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I like how you can change the bullets in Word to be arrowheads.
It's kind of like taking a knife to a gunfight!
(eh, too much of a reach. Plus bows =/= knives. This joke doesn't make the GOOD list; it belongs in the OK corral.)
Would pepper spray have helped?
agree. I bought pepper spray a few years ago as I was running alone a lot, and I carried it once and have never even test sprayed it.
You can bet that if someone points a gun at me, I'm going to give them the $4000 in loose change all runners carry in their pockets, and not dare them to shoot by trying to disengage the safety mechanism and spray them. Now a coyote or dog I may spray.
My Glock is too heave to run with, my shorts would be pulled down. Other than that I carry it all the time. In today's world you just have to.. Sad!! But true. And if the courts get the criminal some nutty jury will let them go or some judge will let them out early. Criminals don't fear the justice system so I see to it that they fear me.
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Knowing people feel they need to carry a gun scares me. Then again, that may be explained by the fact that there have been no murders in my city in my life. A few people have been beat up/raped, but not where I run.
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Works less than you would think. and pisses a lot of people off
your comment makes me wonder if you spray people regularly.
Nah, I just get sprayed a lot, nobody respects a chicken wristed runner even with a Glock with 32 round magazine.
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I like how you can change the bullets in Word to be arrowheads. It's kind of like taking a knife to a gunfight! (eh, too much of a reach. Plus bows =/= knives. This joke doesn't make the GOOD list; it belongs in the OK corral.)
ouch.
It's a 5k. It hurt like hell...then I tried to pick it up. The end.
It was A Joke Too Far.
Not if I could avoid it. I didn't like carring Mace or pepper spray, but it was part of my issued equipment. I was a Military cop and later as a civilian a DoD Policeman. I have hit drunks with both and the only person chocking and eyes watering was ME and those fellow cops helping me. The drunk just kept coming at me! Trust me that will make you backside pucker BIG TIME!!
Once a Jar head challenged me, saying I thought I was tough because I had weapon, but "we all know it ain't loaded". I hit the mag. release and showed him it was indeed loaded. "Well gee they don't let me have ammo" I told him I completely understood that. He did decide to cooperate after that though.
A Carry Permit is like fire insurance. You have it and keep it up todate and pray HARD ya NEVER have to use it
What is a phone booth?
A pretty good film.
I never carry a gun as I would be too inclined to use it.
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Other than that I carry it all the time. In today's world you just have to.. Sad!! But true.
However have I and every single person I know gotten this far in life without carrying a gun?
"Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain."
Jack Kerouac
And other than as military cop I have never had to draw mine either. And I have never had to use my fire insurance either, but I still buy it each year.
How is it you haven't known ANYONE who was robbed, broken into raped or car jacked?
There has got to be a reason that per 100,000 population, Canada has 2.44 deaths by gun, and 10.92 in the USA. I'm not saying that the gun registry is the full reason, but it can't hurt at all. I have never seen any reason to carry a gun. I live in a pretty safe area of a decent city, but even in the rougher parts of my city, I just avoid them after dusk.