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April 11, 2008, 09:03 AM | #26 | ||
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April 11, 2008, 09:35 AM | #27 |
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Wild, you really should shave the chest. Then the ducttape won't hurt anymore. Doesn't the tape cause pain to your pistol's finish anyway? Why not just handcuff it to your hand in some fashion? An M1A with an ACOG? Too bad you haven't gotten a quad rail system for it and installed an M203 yet. It might not be a bad idea to invest in some sort of flame thrower and claymore yard defense system either.
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Some people with a Rambo mentality, however, are "on the edge." I'm just judging this from what I read online as I haven't met anyone to this level, but they are just sure that some group (an ethnic/religious/political group) will be assaulting their neighborhood at any time, and they have based their life on being ready to "go down fighting" or "join the revolution" or whatever. These people scare me ... just because when you're looking for a fight, you generally find one eventually. BTW -- although I have far fewer guns than many on this site, and only one military style rifle (a cheap SKS) many of my neighbors consider me a Rambo for owning any guns, and for my NRA shirts/membership. I guess being a Rambo is relative to where you live. Quote:
IF I understand what you're saying ... As boys, especially in some cultures, we're raised that we're the protectors of our family/wives/women. This is a heavy burden, and some men (especially when they get older and start wondering if they can still throw a hard punch) turn this into fear that can only be assauged by having lethal fire power at their fingertips. Women, I tend to think, are not given such a heavy burden for their own defense societally -- not something we speak about, but something that is inherent in our movies and culture. There are many, many exceptions to this obviously ... I'm talking about generalities, not hard and fast rules. My .02 ... I'd be lying if I didn't say my age somewhat affects my desire to carry a weapon. 15 years ago I was quite confident (falsely or not) that I could flatten any schmuck who dared lay a hand on me. Now I am not. With the change in laws in Colorado I now carry a weapon as casually as I carry my keys -- but then, I don't always carry all my keys either. Because I recognize where I live/what the dangers are/etc. are highly unlikely to put me in a really bad situation. Highly unlikely, not impossible. When I'm travelling (which I do often) I don't bring a weapon unless it's a car trip through states that are CCW friendly to me (which means I almost never carry when travelling). I'm not in fear at these times, but when you're at a rest stop in the middle of Kansas at 3:00 a.m. with groups of shady looking people loitering about having a .38 tucked in my belt does make me feel a little more secure about using the restroom. Am I a Rambo? Y'all decide. I will accept the title if I must. Some may consider me a "sheeple." I'll accept that title as well if you think it fits.
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April 11, 2008, 11:35 AM | #29 |
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I run across LOTS of Rambos. Round here we call them POLICE.*
*_Only (kinda, the official Rambos are the worst) kidding_ |
April 11, 2008, 12:06 PM | #30 |
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I don't carry a pistol to become a hero, I do it so that I might avoid becoming a statistic.
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April 11, 2008, 12:52 PM | #31 | ||
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April 11, 2008, 02:20 PM | #32 | |
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Yeah, it's really easy to make light of the reality. Most of us will never need to ever draw our guns at home or while conceal carrying. However, in our society, these types of things happen all too often. It's best to be prepared. |
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April 11, 2008, 02:44 PM | #33 |
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It is the antis that are truly fearful.
The antis suffer from burry head in sand disease. They are so frightful of the prospect that there are bad people in this world and cannot bear to believe it, that they hide from that truth.
And with their heads burried so far in the sand about the nature of (some) people, they fail to see any valid purpose a lawful use of a gun. After all, if you don't acknowledge that there are evil doers about, then why would you need a firearm for protection? So then, they (the antis) start to speculate about why somone so deperately wants to carry a gun around if it has no benign purpose.... eureka! They must want it for a malevolent purpose of some kind. The irony is then, that they actually start to see proponents of firearms for SD as being bad evil people (that they fear). It is a mentally deffective, fearful twist of insane reasoning that these anti fools operate under. They are some of the most cowardly, fearful, unwilling to take personal responsability sorry representations of human beings there are. And they DARE to call those of us who do have the courage to take personal responsability cowards? In short, the antis want to ban guns because it is their equivilent version of pulling to covers up over their head so they do not have to face the real world. The world they do not wish to accept because it frightens them. :barf: |
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April 11, 2008, 03:27 PM | #35 |
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well,speaking as a "Rambo"(must be,i own an AR and i carry)...
...although i dont draw down on Girl Scouts. ive seen many violent attacks in my life(i guess some of us are luckier than others). never had anyone ive known,killed or hurt from carbon monoxide...yet almost everyone i know has detectors. go figure. |
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From the article: "Good Guy pulls his own gun and kills Bad Guy, saving lives and becoming a hero. In real life that rarely if ever happens."
Certainly true, as it's stated and as any liberal would see it. But, I think it might become much less rare if real "common sense" gun laws permited more sane folks to carry without fear of legal reactions. Right now most of us are as helpless as the sheeple when murderous idiots pull out their arms and start shooting! |
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As to the ‘Rambo syndrome’ I’ve encountered it over the internet but never in real life. |
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If you grabbed a shovel and followed a bull around in a very short time you could fill a wheelbarrel full of opinions better than Jay Bookman's.
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April 14, 2008, 01:21 AM | #43 |
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I simply defend that which is valuable to my soon-to-be wife and our family just the same as one guards a bank bag full of cash. No further aspirations than that. Any violence is the other party's choice; mine is merely not being on the losing end.
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