E4 No More

I'm sorry, but I consider someone who earns the Ranger's Tab to be special forces. You should also note that the Marine Corps states that they are the largest special forces unit in the US.

I love the bobtailed mainspring housings. It makes them a lot easier to carry IWB and it fits nicely in the hand.

He was there to get a sedative and got one!

The green doesn't do it for me, but I would look at it like #3 would be the least likely to flop/twist under the shirt.

Telephoto lenses or drones. A dude in brentwood sent a picture from his drone to the local channel's weather team, and they showed it on TV. It was a pretty darn good picture taken by a couple hundred feet in the air by my estimation.

That would have been helpful information if it were included in the OP. It certainly makes more sense now.

"Gilani attended a 1993 jihadist conference in Sudan along with members of Hamas, Hezbollah and Osama bin Laden himself."   This "article" lost me right there with this sentence.

The TBI was reportedly watching one in Greenbrier for many years.

Yes, life isn't fair, but you shouldn't teach your children to just take it in the butt submissively.

Fair enough, but what did you end up teaching your son in this instance?

I don't find it funny either.

Wide load will surely pardon him...right?  :dunno:

Just wait; it'll come...or will it?

I shoveled ice off my driveway while the sun was out, but I didn't have fun.   Note to self: Never shovel ice off your driveway and then come in and sit for an hour.

Eating a donut without the glaze is like having sex without the orgasm.

That makes sense given the amount of dashcam footage from Russia that is on the Internet.

Glad it's working for you. I have something similar and couldn't stand to wear it due to feeling contricted.

Thanks, but I choose not to ignore half of the law. Whether you do or not is certainly up to you, but this thread was not started to do so.

I disagree. Clear case law helps you decide beforehand cutting decision time.

Damn, JAB, I'm sorry to hear this. Although I'm not dealing with cancer like you I didn't mention a couple of abdominal surgeries that essentailly land me in the same boat as you if I took one to the gut. I was afraid that if I did mention everything some smartazz on this forum would suggest taking me out and putting me out of my misery. :)

LOL! Thanks, Mike.

That just looks good. It's a good balanced look to me. :)

I thought the same thing at first.

I attempt to stay situationally aware as well, but as we all know trouble can simply find you.

Thanks for what you wrote, Dave, because this reinforces a point in the discussion, and in my case, why I wrote in the OP that I know better than to intentionally escalate a situation as a caveat. If one is dumb enough to intentionally escalate a "Monkey Dance" then they deserve the consequences from do so.   I imagine that just about every middle aged adult male knows of an incident which fits what some call a type of an antisocial attacker. It's the young alpha male type who wants to impress a woman or maintain dominance in his peer group, so he looks for someone to fight that he thinks he can beat. The guy that I'm watching refers to it as the "Monkey Dance." We normally associate this behavior with areas where alcohol is consumed, but with the prevalence of the thug mentality of today's youth it has become a threat all over, (think about "The Knock-out Game" going on around the country as one example). The possibility of being physically assaulted without provocation is increasing daily. Like I said before about my physical appearance to the average person who isn't looking for a fight, (LEO, DA, Judge, or Juror), sends one message, but the nuances conveyed physically, (my limp and age), could tell one of these males that they can take the big guy and press a fight regardless of lack of escalation on my part. I've experienced some form of this in my younger days, so to me it's not a stretch to believe that I could experience this today. I feel that if I don't prepare myself mentally for the unlikely occurence then I'm likely to hesitate in the event that I do experience it. In my case, that hesitation could lead to one good strike to a kidney that could put me on dialysis.   In Missouri where I was a LEO, (granted, it was over 22 years ago), the accepted practice was that if someone simply showed that they had a lawfully possessed weapon as a warning to an aggressor, (whether it be verbal, lifting your shirt to show it, or holding it in a manner not pointing it at someone else), then it wasn't considered assault, but if you aimed it at someone without cause then it was assault. So it appears from your statement that it is the same here in Tennessee - which is important for everyone to know.