As a longtime SAR guy --I'm in my 50s-- I always tell people to carry a gun in the backcountry if that's what makes them feel safe, but just know that you're far far far more likely to get in trouble from things like weather, terrain, rivers, meltwater, falling, exposure, hypothermia and just the elements in general than you are from any animal. The risk profiles aren't even remotely close. This is true even in places like Alaska where almost everyone is armed. As far as I'm concerned, a gun is dead weight. Lose it and concentrate instead on carrying the ten essentials and knowing how to use them
TheSanSabaSongbird
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Among the world's economically developed democracies, it absolutely only happens in one nation. This is not up for debate; it's an objective fact.
How we choose to address this fact is up to us, but being in denial about it is not a sane option.
Said "horrific response" hadn't even started yet when this protest happened. That's a little telling if you ask me.
TBF, we aren't even remotely close to the scale of international conflict seen in the 2 world wars. You have to be deeply ignorant to think otherwise. Again, we're not even close, not even like a tiny fraction in terms of scale.
That's a pleasant fiction. In reality Iran is a military dictatorship with Islamic window dressing. The Iranian regime is not some benevolent force acting out of humanitarian considerations. To the contrary, it's a tyrannical and authoritarian rogue nation seeking wider regional hegemony through dozens of little proxy wars.
The use of "fire-boats" for example, is such an old tactic that its origins disappear into the mists of prehistory.
Well, at least you are confidently wrong. I have a kind of weird grudging respect for the confidently incorrect bozo, like yourself.
At least there's entertainment value in it, right?
My healthcare comes out of my total hourly pay-package, as does my pension. But that's all in addition to my take-home pay, not out of it.
Correct. And even the bad answers are a source of information.
Reputable pollsters have an incentive to be as accurate as possible. It's naive to think that being able to accurately gauge public sentiment isn't a valuable commodity that various entities will pay a lot of money for.
While that was part of it, the 2nd was specifically inspired by Shay's Rebellion, which was not a slave uprising.
The last week or so it's been Too Much Too Young by The Specials. It was on the radio, once, last week and for no good reason I've been stuck with it since. Thanks brain.