That's like saying that it's inevitable that murder and rape will happen.
Just because someone is going to do it eventually doesn't mean that you shouldn't have the death penalty for doing it.
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The proprietary cartridge design kills it, IMO. It's like making a super-gucci AR-15, but then it only uses your mags, and your mags cost $150/ea., v. $20 for a Magpul.
Don't fucking buy Mira products; they're overpriced Czech surplus. The OM-90 is the Czech designation for Mira's CM-7M, and you can get them for $90 on eBay, vs. the $450 or so that Mira charges.
Honestly, get yourself an M-40 that's in good shape, buy a 40mm-to-3M-bayonet adapter, use some 3M P-100 cartridges (you can get them for about $2/ea. when you buy in bulk). P-100 will filter out all particulates--even finer particulates than a HEPA filter or N-95--and will also filter out water- and oil-based aerosols. That covers all riot-control agents, because CN, CS, and OC are all aerosols, and not true gasses. Almost any surplus gas mask that's been made in the last ~30 years, seals, and uses a 40mm NATO cartridge is going to be just fine for riot-control agents.
If you are really worried about a P-100 filter being insufficient, get a few new old-stock NBC filters. NBC (nuclear, biological, chemical) filters were phased out about 15-20 years ago in favor of CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear) filters, but if they haven't been used, they'll be absolutely okay for riot agents.
If you wear glasses--and many people do--get a spectacle insert for whatever mask you have. Glasses break the seal, and while you will probably be fine with contacts in, that's not necessarily a good risk to take. Supposedly the Kris Optical Mag-1 glasses can be worn under a mask without compromising the seal, but I can't personally attest to that. I think that they're one of the older styles of BCGs that were issued, but I'm not sure.
Oh, and get GOOD hearing protection. Consider high-end electronic ear muffs, and wearing ear plugs under them. Some places are using LRADs to disperse crowds, and those can wreck your hearing.
N95 is insufficient. You want a P100 filter cartridge; P100 will filter out oil-based and water-based aerosols, as well as all particulates. They will not filter out true gasses, but, good news!, CN, CS, and OC are all aerosols, not gasses.
No. Avon still exists, they have the current contract to make the M-50 gas mask. (Which, BTW, is not compatible with standard NATO CBRN 40mm cartidges.)
Yeah, no. The religious nutter part is utterly irrelevant.
What IS relevant is that the ATF entrapped the dude; they wanted him as an informant, so they spent a long time cajoling and threatening him into cutting a shotgun down for them ("short barrel shotgun", a National Firearms Act of '34 violation), and when he did, they immediately fucked his life. He ended up getting arresting him, he bonded out, and then got multiple differing dates for a court hearing. He didn't trust the courts because he thought the gov't was out to get him (spoiler: they were), and so skipped court. The judge issued a warrant improperly, and then the US Marshalls showed up, and everything went downhill.
It was a very, very clear case of entrapment, and what the gov't did was inexcusable. It doesn't matter that they wanted him to spy on the Aryan Nations, what they did to try and bend him to their will was evil.
Don't minimize that shit.
The gov't can, and will, crush every single person that they can get away with crushing.
I have known people that were the appropriate gender for me, were interested in me, that were nice, healthy, great smiles, genuine, fun, smart, kind... And I had absolutely no attraction to them.
Sometimes you just aren't attracted to someone, even when everything should be right. Sometimes you're attracted to people that you know for sure would be absolutely terrible for and to you (like the person I felt limerance toward that was a literal crack addict, probably sleeping with people for drugs, definitely a mean person, deeply mentally ill... ...and none of that affected how I felt). You can't control your feelings; feelings just are. The best you can do is control what you do with them.
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In addition, check out ShivWorks Instagram page. They use videos of real fights to show just how fast shit starts, ends, and how badly things go. Fights and assaults usually start with someone sucker-punching someone, not with people squaring up.
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Well, you'll get arrested for carrying one in most places, since they're not exactly concealable, and getting the sheath off of one takes far more time than pulling a gun from concealment and doing a 'failure to stop', AKA Mozambique drill. Also, you have a limited effective range; if someone is inside about 3', you can't use the sword effectively, and would need to drop your sword and switch to your rondel.
They're really only effective if your opponent is riding a horse, or is a pike phalanx.
I have. I've been in places and situations where being able to get someone to back down and slow their roll would have been a better outcome than what I was able to get without being armed. Shit just happened around me, and I couldn't exit the situation in good conscience. It's terrifying to try to stand up to stop shit from going really sideways knowing that if it does, there's not a lot you can do except be a meat shield for someone else. Almost all defensive gun use doesn't involve shooting; it involves having a gun, knowing how to use it, and using the threat of force to stop someone else from escalating a situation.
People say that when seconds count, the police are only minutes away, and fuck me, that is extremely optimistic. I've never had the cops show up in under five minutes; the closest was about ten minutes, and that was after a shooting in my 'hood in Chicago. CPD showed up after the ambulance.
Interestingly, a lot of gun violence in the US comes down to neglected spaces. Without changing anything else, cleaning up vacant lots, demolishing abandoned buildings, adding street lights, and general neighborhood beautification cuts down on a LOT of gun violence. Violence intervention programs--teaching kids restraint, essentially--does a lot too.
Oh. Uh. Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice (1972) Hanzo the Razor: The Snare (1973) Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold? (1974)
They're, uh, something. I think that they're probably part of the reason that I really got into shibari. The films are graphically, cartoonishly violent, misogynistic, as close to pornographic as you can get in 'mainstream' Japanese cinema, and there's just something about them. My partner HATES them, so use your best judgement before attempting to watch them.
I'm an outsider to this instance, so my vote doesn't count.
I'm fine with banning Zionist content and users. I'm starting to see them regularly on Bluesky; they make inflammatory claims, but don't back anything up, and immediately resort to ad hominem when challenged. Even if you thought that some of the claims they made might have a degree of validity, they're still disruptive assholes. So far I haven't run across any that are acting in good faith; the accounts I've encountered sound like Israeli psy-ops.
You may not pay a lot of attention to how much water you use if you have a well, yes.
On the other hand, if you live in northern Arizona, and you have to pay to have water trucked in, you pay REALLY close attention to how much water you use. I may not waste water by average standards, but by the standards of a person that lives in a desert, I waste enormous amounts of water.
People tend to be less zealous stewards of resources when their lives aren't directly impacted when they personally waste those resources. When resources are managed in some way, people tend to exploit them until they're gone or destroyed. A very real example is the deer population in Georgia; prior to the institution of game control, white-tail deer were hunted into extinction in the state. It took >40 years, and the unwavering efforts of a single DNR employee, to reintroduce white-tail deer back into Georgia.
This isn't me saying that capitalism makes the most efficient use of resources, because it obviously doesn't. But resources that belong to all--like clean air and water--need to be managed in some way so that they continue to be available to all.
Generally speaking, precious metal commodities are a hedge investment; they aren't a primary investment themselves, but they're a hedge against a loss in value of other investments, like stocks or bonds. If you are investing in gold as a hedge against inflation wiping out stock market gains, then yeah, it's pretty solid. You probably don't want to hold on to it forever though; if you'd bought gold just prior to Carter taking office and the stagflation of the late 70s, you be pretty much break-even with things like index funds.
As far as total societal collapse, you would need to have the physical bullion, not just have precious metals in your investment portfolio. And even then, gold might not have a ton of value in a subsistence society. People might trade for it, but if I had food to trade, I don't think I'd be trading for gold, since I can't eat gold. The people that will clean up in a subsistence environment? The Amish.
Gonzalez, the person that did run against Maduro, almost certainly won.
Maduro refuses to show the proof, and all attempts by non-partisan groups to monitor the election were rebuffed. Meanwhile, Gonzalez released the official tally sheets from poll watchers, and parallel vote tabulation confirms those results, and some statistical analysis of the claimed vote totals is very, very strongly suggestive that Maduro cooked the vote totals. And yet, somehow you're sure that he won.
Is there any amount of evidence that would convince you that Maduro falsified the election results? Because he's not providing any evidence.
Also, there's no doubt that Hugo Chavez was popularly elected. And Maduro was elected by a very slim majority (about 50.6%, IIRC) the first time, in '15 (?). Since then? Eh. Popularly supported? I'm not seeing any independent evidence of that; the people claiming he is are official propaganda arms of communist parties. Was Machado a right-wing candidate? Yep. But if she had so little support, then why was she barred from running? And the fact that she's done shitty things, is a shitty person, and asked another shitty person to illegally invade does not mean that Maduro is popular with the people of Venezuela.
But if a cop says you’re doing a sobriety test, you don’t have a choice.
Not correct. Field sobriety tests are 'voluntary' in all states in the US, although refusing to take one may be used as evidence against you in a trial, depending on the state. Likewise, you can refuse breathalyzer tests, although that may carry significant civil penalties.
Actually, no, there aren't. As of this moment, there's no way to know if you're intoxicated by marijuana, and, since that's legal in a number of US states, that's a 'problem'. (Although, let's be real, stoned people tend to drive reeeeeeaaaaaalllllllllly slowly, not exactly hugely dangerous.) You can detect the metabolites with a urine or blood test, but that doesn't tell you how long ago you used it, or if you're still under the influence.
In my job, I need to use materials that have a mil spec; that means it's literally military grade, but it's just saying that it meets or exceeds a certain specification for X product that is used in the military in some way. IMO, if something says 'military grade', but isn't listing the mil spec(s) that it complies to, then it's essentially meaningless.
I do have a compass that I think was advertised as military grade. It's the same lensatic compass that is currently used by the military (...when they aren't using GPS...), except that it doesn't use tritium on the face. The half-life of tritium is about a decade, so it didn't seem like a great idea to pay a ton extra for something that would barely glow in the dark in 20 years or so.