You may be a CEO, but you're not one of the ruling elite.

CEO of Horseshoe Bay Resort arrested for carrying gun at airport:

Police at Austin Bergstrom International Airport arrested Horseshoe Bay Resort CEO Douglas Jaffe, 26, on Thursday morning for "unlawfully carrying a weapon in places where weapons are prohibited," says Travis County Sheriff's Office spokesman Roger Wade.

Yes, Hinojosa was arrested.  But he was never transferred to a "booking facility," he was not held in custody for several hours, and he insisted that the law did not apply to him.

And no, I'm never going to let this one rest.

This has been popping up since early this morning, that is, news articles with both "gun experts" and complete doofuses are coming unglued that Nebraska's new concealed carry law requires an applicant to be able to hit a target at 25 feet.

This article is a prime example.

Apparently the argument is that one should not be proficient at hitting a target 25 feet away because no one can shoot that well and you are obviously going to be hitting innocent bystanders.  Also, no one can really threaten you if they are still 25 feet away.

Their arguments, not mine.

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Because the odds are that not 1 instance in 5,000 requires a victim to take a shot at that distance.

Because it is dangerous for most gun-toters to feel confident about their ability to be accurate, under extremely stressful circumstances, at that distance.

Got that?  Having confidence in your training, practice and mind-set is dangerous.  It might allow you to actually defend yourself successfully against a violent attack, and we can't have gun-toting citizens defending themselves, can we.  The phrase "gun-toters" here is of course a betrayal of the writer's true mind-set.  Hmmm...I wonder where he plucked that 1/5000 statistic from.  Probably some place that stinks about as much as his opinions.

If logic was at work here, they would understand that if you can hit a target at 25 feet, you can hit it even more easily at 10 feet.  Unless the testing is going to include response against a simulated attacker, the argument is moot.  A paper target is still a paper target.  Practice at 25 feet, and the same target at 10 feet will look as big as the side of a barn.  Unfortunately, as usual in these arguments, logic is nowhere to be found.

And what does the writer base his assumptions on?  A movie.

Have you seen many Clint Eastwood films? Even Dirty Harry seldom whacked bad guys from much distance, and he was packing that long-barreled Smith & Wesson .44 magnum.

So.  We shouldn't train to shoot at anything more than an arm's length away because a fictional character in a movie didn't do it.

As a fan of Dirty Harry movies myself, I must add that the writer of this half-assed opinion piece doesn't know what he's talking about.  Watch the original movie carefully and see if you can judge distances.  See how many people are only 5 or 10 feet away.  The final scene, of course, involves Mr. Callaghan "whacking" the killer from a considerable distance.

This guy would probably foul himself if he knew of Texas requirements.  We must shoot at three distances:  3 yards, 7 yards, and 15 yards (45 feet!).  When I first went for it, I did all my practice at 45 feet.  When I got to the test, the 3-yard target looked like it took up my entire vision.  Missing wasn't even a possibility.  Same at 7 yards.  I screwed up and let 2 shots go low at 15 yards, so I didn't get a perfect score, but against a real attacker, those two dropped shots would still have been quite a hurt.

I predict that, a year from now, when blood hasn't run in the streets and the Wild West hasn't returned to Omaha, arguments like these will be forgotten, as they already have been in every other state that passed a concealed carry law.

But crazies like this guy will still be frothing out the mouth, if not about guns, then about something else.  They always do.

I have no idea why older articles keep popping up as if they've just been published, because I'm not doing anything to cause it.  Just somethiing squirrely going on with Eponym's feed, I guess.

I also have a Feedburner feed that I monitor just for comparison, and the Feedburner feed isn't doing that.

Here's another kind of ad you will never see in the present.  Could you imagine the wife of soldier currently stationed in Iraq doing an ad for the company that makes his battle rifle?  During peacetime, UEF made typewriters and adding machines.

As usual, click to view a larger version that is easier to read.

Note:  I don't own this ad.  I found it on ebay this morning, where someone else has it up for sale.  If you're interested, just search for the lady's name on ebay.

This is definitely an ad that I would consider frame-worthy.

According to this completely balanced and unbiased news article, every time I take my arsenal to the range, I'm up to no good.

Also includes the famous phrase "AK-47-type assault rifle."

NOTE:  Since I'm not into sports, I've never heard of this apparently well-known college sports figure.  I don't give a rat's butt who he is.  He was obviously up to something, given his location and his choice of apparel.  But that doesn't change the bias in this article.