Phil1111

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.

So the deadly combination of a deteriorated mental condition and guns has struck SC and DZ. Everything that Billy worked and dreamed of in 1/2 a century is now gone. Without doubt he faced challenges in his life and thought he could control the darker thoughts in his mind. But in the end he could not. In the space of a minute or two he faced a monster from within. The result was his whole beautiful family was destroyed. When he finally called out for help it was too late. He realized what he and he alone had done to his family. That agonizing realization was too much for his mind to deal with. In the absence of a gun perhaps some sort of physical altercation would have resulted. Perhaps a verbal showdown that ended in divorce. Nobody knows of such possibilities. Very sad.

Here I thought this was about the baptists. Who maintained a database about sexual predators within their church. Which they kept hidden. Then the vilified and attacked victims. All while doing this over two decades. "a few senior leaders on the church's executive committee as having control over its response to the reports of abuse and of being "singularly focused on avoiding liability for the SBC". These officials reportedly "protected or even supported alleged abusers", the report says. Calls and emails from survivors or other concerned Southern Baptists would be "ignored, disbelieved, or met with the constant refrain that the SBC could take no action" because of how the church functions, the report states. The document also discloses for the first time that the executive committee maintained a list of its ministers who were facing abuse allegations but - in spite of calls for a public database - kept its findings secret." Ho hum, more corruption in a religious group that seeks power. As the largest evangelical group in the US who endorsed, supported trump. It debates CRT at every convention as if they can't decide if racism is acceptable.

Yes. Macron started campaigning almost-as as an afterthought. He was the first president to win re-election in two decades. In addition turnout was almost at historic lows. So the motivated right had every opportunity to turnout win. Macron won with over 58% of the vote.

$1.90 a liter in Canada for the cheapest make of self serve. It comes out of the ground but 50km away and is refined here as well. US Presidential imperialism is impressive. Inflation is at a 30 year high. But nobody is blaming Biden. Nobody blaming the prime minister. Well the conservative leadership candidates maybe. But grocery, foreign cars, etc. have nothing to do with him.

March 10,2022 PEW Research "Both parties have grown more ideologically cohesive. There are now only about two dozen moderate Democrats and Republicans left on Capitol Hill, versus more than 160 in 1971-72." I like PEW research because its accurate, independent and through. I don't think its so much about which side is "nastier". As it is the extremes that don't take prisoners and don't compromise.