On Sun, 10 May 2015 06:41:19 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:

"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
.. .
On Sat, 09 May 2015 20:52:56 -0400, Ned Simmons
wrote:

On Sat, 09 May 2015 10:30:59 -0400, Ed Huntress
wrote:



The NRA still sends me emails, and a recent one made me do a real
double-take:

http://graphics.nra.org/online_store/Email/4-30-15.html

A bucket list, with real buckets. "Meat Matters," they say. My meat
sure matters to me. g

And, for a mere $44.95, you can have your very own polished-brass
Hudson's Bay Firestarting kit, a piece of flint and a wad of
charred
cloth -- for when the invading hordes soak your matches with water
pistols, I guess:

http://tinyurl.com/qfez4lc

Ain't it pretty? That's for survivalists who buy their camo on
Rodeo
Drive, I suppose.

The NRA has gone to hell in a handbasket.

The tactical blanket set me to searching for a definition for
"tactical."

"of or relating to a maneuver or plan of action designed as an
expedient toward gaining a desired end or temporary advantage"

So I suppose if you accept that definition, and are hoping to get
some
sleep, that is indeed a tactical blanket.

g Yes, gun makers and the NRA have been trying hard to co-opt the
word by using it as an abstraction for "homicide." Anything that
goes
along with the current state of man-killing gun culture gets a free
ride on the word. Tactical flashlights, for example, are good for
lighting up the people you want to kill.

A cover line for American Rifleman, with, say, a photo of a Glock
18C,
might be "Tactical handguns we'd like to own." An honest and much
more
concrete headline for the same gun, on the other hand, might be
"Handguns to mow 'em down."

--
Ed Huntress

I'm too old to go running around so now I look for "strategic"
equipment.

What, Jim? You're not going to correct his wildly mistaken concepts?
He's fallen into the NewSpeak crowd with the Liberals.

The NRA might not be (even close to) perfect, but it's still the
largest and best gun-safety-minded org in the world.

"Tactical" is the equivalent buzzword to "billet" or "sustainable".
Marketing, not WORLD DOMINATION.

"Mow 'em down", indeed. Somebody give MrEd his morning Thorazine /
Haldol cocktail, please.

--
Try not to become a man of success but
rather try to become a man of value.
--Albert Einstein