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Of course. And in that situation, the game plan changes to "pull out gun, empty it into their torso at point-blank range". If someone's already got their hands on you, it's way past time to try and warn or scare them off.

Yeah, I've fired guns. Not a whole lot, but enough to get the point. I don't understand the range arguement either; yeah, you might miss firing at someone that far away, but if you had a different weapon you'd have zero chance of hitting them anyway. Plus, stuff like mace is useless under certain conditions. A heavy wind or rainstorm turns it into a glorified hairspray can. Also, depending on what kind you use, some people can take a full dose of the shit right in the face and keep coming for you. And with a tazer/stungun you have to be close enough for them to grab you, hit them just right, and hope it's enough to take them down. And if there's multiple attackers, well, ya fucked. Way too many variables. That's the difference with a gun: it works pretty much anywhere, on pretty much anyone. General rule of thumb: never point a gun at anyone within arm's reach. Or even slightly further away. I call it the Bruce Lee theorem: "if Bruce Lee was standing that far away, could he kick the gun out of my hand?" Up close, guns are only useful for intimidation if you're aiming at the kind of person who freezes up under pressure and wouldn't try anything. And of course you can't ever guarantee that someone will be like that, so, generally, if you're gonna draw down on someone close, try to take a couple steps back. That's one reason I try to avoid fights. When it comes to an actual physical struggle with intent to cause harm, I have no sense of "fair play" whatsoever. I'm an eye-gouging, nut-stomping, fish-hooking, extremity-biting bastard. If someone is really trying to hurt me, I have no problem with picking up the nearest heavy object and smashing it over their head as hard as I can. Til they stop moving. I see no reason to get involved in some kind of "friendly barfight" or something similar. Fuck that bullshit. Don't fight unless it's worth killing for. Okay, but there are plenty of nutcases out there who'll kill you for any kind of fighting back. Or because they think you might fight back. Or because they hate people of your gender/race/age/class/size/whatever. Or because someone specifically planned ahead of time to murder you. Or because you just happened to be in the wrong place when someone decides to go postal. There's all kinds of reasons someone might decide to kill. If someone tries to carjack me, I can't read his mind and tell if he's the type of guy who just wants the car and will let me go unharmed, or that other type. Don't the majority of shootings involving legally registered guns tend to be accidents in the home?

Not police tazer, one of those civilian stungun thingies. One of the wrestlers used it as a gimmick, and in the locker room they were constantly sneaking up on people and zapping them. Plus my brother and his various cop/security/military buddies would often get drunk, pull out the hardware, and proceed to become menaces to society.

I been tazed. I know it hurts. I still don't understand the reasoning that you'd be more frightened of a non-lethal weapon with temporary effects and a very limited range than you would be of a gun. Even if they don't have the knowledge or the will to use it, they could still just jump at a sudden movement or something and shoot you anyway.

Unless you live in the kind of neighborhood where the street criminals tend to carry guns, too. If they've got a firearm and you've got a tazer or pepper spray, I don't like your chances. Plus there's the intimidation factor. How scared are you of someone who menacingly pulls out a can of mace? It's a bit different looking down the barrel of a gat.

Some might disagree with your tactical assessment.

I'm too much of a lazy loser to seriously flirt with you, so let's just pretend that I did. We can act like we had the uncomfortable conversations where you're making up excuses to avoid me and everything.

These are tolerable. Though you still need something better.

Preachy doctors of any specialty are horrible. If a doctor tries to Very Sternly Talk Some Sense Into Me, it only makes me automatically tend to dismiss their opinions entirely. Dentists are always the worst about it, they seem to think that the fact that you haven't been flossing is a personal insult equivalent to you calling their mommy a whore.

I dunno. But I could ask some of the badass black guys I've known who lived in Kentucky. One of them was a coke dealer. He didn't seem scared of white things.

No, it doesn't work that way. Lone serial killers are hard to catch precisely because they tend to be loners, and nobody else has any idea what they're up to. Groups of criminals almost invariably end up collapsing one way or another. In everything from the Mafia to this recent cult of polygamist childfuckers in Texas, there's always at least one poor bastard who decides they can't take it anymore and ends up snitching the whole group out.

I can't believe people are actually wondering if it might've been a shoot. Come on. Can you see Vincent Kennedy McMahon just sitting and watching as his announcers get up and go AWOL in an unscripted moment? He would've applied the testicular claw and dragged Adamle back out to the announce table by his nuts.

As opposed to, say, a century ago in the sexually repressed Victorian times. When it was utterly common and accepted for a 15-year-old girl to marry a man who was triple her age. People who say "OMG thingz R getting wurse!" are simply ignorant of history.

This sounds like some kind of comic book shit. An entire gang of serial killers, roaming the whole country and racking up dozens of victims, while somehow leaving zero evidence behind?

I'm still wondering where this angle came from, since it's the first time I've heard it.

Thanks, but:

Just remember: it's Russo. Someone's turning on someone.

They still make those? I thought the caliber was mostly discontinued after the similar .40 got popular. You never mentioned THAT part. What the hell is the recoil like on a pair of full auto Desert Eagles? Wow, that's all sorts of lame. Yeah, they were illegal in Tennessee too. But you could still buy 'em at gun shows and the like, they were just officially sold as "belt buckles" or "paperweights". Unfortunately, I am not well armed. My brother owned all the cool weapons of the household, and took 'em all when he moved out. All I've got left is a few knives, especially one menacing fucker which is a dead ringer for the knife from Scream. And oh yeah, also got:

True, I really shouldn't be such a dick to the n00bs. But look at the last page of this thread. There's literally ten guys who signed up and seem to have never posted anywhere but in this topic. That's just creepy. Besides, the one guy who posted all the shoots seems to have stopped doing it.

People died of common diseases for a longer time than they've been cured through modern medicine.

Stop that. Half the cops in this shooting were black.

For all the people who join the board and post just once in a request to get free shit: no. No, we will not give you what you want. Because you're evil people who touch yourselves at night and are fated to burn forevermore in the fell hellfires of damnation, amen.

No. I tolerate lactose, and warm milk sounds icky to me.

Specifically to annoy you.