The sunk cost of guns is what people focus on, but you’re dead on with ammo being the overwhelming cost. When I was really into USPSA pistol competition club matches, my ammo usage was roughly 300 rounds per month @ around 21-27 cents each shot, or $100 per month all in.
Not to say you can’t maintain skills and spend far less, but it’s not a cheap pastime. Expect to spend at least $500 for the bare essentials like a used handgun that only leaves the house for range practice, the cost snowballs quickly.
I would hesitate to give universal advice like “just buy a shotgun” or “Glock 19 with a light” because each use case is different - where do you live, what are you seriously expecting to face as threats, do you just want it for the house, do you have reduced mobility/dexterity, etc
They don’t listen. The ‘muh rights’ crowd will finger wag the Crumbley parents or Mrs. Lanza, but then turn around and gift their 6yo a rifle.
All that being said, if someone is looking for a jumping off point or help of where to start, DM me - the gun world is rife with fuddlore bullshit, potential legal peril, and a lot of info that lives in the right wing sphere unfortunately. I waded through it because I enjoy pistol competitions, you don’t have to. Allyship starts with all of us, hmu if you have questions.
I gave this same commentary when all the scared suburban whites ran out and bought guns after seeing the scawy BLM protests - suicides are by far the largest component of deaths via guns annually, I want people to genuinely make a decisions around ownership instead of a fear based reaction today, forget about it next month, and then their kid/relative finds it in the closet a year from now…
Arm up friend if you think it’s right for you ✊
If you, a loved one, or someone you know is seriously thinking about arming up because of recent events, I would HIGHLY recommend this hour long conversation from some of the crew who make Behind the Bastards.
Gun ownership is a serious decision - morally, legally, and an endless commitment that a lot of people don’t take seriously. Foremost you/they need to consider if it’ll be an asset or liability in your life and the community?
- Can you store it safely, read: locked up when not in your hands?
- Are you in a good/stable headspace? I.e. Will this purchase potentially be a threat to you, from yourself?
- Do you have the means to not just buy The Thing, but commit time and money to get and stay proficient so you aren’t a danger/ously incompetent if the big bad does happen?
Training is going to be the hard thing for a lot of people, especially given how the right has captured the culture around guns - there are good apolitical sources of information, but there’s nothing that beats live and dry practice.
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Today I Learned that Mountain Dew was meant to be mixed with whiskey, which apparently tastes kinda like a whiskey sour?
Thanks for the cool history drop friend!
Nah. Even with a the correctly sized bit on a manual screwdriver it’s a pain. One hand drives the tool, the second is playing hand twister trying to ensure perfect axial alignment of the tool:fastener:workpiece interface. Plus it is terrible at ‘holding’ fasteners in place on the bit before insertion, even Phillips heads are okay at that when not magnetized.
Unless you physically cannot fit a more complex head geometry on the fastener because it’s super small, we have better options nowadays.
Ahhh moonshine. Used to know a southern guy, who wanting to get wrecked at parties but being broke, would buy gallon jugs of the stuff from “a guy I know”. Which clearly was pretty potent - once poured into a foam cup over some ice, it would dissolve out the whole bottom of the foam cup before he could put the mixer in.
The “solution” was to put the Mountain Dew in first, so the shine is diluted enough to keep the cup’s integrity while he drank it… I outta check up on him, see how he’s doin’
They’ve got a long pedigree…
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Iirc there’s like two draw towers domestically and they get the OMNI contracts. Not to mention it’s hardly an easy process, I imagine the manufacturing yield is pretty rough when you’re melting and stretching glass bundles while trying to maintain alignment.
There’s a reason why big specks and dark pinholes are ‘acceptable’ in everything but aviation use, the cost skyrockets for flawless optics.
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Not to mention the huge variety of biomes, even excluding Alaska. Having a huge country that’s sparsely and irregularly inhabited helps too.
8 When they asked if there was some group out of the tribes of Israel that had not gone to the gathering at Mizpah, they found out that no one from Jabesh in Gilead had been there; 9 at the roll call of the army no one from Jabesh had responded. 10 So the assembly sent twelve thousand of their bravest men with the orders, “Go and kill everyone in Jabesh, including women and children. 11 Kill all the males, and also every woman who is not a virgin.” 12 They found four hundred young virgins among the people in Jabesh, so they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan. 13 Then the whole assembly sent word to the Benjaminites who were at Rimmon Rock and offered to end the war. 14 The Benjaminites came back, and the other Israelites gave them the young women from Jabesh whom they had not killed.
Emphasis mine.
Funny thing is, I can read old books too. And history shows that we all come from shitty people who murdered, raped, and ethnically cleansed the weak who stood in our way, be it for loot, ‘manifest destiny’, land, religious/racial purity, or just because sometimes.
Just because you’re looking at it from your lens and filter of bias does not make that exclusively true.
I already peg Tesla drivers next to Altimas and Ram 2500s, just different energy
Tesla is for the people who don’t want to drive a car, and their driving aptitude is frequently on full display
Altimas and Ram needs no further explanation, you already know
You’re on tankie bingo speed run - genocide denial, USSR was always right, anything I don’t like is CIA/Nazis, everything is active measures/color revolutions not populist uprising, cynical claims to defend human rights whilst promoting pan-nationalism, aneurism world salad posed as coherent thought, and the classic ‘great evil’ line parroted.
Enjoy your block I’m done attempting a dialogue with you; you’ve dodged basic questions and cherry picked, refuted basic provable facts, and through this brought ZERO citation for any of your bullshit. Not everyone 100% buys the Nord explosion narrative or that there are 0 ultranationalists/neo-nazis in Ukraine, but goddamn you have either swallowed the Kremlin line wholeheartedly or are a sock puppet troll.
Crimeans have the right to not be ruled by nazis that hate them, and to keep their land. Crimea was a gift to Ukraine by Kruchev in late 50s. It doesn't really have a Ukrainian identity
Yes it is majority Russophile/Russian population today, but if you actually care about humanism, you’re not going to like the reason why… it’s another case of the Russian state committing genocide against a minority people who dared assert cultural independence. It was never Khrushchev’s to ‘gift’ after Stalin ravaged the population for geopolitical reasons. It should be for the actual ethnic Crimean, Tartars, etc to decide, not for Russia to cynically abuse as a causus belli for a land grab.
Simply, where "national identity" = WW2 nazi leaders getting national holidays, and imposing apartheid on ethnic Russians, that "aritificially US transformed national identity" is choosing a hateful, unproductive, poking of a bear that is equally smart to all others who have poked a bear for purely whimsical stupidity. Russia's peace terms/red lines have always involved a Ukraine existing independently.
Funny. Because what you claim Russia wanted, existed. And as recently as 1997 signed agreements of mutual peace, affirmed borders (including then semi-autonomous Crimea as part of Ukraine), and confirmed equal rights for all.
Russia cannot seriously claim other nation states as a required ‘neutral buffer’ whilst they themselves seek a return to empire. If the anxiety is truly about foreign invasion, then why wasn’t the border fortified AT ALL before? Finland and Sweden respected that request for neutrality for decades - and Russia proved that political norms, memorandums of understanding, and treaties were worthless - NATO membership is the best bet of territorial integrity against Russia.
If they weren’t doing it to themselves and lashing out against the whole world it might be funny. Instead there’s hundreds of thousands dead, even more wounded and maimed, millions displaced, and the world harmony thrown away - because one former KGB clown refuses to step off his gilded throne atop the carrion.
US intelligence: ‘low confidence’ in part of Israel’s UNRWA claims
Intel report says some accusations that aid workers participated in Hamas attacks credible but could not be independently verified
> A US intelligence assessment of Israel’s claims that UN aid agency staff members participated in the Hamas attack on 7 October said some of the accusations were credible but that the claims of wider links to militant groups could not be independently verified… According to the Wall Street Journal, the intelligence report, released last week, declared it had “low confidence” in the basic claim that a handful of staff had participated in the attack, indicating that it considered the accusations to be credible though it could not independently confirm their veracity. > > It cast doubt, however, on accusations that the UN agency was collaborating with Hamas in a wider way. The Journal said the report mentioned that although the UNRWA does coordinate with Hamas in order to deliver aid and operate in the region, there was a lack of evidence to suggest it partnered with the group. > > It added that Israel has not “shared the raw intelligence behind its assessments with the US”.
Confidence in Assessments, pp 5, per the US’s own National Intelligence Council:
- Low confidence generally means questionable or implausible information was used, the information is too fragmented or poorly corroborated to make solid analytic inferences, or significant concerns or problems with sources existed.
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