Well, first of all, Tim Kaine, the democratic candidate for Governor who received an F- rating from the NRA for his hatred towards the rights guaranteed by the second ammendment, was elected. This bothers me. I don't mind a democrat. I'm no republican, but I am a republican before I'm a democrat, solely based on the left's crusade against private firearm ownership.

What bothers me, is that it reminds me of two things:

The republicans pretty much run the country right now. They have the opportunity to make all of the changes they've ever wanted to make. And what are they doing? Nothing. Sure, we have to take our shoes off at the airport now. Sure, more than half of the country wants to just pull out of Iraq and leave the Iraqis completely fucked, citing it as being the right thing to do. But where is the change? Where is the repeal of unfair taxes? The implosion of the superfluous government agencies that do nothing except force poor people into an endless cycle of government reliance? Maybe, God forbid, the repeal of unconstitutional firearm laws? None of that materialized. The republicans so far, feel as though they have failed to make the changes they were capable of making. This lost votes.

The republicans essentially "controlling government" has also led other republicans to believe that the democrats are down for the count. No longer a threat. The fight leaves you when you have nothing to fight for.

I don't know anyone who voted, other than my parents. My neighbors, my brothers and sisters... All republicans. Most felt Kilgore had Kaine beat, and they didn't need to vote. How many other republicans felt that way?

But that's ok. Your vote doesn't count for anything.

No idea why it bothers me...

But it does. Why do kids find the need to dress like TOTAL FREAKS? And then they complain about how they're not understood? Well, DUH! Who can understand why you feel the need to fill your body with holes, maybe tatoo the shit out of yourself, complain about how much life sucks, and spend more money to dress like a freak than the "conformists" spend to dress all trendily. Obviously, you should have every right to dress how you want, modify your body how you want, whatever. But I guarantee you will look back on it with regret in 20 years. And what does it really gain you?

You know, you don't see any older goth people for one of two reasons... They either kill themselves early on, or they grow out of it. If life really is pain, how do you grow out of it?

So do you want to:
A: Kill yourself.
or
B: Do something stupid and pointless (and possibly permanent, in the case of the ridiculous "body modifications"), only to grow out of it and realize what a choad you were.

In any case, whichever of the two you pick... Hurry.

</rant off>
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What do I mean when I say "I'm going out to shoot!"?

A while back, I made a video to try to show the un-initiated what it is I do when I go up to the range. "How can shooting be fun?" What I compiled was a video of a typical two days' shooting. If you've got any questions or you live in the area, let me know!

This is about 13 minutes long. Enjoy! And post comments!

"Guns and fun"

Firearm related merchandise, including a few prints are up for raffle!

Over on the forum I most frequently uh... frequent... We're having our second annual raffle. I'll be offering up, probably a large print, a medium print, and a mousepad, assuming of course it doesn't make it so that I can't win. If you're interested in winning some free stuff (Potentially even your very own XD, assuming you can legally own one in your state of residence, and can have it shipped to a federally licensed firearms dealer), check it out here:
HS2000Talk.com

AJamesP51 says:

I just got the go ahead to start the xdtalk raffle fundraiser. I have received a lot of PM`s asking about it. Now that I have a go by the end of the week I will have the list of prizes and the supporters who are backing. If any one has any questions please pm me, and once again by the end of the week and most likely later on tonight I will have more information up. So who wants to win a cheap xd.


Sponsors include:

Canyon Creek.......Free XD trigger job
American Cop Magazine
American Handgunner Magazine
Trugrips by Eric Wesselman
Pistol-Gear......a ton of cool stuff!

Stupid external hard drive!

I keep forgetting to bring my external HDD with me with the high-res shots similar to "The Peoples' Right 1". I lost all of the pictures I've ever taken and stored on my laptop... which really hurts... a lot... But I have a few on my desktop, so I need to move them back here in order to set them up for prints. I'm running out of things to take pictures of around my apartment... so I may be buying some more toys with my next paycheck. Ouch.