Firearms Discussion at the Local Wal Mart (Vanity)

Self | October 27, 2010 | SLB

[Travis McGee]

It does look like it, but maybe it's a camera/optical effect?

[Husker24]

yea, its hard to tell on second thought.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

My hat is off to the local Wal Mart store for the way their clerk and manager handled the disturbance.

And to your efforts to effectively debate the disturbed disturbance!

[McGavin999]

If just one person on that plane had a gun, it would never have smashed into the towers. If just one person in those towers had a gun, they could have shot the lock off the roof door and many could have been saved.

People who are willing to disarm themselves in the search for safety will find themselves instead being perfect targets.

[Kevin Curry]

I wonder if she checked out the ceramic box cutters on aisle 19?

[Kevin Curry]

I wonder if she checked out the ceramic box cutters on aisle 19?

[MHGinTN]

Kev, she'll be the first one to cry and thank someone with a CC permit when she is saved from a perp by a well armed citizen. Nothing awakens the idiots like being victimized. Personally, I want blunt-tipped surgical scissors outlawed, especially around unborn infants.

[Kevin Curry]

I wrote a private letter recommending issuance of a CC permit to an old and good friend last week. He's a West Point grad and former Ranger. He bought himself a .45 (because he knows that weapon inside and out). It's a bit bulky, but he'll carry and control it well. And I feel safer knowing he's out and about with it in my community.

[PatriotGames]

The buildings were not "swayed" by the aircraft. In the structural community it is known as "racked" which means it was twisted on impact. In fact, both aircraft hit as close to a corner as possible so as to "rack" the buildings which would start the collapsing process. Had both buildings been hit dead center on each side instead of close to the corner chances are good that it would have taken longer for them to collapse......or so I have been told by a structural engineer.

[AntiScumbag]

follow the contour of the building from the bottom of the building to the top and you will notice it

the entire image is out of vertical by a 2 or 3 degrees, put a straight-edge along any tower edge -- no deflection

i was in windows on the world back in '81 and the very slow movement of up to 10 feet or so in a good wind was slightly noticeable inside the building, but not outside

a sudden jarring movement of a foot or two from an impact would be like an earthquake inside, but wouldn't be noticeable on video, the buildings were 200 feet square

[mdittmar]

You sound a little confused,FYI.

rhe·tor·i·cal [ri tórrik'l ] adjective

1. of effective use of language: relating to the skill of using language effectively and persuasively

[Waco]

Airplanes and post offices cause terrorism. Sarah said so.

[americalost]

You defend your position of:

Depending on her looks, I might have said "Your right honey you don't need any self protection. No rapist in his right mind would want you! what,to harsh???"

With:

You sound a little confused,FYI.

When I point out that you're wrong, and the post was offensive and unfunny. Good plan.

Just admit it was a stupid thing to say so we can both quit checking this thread.

[AntiScumbag]

i think the engineer might be giving them too much credit

in each case, they were flying straight and level until banking sharply just before impact

my theory on seeing both videos was that the intent was to impact the largest possible number of floors

which would make being off-center only an unintended effect of banking

[John Jamieson]

I'm surprised and pleased to know that Walmart will in still be selling guns in Oct, 2010.

[norraad]

Versions of this drama have been playing in the gun section of Wal~Mart for years{longest run since "Cats"}.

The clerks will tell you, if you ask nice.

One of my favorite shooters came from there{Gammo P-23 Co2 pellet/BB pistol w/rifled barrel & laser site, so accurate you can give a red squirrel an earring hole from across the yard}.

My beef is they stopped selling the lead BB's it feeds on{they pack a better punch & don't wear down the intense rifling that makes this Spainish made weapon so "balls on accurate", . . it's an industry term}.

Who knows how I can get lead BB's?

[First_Salute]

Flat shot, port bow; well done.

[real saxophonist]

I would ask her what she's doing there at Wal-Mart, hairyassing the sporting goods clerk. Did she come to the store for a reason, or what. Optional: Just got sidetracked from buying (insert whatever item, such as spandex pants, too much makeup, Chinese this-or-that, Barbie dolls, diapers, weight loss stuff, hair stuff, whatever her appearance suggests would [subtly] plant a searing insult deep in her feeble psyche...)?

[americalost]

I think you handled it just fine. You gave her something to think about and she left. Let's hope she thinks about it a long time and reads the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Probably not, but you saved the clerk from being harassed by a liberal idiot who wants to take away the rights of others.

I concur. I do think, however, that the idiot in question thought of herself as being an 'activist' simply by going to Wal-Mart and engaging some poor retail clerk in a discourse about gun politics. So, I fear that the MMMoron probably will strike again. Hopefully, she'll again be thwarted by someone as brave as SLB and his stranger camo friend.