By now I'm sure everyone has heard/read about the Amish School Shooting.  Another subhuman freak has chosen this time, not to simply attack a place where people are forbidden to defend themselves, but to attack a people who do not believe in using any form of violence even for their own defense.

And what if some insane anti-Amish zealot decided to go on an Amish killing spree?

Amish communities would end up being guarded by non-Amish people with guns, that's what.  Either that, or be slaughtered en masse.

People can live this sort of "idealized" lifestyle only because those around them 1) allow them to do so, and 2) provide them with certain measures of peripheral protection, either directly or indirectly.

Either way, my conclusion is the same.  People can live in peace only if they are willing to kill those who would take that peace away from them--or they are willing to allow someone else to do the killing for them.

Worthless sacks of sh*t like the man who killed these people aren't interested in talking to anyone.  There's no way they can be talked out of what they are going to do.  There is no compromise.  There is only life and death.

There may not be much of a point to this post, except that I am so sickened and outraged by this act that I can hardly think straight.  A supposedly religious belief that even simple self-defense is a sin is alien and abhorrent to me.  It is beyond my understanding; it is beyond my ability to even attempt understanding.

The murderous act of killing people like the Amish is even more alien and abhorrent to me.  I can't get my head around either side of this problem, except to think that both the killer and the victims were wrong.

Remington's "first gas operated, autoloading shotgun without the Browning-type recoiling action," according to Remington.  Manufactured 1956-63, approximately 271,000 produced.  Made in 12, 16 and 20 gauges.

Someone's asking $525 for a 4-inch barrel S&W Model 28 on GunsAmerica.

Mine's a 6-inch barrel, and I only paid $300 for it.  Finish looks about the same.  Great gun.  The trigger pull is so slick I still have a hard time believing it.