Year: 2008

Comment Topic: Pirates

There seems to be a lot of discussion, so I thought I’d open up comments to the following topic:

Anti-Pirate weaponry.  If you’re sailing the high seas, what would you like to have?

Let’s keep it in line with what’s reasonably available to civilians.  We’d all love to have a harpoon anti-ship missile obviously, but let’s be real.  I’d probably go for a .50 caliber rifle.  It’s got a reasonable amount of destructive power, can reach out pretty far.  As a backup to that, an AR-15.  Let’s also not underestimate the power of a few small, deck mounted, black powder cannon.  It killed pirates just fine 200 years ago, and it will still work today.  I would also add some excellent optics on board, both on the long range rifle, and for spotting to see if the ship in question is friendly, or hostile.

What do you think?

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What the Second Amendment is Really About

Battling pirates on the high seas:

The large wooden boat didn’t show on the radar, which was unsettling. He couldn’t reach the crew on the radio, which was scary. The large boat flew no flags and was closing in, so Zac took emergency measures.

The Thousand Oaks sailor started the engine to help him evade whom he was increasingly sure were evil people. He prepared to hit the distress button, which would pinpoint his position in case of a collision. He called his parents from a satellite phone and gave them his position.

“I got my gun and waited,” Zac wrote in his blog. “We passed a couple of hundred yards apart and they stopped dead in my wake.

When guns are outlawed, only priates will have guns.

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Good Advice

Megan McArdle says about your 401K, “Don’t Look.”  I’ve been following this advice since the whole thing started.  I just don’t want to know.  I’m not in this for the short term, and I definitely don’t want to buy high and sell low.  I’m going to wait for this mess to bottom out and then get all my money into something where it’s going to ride with the recovery.

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Endorsement Forthcoming?

This AP article hints that NRA may be preparing to endorse the McCain/Palin ticket:

The NRA has not yet endorsed a presidential candidate, but LaPierre planned news conferences Thursday in Pennsylvania, Missouri, Colorado and Nevada to make an announcement on the presidential election. He declined Wednesday to reveal which candidate the NRA would endorse but added that the group would “be foolish to overlook the vast areas of agreement” it has with McCain.

I don’t think there is any other choice here.  We must defeat Obama.  With him running around threatning consequences to radio and TV station broadcast licenses, it would be hard to even hold the Campaign Finance stuff against McCain at this point.

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Obama Camp Misappropriates NSSF Mailing List

Looks like there’s about to be a fight between the Obama Campaign and the National Shooting Sports foundation.  Just a guess here, but I’m betting that the list is protected by trade secret laws, which I understand is handled at the state level.  This should be interesting.

My understanding is that with trade secrets, if someone, for instance, left the list out on a table, and someone from the Obama camp picked it up, the campaign would not be liable.  But if they inticed someone to get it for them, they could be liable for misappropriating a trade secret.

More interesting stuff: There is a federal law called the Economic Espionage Act, passed in 1996, which makes misappropriating a trade secret a federal crime.  It not only makes the misappropriation of trade secrets a federal crime, but also conspiracy to misappropriate trade secrets a crime.

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HR 1845 Passes PA Senate

HR 1845 has passed the Pennsylvania Senate unanimously.  It had one amendment on it, and will have to go back to the house for a vote, but after that, which should be smooth sailing, it’ll be on to the Governor’s office for a signature, which should be forthcoming.  After this:

  • Sheriffs will have to issue emergency LTCFs for qualified applicants.
  • Carry completely lawful in state parks
  • No Katrina like gun confiscations in Pennsylvania.

Job well done for all the parties involved in getting this to passage.

UPDATE: I’m told the house passed it unanimously right after the senate passed it.  So all it requires now is Rendell’s John Hancock, and it’s law.

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Unpossible

A black man gets murdered shot with an firearm airgun while wearing an Obama t-shirt.  In London.  I thought only the USA had racist gun toting assholes in it.

UPDATE: I really either need to take time to carefully read stuff, or take a break from blogging while I’m doing election related stuff in the evenings.  Sorry about the inaccurate description here.

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