basically 30/30 that you cant aim is not a good choice.
“when they’re too lazy to carry a shotgun or a rifle”
no bias there
Notice these people always lie to push their agenda. They are never up front with who they are and why they are at these events.
Yeah, because that's the ONLY reason you'd carry a revolver in bear country.
What a dink
I stopped reading this guys spew when I got to:
“I wouldn’t trust them to drop anything larger than a Sitka blacktail deer, and certainly not a brown bear. I’d rather be armed with pepper spray. Or bottle rockets. Or a bell.”
What a pussy. I’ll bet Brownie Scouts beat him up.
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Well, right there is the key word isn't it? Don't push your choices on me Mr. Holthouse.
basically 30/30 that you cant aim is not a good choice.
Two points:
First, this is the typical liberal argument of what do you “need”. The author knows more of what you need than you do and so do liberals.
Second, if the author attended media day, he would have been able to shoot everything from submachine guns to .50 cal rifles and nearly anything in your wildest dreams. Hundreds of firearms handled by hundreds of people, expending many tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition and guess what? Not one person shot or injured!
Damned liberal elitist. He’ll decide what you “need”. AND, he thinks he’s not an anti gunner. These smarmy SOB’s telling me what I “need” really pisses me off. Maybe the safety button will break on his Mossberg right in mid Grizzly attack and with his last breath he’ll say “I shoulda bought the AK pistol” ARRRGGHH.
He also wrote that James Bond used a Walther PPK chambered for .380. If I recall correctly, Bond’s PPK was chambered for .32.
Westword ran a cover story on May 13, 2004 entitled "Stalking the Bogeyman" in which the 33-year-old journalist, David Holthouse, described being molested at the age of 7 by a 14-year-old at his home in Anchorage, Alaska. The attacker was not named but a picture and other details were printed. The article told of Holthouse's recently abandoned plans to belatedly kill his now grown-up attacker: "I was going to watch him writhe like a poisoned cockroach for a few seconds, then kick him onto his stomach and put three bullets in the back of his head. This time last year I had a gun, and a silencer, and a plan" [5].
After the article was published, Holthouse feared retaliation and asked a friend to follow the alleged attacker. The friend was arrested on suspicion of stalking on May 29, 2004. Holthouse's arrest soon followed. "Any charges against me are essentially charges of thought crimes," he said [6]. The alleged attacker and his wife declined to press charges [7]. The article won a 2nd place in the annual awards of the Colorado Society of Professional Journalists [8].
Westword published a followup story by Holthouse on July 8, 2004 in which he described his reaction upon being arrested: "I said to myself, to the walls, to no one, 'Well, isn't this a bitch? The guy who raped me when I was kid just got me arrested. I should have gone ahead and shot his ass'". Holthouse feared retaliation because "After the article came out, my mom, who still lives in Anchorage, Alaska, where the rape occurred, and from whom I inherited my taste for vendetta, mailed copies of the cover story to everyone in the man's neighborhood, along with a signed note identifying him as the unnamed molester in the story. She was a one-woman sexual-predator notification program"
I’m of mixed minds about this article. Clearly the article is biased as all hell, but at least in this case the author knows a little bit about the subject, which is a blessed relief from the usual ignorant leftist banter.
An analogy to his chain of thought is very typical among the left. “I have a small economy car and it is sufficient for my needs. So everyone else should be satisfied with having just a small, economy car, because no matter where they live or what they do, it is all they *need*. And the government should intervene by making a law that everybody can only own small, economy cars.”
Truthfully, no matter *what* we would argue to him about the *rest* of his argument, he would take it to mean that we dispute the value of *his* having a small, economy car.
Practically speaking, in the real world, guns are tools that the gun owner wants to be utilitarian, doing the job he wants it to do well. But what a gun owner needs, by his opinion, can be very different from what a gun owner *wants*, again, by his opinion.
Few people buy guns because they need to fire them often. Many more buy them because at intervals they need to brandish them, like policemen. Others to carry them when out in public because they might need them sometimes.
But the vast majority of people buy guns they will keep at home, only rarely if ever using, often only in an emergency.
And this leans heavily to the “wants” side of the equation, instead of the “needs” side. But no matter what the needs and wants are, they are protected as a *right*, and this is the most important thing.
It is not up to others, nor should it be, to tell you what your needs and wants are. Even if you live in the suburbs in America, if you feel you need to own an elephant gun, or just if you want to own an elephant gun, that is your right.
Because, to quote Groucho Marx, “Last night I shot an elephant in my pajamas! How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know.”
And you’ll also never know how much PCP it took for that armed home invader, so that about the only weapon that could stop him was an elephant gun.
But that is not the point.
I happen to live in Alaska, sometimes I wonder if these people get all their info purely off the internet.
Just about everyone I know that may be in contact with a bear or most likely will be in a bears territory WILL carry a rifle. if they carry a pistol its usually used to drop a buddy so the bear will eat him instead of you. (just kidding folks)
My bear shotgun which is just for defense and not for actual hunting is a short barreled Remington Model 11, almost exactly the same as the Browning A-5 Auto. For hunting its either my .338 or a .375, BUT even the much ridiculed Mini 14 will take down a small black bear, I know that for a fact, and so would the SKS with the 7.62x39.
On the occasion when I have gone salmon fishing near a heavily populated campground with several hundred fellow fishermen I do carry a 10mm Glock.
I do not open carry, isn’t really any need for it but then I do not visit the populated area of Anchorage either, if I do I either carry my .45 or a compact .380. I always carry those in my truck and sometimes the Model 11 as we do get bears at where I work.
Stopped reading right there. Should have stopped earlier...
Mindless dreck from a hopeless ideologue.
The world of law-abiding adults is a scary, scary place for David Holthouse.
Bedwetter...
rather than this
Pretty much tells me all I need to know about this moron.
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