Good points.

I'm not a gun nutadvocate, but I have friends who are. I have shot a fairly wide range of guns with them, including an AR-15. For myself, I only ever owned BB guns and a .22 pellet air rifle, for target shooting and varmint control on my family farm. I did go pheasant hunting with borrowed 20 and 12 gauge shotguns a couple times.

My friend that owns the AR-15 is a responsible gun owner. Do I think he needs it? Hell no. But he likes it. Do I need a PC with an i7 processor and nVidia 1060 GPU? Hell no. But I like it.

So I guess it becomes a question of to what extent the things that we like can be used for negative purposes. My nVidia 1060 is unlikely to be used to facilitate a crime (unless games or bitcoin mining get criminalized). However, even though AR-15s might be one of the primary firearms of choice for murderous wackos, the percentage of people that own AR-15's who are murderous wackos is also extremely low.

If banning AR-15s would significantly reduce the rate of mass shootings and/or the average number of deaths per incident, it could be well worth doing even though it would annoy many responsible owners like my friend. ...But, I just don't think that would be the case. Not by itself.

I think we're at a point where we NEED to do something. If the something that we decide to do is to ban AR-15s, well, so be it I guess. But I don't think we'd be pleased with the long-term results of that. It'd be cutting the flower off of the top of the weed. We need to dig deeper, and I think that registration and licensing are sane ways to attempt to do that.

No pheasant deserves to be associated with Trump. None.

This is true. I was thinking quail, but I believe they bark when hunting pheasants, right?>> ^sillma:

>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:
so.. are hunting dogs supposed to yap incessantly like that?

>> ^reiwan:
Depends on what you're hunting. Birds; no. Foxes; yes. Rabbits... No clue. I think this dog is just retarded. >> ^GenjiKilpatrick:
so.. are hunting dogs supposed to yap incessantly like that?


Depends on the type of bird you're hunting.

I haven't owned hunting dogs (retriever, pointer, or flush dog) before, but I have had friends that did. They trained their retrievers not to chew up pheasants by putting feathers around some chicken wire rolled into a tube.

Dog bites down hard, gets wire in the gums = dog learns to retrieve such things with a very gentle grip. Maybe these folks need to slip some chicken wire into an envelope and mail it to themselves.

>> ^bareboards2:

He has no lips. There can be no plosive P for Dusty!

>> ^hpqp:
Somehow I keep hearing something far more vulgar than "green bay packers".



Too bad, I guess they can't teach him this then:

I'm not the pheasant plucker but the pheasant plucker's son,
I'm only plucking pheasants till the pheasant pluckers come.

Pheasants beware.

This is why people hunt pheasants with shotguns rather than assault rifles.

Actually, I think that it was really one of the shotguns that brought it down. The AR15 stops firing, the shotgun to his right fires at roughly 1:49 in the video, and you can see the plane flare as though hit. Possible that the AR15 hit it and it just took a small delay for some piece or control surface to break free, but from the timing I think the shotgun did it.

When they survey the damage on the recovered plane, the tail holes are definitely from shotgun pellets. The body damage I am not sure of.

holy shit a pheasant for 20 crowns

Originally called "Uptight," which is how Jonny referred to it in its early staged, the song pays homage to Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues." It deals with alien abduction and stems from two incidents in Thom's life. The first occured at Abingdon School, when he was assigned an essay question that went something like this: "If you were an alien from another planet arriving on Earth, how would you describe what you saw?" The second incident occurred when Thom was driving down a country road and hit a bird (which he believes was a pheasant). He stepped out of the car and at that moment began thinking about alien abduction.


http://www.greenplastic.com/lyrics/subterranean.php

Ah, Justice Scalia. He should go hunt pheasant with Cheney some more.

And dress in as much camouflage as possible.

Who are you calling a pheasant?

LOL.. .I heard Huckanut on the radio today shooting pheasants (not peasants).

He literally threaten to kill his opponents that run negative ads.

Then he made the "funny" joke about the three dead birds he was holding up for reporters were not going to caucus for him in Iowa, so they were shot dead. The one that got away "was wearing a Huckabee pin on his tail feathers"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sntTJSDuVwM


He is like twice as nuts as "W". Ordained baptist my ass. This guy has put more people to death I believe than any Governor.

Great post!

What I like about Mr Moran is that he is a self-confessed pheasant fan - he enjoys its chewiness and its no-nonsense attitude.