Ranger514
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So then, you're the guy who'll have a knife at a gunfight...brilliant!
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So then, you're the guy who'll have a knife at a gunfight...brilliant!
Number of confrontations I have resolved with harsh words: four or five.
Number of confrontations I have resolved with firearms: zero.
Just sayin'.
Ranger514
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Guess there's no need to carry a firearm for protection when your mouth is your weapon. If that worked for everyone, we wouldn't need a Second Amendment.
Words without a gun in hand are a big gamble.
“Wasn’t planning on killing anything but fish tonight”, were my words when some drunk kids threw beer cans and a chain at me from a moving car, while I was bridge fishing at Channel 5 decades ago, then stopped their car about 50 feet away from me and came at me.
They hesitated when I shouted those words but did not leave until I raised the M59 that was already in my hand.... the HS 22Mag was in my tackle box.
I had recently switched to a new M59 after a boatload of people washed up on shore and I only had my Colt GM... wasn’t so much the added rounds but flatter shooting and better to damage/loose in a salty slimy environment.
“Wasn’t planning on killing anything but fish tonight”, were my words when some drunk kids threw beer cans and a chain at me from a moving car, while I was bridge fishing at Channel 5 decades ago, then stopped their car about 50 feet away from me and came at me.
They hesitated when I shouted those words but did not leave until I raised the M59 that was already in my hand.... the HS 22Mag was in my tackle box.
I had recently switched to a new M59 after a boatload of people washed up on shore and I only had my Colt GM... wasn’t so much the added rounds but flatter shooting and better to damage/loose in a salty slimy environment.
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Grats on missing the point, guys.
Plain English: The ability to de-escalate situations verbally has been useful to me more times than the gun I was carrying for all but one or two of those situations. Ask any real cop--no two-year reservist wannabe--and you'll find that verbal techniques are used far more frequently than a gun in their profession.
The Second Amendment doesn't protect conceal carry, and has nothing to do with self-defense. Don't tie the thing to any sort of "practical usage", because it invariably results in our rights being weakened:
You: "The Second Amendment is about self defense!"
Them: "Who needs an AR-15 with a threaded barrel and a 30-round magazine for self-defense? Who needs a suppressor for self-defense?"
We have a right to own these things, and there is no reason for us to not enjoy these rights. Plain and simple.
Plain English: The ability to de-escalate situations verbally has been useful to me more times than the gun I was carrying for all but one or two of those situations. Ask any real cop--no two-year reservist wannabe--and you'll find that verbal techniques are used far more frequently than a gun in their profession.
Ranger514 said:
The Second Amendment doesn't protect conceal carry, and has nothing to do with self-defense. Don't tie the thing to any sort of "practical usage", because it invariably results in our rights being weakened:
You: "The Second Amendment is about self defense!"
Them: "Who needs an AR-15 with a threaded barrel and a 30-round magazine for self-defense? Who needs a suppressor for self-defense?"
We have a right to own these things, and there is no reason for us to not enjoy these rights. Plain and simple.
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