I agree with the ‘remain silent’ part, and the gun courses’ teaching. But they teach that as a warning, not an aspiration.
Surely you can see why ‘ending a life’ is a terrible idea to identify as your motivation, and how adopting it as a primary mindset can introduce other possible lapses in judgement and indirect evidence that will ultimately come back to haunt an otherwise justified defensive use of fire.
EDIT to add the fact that developing a (hyper)focus on ‘killing the enemy’ can also hurt operations in a military setting, both on a macro level (Vietnam ‘success’ metrics) as well as a platoon or squad level, where soldiers and leaders often fall into a ‘there’s the enemy, git ‘em!’ mentality that overcomes their detached professional focus on achieving tactical mission objectives, and drives them to make uneccessary maneuvers that result in increased casualties.
Surely you can see why ‘ending a life’ is a terrible idea to identify as your motivation, and how adopting it as a primary mindset can introduce other possible lapses in judgement and indirect evidence that will ultimately come back to haunt an otherwise justified defensive use of fire.
This is why drawing a weapon should be a last resort, not the first. You de-escalate as much as you can.
However, when you have a 100 people trying to mob you and beat you up, and because of so many people, the possiblity of you losing your life is guaranteed, you make the judgement call.
Which takes you right back to fearing for your life and acting to stop the threat.
I feel like we’d be the type to get into loud fights about what type of gun oil is best at different barometric pressures, but I’d happily carry an ammobox for you.
I'd rather have loud fights about what gun oil to use than whatever the fuck the loonie left is doing. I feel like this is a tomato tomahto argument we're having.
What I’d really like to see is some level of ‘official’ legal protection for citizens to defend themselves and their public spaces.
Right now one side is running wild, violent, and out of control, and the other side gets the book thrown at them if they even cast a sideways glance in the wrong direction.
20 years of mid-east war prove you can’t win a ‘stand-up fight’ against a determined and lawless enemy with your shoelaces tied together and ‘shiny buttons’ your primary concern — at best you lose slowly.
At some point conservatives will act. It won’t be pretty or fun for anyone, it will be a messy field amputation without anesthetic, but if it’s not lawfully accomplished, it will be a long, long and dark affair.
Barr and Trump are pretty much our last chance to get it done lawfully, or we’ll be 3 years fashionably late arrivals into a Marxist/Islamic overthrow block party, and a bunch of severely ‘irregular’ militias and extremists will be the defacto opposition leadership.
(If you think this post condones any form of ‘vigilantism’ or violence, read it again — it expressly does NOT)
I agree with the ‘remain silent’ part, and the gun courses’ teaching. But they teach that as a warning, not an aspiration.
Surely you can see why ‘ending a life’ is a terrible idea to identify as your motivation, and how adopting it as a primary mindset can introduce other possible lapses in judgement and indirect evidence that will ultimately come back to haunt an otherwise justified defensive use of fire.
EDIT to add the fact that developing a (hyper)focus on ‘killing the enemy’ can also hurt operations in a military setting, both on a macro level (Vietnam ‘success’ metrics) as well as a platoon or squad level, where soldiers and leaders often fall into a ‘there’s the enemy, git ‘em!’ mentality that overcomes their detached professional focus on achieving tactical mission objectives, and drives them to make uneccessary maneuvers that result in increased casualties.
This is why drawing a weapon should be a last resort, not the first. You de-escalate as much as you can.
However, when you have a 100 people trying to mob you and beat you up, and because of so many people, the possiblity of you losing your life is guaranteed, you make the judgement call.
Which takes you right back to fearing for your life and acting to stop the threat.
I feel like we’d be the type to get into loud fights about what type of gun oil is best at different barometric pressures, but I’d happily carry an ammobox for you.
I'd rather have loud fights about what gun oil to use than whatever the fuck the loonie left is doing. I feel like this is a tomato tomahto argument we're having.
What I’d really like to see is some level of ‘official’ legal protection for citizens to defend themselves and their public spaces.
Right now one side is running wild, violent, and out of control, and the other side gets the book thrown at them if they even cast a sideways glance in the wrong direction.
20 years of mid-east war prove you can’t win a ‘stand-up fight’ against a determined and lawless enemy with your shoelaces tied together and ‘shiny buttons’ your primary concern — at best you lose slowly.
At some point conservatives will act. It won’t be pretty or fun for anyone, it will be a messy field amputation without anesthetic, but if it’s not lawfully accomplished, it will be a long, long and dark affair.
Barr and Trump are pretty much our last chance to get it done lawfully, or we’ll be 3 years fashionably late arrivals into a Marxist/Islamic overthrow block party, and a bunch of severely ‘irregular’ militias and extremists will be the defacto opposition leadership.
(If you think this post condones any form of ‘vigilantism’ or violence, read it again — it expressly does NOT)