Liberal “potty mouth” of the Month award: CBC’s own Heather Mallick
This month's recipient of the Liberal "potty mouth"of the Month award goes to Heather Mallick.
To learn more about her, I turned to Google. Now, according to Wikipedia:
Heather Mallick (born 1959) is a Toronto-based columnist, author and lecturer. She writes a weekly column for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's website. She is a Pakistani Muslim. Her First name is a muslim name and last name Mallick is a hindu title because they are converted muslims/ suni muslims. She teaches courses on politics and writing at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies and lectures on Human Rights and Canadian nationalism. Until recently she also wrote a monthly column for Chatelaine magazine.
What happens when the victims are armed.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
When mass killers meet armed resistance.
It took place at a university in Virginia. A student with a grudge, an immigrant, pulled a gun and went on a shooting spree. It wasn’t Virginia Tech at all. It was the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, not far away. You can easily drive from the one school to the other, just take a trip down Route 460 through Tazewell.
It was January 16, 2002 when Peter Odighizuwa came to campus. He had been suspended due to failing grades. Odighizuwa was angry and waving a gun calling on students to “come get me”. The students, seeing the gun, ran. A shooting spree started almost immediately. In seconds Odighizuwa had killed the school dean, a professor and one student. Three other students were shot as well, one in the chest, one in the stomach and one in the throat.
Another clever comedic comment on “Gun Free Zones”
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Not to be outdone, a fellow poster on CGN fourms directed my attention to the following video. Even my 8 year old daughter was laughing at how stupid an idea it is.
“Gun Free” zones. The dumbest gun control idea yet
I saw this cartoon today and decided to post it here. Sometimes a cartoonist can accomplish in one picture what lawyers and politicians cannot provide in an entire convoluted library.
Updated LE6920 photos
Finally got around to having some decent photos of my rig taken. When I've got more time, I'll edit to link to original, larger photos.
Enjoy.
Painting my M4
The time honored tradition of sitting down with a rifle, a couple bottles of Krylon, a case of beer and no clear plan came home to me this last week. As my family has been out and away, I decided to get in touch with my artistic side. Its shallow, but occasionally needs a scratch.
Ever notice how posed photographs LOOK posed? Its a lame effect that only happens when people try too hard... About 2 beer and 15 screwed up passes of the Krylon into the job, your shit will tend to even out and look like a professionally unprofessional paint job. 
IMO, pre-cut, iron-on patterns with gloss finishes are o.k. for little kids, but some folk still prefer to paint their field guns like a man. Some will NOT agree with me, but I think they tend to be of the "paint a purple picture of Barney," paint-chip eating variety.
Proper photos will be posted when I have access to a camera that doesn't have "The Flintstones" cartooned on to the side.
UMP .45
This is the first photos of my UMP .45.
First off, sorry for the mediocre photos. I was out barbequeing, and decent photos are really my wife's province - not mine. More will be added with time to the site.
About the gun. I bought it this year. I understand this particular firearm is unique (though I don't know all sides of the surrounding story), in that it is not a movie gun import. PMs with POV on import history into Canada are much appreciated.
Scorn and ignorance will just invoke laughter.
Interview: H20man
A few of the things I enjoy most about shooting is the company this activity allows me to enjoy, and the complimentary hobbies that spawn from taking photos and blogging about it.
One of my earliest goals for this blog was be to invite people to participate here who have had some impact in the realm of online shooting forums, and in particular to help publish readily available material with regards to personal experiences on particular shooting platforms for new and experienced shooters alike to consider.
I interviewed one such person, who many of you may already know as "H20man". Some of you know him from popular forums such as ar15.com. He appears here in this popular distributed demonstration video on the suppressed M1A rifle system.
Now, as a shooter living North of the Canada/US border, I often hear shooters here lament about the firearms we cannot buy. While this often feels and rings true, we occasionally find that we are more fortunate here in Canada than it would first appear.
As I processed through the text of our interview, one clear instance of this condition presented itself -- the inexpensive, readily available , and hotly debated Norinco M1A.
Chamber Flags
This Christmas, I went to visit my relatives in Edmonton. Of course, while I was there visiting my brother we got around to talking about the same old same old.
In the midst of discussion, he began to talk about a new video he had picked up that was well worth the watching. And thus we watched the excellent Kelly McCann's Tactical Carbine DVD while at My brother's place in Edmonton.
In McCann's opening segment, he displays good common sense by introducing suggestions for mandatory training safety. He covers some of the devices shown below, that we will discuss in some depth.
