Bush & Perry aren't that much of an embarrassment. They aren't right for right now.
Cruz he's an embarrassment. Pandering, power hungry narcissist.
Umm....
He-man perry challenges trumplestiltskin to a physical challenge
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/29/politics/rick-perry-donald-trump-pull-up-contest/
The derp is so strong with the gop 'candidates'.
I know I want to choose my president by their physical strength, cause, you know, fuck intelligence and common reasoning.
Best get a shotgun for home protection.
Spoken like a touch guy that's never actually shot anyone!
Someone should explain to Cruz that he's running for President of the United States, not game show host. This country has serious issues we need to address, but the GOP hopefuls are focused on out-clowning each other -- with the encouragement of our useless media, of course.
Still laughing at the keyboard commando 'no body count, then don't post' notion. Thanks, I needed that. :biggrin:
Spoken like a touch guy that's never actually shot anyone!
If a BG hears the racking sound and still advances what's the chance he would not advance without hearing that sound? If he's determined to advance your going to need to shoot and either way you have the advantage in knowing your ground. If the shotgun wasn't loaded what good would it be to not rack -- you'd face the BG with a gun that's not ready to fire. If the gun is ready to fire you won't be racking now would you.
The thing is, I don't want to shoot someone so giving the BG an opportunity to think twice reduces the chance that you will have to pull the trigger. Shooting someone, even someone that's got a record and has provably broken into your house and brandishing a weapon, is still going to open the door to years of legal struggle that might cost you north of $100K so, once again, anything you can do to reduce the need to shoot is a wise thing to do.
The internet is full of touch talking gun owners that swear by the shoot first ask questions latter school of thought and the news is full of stories of just how badly those ideas work out...
Brian
This is 20 year old advice. In the majority of states, those using lawful deadly force are protected from any civil action. And deadly force used in one's home or car is essentially assumed to be lawful. Castle Doctrine.
You also might remember the case in Texas of recent years, when a home-owner with a shotgun called the police about two Latino burglars in progress of invading a house across the street with the owners absent or on vacation. He told the 911 operator that he was going to take his shotgun and pursue them. They told him emphatically not to do so. He did it anyway, chasing them down the street and -- I think -- killing them both.
If he's not currently serving time in Huntsville, then he is incarcerated at some other facility in the state.
So distinctions between the situations and choice of action are particularly important -- relevant to Castle Doctrine and Stand Your Ground laws.
So let me get this straight:
Cruz purchases 3 packs of bacon.
That's, what, 30 slices altogether?
And he shoots two magazines in order to cook ONE slice.
So he's going to use 60 magazines (= 1800 .223 rounds = $600+, shipped) of ammo to cook those three packs of bacon?
Not to mention the arthritis and busted eardrums.
Not to mention that by the time he's completed "cooking breakfast" it will be time for supper.
Yeah, Ted Cruz is the genius the far right deserves.
This is 20 year old advice. In the majority of states, those using lawful deadly force are protected from any civil action. And deadly force used in one's home or car is essentially assumed to be lawful. Castle Doctrine.
This comment puts your input in a lot more perspective. Thank you. It saves me from wasting time to fully address your litany of assumptions and irrelevant bullshit. You'll notice my post was devoid of insults and assumptions; kinda says a lot you can't address my input without getting butthurt.
Anyway, the rest of that blather doesn't even merit a response. I couldn't care less if you think I'm tough or not; you're a nobody on the web, acting like a Larry Vickers. Newsflash: guys like you are a dime a dozen here. Making declarations about people you've never met and know nothing about isn't worth much from your kind, sorry. Do yourself a favor and direct that energy towards some education regarding home defense and CQB tactics (Thunder Ranch comes to mind), sounds like you could use it. Ask them what they think of this "rack a shell" method of deterrence - extra points if you post it here
What an embarrassment for Texas.
With all due respect, seriously, if you've had zero experience ever firing a weapon in anger, with your life on the line in real time, don't you think that, more than most, you fit the definition of a keyboard commando?
Sorry, man, as I'm allowing myself to get sucked into this unwinnable debate and probably unnecessarily personally slagging you in the process.
It's just that I truly don't understand how or why so many folks here, who, demographically speaking, probably live in fairly damn safe suburban neighborhoods, keep an elaborate arsenal and obsess over the highly unlikely prospect of some Hollywood Super Villains storming into their homes.
I spent a too long part of my adult life as a P.I., and I can tell you that the overwhelming majority of criminals don't ever venture out of their obscenely blighted neighborhoods, are not that bright or particularly skilled to begin with, have been incarcerated before and are deathly adverse to going back into the system, and, in the nearly non-existent scenario wherein they invade your suburban manse, would RUN LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER if they heard the owner rack shells in his shotgun, let alone, in another over-hyped scenario, keep coming forward if the stopping power of the penis substitute employed wasn't of sufficient caliber to physically blow them backwards.
Imho, all that cartoonish shite is true keyboard commando BS of the first rank.
Finally, I wish to address your "no body count, then don't post" rhetorical comment. I do feel that those who have faced real life danger are kind of inoculated against falling down the rabbit hole of media-hyped "danger."
Tweaker knows, small unit close combat is an unnerving, disorienting hell on earth. There is sure as hell fear in the moment, but the real fear hits home later when you reflect back on the fact that, "Hey, those guys were trying to KILL me."
This tends to cure most who have had to experience it of any desire to keep semi-autos in their peaceful suburban homes.
My advice?
Don't live in fear.
And get a better hobby.
Parkerizing is a rust preventative. I've never had that area of the barrel get corroded from not lubing it up. This from firing at the enemy for over a year and two months, real or most times imagined in Vietnam.
so is blueing and browning, and any other barrel treatment i'm not aware of.
a preventative does not completely inhibit. that's the point of a light layer of lube on every piece of metal after every teardown. while you may not see scale rust, that doesn't mean corrosion isn't happening.
but hey, i look at it from a different perspective as you. to you, it's a temporary tool. to me, it's a work of art, something to be preserved.
Thing is, there is nothing macho about Cruz. He looks and talks like a drag queen. And his smirk... induces goose bumps.
There are times I wonder if there is a correlation between gun fantasy and one's masculinity complex.