Just curious if anyone here who partcipated in the spare magazine thread has rethought it after LA riots.

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I'd be hard-pressed to call what is happening in L.A. a riot or riots, having been through multiple riots and having lived in L.A.

No carry changes from me. An eyebrow raised at some people's reaction to the world, on here and IRL, but no carry habits changed.
 
If/when I carry an auto I carry a spare because I see the mag as the weak link in that chain. I do carry a reload for the 638, but not the NAA. What's the point? I can load and fire my muzzle loader 2-3 times in the time it takes me to reload the NAA.
326MOD10 said:
What makes a protester a "bad guy". You know it is covered under the Constitution and all of that jazz.

Watts was a riot. The destruction after Rodney King was a riot. This sir is no riot.

But I carry a spare magazine as stated above due to malfunctions and the like so your question doesn't apply.
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The constitution does not cover looting, the destruction of public/private property or any of the jazz.
Concert blocks thrown off overpasses, Molotov cocktails thrown a police officers, Motorcycles crashed into police lines.... Guess we have a different definition of riot.
roundgunner said:
We know why they don't happen in small rural towns.
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The town next door Population 2100 (about 3X my town) in the last year has had 2 standoffs with the county sheriffs, 1 yo-yo threatening people with a machete (twice and still not caught), the coin machine at the laundry ripped off the wall, and one very ticked off man ram his truck into the local phone co. office.
I grew up in the same town that I live now. Our door didn't even have a door latch; it was just held closed by friction. People went away from home for hours and left the door open. Not unlocked but open. left the keys in the car day and night. When we built the "new house" it had a real doorknob, mom & dad left the key in the knob so long it corroded in the lock. Still worked just couldn't get the key out. My small town sure aint like that anymore. :(
 
While I agree there has been several criminals at the protest who have committed criminal acts the situation there is far from a riot.

Most of the folks there are peaceful protesters and if you watch a variety of coverage you will see this. I have heard many of the protesters even say to others there to keep things peaceful.

So yes we have a vast difference of opinion of what constitutes a riot. For instance if you watched the press conference from the LA County and City officials today, and ironically FOX didn't bother to cover it, you would have received a pretty good accounting of what is taking place.

A few bad actors does not a riot make.
 
326MOD10 said:
What makes a protester a "bad guy". You know it is covered under the Constitution and all of that jazz.
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I dunno, the fact that they are destroying property, attacking police officers, and burning cars?





326MOD10 said:
Watts was a riot. The destruction after Rodney King was a riot. This sir is no riot.
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What would you call it, then? Certainly not a peaceful protest.
326MOD10 said:
But I carry a spare magazine as stated above due to malfunctions and the like so your question doesn't apply.
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Scattershot look above your post and I believe I have answered your questions.

I am not sure how you quoted me as saying something I didn't but pretty impressive sir.
 
scattershot said:
Quoted verbatim from one of your previous posts.
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Originally your response to my first quote was in quotes as if I said it.

Not sure why so there was either a glitch or you fixed it. Which could explain the large amount of space that is between those quoted areas but not in the next one.

Either way your questions were answered.
 
I don't get out much, so...but I did come across my 2 spare mags yesterday and put them in my pocket, don't know that LA had anything to do with it, but maybe unconsciously it did. However, I have been looking into getting some PPE against tear gas, just in case. I have a bit of asthma, and would not like to have tear gas exposure. Where I live is low risk for a riot, but not "no risk", and I'm kind of a belt and suspender, "be prepared" type, so...
 
scattershot said:
I dunno, the fact that they are destroying property, attacking police officers, and burning cars?

What would you call it, then? Certainly not a peaceful protest.
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NOBODY is saying that any of those acts are legal or justified or anything like that. It is agreed that people who do these things are criminals and rioters and the full weight of the law should be brought down on them like the wrath of a ticked-off deity.

What the folks who are seeing it with their own eyes (and those who are getting their info from a broader set of sources) are saying is that it is not nearly as common, widespread or violent as some in the national media want you to believe - most likely for their own purposes. And at best it is only a pale shadow of the violent riots that have happened before in this exact same city. The mass marches down the street? Not a riot. The speeches and prayer vigils in the parks? Not a riot. The holding hands and singing? Not a riot. And Yes, the yelling at the police and the ICE agents? Not a riot - and ALL of it protected by the US Constitution's First Amendment.

I'll repeat what I posted earlier: Too many folks are losing their ability to differentiate between "protester" and "rioter" - and I fear it is because of nothing more than politics.
 
Have been to LA a number of times.
Have enjoyed all the sights and fun things to do there.
But even back in the day, after 4-5 days there I would get this overwhelming urge to leave!
We would usually load up and just drive to a motel somewhere out in the desert.
One time we were doing that. We stopped and bought sandwich makings. And we were sitting on the side of the highway having ham and cheese.
I looked down into the valley and saw a train coming. Then it looped and went under itself. When I got back to my office at Nellis, Vegas, I asked a Train Nut about it. He got all excited and yelled you saw the Tehachapi loop!
Apparently it kind of a Holy Place to Train enthusiast and I saw it before I knew what it was!
 
No. The odds of one man being able to hold off a mob with 2 magazines when one wasn't enough is exceedingly small.

While I am not going to start carrying a spare magazine I am going to start carrying in places I normally consider safe enough to not carry like my local grocery store. I don't expect any protests there but when things get out of control it emboldens ordinary criminals.
 
biku324 said:
My plan is to stay home Saturday. Every town around me has 'No Kings Day' protests planned at different times. Avoiding large groups of angry people serves me well these days.
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As I recall, the original No Kings Day protests got a bit out of hand and accidentally ended up starting America.
 
I found this website a few hours ago. It's shows most of the planned "protests" around the country.

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I already carry an extra magazine or two . So no change for me.
 
If you are planning on attending then "YES" I would suggest carrying an extra mag or two.
 
I suspect many people will not change their minds until they barely survive something bad.

What's that saying? Something about "Who said they brought too much ammo to this gunfight? " The answer being, "No one ever." Or something like that.

I just hope they get the chance to change their minds afterwards.
 
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