Profile Of A Gossiper I am ruthless, I have no respect for justice.I maim without killing, I break hearts and ruin lives.I am cunning and malicious and gather strenght with age.The more I am quoted, the more I am believed.My victims cannot protect themselves because I have no name or face.To track me down is impossible. The harder you try the more elusive I am.I am nobodys friend, relative or lover.Once I tarnish a reputation, It is never the same.I topple governments, and wreck marriages.I ruin...

TangoFoxtrot

According to *Butch's* dictionary.....

GAPophobia:
An innate fear of the use by anyone of the .45 GAP cartridge in preference to the .45 ACP cartridge.

GAPophobes always seem to want to argue about how there is no purpose for the .45 GAP cartridge, no reason for it to exist. No amount of bandwidth wastage on the subject is too much!

They completely and callously disregard the fact that some people don't have hands that are big enough to handle a G21...

Butch

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives says that the Glock ‘Safe Action’ trigger is a double action only (DAO) trigger. OK, but it is so much more…..simply put, it allows the shooter to use the trigger either way, as a DOA trigger or as a single action trigger.

If you start with the trigger all the way forward (I guess that’s the only way it can start huh?), and pull it straight through all the way to the rear to fire the gun, you just pulled it ‘double action’....

Butch

We all know the story of Christopher Columbus’s journey to the New World. Where we once celebrated his landing on October 12 as a national holiday, in recent years the focus has been more on the negative side of Columbus’s legacy.

While discussion of those aspects have their place, I think it is time for us to focus on what Columbus Day should be – a celebration of the entrepreneurial spirit and the spirit of adventure that would make America the greatest economic power the world...

FillYerHands

[This is written in the context where "left" means somewhere along the continuum of Democrat-Socialist-Communist, while "right" means somewhere along the range of Libertarian-Republican. I do not buy the argument that Authoritarians are on the right. They are variants of leftists, all of whom gravitate towards more, rather than less, government. Anarchists are neither right nor left.]

The difference between leftists and rightists lies in their perceptions of...

Zapfenstreich