Is it true that only a ninja can kill a ninja... on the internet?

Is it really the recoil, or is it anticipation of the recoil? Have you tried randomly mixing in some dummy rounds and seeing what happens?

Batman doesn't uses guns or lethal force due to concessions made during the time that controversy over violent crime comics was ramping up. Classic Golden Age Batman makes The Punisher look soft on crime by comparison.

Golden Age Robin feeds ammo into Batman's machine gun.
As you can clearly see, the real Batman wants us to keep the bullets flying.

It's the real recoil of the gun. This isn't a case of a newbie picking up a fire arm and 'oh my." Sure the first time I pulled the trigger on a pistol I was tense expecting something horrible to happen, but now, I've been shooting for years and am well use to the recoil of a hand gun. This was different and even if it was the antici.......pation, my hand wouldn't be hurting the next day.

No, the Batman that keeps a cave full of rainbow colored batsuits and appears in Christmas pageants with the police wants to keep the bullets flying. The real batman, who skulks around in the dark being moody and kicking your ass without a gun because he's all man, didn't come around until much later. The Golden Age is for reactionaries and 5 year olds.

Nice typo!

I have seen the combination of both first hand. I brought a petite female friend of mine to the 'local' range, and she decided to start with a little 38 special, and it was just kicking her ass for the reasons you mentioned. It just had no weight.
The range master eventually switched her to a 9mm of some sort, and to her it was more manageable.

You're confusing the Silver Age with the Golden Age. The upbeat postwar Silver Age was full of camp. The Golden Age, taking place smack dab in the middle of the Great Depression, two World Wars, the Spanish Flu, the Dust Bowl, Lynchings and Melvin Pervis's FBI, was substantially darker than the modern age.

Heroes of the time killed criminals regularly, without hesitation or remorse. They acted like the cops and the G-Men of the time. The morality was black and white. If you attempt to murder an innocent person or a cop or a superhero then you deserve to die. The Batman of the time understood that slapping a mass murderer like The Joker on the knuckles with a ruler and making him promise never to kill hundreds of people for fun again just isn't going to cut it. And he understood that people have the right to defend themselves from attempted murder.

The original Batman sulked more and was more moody than the modern Batman. He also tended to break people's necks and throw them off rooftops.


The squeaky-clean no-kill Batman of the modern era is an idiot, as demonstrated simply by the hundreds of murders committed by The Joker on his watch. His dislike of guns boils down to the belief that everyone should spend the vast majority of their lives training to be ninjas in hidden Japanese monasteries and those that don't simply don't have the right to defend themselves. He's a liberal billionaire playboy who advocates liberal billionaire justice, leaving the poor with no alternative but to die.

It's not a belief that you can reasonably disagree with, I'd say.

~J

I always liked his speech from the Dark Knight Returns, about how guns make killing people too easy, that we spare ourselves the work.

Although for my money, I've always preferred Rorschach. (Who's playing him in the new Watchman movie, btw?)

The best best best place it you genuinely want to learn and are willing to dedicate the time is www.thehighroad.org . It's a forum dedicated for gun enthusiasts. Some of the guys really, really know their stuff, a lot of people there are like me ('the side of the gun with the hole in it you point at the bad guy. Don't put the bullets down the hole! You need to do something more complex to load the gun...') (Hmm... Just got an image of me holding the breech at the bad guy with a bullet sticking out of the muzzle. No matter, you get the idea.)

Sign up so you can use the search features. Then just read, search and comment on threads when you have a question. It'll take some time, but you'll come away knowing way more than you'd learn from any single site, and a lot more practical knowledge as well.

I'd suggest Glocktalk.com, if you've got the time to devote to it. The place is positively huge, so wading through everything is an exercise in futility -- you've got to pick two or three sub-forums to keep up with (there are forums there for almost anything you can think of, gun related or otherwise), but all in the all the signal-to-noise ratio is pretty solid if you take the time to read what's there. You can learn a lot, about..well...almost anything.

http://thefiringline.com/forums/

A really good site, their forums are devided into laws, general and particular classes of guns- revolvers, semi auto etc.

Most states declare that CC permits do not allow you to carry on college campus or school grounds.

Well, there is Paxton Quigley.

Hyzmarcowned! Especially following the "noob" comment.

OK, I thought of it. For formal occasions go totally overboard with a French courtier's ginormous skirt with wireframe from the 1700s, and stash an AT4 under it.

Yeah, no kiddin'. When I have kids, I want to make sure each and every one of them understands the cops are for protecting them, and they'll never have to even think about doing so themselves.

Look! Black Helicopters!

For the record, I was being sarcastic. I think it's safe to say I'm somewhere in the top five or ten DSers, were we to ever be ranked, when it comes to taking responsibility for one's personal safety.

*whew* *wipes brow*

I don't give orders or enforce anything at all!