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Yes! Even if you can't own a gun for legal/moral/mental health reasons, you can still do training like this! If you're not going to be armed, you can at least make a field medic of yourself. And then, even without a gun, you could be immensely valuable to the cause.
Just remember -- if you're going to do this, bring friends!
One armed protester, the pigs will readily shoot as a 'valid target'. But if there are multiple armed protesters, the pigs know they can't shoot them all without any risk of return fire.
If you're going to open carry at a protest, bring at least 2 friends with you!
To be fair, though, they need to log a certain amount of flight time just to meet pilot training requirements, so this sortie could probably just be counted against that.
(Same thing with flyovers at sporting events and such. Those are actually done as practice bombing runs -- gives pilots practice at flying over a specific target at a specific time.)
Yeah... I don't really want to see US infantry on the ground in Ukraine, but I would have really liked to see the US enforce a no-fly zone over contested areas and maybe also bomb the shit out of Russian forces in Ukraine from the air.
Hitting targets inside Russia could be politically nonviable, as it probably violates some international laws, but with Ukraine's permission, they could absolutely hit anything they wanted inside Ukrainian territory.
Making a treaty with the US is folly.
Yep. If you need confirmation, just ask any Native American.
Even then ... 20 years is a long time. Who's to say the US won't elect another Russian-puppet pedo within that time?
I assume that the new agreement would involve more concrete conditions and responsibilities
And what happens when (not if) the Trump administration (or some even worse successor) ignores those concrete conditions and responsibilities? Is Ukraine going to sue the USA in international court while they're being overrun?
There's no 'security guarantee' out there anymore that could possibly be worth the paper it's written on.
If I were in charge of Ukraine right now, I'd be looking for 'security guarantees' in the form of mutual defense pacts with other countries in the region that could be in a similar situation. Poland, Finland, etc. Those might actually have your back, since they know that they're next if you fall.
No, these have a legitimate use. They can be used in combination with other targets for shoot/no-shoot drills, where some of the targets on the range are legitimate targets you need to hit and others are no-shoot targets you're penalized for hitting. (They need to otherwise look just like the legitimate targets, which is why it's still done in the same style, with hit zones and everything. Because you're training to recognize the difference between a phone and a weapon (under stress and quickly), and if there were other ways to distinguish the target, you might be mis-training. For example, if it had big red 'no shoot' lettering on it, you could easily end up training to look for and recognize that text, rather than looking for and recognizing what the person is holding.)
For example, you could be doing a room-clearing exercise with several targets in the room. One like this, other ones pointing a gun at you. And (as quickly as possible) you need to identify the ones that are a threat, shoot them, and not shoot this one.
Used properly, targets like this could help train the piggies to not shoot unarmed civilians.
Now are these targets being used properly as no-shoot targets? Or are the piggies having fun with their fantasies of shooting people who try to hold them accountable? That's ... a question.
I don't know if it's necessarily that malicious.
Just ... if your store ordered a lot of a certain clothing item, assuming it would sell well, but then it didn't sell well, what do you do with it? If you leave it on the store shelves, it's taking up valuable retail space that could be better utilized for displaying and selling something people actually want. Storing it in some back room isn't going to work well -- that will build up over time and you'll end up having a whole warehouse of unwanted clothing.
Option 1: The right thing to do would be to put those items on sale/discount until they do sell. All the way down to free if you have to. But some stores think that would 'cheapen their brand', and most stores don't want you to buy something at a steep discount if it means you'll no longer buy a similar item for full price.
Option 2: You could send the unsold stock off to a discount/outlet retailer and let them sell it at a discount ... if you even have such a company anywhere around. Or you donate it to some charity for a tax writeoff. But then there's the expense of actually getting it there.
Option 3: You could send unsold stock back to the manufacturer ... but that would be expensive shipping and the manufacturer usually doesn't want it back, which is why nobody does this.
Option 4: You destroy it and/or just toss it in the dumpster out back. Cheap, fast, and easy.
Hopefully, making Option 4 illegal will make Options 1 and 2 more appealing.
The FBI isn't supposed to have anything to do with foreign relations.
Pretty sure that doesn't stop them, though.
Haven't we been prioritizing Israel for decades already? What more does he want us to do?
Even if you are in that (rather misguided) camp, there are better alternatives. Specifically, a grip safety. Safety automatically disengaged as long as you're holding the gun properly. Can't 'forget' to do that!
And, yes, there are good, modern designs that use grip safeties. The Springfield XD line, for example. (Those models also require a trigger pull for disassembly, though. Is it that hard to include some kind of decocker?)