harmonica
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so you would let an unarmed, big ''man'' like Mike Brown beat the shit out of you??
Lol....well we are all real proud of ya s0n!!
But most Americans think the working class hero shit is ghey....too, most Americans think a guy running around with a gun and shooting in the air around cops is a fucked up savage beyond anybody's help. When hes put in his box, lives are being saved.... that is how the voting public looks at it. Maybe doesn't fit your makey uppey world but that's the way it is
Of course you think it is made up. It doesn’t fit your world view. Because in your wild world view, if you don’t shoot the instant there is a possible threat, you are a dead person, and that is the worst possible outcome. So anything is acceptable to avoid that. The fear of your own death is enough motivation to shoot lots of unarmed civilians in your very odd view.
Yet, you have made a statement about what I would do, and I said I wouldn’t. I told you a story, I say it is true, you say it was a lie. But when I was in the 82nd Airborne, we were taught that killing an unarmed person was unacceptable. Of course, when I was a boy growing up, I was taught that and many other lessons you probably did not get. Things like all races deserve to be treated equally. That I would refer to adults no matter their color as Mr. or Mrs. or Miss. I’d call them all Sir or Ma’am.
I imagine you have a lot of trouble with that idea. I could be wrong, because here, unlike my story we are talking about my opinion, not my history. It all happened. I was mugged by a moron with a knife outside Chicago when I drove OTR trucks. I drove for Swift, and then US Xpress about twenty years ago. In fact, I was driving for US Xpress when the Y2K bug was supposed to hit. I was literally driving a load for FedEx, contract job obviously, from Memphis to Dallas when the only thing on my truck broke because it wasn’t Y2K compliant. Oddly enough, it was the mounting bracket for my Alternator. It literally broke just after midnight. I limped into a truck stop just after that and shut the truck down. The Mechanic fixed it with an obviously wicked hangover and I was back on the road.
I carry concealed. I do so because I have a right to do it under law, and I am willing to accept the responsibility for my safety and the safety of my family. To a lesser extent of those around me. But that also means I have the responsibility to use the weapon in a manner which meets certain standards. Not only hitting the target when I shoot, which isn’t a problem.
You remind me of an idiot I ran into at the range last time. According to him I wasn’t doing anything right. My weapon, a Five Shot Magnum revolver, was not serious. The way I carried it was old fashioned. And I was using the wrong targets. I was shooting bullseye instead of silhouette. He snorted and told me that the bad guy would not be wearing a bullseye if I was attacked. I had spent nine years in the Army shooting at silhouettes. I ran the target out further, more than double what he was shooting at. I reloaded my revolver, and aimed and fired. all five in the black, only one in the ten ring, the other four in the nine. I told him the bad guy might as well be wearing a target if I’m shooting at him.
By comparison he was all over the damned place, several even missing the target entirely. I told him the most awesome gun with the baddest ammunition won’t do you a bit of good if you miss the target entirely.
Yeah, I am old fashioned. I believe that you don’t shoot someone who is unarmed. An old fashioned idea that literally goes to the old west. I believe that marksmanship means I hit the target. Today it means you fire all your rounds in the general direction of the target in under two seconds. I believe that courage means facing your fear, instead of using that fear as an excuse to kill someone. I believe in a lot of old fashioned ideals.
If you had been in charge of the Marines in the 1980’s, the motto would have been dishonor before death, instead of the more commonly accepted form.
Well s0n, I must admit I cant compete with a legend in his own mind. In terms of that, you have no peer in here. Find one other USMB member who can write 35 paragraphs about themselves in one post!If you can, I'll give you a fine cigar!
So again, you have nothing but insults. Not surprising for a Dishonor before Death type. A coward that can cheer the deaths of others.
To a gutter scum like you, that story may have sounded heroic. But it wasn’t in those days. That was the standard. That was simply the expected behavior. I guess we had higher standards in those days. Before scum like you got involved in the process. I never thought it was heroic, and I don’t expect your adulation. I told the story so you could see it was the norm, not the exception, in those days.
As for blaming Liberals for that mentality? It was 1989-1991. After eight years of Ronald Reagan, and in Iraq, after more than two of George H. W. Bush. The Ultra Conservatives that you lionize. Those were the standards. We were not going to have any more massacres of civilians like they had in Viet Nam. We were not going to shoot first and ask questions never like happened in that God Forsaken war. We had learned. We had learned that you must act with honor. It is why we had so many of the enemy surrender. They knew we would not kill them just because. They knew we would treat them properly.
It is a lesson this generation has lost. Honor is not about how others treat you, but about how you treat others. I can see you would have trouble qualifying for even a sliver.
you would not shoot him???
you would get into a fist fight??? etc??? instead of using your weapon?
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