I can't tell you how many people I've talked to recently who now wish they had bought a gun and are lamenting the lack of availability of guns and ammo.
It’s pretty sad but comical. On one hand, the system here got so fucked that people who went out to buy recently had to wait in humongous lines for hours, then wait greater than 2 weeks to even receive their firearm due to the shitty waiting period and the order system getting backlogged.
On the other hand, you now have all of the people who voted for people who put these shitty gun laws in now eating their own bullshit. Their proposed system simply does not work in times of need while doing very little, if not anything at all, to help the issue they initially sought out to solve.
Too little too late. These are the same people that would treat me like a criminal for choosing to carry a firearm. Wearing a seatbelt doesn't make you paranoid of car crashes. Carrying a handgun doesn't make you paranoid of mugging. In many ways they're the same. By the time you need it, it's too late to go get it. If you want to save your life you need to have it all the time.
I saw a medical examiner show where a woman only wore the waist part of the seatbelt. She ran into another drunk driver and the momentum minus the shoulder strap caused her aorta to rip apart where it connected to the spine.
People who wear seatbelts wrong grind my gears. Bottom belt over the pelvis, top belt across the collarbone. No twists. Do any of that wrong you might as well not even bother wearing it.
You could always go with what ammo is available first and pick a gun based on that. People picked AR15s and 9mm pistols because ammo is cheap and plentiful (normally) but the trade-off is that everyone has a gun that shoots it and is looking for .223/5.56 and 9mm and they sell out.
I picked up an AR10 from PSA a while ago on sale for ~$700-750 and you can still get one now for $850. It uses .308 Win which is a more appropriate (close to same speed but 2x-3x bullet mass vs .223) round for deer hunting. I was able to go out and grab some extra hunting ammo a couple weeks ago. Stock was still good and price wasn't too inflated.
I can't tell you how many people I've talked to recently who now wish they had bought a gun and are lamenting the lack of availability of guns and ammo.
It’s pretty sad but comical. On one hand, the system here got so fucked that people who went out to buy recently had to wait in humongous lines for hours, then wait greater than 2 weeks to even receive their firearm due to the shitty waiting period and the order system getting backlogged.
On the other hand, you now have all of the people who voted for people who put these shitty gun laws in now eating their own bullshit. Their proposed system simply does not work in times of need while doing very little, if not anything at all, to help the issue they initially sought out to solve.
Too little too late. These are the same people that would treat me like a criminal for choosing to carry a firearm. Wearing a seatbelt doesn't make you paranoid of car crashes. Carrying a handgun doesn't make you paranoid of mugging. In many ways they're the same. By the time you need it, it's too late to go get it. If you want to save your life you need to have it all the time.
I saw a medical examiner show where a woman only wore the waist part of the seatbelt. She ran into another drunk driver and the momentum minus the shoulder strap caused her aorta to rip apart where it connected to the spine.
People who wear seatbelts wrong grind my gears. Bottom belt over the pelvis, top belt across the collarbone. No twists. Do any of that wrong you might as well not even bother wearing it.
You could always go with what ammo is available first and pick a gun based on that. People picked AR15s and 9mm pistols because ammo is cheap and plentiful (normally) but the trade-off is that everyone has a gun that shoots it and is looking for .223/5.56 and 9mm and they sell out.
I picked up an AR10 from PSA a while ago on sale for ~$700-750 and you can still get one now for $850. It uses .308 Win which is a more appropriate (close to same speed but 2x-3x bullet mass vs .223) round for deer hunting. I was able to go out and grab some extra hunting ammo a couple weeks ago. Stock was still good and price wasn't too inflated.