Phil1111

Midterms in America: In Alabama, Gov. Kay Ivey unpacked lipstick, an iPhone and something else from her purse in one campaign advertisement — “a little Smith & Wesson .38,” she said. A Republican candidate for governor in Georgia declared in a different spot, “I believe in Jesus, guns and babies.”

So do you shoot 300 Blackout or what are they chambered in? I've owned several Ar-15s, Hk-91s. My Diebold Nixdorf walk in gun safe is 7' x 6' x 5' inside dimension, and weighs 6 tons.I bought my first handgun likely before you were born(1974). I know what I'm talking about. Perhaps you should proof your posts before you put them up. Because incomplete sentences and undeveloped paragraphs. Come across as though attention issues are at play. Your continual claims about the ignorance and assumptions of others here. Also comes across as having to continually defend some sort of personal identity issues. Do you own a shooting facility that uses NV and thermal scopes to hunt pigs at night for paying customers?

I have no doubt that Brent would pass background checks. I have no reservations about him playing with Ar-15s. Alex comes across as impulsive. But background checks involve demonstrated mental instability or uncontrolled aggression. Outside America for a hunter to show up at a hunting camp to start a discussion and debate. That a .22 caliber semi auto like a Ar-15 is a good hunting weapon. Would label themself as either a novice or ignorant. They would most likely be shunned. A core component for a hunter is respect and consideration for what your hunting. To dispatch a game animal quickly so it doesn't suffer. The .223 caliber bullet which weighs 50-60 grains( 3.2 to 3.9 grams). Is almost insignificant to the average hunting bullet. Which is about .30 cal and 180 grains. A conviction for road rage and assault on a police offer. Would preclude a firearms license in almost every country. America excepted. "The U.S. is experiencing a huge number of road rage incidents.... In 2021, 45 people were wounded and 11 were killed in road rage shootings — in Dallas alone. Across the country, last year was one of the worst years on record for these kinds of deadly outbursts.This psychology intensifies when an individual is already prone to anger. There’s plenty of research that shows that people with a high, long-standing disposition toward anger have an inclination to view others’ bad driving behaviors as intentionally aggressive, viewing the other driver as a malicious perpetrator. These expressions of road rage are usually not the first time these individuals have committed an aggressive act. Antagonists may view the roads as their territory and lack the ability to control their temper. They also tend to be male. Obviously, driving under the influence of alcohol or cannabis increases the odds of aggressive driving."

Agree. There is a chasm of thought in America alone. White males like Brent and Alex think only of themselves.And its exclusively white males. If the constitution and their upbringing codified drunkenness. They would be drunk 24/7. Its not as if they are banned from shooting sports or hunting. But that their American and personal identity puts guns as a core component as to who they are. They refuse to admit that. Personal protection, constitution, rights, etc. are all just the memes that they are brought up with. The country, "America" is just a phrase. Even for someone like Brent that has served in the military. Its not about what is best for the country. Best to make America the greatest and best. To protect the weak, young and vurnable in America. Its I must have my Glock and my Ar-15. Its sad.

Only in the minds of republicans. For anyone else it represents responsibility. Something that republicans give lip service to. But never actually hold as a core value.

The motion to cycle a bolt, pump, or lever action should not distract anyone. Either from having to remove your eyes from the target/scope. Or from the target. Other shooters should not distract a shooter from cambering rounds in their own weapon..Certainly no shooters cycle the actions of others. In any event IMO you're making fallacious arguments predisposed to the AR.. Where other rifle styles and actions would work just as well. In countries where semi-autos are discouraged. This is how its done.

A hunter with practice can use a bolt rifle with a 3-4 round capacity magazine. In most hunting situations. To take as much game as is allowed by law. Hunting wild pigs excepted where there are no limits. I like Ar-15s and they are fun to shoot. The problem with them is high capacity mags. Which allow pretty much anyone to engage many, many targets The .223 is low recoil so its easy for beginners to shoot. Thats two reasons why these 18 year old deranged gunmen often choose them. Why they are so successful in their deranged missions of homicide. For those that like to go to the range and engage in shooting games with other shooters. You can absolutely have as much fun with bolt, pump, o/u, lever action guns as you can with a AR type semi-auto. Sometimes more. Most shooting competitions, courses of fire,are designed for reloads/mag changes As far as a self defense handgun goes many compact semi-autos come standard with 10 round mags. As they are more compact and easier to carry. Those who argue that 15-17 round or higher capacity mags are necessary for self defense need to practice more. Perhaps you're not phrasing your thoughts carefully. But low light conditions should have no effect on your ability to cycle or manipulate your firearm to chamber more rounds. Please explain the reasons why physically cycling rounds into the chamber of your rifle individually is unsafe? Semi-auto weapons are statistically more dangerous than any weapon where the round is individually chambered by a separate physical action. In other news "Just days before the recent mass shootings in Texas and New York, both committed by 18-year-olds, a federal appeals court struck down a California law that banned the sale of some semiautomatic weapons to people under 21."

Or,... in retrospect,.... I've been wrong before.

There are lots of responsible gun owners in the US and Alex is likely one of them. BIGUN is the only pro-gun advocate that ever suggested compromises in ownership laws. At least as far as this forum is concerned that I've noticed. The problem arises from the hundreds of millions of them. Combined with the easy access to them that criminals, children and the deranged seem to have. Then make use of. This shooting will unfortunately drive more gun sales not less. A small percentage of those sales will kill more innocent Americans. Because a percentage of all legal sales always ends up in the hands of the aforementioned criminals, children and the deranged. A refusal to compromise is why in part I believe there is no hope for change.

Its great that you think about the poor. thanks. The US gas average is $1.24 a liter. Here are the world prices. All in US prices. Norway is $2.58 a liter 69% of Norway's oil production is exported, 1.2 million barres a day. Norway's sovereign wealth fund earned $177 billion in interest last year. It represents the investment from oil sales and sits at $1.2 trillion. In 2020 more than 70 percent of all cars sold in Norway were electric ones. I don't understand why Norway isn't in permanent recession.

Russia's version of Tom Cruise. A drunken, showboating, history. Killing Ukrainian civilians for post retirement fun. So yeah.

Russia just lost another general killed in combat. Kanamat Botashev, Russia's Highest Ranking Airforce Commander Killed "On Sunday, May 22, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said a Russian Sukhoi (SU-25) attack aircraft was shot down over the Luhansk region and that the pilot did not have time to eject.... the 63-year-old retired general ended up piloting a Su-25 in Ukraine is unknown, although former subordinates told the BBC that he "simply could not stay away."...he was dismissed from the military in 2013 when he was accused of crashing an Su-27 fighter near the city of Petrozavodsk, which he did not have permission to fly." Other reports on the Su-27 crash are to the effect that he was drunk and not qualified to fly the Su-27. That he performed a couple aerobatic maneuvers before crashing. He was court marshaled for the offenses. Then ordered to retire and pay $5 million rubles for the loss of the A/C. He was reportedly shot down by a stinger SAM.

Its a sick competition. "The F.B.I. released alarming data showing a rapidly escalating pattern of public shootings in the United States on Monday, one day before the massacre in Uvalde, Texas. The bureau identified 61 “active shooter” attacks in 2021 that killed 103 people and injured 130 others. That was the highest annual total since 2017 when 143 people were killed, and hundreds more were wounded, numbers inflated by the sniper attack on the Las Vegas Strip in October of that year. The 2021 total represented a 52 percent increase from the tally of such shootings in 2020, and a 97 percent increase from 2017, according to the F.B.I.’s Active Shooter Incidents in the United States in 2021 report..... The F.B.I. report identified one particularly chilling trend among active shooters: Officials have noticed an increase in the number who moved from place to place in search of victims, a group the bureau refers to as “roving” shooters...From 1966 to 2019, 77 percent of mass shooters obtained the weapons they used in their crimes through legal purchases, "

Their children live in gated communities. Psychologists expenses covered by expensive private health plans. They have guns but they are mostly used for hunting pheasants on private game preserves in Nebraska. Any other ideas?

On this issue I don't think there is hope for America. The outrage over this shooting will die down just like every other one. The cost of living and the cost of gas will dominate midterms. Gas for the 4x4, guns and a packed SC. I'd call that game, set and match.

You were right.

Well Putin may be doing some crying. Russia launched a new spy satellite The Angara-1 rocket/ payload failed " But embarrassingly, the payload delivered into space is thought to have a significant issue and may even fall straight back down to Earth. Space journalist Anatoly Zak wrote on Twitter: “A classified payload, delivered into orbit in the first launch of the Angara-1 rocket last month, appears to be inactive and will fall back to Earth without manoeuvres.” "The most likely payload is a radar satellite, intended for use by the Russian military, that shares a naming scheme and satellite bus with two 6U CubeSats, MKA-N 1 & 2, which were previously launched on a rideshare mission aboard a Soyuz 2.1a in July of 2017. These satellites were deployed in an orbit slightly different than planned and ultimately failed to establish communications with ground stations." So a new rocket on its first space flight(others suborbital). Failed to deploy a satellite which also failed recently. Since the war started Russia's new Vostochny Cosmodrome has sat vacant. Built at a cost of $10 billion(still unfinished). The Angara-1 rocket/ payload was launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome. Russia lost a UK contract to launch satellites worth $1 billion. Which Space-X picked up. It cancelled its RD-180 contracts and sales. With the exception of the space station has no customers or international flights left. There is always China.

You're right. I read several reports that Ukraine was getting them directly. But none were from credible sources(upon review). Poland just announced however that it's buying six more patriot batteries to add to its existing two. Eight launchers per battery each with four missiles. Together with a phased array radar. Romania has announced a $3.9 billion patriot purchase.

The US is supplying patriot missile systems to Ukraine. Denmark is supplying Harpoon missiles together with land based launchers. Ukraine and other allies are talking more and more about taking back all the "occupiers" advances. Russian troops have now stopped knocking holes in their fuel tanks. Instead they are just refusing to fight in larger and larger numbers.Putin has responded by opening the Russian army to over 40 year olds.

IMO the "very dark location" is where you harm others. When I was about 20 I had to go over to a house to inspect it. The homeowner was supposed to be home. I rang the doorbell then stood and waited on the doorstep. I could see through the windows on either side of the door through to the back of the house. After a minute or so i rang the doorbell a couple more times. Then I noticed a fully clothed woman crawling across the floor, on her belly, pushing a baby in front of her. It took her about a minute to cross the 20 feet or so that I could see. I had no clue what was going on. But after a minute or so I rang the doorbell again At which point the lights went out in the house. After a total of 20 minutes or so i gave up and contacted the party that had dispatched me to the home. Evidently the lady was in the process of having a "nervous breakdown" during that week. My point is we have no idea of the burdens that some carry. We never are so rude as to ask somebody with burns all over their face. WTF their story is. We have some idea what shell shock is for soldiers. But everything in between is somewhat ignored.

Agree. The recent "crash of the China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737 that went down in March in a remote area of Southeast China killing all 132 aboard was caused by human input" Will be examined in minute detail. With of course Chinese government meddling and coverup. Just as the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was. In both these circumstances there were 1st class medical pilots involved. With the associated family, co-worker interviews, examinations, etc. Yet suicide, homicide arising from inexplicable circumstances. Was the psychological issue at hand. Of course there was also the case of Andreas Lubitz for which more information is known. For Lubitz a closer connection to mental health and the outcome can be established. But in all these cases jobs involving physical and psychiatric monitoring of the health of the individual. Did nothing to prevent an intervention.

Well I did read the news story. The comments from everyone who admitted "knowing" the family was shock at the events. Billy killing himself has nothing to do with "facing the consequences". What consequences? His recent posts on guns talked about using guns to defend whats important to him. His family. What you're saying is that psychiatry is bunk. That all minds are rational all the time.Logical.

"the mental disorder defense, is an affirmative defense by excuse in a criminal case, arguing that the defendant is not responsible for their actions due to an episodic or persistent psychiatric disease at the time of the criminal act. This is contrasted with an excuse of provocation, in which the defendant is responsible, but the responsibility is lessened due to a temporary mental state.[1]: 6" I personally would have a very difficult time convicting a mother of a crime who killed her children due to Postpartum psychosis/depression. In the absence of other information/evidence I would not blame Billy whatsoever. Suicide by gun is not uncommon. Without going further in the direction of killing your parents, siblings, family, discussions. IMO the presence of a deadly weapon which requires little action to initiate. Is the gas in the equation. Discussion of mental health is for many a taboo subject. Especially for men. The macho male who can handle any discomfort, any challenge, is the very identity of many men. It defines them as a man.

Agree, this is a raw and painful subject. To interject sanctimonious ideas or statements into a circumstance where there are no positives. Benefits nobody.

Everything you need to know about GOP responsibility and policy about abortion. Discussion over.