Good question… Maybe I have? It seems like it.
I actively avoid less-than-dry salmon and turkey, with the exception of turkey that’s deep fried in peanut oil. Something about the texture of moist salmon skeeves me out. I also live in the desert, where fresh fish is exceptionally rare and exceedingly expensive.
I was feeling the same way until I discovered Colt re-released the Python for 2020…
Now I’m upset I don’t have one.
But why though? I heard Jim Wendler and a few others say similar things and i just can’t wrap my head around it.
Not @Frank_C, but I don’t trust the government to keep my family & I safe. A 300 blackout is in the closet next to my bed, but if that proves too far my 9mm is in the nightstand lol.
The past few months have caused me to lose faith in humanity. Have you seen Minneapolis? There are entire blocks burned to the ground and it looks like a post apocalyptic movie scene. It happened quick. There are two reasons to buy guns and ammo right now.
Every city in this country is one police incident away from all out rioting and chaos. The cities that have sided with the rioters have seen a gigantic spike in violent crime. Minneapolis put out a statement to its citizens to just give up their money and phones if someone robs them. Essentially, they’ve said to give up and let the criminals have their way. I won’t do that. My family won’t do that. We’ll be armed and trained.
The democrats continue to push for more gun control. They are also trying to sneak in taxes up to 50% for guns and ammo. Gun lovers and preppers are buying what they can while they can because we don’t know what’s going to happen after the election. If Trump wins then the liberals will continue to riot and whine. If Biden wins then the democrats might make major headway in banning guns and ammo.
Call me a bit crazy, but the democrats have been trying to get people to rely on the government for years. That’s why they keep pushing “programs” like welfare and social services. They want the citizens to depend on them for their everyday needs. Combine that with taking away guns and you have total control. “Do what we say or we’ll take away your money.”
I’d rather live in the woods than in that society. My family goes away from society to hunt and fish and we call it a hobby or vacation. Doing that for a living sounds better than a lot of jobs out there.
My buddy told me he has weapons staged for a purpose. The pistol next to the bed is so he can get to the shotgun that’s further away. The shotgun is to get to the rifles and ammo. The rest is to get the hell out of dodge.
Love it. Funny enough, that 300 blackout is actually a loan from a friend because he wanted to diversify the storage of his cache in case one location got compromised
Shooting and hunting are also also just a great sports that train fine motor skills and provide a great way to engage with nature. If you’re lucky, something delicious might even come out of it
@Frank_C @TX_iron thanks for the insight. I think it’s very difficult to understand how you guys feel about things from this distance. Gun culture isn’t really a thing over here.
From what I understand, it’s not a thing in most of the world. I personally find them cool
Our country isn’t really very old, but it has a violent past. History has taught us what led up to atrocities like the Holocaust. We’ve taken notes of the steps that were taken before things got bad and we’d like to make sure we don’t follow the same paths.
Regardless of which political side you take, I think we have some very powerful individuals playing puppet master in the background right now.
I don’t want to clutter up flaps log with too much politics, but I think we can agree that there aren’t a lot of very powerful people with me and my families best interests at heart.
Funny how culture shapes perceptions. Also I live very close to some cartel hotspots. I was in Laredo (US/Mex border) a few months back and asked the hotel concierge where some good running trails were. He looked me dead in the face and said “it’s not safe to run here.”
This is why I try to learn from guys like yourself and @Frank_C who I respect immensely.
Fixed.
But I’m a subscriber to Hobbes’ theory on the statue of nature, so there’s that.
Stop making me Google stuff.
2 most relevant sound bites
Life in the state of nature is a state of war, where man competes against each other for resources, and is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
AND
Covenants without the sword are but words, and are of no strength to secure a man.
And presumably this then leads to the social contract that I’m passingly familiar with, as a way to overcome these issues and move from independence to interdependence?
Damnit, now you’ve made me think as well. Dave no likey thinking
Moreso that the social contract is the only way to escape the state of nature. With Hobbes, you gave up ALL freedom to exist in the social contract, because basically ANYTHING was better than the state of nature. Other authors drafted social contract ideas that had some freedoms preserved.
Hobbbes always made the most sense to me compared to the others.
Where would I go to read more on this, because i seem to have a very one dimensional perspective on the social contract.