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Bobby_Batronic

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Also incorrect. It’s not a “wish you had it” statement. It’s a “you would absolutely use it” statement.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. How much does playing in kilts effect the spread?
  11. 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.
  12. I see you’ve never set foot on Spirit Airlines. But I do appreciate the attempt at humor.
  13. It’d be pretty sweet if you could select a standard taxi route and it would be drawn for you on the AMM.
  14. Some type it into the scratch pad of the FMS and others write it down. It’s usually company policy to record it somehow. LAX is usually very easy. ORD can be if you’re familiar with the local practices. I wrote it down in the right seat and typed it in the left because I’m right handed, the location of the various transmission keys and the need to keep a hand on the tiller.
  15. I see some Spanish, but that would be expected.
  16. ABC would be on the left side, and if the picture was taken looking towards the tail the letters wold read CBA. In short, while the picture may be real of some bus somewhere with some questionable cosmetic work, it’s not a Spirit Airlines A320 model.
  17. Saw it sitting in FLL and LAX respectively.
  18. That’s not really any kind of secret. Most of our fighter aircraft can get up that high and all of the long range missiles routinely climb that high and higher on their way to the target.
  19. Saving fuel on taxi out. Planes break too.
  20. I just flew with seniority numbers 33 and 52 respectively out of I don’t know? 27,000? 30k? I haven’t bothered to look. Both were in their 70’s, probably buddy bid, actually quite nice and judging by the passenger compliments good at what they were doing. They also moved at a glacial pace in the terminal, and I had to provide a step between the curb and the hotel shuttle for one because she’d couldn’t span the distance without toppling over. I’m not sure what use they’d be in an emergency. Both mentioned their husbands dying and needing something to do. I had a sense that they’d probably be in the grave with ing two years of retirement themselves as this was all they knew. I treated them like a pair of 20 somethings and they seemed to appreciate not being given the old bitty treatment, but goodness. Plenty of charities could use some volunteer help. Probably most making it past 7 years are completely unmarketable on the dating scene for one reason or another and must assume the wandering cat lady lifestyle.
  21. ‘Bout the same time grown men started to take maternity leave so they could LARP breastfeeding.
  22. You can believe that or not. I don’t care. But I’m telling you that scheduling having no idea where people are at isn’t as far fetched as you think it is. I remember an instance where the scheduling for a coworker’s former company called to inform him that he had a trip. He told them he’d be right there. I didn’t make any claims about the meltdown being non weather related.
  23. 1. Yes, they most certainly can. 2. Usually.
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