Originally Posted by Suvorov
Just where IS Charlton Heston now, when we need him? I spose he's still got those "cold, dead fingers" wrapped around a firearm. I had forgotten Chuck Connors (The Rifleman) was in that, too. Not to mention a real old time "tuff guy" - Edward G. Robinson.
"We are the domestic pets of a human zoo we call civilization."
Laurence Gonzales - "Deep Survival."
Are gas stations, restaurants and stores limiting cash purchases or limiting them to certain registers in your area? In addition to that there are at least three gas stations within 5 miles of me with signs up offering to buy change from people. (in AL)
im strong, i can run faster than train
Yep. One of my local markets has gone cashless. They claim it is to protect their workers.
Your comment reminds me of a man who is dead. “Doc” had been a corpsman in Vietnam. He stayed for several months in my friends gun shop in a rough area of Tulsa. It was not uncommon to hear gunshots at night in the vicinity. ( my friend was a former Seal and nocturnal, we would work on stuff at night). Anyway Doc would mention when his elderly and nearly blind dog would bark he would check out the vicinity of the gun shop. (It was a seedy business park). Anyway, one day I tell the the smith he should warn Doc about going out at night, I did not want him to get ambushed. Mike looked at me, paused, and said “you don’t have have to worry about that old man, he’s salty”. Good memories of camaraderie.
That said, it sure is nice to have someone have your back.
We were a nation of laws.
Are you loyal to the constitution or the “institution”?
The system is being attacked because it doesn't work for a lot of people anymore, or so they say. The problem I see is it's always been that way here since we started this country. The people who want it changed now are naive at best. I spent two years in a Muslim country and a good deal of time in Mexico. They would love to have our system of gov't. That's the reason so many people want to immigrate to the US. The people who want to riot should all see what I've seen. They would just be amazed that they actually have the ability to change the system without destroying it.
People aren't going to lose their fortunes and the currency isn't going to be devalued until those millions of rounds of ammo that was recently purchased is all used up. That would be the difference in this country and places like Africa and Mexico. The gov't doesn't have the hammer and neither do a bunch of skateboarders with frozen water bottles and knifes.
In the P-F basket of deplorables.
I can't assume everyone here listens to Ballistic Radio, so I strongly recommend everyone concerned with the subject matter discussed in this thread go over there and listen to Chris Cypert (if you're reading this, congratulations on getting retired/hired) and Dr. Aprill's most recent appearances for what the bigger landscape and personal portrait of the current circumstances look like.
http://ballisticradio.com/2020/07/30...8-episode-323/
http://ballisticradio.com/2020/08/05...8-episode-324/
http://ballisticradio.com/2020/08/15...8-episode-325/
http://ballisticradio.com/2020/08/24...8-episode-326/
Would you be willing to expound on your line of thought? I’m genuinely curious.
“Conspiracy theories are just spoiler alerts these days.”
Good job moving that conversation to this thread...that was my thought too when I saw it.
I think they're people angry and scared during a global pandemic and a wrecked economy, especially in cities that generally were prone to this sort of thing already. I think a political climate of us vs. them contributes. But I don't think it's more than that.
I think a vaccine and/or better job growth will make it stop as long as it doesn't escalate before we get those.
I do not think we're teetering on the edge of a civil war, and while I think a bunch of lost elections are coming for the GOP, I don't think that's going to ruin the country any more than Trump has.
I think everything is going to be OK.
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