You have totally missed the point of arms being a deterrent. YOU are the one thinking in video game terms.

Anecdote: There have been two times I would have likely got my ass kicked out in the woods had I not been open carrying. Like magic, this fucker who loathed me was very, very polite.

For anyone else coming along; Guns are not magical “get off me” totems. You have to put in the time and effort to practice several skills, safety at the top of that list. It is not an easy solution.

I sure felt better at Saturday’s protest. 2,000 people there, in the reddest part of Florida, and that wasn’t the main protest.

Just kept saying, “Thank god thank god. Had no idea there were so many sane people around here.”

And BTW, I conceal carried my Colt .45. What a heavy PITA. The gun pictured (Beretta 92FS) is my next pistol!

Preach on!

All of this shit is just an historical trend. Things will come back around quite nicely.

Here’s what will happen.

A few people will buy the stupid thing. Trump will pocket a few bucks.

The majority of his supporters know how stupid these scams are but will laugh it off, “LOL, that little scamp!”

Rinse and repeat for the next grift.

It’s for draining your boat. Lacking it will sink your boat.

LOL, read my story below. Tried exactly that, and it worked well enough to get beached. Shenanigans followed.

They ALL do! I have 5 kayaks, 1 giant canoe and a 10’ flat bottom. They all have a drain plug of some sort.

Within seconds of shoving off into the swamp last spring when I noticed the missing plug. Trick here is, the canoe takes a minute to flood and I would have been well away from shore before noticing. Also, the monster LIPO4 battery and trolling motor would have took us to Dave Jone’s locker with the quickness. Can’t imagine how I could have got that gear back, but at least the water’s clear!

Story time!

Drunk dad takes me and my Boxer pup on the lake in our crappy little boat. Great times! Until we stopped for a minute to rescue dog overboard. Then we start sinking, plug’s laying on the deck, and the motor won’t start. Then dad falls out trying to get the dog. At this point we’re up to the fucking gunwales with water. Never saw dad panic before or since, guess he couldn’t swim, but he was flooding the boat trying to scramble back in.

Forgot how I managed, but got it beached on the closest shore. Dad bails of the boat with his cookie tin full of pot, terrified it got wet. It wasn’t, so he rolled a joint.

Boat won’t start because the battery was underwater too long, dead as a sack of hammers. I take his keys and start on the 12-mile walk back to the car. 10-miles of dragging that fucking dog down that country road. Why dragging? Because it got dark and I had trained her to not move when she saw headlights coming. Fuck me. Why 2-miles short? Because dad came driving up!

So many lessons learned that day. #1 was probably: Just walk to the nearest house and ask for help. Fuck me.

(This was in the early 90s, no cell. Dad actually had a car phone, for all the good it did.)

Next time I’ll tell y’all about me and the boys sinking my canoe. That was a great camping trip.

I often wonder how someone can post a reply like this. There are thousands of posts a day where the poster obviously didn’t read the source material, but in this case, it’s right there.

How do you think image enhancement has always worked? Do you think AI tools are ignoring 30-years of Photoshop equations?

And no, we shouldn’t be fiddling with primary sources. Do you think Wikipedia is a primary source?

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https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

This article does a poor job of covering the background.

But Louvre workers call Macron hypocritical and say the 700 million to 800 million-euro ($730 million to $834 million) renovation plan masks a deeper crisis. While Macron is investing in new entrances and exhibition space, the Louvre’s annual operating subsidies from the French state have shrunk by more than 20% over the past decade — even as visitor numbers soared.

https://apnews.com/article/louvre-museum-paris-closed-lines-delay-2bbf9be4f49de739fd14dd4d908e4d72

The staff is getting their ass kicked.

Cats.

I’m thinking you don’t understand how many acres it takes to feed a few people. I’d be scared shitless trying to feed my skinny family of 4 on a single acre, and that’s assuming a constant water supply.

OK, looked around a bit, yeah, we’d starve on 1 acre.

If an armed, unidentified man approaches you with intent to fuck with you, you shoot him ASAP.

First time I fired my AR-15 (NOT a high powered rifle) in the swamp it was raining mud. On my brand new white gun. LOL, I felt like an idiot.

No. When an armed, masked man with no ID assaults you, you fucking shoot him dead, or do your damnedest.