29Dec04

Stock gear:

A number of comments from my last posting indicated that ambi-safety levers

on AR-15s are more popular and more well thought of than I realized.

Customizing any piece of emergency equipment to suite one's own tast es and circumstances with after-market accessories may sometimes have its merits, b ut we should all, nonetheless, be comfortable and competent with stock gear. When your next emergency falls upon you like a tsunami, who knows what weap on you'll get to use? If it is your own, that will be wonderful, but it may well be the first one your desperate hands find, and, in that case, it will

probably be a stock piece, right from the factory.

Convincing yourself that victory is impossible unless you have everything exactly your way is a foolish exercise in self-deception. We should always l ook for a way to win, not for a plausible apology for failure.

Lesson: "Horum omnium fortssimi sunt Belgae, proptersa quod a cultu atque humanitate provincial absunt."

("The bravest of the Gauls are Belgians, because they are furthest a way from the 'blessings' of civilization.")

/John