Damn, all this talk about guns got me all excited last night. I went home afterwork and got 'em out. Cleaned my Smith Model 66. Damn, I love this gun. It is the perfect handun. .357 mag, 2 1/2 inch barrel, stainless, 6 sure, unjamming, dependable rounds. What's not to like? Fits nice and neat in any suit pocket, briefcase, shoulder holster, etc. Excellent proven dropping and stopping power. I keep it loaded with alternating rounds of CCI "snake shot" and full magnum 158 grain jacketed hollow points. The snake shot won't penetrate drywall or a leather jacket from farther than 5 feet. The hollow points will create a 6 inch wide wound cavity and leave the victim without the use or luxury of his lungs or internal organs. At the range, I'm pretty good as far as handling the full mag loads from as far as 25 feet. Any farther than than, I really have no business taking a shot. I shoot a lot of .38s through it mostly. By the end of the year, I'd like to pick up a Colt 1911-A1 . As soon as I have that, I think I'll stop, I'll feel complete. No, I take that back. I'd want to customize it a bit. Those 1911 hammers have a tendency to nip the web of the hand and thumb as they chamber the next round, so I'd have a beavertail put on to protect my dainty hands. Dream gun, of course, would be this Para Ordnance. You see that beavertail on the back of that gun? That's what I'd have done to the Colt. Stainless or black, black or stainless. Hmmmmm. Why not a 9mm, you ask? Or a 40? As for the 9, I seem to recall a few years ago, some Muslim freak popped a few 9mm caps in the Pope's ass. Actually, it was 3 shots to the mid-section of a man in his 70's. He used a 9mm. How's the Pope doing? NATO likes the 9mm because it has such a weak record of killing. Wrap that lead ball in a full jacket of copper, NATO spec style, and you're better off throwing a rock. The 40? Same thing only slightly bigger. Big fan of the .357 mag and the .45 ACP. Why not a Glock Model 30? Because I'm affraid I might one day leave it on the dashboard in the sun and it would melt like a Hershey bar. (It's plastic.) That may piss off some Glock lovers, but, I don't care. Yes, they are a superior product. Yes, they are virtually indestructible. Yes, they almost never,ever jam, and if they do, it is always the fault of a burr on a case and never the fault of the gun. Yes, they are the weapon of choice for more than half of all police departments. Yes, they are bulky and ugly as hell. And, I don't like the their safeties. This of course brings me back to my Smith. I like the fact that if she has to, my wife can pick it up, pull the trigger and it shoots. Nothing to jam. No grip safety to squeeze. No magazine to drop out. Sometimes I get home late. Sometimes prisoners escape. Sometimes killers are on the loose. She gets scared. She was in the Army so she's no fragile flower, mind you. She just feels better knowing that if she needs it, there is a gun in the house. Ironically, 47 percent of the American population feels the same way. Damn, I love my guns.

I can hear the liberal chorus now, "Oh, but guns are bad. Guns kill people. No one should have guns but the police. Etc. Etc. Puke."
More Guns, Less Crime. I can't wait for Missouri to finally catch up to the other 43 states and approve concealed carry. Until then, just so you know, I'll be committing a Class C felony every day.