https://everynoise.com/

This is one of the cooler websites I’ve found over the years

The best thing to do right now is to work with others and help build your local community so you have people and resources in case of hardship or emergency. Build and grow things. Be peaceful but have a plan if trouble comes to you.

My first thought was the flag patch, then “get your hands off the fucking panel”, then “why is his knee there”

The most memorable videos are the ones you can’t forget if you wanted to

Right there’s people you see on the range with tricked out rifles with hand picked components, and then there’s mall ninja bubba open carrying four pistols at the food court

There’s so many optics and rails and lights and slings and suppressors and triggers and grips out there. People that get into it spend a ton of time min maxing their setups for competition, home defense, long range or whatever else suits their fancy

And that’s just the guns themselves. But there is a difference betweem gun nerd and gun nut as others have said

Many current gun owners aren’t affected by what is going on, and the people that are affected haven’t decided to become gun owners so far.

If you’re an american citizen you (yes you!) have gun rights just like you have any other right. You don’t need to be a car person to safely use a car, or a tech wizard to use your phone. You can have essential equipment and skill with firearms and still be a normal person.

I’m paraphrasing but Deviant Ollam once said owning and knowing how to use a gun is the difference between being peaceful and being helpless

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Wait you can do that?

Ice isn’t so bad unless you step on smooth rocks

Humans: Lets make EVERYTHING like smooth rock!

For real. 2016 was a whole decade ago! Imagine the gear and skills they could have developed!

I think a lot of people consider it overkill or just a conservative thing. But no it’s for everyone! Just like you don’t need to be a “car person” to use a car or a “tech person” to use a phone, you don’t need to be a “gun person” to have adequate equipment and skills. And just because you have the option to use guns doesn’t mean peaceful change isn’t an option

But just like you can’t expect others to speak or protest on your behalf you can’t just say “everyone else with guns should do something”

Boise Idaho is cool! The city is chill and if you like anything outside there are tons of mountains and hiking spots everywhere. Had some killer ice cream there. The Space Bar has a speak easy!

Portsmouth NH is like the day trip city for people in the Boston area. It’s small but has lots of nice restaurants. You can walk across one of the draw bridges to Maine!

Key West Florida can be a great time too. It’s one of several small islands (there are bridges that connect them all) that you can explore on foot. Lots of small expensive homes and some military facilities but it’s got a party atmosphere. Lots of places to drink, eat and relax and you can snorkel out in the Gulf of Mexico to see some beautiful reefs.

I’ll preface this by saying I don’t like how this situation went down.

But I know it’s going to spark a ton of debate on use of force and potential reforms to it’s use. With that in mind it helps if you know what the way it’s supposed to work from a legal perspective. So here’s some basic stuff I found. In this case the person shot being in a vehicle complicates this a bit compared to a face to face encounter.

I might make this a separate YSK post.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_force_continuum

https://legalclarity.org/what-is-the-force-continuum-and-how-is-it-used/

If you’re an American citizen than you (yes you) have gun rights too. If you feel the need to step up, by all means

“I don’t use AI”

🤯🥳🎉🎊

A war in Europe will do that to you

Look he does B&E on millions of houses a year without being caught, he can get whatever he wants

Something something bringing home the bacon

Gun rights are rights of ALL American citizens.

If you feel the need to arm yourself, train, and protect what means the most to you by all means do it! It is your right to do so. The same info and equipment is available if you want it.

But like how freedom of religion doesn’t mean everyone is religious, many people opt to not to use that right. And like people in different religions, the people using that same right can differ vastly from one another on beliefs and motivations.

Some people take up guns for fun and competition and nothing else. Others to defend themselves from crime or other personal harm. And some have guns for added community resilience if government cannot/will not help. Like major disasters, civil unrest etc. It can be all the above too.

Gun owners are not a simple neat group or a political party. One can’t control what another does or what tolerances they have any more than you can control what another person says when they use free speech. And following that line of thought, you cannot force someone to use their rights in the way you would prefer.

Better than being dead I guess