a can't-agorical imperative

Do you ever get annoyed by characters on teevee holding a pistol sideways to shoot, because that’s more cool than aiming?  Good little article on it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side_grip.  (Maybe we don’t want it to become common knowledge, though; I’d just as soon have hoodlums get their education in such matters from idiotic sources.)

Shooters call the deviation from vertical “cant,” I remember from an article in American Rifleman that I read more than fifty years ago.  Guns were not allowed or even discussed in my house when I was growing up, but a friend’s father was an enthusiastic hunter, and I would read his magazines avidly.  The memorable title of that article was “You Can’t Cant.”

(There’s probably been an article in a home-makers magazine entitled “You Can Can.”  Or was that in Journale Danseuse?)

Joe