Sorry...been crazy busy! Plus, have tried to post from the phone while I was running around, but (as you can tell from my picture of SG Producer Mike Long having coffee), it has been sorta problemic.
I see History Channel is ramping up their new gun show, Family Guns, and it looks like one I might actually watch...unless, of course, the son starts yelling at the father American Chopper style, then I'm outa there.
My pal Kevin Dockery is once again ran his super-cool Armory at the big Dragon*Con SF convention in Atlanta last weekend. Somehow, I'm always working...otherwise I'd be a screaming hoot...not to mention hot alien women.
And finally, from HuffPo, of course, comes this little ditty:
And finally, from HuffPo, of course, comes this little ditty:
Amid a continuing national gun control debate, a young California man has died during a game of Russian Roulette. It is at least the fourth death that has occurred during the deadly shooting game in the last eight months in the U.S.
"Continuing national gun control debate?" Kinda strikes me more as "Darwin in action." RR isn't a "shooting game," it's what morons do when the bottles are all empty...
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"RR isn't a "shooting game," it's what morons do when the bottles are all empty..."
Good one. Let me check my local range's activities: 3Gun, Cowboy, IDPA, Skeet. Nope, you're right, no Russian Roulette.
Isn't RR kinda like bleach ... helps clean out the gene pool a bit ...
Michael,
The show is actually a National Geographic Channel production. It was originally titled "Jersey Combat" and was advertised as such on the back page of the 2012 G&A Surplus Firearms annual. I guess the name change occurred when the suits at NatGeo didn't want to confuse big hair with big bores.
The show follows the father and son owners of International Military Antiques. If you love old guns, artillery and militaria, this could be a real winner.
The show premieres this coming Thursday.
OOPS!
Sorry the show airs on Wednesday. Uh oh, conflict in channels!
Actually, Russian Roulette was started when one of the Tsars forbade dueling.
If the duelists used a revolver with one round in it, and passed it back and forth, they could determine which duelist was more brave/foolhardy, and truthfully state that the dead duelist had killed himself, and that they had not been dueling.
Something only Russians could invent ...
I'd love to read or see a video piece about the history of dueling. It seems like such a dumb thing to participate in a duel. I know, I know, if you turned down the duel challenge, you'd be seen as a coward, but so what? America is the land of people who are free and independent and live their own lives according to their own opinions of themselves. It reminds me of the concept that a man carrying a concealed self-defense weapon needs to be polite to others and avoid confrontations at all costs (including, and probably most importantly challenges to his honor) because that man knows that an escalation of the conflict could leave him no choice but to shoot another man.
If lots of reasonable people laughed off duel challenges, the dueling custom would have faded fast. When did dueling fade away, by the way, and why? I'm wondering why the custom started and why it stopped.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/duel/sfeature/dueling.html
TL:DR:
Code Deullo went from a means for hot headed gentlemen to avoid slaughtering each other to a means to use someone's pride to trap them into getting themselves killed.
Once people wised up to that, the practice was outlawed in fact as well as law.
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