On 12/5/14 11:59 AM, wrote:
On Fri, 05 Dec 2014 08:57:11 -0500, Poco Loco
wrote:

On Fri, 05 Dec 2014 08:34:01 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 12/4/2014 10:33 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 12:01:18 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:



I think there's a lot of truth to that and our media folks are doing
everything they can to perpetuate that culture. When I was a little
kid almost everything on television was cowboys shooting each other or
cowboys shooting indians. Starting in the late 50s or so that changed
to detective shows with lots of people shooting each other, and comic
books with soldiers and action heros shooting just about everybody.
Now we are into video games with incredible violence against
everything. Let's not even talk about the Mixed Martial Arts craze
but it's certainly there. And so it goes. Violence is inbred into
the culture as an accepted way of resolving all disputes.


You can track what was on TV buy the guns that were popular at the
time.
In the 50s and 60s it was cowboy stuff and they started selling SA
revolvers and lever action rifles like hot cakes. The old manufactures
rushed to restart lines that were shut down during WWII. Ruger was
born then with their SA army knockoff.
When it was cop shows, snub nosed revolvers took off and we got
Charter Arms coming up out of nowhere.
Dirty Harry brought the 44 mag to the mass market but it was really
too much gun for most people.
Then it was the Miami Vice thing and everyone wanted something that
looked like an Uzi put they usually ended up with an Ingrahm MAC
because they were cheap.
Rambo and all of the war movies after that got everyone, including our
closeted gun nut wanting an AK or an AR and that was driven home by
the Clinton AW ban. Nothing makes Americans wanting something more
than the government saying they can't have it.

China sold us 2 million SKSs, AKS, MAC knockoffs and other assorted
"ugly guns" with some minor change that made them loophole legal (like
Harry's HBAR).
I guess Johnny Huang's $10,000 "teas" were well worth the money.




I was really bummed out when I discovered that the silver bullets in my
Lone Ranger gun belt were .... plastic.

The only way to go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8qXLxHi9_8

Imagine a kid going outside with one of these on his hips.

I had one. They sold stick on caps that went on the back of the
cartridge and the bullet was spring loaded in it so when the hammer
hit the cap, the bullet came out. It was retained in the cartridge by
clips on the side and when the cartridge was pushed forward a
constriction ion the cylinder released the clips.

These days, the cops would shoot you if you had one. They looked too
real.


The cops will shoot you, period.

--
I feel no need to explain my politics to stupid right-wingers.
After all, I am *not* the Jackass Whisperer.