Used this as a slide in a security talk I used to give! Says a lot.

The Vietnamese and Afghans could probably tell us a thing or two.

One aspect I don’t think many appreciate is the deterrent effect of private gun ownership. The fascists would have already overrun us were we not armed. Notice the major ICE raids have been in NYC and California? Those are the two places in America with the strictest, and often dumbest, gun laws. Anecdotally, being visibly armed likely saved me two ass beatings in the past year. LOL, one guy was so fucking mad he was shaking, choking himself to be polite.

Most of our military might can’t be brought to bear on civilians. The examples you gave are purpose built to fight another military on their turf. The Air Force isn’t going to deploy fighter jets to put down a riot. And NONE of those things will continue working about a week after civilians pull support.

Nah. Bills don’t appear overnight, been in the works for a minute.

Giant space rocks would like a word.

I was gonna say. You’ll get arrested in 2067.

I can’t do that. :( I’m often wanting a part for a project or just the right thing for, whatever. FFS, I save broken glass for when I need to cut it down to fix something.

I just say, “So, you guys need me in here?”

We need the /s tag around here for even the mildest and most obvious jokes.

No longer working for me on Firefox, Win11. Now what?

It’s for draining your boat. Lacking it will sink your boat.

LOL, read my story below. Tried exactly that, and it worked well enough to get beached. Shenanigans followed.

They ALL do! I have 5 kayaks, 1 giant canoe and a 10’ flat bottom. They all have a drain plug of some sort.

Within seconds of shoving off into the swamp last spring when I noticed the missing plug. Trick here is, the canoe takes a minute to flood and I would have been well away from shore before noticing. Also, the monster LIPO4 battery and trolling motor would have took us to Dave Jone’s locker with the quickness. Can’t imagine how I could have got that gear back, but at least the water’s clear!

Story time!

Drunk dad takes me and my Boxer pup on the lake in our crappy little boat. Great times! Until we stopped for a minute to rescue dog overboard. Then we start sinking, plug’s laying on the deck, and the motor won’t start. Then dad falls out trying to get the dog. At this point we’re up to the fucking gunwales with water. Never saw dad panic before or since, guess he couldn’t swim, but he was flooding the boat trying to scramble back in.

Forgot how I managed, but got it beached on the closest shore. Dad bails of the boat with his cookie tin full of pot, terrified it got wet. It wasn’t, so he rolled a joint.

Boat won’t start because the battery was underwater too long, dead as a sack of hammers. I take his keys and start on the 12-mile walk back to the car. 10-miles of dragging that fucking dog down that country road. Why dragging? Because it got dark and I had trained her to not move when she saw headlights coming. Fuck me. Why 2-miles short? Because dad came driving up!

So many lessons learned that day. #1 was probably: Just walk to the nearest house and ask for help. Fuck me.

(This was in the early 90s, no cell. Dad actually had a car phone, for all the good it did.)

Next time I’ll tell y’all about me and the boys sinking my canoe. That was a great camping trip.

Biblically accurate version.

Don’t feel dumb. Just figured out a couple of years back that hats are useful, often necessary, in the sun. I’m 54.

Young men come up fighting as well. My ex-wife worked in surgery and got punched a few times. Don’t know what I’d be like now, but as a young men, back the hell up from the bed.

I will be there. I will be armed. I will carry a gas mask. I will carry water and medical for my compatriots. I will not start shit. I will fight back if it comes to it.

Fucking weird, isn’t it? Another rant would be about where is all the advertising money coming from?! Imagining being a buyer, I’d have to wonder how well my spend would be profiting.

A couple of decades ago I played around with being a salesman. Top advice was to try this ad, try that ad, compare results. Surely these people are finding revenue from spending on these ads? It just seems impossible to me that there’s profit for all of these cockroaches.

I feel like you weren’t there, in that time and place. Or maybe you were in some weird pocket where OTA wasn’t available? Can’t remember anyone bitching about lack of antennae service. Yeah, it could be sketchy, but I think most of us could drag in ABC, NBC, CBS and PBS.

So sorry, but it’s been a few years. Took a stab at finding it, failed. You’ll find many like discussions here:

https://old.reddit.com/r/liberalgunowners/

I know. Reddit is anathema around here, but there’s a damned fine, and sane, community there.