Another Trinity Blood post.

Check these pictures out.  These are from the manga, not the anime.




Notice anything?  I didn't do any trigger finger photoshops on any of these--my gimp-fu is not that great, anyway.  It makes me think someone involved in this knows something about guns.  So far, all the pix I've seen of Abel with his gun "at rest" shows him with his finger off the trigger.  I know the second pic is kind of iffy, but in the bigger-res version it's easy to see that it's not inside the trigger guard.  The only time he is portrayed with a finger on the trigger, he is actually in the act of shooting (or at least aiming).

Anyone have any idea as to what exactly that gun is?  It looks to me like a Colt cap-and-ball, but maybe it's supposed to be a conversion to cartridge.  Considering how far into the future this story takes place, it's odd that anyone would be using a cap-and-ball conversion.  Maybe that's just a gun that he picked up when he was...much younger...and he's just been keeping it all this time.  So far I haven't found any pix showing him doing any reloading.  Whatever that thing is under the barrel, it doesn't look anything like a loading plunger, to me.

Anyhow, I thought that him having his finger off the trigger in all these pictures was kind of cool.

Also, he's left-handed, I think.  I'm not sure exactly what he's supposed to be doing in that second picture.

I got tired of the blogging stuff today so I went snooping for some cool anime pix.  This guy is from Trinity Blood.  I think he's the one who is an android.  He was built to do exactly what he's doing here, and not much else.

Here's another nice one from TB, although not as "tactical."

How about instead of using the name of a poor, innocent fictional cartoon character (Elmer Fudd) to refer to gun owners who have supped on the "sporting use" kool-aid, from now on we just call them "Zumbos" instead of "Fudds."

I think now that we have a real-world person to provide us with this epitome, we leave Elmer Fudd alone.

There are a few blogs I read that, when the page is loading, I often notice that something is being loaded from www.stopthenra.com.  I finally got around to viewing the page source for one of these blogs and figured out what's up.

These are the same blogs that have that "NRA Blacklist" widget thingy in the sidebar.  You know, the one that shows a slide show of celebrities that are allegedly on the "NRA Blacklist."  Only thing is, whoever originally slapped this widget together didn't actually use an slide show of celebrities on some "NRA Blacklist."  They used a slide show of celebrities who have joined or endorsed stopthenra.com, which is openly affiliated with the Brady bunch.  The slide show was actually produced by, and is still hosted at stopthenra.com, and is actually meant to show others of their ilk which celebrities they should support.

So their own information is turned against them.  Heh.

Maybe everyone else already knew this, but I didn't.

From The Ottawa Citizen:

Dave Copping has a dream for his daughter.

He doesn't imagine her playing hockey for Team Canada or earning a rich professional-sports contract.

Instead, he hopes that seven-year-old Kenzie, who has Down's syndrome, will one day fire a gun at a bull's-eye in the Special Olympics.

"She's a bright little thing," Mr. Copping said. "I honestly think, given the chance and the right training, she could probably do very well at it."

Although there is currently no target-shooting event in the Special Olympics, Mr. Copping thinks that could change and allow his daughter to compete in the sport he loves.

And so begins an article about owning guns in Canada, which is pretty much all "pro" and doesn't include any bogus statistics.  It does include lots of numbers on gun ownership in Canada.

However, the writer of the article still seems to get his stab in.  Get a load of the title and subtitle:  "Shooters in your neighborhood" and "They live down the block from you.  But don't fret, they say, their weapons are a safe and wholesome hobby, even a family activity."

The writer makes a good case for shooting actually being a wholesome family activity, but why the scary headlines?  Is it just an involuntary action due to Mr. McGregor's programming, or am I just too sensitive?

On a side note, I've known and sometimes worked with several people who have Down Syndrome, and am related to one.  (Oh, and by the way, Mr. McGregor, it's "Down Syndrome" and not "Down's Syndrome," but as an authorized journalist I suppose you don't have time to Google it).  They had more on the ball than some allegedly non-retarded people I have known.  I have no doubt that with proper training they could shoot targets just as well as anyone else.

UPDATE:  An anonymous commenter points us to this link which leads to several other hysterically hoplophobic articles by the same author.

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Via Xavier.