Gun on Way

I’m starting to get into the general period when my new used Smith & Wesson 27-2 should arrive. It’s killing me. Jim really did me a service, locating this thing. I don’t ordinarily buy holsters for my guns, except for a pocket holster for the Glock 26. Man, I love having that thing with me when I run errands. I feel like I should get a holster for the 27-2. Just because it would be cool.

I always want more guns. It’s a sickness. But I realize you have to space purchases out, because if you don’t, you end up with a whole bunch of guns you don’t know very well. I bought two 1911s very close together, and that worked out okay, but you can definitely overdo it.

I think a Colt King Cobra would be a great thing to have. Seems like kind of a ghetto/trailer park gun. Good quality, but a little rough. How can you not love a gun with a ridiculous thing like “KING COBRA” stamped on the barrel? You can tell the people at Colt wanted people to shoot it while drinking King Cobra Malt Liquor.

The Python sounds disappointing because of the weak guts and frame. Part of the fun of having guns is that they will often be among the best-engineered, most well-made items you own. Can you say that about a .357 that only shoots .38 Specials? I dunno. Maybe it’s so much fun to shoot with .38s, you don’t miss real ammunition.

The 27-2 is supposed to be heavier than my 686+, which is not a wimpy piece. I don’t think I’ll have to baby it.

A Ruger would be nice. I don’t know if you have to go old when you buy a Ruger. The older Smiths are better, and there aren’t any new double-action Colts.

Liberals misunderstand the gun-collecting urge. Which makes sense, because they misunderstand nearly everything. It’s not that you want to stockpile weapons so you can fulfill a warped tough-guy image and kill your neighbors and have a standoff with the FBI. It’s just that guns are fun to collect. Like…let me think of something liberals enjoy collecting. I know! STDs! No, wait. Welfare checks. No, wait. Fatherless babies. No, still not right. Yanni CDs? Well, you get the idea.

TC forwarded a funny story. Georgia is a conservative state, but Atlanta is a liberal city. It’s like a boil on an otherwise healthy body. A Georgia lawmaker got a law passed, allowing permit holders to carry guns on public transportation, in restaurants that serve alcohol, and in parks. And he is planning to take his gun to the airport, presumably relying on the public transportation clause. The Atlanta authorities say they’ll arrest him in spite of the law.

This should be fun.

I don’t want to reflexively back the legislator. I know 911 has made airport administrators and the admittedly hysterically anti-gun FAA crazy, and I would not want to make their jobs harder. Of course, the thing is, guns inside airports aren’t the biggest terrorism worry. Guns on planes…that’s the real problem. And I think it would be impossible for a crazed Muslim to use a gun inside an airport to get on a plane. He’d have fifty red dots on him in five minutes. And the presence of hidden civilian weapons would be a real deterrent. Imagine how your heart would leap if you got a chance to splatter a jihadi’s brains in an airport. I know it’s awful, but the satisfaction would be beyond description. I’m sure they realize many of us feel that way.

I tend to think guns in airports are a good idea, and that they’ll make airports much scarier for Muslim terrorists. Maybe I’m wrong.

Civilian guns make crime a very risky business, and criminals find them discouraging and upsetting. That’s what they tell us, and for once, they’re right.

I get more excited about concealed carry every day, and not solely because I carry. I love knowing that every time I’m in a public place where a moron is likely to show up and cause a problem, there are a few weapons around me, in the hands of people the criminals and I can’t identify in advance. I love knowing that criminals know it, too. It’s like being surrounded by invisible angels.

Concealed carry means hope. Gun bans mean surrender and helplessness.

I would like to see the Atlanta authorities publicly humiliated and spanked over their efforts to nullify the state law. I am a bad person. I am working on that.