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Malachai Constant
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| RumiDude wrote: | | So do chainsaws.
Rumi <~~~~~~can use a chainsaw |
Damn it I forgot the bar oil 
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
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Backpacker Joe
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My 1911 .45 weighs way less than a chainsaw....................
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
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"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
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Dave Workman
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| DigitalJanitor wrote: | | Yeah, I vote pepper spray.
I'm a reasonably good shot with a .22 rifle, but I'd be lucky to hit the side of a barn with a handgun. And with my luck I'd break my arm by falling on it when I was digging in a pocket for candy. |
Well, that's being honest. Others are pretty decent shots with handguns, and fairly fast on reflex. But if pepper spray is your choice, then nobody should fault your decision.
BPJ: I'll gamble my Mod. 19 S&W weighs about the same as your .45, and it's a magnum 
"The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted." - D.H. Lawrence
"The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted." - D.H. Lawrence
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Kascadia
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| DigitalJanitor wrote: | | Yeah, I vote pepper spray.I'm a reasonably good shot with a .22 rifle, but I'd be lucky to hit the side of a barn with a handgun |
There was the 2nd segment in a series last night about "policing in America" and one of the topics was the use of lethal force. There was information about non lethal type "guns", but the subject of wounding (leg or arm shot) came up also. The law enforcement officer they talked to spoke about how extremely hard it was to hit a target with a hand gun and that they were trained/had to go for the area of greatest "body mass" to increase the probability of stopping the object of their attention. From people that do it for a living. . .
It is as though I had read a divine text, written into the world itself, not with letters but rather with essential objects, saying:
Man, stretch thy reason hither, so thou mayest comprehend these things. Johannes Kepler
It is as though I had read a divine text, written into the world itself, not with letters but rather with essential objects, saying:
Man, stretch thy reason hither, so thou mayest comprehend these things. Johannes Kepler
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Malachai Constant
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Thread has officially jumped the shark, time to lock it up. 
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
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moonspots
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Mon May 28, 2018 2:00 pm |
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| Malachai Constant wrote: | | Thread has officially jumped the shark, time to lock it up. |
Yup.😒
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"Out, OUT you demons of Stupidity"! - St Dogbert, patron Saint of Technology
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Chief Joseph
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Why not carry both? Try the spray first and the other as a last resort.
Go placidly amid the noise and waste, and remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof.
Go placidly amid the noise and waste, and remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof.
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Mon May 28, 2018 2:40 pm |
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I thought gun talk was not allowed outside the gun thread?
I hope you are sure there are no people behind kitty to catch your stray bullets.
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Mon May 28, 2018 4:46 pm |
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| Backpacker Joe wrote: | | My 1911 .45 weighs way less than a chainsaw.................... |
but not less than bear spray which is 6X more effective in preventing injury to humans.
Synopsis of Smith/Herrero study 2012:
"No statistical difference in those using a gun as opposed to those who did not in preventing human injury."
"Bearspray is effective in avoiding injury 92% of the time."
https://news.byu.edu/news/byu-study-using-gun-bear-encounters-doesn’t-make-you-safer
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ID HIT EM WITH MY BEAR TAZER...WATCH THE KITTY JUMP!..SERIOUSLY TAZER THAT CAT
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Mon May 28, 2018 7:32 pm |
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| Dave Workman wrote: | | BPJ: I'll gamble my Mod. 19 S&W weighs about the same as your .45, and it's a magnum |
But how long are yours and BJP's?
First your legs go, then you lose your reflexes, then you lose your friends. Willy Pep
First your legs go, then you lose your reflexes, then you lose your friends. Willy Pep
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Malachai Constant
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Every thread about animal attacks or car breakins eventually deteriorate to a comparison of strap ons by the usual suspects. 
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