ayoob files: dueling rifles

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22 tHe AyooB FILes
MASSAD AYOOB
Dueling Rifles: the Brent Smith Incident.
34 tHe sIXGUNNer
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72, I didn’t think I’d live to see a new Colt on the cover of my favorite gun magazine. Let’s
hope there’s more!
Buzz Ellington
via e-mail
Mouth-Frothers
Public but many sensible and rational magazine promoting a gun culture bor-
As a keen gun owner I agree com- gun owners. dering on the insane.
pletely with your prior correspondents Correspondent Curtis Stone Roger Slater
in Speak Out — Frank Mallory and KC (another recent Speak Out writer) is Spokane Wash.
Keaton — regarding the harm done to a classic example of the “frothing-at-
legal gun ownership by the rantings of the-mouth” 2nd Amendment extremist. That’s us, frothing-at-the-mouth. At
pro-gun extremists. I have friends who Such language is so offensive his local least according to Mr. Slater? Funny,
have cancelled their membership with Spokane newspaper has now banned but I never thought honoring — and
the NRA because of their extremism his incessant rambling diatribes. I actively defending — the right to keep
that offends not only no-guns John Q. refuse to subscribe to the NRA or any and bear arms was extreme. Tell that to
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sPeAKoUt
Connor, Clint Smith, Ayoob, John Taffin,
John Morrison, Sammy Reese and all
the other staffers here at FMG. Heck, I
always thought they were pretty smart
and stuff, not to mention pretty darn
nice people too. Never seen any of ’em
frothing about anything. Well, there was
that one time, but it involved a well-
drawn stout beer with a good head and
an ill-timed sneeze. RH
Right To Flight?
I left California for the same reasons
editor Huntington and others have done
— people have historically fled intoler-
able conditions. But let’s look a little
deeper. What would have happened if
every Jew had taken a Nazi with him?
Or if a million anti-Castro Cubans had
stayed and resisted? There is a plaque
on the south side of our border fence,
shaming the Mexican government for
conditions that make flight the price of
survival. My question is, where will
Americans flee when all of the states are
Californicated? Keep up the fight.
Will Burgess
Via e-mail
Kids And Deadly Force
Massad Ayoob’s article about youths
using deadly force and how the left
goes nuts when they do (Ayoob Files,
Jan/Feb 2012), got me thinking. I was
saved years ago by two young boys
with guns. I was out with a woman on
our second date. We saw The Patriot
with Mel Gibson. One scene shows Mel
arming two of his sons to rescue a third
son from the British. Later they actually
shoot British soldiers.
Over coffee after the movie, my date
remarked how terrible it was to send a
message to youths that guns were okay,
particularly when wielded by boys.
Those two boys in the movie saved me
a lot of money spent on further dates
with her!
Al Johnson, Sgt.
Tucson Police, Ret.
Repulsive Rooster
You sure brought back memories of
my rooster (Insider, “Chicken Guns”
Jan/Feb 2013). When I was a kid in the
late 1950’s the local stores would sell
rabbits and chicks around Easter. The
“chick” I got grew into King Rooster.
He whipped every dog in the neighbor-
hood. Most parents would keep the kids
inside, just to avoid him. Then King
jumped my mother, she got pecked and
scratched and when dad got home she
was a bloody mess. Dad drove an old
station wagon and I still remember dad
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