You can’t be in fight or flight all the time. You have to know when to turn it on, and when to turn it off. There are situations that are routine for me that I’ll crank all the way up to fight mode, because I know they can be dangerous, and once I know I’m safe, I’ll be the friendliest guy in the world. It’s not easy…
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Exactly. And here’s the thing: I’m not opposed to gun ownership. I’m kind of a black sheep in the liberal community, because I freely own an AR and think that’s okay. BUT...our ability to acquire guns has vastly outstripped our ability to handle them responsibly. It is too easy for a person to get a firearm without…
It’s actually not: the problem is that scenario training is useless without repeated scenarios. Scenario training is one of the best things we do on the law enforcement and military side, precisely because we fail upwards. We fail a lot on those scenarios, and that’s the point. It’s not go in and be perfect: it’s go…
Dipshit open-carry rifleman in my Starbucks?
That’s something important for us to keep in mind (especially those of us that call ourselves liberals, like myself): we can’t allow their dehumanization of us to invite a like-minded response. It justifies their behavior, decreases the ability to close the divide, and makes us stupid in our arguments. It’s easy to…
What?...He’s motivated.
I am sure the irony is entirely lost on them. Then again, they may actually welcome that: if ISIS arms up here, it gives them an excuse to shoot something.
Go for it! And thanks for the heads up.
It’s one of those mentalities that poisons law enforcement. Every day, they’re ‘going to war!’ You aren’t keeping the peace, you’re out there fighting bad guys and going home safe at the end of the day, because those bastards didn’t get you.
A great example of that is watching the internal security camera footage from the Waco biker gang shoot out. In one of the angles, you can see someone draw a handgun, but he never shoots: he doesn’t know what the hell to shoot at. And the entire time, he’s presenting himself as a target, because he has his handgun out…
It’s not even that these ads breed fear: they breed fantasy. The create an unrealistic image of the world, and place the reader in an unrealistic position in how that image works, and how they would respond. That’s dangerous.
I don’t disagree with you in terms of a REGULATED militia. The language of the Second Amendment is fairly clear on that, and the interpretation of it as a free-for-all buy guns to use against the government mess is twenty years recent. Now, if we had private citizen militias (like the kind we see now), but they were…
Thank you, kindly. I just wish the analysis was less true, and felt more like fiction than potential fact. It feels we’re pushing closer to that each day.
A vocal minority with some big sugar daddies.
It really doesn’t serve any functional purpose. The only place I don’t get skeeved up about it is back West, because 9 times out of 10, if I see an open handgun on a civilian, it’s a rancher coming in to town for a little bit. And that makes sense to me. I’ve been remarkably desensitized to the presence of firearms…
Can you imagine what they’d be like if they lost? Yeesh. It gives me the shivers.