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2003-03-01 20:20 | User Profile
From: Ratboy's Anvil, February 26
Me and My Big Dumb Gun
by Mark Morford
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It's the new, biggest-ever Smith & Wesson .50 caliber monster handgun, and you without a shooting spree. Can you feel the machismo? Can you feel the pulsing manly manhood just throbbing there in your hand, ready to silence a playground full of children or drop a charging elephant at 50 yards or annihilate a few hundred tofu-suckin' liberal jackass pacifist commie tree huggers, protesting out there in the street? Mmm, phallic.
That's right, it's the new Smith & Wesson .50 caliber handgun, the biggest and deadliest the company has ever made, the most powerful production handgun in history, in fact, even bigger than the famous monster scum-killer .44 Magnum Clint carried in "Dirty Harry," because, you know, that's important to know. Bullets from such a gun can pierce light armor, they can penetrate buildings, they can blow up tanker trucks, they can bring light aircraft out of the sky. If you can find a more ideal weapon for every home terrorist's do-it-yourself kit, buy it!
Clearly, America needs this gun. It's the ideal dream-weapon not just for its practicality, like outgunning a horde of cops snoopin' 'round the meth lab, but also for hunting some wild humpback whales and blasting concrete slabs and protecting the family from the onslaught of all those Islamic evildoers who are right this minute sneaking over from Syria and Iraq and Jersey, eager to impregnate your wife and buy up all the beer and steal your HBO. Damn right they're coming -- Mr. Rumsfeld said so, so it must be true.
It's the Hummer of handguns, the Frankenstein of firearms, the biggest dumbest most entirely useless and pointless and adorably, blatantly, phallically compensatory handheld weapon available to the public today, excluding a Big Bertha golf club or the multi-function remote control or, say, J.Lo.
And along with the Hummer, it is the perfect poster child for the U.S.' preemptive kill-first, aggro-thug superpower policy. It represents exactly who we are right now -- or rather, who ShrubCo really, really wants us to be.
All about who's got the bigger military crotch-bulge, who can say "Go ahead, make my day" to both the U.N. and the deluded millions of liberal hippie anti-war protesters rallying all over the world, as well as those damnable "Old Europe" objectors, while we whip out the big gun against whomever we want, whenever we want, just for the petrochemical fun of it all, because we said so.
The new gun is for hunting, they say. Right. And the Hummer is for rescuing baby seals in Antarctica.
No really, it's for hunting. They swear. It's for those sportsmanlike times when you want to blow that damn elk into so many little bitty smithereerny chunks it will look like God's precious creature just met with the business end of a grain thresher. Screw the meat, let's go for splatter. What fun. Hunters are so cool.
No no, that's unfair. Hunters are not all bloodthirsty thugs. And this gun is a perfectly valid weapon in these trying times, when the drug dealers are packing Uzis and raping kittens, and more than ever, the size of a man's fake bulge defines his stature, and his patriotism.
But more than that, the Smith & Wesson Super-Splatter Aggro-Magnum MegaPhallus 2000 (or whatever it's called) is more than the perfect example of the bigger is better, manlier is better, stupider is better American ethos. It is also the capitalist ideal run ragged. And tired. And deadly.
You see, the Smith & Wesson company is suffering. They were, apparently, one of the first American gunmakers to agree to Clinton-era regulations and install safety locks on their weapons, in an attempt to save lives and prevent more Columbines and more estranged ex-husband killing sprees and more undereducated second-graders from sneaking daddy's Little Elvis out from under his hidden stash of Honcho magazines in the garage and taking it to school for Show and Tell and Maim.
Hence, "real" gun collectors saw the company as wimpy sellouts -- after all, what sort of macho dude needs a girly gun lock? Sort of like drinking in moderation or sticking a "Free Tibet" rainbow sticker on the Escalade or actually obeying that restraining order. Yeah right.
And lo, gun locks in place, S&W's sales plummeted.
What's an all-American weapons manufacturer to do? Why, go back to basics, of course. Aggression. Machismo. Violence. Sure enough, the parent company decided to sell the struggling gunmaker, and the new owner said to hell with safety, forget the gun locks, let's get big.
Let's reclaim that elusive monosyllabic-hunter market and put the fear of God/violent brutal death back into the police department. Let's make the biggest heaviest most gut-wrenching weapon possible. And they did just that.
Because if America is about anything in the era of preemptive kill-first antagonism, it's about armchair bazooka kings who like their phallic symbols glaring and their sense of human empathy puny, their Nugent records cranked to 11 and their Charlton Heston posters menacing and who can belch the Star Spangled Banner and somehow still manage to vote. Or is that too unfair? Oh that's right, it's for hunting.
This is the real lesson of modern American business. This is the lesson leeched from the age of reality TV, of shock-crap Jerry Springer, of ham-fisted ad execs and bitter political mudslinging campaigns across the cultural spectrum. Subtlety and calm and nuance and grace and restraint don't get the ratings. And they don't move product.
In increasingly jaded and numb America, ya gotta go for shock. The biggest. The scariest. The wildest. The dumbest. The most sugary or fatty or creepy or quadruple beef triple bacon double cheese chiliburger with deep-fried cheese sauce only 99 cents while supplies last. It is all about excess, violent and deadly and mean. And apparently, it is what we are (still) all about.
Yet you want to believe this sort of thing is the exception. You want to believe huge absurd weapons exist out there on the lunatic fringe, that the tides of positivism and grace and harmony and mindfulness are, generally speaking, rising up to defeat this sort of karmically deleterious slur.
And that maybe, just maybe more and more companies -- not to mention individual consumers -- are beginning to choose not to pollute the cultural pool quite so violently, so mindlessly, that they have a responsibility beyond just exploiting the nation's fear impulse, and that their, and your, decisions about such products do, in fact, affect -- or infect -- the world. There are many signs.
Unless, of course, you believe the Smith & Wesson press release, which states that production on the new monster gun has already been increased. Due, naturally, to intense demand.
2003-03-02 05:12 | User Profile
Violence Policy Center Claims .50 Caliber Rifles Can Shoot Down Satellites
The Violence Policy Center (VPC) released another new report calling for strict regulation on the .50 caliber rifle. The VPC's new report, "Hotter Than a Heat-Seeker, More Devastating Than a Death Ray", claims that .50 caliber rifles can shoot down U2 spy planes, damage military satellites, and may have played a role in the recent unexplained crash of the space shuttle Columbia.
"These are extremist weapons of nigh-inexplicable power," explained the VPC senior analyst Tom Diaz. "We've fabricated - er - found evidence that this extremist super-weapon, which is shockingly under-regulated, may have allen into extremist terrorist hands and played a role in the tragic Cold War downing of U2 pilot Gary Powers. These extremist rifles can swat aircraft from the sky just like hunting birds, and pose a great risk for our unprotected International Space Station."
"Look, I'm really quite at a loss for how to deal with these ridiculous claims," began exasperated Fifty Caliber Rifle Association spokesman Johann Brett. "You cannot shoot down a large airplane, let alone a satellite, with any caliber rifle. In World War II, fighters equipped with many heavy machine guns and cannons put hundreds of rounds of incendiary ammunition into slow-flying bombers and they often still survived. No one has ever been killed by a criminal with a .50 caliber rifle. They cost thousands of dollars and weigh more than two bowling balls, but in the end they're just rifles, not super-weapons. And anyway you don't hunt birds with a rifle, you need a shotgun."
Diaz dismissed Brett's response as biased gun lobby propaganda. "These gun industry extremists have long hidden the truth about the extremist weapon's power," he insisted. "For example, there are indications that the asteroid belt was produced by a stray .50 caliber round from a gun extremist's rifle impacting on what was previously a perfectly bucolic and peaceful world. And we suspect that the planet Alderaan, Princess Leia's homeworld, disintegrated under the extremist wrath of an extremist's extreme .50 caliber bullet."
For his part, Brett described the VPC's claims as "lunacy". "The asteroid belt was not caused by the .50 caliber rifle," he insisted. "It took a moon-sized Death Star to destroy Alderaan, and anyway that was a movie, not real life."
"I can't understand why the press considers this constant stream of fantastic,concocted reports credible and prints them," Brett fired back. "The VPC is an anti-gun organization with a million-dollar annual budget from the Joyce Foundation, no actual academic researchers, and a tiny staff of propagandists. Why do you print this insanity?"
"Extremist extremist extremist extremist gun lobby extremist," countered Diaz. "Anyway, the New York Times prints anything we write, so it'll get printed." Diaz noted that the VPC has sponsored new bills to ban the .50 caliber rifle in numerous states. "This threat to public safety cannot go unchecked," Diaz asserted. "The .50 caliber rifle must be banned to reduce crime, or fight terrorism, or, you know, whatever."
Legislative battles involving the .50 caliber rifle are expected to continue throughout the next coming years.
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[Editor's Note: The VPC report "Like Hunting Birds" claims that .50 caliber rifles can be used to shoot down jet airplanes. You can't make this stuff up!]
2003-03-02 05:33 | User Profile
Are these guys tying to break their wrests?
Massive 500 S&W Magnumî Cartridge 2600 ft/lb. Muzzle Energy
Smith & Wesson .50 caliber monster handgun [url=http://www.smith-wesson.com/Products/Firearms/m500.htm]http://www.smith-wesson.com/Products/Firearms/m500.htm[/url]
I do not think we need a new cartridge, what's wrong with these...
454 CASULL Guns will also shoot .45 LC too
454 CASULL [url=http://www.hodgdon.com/data/pistol/454casul.php]http://www.hodgdon.com/data/pistol/454casul.php[/url]
50 AE [url=http://www.hodgdon.com/data/pistol/50actexp.php]http://www.hodgdon.com/data/pistol/50actexp.php[/url]
45 WIN MAG [url=http://www.hodgdon.com/data/pistol/45winmag.php]http://www.hodgdon.com/data/pistol/45winmag.php[/url]
And for that matter what's wrong with plain old .44 mag?
44 REM MAG [url=http://www.hodgdon.com/data/pistol/44remmag.php]http://www.hodgdon.com/data/pistol/44remmag.php[/url]
You can only kill it once. :lol:
2003-03-02 05:45 | User Profile
What you are seeing is how the brainwashing program works on the great masses of the lumpenproltariat.
If you ever notice on the talmudvision, the lies are usually disseminated thusly:
1) Thin eyed suave talker: " Today a troubling story about a dangerous weapon"
2) Pretty faced reporter: " We have just been informed about a danger to life and limb, bla bla bla."
3) 3rd party "expert": " Oy Vey, ve haf found sum vite rasists planning to vipe out civiliization vit a dangerous new vepon, yada yada yada.....
2003-03-02 18:59 | User Profile
Talk about over compensation.
This Mark Morford guy had better check his pants, I think his penis fell off.
2003-03-02 20:00 | User Profile
To me the people who concentrate on being able to collect and bear arms but at the same time let the governmental control expand and their country be taken over by a foreign lobby are missing the big picture and are running away from the problems by taking "but I still have my guns" attitude.
Second Amendment is an important issue. But don't underestimate the relative importance of everything else. Zhids try to outlaw dissent and push "hate speech" laws because they are more afraid of dissent than the guns. Sheeple with the guns can do nothing but huff and puff and hump the flag when shipped to fight for Eretz Yisroel.
2003-03-02 21:12 | User Profile
No, but I can smell the fear.
2003-03-02 21:25 | User Profile
The Muscovite may have hit on something.
50-60 years ago, you had a lot less crime but I'm not sure if you had significantly higher private ownership of guns. You certainly didn't have as many laws tying people's hands and for sure you didn't have the same ballistic firepower in firearms. America is not yet England or Australia; and outside of the major cities you still have lots of gun owners. And while - today - you can certainly draw an inference between an armed populace and a low crime rate, I'm not so sure the same causal relationship existed half-a-century or more ago.
You had segregation, a 90% white majority, a refreshing absence of "youth culture", a semblance of states' rights, a unified popular culture that reflected the audience's values and longings instead of feeding into their resrentments and haranguing them with Jewish polemics and you had NO TELEVISION (or at least nothing like you have now).
You had less law and more order without having a police surveillance state as the pricetag. And none of these things were directly correlated to gun ownership. However, rend the fabric of that order asunder and gun ownership becomes directly correlative to these things.
But 100% gun ownership will not cause anything resembling that America to return. You don't cure a deathly ill person by arming him...(not that having a gun will make him any sicker, mind you. While guns by themselves won't fix America, their prohibition may well hasten our demise). We'll need stronger medicine than that, and it likely will taste pretty nasty, too.
2003-03-02 23:35 | User Profile
Given the overwhelming number of guns out there in America, and the plain fact that the 2nd amendment prevents any serious gun-grab, I'm sure that the ZOO (Zionist Occupational Organization) has figured out that the over-armed ghetto streets can serve its purposes by creating social unrest without threatening its BPV-clad powers. The dynamic described by MadRussian (hello sir), of pro-liberty types equating their guns with their freedom, is also in effect as a distraction. And of course, the existence of a gun culture provides chances to nab someone such as Randy Weaver or David Koresh on BATF violations.
That being said, I like guns all the same, so I'm gonna talk about them here. First off, that gun is probably a good hunting handgun and all if you are strong enough, but I found something with much more eclat doing an Internet search on "hunting handguns" after checking out Faust's links. That would be the T/C Contender (carbine or .45/.410), described by the review in americanshooter.com as "utterly simplistic" in operation, (in fact you only get one shot per reload) but revolutionary in the variety of load it can take. So you can sportingly hunt anyone from Mr. Squirrel and Mr. Bird on up (although I doubt it would kill a woolly mammoth, as S/W implies its new .50 can) , and shoot both shot and rifle bullets, with one gun.
As far as home defense, Massad Ayoob touts the famous Colt .45 as the best for stopping power relative to most people's ability to control it. His 1980 book "In the Gravest Extreme" is great, if you want the real skinny on the role of the firearm in personal protection on the street, at your house, and in your car.
2003-03-02 23:49 | User Profile
There are way too many people equating their guns with freedom. It's a distraction, alright. I doubt very much there will be a bloodshed in case of a gun-grab. If the government can brainwash people into accepting that "freedom is slavery" and "war is peace", I don't have much hope for the sheeple. But first why would the government grab the guns if the sheeple can be controled with them much better than without.
The power no longer lies with the militia types of regular folkes. The power lies with the government whose army and the police can overwhelm the gun types without a problem.
The so-called second-amendment organizations that make guns a fetish and the center of their political activity are just distracting people from the real issues.
2003-03-03 14:07 | User Profile
Song of Insulin,
As far as home defense, Massad Ayoob touts the famous Colt .45 as the best for stopping power relative to most people's ability to control it. His 1980 book "In the Gravest Extreme" is great, if you want the real skinny on the role of the firearm in personal protection on the street, at your house, and in your car.
Yes, that why I think 454 CASULL would be better choice the this new odd 500 S&W Magnum Cartridge, because the gun will also shoot Colt .45 Cartridges too. I always found the idea of hunting with handguns odd.
2003-03-04 04:22 | User Profile
Madrussian:
"There are way too many people equating their guns with freedom."
A good point.
ZOG is busy collecting armies, politicans and police forces and we the people are busy hunting pheasants and feeling free.
A shotgun is not a very good subsitute for having a tank.
Still though, a shotgun is better than nothing.
And, has Jeff Cooper has written about, a good weapon in the right hands can do lots of things.
I'm thinking that the darkness is coming in around me and I'm starting to lose my fear of it . I'm thinking (if this makes sense), that ZOG is very strong and is also very weak; like the dragon in the "Hobbit", very strong yet having a weak spot and doomed to death.
2003-03-04 04:30 | User Profile
I think the most important thing about having a gun is the psychological changes than can be wrought by possesing such a deadly and oft-despised instrument. If you start the get the idea that you are ready and willing to kill people, you tend to be better able to identify with the Founding culture of America, and with the idea that you ought to defend it, come what may.
I am sure there are too many out there who have a 'things are alright, because I can have a lot of guns.' But I am equally confident that some powerful politically results can be achieved by getting more mainstream GOP types--particular urban and sub-urbanites in their 20's and 30's--to own guns and be active in gun clubs.
2003-03-04 15:38 | User Profile
A lot of people who come to guns from 'my neighborhood is getting unsafe and I need to protect myself' also find themselves unintentionally becoming educated about what's going on/wrong in our society... You can't really go buy a gun, and maybe even learn to use it, without tripping over the odd and silly laws; the restrictions and constrictions placed on law-abiding folks; the negative and just weird reactions of the few friends you tell; the nice, normal, and serious gunshop folks, range folks, and other gunners who are NOT those demonized and dreaded gun nuts...
I'm reminded on my very first disaffection. In my jr. high and high school days (way way long ago), they did all those reefer madness antidrug lessons. We were taught that any person USING drugs was evil and would try to 'hook' us. A good friend was moving to England for a year, so we snuck out at midnight, and went down to the beach to watch the sun rise. (We were 'good' kids, and never really did anything 'bad.') There was a really nice kid there (college? senior?), who was "tripping on acid" -- "OH OH!! Danger Will Robinson!" But he didn't 'try' anything, he was just really nice, a little spacy, and we all sat around his fire and watched the sun come up.
Anne left for England, and now I had a problem. I'd now actually MET a guy using LSD, and he hadn't been dirty and ugly and dangerous. He'd been nice and polite and a little... sad. What was I now to MAKE of the lessons I'd learned in health classes? Was it ALL a lie? So I had to start picking apart the threads of the tapestry they've woven. Fortunately, I was smart enough and knew enough about how to research to make up my OWN mind about sex and drugs and rock 'n roll (I'm for 'em all! :D )
People who go out and actually BUY a gun, or even look into it, will automatically be exposed to the govt's lying and bad dealing... This is a good thing!