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Bobby_Batronic

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  1. You wanna keep making my point for me then go right ahead.
  2. For the reason you passively called me insane and broken in the post. We can’t talk to each other. Tribalism rules the day. Someone disagrees with you, and therefore they must be derided and piled on until one group of monkeys asserts dominance over the other on the internet or public forum. It’s a dunk contest where everyone loses. The root causes of that are many, but that’s the rough outline of why nothing will be done on this and numerous other subjects. Know how I know you didn’t read several of my posts?
  3. Do you think that’s revelatory?
  4. You showed me. Virtue signaling on a sports message board will probably save 0 lives in the next year. But you feel good about it sir.
  5. This kind of poo flinging monkey brigade comment is silly and lacks context. Was the comment made when we only had 5 OL on the entire roster? Or when we were one deep at some other position with Johnny Highschool walk on behind them? I seriously doubt I ever suggested that the entire program never tackle in practice. You provide the quote and I’ll eat crow, but I suspect general assholery because its something you tend to revel in.
  6. Yes, because the gun lobby and proponents fight it at every step. They do so because they know that gun control advocates will not stop until they finally get them all. A disarmed society is what they seek as is the case around the rest of the world. It’s not a slippery slope. It’s the end game. It is. But perhaps less stupid than thinking meaningful gun reform will be enacted in our lifetimes. You know it. You just admitted it. So hope in this hand if it makes you feel better. I’d prefer to do what I can with what we can rather than hoping the country summons the national will to do something.
  7. The dead don’t care what killed them, the intent of it’s use or if the act of their death was intentional or an accident. They’re dead. I don’t attribute animus to inanimate objects. Texas requires licensing and registration of cars and still they are killing children at far greater numbers than mass shooters. Do we have a gun problem? Particularly crazy people or criminals getting them too easily? Hell yes we do. If you want to require training and recurrent training for responsible gun owners then that sounds good to me, and most the people who I know who own weapons would be onboard with that. Most are or were weapons instructors at some point in their life.
  8. I’m neither broken or insane. The country is broken. The gun control proponents will not stop until none are left in private hands and the 2A proponents largely aren’t willing to give up anything either. So nothing is going to happen. We’re well beyond the point where one act of violence in a school, church, store or wherever is going to spur national outrage and change. If anything it further deepens the divide. So if nothing is going to happen, and again, I suggest you challenge the sun each morning if you really think it is, I can see only trying to better protect those we care about with what means we have at our disposal.
  9. You stay classy San Diego.
  10. The point that you missed by quite a larger margin was that people would do anything to increase their life expectancy in a life or death circumstance. At no point did I mention day to day activities. Reading comprehension is an art form. Practice it more. But to answer your foolish attempt at parroting a gotcha, no, I do not have or intend to build a nuclear bomb shelter. It is not a life or death situation. It’s a death or death situation where the survivors would face a far more hellish demise than those who experienced a few millisecond of blinding light as Stephen Falken so adeptly noted. My point, vis a vis the 5% was again about life and death situations, and not the daily mundane. But if you’d like to tackle the daily mundane then you would be the biggest retard on this thread if you didn’t admit that you make decisions on a daily basis based on perceived levels of safety that are completely at odds with reality or consistency. Such is life. I never posited not stepping in a car for safety. I said I sometimes think about how I’d react in an accident situation. I believe that was in my first post. Stepping on an airplane is something I do with greater regularity than 99.99% of the populace. I mentioned it in passing several times that aviation training is replete with practicing for things that are statistically unlikely to ever happen in most aviator’s experience let alone the average passenger. Those would be life or death situations btw, and not your basic jaunt to Austin on the 6 AM SWA bird. The poster I was responding to suggested that keeping a weapon in the house increases the likelihood that a child will die of some unfortunate mishap with the gun. He was right, but its no more dangerous that buying a child a car or letting them use yours as far more kids are dying behind the wheel than because of domestic gun accidents. Again, you didn’t read what I posted at all before you got emotional and lost the plot. Setting aside your continued failure to understand what I wrote yet again, I have no need for you to lecture me on why people are passionate about the deaths of children. The topic was concealed carry. I made several posts replying to a snide comment about 5% efficacy of gun owners in shootings. You jumped the shark and somehow applied that to school shootings because emotions.
  11. Yep. You go work as hard as you can to inactbgun control, I’ll go push to harden soft targets like schools, and we can meet back up when none of it happens. And still they kill themselves in others that dwarf those killed in mass shootings. Look, if you want to require firearms training enroute to legal gun ownership then I think most gun supporters would be behind that.
  12. Yes, it does if you’re foolish about securing your weapons. Buying your kid a car is probably more dangerous and yet there is no outcry to ban them.
  13. As I said, you might as well try to stop the sun from rising. The all or nothing solution isn’t happening. I get it. Someone has reached a different conclusion about their personal safety and you feel derision is the best path forward. Whatever. I’m not here for your approval. You are inadvertently making my point. The odds of dying in a plane crash are astronomically low. And yet the pilots practice for emergencies as a matter of course several times a year. And you would demand no less of them. Statistically speaking, they shouldn’t bother.
  14. You can control what you can control and can’t what you can’t. You’re happy rolling the dice one way. I prefer another. I have a doohickey in my car that will break a window or cut a seatbelt. I’ll probably never use it. It’s there for all the possibilities I can’t see coming. Not the ones I do.
  15. Also incorrect. It’s not a “wish you had it” statement. It’s a “you would absolutely use it” statement.
  16. You’re not following. It’s a life and death situation. Doesn’t matter if it’s gun play, house fire, auto accident, plane crash or whatever. In the heat of the moment every last one of us would agree to use the option that gives us a 5% better chance of surviving. Or protecting our loved ones. It’s easy to say that you wouldn’t because of strong beliefs on a subject, but that’s just not how it works.
  17. The quoted OP suggested that conceal carry guys with guns are only effective 5% of the time. We’d all take that extra 5 % of margin when the chips are down and our life is on the line. I agree, parents would want that margin for their killed kids too. It’s not CHL people committing these atrocities so taking the guns away isn’t a direct correlation, those who carry often have them for their children too and one has to ask if fewer people would have died if one of the adults slain in Nashville had any means at all to protect themselves or their students. Unfortunately, it’s not a one to one transaction where if x then y, and we can quantify the possibilities definitively.
  18. I would suspect that the NPD probably regularly practiced such exercises and was funded to o so whereas UPD did not and was not. It does not excuse the cowardice of letting children die in safety.
  19. When do you know if your life is in the bargain of losing your possessions? I agree, all the extra fuckery that goes along with gun ownership probably wouldn’t be worth it if the exchange was your TV and then you call the police. That’s an unknown quantity. Each of us reaches a different conclusion about that. Some don’t consider it at all.
  20. Every last person on this forum would quickly opt for the extra 5% chance of survival when faced with their imminent death. Ardent 2A, gun control, religious or not wouldn’t matter. The hind brain will take over and everyone will choose anything that extends life. It’s why so many are oddly acquiescent when they are clearly being walked over to their certain execution. Anything for a few more moments of being. None of us would begrudge a solider about to charge an objective wearing some piece of equipment that upped their odds of survival by any percentage. And yet we begrudge some for doing the same in the unlikely event of a self defense situation. It’s silly.
  21. It’s fascinating seeing the idea that people carry or have weapons in their homes because they are scared of their shadows in a thread spurred on by a mass shooting at a Christian school in what is probably a reasonably affluent part of Nashville. Is that a place that most people should be scared of their shadow? Or say a Walmart in El Paso? Or elementary school in Uvalde? Or church in wherever? Snide, bible beating, deep sticks cousin fuckery comments aside, are those really places the average person would consider to be dangerous to the point of needing a weapon? And yet they were. The “just get rid of the guns” idea is nice, but isn’t happening anymore than the just get rid of the drugs, alcohol or insert whatever here is. That cow is out of the barn, those comments will be made and I encourage the commenters to challenge the sunrise to stop each morning because it’s probably more likely whether you believe in ardent gun control or not. So if a person wants to train and carry as insurance against a crazy world then so what? We don’t have an epidemic of CHL owners shooting people. Quite the contrary. And most of them, despite fantasies built up in some people’s heads about concealed carry owners wanting to play hero, are looking to avoid the fight at all costs. To the point that they’ve thought about where the exits are in a restaurant or told their kids what to do if someone is in their house at night. I see that as no different than having a family plan for a house fire and drilling it occasionally or thinking about what to do in a car accident or whatever. I train all the time for emergencies and life saving procedures at work for something that statistically is less likely than winning the lotto or attracting lightening to my DeLorean. Statistically speaking I shouldn’t even bother. It’s not going to happen. And yet it’s done religiously in case it does happen so that myself and others have a chance in case of the nearly improbable. Responsible carry is no different in my opinion. If you think you’d be tempted to use the weapon in a fight or disagreement or in a fit of road rage or whatnot then you don’t have the makeup to carry the thing and shouldn’t. That’s not how a responsible carry person thinks. The decision of when to use a gun and whether to kill with it was made long before any scenario plays out. And the answer to that question doesn’t involve some social media spat playing out in real life or or living out some call of duty or rainbow 6 fantasy in a public setting. I live in a pretty nice area. I’m not overly concerned about my house being broken into. It hasn’t happened in 20 years of living where I’m at. There are weapons in my house. Anyone breaking into it will be exsanguinated post haste should they try by myself or my wife. Anyone who advertises whether and when they do or don’t carry is unwise in my opinion.
  22. How much does playing in kilts effect the spread?
  23. That’s what I mean. It’s an ultra low cost airline and not a white trash airline. It would be very safe to say that all varieties of of melanin are represented on a given flight and that the white trash segment is far and away the a minority on many of their flights. It is what it is. I hitched a ride home on them the other day. Downloaded some entertainment and enjoyed the lack of pretentiousness in the cabin.
  24. I see you’ve never set foot on Spirit Airlines. But I do appreciate the attempt at humor.
  25. It’d be pretty sweet if you could select a standard taxi route and it would be drawn for you on the AMM.
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