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We will be in a nuclear exchange with Russia in a fortnight if that happens.

I really love the look of those touring bikes.

Y’all all look up the work of Louis Rossman. He does a lot of good work in this area. Right to repair should already be on all of y’all’s radar if it isn’t already.

Do you want me to start ranting about how solar and wind are a scam again? Because this is how you do it.

Since I have a CDL, real ID is mostly a byproduct of what I already had to provide. The fact that I have a hazmat endorsement and a TWIC card means TSA Pre-Check was also another thrown in byproduct.

There’s not a word you type that I would disagree with. I am a proponent of moving toward EVs. That said, I do not in anyway think that the infrastructure is there to support a total changeover at this time. Rural areas will be using ICE vehicles for decades to come. I understand how long it took to electrify the rural areas of this country and I don’t believe that any other new infrastructure will take less time. Hell, just look at the thread we have regarding Internet access in certain areas, as well as the fact that providing POTS lines to the entirety of the country took up into the 70s or 80s. I just see a vast difference between looking at a technology that is obviously the future, being excited and hopeful for what it portends and writing it off as crap because it isn’t everything we want or need to be in this moment. So if somebody is at or nearing retirement age, and especially if they live in a rural area, an EV probably isn’t in their future. There’s a good chance it will be in their children’s or grandchildren’s, and their lives will be better for it.

So like many hot accessories, might be ok for certain competition guns, but not really beneficial for a carry gun.

@Erik88Yup. I see your point about opposition to EVs being based mostly on emotion than facts.

Charging of EVs like Teslas isn’t as straight forward as charging a simple rechargeable AA. The energy throughput from the charger to the vehicle varies throughout the process and is affected by things such as temperature and how charged the battery is. Since we are comparing it to ICE vehicles, think of it like this. When you are filling an empty tank, you can max out the flow from the nozzle initially. As you get to a fuller tank, you have to slow the flow to be able to top it off and get the tank completely full. While the reasons why the phenomenon is the same in EVs is different, the functional outcome is the same. As far as the availability of superchargers, the support infrastructure is growing alongside the demand. I’ve seen multiple stations out west where EVs are much more common that have as many charging stalls as a Buc-ees has pumps.

Your charging times are grossly outdated. For example, Tesla superchargers will charge a vehicle from 0 to 80% in 30 minutes, and to 100% in 90.

Not only that, but I just saw report that said he fired 10 shots and made multiple affective hits from a distance of 40 yards away. What an absolute Chad. I’m curious as to what gun he was carrying. Not because it matters that much in the grand scheme of things, but out of a personal desire for it to be something cheap. Being prepared to defend yourself and others is for poor people too. There is a lot of elitism in the gun community, and that’s just my personal axe to grind.

Elisjsha Dicken (the Good Samaritan and of the two people with a gun that day, the only one who’s name I care about) did not have a permit. He was legally carrying under the Indiana constitutional carry law that went into effect 16 days ago.

Rob is 1000% correct here. No the eff you don’t. The only things to be gained here are negatives. And even the things you think are positives are more terrible than you know.

Full hallway video from Uvalde has been released. If you choose to watch it, it will be infuriating to watch the incompetence and total inaction at play here This pretty much says everything I really could about it.

It’s easier to back into a spot than to back out of one. Also, it’s habit as most of my parking is in truck much, much larger and you always back those in.

Happy to be of service.

Actual CATs from North American Rescue.

So important. If one is training/working with other folks then IFAKs should be standardized in contents and placement.

I put them to use and have them staged everywhere. To the OP, the CAT is the best to use. Nothing is as effective, but other styles can be effective as long as you aware of their limitations. Biggest thing is to make sure you train and practice with them. You don’t want to be trying to read an instruction manual when you or someone else is bleeding out.

I believe Garufa is correct.

This one is all you.

As far as he’s concerned, that is the law.

What folks may or may not do on a hypothetical day in the future is one thing but it is explicitly against the TOS to solicit or promote engaging in illegal activity. Outside of being against the rules, openly talking about breaking the law (even if the law in question is a bunch of BS) is stupid and asking for needless trouble. In the interest of the wellbeing of any dogs that may live or even just be in the general vicinity of your house, I’m locking this thread. We’re done here.

The Lulz is no longer going to be joining this conversation, ever. His thoughts on FP aren’t in play anymore. We can leave talk of Russia and Bolsonaro to the side. ——————— If it is prohibited to use a firearm for self defense even when the criminals have them, then yes, one’s right to self defense has been effectively removed. Maybe not in name, but definitely in practice. It’s a semantic dodge to pretend otherwise. This is the norm around the world. The US is one of the few countries that explicitly recognizes the right, but there is no way you don’t already know that. If one is limited to fists or melee tools to defend one’s person than the winner of any confrontation will almost always be the person who is bigger, stronger, and more skilled. Unless one party has a firearm in which case they will win nearly always. In an example of the practical outcome of this, to remove the ability of someone to use a firearm for self defense is to condemn almost all women to be the victims of almost any man that wishes to do them any sort of harm. Or different, non-firearm example. In the Jim Crow era poll taxes, literacy tests and other obstacles were in place to prevent black folks from voting. Sure, they had the right, in theory, but did they in practice? Not in the least. Nobody pretends otherwise. So to answer the question I posed rhetorically earlier, yes. If you remove someone’s ability to effectively exercise a right, then you have removed that right.