My mother suffered from a lack of self-control and nearly killed my father by using a salt shaker to batter him in the back of the head. Domestic Battery is not a laughing matter.
I fail to see the humor in it.
Prior to WW2, the "season" was observed in a far more reverent fashion. after the service members came home, the commercialism expanded at an exponential rate. (We had to get the peacetime economy back on track.) I understand all of this.
After decades of reading/sociological study of how the...
The new High-Power is in name only. I bought my Bersa and Girsan for a darned sight less than the SA-35. This isn't anything wrong with the SA-35 that a little tinkering won't solve, but it is mighty expensive for what you get.
If I could afford to drive south to Mexico for my birthday, I would enjoy it far more than listening to the droning of the seasonal tunes/carols that evaporate long before the Epiphany (January 6th.)
How empty can it get?
Since Jesus want born on December 25th, I can't, in good conscience, bother to expend either time or money to celebrate what has become a commercial (read: pagan) festivity. (And before you ask, I am a Christian.)
Heck, I have a Bersa TPR9... AND LOVE IT! (I just wish it was a TPR9X (with the 5" barrel.) It shoots exceedingly well and would be/is a devastatingly effective 9mm on the streets.