Posted on 07/03/2013 10:06:53 AM PDT by WyCoKsRepublican
I quit listening to Michael Savage (real name Michael Wiener) a few years ago.
He is smart, but he turns on a dime, and tries to appeal to all sides, to keep his audience on its toes.
He is a joke, and he is a backstabber to other conservative hosts.
That’s why I listen to SERIOUS analysis, like that of Mark Levin.
It is my understanding that the pistol was a double-action firearm without a safety, and the hammer was almost certainly NOT cocked while in his pocket. However, it is doubtful if there is any evidence that it was cocked before the confrontation.
TM had Zimmerman pinned to the ground and was sitting on him, how do you propose to "rack" the slide with one hand?
All the sources I have checked on concealed carry endorse carry with a round in the chamber. Leaving the chamber empty puts you at a disadvantage vis-à-vis an armed opponent. You may find yourself in a situation when racking the slide is your only option (stovepipe jam, magazine malfunction, &c) but it is foolish to start out with an empty chamber and cede the advantage to an adversary.
DAO automatic pistols are as safe as modern revolvers. Granted the 19th century revolvers were carried with the hammer on an empty cylinder. That was necessary because the gun could fire if dropped and landed on it's hammer. With the advent of the hammer blocking transfer bar it is no longer necessary to take such precaution. A DAO automatic's hammer is flush with the slide and the firing pin is held retracted by an inertia block so dropping the gun will not cause a discharge.
Regards
GtG
LMAO!!!
Defeats the whole purpose of carrying a pistol...or a rifle for that matter.
Besides that....you do understand plenty of semi-autos have safety's?
I carry a revolver fairly often....and I ain't going to pull the trigger twice to get to a loaded chamber!! HAHAHA!!!
He’s an attention whore.
It’s why I stopped listening.
I liked his off/format. Still do but, when he goes off the rails, I simply turn him off and don’t remember to listen to him again until everything else shinny in my life turns dull.
Then, I go listen to him again.
Wash, wash.
rinse
repeat...
You've been given great advice on this thread...yet you stay on your tack.
Oh I see.....you think Zimmerman is guilty.
I get it now.......
You must be a young pup.
Savage lost me big time when he went on a rang about fundamentalist Christians wearing a “mental burqua”. Had to go into a store; came back 30 minutes later and he was still ranging the same anti Christian rhetoric. It is a ludicrous practice to equate Christian and Muslim extremists.
Why would he go and attack his base in such a fashion? Must have a psychological desire to alienate listeners.
Carrying a gun with an empty chamber is like carrying a piece of dead weight. There may not be time to rack the slide.
Racking the slide after drawing a semiauto is sooooooooo Hollywoodish.
With Martin on top of him Zimmerman could not have removed the gun from his belt and racked a round. Where do you get your experience? If you carry like you say you’re gonna get killed if you need to use your weapon. My guns always have a round chambered. If the bad guy has a gun on you, you won’t have time to chamber a round. And Martin caught him from behind unawares. I’ve had four times in my life when showing my gun stopped a situation, luckily I didn’t have to shoot.
With Martin on top of him Zimmerman could not have removed the gun from his belt and racked a round. Where do you get your experience? If you carry like you say you’re gonna get killed if you need to use your weapon. My guns always have a round chambered. If the bad guy has a gun on you, you won’t have time to chamber a round. And Martin caught him from behind unawares. I’ve had four times in my life when showing my gun stopped a situation, luckily I didn’t have to shoot.
In my 14 year part time career in LE, the armed watchstanders would exchange and clear their weapons every 12 hours. This went on 24/7/365 for the entire 14 years. I personally knew of three serious incidents during this period with fortunately no injuries.
I am not LE now, so I don’t forsee a race to draw my weapon. I mainly CCW when walking at night in the city, or when biking in remote areas. I do however, practice rapidly chambering at the range. Safety to me is paramount.
If I were to shoot myself in the butt, the first thing my doctor would say is “why did you do that?”. I don’t want to have to answer that.
Yeah, can you imagine Z trying to pull back the slide in that position? Can you imagine him even being able to get both hands on the gun when T was on top of him and snatching at it?
VERY INCORRECT.
CCW means that your pistol has a round in the chamber so that you can draw and fire RIGHT FROM THE HOLSTER.
If Z did not have the pistol properly ready to fire from holster (thumb safety is good to have on if your draw takes it off in one firing motion like my 1911), he probably would be dead or eventually suffered serious injury or maiming.
When that pistol is in your holster, it is READY TO ROCK and you can draw and put two thru the thoracic cavity in 1.5 seconds.
There is no F’in way I would ever be neighborhood patrol without my CCW pistol (hammer back, thumb safety on, round in chamber) and a cellphone with full or near full battery power with 911 speed dial, etc.
Chances are you will never draw it for defense, and when it is out of the holster not being used at range or in anger, it is empty in the chamber, although clip/mag can be in.
There is no sense carrying concealed if you are not ready to draw and fire. Your life may depend on it, or the lives of your loved ones.
He also holds an opinion of handguns that seems to be ingrained in persons who were reared in the greater New York metropolitan area from the 40's to the 60's. This includes Sonia Sotomayor and, at one time, myself. This is the belief that rifles and shotguns are fine for hunters to have but pistols are dangerous and should only be possessed by law enforcement and the military. It is a knee jerk reaction and even many otherwise conservative persons there hold it without being aware of why they do. They will profess belief in the Second Amendment as a kind of vague and trivial political theory but look askance and anyone who actually wants to carry a handgun for self defense. Only long service in the armed forces and free me from that ideology.
Someone from the Northeast in general, and New york City in particular, should *ALWAYS* be held suspect on Second Amendment rights unless they have demonstrable indications to the contrary such as NRA Life Membership and owning and shooting a handgun regularly. And Sporting Clays count for nothing, some of the most anti-gun politicians in California shoot skeet and Sporting Clays and try to use that fact to demonstrate that they are not anti-gun.
Too right! It’s like an alien entity took hold of his mind, the way he was spewing nonsense about the case.
Or Savage is the Ann Coulture of conservative talk radio.
2. What is 'Zimwad'?
Savage is basically a hard core urb with all the inbred inhibitions about guns.
Savage never said it was premeditated. Just that G. Zimmerman was hoping for a fight when he got out of the car. There is a difference.
“My guess is he’s a messuguna (sic) yid”
You call him a derogatory name and then want to say how bad HE is? You have no credibility using the word yid.
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