I did not read the book this movie was based on, and I never saw The Omega Man, but I saw I Am Legend last night and it was damn good. It’s nice seeing a Hollywood offering that doesn’t attempt to make me:

a) feel guilty about global warming

b) feel guilty about war
c) suck

So Kudos to Mr. Smith for carrying a good movie on his own - a movie, mind you, where the lead character uses guns as a tool to procure food and defend himself. In a sort of post apocalyptic New York City after the Earth is ravaged by a horrible virus, but hey, we can’t have everything.

7 hours in the car. 6 states. 435 miles. And every year I get a little older and it gets harder to recover. Now I find myself in nanny-land. What isn’t prohibited in New Jersey?

And in the spirit of this post’s title, here’s something for you kids … bonus points if you recognized the post title before watching the vid …

“We come in peace, SHOOT TO KILL! SHOOT TO KILL! SHOOT TO KILL!”

Over at Sharp as a Marble, Robb illustrates the slippery slope one finds themselves on when they tend to blame the tool, not the cause.

Sure is easy to blame anything but the real problem, isn’t it?

Driving all day today to visit some family out-of-state! For the two of you who infrequently frequent this little blog, I’ll be posting sporadically over the next week!

’til next time!

A few nights ago the whole family was sleeping soundly when we were suddenly awakened by a huge crash coming from the garage. It was about 4:00 in the morning.

Now, we don’t live in the middle of the woods, but we’re not city-dwellers by a longshot. We’ve seen a moose in the backyard, and we caught sight of a black bear running through our neighbors yard right next door.

I sat up in bed and my first thought was, “Crap. Safe is in the basement. Basement is next to the garage. I am upstairs. Pistol is in the safe.”

Clearly a situation that needs a remedy - I’m working on that one.

So I look outside. The motion sensor light in front of the garage has not been tripped. So whatever noise was in the garage, came from inside the garage. Doors were locked, garage doors down, and I thought it was something I precariously placed against the wall that simply fell down. Fairly certain of that and knowing all deadbolts were locked, back to sleep!

Turns out nothing fell, it was a spring on one of the garage doors that suddenly snapped. Luckily, it didn’t happen when my head was under it otherwise it would’ve taken my skull clean off. But this event - however innocent - exposed a major flaw from a home defense angle.

Uhhhh … there is no home defense. Other than locks. Locks ain’t good enough.

So my thoughts turn to the perfect home defense weapon. This house is about 70 years old and was built with thin walls, lots of separate rooms and turns from hallways, and low ceilings. A round from the Kahr P40 would probably go through any intruder, through the walls, into our neighbors home, and hopefully only crack a few dinner plates. Nonono. I need … a shotgun.

Which brings me to a few requirements. As much as I love the look of old, 9-foot-long lever action shotguns, they aren’t practical. I need at most something that’s 20 inches in length because of the small doors, twists, and turns of the home.

As far as it being a 12, 16, or 20? I could care less. I want small. I want bang. If it looks terrifying, all the better. Enter the delightfully wicked Serbu Super Shorty:

Okay, the pricetag is up there ($700+), but at 16.5 inches, 2+1 rounds, supremely maneuverable and frightening enough to cause instant self-filthing by any intruder, it’s a winner. Plus, it’ll fit in my sock drawer without a problem. Sure, if you fire it without using that flip-down foregrip the recoil might just tear your wrist off, but that’s the price of style, I suppose.

Yeah, it might be a bit much to stuff in your pocket during one of those late convenience-store runs, but with a big enough coat … you could.

An Australian professor has been drinking too much Fosters:

“Every newborn baby in Australia represents a potent source of greenhouse gas emissions for an average of 80 years, not simply by breathing but by the profligate consumption of resources typical of our society,” he wrote.

“Far from showering financial booty on new mothers and rewarding greenhouse-unfriendly behaviour, a ‘baby levy’ in the form of a carbon tax should apply, in line with the ‘polluter pays’ principle.”

This was followed by a most excellent response …

Australian Family Association spokeswoman Angela Conway said it was ridiculous to blame babies for global warming.

“I think self-important professors with silly ideas should have to pay carbon tax for all the hot air they create,” she said.

… along with an unfortunate addition of further lunacy:

“There’s masses of evidence to say that child-rich families have much lower resource consumption per head than other styles of households.

By Daniel Trotta

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Once again there has been a mass shooting in the United States, this time in a Nebraska shopping mall.

… and once again it was in a “Gun Free Zone”. Now shut up and go fuck yourself you smarmy, anti-gun dumbass.

In the Erie Times-News:

It’s difficult to understand the senseless killings in Omaha, Neb., where a 19-year-old man grabbed his stepfather’s AK-47-style assault weapon and opened fire in a shopping mall.

Eight people were killed before the man killed himself.

You don’t have to be a gun-control supporter to wonder how this troubled young man gained access to an assault weapon.

You could be 24 years old fighting for your country in Iraq and you’re a “child”. You could be a 19 year-old thug street urchin gunned down in a drive-by and you’re a “child”. Somehow this cretin is a “man”. I prefer, “animal who cost the taxpayers a quarter-mil before he started shooting them”, or we’ll leave it with what Weer’d called him: Emo McAsshole

This latest mass shooting was the second at a mall by a teenager this year. In February, an 18-year-old killed five people and wounded four in Salt Lake City before police killed him. Thirty-two were killed by a deranged man in a shooting spree at Virginia Tech University in April.

“Killed by police” doesn’t quite tell the story of him being stopped by an off-duty cop carrying concealed. And if any citizen was in the Omaha mall with a concealed weapon (*coughNOGUNSALLOWEDcough*) the likelihood of Emo McAsshole taking out as many of his taxpayers as he did would have been far less.