UNREPORTED HISTORY: The Greatness of Guns

Posted on July 25, 2014
by Michael A. Cummings
Clash Daily Contributor

“[What has] been used to implement both the highest and basest goals of humanity – to put food on the table, to provide personal protection, to enforce or defy the law, to defend or acquire territory and treasure, and to liberate or to enslave.” ? (Source: http://www.nramuseum.org/gun-info-research/a-brief-history-of-firearms.aspx )

Guns, my fellow Americans. Precision engineering and fine art, harmonized as one to empower people around the world — even women.

Yes, Clashmates, I meant that last part for the Left. Tweaking them has become good fun.

A quick history:

The origin of gunpowder is unknown, and may have occurred in China, Turkey, or Europe. The first record describing the combination of charcoal, sulphur, and saltpeter, to produce a rapidly burning or exploding powder is a coded writing by Franciscan monk Roger Bacon shortly before 1250 A.D.
Within 50 years, early cannon had been developed. A large thick metal tube with one closed end (the breech) and an open end (the muzzle) was loaded first with gunpowder and then with a projectile. The powder was ignited with a torch or smoldering ember through a small hole in the rear (the touchhole). The rapidly expanding gases from the exploding gunpowder would throw the projectile from the barrel. This basic principle still applies today.
It took another half-century for this concept to be applied to individual hand-held weapons. The first firearms, ca. 1350, called “hand cannons” or “hand gonnes,” were essentially miniature cannons designed to be held by hand or attached to a pole for use by individual soldiers. They were loaded and fired in the same manner as the full-size cannons.
Seven hundred fifty-eight years later, outside Sadr City, Iraq, Navy SEAL Chris Kyle shot a .338 Lapua bullet (almost half an inch in diameter) out of his McMillan TAC-338 to make his longest shot, 2,100 yards. Almost a mile and half. That record shot saved an entire Army convoy from a rocket-propelled grenade.

What a glorious history. Despite the endurance of the basic science of firearms, we’ve come a long way. Rifling, powders, bullets, auto-loading, scopes, lasers, and so on. Imagine if we had no firearms. What we experience as reality today would be markedly different, and immeasurably more dangerous.

This is why the Left can’t stand firearms. They always hate what empowers the individual. It’s one of the pinnacles of hypocrisy because celebrities and those in government leadership positions have no objection to being protected by guns. But like the SUV which provides fun, function, and freedom, guns are fun, functional, and full of freedom.

Have you fired one? If not, do it. Find your local range here (http://wheretoshoot.org/Find_Range/). Shooting is a blast. Mrs. Cummings didn’t have much experience with guns before she qualified for her conceal carry permit. I wish you could have seen the look on her face shooting even a 22LR pistol, and doing very well at 25 yards (I think she beat me with my 9mm and 45 but let’s not get into that). Ear-to-ear grin, and a sense of power and accomplishment.

The Left claims a monopoly on empowering women but the only tools they clearly want women to have at their immediate disposal are taxpayer-supported contraception and abortions. If they truly wanted to empower women, they would support any and all education and training efforts. Not only would crime rates plummet against women, but you would silence the morons in government who have the unmitigated temerity to advise a woman to vomit, urinate and claim they are menstruating to avoid rape.

You didn’t hear that one? That’s your Democrat party.

Sadly, accidents happen with firearms, and people get hurt and die. Evil people with and without criminal records can and do get their hands on a gun and do harm to others. Since not a single law in this world will eliminate guns, why would anyone disarm ourselves?
The answer is we won’t, ever. In fact, we need more guns in the hands of more people. If good fences make good neighbors, good gun people make us into Mayberry.

Empower yourselves and your families by getting a gun. Get several if your budget allows. Learn how to use, maintain, and store them properly. And never let anyone tell you guns are bad, for as most Americans know: We can’t blame the spoon for making us fat.

Michael-Cummings1Michael A. Cummings has a Bachelors in Business Management from St. John’s University in Collegeville, MN, and a Masters in Rhetoric & Composition from Northern Arizona University. He has worked as a department store Loss Prevention Officer, bank auditor, textbook store manager, Chinese food delivery man, and technology salesman. Cummings wrote position pieces for the 2010 Trevor Drown for US Senate (AR) and 2012 Joe Coors for Congress (CO) campaigns. See more at www.cummingsamerica.com and https://twitter.com/cummingsamerica

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Eric Holder, the US attorney general, has accused some of the Obama administration's conservative opponents of being motivated by “racial animus”, suggesting that both he and President Obama are treated differently because they are black.


In unusually candid terms, Holder said that visceral criticism – including calls for impeachment of both the president and Holder, and Tea Party warnings about the direction of the country – were in part racially motivated. “There’s a certain level of vehemence, it seems to me, that's directed at me [and] directed at the president. You know, people talking about taking their country back.”

He added: “There's a certain racial component to this for some people. I don’t think this is the thing that is a main driver, but for some there's a racial animus.”

Holder made his comments in a wide-ranging interview with ABC News. Though he did not name any particular individual or group for such racially motivated hostility, he did talk about Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential candidate in 2008 and a Tea Party favourite, who has called for Obama to be impeached. “She wasn’t a particularly good vice-presidential candidate. She’s an even worse judge of who ought to be impeached and why,” he said.

In the course of more than five years in office, Obama has tried hard not to be sucked into the debate about any racial component of the opposition to his administration. When he has talked about racial issues, such as his remarks following the acquittal of George Zimmerman, accused of murdering a teenager in Florida last year, he has tended to talk in general terms about the impact of discrimination, rather than make specific allegations about his conservative enemies.

Other prominent African American politicians have been less reserved. Charlie Rangel, the long-standing Democratic Congress member for Harlem, recently said that the Republican stand-off with Obama was entirely motivated by race.

On Holder’s part, this is not the first time that he has allowed himself to comment on how America deals with its racial legacy. Just after he took over the job as the senior official at the department of justice in 2009, he made a much-discussed speech in which he said “though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.”

Asked by ABC News whether he stood by that speech, he said he did. “I think we are still a nation that is too afraid to confront racial issues,” he said, adding that Americans rarely engaged “one another across the color line [to] talk about racial issues”.

The attorney general was outspoken in his condemnation of Republican-dominated legislatures that have passed new voter ID laws that have been decried as thinly-veiled attempts to restrict black voters’ access to the polls. The Department of Justice is currently suing Texas and North Carolina over their new voter ID legislation, and is expected to do the same in Ohio and Wisconsin.

“I'm attorney general of the United States. I will not stand for – I will not allow people to take away that which people gave their lives to give, and that is the ability for the American people to vote,” he said.

And once again the Administration and their sycophants play the race card. This is getting rather tedious!

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/13/eric-holder-racism-obama-administration-sarah-palin

I don't think there any videos that show Zimmerman to be a bigot or rascist. After all he worked as a volunteer to help Black children among other things. As for the idiot, aren't we all idiots from time to time. His being an idiot had nothing to do with his defending himself against Trayvon Martin. If you remember back without drinking the Koolaid, you will see Martin attacked Zimmerman. Even if Zimmerman was following him that is no reason for Travon Martin to attack him. Also remember Travon Martin was shot while he was on top of Zimmerman punching him.

Apparently what you are saying is that NBC has the right to lie and show false narratives or videos about Zimmerman if it fits into their Leftist agenda.

Sorry, I don't think you get it. NBC lied yet the Liberals claim FOX News lies. Apparently you agree it is OK to lie as long as the lie fits in with what you already think. On that point, I have never heard one lie proven true about Fox News when they are giving news. Do their commentators say things to provoke feelings? Of course they do, the same as Bill Mahr, Piers Morgan and many others. Can you spell hypocrisy?

Dennis

No. My argument all along has been... the very same people who are complaining about Obama, never complained about Bush when he was guilty of doing the same things; they simply complaining because a Democrat is in the White House. I, personally feel that the Bush administration did much more damage to this country and its reputation than Obama could ever dream of. I'm not in love with Obama. But saying he's a worse president than Bush is ridiculous. Statistically, even Reagan was worse than Obama has been.