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HelixDab2

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  • But isn't that also true with snakes? All of the times that I've stumbled across copperheads or rattlesnakes, they've just wanted to do their thing, and go on their way. They didn't want to bite me. And 99.999% of the time, as long as you back off, the snake isn't going to do anything.

    ...Except there's that .001% of the time when a snake is going to chase someone, and attack them. And that makes everyone terrified of all snakes, because they never know which one is going to be that .001%.

    It's understandable, but it's not fair, and yeah, it sucks to have people think you're a threat when you're trying hard not to be.

  • Keep MAGA off my GUNS!

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  • Around my parts of Ohio,

    Huh. I grew up in central Ohio. I remember Meijer carrying firearms at one point, but I thought that they'd removed them.

    but this is the first I’m hearing of inrangeTV

    Karl is a good guy; he does a lot of videos about the intersection between history, guns, and community protection, along with more typical gun reviews and discussions. He just reposted one that he did about the executive order that created the Japanese internment camps during WWII. Russell is also a good guy; he's more of a classical libertarian, in that he believes in small government, and free exercise of rights regardless of gender/gender expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, etc. He posts a lot of things on his own channel dealing with shooting matches (usually two gun). Together they also run a series of shooting matches that require a combination of strong fitness and shooting ability to place well (which is where the community encouraging people to suck less springs from); the matches are genuinely inclusive, and homo-/transphobes are not welcome.

    I really need to get first aid certified

    I honestly don't know what certification orgs there are for trauma first aid. There's American Red Cross, but that doesn't usually cover things in the way that classes covering MARCH (Massive hemorrhage, Airway, Respiration, Circulation, Hypothermia) do. Last I knew, ARC was still using ABC (Airway, Breathing, Circulation), and doesn't adequately--IMO--cover things like what to do when someone gets shot, or severs an artery in an accident. Wilderness First Responder courses might be a lot too heavy, esp. since they start at $600, and are 70+ hours. Tactical Combat Casualty Care - Combat Life Saver (TCCC-CLS) is probably equally heavy in time and cost. But the Stop the Bleed classes offered by affiliates of the Dept. of Homeland Security tend to cover things like tourniquets and wound packing very, very lightly; it's a 2-3 hour course, at best, and that's not really very adequate, IMO.

  • "This is a mistake": House Democrats fume at David Hogg's plan to oust lawmakers

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  • Here's one source on immigrations, although the numbers are slipping as the cases of illegal and wrongful deportations continue to make headlines. Even with that, Americans are fairly even split. Here's a solid source on transgender policy; while some things that are positive for transgender people have broad support, some things that are unequivocally bad--like preventing minors from accessing gender-affirming care, including puberty blockers, bathroom bills, etc.--have net +10 and greater support. (+31 on only allowing people to play sports that correspond to the gender they were assigned to at birth means that it's about a 65/35 split, with 65% in favor of preventing transwomen from participating in womens' sports.)

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    Apparently, due process is unrelated to an illegal deportation without due process case.

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  • Keep MAGA off my GUNS!

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  • Where were you working that sold both bikes and firearms? I've worked in bike shops off and on (wrenching), and they definitely didn't sell firearms. OTOH, the last couple were in Chicago, and the city of Chicago at the time had exactly zero gun stores within city limits.

    They can strip and maintain all their guns with a blindfold on, but I don’t think they’ve even sighted them in properly.

    May I suggest telling them to check out InRangeTV? There's a fairly decent sized community of people that are truly supportive of the idea that the 2A is for everyone, and they tend to push each other towards training and competition, with a goal of being effective first and foremost. ...Because a gun isn't a magic talisman, and shooting ability is a skill that degrades quickly without practice.

    Don’t assume someone else will show up to help. You ARE RIGHT THERE. So help.

    That was one of the things that was covered in a trauma class I took. I highly recommend that everyone take one, even if it's just a very basic 'stop the bleed' class. But if they have the time and money available for the training, TCCC CLS classes, or wilderness first responder classes are better. People are far, far more likely to need to save someone's life before an ambulance can arrive than they are to need to use a firearm to defend themselves or someone else.

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    Apparently, due process is unrelated to an illegal deportation without due process case.

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  • No, there isn't.

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    Apparently, due process is unrelated to an illegal deportation without due process case.

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  • He was a non-citizen, but had protected status. Specifically, a judge had ruled that he could not be deported to El Salvador, which is where Trump et al. deported him to (e.g., in direct violation of a federal judicial order). The deportation proceedings had no due process at all, which is to say, he was never given a hearing after being arrested, never given a chance to speak to an attorney, etc. All of which is illegal.

  • "This is a mistake": House Democrats fume at David Hogg's plan to oust lawmakers

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  • I'm really tired of voting for better candidates that are in favor of reproductive rights, and LGBTQ+ rights, that want religion out of politics, that support genuinely free speech, and then also want to eliminate 2A rights. We're already seeing what 75 years of libs and progressives working to disarm themselves has done, and the result is that ICE agents aren't getting gunned down in the streets when they're kidnapping people, and the fash are free to do whatever the fuck they want with zero fear of consequences.

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  • Most people are for gun control

    There's a big problem with that.

    Right now, the majority of people in the US are in favor of deporting all undocumented immigrants. Right now, the overwhelming majority of people are opposed to transgender rights (e.g., using bathrooms that correspond to their gender, participating in sports, having access to gender-affirming care, and so on). Going back to the late 80s/early 90s, most people would not have believed that Satanists had the right to free exercise of their religion (and many people still don't today). If you go back 75 years, the majority of the country believed that 'separate but equal' was entirely reasonable; sure, let those negroes have rights, but letting them live in our neighborhoods, go to our schools, get married to our women...? Absolutely not!

    This is what is referred to as "the tyranny of the majority".

    The whole purpose of the bill of rights is that they are RIGHTS, and not intended to be something that is up for a popular vote. All gun control is intended to prevent people from exercising their right to keep and bear arms.

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  • I used to sell guns at a previous job, and we usually didn’t get high end stuff unless it was a special order.

    I tried to get a job at a gun store. I am a little too... Unusual in my appearance. It would not have pleased the majority of the customers there. Oh well. (Not that it matters much; margins are low enough that discounts wouldn't have been any better than what I can get on gun.deals or ammoseek.)

    I have a few neighbors who are definitely going to be ICE targets soon, and they have been invited to start shooting with us in preparation.

    Very cool. FWIW, as long as they're legal residents, they should be able to get firearms legally.

    I would sincerely hope that any gun owner that saw someone being grabbed off the street by people in street clothes would act to stop the abduction. But I'm afraid that too many people have the bystander virus.

    I miss the good old days when target practice was fun and banter was abound

    There's still some of that at some matches. But yes, it's getting a lot more grim. The tone is shifting, because everyone is starting to see where we're heading, and wondering what they really would have done in Germany in 1935.

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  • I agree with the older Dems, but not for their reasons.

    No, we should not support the candidates that Hogg supports. Because Hogg is very opposed to 2A rights, and ipso facto any candidate that he supports will also be opposed to 2A rights. And if you think that we're gonna just vote our way out of this, I've got some very, very bad news for you.

    Primary the old fucks with young leftists (hopefully ones that actually understand economics and tax policy)? Absolutely! Primary them with ones that ideologically aligned with Hogg? No.

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  • Pity that you can't teach cats to use crew-served weapons...

    The obvious choice is to buy a multi-piece rifle, full size or pcc is up to you, that breaks into 2+ pieces.

    That's pretty much al AR-15s; you can entirely separate the upper and lower receivers. But you're probably thinking more of take-down rifles. I don't think that most take-down rifles would be ideal in a SHTF kind of situation. And, to be very, very clear, I think that a very sudden SHTF situation where you need a rifle is very, very unlikely. I think that suddenly needing to evacuate due to weather or fires is more likely, and the kind of civil unrest that might require a rifle, well, we're already the frog in that pot, and the water keeps getting hotter... Someone is going to throw the first rock at a protest, then it's going to get very, very ugly, very, very fast.

  • Who needs cops anyway?

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  • Mostly, yeah. But being part of the community also means having potentially the same bigotry as the community. Again: I'm in a very, very white town in the rural south; most of the residents are low-key racist, and some aren't even low-key about it.

    You have no additional powers under the state, just the same rights as everyone else.

    This one I would disagree with. I don't think that there should be a general right for citizens to arrest people; the murder of Ahmaud Arbery wasn't too terribly far from me, and that started as citizens trying to arrest a guy for jogging while being black. (Come to think of it, based off police arrests, doing pretty much anything while being black is an arrestable offense.) I think that powers of arrest should be limited to people that have gone through a minimum of two years of training in law enforcement--including law!--and have passed exams to become certified. (So yes, I agree that there needs to be a licensing body that exists outside of the control of the police departments or police unions.)

    I absolutely agree that qualified immunity shouldn't exist, or at least, not the way it does now. What is covered should be codified into law, and everything that's outside of that should be not covered. Take, for instance, a high speed chase, where an objectively dangerous person is fleeing police; without qualified immunity, if a police officer lost control of their car and caused harm to a bystander, that officer would be criminally liable. I don't think that's a reasonable outcome, given that the alternative--not pursuing an objectively dangerous person--seems like the worse option. (Yes, yes, they could use a helicopter, but that's not always an option.) But there are a lot of things that do get covered under qualified immunity--like killing someone by tazing them repeatedly while their hogtied in the back of a patrol car--that absolute should not, under any circumstances.

    The police problem is genuinely difficult. I think that a lot of it is cultural, with old cops sharing institutional practices with new cops, and perpetuating cycles. I think that kind of culture needs to be broken, so that cops genuinely feel a sense of responsibility, and want to do the right thing in the right way. I don't know what the best way to approach that is though.

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  • Warning: I'm autistic--yes, really--and guns are one of my life-long special interests. So, wall of text incoming.

    PCCs (pistol caliber carbines) are handy, but I don't know if I'd want to rely on one as a do-all bug out rifle. In my opinion, for most able-bodied people, PCCs have the worst features of both rifles and pistols; they're bulky enough that they can't be concealed easily, and the bullets are less powerful and have significantly shorter ranges than rifles. Some PCCs also have reliability issues, but I don't know which ones specifically. (That said, the Kriss Vector is cool as hell, doubly so if you can get it as an SBR and silenced. Not always super reliable, but still very neat. And expensive. So, maybe not that.) On the other hand, recoil is very minimal. If you really like PCCs, then I've heard good things about the KP-9, which also happens to be produced by a very decent person (e.g., non-chud). PCCs are particularly good for people with some level of disability that prevents them from using a typical pistol effectively.

    If you're a normal person with normal person funds, where buying a rifle is a large purchase, I'd get a 14" AR-15 'pistol' with a solid 'wrist brace'. As long as you're buying something nicer than Bear Creek Arsenal or Palmetto State Armory, the brand isn't going to matter a lot. Don't waste your money on Daniel Defense or KAC. A reliable red dot optic that's zeroed at 50y completes the minimalist bug-out 'pistol'. In this case, I would suggest an enclosed red dot, like the Lead & Steel Promethean; enclosed dots are less likely to get gunked up. Get a bunch of magazines, Magpul 30 rounders if your state allows them, and 10 rounders if your state doesn't. A "combat load", IIRC, is 210 rounds, or seven 30-round magazines; if you need that many rounds in a bug-out situation, you are well and truly fucked.

    If you've got money to burn, I'd suggest getting a piston rifle like the Sig MCX-Spear LT in 11.5" or an FN-SCAR in 11.5" (both will be SBRs, so you'll need a tax stamp), and then a B&T Print-X VERS36 SS silencer (.30 cal, titanium, modular, full-auto rated--which is unusual for titanium silencers--and yes, you need a tax stamp for it). Both rifles are 5.56x45mm, which means ammo is both cheap and readily available at almost any gun store anywhere. Both rifles are also piston-operated, rather than being direct impingement (DI), so the stock can fold to make it more compact. Yes, piston rifles are slightly less accurate than DI, but at the ranges that a bug-out rifle would be used, that's probably not an issue. I'd probably get a Dead Air KeyMo adapter and mount for the silencer so you could take it off and put it on quickly, since a silencer is going to add 6-8". If you can afford it, holographic sights are slightly nicer than red dots (albeit with shorter battery life; EOTech and the Vortex AMG UH-1 are the only holographic options), and a 4x flip-up magnifier extends your range. (I use an LPVO and an offset red dot on my primary competition rifle, but that's a bit much for a bug-out rifle.) You might want a weapon light; Surefire is the standard choice, but I use a relatively inexpensive Steamlight, and it works well enough for night matches out to about 150y or so. At the ranges that you'd ever be likely to need to use a bug-out rifle, that's likely not a significant issue.

    Personally, I don't worry about a bug-out rifle. That's low on my priority list. I have enough cats that bugging out means driving with eight pet carriers, not walking, so a full-sized rifle is fine for me. I'm more worried about having a good carry gun. :)

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  • most of the gun nuts all agree that the best bugout bag gun is an FN-FAL.

    Who, exactly? FALs that make it to the US are notoriously finicky and unreliable. The ones made by Century Arms take a lot of fiddling to make them work at all, and when they do, they're 2MOA at best, and more likely 3MOA. Also, even in carbine configuration, it's big and heavy.

    .300BO is based off of the 5.56x45mm cartridge; it's intended as a subsonic round--e.g., extra-quiet when you're shooting with a silencer--and has ballistics on par with a bus. It's big, heavy, slow, and has an incredibly short effective range.

    Neither .308 (7.62x51mm NATO) nor .300BO will go through a level IV plate, which is pretty standard at this point for US soldiers.

    If you want highly accurate in an AR-15 package, go for 6mm ARC. If you want highly accurate in an AR-10 package, go for 6.5CM or 6.5PRC.

    Most countries have moved away from battle rifles. The biggest reason is that ammo is heavier, and heavier ammo means you can carry less. All other things being equal, the side with the most ammunition tends to win. The second reason is that engagements rarely happen at ranges that require a full-powered cartridge; a mid-sized cartridge is quite sufficient for infantry use.

  • List Of Local Facebook Marketplace Alternatives

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  • Hey, I really wish it wasn't the way it is. But Facebook sucked up (verbiage intentionally) almost all of the traffic.

    Can you still buy & sell things locally on other sites? Sure, absolutely. But the traffic is minuscule compared to FB, which means less stuff available, and fewer people buying. I fuckin' hate it.

  • List Of Local Facebook Marketplace Alternatives

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  • For people in the US that are reading this...

    Yeah, you're fucked. Craigslist still exists, as does Backpage, but they're both pale shadows of what they once were.

  • What was a fact taught to you in school that has been proven false during your lifetime?

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  • Broadly speaking, failing to put in effort does tend to lead to worse outcomes.

    ...Unless your parents have the last name "Musk" or "Trump".

  • “The European Union won’t take chicken from America. They won’t take lobsters from America. They hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak. It’s unbelievable” Lutnick told FoxNews

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  • Are you familiar with the concepts of street epistemology?