In my case, it was writing books and NOBODY helped write them. Publishers, and printers made them available to a wider range of buyers, and the Net helps people find those books to buy. but without me, those books would not be for sale. Almost 600,000 people now know how to make and mount an efficient, durable, compact, lightweight silencer on a .22 because of me. That book sells 20,0000 copies every year and you can bet that for every reader who doesn't build one, there's a reader who builds 4, and shows his buddies how to do it. I show you how to make the brass piloted drill to counterbore the muzzle of the gun's barrel, how to tap into that counterbore to create the female threads, how to mount the threaded adapter in the steel or PVC tubing, how to make the "die set" for making the "donut' baffles. the latter are constructed my cutting a rectangle, about 6"x3" of one layer of copper screenwire. it is folded, annealed with a cheapo propane torch, spindled around a rod, crushed into shape inside of a piston and cylinder sort of handmade "die", using a mallet blow.
A lot of people want a silencer and it has nothing to do with crime. Gun ranges are very noisy, hearing protection is required unless you want severe hearing damage. It would be nice for the people at the range and in the nearby community if the noise could be reduced. Hunters would benefit from a silencer, hunters want to be able to hear their surroundings, but they also don't want to damage their hearing. They either do without hearing protection, protect only one ear, use expensive electronic hearing muffs, or use ear plugs. None are good solutions. A simple device to reduce the noise from a firearm (not silence it) would be very useful. And military people would love noise reduction on their firearms. If silencers were not so strictly regulated then they would be cheap and available, and a basic one could be on every military rifle. Hearing loss is a major issue in the military. In a combat zone, soldiers choose to have no hearing protection so they can be at 100% to detect the bad guy, but they pay the price with hearing loss. And silencers do not "silence" a firearm, its not like tv. If you have a subsonic bullet (like many 45 cal handguns) a silencer can make the firearm very quiet. If you have a supersonic bullet (such as from most rifles and many handguns) the silencer reduces the sound of the muzzle but does nothing about the sonic boom of the bullet - you aren't going to sneak around assassinating people like on tv. Banning silencers is the result of gun banner paranoia and propaganda. Silencers should be available "over the counter" with no regulation.
People are only interested in the "You didn't build that" part of the speech but refuse to look at that whole speech in context. The bottom-line is to make a successful business happen, it does take a lot of others as well to help. Even in his speech he acknowledged this by saying "If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help." I agree with you, as the owner of the business, without you none of your success would be there. However, with technology, the internet, publishers, warehouses (storing your book somewhere), roads that delivered it, mail etc. you did have help along the way that you did not design yourself. Too many people are so interested in "one-liners" they miss the context.
Not sure what your point is. Seems to be nothing more than a self serving post by someone wants everyone to know.
To appear "tough" - - - Updated - - - BTW, galant.... how long did it take you personally to build the Interstate Highway System that your books were shipped over?
...or the Internet...or the Post Office...or the schools that taught you to write and others to read...
I think people took Obama's words out of context due to the election coming up. HOWEVER, it was insensitive because he gave the government more credit than the people.
Isn't manufacturing suppressors without a license or the correct tax stamp a felony? Is Gallant purposefully aiding and abetting felonious criminals?
It's seems like Obama has a lot of one liners taken out of context. Obama care isn't a tax Obama care is a tax. No one will be exempt for doing their fair share in Obama care. Will not raise taxes even one dime. I won't sign the NDAA Two lone agents Etc etc etc.
That all makes sense. As you point out, silencers don't really silence weapons. You could always call them 'noise suppressors' like some people do. But that doesn't sound as sexy, does it? People like to call them 'silencers' precisely because of the violent mystique of assassination that the word conjures up. Gun culture shoots itself in the foot, once again. - - - Updated - - - Um. I don't want to be rude, here. But. Your writing style indicates to me that you probably did get some help at some stages of the writing. Am I right?
Too often when comparing the compulsory to the voluntary the compulsory is compared to nothing at all rather than what can be or has been done voluntarily. Too often when comparing the compulsory to the voluntary the best intentions of those who do the compulsion are compared to the less-than-best intentions of those resisting compulsion. Too often when comparing the compulsory to the voluntary the best intentions of those do the compulsion are never compared to the less-than-best effects of those intentions. There is absolutely no reason to believe that there would be no voluntary interstate highway system or that it would be inferior to the current, rapidly decaying, compulsory system. The most dangerous people in the world do not see the imposition of their best intentions upon other by force of law as a usurpation of other people's best intentions for themselves; they see it as an alternative to that which is substandard. Progressives like corn captain, islamists, communists and the like are all possessed of the same benevolent arrogance and the same desire to impose their very best intentions upon others by force. In my opinion, such a benevolent arrogance should be reserved to God and the parents of small children.
Your question is flawed - why might someone want a silencer for non-coercive purposes. They're incredibly fun, they're good for use where noise is an issue, they're large and make good paperweights I would imagine. Once we start forcing people to justify themselves to the state, rather than forcing the state to justify their incursion against each individual - society itself has become criminal.
Writing a book is not the same thing as building a building of some sort. And i'm sure you learned the knowledge from someone who taught you it.
It's the height of dishonesty (or depth of ignorance) to attempt to calculate paid for exchanges (including taxation in exchange for government services) as a part of the risk and work it takes to succeed, to call that a form of "help," yet statists do it constantly, here and elsewhere. It is one of the most irrational, vapid and emotional things in a long line of stupid things the left says. The person who "helped you" learn to read in school didn't help you any more than you helped them earn a paycheck with your taxes. Same for police, firemen, vendors, and anyone else who trades goods or services for money. Market exchanges and even fiat services aren't some "helping hand" that people give others gratis, they are PAID FOR. Get that through your pinheads lefties. Sure, there are legitimate forms of help that people get, and NONE OF IT comes from government without a steep price associated. It's like the guy who sold you the tires for your delivery trucks claiming, "hey, your business is doing well, where's my cut for all the help I gave you?" The proper response to that kind of person or anyone else who utters such inanities is "FU very much." "You didn't build that" is an obnoxiously stupid thing to say in or out of context, far worse than "47% aren't going to vote for me anyway," yet we all know which one of those gaffes got TONS of press and which got almost none.
