… And it is going to take my natural body movements a good year to figure that out, I fear. Though, thinking back on it, kung fu stances bear a striking resemblance to some fencing poses…
In other news, why is it that no martial arts’ uniforms have pockets? …
One of the topics that does not come up very often – but should – when individuals speak of self-defense and the consequences thereof are the financial implications of employing deadly force against another human being. Sure, you just defended your family from the mass-murdering rapist, and everyone except him …
The judge who was paid send kids to detention facilities rather than the more appropriate fines, probation, or community service has been sentenced to 28 years in prison.
He got a little over $1 million and sent 5,000 kids to the facilities. 4,000 of those kids’ records have been …
So I’m scrolling through Facebook, then I notice this:
Nice, huh? People I’m friends with are saying negative things about Obama, and Facebook helpfully collapses them so I don’t have to read them! And then they provide a link so I can “like” the President! Notice that none of the …
I firmly believe (and the evidence indicates) that the current economic situation, and credit downgrade, are the product of years’ and years’ worth of effort by short-sighted morons on all sides of the aisles, but this graphic was just too damned funny not to share:
As I alluded in a recent Tweet, I will neither be watching nor weblogging about Top Shot (which apparently starts again tonight) – I have little patience for "Survivor with Guns", and the fast-forward button on my TiVo remote would be worn out trying to find the five minutes …
Personally, if it came time to defend my property from an unruly, violent, and destructive mob of thugs, I would probably reach for something a bit more… capable… than a bolt-action rifle with all of five rounds in the magazine, but it obviously worked:
Coal Creek Armory is opening a new location 1 mile off I-40 on Gallaher Road in Kingston TN! The new location will offer everything our Knoxville store has
Over the weekend, British subject Stuart Connick took it upon himself to lecture pro-rights activists on how much better once-Great Britain is than the United States thanks to the former’s draconian gun control, saying:
The US needs to overcome it’s anachronisms. Come join the rest of us with our
About a mile from my house last night, a woman was stabbed and killed on the front porch of her friend’s house.
Details are a bit sketchy, but it looks like the victim, 42 year old Kim Kuhlman, stepped outside to confront her friend’s ex-husband while the friend locked …
I’m not a religious person, but having been raised in Catholicism, the ethics of the Judeo-Christian Mediterranean culture were an integral part of my upbringing. For Jesus, the Bible character, there’s no justification for the use of force.
“Self defense is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish; the immediate gift of the Creator, obliges everyone … to resist the first approaches of tyranny.” by Elbridge Gerry
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