Reasons

One thing I really disagree with in a lot of the blogs I read is the reasons for terrorism.  Religion rarely has anything to do with killing people.  Don't get me wrong.  Religion is great for motivating low level troops and public propaganda.  It's a really stupid reason to spend large chunks of your resources and thousands of lives.  Osama wasn't interested in religion, although he certainly played lip service to it.  He was interested in the huge inequities in his native land and the oppressed people of Palestine.  Say what you will about horrible things done to the Jews, they've done most of those things to the Palestinians as well.  There are no clean hands in that mess.

Time and again religion has been used to cloak the true reasons for war.  If you really want to know why wars happen, follow the money.

Don't believe me?  Look at the crusades.  Sure, religion was used as the excuse but land for generating income was the real goal.

Ten Years

Ten Years after 9/11.  That day my son was upset that his cartoons weren't on.  "Some plane ran into a building."  I walked into the living room just as the second plane hit.  I didn't feel angry that day.  Sad yes, angry no.  Maybe that is what is wrong with our country.

Today my son is back from basic training.  He'll finish High School, then AIT, then college.  Maybe it really has been ten years.

Classifier Match

Last Saturday I ran the bike over to Bozeman to compete in a Classifer match.  I had an average day.  One squib round cost me a stage.  That sucked.  I did really well on stages that were Virgina Count or Timed Fire.  And pretty bad on stages that were Comstock.  This tells me one thing that I can't seem to get through my head no matter how many times I say it and think it:

SLOW DOWN AND GET YOUR HITS!

You really can't miss fast enough to win.

Pistol Match

Worse day at the range ever.

Testing

Waiting for backup to complete.  It's amazing  what you can do with a phone

Random Things

I know who I'm voting for next election cycle.  The Non-Incumbent ticket.  If you've been there before, I'm not sending you back.

Living without Dr Pepper... SUCKS

Reloading is more difficult than it appears.

Why training extends to all your gear and not just your gun.

http://pistol-training.com/archives/4926

That looks like it hurt!  So, an Negligent Discharge that caused a self inflicted wound.  What cardinal rule of gun safety did this very well spoken gentleman commit?  Keep Your Booger Hook Off the Bang Switch Until the Sights are on the Target!

I've heard people complain about Serpa holsters in the past.  I've owned them for two different guns.  I've never used one for concealed carry because they are just to bulky to hide well.  I use them on the range.  I've never accidentally ended up with my finger on the trigger.  Nor have I accidentally lit off a round.  That doesn't mean it'll never happen. 

I work diligently to prevent it, even going to so far as to avoid 1911s.  Not because I don't like them or think they are unsafe, but because I don't want to complicate my manual of arms.  Incidentally, Sig slide releases are in the same place as 1911 safeties.  I've specifically trained myself not to ride that lever.  Completely at odds with the 1911 manual of arms.  That training habit would be just as dangerous to me as this man's was to him. 

None of my carry guns have any form of manual safety.  Under stress I don't want to think about which gun I'm carrying, I just want to know that when I pull that trigger, it's going to go off.  Training back to back with two different holsters and two different guns is going to mess up your reactions and motions.  That, IMO, is what really caused this accident, not a particular brand of holster.