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earlyagain
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Saturday night special.
earlyagain
Posts: 7,928 Senior Member
As the 1950's gives way to the next decade, a man owns a service station in Detroit Michigan. He's a good man that runs an honest business providing a needed service to his community. He has one employee and hires another. The second employee works exceptionally hard and earns advancements in pay and position surpassing the original employee. By random happenstance the shop owner and original employee are men of color while the new hire is caucasian. The original employee gets mad and is fired for hostile behavior towards the owner. Returning a short time later to commit violence against the owner and his new hire. He's immediately stopped in his tracks by a snub nose revolver quickly drawn from the owners cover alls pocket. Preventing escalation and injury to all involved.
Several years later a shop owner has his business repeatedly broke into and robbed. Instead of being forced out of business or the area he prepares himself for the challenges of reality. One evening he hears noise behind the shop. He investigates armed with a short barrel revolver only to discover two under age minors drinking beer. An understanding is reached and the youths seek a less contentious location.
Decades later a middle aged man lives in a neighborhood that is in decline. He feels threatened by people and circumstances beyond his power. So he keeps a small caliber revolver on him well doing yard work and close by well sleeping. Thus enabling him some small feeling of security to remain where he is until a change can be effected.
These stories are true. The people in them in need of the ability to immediately help themselves and others around them when outside help is not immediately available. The small snub nose or short barreled revolver became an intricate contributor of good in businesses and homes across the country. Proving true the old adage and popular phrase of cinnema that a gun is a tool. No better or worse than any other tool. Its as good or bad as the person using it.
Several years later a shop owner has his business repeatedly broke into and robbed. Instead of being forced out of business or the area he prepares himself for the challenges of reality. One evening he hears noise behind the shop. He investigates armed with a short barrel revolver only to discover two under age minors drinking beer. An understanding is reached and the youths seek a less contentious location.
Decades later a middle aged man lives in a neighborhood that is in decline. He feels threatened by people and circumstances beyond his power. So he keeps a small caliber revolver on him well doing yard work and close by well sleeping. Thus enabling him some small feeling of security to remain where he is until a change can be effected.
These stories are true. The people in them in need of the ability to immediately help themselves and others around them when outside help is not immediately available. The small snub nose or short barreled revolver became an intricate contributor of good in businesses and homes across the country. Proving true the old adage and popular phrase of cinnema that a gun is a tool. No better or worse than any other tool. Its as good or bad as the person using it.
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The pen may be mightier than the snub nose.
“Saturday Night Specials” have been used by many folks of meager means to protect themselves and their property for many decades until it was decided those folks do not need affordable firearms.
How many folks have found those in grandmas drawer after she passed or inherited other types of inexpensive handguns from older relatives, usually accompanied with the original box of ammo purchased with the gun decades ago, missing only the rounds that are in the gun.
Those inexpensive guns provided a level of protection and most important a measure of peace of mind to scores of folks in the old days when they were easy to acquire. These folks neither desired or could afford the sexy stuff that sits in our nightstands. But they certainly got a better night sleep because of them, and that is precious.
Coat pockets, counter shelves, desk drawers, cookie jars, night stands, automobile glove boxes, tool boxes, tackle boxes, ladies hand bags, and maybe even a pair of old muddy boots by the door contained a potential life saving deterrent for the unexpected emergency.
Had one given to me with the firing pin ground off because Grandma wanted to make sure none of the kids ever had an accident with it. It was just meant as a deterrent that would hopefully scare someone off without having to actually pull the trigger.
Almost all all gun control started off racist.
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
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-Mikhail Kalashnikov
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
-Mikhail Kalashnikov