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Very near the end of this interview with journalism lecturer and spokesman for the Friends of the ABC Professor Alan Knight, the Professor volunteers his view on internet content:
Look, 99% of the stuff that’s on the web is rubbish. It’s basically Tim Blair going on with his mates about how we need more guns. You know, it’s nonsense.
ABC types are a little obsessed with this site lately. Still, Alan reminds me how neglectful we’ve been of gun issues lately … so, just for him:
The founder of an antiviolence group called No Guns pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal weapons charges.
Hector “Big Weasel” Marroquin is accused of selling an assault rifle, a machine gun, two pistols and two silencers to undercover federal agents last fall. He could face up to 50 years in prison if convicted.
UPDATE. Mark Steyn: “I love America! Even the anti-gun groups are full of gun nuts packing totally awesome heat.”
What does ABC stand for, anyway? Always been castrated?
Posted by SwampWoman on 2007 06 23 at 03:51 PM • permalink
I don’t know about the ‘No Guns’ group, but since I’ve done some work on my SKS, I belong to the ‘no bayonets, no grenade launchers, and no night sights’ group.
Although in my defense I’ve joined the ‘Scout Sniper’ group.
http://www.the-trainer.com/blog/001923.html
How about ‘Always Been Commie’?
- Don’t have enough guns?
On a tight budget?
Try these!Quality American Products at an Affordable Price!Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 06 23 at 04:49 PM • permalink
Or go for the best: Para Ordnance!
Cheers
Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2007 06 23 at 05:01 PM • permalink
Look, 99% of the stuff that’s on the web is rubbish. It’s basically Tim Blair going on with his mates about how we need more guns. You know, it’s nonsense.
Is that Professor Knight’s considered opinion as a lecturer in journalism? What are the sources for this statistical analysis?
I’m concerned about academic standards.
Posted by Evil Pundit on 2007 06 23 at 05:03 PM • permalink
As you can tell he feels that free speech is best when you only have those talking with whom you completely agree. Since all the big issues have been already decided upon, the only real discussion we should be allowed to have is about what colour Prius we should be buying or how many seconds a shower should take etc etc.
With all this attention from media watch and the professor types Tim, you must have quite a menagerie of lurkers mate! However I think that your close association with Andrew Bolt has helped in getting you this attention. Enjoy!!!
Oh and for all the lurkers out there – I think all the world’s problems could be solved if we all walked around packing Desert Eagles. There is my contribution to the 99%!!
Of course we own 99% of the internet. We have guns, and can hold up liquor stores to pay for our bandwidth costs…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 06 23 at 05:18 PM • permalink
…but since I’ve done some work on my SKS, I belong to the ‘no bayonets, no grenade launchers, and no night sights’ group.
You must be in California, where bayonet mounts are illegal, since so much carnage has been wrought there by bayonets in the hands of gang-bangers.
Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2007 06 23 at 05:26 PM • permalink
Hector “Big Weasel” Marroquin is accused of selling an assault rifle, a machine gun, two pistols and two silencers
It gets worse: son “Little Weasel” is currently charged with several home-invasion armed robberies, and daughter “Weaselita” pleaded gulity to a lesser charge charge based on a murder which took place in her office and the body was found burned and buried in the desert.
They were both on Dad’s payroll, all at taxpayer expense.
Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2007 06 23 at 05:35 PM • permalink
Hey, Big Weasel No Guns is simply a smart entrepeneur. What businessman wouldn’t like to have less competition? So, Big Weasel is in the gun business. He thinks, business is tough, how can I get rid of competition. Voila, start a No Guns group, close up the competition and sell guns on the black market. That’s the formula for hyper-profits. Worked for Al Capone, would’ve worked for Big Weasel too.
Posted by Jabba the Tutt on 2007 06 23 at 05:41 PM • permalink
Well here is a story for the GayBC lurkers (their female counterparts are known in the industry as the pussy Mafia BTW) –
HANDGUNS, fake guns and illegal imports will come under scrutiny as Queensland looks to toughen weapons laws following last week’s fatal shooting in Melbourne.
Nub of the story is this: Some bikie crim with a rap sheet as long as your arm, finally does what his criminality has lead him to do – kill people – most likely using a weapon if not illegal in itself, certainly illegally obtained.
Can’t these fools see that it’s just like someone banning all turbo, rice burner Jap cars because some fools go hooning in them?
Oh and incidentally more people are killed by their own stupidity behind the wheel each year than are killed by guns of any type.
—Nick
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2007 06 23 at 06:01 PM • permalink
- This is my keyboard
This is my gun!
This is for posting
This is for fun!Posted by Jeffersonian on 2007 06 23 at 06:09 PM • permalink
I don’t own a gun for one very good reason, I’m the lousiest shot you’d ever want to meet. So I rely on others for defense against bad guys. And 99 times out a hundred people are reliable. The one being either a crook or a bad cop.
Now, if you want to talk cutlery or logs then things get turned around. 🙂
Posted by mythusmage on 2007 06 23 at 06:22 PM • permalink
Mythusmage: 10-gauge double, cylinder choke.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 06 23 at 06:34 PM • permalink
I really do wish you’d have a NSFB* warning sometimes. This site is hazardous to your toast.
*Not Safe For Breakfast.Kind regards,
One of your mates who wants more guns. And bombs. And knives. And baseball bats. And chocolate – you can’t forget the chocolate. And more guns.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 06 23 at 06:39 PM • permalink
Oops! Forgot the tanks and nukular subs. And bayonets, since if we will have more guns we will need more pointy things to stick on the end of them.
If there’s anything I’ve forgotten, please feel free to add to this.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 06 23 at 06:43 PM • permalink
Well I must be the odd one out. I don’t get a boner over guns.
What’s annoying is that identifying that some of the people here are gunlovers is a convenient way for the wankers from the ABC to dismiss the validity of a lot of the other opinions posted by Tim Blair on this site.
It’s an out for that chickenshit who produces Media Watch, so he doesn’t have to account for his grandstanding and deceitful behaviour of the past.
Posted by Abu Chowdah on 2007 06 23 at 06:46 PM • permalink
Marroquin, 51, of Downey, is a onetime member of the 18th Street gang who founded No Guns in 1996. No Guns received $1.5 million from the city as a subcontractor on anti-gang efforts, but its contract was canceled last year.
So the city of Los Angeles or Downey (the article is too incompetently written to figure out) gives a friggin’ gang-banger $1.5 million?
Hey, if you’re a former gang-banger you should have to make some serious efforts to prove you’ve reformed yourself before the city cuts you a check for $1.5 million. Something like holding down a job for a decade, not getting into any legal trouble for that long, also.
Is there anything more idiotic than a stupid-ass government with more money than sense?
Posted by David Crawford on 2007 06 23 at 06:47 PM • permalink
One person makes a crack about gun afficionados and you get pissy? Lighten up.
Posted by Abu Chowdah on 2007 06 23 at 07:02 PM • permalink
My post #37 should have referenced #35.
In any case – my point is, this stuff (tarring all gun aficionados as nutjobs, whether they are or not) is a convenient distraction for people who lack the intellectual abilities to address some of the more substantial social and political discourse that this site is famous for.
Posted by Abu Chowdah on 2007 06 23 at 07:06 PM • permalink
ABC is being really sweet. They’ve helped pull in some recent new blood to this site and also motivated some of our quieter lurkers to kick in and join the chat.
Sure we get a troll or two with the package but them sorts are easily filtered out.
And all this gun talk reminds me it’s time to cycle mine through the ol’ clean and polish. That should only take 5 or 6 hours. I think I’ll do it tomorrow, that being God’s Day for the week and all.
My inbox proves that 99% of the internet is ads for male enhancement.
I accidentally spilled my male enhancement supllement on my guns. Anyone need a 1911A1 with a 27-inch barrel?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 06 23 at 07:23 PM • permalink
- Posted by dean martin on 2007 06 23 at 07:23 PM • permalink
Grimmy—shouldn’t you save that for when the daughter brings her new boyfried over?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 06 23 at 07:25 PM • permalink
“What does ABC stand for, anyway?”
A Bunch of Crap.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 06 23 at 07:27 PM • permalink
And yet, I’ve never seen cops w/ automatic weapons standing in front of the precinct house in America. Unlike Spain, Turkey, China, and England – these are witnessed w/ my own eyes. Other places have ‘em too, I’ll wager. I’m sure all those other country have stricter gun laws.
If you fear your citizenry more than your government, you probably get paid by the gummint.
- #28 Nilknarf,
We’ll just use the formula the ancient Egyptians wrote on their tomb walls to ensure availability in the afterlife of anything they had forgotten to mention elsewhere.“The King gives 1000 of every good and pure thing.”In this case I suppose that good and pure things would include .30 ammo.
A professor of journalism thinks Tim owns 99 percent of the internet? Presumably he’s talking about the intenet in Oz only, or hasn’t heard of the Puppy Blender (which would make him too pig-ignorant to listen to). Still, that’s a big market share, Tim, congratulations. This guy must have done extensive research (hey he’s a perfesser ain’t he) and determined that leftie blogs get hits in the single digits. Sell ad space while the price is right.
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2007 06 23 at 07:34 PM • permalink
richard mcenroe: Nope, no way, no how! Cleaning and maintaining them is 1/3 the fun of owning them. Kind of a zen thing, I guess. So, clean em now, clean em later, and clean em on the day a point needs to be made too.
greene: Sorry for prying like that. You sound like a guy I grew up with. He’s one of the very few folk I’d call to stand with me in a hard fight and one of the few who’s call I’d answer with no questions asked.
#37 and 38 Abu Chowda… Excuse me , Here in the U.S. The Second amendmendment and it’s attendant issues would be considered substantial social and political discourse.If ABC gets their panties in a knot because of a few light hearted gun comments well.. They can all kiss my rebel d#ck.
LOL. Did I pull your trigger or what?
Guns are an issue here, occasionally. But not the issue that needs to be addressed at present which is – I would suggest – sophistry, left wing bias and selective quoting as applied by the AUSTRALIAN Broadcasting Corporation when having a shot (sorry) at Tim Blair’s blog.
Like I said, it’s a convenient distraction. I’d imagine Alan Knight would feel vindicated if he visited here today, which again gets back to my point.
Posted by Abu Chowdah on 2007 06 23 at 07:39 PM • permalink
For general medium to large critter dropping work, I like the 7mm rem mag. It’s a bit expensive to feed but if you invest in a self loading kit, it gets affordable in the long run.
With the 7mm rem mag, you get a fair wide variety of bullet weights to choose from. The 7mm also has a flatter trajectory than the usual .308 so its much easier to Kentucky your range.
Anyway, there may be better cartridge types out there but the 7mm is one I am familiar with and like lots.
The tenth annual Blair Knight convention will be held July 4th in Hawaii.
Sir Paco of Paco land will take your reservations while Sir Kae will forward your itinery.
Sir El-cid is your friendly sports co0rdinator, while Sir Margo is the drinks host. Sir Pogria of shrubbery will host evening entertainment.
King Blair will hold the secret meeting on night 2.
Sir Join us Now,
Love,
sir 1.618 xxp.s Tim b you have something they want.
Typical regressive “progessive” career
which began as a student radical in Brisbane
ending up as a professor and former of young minds.
Time to kick these buggers out [/dreaming] OK, we will just have to wait for them to die.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 06 23 at 07:57 PM • permalink
Contrary to popular belief, bobcats are not the most dangerous things in Pasco County.
If I’m a member of a menagerie, what am I?
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 06 23 at 08:07 PM • permalink
#20 But..but..but..guns are illegal in Australia.
..oh, wait a minute.. so is murder.
Hmm, perhaps there something more to this issue….?
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 06 23 at 08:11 PM • permalink
Well, I for one think we need more guns. Or at least I do, I don’t have a shotgun for one. And I want at least two: one a nice twin barrel job for hunting skeets, and the other a nice Street Sweeper just in case zombies attack.
#53 Abu Chowda…I think I understand what you are trying to say. Should we self moderate to keep Knight and his sycophants happy. Or can we chat and tell jokes like a group of friends over a beer or 12. Come on , Knight and his cohorts already assume the worst of us . Who cares what some dweeb professor thinks. Certainly not me.
If I’m a member of a menagerie, what am I?
I think you’re the “trois.”
What?Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 06 23 at 08:19 PM • permalink
Hey, I own the other 1% of the internet, and IT IS UP FOR SALE! One million dollars, or best offer. Will consider trade for 1939 Packard touring sedan, or a 1940 Bobo Newsome baseball card.
My 1% of the internet is like new: only used it on Sundays to order semi-automatic rifles from Tim Blair. Many upgrades, extremely clean, must see to believe. And remember: at this price, it won’t last!
#35 #38 Much of what is said here is intended in a Swiftian, outrageously satirical, sense.
Many people here do like guns and big cars and spear fishing and eating vegetarians, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t being Swiftian by deliberately pulling the lefties’ chain. Which, once again, they have successfully done.
The left, being completely humourless, take it all soooo seriously.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 06 23 at 08:22 PM • permalink
#64 Mcenroe, I spilt my bloody bubbly, via my lips, with a large outblast of lung pressure, all over my screen.
Death to mcenroe! hahahahaha good one.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 06 23 at 08:25 PM • permalink
#53 Abu Chowda…I think I understand what you are trying to say. Should we self moderate to keep Knight and his sycophants happy. Or can we chat and tell jokes like a group of friends over a beer or 12. Come on , Knight and his cohorts already assume the worst of us . Who cares what some dweeb professor thinks. Certainly not me.
You’re right, of course. It just pisses me off that they weasel out of addressing the main issues, yet again. The producer of MW being the biggest weasel of them all.
#66. Yeah, now I’ve had a coffee I can see clearly. I suppose Swift’s “Modest Proposal” if written today might include Vegos as you say. Or perhaps members of small issue motivated parties, so everybody was able to “eat their Greens”.
Posted by Abu Chowdah on 2007 06 23 at 08:28 PM • permalink
Addendum to #71. Mind you, I’m not advocating anyone should “go down on Bob Brown”.
Posted by Abu Chowdah on 2007 06 23 at 08:31 PM • permalink
#55 1.618 That’s Sir Paco of Montreal. The secret’s out
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 06 23 at 08:33 PM • permalink
- Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 06 23 at 08:41 PM • permalink
#66: Many people here do like guns and big cars and spear fishing and eating vegetarians, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t being Swiftian by deliberately pulling the lefties’ chain.
What I love about pulling the lefties’ chain is the gurgling noise that their composure makes while it’s going down the toilet.
New M-32s: Hitting the Field
Shouldn’t that be
New M-32s: Hitting the Field of View
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 06 23 at 08:43 PM • permalink
Who says 99% of the internet is rubbish? Where would we be without stories like this? Education is key.
“Basically what I learned from school was to really believe I was stupid,” he says
Professor Knight really should have paid more attention at school.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 06 23 at 08:59 PM • permalink
Is there no place the Chinese government won’t go? From the link:
“I had an MA student last year, who’d spent a number of years in one of the goulags, and he was just broken by it… I was…saying to him ‘Well, you’re going to have to work on your methodology…’ and…I was telling him this because I was working for the Chinese Government and…I was trying to get at him. In the end he had a breakdown…”
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 06 23 at 09:07 PM • permalink
I’ve always considered it unfortunate that most subjects of the Queen are unaware of the trampling of the guarantees in their Bill of Rights. What is worse, of course, is that they generally lack awareness that they even have a Bill of Rights.
I mean, read:
Now in pursuance of the premises the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in Parliament assembled, for the ratifying, confirming and establishing the said declaration and the articles, clauses, matters and things therein contained by the force of law made in due form by authority of Parliament, do pray that it may be declared and enacted that all and singular the rights and liberties asserted and claimed in the said declaration are the true, ancient and indubitable rights and liberties of the people of this kingdom, and so shall be esteemed, allowed, adjudged, deemed and taken to be; and that all and every the particulars aforesaid shall be firmly and strictly holden and observed as they are expressed in the said declaration, and all officers and ministers whatsoever shall serve their Majesties and their successors according to the same in all time to come.
I ask myself, are Australians, Britons, Canadians, and others all subjects of a successor of William and Mary? Since they are, may they “have arms for their defence”, as stated earlier in said Bill of Rights? Or have they let that right to cease to be esteemed, allowed, adjudged, deemed and taken to be?
Posted by Warmongering Lunatic on 2007 06 23 at 09:08 PM • permalink
Quick translation for those who can’t be arsed going to the link.
The Professor thinks Rudd will win the election and wants to be on the board.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 06 23 at 09:10 PM • permalink
Look, 99% of the stuff that’s on the web is rubbish. It’s basically Tim Blair going on with his mates
I’m with the professor on this one. I can only think of a few logical explanations.
1. 99% of the entire population think along Blairite lines, so therefor the very existence of the ABC is biased. He has simply affirmed that we are the mainstream, and the ABC luvvies are 1% of the population and deserve to be totally ignored.
2. The non-Blairite population of the planet is doing something else apart from using the interweb. I guess that means the wierdbeards are too stupid to use a computer, or they’re more interested in sitting in front of the tube and watchin Gore-porn all night.
Either way, it does not look good for the Prof.
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 06 23 at 09:12 PM • permalink
Professor Knight is here paying tribute to the late Professor Edward Said.
I don’t know anything about Eddie Said but I’m guessing it means he was a right plonker.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 06 23 at 09:24 PM • permalink
There’s always someone w/ a bigger gun, ain’t there? Though there’s a guy on Brevard St, literally a couple of blocks from the Governor’s Mansion in Tallahassee who parked one of those on his lawn a couple of weeks ago. Not sure if it’s functional or not, but I was pretty impressed to see it a mobile artillery piece in the front yard of what looked to be a post WWII crackerbox house. I love this country!
Does Knight look like George from Seinfeld or what?
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 06 23 at 09:48 PM • permalink
An interesting interview. His bizarre generalisation about your website is a typical mindless throw away comment that is only OK if you are a leftie. If an evil redneck or said that 99% of ABC were poofs and queers he would be ridiculed across the country.
BTW, he may have thought that the 1960s and 1970s were dark days in Queensland but in those days we had plenty of water to drink and it didn’t take an hour and a half to drive into work. Not so bad.
Guns are just poorly designed hammers without ammo!
Or spears, or nulla nullas.
- Tim Blair only says this 99% of the time, so perhaps it needs re-stating:
We need more guns.49. I would go with the lever action myself, being a traditionalist. The Marlin 1894 in .357 is smooth yet brutal. Though for classic good looks it’s hard to go past the Win 94.76. The 90 mm cannon is adorable, and the M32 looks mighty efficient, but I need something I can stow under the car seat. What do you suggest?
Posted by arrowhead ripper on 2007 06 23 at 10:22 PM • permalink
So Professor Allan Knight with his radical ALP background fighting for the freedom of the downtrodden now has control over some of tomorrow’s journalists.
Maybe he needs to travel to the new South Africa and see how the lot of yesterday’s blacks has deteriorated since his bunch of group thinks influenced change there.
Imagine being a non-left student of his and not answering exam questions to his colour of liking. Hmmmmm…..
uuuuuurggggghhhhh and to think it was my generation that produced these PC jerks.
How many tax payers dollars has this guy sucked up in his pursuit of influencing tomorrow’s decision makers?
Maybe he’ll get the chop in what I hear is a looming cut back in staff numbers due to the reduction of paying Asian students at the up market TAFE college where he lectures.
So Professor Allan Knight with his radical ALP background fighting for the freedom of the downtrodden now has control over some of tomorrow’s journalists.
Can you show us the subjects the students are learning Prof?
Does it match the socialist ideologies introduced by teachers at high school by chance?
Are you only training students with the potential only to work at the ABC ?
The MAC 10 is compact, fairly reliable and high volumn.
PS, where’d you get your screeny?
Operation Arrowhead Ripper just recently kicked off in Iraq. You seem to have beaten them by a few years with the name.
We’ll take a break from spruiking ruddy Kevni’s growing might:
To trample on the gun nuts o’er at Timmy Blair’s website;
No one could e’er accuse us of ever being Right:
Here at the Ay Bee Cee .(Chorus)
If you’ve a less than pinkish hue yeah!
We’ll get Monica to screw ya!
On media watch she’ll pooh-pooh ya!
Truthiness is marching on.Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 06 23 at 10:35 PM • permalink
- #99 mehaul, surely you’re not serious about South Africa. Yes, it’s been going downhill, but come on, you’re not suggesting that apartheid was a good idea, or that skin colour should determine whether someone gets to vote?
I think there are questions that need to be answered about why South Africa has the problems it has, but giving people the power to vote is not one of them.Posted by daddy dave on 2007 06 23 at 10:35 PM • permalink
- since when was this a “gun nut” website?
for God’s sake.Posted by daddy dave on 2007 06 23 at 10:36 PM • permalink
93. Agreed. As the French say, vive l’ammo!
Posted by arrowhead ripper on 2007 06 23 at 10:37 PM • permalink
Paco—If you go for the Marlin, look at the .450 Marlin cartridge. Most of the .45-70 rounds out there are kinda soft-loaded these days, in deference to older actions.
Or if you want something interesting, Taylor’s is importing 1876 Winchesters in the big-bore loads such as .45-60 and .45-.75
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 06 23 at 10:45 PM • permalink
106. Thank you Grimmy- I usually prefer a little more elegance, but the Mac10 has a tough, no-nonsense style that I could grow to love. (I’m not clairvoyant- updated screeny to salute the troops.)
Posted by arrowhead ripper on 2007 06 23 at 10:55 PM • permalink
Off Topic: History Channel Australia is going to air Loose Change. Contact data at the link. Let’s see if we can put a stop to this showing of the second Protocols of the Elders of Zion on Aussie airwaves.
Posted by The Apologist on 2007 06 23 at 11:13 PM • permalink
If the Lame Ducks at the ABC are obsessed by this blog then we have hit a raw nerve. This site will probably be a kind of contrition for the doubting Thomas types, that surely must exist within the cloistered hermitic penitentiary of the ABC. In other words some of the voiceless workers who have to tow the party line, so as to keep their jobs or any chance of promotion. This blog will always be here for you, so you can release the yolk of denial.
#107 apparently Playschool had a segment last week where John and Janette toilet roll dolls had a party in the (taxpayer funded)dollhouse.
i didn’t ee it so i don’t know how bad it was, but it just goes to show for the ABC it’s never too early to start the indoctrination
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 06 23 at 11:14 PM • permalink
Alan Knight is full of bullshit. I’ve just listened to the interview at the first link (here). At around the 30-minute mark he claims to have done work for 4 Corners, including factory visits in the Pearl River Delta. This is a topic I know something about because I own and source from factories in the PRD.
Knight claims he visited factories with “armed guards”. I’m calling bullshit on this. Total bullshit. Almost all decent-sized factories have security guards, but none are armed. I’m calling him out on this.
Knight claims he went up and waved at them in one factory owned by Australians and the guards just waved back and let him into the factory. Again, total bullshit! This is utter bullshit. The security people at factory gates would stop them and ask for identification or the reason for the visit (you just can’t walk into someone’s business like that – even in Australia). Also, he would have had Chinese people with him because he needed interpretation. There would have been a conversation between the interpreter and the security people at least.
He then talks about the “People’s Armed Police”. Bullshit again. No such thing.
If this guy has even been in a factory in the PRD I’d be surprised. And if he has, it did not happen in the way he says.
Knight thinks he’s the only person who’s ever been in a factory in China and therefore he can get away with lying. He’s not and he can’t. I spend a lot of my time in Chinese factories. This guy does not. He’s getting away with total bullshit here and what’s more no one has the balls to provide proof.
I meet dickheads like this guy in the Foreign Correspondents Club in Hong Kong every time I go there (which is admittedly rare – since it’s full of dipshits like this Knight). They are so full of lies that they hardly know where truth ends even in their onw lives.
It’s about time someone asked him to come up with some pics of his factory visits.
111. Wow. gorgeous in an almost medieval way, esp. 2nd pic. I know the Czechs are dandy gun makers, but these days I like to stick with American arms.
Posted by arrowhead ripper on 2007 06 23 at 11:16 PM • permalink
arrowhead ripper—This is <a href=“http://www.kel-tec.com/videos/rfbteaser.wmv”>…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 06 23 at 11:21 PM • permalink
If you have a sun/moon roof in your vehicle, the weapons show cased in this video can be mounted if proper mods are made.
So easy a small girl child can do it.
One advantage to placing the system on the roof is that the under seat area is then freed up for other essentials, like empty sports drink bottles, half empty kleenex boxes, etc.
(I realize I post these “shoot” vids fairly often, but I just love rubbing the noses of gun controlled citizens in the open salted wounds by showing the fun stuff that law abiding Americans can get away with 🙂 )
43richard mcenroe.. How long did it take to grow the extra 22 inches?
I just threw a Die Hard DVD in the player and it swole right up…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 06 23 at 11:28 PM • permalink
arrowhead ripper—This is pretty handy…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 06 23 at 11:40 PM • permalink
(For a laugh I just posted this at a couple of lefty blogs:)
This may assist some here who don’t already have ‘The Template™’.
THE ANTI-HOWARD ARGUMENT TEMPLATE™
In the event that Mr John Howard (Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia) should make a public statement that is subsequently reported in the mainstream news-media (particularly if that statement may be seen in a positive light by the uneducated majority of the Australian public—otherwise known as voters) the following templatemaymust be used:1. First make the statement “John Howard is a liar”. (If challenged at this early stage the usual response is “Well he lied about ‘children overboard’ didn’t he?”.)
2. Once you have established the veracity of Statement 1, it then follows that nothing Mr Howard ever says is true.
3. Therefore everything is said to further another secret agenda—a sinister ulterior motive if you will.
4. Establish that motive using phrases like “it’s just an excuse to”, “the real agenda is”, “only months out from an election”, “playing the wedge” and so on.
5. Now go on to attack the motive, thus avoiding the actual issue, or the substance of his statement. This will avoid the possibility of having to concede that Mr Howard may believe what he is saying, and is in fact sincere on this or any other issues.
Simple.
The Template™ © devised by Under The Whip. All rights reserved.
Tim, given that this is teh interweb and all, shouldn’t your headline read:
99% OF INTERNET PWNED ?
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2007 06 23 at 11:46 PM • permalink
Carl Gustav, portable power package, when understatements are superfluous.
Cheers
Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2007 06 23 at 11:58 PM • permalink
- Grimmy
Try checking for Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot. Knob Creek stuff hgere.Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2007 06 24 at 12:06 AM • permalink
Ammo supply will certainly be the problem once I get hold of my Metal Storm 9mm pistol.It’s rate of fire exceeds any thing previously even dreamed of.I really would like to get one of their tools which use 40mm grenades as feedstock but so far these are a little difficult to come by.The pistol has a rate of fire of one million rounds per minute so ammo will be an issue.The grenade firing version has a more modest requirement of just 250000 rounds per minute but its effect is spectacular.I wonder if Professor Fuckwit is aware that this remarkable device was invented by none other than a one-time humble but now exceedingly wealthy grocer named Mike O’Dwyer from Brisbane.
Be careful with the gun links chaps, the moral crusaders at the ABC will turn you into monsters.
Screw em. This entire thread is really about mocking the ABC’s demonization of Tim Blair’s blog. If they decide to twist that around and pretend that these are po-faced serious comments, then they’re being either stupid or dishonest, or both. If you can’t engage in satire for fear of having your words quoted out of context then you’ve lost the battle for free speech.
Posted by daddy dave on 2007 06 24 at 12:13 AM • permalink
I get the feeling that ABC know very little about guns, the legal requirements to keep them, or the types of people who do own them.
I’m sure that all of us here who own guns keep them secured in accordance with the law, and I doubt any of us use them to cause others harm.
Yet again the ABC should pull it’s collective head out of it’s arse and do some bloody research. Thats what we pay for them to do.
This one’s for you mate 🙂
Skeet shooting SUVs with the Gustov
- why did my post come out in small font?
Anyway, in case I wasn’t clear enough: the topic of the thread is not guns, it’s the ABC’s narrow-minded view of conservatives. The comments should be read in that context.
(that’s not to say there aren’t some gun owners/ gun lovers here of course.)Posted by daddy dave on 2007 06 24 at 12:16 AM • permalink
What I love about pulling the lefties’ chain is the gurgling noise that their composure makes while it’s going down the toilet.
Haa-hahaha! Absofuckinglutely!
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 06 24 at 12:18 AM • permalink
#66 wimpy, it’s hard to have or develop a sense of humor when you’re busy being Perpetually Outraged.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2007 06 24 at 12:22 AM • permalink
#99 Dear DD. No not at all. There are problems unique to the region. Living there for several years prior to 1984 I found the arrogance of many of the whites was enough motivation for me to hope they were relieved of their ‘god given’ authority. But then democracy doesn’t work too well when you’re dealing in tribes who vote along tribal lines so the biggest tribe gets the power. Ergo Mugabe. There’s a skank feel to the word colour when considering these issues. When one should possibly consider the levels of development. It has driven a lot of good people out of the country and the political inclinations of those in power and their prospective replacements are aligned with the ‘left’. That may be simplistic. What do you think?
Since the Knightster believes in compulsory pay media, I guess that means he leaves a donation every time he visits this site – correct?
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 06 24 at 12:35 AM • permalink
Gun nuts? Well, that’s Australia’s Best Cretins for you. I’m actually a conservationist, and I use my rifles for that purpose. Each feral cat, rabbit, goat, fox or pig you get helps the natives out.
We see a hell of a lot more natives in areas intensively hunted and trapped for ferals by responsible hunters (who simply don’t target natives). Gun nuts indeed! I never see latte-sipping inner city trendy-lefty knobjockeys out keeping the ferals down.
I even started doing this after watching the small marsupials (especially potoroos) vanishing from their east coast habitat in the 70s and 80s, mostly thanks to f*ckwits dumping unwanted kittens in the bush. Feral cat populations boomed and annihilated the small natives.
Hey, lefty loser lurkers, get off your fat, supercilious inner city arses and help out. Join a Landcare group. Join a local hunting club or the SSAA and help control the ferals. You do not even need a rifle or shotgun, as you can trap foxes, rabbits, cats and pigs.
We “RWDB’s” do this, why don’t you?
MarkL
Canberra
#118. RebeccaH, I am wearing my sweater with a chocolate-covered monkey and the caption: You can never have too much chocolate.
Truer words have never been spoken, and I need more.
I’m all for stuff that goes bang and boom and causes mass destruction, but if it comes with chcolate, I’ll be in heaven.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 06 24 at 12:38 AM • permalink
rebeccaH—trick question. John McClain don’t fight fair…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 06 24 at 12:43 AM • permalink
#50 1.1618? Not quite the woman she used to be.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 06 24 at 12:50 AM • permalink
Here’s one for the white collar types.
Ya know, this thread coulda been a lot worse. Knight coulda mentioned the goat sex…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 06 24 at 01:08 AM • permalink
121, 128. Great video, Grimmy -though the small girl child needs to work on her aim. Your backyard artillery site has just the thing for assaulting the Australian Broadcasting compound.
124 Thank you, Mr McEnroe. I’m not usually drawn to semiautomatics, but the RFB bullpup could yet convert me. What’s the accuracy like?
Posted by arrowhead ripper on 2007 06 24 at 01:08 AM • permalink
- #143 mehaul, I can’t claim to be an expert in African politics, but what you say does seem plausible: the democratic systems get derailed when you have large numbers of people voting on strict tribal lines.
Still, I’m not sure we can hold the left responsible for that particular mess.By the way, on the subject of Africa and guns:
If everyone in Darfur owned a gun, do you think that the Sudanese government would be able to keep the genocide going?
and as a follow-up…
If everyone in Germany in 1938 owned a gun (including Jews), would the holocaust have even been possible?
What about Cambodia under Pol Pot? Killing fields becomes “attempted killing fields”. Rwanda? etc…Posted by daddy dave on 2007 06 24 at 01:11 AM • permalink
#153 sorry Howzat for spoiling your fun. 🙁
Posted by daddy dave on 2007 06 24 at 01:15 AM • permalink
- 133. “ammo will be an issue.”
Follow Grimmy’s advice (#121) and roof mount your Metal Storm machine gun. Then you can keep ammo under your car seat.148 nilknarf, your prayers are answered.Posted by arrowhead ripper on 2007 06 24 at 01:16 AM • permalink
I’ll finish off with this reminder that there’s always the build it yourself option to large caliber boombangers.
Former gun nut here, if rather tame stuff. Loved spotlighting for rabbits from the back of a ute. A lot of fun spotlighting rats with a torch in the hayshed using .22 ratshot. Probably can’t buy it any more. Most recent photo (now rather old) is me up at Wallan in blue overalls holding up two foxes with my Mossberg bolt-action 12g propped alongside. Fun days.
Posted by walterplinge on 2007 06 24 at 01:38 AM • permalink
- Many folks who frequent here describe themselves as ‘conservatives’. Re Gun control, an interesting contradiction, or perhaps paradox is evident. ‘Conservatives’ have usually been pro individual rights, freedoms, and trust, and against government intervention and regulation.
Gun Control is the very antithesis of those things.It’s interesting to note that on gun control, JWH lines up lock-step with the extreme left and greens. Shouldn’t that make ‘conservatives’ think, question things somewhat?“Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes.
2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and consider them as the most honest and safe, although not the most wise depositary of the public interests. In every country these two parties exist, and in every one where they
are free to think, speak, and write, they will declare themselves.”—Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee, 1824.Which of those two groupings does JWH belong to? And which path is more certain to promote individual freedom and empowerment, and which the decrease of individual rights and freedoms?
Gun control isn’t about guns, it’s about CONTROL (and trust, and freedom).
Also, Professor Knight, are you friendly with Islamic Australian funded Professor Amin Saikal Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies?
Is it Multicultural-middle eastern-labor Australian-journalism, funded by us for your teaching now… ahh………… Then colluded by the ABCDEF TV ?
Labor has put on the table its promise to introduce a board appointment system that respects the ABC’s independence and its importance to all Australians’, said Alan Knight, Friends of the ABC National Spokesperson.
#159 Arrowhead, thanks muchly, but you leave me with a new dilemma: Do I eat it or wear it?
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 06 24 at 02:36 AM • permalink
‘Alan describes the national broadcaster as being “under attack” and wants to tell the public, “This is an important institution, it’s important for democracy, it’s important for your culture and maybe if your kids want to live in a stable and well-governed society, you’re going to need something like the ABC as a check.”’
What utter socialist crap.
Organizations like the ABC, PBS or BBC ought to be shut down because they can only exist if people are FORCED to pay for them.
These organizations are financed by taxation (at least in part). And here’s how the financing end of things works: If you refuse to pay your taxes, then you will be imprisoned, if you resist when they imprison you, you’ll be killed. That’s how assholes like Knight and his asshole friends stay in business, because guys with guns force people like me to pay their fucking salaries, whether we like it or not.
The whole state supported broadcasting thing is an affront to liberty. We never should have allowed these organizations to exist, and we ought to get rid of them.
The internet, OTOH, is the essence of freedom (and guys like Knight hate that…obviously). We need to keep that the way it is, where people can say what they please, on their own dime, and nobody’s forced to pay for anything they don’t want to pay for.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 06 24 at 04:16 AM • permalink
I actually joined this site to get famous. Hitherto, I had no way of getting my name mentioned on TV Now, all I need to do is direct my friends and family to watch ABC. Hi Mum!
Posted by Fast Eddie on 2007 06 24 at 05:34 AM • permalink
I predict a “send in your gun pictures” thread at Tim Blair’s.
Posted by Rittenhouse on 2007 06 24 at 07:12 AM • permalink
No sneaking involved or needed. (Aint free speech grand?).
The point of it all being that if you like shooting as a sport or a hobby, why shouldn’t you? The gun control path has been tried, and hasn’t been the panacea that it was promised to be. Crims still get guns – and a lot easier than we law-abiding folk can thanks to JWH’s laws.
And if the ANZACs in WW1 and the CMF troops on the Kokoda Track had the advantage of many of them already being marksmen, then perhaps we should consider marksmanship and shooting as a national defence asset, rather than politically incorrect?
Quite. The late 20th and early 21st centuries have been the only time since the invention of firearms that a population capable of shooting straight has been seen by the government as a bad thing instead of an asset.
Or even before the invention of firearms, come to think of it. Football was banned several times in medieval England as distracting the population from compulsory longbow practice.
daddy dave, and others: the small font problem—when you use the “quote” tags, make sure you press “enter” twice after inserting the second (closing) tag. Otherwise for some reason this stylesheet will format the rest of your comment to match the text size in the “posted by” line.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 06 24 at 08:59 AM • permalink
Which of those two groupings does JWH belong to?
Okay, so he introduced gun control measures after the Port Arthur massacre.
You got any other examples of John Howard being left-wing? I ask because I, like many, have been under the impression that Howard’s a bit of a conservative.Posted by daddy dave on 2007 06 24 at 09:30 AM • permalink
#98 arrowhead ripper
For concealability, controllability and versatility, I’d suggest the Glock 19. No extras for personal carry – and if you want to keep it at the bedside or under the car seat, add a light and (maybe) a 33-round mag. 9mm is on the light end of personal defense pistol rounds, but it’s quite controllable and inexpensive, so you can get more practice in.
/lurk
To support the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
• to maintain high standards as an independent and comprehensive national public broadcaster.
• to be adequately funded by government to carry out that role.
• to remain independent of government influence, commercial sponsorship and advertising
• to promote Australian culture in all its diversity.Sure …
arrowhead ripper—the manufacturer compares .308 (7.62 NATO) performance to the .338 Lapua in their literature. I’m assuming that’s with the longer barrel.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 06 24 at 01:45 PM • permalink
- Now lets not bury Alan Knight too quickly:
Alan: I know the ABC still has foreign correspondents but they’re mainly actors that go on a program called ‘Foreign Correspondent’.Richard: So just go back a bit..er.. because how does that work.. I want to ask you to expand on that?Alan: Foreign Correspondents are only a small part of international news now.
They’re just really people in safari suits that (sic) stand in interesting locations and do programs on ‘Foreign Correspondent’.
Most of the international news can be found from newsagencies, I used to work in a newsagency, or increasingly on the internet.
Richard: It doesn’t really jibe with our experience in the Iraq War when some of our correspondents found themselves in life and death situations when in fact they were nearly killed.
Alan: Some of them were, but by and large, and I’ve done research work on propaganda in the Iraq War, most of the material that came through was just propaganda, it was generated by the allies. Foreign correspondents did a bit of window dressing but most of them, most of the time didn’t get near the action.
Posted by dingdingding on 2007 06 24 at 07:09 PM • permalink
182. Sounds like a sensible choice—though I do like a bit more handsome in my firearms… The Beretta Tomcat (cousin to your Bullpup, #187) is attractive plus small and handy, though no doubt the old Glock is more accurate. Guess I’ll have to get them both.
Posted by arrowhead ripper on 2007 06 24 at 07:28 PM • permalink
During my thus far short life I have owned a shed full of guns from .22 that dad gave me as 7th birthday present, pump action 12g shotty for 15th birthday to .22-250rem .243win .308 and .30cal IAI auto handgun.
I’ve shot stuff all over Oz and even shot and ate (pass the tomater sauce Bruce) a deer in Canada.
Having said that let me say this.
When I moved to the big city 7 years ago I got rid of all these, partly because I had to but I would have anyway.
In my view the Howard gun laws did one good thing at least, which was to get huge numbers of unused guns out of cupboards where they were only ever be going to be used for bad stuff.
Do I need gun at the moment? No
Might I need one in the future? Who knows.
Do I feel unsafe cause I haven’t got a gun? No
Do I feel safer cause I know that if I ever need to use one I know how to point it and make it go bang? You bet
What Brett is looking for is a Marlin 1894cs in .357 to match the pistols he already has.
Something like this…which I got for the same reason.
http://www.the-trainer.com/blog/001481.html
As for deer hunting, that’s something I don’t do. My rifles are for zombies, and not suitable to do minimal damage to meat.
If I did hunt Bambi’s Mom, I’d go with the 7mm suggestion. Maybe 6.5 Swedish.
#188 interesting. ambiguous, but interesting.
Posted by daddy dave on 2007 06 24 at 11:08 PM • permalink
Oh, dang, I go away for a few days, and what comes up here? Gun p0rn! Jeez, ya leave the door open…..
Anywho, arrowhead, you got some good advice on the handguns. I’m looking at both a new short and long gun. I’m not certain about which one, but I;ve my eye on some real beauties!
Loved that video of the Oklahoma shoot….my only thought was “I hope they brought along extra barrels for the machine guns! Such long bursts!” Wish we had one of those around here…
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 06 24 at 11:50 PM • permalink
for the heathen out there. re: #194: It is most very uncommon for a machine gun to be able to sustain a burst of fire for that long without jamming due to metal parts expanding under the heat and stress.
Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) calls for short bursts of approx 20 rounds with a pause of equal or greater length between bursts to extend the operational usefulness of the weapon.
Petrol head porn for MW:
Believed to be a Radical SR9 [engine: 2.6L V8 made from 2 combined Suzuki Hayabusa motorcycle blocks] in a hillclimb.
The Nurburgring lap record holder doing what it was originally designed for: hillclimbs.
Note the acceleration – uphill!
#181 ‘daddy dave’ in response to #165;
“Howard… left-wing?”.
You should re-read #165. No-where is it suggested JWH is ‘left-wing’. What was said was; “It’s interesting to note that on gun control, JWH lines up lock-step with the extreme left and greens. Shouldn’t that make ‘conservatives’ think, question things somewhat?”.If ‘Liberalism’ is at it’s core, trust in the individual, then how is that consistent with the philosophy behind gun control (ie if there are some you can’t trust, trust no-one)? Extrapolate that out to business, the social issues (like parental responsibility), the democratic right to vote?
To spell it out further. On this issue (alone!) JWH aligns with those he is diametrically opposed to on all other issues. Why are his bedfellows on this issue the likes of Brown and Rhiannon? (and so different to GW Bush, Churchill, Wm Pitt, et al).
Gun control is the very antithesis of the bedrock ideals of Liberalism.
Politicos, regardless of their general spot on the left/right spectrum, tend to play the crowed when pushed.
If gun control seems out of character for the man, then maybe it was in response to the lack of noise from those who would have supported a different stance?
We get much the same problem here in the states. GWB is kinda/sorta conservative in many ways but is off the rails leftard when it comes to national sovereignty and border issues.
#199: I think GWB gets too much stick for the “not an amnesty!” amnesty. Deporting the sheer mass of illegals would have been messy beyond anyone’s worst nightmares and eventually it would have been a failure. Of course he could be getting stick for a wide range of other things and I wouldn’t argue much.
phillbert: inconsistency is not uncommon in human beings.
#200. I agree. The number of illegal immigrants in America is mindbogglingly huge. It’s too late to implement a find-and-deport policy.
Give amnesty to the ones already in, then tighten the controls.Posted by daddy dave on 2007 06 25 at 12:45 PM • permalink
Is ABC pimpin’ for this site, or what?