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Sexism, Dragon's Crown, and the gaming community. Yes, we're going there...
on 04.23.2013
So, as if the title wasn't a giveaway, then yeah, I want to talk about sexism.
"But Titus, all anyone does anymore is talk about sexism and gaming! Why don.t you just, like, get over it?"
Because believe it or not, sexism is still a very big part of the gaming industry. And it's not going to go away until we've dragged it out and shown it under the cold light of day to be what it is.
I want to get something out of the way right from the off, something which I think isn't made clear enough in these debates: women make up a huge part of the gaming audience now. In fact,
studies have regularly pinned female gamers at making up between 40-50% of the total gaming audience.
That's around half of all gamers out there. Despite all the jokes and memes, female gamers are no longer a rare thing. I've met plenty of girls myself who openly admitted to enjoying games. Some preferred Nintendo games like Super Mario, others were committed 'core' gamers who bought games like COD and Halo Reach on launch day.
It's important to stress this point, simply because of a lot of the arguments which get brought up in discussions around sexism and gaming. Namely, that the industry can get away with a lot of its more... problematic portrayals of women, by virtue of the fact that this is still largely seen by many gamers as a boy's hobby. Quite frankly, this is bollocks. This isn't the Eighties anymore, and gamers aren't the weird D&D nerds who used to give everyone else the heebie jeebies. Gaming has arrived as a mainstream, mass-appeal medium. I think we can all agree with that. With that mass appeal comes an increase in the number of demographics it reaches. It's only logical to assume that, with an increase in the number of gamers by hundreds of millions, more and more of those gamers are women. And this is what the studies have borne out.
Again, half. Half of gamers now are women.
Here's something to put it in even more perspective- the number of women over 18 playing videogames is larger than the number of guys under 18 playing games. You know that teenage male demographic that the industry likes to court with titillating character design, brosplosions and interesting new uses for the word 'fuck'? They're now a minority demographic compared to women gamers.
So, what's my issue? My issue is this. Not only does the industry seem reluctant to try and change its structure and its games to be more accommodating to women, but many gamers still seem hostile to this idea that women might want to play their games as well. It's a mindset I'm sure many of you have witnessed first-hand. It's the idea that any attempt to address sexism is an attempt by the feminists, or even the feminazis, to try and actively take our games away. That we won't be able to play Call of Brosplosionfield anymore because those damn horrible feminists won't let us have any fun.
It's a fucking stupid mindset. And I mean the stupidest of the stupid.
Firstly, this mindset tries to paint as one united group a movement which has diverged, splintered and fractured more than any other. There are no 'the' feminists, just as there aren't 'the' racists, or 'the' conservatives. There are a number of different groups, ideologies and arguments that exist under the umbrella term of 'Feminism', and they all differ from each other in important, sometimes profound ways. Believe it or not, but not every feminist subscribes to the Political Lesbian Separatism movement, or the Virginia Wolfe Navel Gazing movement. This idea that feminism as a whole is some united force that's trying to impinge on our right to play videogames is just farcicle, but I keep seeing it get brought up time and time again. Apparently 'the feminists' are trying to infringe on so-and-so's right to play the games he enjoys, or are trying to stop such-and-such from getting to play that hot new shooter that's coming out next month.
This is an argument that I'm seeing more and more, and that worries me, because it's an argument which strives to shut down argument and debate, rather than engage in it. Rather than looking at issues, we see gamers trying to ignore them by claiming them as the whinging of 'the feminists', as if that somehow makes them comparable to people who claim to have seen Bigfoot, or been abducted by aliens, or who've heard a good Coldplay song. These issues aren't fairy stories or conspiracy theories. These issues are real. You only need talk to ANY random female 360 player, and chances are at some point she'll have been harrassed over Live because of her gender. This sort of thing is endemic, and we need to start looking to fix it pronto.
Secondly, it's a mindset which tries to stop people from calling out developers when they make legitimate fuck-ups. I don't think I'll be surprising anyone when I say that many gamers, possibly even the majority, can exhibit rather worrying mild signs of addiction when it comes to certain game franchises they love. We're certainly not a medium of crackheads, and I'm not trying to imply that, but there's this apparent trend among many gamers where a game will be forgiven a multitude of seemingly great sins simply because it's the latest in 'X' franchise, or the newest game from 'Y' developer. It's that idea of needing to get a certain fix, and being able to overlook some rather worrying issues in order to get it from a beloved franchise or developer.
I'm going to potentially rustle a lot of feathers now and bring up Dragon's Crown, the latest game from 2D maestros Vanillaware. Now, I've got a huge amount of respect for Vanillaware. In an era where retro-16 bit 2D games are all the rage, Vanillaware buck the trend and show what's possible when you go all out with beautifully drawn hi-resolution art instead. Games like Odin Sphere and Muramasa are just stunning to look at. I have nothing but respect for Vanillaware's accomplishments within the 2D genre, which is why I feel so troubled over, well...
See, here's the thing. Dragon's Crown is an undoubtedly stylised game. All the characters have a certain over-the-top style to them. Personally I feel from an aesthetic view that Dragon's Crown is much weaker than previous Vanillaware games. The other characters like the Amazon and Dwarf are a mess of steroid-fuelled muscles that play into power fantasy archetypes, but which just look unappealing and messy. But the Sorceress is my real point of contention. Partly because of her design, but partly as well because of how we've reacted to her.
See, from a design perspective, there's almost nothing to her but sexualisation. Look at that above picture. Really look at it. What are the highlighted design features we see here? Clearly not her face. Not only is it comparatively tiny, but it's half-concealed by her hat, and overshadowed by her hair. The most prominent design elements are, quite simply, her tits and her arse. Not only is she doing the classic impossible-spinal-twist to show both those elements off,
while bending over, no less
, but both assets have been inflated to extreme degrees. Her boobs aren't just large, they're ridiculously so. That behind isn't just prominent, it's the literal centrepiece of the design as portrayed in the picture. The entire rest of the picture revolves around the centre that is her bottom. Not only that, but she's taking the skull from a skeleton (I imagine due to being a necromancer), and shoving it up into her ridiculously low cut cleavage.
This picture is, quite literally, of a pneumatically titted woman motorboating a skull while waving her arse at the viewer.
The only other emphasised feature here is the miles and miles of leg on display through that generous slit in the side of her skirt. Again, not exactly subtle here.
I would hope that I'm not alone here in concluding that the character design shown here is rather strongly focused on sexualisation. I mean, she's riding her staff up the crack of her behind like it's some sort of Anne Summers toy she's modelling, so I really don't think I'm reaching. But even if I'm wrong, there's something which disturbs me even moreso than this.
Whenever I've seen this issue get brought up on forums, both here and at sites like Neogaf, the people raising concern are shouted down by those who think there's nothing to worry about. Now, I have no problem with people disagreeing with me if there is room for us both to debate an issue. What I have a problem with is people even refusing to look at an issue, because it doesn't conform to their notions of what's going on. Even worse are when people
there is an issue, but claim that as a member of a privileged group (in this case, hetero male), they should be free to enjoy that privileged, and damn what anyone else thinks. "Well I'm a male and I enjoy looking at titties, so what's the problem?"
If you like looking at tittles, either get a girlfriend or go watch some porn. When a mainstream level game is pushing ridiculous boobage like this for cheap titillation, it makes me wonder just what he developers think of their audience. Are they being cynical by cashing in on such cheap objectification, or do they actively enjoy and encourage such portrayals of women?
I'm going to bring that claim from the beginning back again: half. Half of all gamers now are women. Half the people going out and buying games, reading reviews, playing Angry Birds on the bus and pwning noobs online are female.
Now, there is a certain understanding when you work on anything other than the most indie of indie games that when bringing stuff to market, you should try and avoid stuff that's deliberately offensive or belittling to certain demographics or minorities. You couldn't justify a game with a homophobic main character, for instance, by claiming that the majority of your players are straight. Likewise, you couldn't justify having a character go black-face by claiming the majority of your audience is white. Regardless of who your game is aimed at, there's an assumption that you should treat the general public with respect.
This character isn't respectful to women. I would be embarrassed to play this game in front of any woman I know. This character presents such a hyper-sexualised portrayal of women, it feels like it belongs more in a fantasy Hentai than it does a follow up to something as good as Muramasa. Even if Vanillaware wanted to specifically target young, horny male gamers with their new game (even though as mentioned, that's now a minority demographic), there's no reason they couldn't have done that
also presenting a rather outdated portrayal of a woman that patronises
the gaming community out there.
What particularly riles me up is that we haven't been afraid to raise a stink about this before. I'm sure many gamers will remember when Namco were working on Soul Calibur IV, and their character designs for Ivy looked like this:
And of course, there was the promotion art which looked like this:
...and gamers raised a stink about it. We recognised that this was a rather shameless piece of objectification, and we got onto Namco about it. We told them it was cheap, tacky, and utterly sleazy. It didn't change the game itself, of course, but it at least got them to dress Ivy
more sensibly in Soul Calibur V, and to stop with the gratuitous boob adverts.
People have been getting onto Team Ninja for years about this exact same issue regarding the Dead or Alive series, to the point where it's all the series is practically known for- counter based combat, and titties. I remember when DoA3 came out, and the trailer included on my OXM demo disc had a rather shameless gratuitous shot of a pair of breasts attached to a girl suspended in a giant test tube. Now, from what I can tell, Team Ninja have seriously started to haul back on the gratuitous jiggle physics, but it's still all anyone talks about, and not exactly in glowing terms.
Why is it, then, that in those instances we were so ready to call out some rather dodgy portrayals of women, yet in this case we seem so reluctant to? I mean, the Dragon's Crown example doesn't seem all that different- there's a ludicrous focus on tits and ass, to the exclusion of almost everything else about the character. Is it a fear of being called a 'White Knight', that term which seems to have been created to shut down discussions of sexism before they even begin? Do we just not care all that much any more? Is it really not that big of a deal?
I think it is. Again, gaming is now made up of more women-folk than it ever has been before, and I think we should try and ensure that it's as welcome and open a community as possible. There's room for different niches and demographics, sure, but I'd like to think there's a way to go around making games without deliberately objectifying women. Maybe that idea of a welcoming community is where I'm wrong though. As a culture, the 'hardcore' gaming community seems to define itself based on all the people it tries to exclude. We've seen this time and time again with the way 'hardcore' gamers refer to 'casual' gaming as some sort of slur. We see it in the way PC gamers look down on console gamers, and vice versa. The way 360 owners look down on PS3 owners, and both look down on Wii or Wii U owners.
Despite 30 years of advancement, gaming still seems to be a community of warring tribes, like the Italy represented in the Aeneid, and perhaps that's why these problems haven't disappeared yet. In order to overcome any sort of -ism, be it sexism, racism or what-have-you, you need to have an overriding desire amongst the community to overcome such divisions and build bridges. And sad as it is, but maybe the gaming community, with its fractured install bases constantly squabbling with each other, simply isn't minded towards building bridges. Maybe that 40-50% of the total gaming audience is always going to have to view things from the outside, from the recieving end of Xbox Live insults, sleazy advertising, booth babe culture and terrible character design.
I really hope not. I'd really love to think that one day we as a gaming community could not just openly embrace all the women who want to join in, and all the different feminists along with them, but any sort of minority or demographic. Anyone who wants to play games, no matter how casual or hardcore, whether they're male, female, straight, gay, black or white, it'd be an open invitation for everyone to come join in the interactive fun. A community united by the love of the medium. But I think we'd need some pretty drastic changes first. Not just in the industry itself, and the way developers and publishers make and market their games, but in the way we as gamers view the medium, and the community that surrounds it.
I'm going to make an addendum here, and recommend that before the comments devolve further into tirades of "Men are sexualised too!" "What's wrong with games for men!" and all that other crap that
appears in these debates, readers of this blog take the time to read
on Nerd culture and the male gaze from the Doctor Nerdlove page.
These articles cover the idea of sexism/male privilege in nerd culture in a staggering amount of detail, and point out all the ways that the male gaze in geek culture, but particularly in gaming, as a topic needs to be addressed. Pointing out that the majority of gamers are male, or that Kratos and Batman are ludicrously muscley, doesn't address the actual topic at hand, it's just deflection from the real issue here.
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Billingsley (8-5) gave up five hits, walked two batters and struck out three to record his first shutout since July 30, 2008 against these same Giants.
The Dodgers avoided a three-game sweep and snapped a six-game skid.
"Chad was great tonight. This is pretty much what we needed. Hopefully, this is something that gets us going in the other direction," Dodgers acting manager Don Mattingly said.
Barry Zito (8-5) allowed two runs on six hits in 7 1/3 innings to suffer the hard-luck loss for the Giants, who went 0-for-8 with runners in scoring position and stranded seven. Zito also fanned four and walked three in his first loss since June 23.
Wednesday's game had a much different feel compared to Tuesday's heated contest, which saw the Giants rally in the ninth for a 7-5 win. Three batters were hit by pitches in that game, leading to three ejections. Prior to Wednesday's game, Major League Baseball suspended Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw along with manager Joe Torre and bench coach Bob Schaefer. Kershaw was given a five-game suspension, while Torre and Schaefer got one-game bans.
Blake's homer inside the left foul pole in the second inning proved to be all the runs the Dodgers would need.
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April/May 2014 EHJ (Issue 142) - Darkness choked out the last bits of sunlight clinging to the hillside. The decision was made to make camp and the only suitable campsite lay on a timbered island surrounded by the rockslide. After 45 minutes of rain drenched gravel excavating the platform for our tent was finished. I fell asleep instantly. Zach said he tried to wake me and tell me about the several basketball sized rocks that were rolling past us, but I was out cold and I had no intention of waking up.
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This is a discussion on Tragic: Boy finds forgotten gun, accidentally shoots self in head within the In the News: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly forums, part of the The Back Porch category; Originally Posted by OMEGA2669 education saves lives Yes! Those words are not uttered enough....
There are 24, 36, and 48 yr. olds who don't know better.
The internets is full of video and images of these more aged people doing plainly stupid stuff with firearms, without thinking.
It's ridiculousness like this and the following image that fuels antis desire to further restrict if not altogether remove our gun rights. Simply because people cannot find it in them self to act right, act reasonably, and take adult responsibility for their actions _and_ inaction.
Education is a layer on top of which the foundation lies properly securing firearms and ammunition from use by unauthorized users.
This is and has been the basic tenant of _modern_ firearm safety for decades now, and should be for the future.
There is no excuse for this type of negilence and that includes 'education' or lack there of by the adult parent and guardians never mind the child, who in his own home should not have to be educated in order to live there safely per the responsibility of the adult parent and guardian to provide a reasonably safe living environment.NRA Gun Safety Rules
When using or storing a gun, always follow these NRA rules:
Store guns so they are not accessible to unauthorized persons.
Many factors must be considered when deciding where and how to store guns. A person's particular situation will be a major part of the consideration. Dozens of gun storage devices, as well as locking devices that attach directly to the gun, are available. However, mechanical locking devices, like the mechanical safeties built into guns, can fail and should not be used as a substitute for safe gun handling and the observance of all gun safety rules.
A firearm with live ammunition "forgotten" to be stored in a box in a closet is neither safe nor reasonable.
Parents and adult persons need to properly secure their firearms which means lock them up if they are not in use as carried on your body or under your direct supervision.
Stored in a box in the closet is neither and for that due to parental and adult ignorance yet another child suffered and will suffer for the rest of his days if he survives.
This was completely avoidable, and very much should have been, without any regard to education of the child.
- Janq
"Killers who are not deterred by laws against murder are not going to be deterred by laws against guns. " - Robert A. Levy
"A license to carry a concealed weapon does not make you a free-lance policeman." - Florida Div. of Licensing
this is sad all around. You'd hope that a 12 year old would know better , but then again his family forgot that they even had a gun. Guns and gun safety especially ,were obviously not dinner table topics at that house. If you're going to have kids and guns it's imperative to educate them. A locked up gun is useless .
Bunny also made a good point about the kid being home alone for a couple of hours, in some states a 12 year old kid can't legally be left home alone, and with good reason.
How exactly is a locked up gun "useless"? :huh:
A child playing with a locked up gun is a child that does not and cannot shoot itself or it's sibling/friend also near by playing with a locked up gun, unbeknown to their adult parent/guardian.
- Janq
"Killers who are not deterred by laws against murder are not going to be deterred by laws against guns. " - Robert A. Levy
"A license to carry a concealed weapon does not make you a free-lance policeman." - Florida Div. of Licensing
When your door gets kicked in during a home invasion, go get your locked up gun, them let me know how it works out ,if you're still alive.If the BG's decide to give you the time to go get your weapons,which I highly doubt. I'd rather have mine ready to go and my children taught to (A) leave it alone (B) never point it at anyone . It's a personal choice, I'm not going to keep unloaded or disabled weapons,they may as well be bricks.
I have to blame the actor here, the kid. He's lucky that he made it to 12 in this world if he didn't realize that all heck comes out of the barrel of a gun when you pull the trigger, just like on , video games, and movies. If you don't teach your kids and they don't listen to you, there are bigger issues than gun locks can solve.
We're assuming that this was an accident, it may have been a suicide attempt.
I figured that's what you were thinking, and it's a specious commentary of view.
In this specific case the firearm clearly was not being used nor by caliber alone (.25 ACP) intended for home defense. Further it's a firearm the parents state they "forgot" about.
For a self defense or home defense handgun wear it on your body.
When not worn on your body, lock it up.
If said handgun is to be kept at the ready someplace then do so within a container that can be secured but accessed very quickly of which the market is full of solutions to that end. The choice availability for as much is wide and deep.
Same goes for longarms too be it a shot gun or rifle.
* For self defense and home defense wear your handgun on your body in and around your house.
That is legal in all 50 states and now the District of Columbia too.
* If you have a long gun as your home defense weapon (shotgun or rifle) then when you are actually home and are sleeping in your bedroom or what ever other room you are sleeping in then keep the firearm as at the ready condition within arms length of you. Though preferably in a place if there are small children around that is out of their direct access possibility especially if you wake after they do and/or are a heavy sleeper.
Do not do:
* Do not leave handguns sitting in your night stand, the sock drawer, or any other drawer and in closets too or under mattresses or behind sofa pillows and other such 'hiding places' perpetually whether you are home or not.
* Do not leave longguns behind doors and under beds perpetually unsecured whether you are home or not.
* Do not leave any firearm unattended and unsecured when you are not home (laziness!) for the simple and double reason that even if you do not have kids burglars will find your firearms and they will take them to the streets to be sold and used in crime against people like _you_, me, and we the people. This alone is a no brainer and is well known as being a primary source of firearms for the blackmarket; theft of lawfully owned firearms from non-commercial residential properties.
* Do not leave any firearms out unattended when you are not home while a child or children may be within your home.
Kids do things and get in to stuff and outside of the most educated and acclimated of children the vast majority of the norm of children be they so called educated about guns or not find firearms and ammunition to be an emotional draw. Hell adults (18 and over) are the same way for that matter.
There is no good reason to not have your firearms locked up if and when you have children around your home.
The idea that keeping guns, loaded guns at that, around the house in random locations left there to be forgotten (!) muchless openly accessible to children is how these stories come up weekly of children shooting themself.
Further the idea that possibly this could be a suicide is specious as well. So if the kid had purposefully wanted to commit suicide for some very odd reason then having this firearm around the house unsecured is okay and the end result not so bad?
Of course not.
Never mind that placing guns to ones head and pulling of triggers as folks see depicted on TV is a pretty common play item that not just children but full grown not actually intending to kill themselves adult do and portray themselves as too which also can very easily be seen by videos and pics as posted on the internet, by fools.
If your home has a single firearm in it and it is used on occasion for Self defense (person) and/or home defense (residence) then that's great. Wear it on your person or in the immediate moment keep it near by at hand. When you are no longer planning to be near by and keeping the firearm at hand then either place it on your body or take it in hand and bring it with you, or elsewise lock it up. Simple. This applies be it a handgun or a longgun...regardless of what ever second degree and layer of 'education' your specific child or children might have be they your own or those of a relative.
Not a week goes by where some child does not find within their home a firearm and wind up shooting them self or a sibling if not a visiting friend. And those are just the items that an actual shooting has occurred and to which a media report was made. We'll never know the number of unreported events and close calls that have and do go on daily to this end.
Lock up your guns, if they are not under your direct command and /or in active possessive use _and_ monitor by you or some other adult within the home.
Nobody is advising to put on a lock on your active immediate intent home defense/self defense applicable firearm. Keep that one unlocked as it is in immediate use and lock up the rest as in others if you have more than one.
Stop making excuses and think of your childrens best interests on the whole not in the narrow specific of what if Deebo breaks in to my house and...
- Janq
"Killers who are not deterred by laws against murder are not going to be deterred by laws against guns. " - Robert A. Levy
"A license to carry a concealed weapon does not make you a free-lance policeman." - Florida Div. of Licensing
Stop making excuses and think of your childrens best interests on the whole not in the narrow specific of what if Deebo breaks in to my house and...
- Janq
If Craig can take Deebo mano a mano, I can too ! lol.
I understand what you're saying. When I was a kid my father was away a lot on business, out of the country and for extended periods, we lived in L.A. and had no family nearby,my mom, two little kids, two Dobermans and that's it. BG's then and now seek out and target people in the Jewelry business for home invasions. I was raised in a house with guns, loaded and available, we were taught how to use them, what they could do and to never touch them unless we had to. It worked for us. I prefer education over locks, you don't, to each his own.
@ Craig and Deebo
I very much support education.
I'm a volunteer firearms educator and instructor.
Let me share with you an event that real world happened to me this past Sunday, in my MA Basic Hunters Education class.
We had a family of three show up, amongst many other children with and without parents, including a dad roughly ten years my senior who is an experienced life long hunter and firearms sportsman. He brought along his 15 yr.old daughter and his 12 yr. old son.
He at home has been teaching them about firearms and hunting for years on his own. They finally as children decided that this year they would like to go out and give a tray at hunting turkey. Dad required that they go through a proper education program before doing so and thus they randomly wound up assigned to my crew of instructors.
FFWD through a full day of instruction on Saturday covering in gross details the ten rules of firearms handling, having watched two detailed videos toward proper firearm handling and how accidents in or about them home occur as in specific regard to children with unauthorized use of firearms. More direct conversation with me and their dad on this throughout the day Saturday.
If I had to say any child were squared away and a sure bet to be safe persons it would have been to my own mind these two. I told the father that too to his face in front of his children. He was and is doing what is IMHO an _excellent_ job as based on results I'd seen and heard from his students mouths. Total class time was just inside 9 hrs. We are state mandated to provide a minimum of 12 hrs. instruction though most often our classes are 14 to 16 hrs. in total duration.
Sunday comes along and we in the morning watch yet another DVD video to refresh student memories as to safety and proper handling of firearms be they at home, at a range, or in the field traversing ground (not actively hunting), or in the active action of hunting be it sitting in a tree stand or as in pursuit on foot stalking game.
This family choose both days to sit up front in the very first row of seats. They missed nothing at all and were attentive. Other instructors noted same as I did and amongst ourselves we all were very excited about this family in specific. Exactly the kind of children and parenting we want to see as in relation to our passion.
After the movie we split the class into thirds to cover three hands on areas of instruction.
1) Firearms handling and coverage of how the various actions as discussed in class prior actually real world appear as related to handling real firearms and facsimile ammunition. The firearms all are dedicated to instruction and have had their firing pins removed by our on staff professional master gunsmith who is a S&W employee (the whole squad is a S&W factory sponsored team of instructors). The firearms are _always_ checked for safety by two other instructors prior to being brought into the classroom.
Our facsimile ammo are real casings fitted with real projectiles (bullet and shot) that are missing their primer, powder, and wadding as with the shotgun shells. All commercially sourced from Brownells. Also these are checked prior to being brought into class. I checked them myself...individually before and after classroom use some 50 something rounds by hand.
So the family happened to be seated at table one and started with station one covering the actions of a firearm as well as the many various and proper ways of handling a firearm when in relation to other persons amongst your 360 degree on the horizontal surroundings.
Second station they hit was 'Zones of Fire' where they used Crossman BB rifles converted by Crossman to be non-functional to fire a projectile and instead project a red laser beam upon trigger press.
The third and final station was my own in which I covered the various methods toward traversing uneven ground and in doing so negotiating barriers such as a fence (we have a real fence section built for this demo) or some other land hazard interference.
After showing them the right way to negotiate the fence and exchange a firearm with ones hunting partner I ask for a student volunteer to demonstrate and repeat same with me directly.
The teen girl from this family steps forward immediately. I'm inside so jazzed for these kids and their dad who is my hero type dad as pro-2A fathers go.
I transfer possession of my demo firearm, Crossman laser rifle, to the girl and do so slowly so as to show her and the students watching the _proper_ way to do so. She takes receipt of the rifle and there after acknowledges receipt to me with a "Thank You" statement exactly as we teach in class. All is going well until...
As I am standing there facing the student crowd at large discussing a secondary item she standing there back to the class suddenly and abruptly turns clock wise toward the class to speak to her brother.
In doing so I in the corner of my eye see that barrel coming around just about ready to sweep on to and cover my chest. Without conscious thought my right arm instantly rises and my right hand catches the foregrip of the rifle and grasps it tight stopping her forward movement.
Silent pause, as the girl then turns to look at me and I can see her face flushing bright red. She says that she thought she heard her brother saying something to her and she only wanted to turn to see what he said and ___"forgot"___ about the gun being in her hand and the barrels location, which prior had been safe and now was not going to be. She apologized right there and before I could get a word out I swear I thought she was going to start crying.
I told her it was okay. This is the time to make mistakes and errors rather than when in the field, at a range or at home.
I then made use of that immediate instance to address the class and state it takes just a momentary lapse of thinking like that to wind up in the newspaper reported as an 'accident'. Which is why when it comes to firearms we must always have on our thinking caps be we around them or in manual possession of one.
We continued the session and afterward I talked to the girl along with her dad and brother listening and reassured her that all was okay this time. But to take that incident as a life lesson to never forget you just cannot afford to "forget". The cost can be a persons life.
The family passed and I did not grade tests as I was proctoring for another student but I was told by a fellow instructor that they all in that family passes with 93 or better. I wish them the absolute best in my heart. Those kids have an awesome dad.
And this is why I say lock up your stuff.
Education is excellent and IMHO necessary. But it cannot be absolutely depended on, with children. It just can not. Not even with super parents and wholesome good kids. Not 100% of the time for all in all instances.
Education is a layer to build up a foundation. The foundation though being what is 100% sure to prevent instances like this from occurring and that is a firearm being either stored and locked in a proper and durable metal safe (not a wood and glass cabinet or on a wooden rack) or if left out at a minimum the actions kept open the firearm cable locked through the action so as to make it impossible to load the firearm, close it's action, and/or discharge a shot.
I hand these cables out to every class but this last one and that was only because I could not get enough locks in time for class from the NSSF.
I don't mean nor intend to be persnickety or a jerk about this.
I just want people in general and children in specific to be safe within their home or at that of their neighbors, friends, and relatives considering that per the NRA itself one in three US residences has at least one firearm in it. One in three!
Clearly as based on children being shot results alone education is not enough in a functional way never mind all of the millions of parents out there with guns who for what ever personal reason or issue will not them self take the time to be 'educated' never mind send them self and their kid to some person like me to be come properly educated and trained in same and much more. Which BTW like a cable lock is also available for free if only one takes the time to ask.
- Janq
"Killers who are not deterred by laws against murder are not going to be deterred by laws against guns. " - Robert A. Levy
"A license to carry a concealed weapon does not make you a free-lance policeman." - Florida Div. of Licensing
Ok Janq, you convinced me. If I ever have kids again I'll lock up whatever I'm not carrying at the time. Better safe than sorry.
I have just one thing to say,
There should NEVER be a "forgotten" gun, loaded OR unloaded. I say this in general whether a child is there or not.
A woman must not depend on protection by men. A woman must learn to protect herself.
Susan B. Anthony
A armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one has to back it up with his life.
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By lap 6, Humblet had established a four-length advantage over Johnson, who had his hands full with a challenge from Balluzzo. As the second-place battle raged, Humblet steadily added to his margin. Coming around to complete lap 15, the lead had grown to almost half a straightaway.
The second caution flag flew on lap 17 when Eric McPherson, Jack Sharkey and Donnie Holston spun in Turn 3. Bunching for the ensuing restart, Balluzzo opted for the outside lane, joined by Darrell Vance.
Back under green, Balluzzo remained on Humblet's flank until the reached the backstretch. Heading toward Turn 3, Humblet surged ahead, while Balluzzo dropped into second. Vance, meanwhile, enjoyed a brief stay in fifth before Lawrence reclaimed the position.
At the halfway mark, Humblet was up by five lengths over Balluzzo, who had distanced himself from third-place Johnson.
The third caution flag appeared on lap 33 when the leader's son, Chris Humblet, spun in Turn 3. As the field gathered for a restart, Johnson went to the high side, followed by Taylor Sarkees and Holston.
As the race resumed, Humblet gained the clear-cut edge on Johnson in Turn 2. Johnson, though, did manage to slip into line ahead of Balluzzo, retaking second. He was no match for the leader, however. Within 10 laps, Humblet's advantage had swelled to nearly half a straightaway.
The last of the race's four yellow flags was unfurled on lap 44 when Chris Humblet smacked the backstretch wall. Preparing for what would turn out to be the final restart, Johnson gave up his second spot in line and pulled to the outside of Humblet. Vance and Holston followed his cue and also motored up toward the front.
Returning to green, Humblet sped ahead of Johnson in Turns 1 and 2. Johnson fought off Balluzzo for second, then set off after the leader as the laps began to wind down. He couldn't keep pace with Humblet, though, as the longtime Langley veteran eased away.
At the finish, Humblet was the winner by 0.873-second — about four car-lengths — over Johnson. Balluzzo was third, while Harrell and Lawrence completed the top five. Jon Largena led the rookie contingent with a sixth-place outing, followed by Vance, Sarkees and Holston. They were all on the lead lap. Chris Humblet was credited with 10th.
Rolling into Victory Lane after his first win of the young season, Humblet could barely contain his excitement: "Oh, it's outstanding. We worked super-hard this week to get everything fast. The car handled like a dream."
Asked about a potential title run in 2014, Humblet noted, "We're here just to run and try to win races. Championships happen. If you try to get 'em, they'll bite you in the rear end."
In the evening's other feature events:
Mark Frye picked up his fourth and fifth wins of the season as he swept the Twin 20s for the Pepsi Grand Stocks.
Frye claimed the pole for the opening event, qualifying at 80.439 mph. On the start, he beat front-row colleague Ritchie German to Turn 1 to take the early lead. Caught on the outside, German also gave way to Rodney Boyd and Mark Claar before finding a place in line.
On lap 4, German began to march back toward the front, ducking underneath Claar in Turn 2. Claar was ahead by a nose at the stripe, but surrendered third to German on lap 5. By lap 10, he was parked on Boyd's rear bumper. Meanwhile, Frye nursed a two-length lead.
Frye's prospects got a boost on lap 13 when Boyd and German tangled briefly in Turn 2, stacking up the rest of the field. Boyd held onto second, while Claar slipped past German for third. The scuffle allowed Frye to pad his lead to a full straightaway.
A lap later, Claar scooted past Boyd through Turns 3 and 4 to take over the runner-up position. He left the door open for German, who moved up to third, and Jamie Sample, who grabbed fourth. Tommy Sweeney also bypassed Boyd to make a short-lived appearance in the top five. Boyd rallied on lap 19, though, and retook the spot.
At the checkers, Frye was the winner of the caution-free event by 2.477 seconds over Claar. German, Sample and Boyd were third, fourth and fifth, in that order.
After winning the opener, Frye also started from the pole in the nightcap. Claar was the outside pole-sitter and nosed ahead to lead the first lap.
On lap 2, Frye regained the top spot and left Claar to tussle with German for the runner-up position. Claar quickly secured second, then set his sights on Frye, who was a couple of car-lengths ahead.
Frye maintained his two-length edge past the halfway mark, leading up to the only caution flag, which waved on lap 12 when Kevin Morgan's engine erupted in a cloud of white smoke.
On the ensuing restart, Andrew Condrey was the only driver to pick the outside lane. Coming to the green flag, Claar forced his way to the inside of Frye, making it three-wide as the field headed for Turn 1. Claar came away in first place, but drew an immediate black flag for jumping the restart.
On lap 14, Claar finally slowed in Turn 4, handing the top spot back to Frye. After the rest of the pack had passed him by, Claar dashed down the pit lane on lap 16 for a pass-through penalty.
At the finish, Frye was the winner by 0.550-second over German. Boyd was third, followed by Michael Waters and Sweeney. After challenging for the win, Claar ended up eighth, the final driver on the lead lap.
The Butterfoss & Barton Orthodontics Super Streets also ran Twin 20s on Saturday night with Randy Akers and Sammy Gaita each picking up a victory.
Akers was the pole-sitter for the first race, at 75.962 mph, and led all 20 circuits to post his second win of the campaign.
Gaita started third and slipped past Landon Abbott on lap 2 to take over the second spot. For the first 16 laps, he never fell more than a couple car-lengths behind the leader.
The only caution flag appeared on lap 17 when John Pereira ground to a halt on the backstretch. Lining up for the restart, third-place Renno Marchetti IV broke ranks and pulled alongside Akers. Bill Eaker and Jason Michaud joined Marchetti in the outside lane.
Back under green, Akers quickly dispensed with Marchetti and left the inside groove open for Gaita, who ducked underneath Marchetti's #01 machine. The two went door-to-door until they reached Turn 4. Exiting the corner, Abbott tried to join the mix and caused a momentary jumble. Gaita hung onto the second spot and drove away as the scramble continued in his mirror.
While his pursuers jousted in his mirror, Akers cruised away from the pack, winning by 1.020 seconds — about five lengths. Gaita was second, while Sean Calway, Abbott and Marty Tice emerged in third, fourth and fifth, respectively. Amidst a swarm of cars battling for third on the last lap, Marchetti spun in Turn 2 and would up 10th.
Akers and Gaita shared the front row for the start of the second race and Gaita got the drop on Akers, roaring ahead as the green flag waved to take the lead into Turn 1. Akers settled into second, followed by Abbott, Calway and Tice.
The only caution flag appeared on lap 7 when Michaud spun in Turn 2. Bunching for the restart, fourth-place Calway, sixth-place Eaker and ninth-place Rod Busitzky headed for the outside lane.
As the race resumed, Gaita cleared Calway in Turn 2. Calway dropped into second, just ahead of Akers and Eaker, who were side-by-side for third. Akers won that battle and brought Abbott along with him, to fourth. Marchetti was also on the move, cracking the top five on lap 9.
On lap 13, Marchetti swiped fourth from Abbott and quickly closed in on Akers, snagging third place on lap 17.
At the head of the field, Gaita had checked out on the field, stretching his lead to better than half a straightaway. His winning margin at the finish was 2.919 seconds. Calway was second, nipping the hard-charging Marchetti at the stripe. Akers tailed the lead trio to the checkers, in fourth, followed by Abbott.
In a 30-lapper for the KeesVacations.com Pro Sixes, Landon Florian moved out front on lap 20 and showed the way to his second victory, surviving a brief scare at the finish.
Steve Williams earned the pole position, at 84.367 mph, and grabbed the lead from outside pole-sitter Travis Wall in Turn 2 on the opening lap. Florian, who started third, slipped underneath Wall and the two went door-to-door until lap 5 when Florian gained the clear-cut edge. In the meantime, Williams had opened a four-length lead.
By lap 11, Florian had closed to within a single car-length of Williams' rear bumper. As he surveyed the situation, Wall and Bobby Hall moved up to join the lead battle. The front four was nose-to-tail at the crossed flags.
On lap 18, Florian took a run to the inside of Williams at the end of the frontstretch, but came up empty. And, the same move on lap 19 yielded similar results.
On lap 20, Florian waited until the end of the backstretch to launch his next bid. This time, he was successful, motoring ahead off the fourth corner. Behind the lead duo, Wall skittered wide in Turn 4 and lost third to Hall.
By lap 23, Florian had fashioned a three-length advantage over Williams. Slower traffic loomed ahead, though. He eased past Debbie Biesecker on lap 27 and Williams closed the gap to a single car-length.
Working off Turn 4 on the white-flag circuit, Florian ran up behind Maddy Mulligan. He started to bypass her on the outside, but she began to drift up into his intended path. Quickly switching lanes, Florian ducked to the inside and sailed on to the checkers, holding Williams at bay.
At the finish, Florian eked out a 0.237-second win over Williams. Hall was third, followed by Wall and Jordan Wood.
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PI Industries posted decent quarter with 9.8% growth in sales for the quarter and 38.6% for FY14. Post adjusting one-time expenses (impairment of fixed assets and provisioning for bad debts and slow moving inventory amounting to around Rs 11 cr) EBITDA margins have improved by ~460 bps yoy to 17.1% on back of favorable product mix. Management has indicated sales growth of 25% for next two years with stable margins.
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- PI Industries has strong balance sheet with less than 0.12x Debt: Equity ratio. Backed by strong cash generation, the company plans to invest Rs 150 cr each for next two years, to enhance the capacities at its Jambusar plant.
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We believe that with macro factors like low per-capita pesticides consumption in the country, increasing MSPs and increasing acceptance for the need of crop protection products, make PI Industries a good long term bet while healthy order book of CSM, strong balance sheet and new product launches in Agri Input segment will drive near to medium term growth. We continue to maintain our positive stance on the stock. We are introducing FY16E numbers and rolling forward our multiple to FY16. We recommend to HOLD the stock for the price target of Rs 347 (16x on FY16E EPS)
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