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2 hours ago, deerslayer said:
Not saying this is you, but 95% of the OCers I see fit the Fudd category or look like they got their first gun last Wednesday. A $5 holster and they don’t seem to notice or care that someone is standing 12” behind them. I think my daughter could disarm many of them. They probably tell everybody nobody notices their gun or has ever said anything to them.
I live in east tn. I have never seen someone open carrying in a reckless or manner. It seems some here may think that if you open carry at all your being reckless but not me. I am 6'2 and weigh 195 lbs with a 32 inch waist, it is very tough to conceal carry in the summer. I end up with a ankle holster most of the time. In the winter I use a OSWB with a light jacket. The biggest problem with ankle carry is that it is hard to draw my firearm inconspicuously. The good part is if I am sitting down it is easier to get to than on the waist. If standing I have been able to draw and fire in under 2 seconds. Open carrying is by far the fastest and easiest way to access a firearm. I guess that's part of the reason LE OC.
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8 minutes ago, GlockSpock said:
Touche. That is exactly a valid question. You wouldn't know individually whether or not you would have fared better/worse if those people had not been vaccinated. However, you can look at the numbers and also discuss things with local doctors/ICU/etc and generally find that that majority of people in ICU/dying are unvaccinated. That's been my local experience, but I also haven't talked to anyone that's fessed up to taking Ivermectin.
If you trust a lot of the research shown, statistically people who are vaccinated are less likely to develop a severe infection. @MacGyver reinforced several pages or several dozen pages back in one of the threads the sheer amounts of data we have for this specific topic.
I would also like to see more data about the side effects of the vaccine. The only thing I have found was over 11 k deaths from the shot. I know 2 people that died within a week after the shot, that's not to say it was the cause but.... I also know several people that have had problems after the shot, the most common has been symptoms like MS. They did clear up over time months but still not much data on that type of thing.
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1 minute ago, GlockSpock said:
I'm glad they are well again however I sincerely would like to ask the following:
1) What evidence do you have to support that it cured them? This post goes into more detail regarding my thinking, but how might they have fared had they not taken it?
2) Regarding the entire group of people, how do you know there aren't side effects? If it is indeed the "same" as prescription formulas just in different quantities and taken within typical prescription fashion (quantity and length of treatment), then of course I would expect it to be as safe as a prescribed regiment if taken correctly. But if it is taken in higher quantities or for longer than typically prescribed, who is to say that it doesn't cause organ damage, etc?
I guess my entire argument is summed as the following:
Does "it cured them" hold up to a single person taking Ivermectin while having COVID if they get better? What if the deathrate from COVID is 1% and then if 1,000 people with COVID take Ivermectin and 10 of them still die?
I also hear people the have got shot say the their symptoms where not as bad because of the vac. My question is how do you know that? I have talked to people that had no symptoms that did not get the vac and others that did that are in the hospital. How does one person know that the shot helped them?
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1 hour ago, ReeferMac said:
*You're
The governments of several western nations are actively pressuring health care providors to NOT prescribe it to people for treatment or prophalactic against Covid. I would post a link from last night to a Canadian Dr. Who posted her first hand account and a copy of the letter she received, but its already been taken down and memory holed.
Another person in this thread posted a first hand account from a facility in Nashville.
People who WANT to get it through their health care professional cannot.
OUR GOVERNMENT IS ACTIVELY RESTRICTING YOUR AND MY ACCESS TO SAFE AND PROVEN DRUG, AND INSTEAD ARE PUSHING A NOVEL MEDICATION EN MASSE ON THE ENTIRE POPULATION.
Put your politics aside, ignore the media soundbites. Look at what is happening. You can't get the safe and proven one from your dr, only the new experimental one. Go ahead, call your doctor, ask them to phone a script in to your local Kroger, tell us what happens? Honestly curious.
I have talked to my doc and the local CVS. They either carry it or can get it and he would prescribe it for me, thats the best I can do at the moment. If I get 19 I will see how it works.
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19 minutes ago, Chucktshoes said:
This is generally where I stand, but for those that OC like the kind of folks @Murgatroymentioned with their floppy Uncle Mike’s holster looking like a bag of smashed assholes, let it be know that I’m judging them very harshly along with everyone else.
I agree, Just not seen anyone open carrying like that.
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31 minutes ago, Grunt67 said:
Since you're the expert on ambush, I'll not continue the argument. And yes, I have been on the bad side of an ambush.
I have as well, but it was not because i was open carrying, which is what we are talking about. Not an expert just a little common sense.
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2 hours ago, Grunt67 said:
Police OC, they get ambushed regularly. It's on the news.
No kidding, but not by someone wanting to rob a place and decide to take out the cop first. Ambushing a cop and targeting someone that is open carrying while committing another crime are two different things.
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3 minutes ago, Grunt67 said:
Data is like polls, you can make it what you want. Everybody has the right to decide for themselves. Personally, I will only CC. Just because you have a visible weapon, doesn't mean you can't be approached from behind. I prefer to at least have some element of surprise, and survival.
How about a link to the data?
I said there was no data that I can find so there is no link. Just because you are CC does not mean you cannot be approached from behind. Please someone find me a story of someone that was targeted first only because they were open carrying.
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I am not sure where you guys live but the few times I have OCed no one noticed that I could tell. A G26 up tight on my waste is neither a "I have a gun so I am bad" thing or anything else other than I got hot and had to take off my jacket thing. No one has ever said something or eyed me in any way that would not seem normal.
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Sorry double post.
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On 9/7/2021 at 2:34 PM, bersaguy said:
I have never open carried and never will. It is just an advertisement for a bad guy to shoot me 1st. The only people outside of my family and my doctor and staff know that I carry. Most times if I have a belt holster I'm wearing a long loose shirt or light jacket. If I have my shoulder holster on normally I have on a light windbreaker.
This is just my opinion on OC. I think if you do see an open carry chances are he/she is a new gun owner or does not have an HCP and is using the new law just to show off mostly and probably never thought they might be a target for a bad guy!!
Sorry there is no data showing that one open carrying is the first target nor does it make sense. Bad guys generally want as few confrontations possible. The likely hood of one getting shot and not being able to return fire is more like the movies than real life and few bad guys are looking to get in a gun fight. What if a bad guy comes into a restaurant and armed cop is setting there? Do you think they are the first target or will the bad guy go find a easier place to rob. I have never heard of someone being targeted first because they were armed. I also does not seem reasonable that a bad guy would scan the crowd looking to take out someone armed. Its more likely if the bad guy sees someone armed they will pick a easier target. The times I have OP was with a G26 that very few people even could see more less a bad guy making me the first target.
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20 hours ago, Erik88 said:
Ya know, videos like this really explain why certain countries are so far behind the rest of the world. I watch a lot of those videos from websites like liveleak and it's always people in the 3rd world countries making the worst decisions.
Not always third world.
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I am told if your employer forces you to get the vaccine and you have complications it should be covered by their workman's comp.
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My wife deals with the corporate attorneys all the time as the HR person for her company. She is told be the attorneys that her company can require the vaccine. They have not yet but I would also like to see if they are responsible for negative side effects. The last I saw over 11k have died because of the shot.
25 years ago I worked for the largest company in the world in the wholesale food business. I increased sales a million a year in my territory which put me far ahead of the other reps. I was the first to get laid off. Been self employed since then.
My son was testing normal until he got his second set of shots as a baby, he is now 22 years old but mentally is 10. He will require care for the rest of my life and the rest of his, try planning for that. For that reason and others my 18 daughter has never had a shot and we did the religious exemption for school. We are very religious by the way. Of course it was not the shots that caused the issue with my son, it was just a coincidence.
Needless to say no one in my house has had the 19 vaccine or are we planning on getting it.
Keep in mind the 3rd leading cause of death in the US are doctors and hospitals.
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On 7/31/2021 at 3:17 PM, pop pop said:
45guy, 25 an hour is a bargain. Last time I checked, years ago, around Mid TN it is flat rate 100.00 per hr and lots of bond and liability ins must be provided. Plus must use off duty officers. That was several years ago. For our church just labor cost for 3 hrs on Sunday was 300.00 and bond and insurance was very expensive. We were a church of 220 nd we simply could not afford armed security at our congregation.
Ours are on duty, we are just paying them to be there instead of somewhere else. That is what the DA recommended.
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6 minutes ago, btq96r said:
I'm saying put them into perspective and realize we don't have a problem to unduly stress over. Between government stimulus making it rain on individuals/banks/business, all those sectors of the economy starting to rev up again after shutdowns, a labor force with a lot of transition, and supply chains that are to inflexible to adapt easily, inflation is the symptom and not the disease for the moment. COVID is going to take probably the rest of this year and a good bit of the next to get over in the real economy where people have to make things and provide services.
Good, was not stressed before not stressed now. I tend to go with small adjustments anyway.
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53 minutes ago, btq96r said:
Most of the drivers in that inflation was year over year increases for things that were at a virtual standstill this time last year (airfare, rental cars, hotels, ect) because of COVID. Used cars are spiking because new cars are in delays for the semiconductor crunch, and appliances are stuck in a global shipping backlog. All these things lead to inflation for their specific areas, but they aren't pushing overall inflation up in a way that a rising tide lifts all boats, just causing some funky numbers.
The math on the pay cut you reference does not hold up. Inflation and the CPI are two different things, and both are imperfect for a whole lot of reasons.
So are you saying we should just ignore the inflation numbers.
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I have them in 4 cars. Not sure the brand. There is a local guy that installs them for me. I always get the ones with 2 cameras front and back. I have them in my daughters car as well and can track her if need be with it. I had a Lexus LS 460 one week and a guy side swiped me on a little curvy road close to home. I saw it coming as was almost stopped and in the ditch trying to avoid him. He was clearly way on my side of the road. He was very sorry when we talked while waiting for LE to arrive. Funny he was not sure he had crossed the center line when talking to LE. Fortunately the officer could tell what really happened and placed the blame on the guilty party. I had the car for one week and had to gotten the cams put in yet so it was my word and the experience of the officer that had me covered. Love the dash cams.
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2 hours ago, Moped said:
Lumber prices are starting to come down, again. But if you recall they were very high last summer, when Trump was President. Housing is ridiculous, because the demand is very high. I think that there is a bubble forming and soon it will burst. Gas is where I notice it most.
Lumber was no where near as high last summer as it has been lately.
Lumber PRICE Today _ Lumber Spot Price Chart _ Live Price of Lumber per Ounce _ Markets Insider
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Inflation last month was 5.4 % up. that means if you make 75 k a year you took a pay cut of over 4k. I think it will get worse as we keep righting off student loans and printing money. Not sure what the effect will be other that higher prices and lower buying power.
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I own and run a B to B barter exchange. In other words part of what I do is manage our currency. For 19 years now my practice has been to not extend loans or print money. It has worked well to protect the value of our currency. Wish the Fed Gov would try that. Currently our currency is tied to the US dollar. Looking at options for the future.
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Just wondering what others are doing to prepare for the inflation that is here and is going to get worse? I have a stock of silver, ammo and some food items. Thoughts?
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Anyone doing anything for the inflation that is coming?
in Survival and Preparedness
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https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2021/09/13/inflation-is-rising-and-three-major-categories-are-getting-worse-n2595788