretch the range out
to about 150 yards with a bow, with which Im actually pretty good at,
and to about 300 yrds if I am only trying to hit you someplace in the
torso, rather than a good CNS hit with a  razor sharp 1 5/16 "cutting
circle 5 bladed broadhead.. Again  there may be some screaming and
thra****ng for a few seconds..shrug

Katana..think of it as a susi knife on steroids...Im only moderately
fair with it..working on my black belt, 
Rapier? Knitting needle with an attitude and sharp edges. Think
scapel..
Sabre?  3' long meat cleaver, particularly my favorite, the Boarding
Cutlass....can take off a mans arm in a single whack. My instructor in
Sabre had those nifty facial scars you only get in Heidelberg and
tended to sing the Idlewise when too far into his schnapps....

Ever been to a Ren Fair?   Lots of folks enjoy mastering "obsolete"
tools of war for fun.  I can even  use a sling with some effect,
though I dont practice nearly as much as I used to as a kid. Then I
could knock squirrels out of trees with fair regularltiy.  Slingshot?
Which eye do you want the ball bearing to go through on its way to
your brain?

Shrug..now on the other hand...few criminals have ever even heard of a
sling, have a vague idea of what a sling shot is..and have some
difficulty in opening a can of Malt Liquor without some assistance
from their peers, shouting over the classic rythems of "gangsta rap"
or ranchario musica.  They may carry a pakistani knife with the
sharpness of a desert spoon and know all the wrong ways to try to use
it, ala the movies. Course..feebs such as yourself are dead meat no
matter if the perp had a plastic knife from the condiment counter at
the Dairy Queen, but shrug......

Political Correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional,
illogical liberal minority, and rabidly promoted by an 
unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the 
proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean
end.