Maynard’s comments are behind the “>” and in italics. Think they’ll have the gonads to actually have a real firearms enthusiast on the air? One wonders…
> You know what stikes me as odd, is that every one of the responses wwe
> have gotten to this has been RIDDLED with personal attacks. Like yours.
> Should hot headed jerks really be allowed to even have a butter knife?
Uhm…what personal attacks are you talking about? I simply pointed out
that you’re misinformed. That’s not a personal attack, it’s the truth.
You said things that were indicative of a person that doesn’t have a very
good grasp of the subject. If it offends you or you feel attacked, that’s
on YOU, not me.
As for hot headed jerks,…sorry, but people like you are trying to deny
me a basic personal freedom. Yeah, I get hot headed when people violate
my personal liberty, whether it’s the 1st or the 2nd or the 4th or the 5th
Amendment.
>
> Want me to get personal? How’s this-
> I personally think guns are for pussies.
So all those cops in Baltimore are pussies? All the troops carrying our
flag in Iraq are pussies?
Bullshit. Guns are tools like anything else. Their moral value is
imparted by the user.
>I would never own one.
Fair enough. Don’t own one then. Don’t like abortion? Don’t have one.
Don’t like pot? Don’t smoke it.
Freedom is letting other people make choices for themselves that you
wouldn’t make for you.
>You need one, cause you’re a pussy and can’t fight on your own, I get that.
Eh, you don’t know much about me, so I really don’t know how you can make
such a judgment. Actually I’ve got seven years Okinawan karate and a
couple years of Thai boxing training under my belt, and am pretty versed
in the use of a couple other hand to hand combat fighting weapons. A real
martial artist learns about all sorts of hand to hand and weaponry and
keeps an open mind about effective new tools. You know who happens to be
a firearms expert in addition to a fantastic martial artist? Steven
Seagal. Go tell him he’s a pussy because he owns and uses guns. Let me
know which hospital you end up in, I’ll send lillies.
But that’s not really the point. The point here is that guns are simply
tools that allow you to project force from a greater distance than
contact/edged weapons. That’s why they were developed, and that’s why
military/LEO use them. If a knife wielding maniac is going after you,
your odds are much better confronting him with force when he’s 30 feet
away than 3. Well, we private citizens use them for the same reason LEOs
do–its better for us to be able to confront evil from a distance than
close up.
>Or you
> have a small member and you need it to prove to yourself that you’re a
> man. Hey, everyone gets a bad break sometimes in life.
Eh, you didn’t read much of my email, did you?
As I wrote earlier, seems pretty common that when gun fearing folks run
out of logical, rational ideas, they resort to slinging immature potty
humor and insults about the genitals of people they’ve never met.
If gun enthusiasm is about your penis, how do you explain the 5 foot 2
Jewish female president of the NRA? Hmmmmm?
> I am for a ban of machine gus [sic] and assault weapons.
Rather than getting all emotional, you should have read my actual email.
You’d see that machine guns are already essentially banned to everyone but
law enforcement since 1934. Duh. We don’t need another law to do that.
>AND high powered military styled rifles.
The AR15 fires a wimpy .223 cartridge. My .270 hunting rifle fires a
cartridge that’s three times as powerful and travels twice as far
accurately…but isn’t banned. Logical, eh?
>If you use the semi-auto equivalent of an M-16, a
> high powered semi auto, and you fire that at a burgular at 2am and miss,
> which you will cause you’ll be scared,
I won’t miss. I’m well trained. Besides, would I be less likely to miss
wth a bolt action? Of course not.
>it will go through your wall and
> probably hit your neighbors house- or dog or KID.
My bedroom is on the second floor. I’ll be shooting towards the earth as
my backstop. I’m fine with that. The word or term you’re looking for is
“tactical awareness.”
> If this bill goes
> beyond that and bans ALL semi autos, then I am opposed.
It does. I assume then you’ll publish a retraction on air today? You’ll
encourage your listeners to oppose the bill because it essentially bans
every semiauto pistol (just like the ones Ed supports the carrying of?)?
I certainly hope you will.
>
> How about you MAN up and learn to fight instead of hiding behind your
> trigger- which BTW from close range, is MUCH less effective than my katana
> blade, and at 2am, even if I am really scraed [sic] i won’t miss.
>
How about instead of casting aspersions at my manhood, why don’t you
consider that not everyone is a man. When my wife is at home and a 230lb
rapist kicks in the back door, why should she have to fist fight him?
> Also, if you talk BS about teh [sic] 2nd amendment protecting us from our own
> gov’t- trust me pal, if the gov’t decideds to come for you, your guns
> won’t help you.
They will help. Why? Because the govt knows there are 80million+ gun
owners in the US and we are a formidable force.
Don’t think a ragtag militia armed with small arms can resist our govt?
Heh. Check out this little country called IRAQ. Or Vietnam for that
matter. Armed private citizens can hold off the world’s supreme military
powers via guerrilla tactics, history has shown that time and again.
Rather than have an overly emotional internet pissing match with firearms
enthusiasts like the people writing you today, wouldn’t it be better to
have an enthusiast/expert on the air to discuss the subject from a
knowledgable point of view? Ed himself has met with Wayne LaPierre
before. Why not have him on the air? Why not have an NRA trained
instructor on the air?
Regards,
SS
An anti-gunner ignoring the facts and evidence in a post and/letter/e-mail and resorting to personal attacks, infantile insults, and (as usual) factually incorrect statements.
Color me surprised.
Comment by Thirdpower — March 1, 2007 @ 9:30 am
Who is this idiot again? Katana blade? Does he realize that’s what the Austrailian Brady Bunch is now after?
Being a 20 year martial artist who has trained with various sticks, knives, swords (more than Japanese, which some people consider the end all beat all because they know nothing else), I can say I would probably be very effective with a katana. However, katanas are cutting weapons, and most people that “train” with them don’t cut stuff, they cut air. The reason for the evolution of the rapier from the cutting swords of the romans in the western arts was because cutting wouldn’t stop people. Poking holes through vital parts did. This goes for knives also, one of my martial arts instructors pointed to the edge, said “this will cut you”, and the point saying “This will kill you”.
That said, a full blown katana in a hallway is hard to swing fully with, and I have a T shirt from the “International Ceiling Scratchers Club” as a testament to my efforts in that regard.
In regards to going through walls to the neighbors, one of the complaints against the 223 in Iraq is that it is insufficient to penetrate walls, etc. Interesting. You’re 270 Win will do much better, a 308 or 30-06 much better yet. This is why I keep 9mm 115gr JHP in the house grab pistols, they fragment much more than the 147 JHP that goes with the carry gun and are much less likely to go through walls. No substitute for knowing where you can and can’t shoot, but an added safety.
Comment by Matt — March 1, 2007 @ 10:43 am
He owns a katana and brags about how good he is w/ it yet goes on about how firearm owners are trying to compensate for “shortcomings”.
Comment by Thirdpower — March 1, 2007 @ 11:26 am
This guy is pretty funny, it’s like Britney Spears calling someone “crazy white trash”.
Sean
Comment by Sean — March 1, 2007 @ 11:39 am
What do you expect from an idiot that hides behind a microphone and antagonizes people for a living?
Comment by SJ — March 1, 2007 @ 2:21 pm
Heh. We’ve exchanged more emails and I’ve sorta made nice with him, but yeah, much as keyboard warriors are annoying, microphone tough guys aren’t much more appealing.
Usually when you have to resort to insulting my penis or my manhood, it’s a good sign you don’t know what you’re talking about. I’ve been arguing for gun rights for years now and never once felt the need to suggest that Sarah Brady’s problem is her penis.
Comment by Administrator — March 1, 2007 @ 2:26 pm
And speaking of insults…my cutlass does much better than a katana in a hallway, as it was designed for small areas such as ships, but the wakizashi is better still…
Then again, when you translast “wakizashi” according to wiki, you get “sidearm”.
Interesting….That would put the katana translating to…::wait for it::…an ASSAULT WEAPON OH MY GOD PASS A LAW QUICK!!!
Comment by Matt — March 1, 2007 @ 3:33 pm
You know what’s funny? I’ve almost forgotten that “compensating for shortcomings” insult even existed. I drive an old 5.0 Mustang and carry a gun, but I really can’t remember the last time someone said something like that, even as a joke.
The appropriate response is, of course, a FFOG.
Comment by Tim James — March 1, 2007 @ 4:31 pm
Hehe, sidearm indeed.
Why people have a hard time understanding that humans have used weapons as long as we’ve walked upright, and that we’ve gone from rocks to clubs to edged weapons to bow and arrow to flintlock to musket to carbine to rifle as a natural progression…it’s just beyond me.
Why should we private citizens be stuck in 19th C Japan while the bad guys are in the 21st C?
Comment by Administrator — March 1, 2007 @ 5:15 pm
This guy, and I still have no clue who he is, sounds like he’s attempted to study martial arts. This is fine. However, he obviously hasn’t studied combat in an historical sense.
If he had, he’d know that the katana was the symbol of an elitist group, who oppressed the general populace, and generally looked at them as beasts of burden to be used as the elite saw fit.
This elite class was rendered useless by the advent of firearms. In other words, the oppresive elite was rendered useless based on the firearm, and the common man was freed.
Wait…maybe he has studied….nah…couldn’t be…
Comment by Matt — March 1, 2007 @ 7:52 pm
Maybe he just has to watch the Last Samurai. Yeah Tom Cruise is an idiot and yeah it’s a sappy movie…but the point reigns clear and strong–technology marches on.
It’s really romanticism…the “real” man with his sword.
Well, the bad guys have moved on to projectile weapons. We may as well do the same.
Comment by Administrator — March 1, 2007 @ 9:23 pm
What is he, 11?
Comment by Pete — March 2, 2007 @ 12:54 am
“Or you have a small member and you need it to prove to yourself that you’re a man.”
Oh no he didn’t. This one always gets my attention, but it makes me chuckle. Y’all will too.
“Guns, Murders, And The Constitution: A Realistic Assessment of Gun Control” by Don Kates is a superb, but length read.
http://www.guncite.com/journals/gun_control_katesreal.html
Skip down to “Pejorative Characterizations Of Gun Ownership”. Read “The Penis Theory” for a good, concise background on the subject of gunowners and their alleged feelings of inadequacy.
http://www.guncite.com/journals/gun_control_katesreal.html#h5
Need a concise soundbyte? No problem. Click here and then scroll up a line or two.
http://www.guncite.com/journals/gun_control_katesreal.html#fnb49
“… Freud associates retarded sexual and emotional development not with gun ownership, but with fear and loathing of weapons.”
Comment by Ken Grubb — March 2, 2007 @ 2:44 am
I guess I cannot be too surprised by Ed “The Defendant” Norris. He was railroaded don’t cha know. Not.
Comment by Ken Grubb — March 2, 2007 @ 2:56 am
Ken-
Very nice ref, thanks.
Comment by Matt — March 2, 2007 @ 9:22 am
Ok, since I have no clue who this guy is, I go looking. As for “railroaded”, wiki gives the following: “The third count alleged that he had lied on a mortgage application, stating that approximately $9,000 he received from his father was not a gift—as was stated in the loan papers—but a loan”
Call me road rash by experience, but I would say that he’s probably not the first person who did this. Meaning, it seems chickenshit to me. I don’t know the details.
That said, the title is “Maynard from the Ed Norris Show”, right? Regardless of beliefs, I cannot imagine a police commissioner having such poor writing as this, nor being so much a braggart about a katana, etc.
Now, assuming I’m correct (as nobody has explained, so please correct me if I’m wrong), it’s the guy who’s bio on the show’s page starts with “The world’s most Dangerously Handsome Super Producer…”. Wow, I’ll withhold comment on that. It ends up with “Maynard also holds black belts in several different martial arts styles.” Ok, that’s nice, so do I, and I’m also a tactical shooting instructor, as are at least three of my martial arts instructors, and I’ve studied with people from Krav Maga (where there are no belts, at least traditionally) to historical sword to western knife. I am honestly surprised that someone who would study martial arts would denegrate any type of weapon. Then again, I come from the more traditional MA schools, where you 1) don’t touch anyone without asking first, or 2) don’t talk down to anyone or talk down any style, you just keep your mouth shut and study your own. I also study in schools where the instructor would cut me loose, if not whip my ass, for posting such a statement in a public bio. I believe I am starting to understand why he percieves that everyone resorts to personal attacks with him, it seems that he accuses anyone who does not agree with him of being a “Pussy”.
His myspace place claims a “Ninja”, I don’t think he’s Booj (Bujinkan), simply because I would be suprised if some of the things he says were tolerated. I would think Hatsumi-soke would not want such a boastful person representing him from what I know of Soke.
His arrogance comes through pretty clearly here , as well as with the statement “well, you’re a scorpio, so you’d almost have to agree with me…we ain’t most powerful sign in the zodiac for no reason.” which is below it.
In answer to one of the earlier questions, btw, his age is listed at 31 on the blog. Not 11, but old enough to be more seasoned than he obviously represents himself.
So have I got the right guy? Kinda seems so.
Comment by Matt — March 2, 2007 @ 11:27 am
I think what got Ed in trouble wasn’t the mortgage application, but the use of the police dept rainy day slush fund for b*uying girlfriends gifts, recruiting NYPD friends with expensive dinners at Smith and Wolensky, etc, and that sort of thing. Probably stuff that flies just fine in NYC but not here.
Maynard is the show’s cohost and producer.
Comment by Administrator — March 2, 2007 @ 3:39 pm
I don’t know anything about “Ed”, I just make the statement that such a thing causing one to face a 30 yr prison sentence is bullshit.
Maynard is the show’s cohost and producer.
I’m curious how you ended up discussing firearms with him, I missed that part.
Based on what I’ve read, you saying he’s the cohost, I can only conclude (hope?) that he’s playing some kind of role, though I find it somewhat concerning that he may be blurring the lines between his “radio persona” and being a real person, if that includes martial arts.
I did notice after my previous post that he does specifically say he is “not a ninja”, which takes him out of the possibility of the Booj, which is good.
As a martial artist, his ignorance in terms of weapons vs my willingness to use a longarm or a handgun if needed may make me a “pussy”, but would more probably make him a carcass if faced with someone who is effective with a weapon. Basic martial (military is included in martial, the samuri he idolizes were primarily military…but I could spend way too long correcting such statemens so I won’t). One uses the most effective and furthest reach one can use, which is why you always call in the longer range artillery if you can, airstrikes, ect.
Comment by Matt — March 2, 2007 @ 4:00 pm
Eh, no big surprise that a hoplophobe isn’t educated about basic tactical considerations like that.
I got into it with him when he responded to the email I sent to the entire show. The email address goes to the entire cast of the show, I guess something I said tee’ed him off for some reason.
Usually a sign I’m getting somewhere.
Comment by Administrator — March 2, 2007 @ 7:52 pm
It would be interesting to see the email and the response sometime.
Comment by Matt — March 2, 2007 @ 10:01 pm