'Poly Scrappers I Have a Question for You!

[Lancer]

Get a small handgun that works, carry it hidden but redily available in a quick release holster. Don't take it out unless you are going to use it. Practice alot, until it's natural as scratching your ass and takes less thought. Find someone who knows what they are doing to teach you so you don't kill yourself or someone else.

The best bet would be to avoid such situations. If you're with Mom, choose your routes to avoid trouble, (do this anyway) don't go looking for it because you're tough or something. Get a good pair of running shoes. Call a few friends and see if they want to go walking too. If they want to go somewhere that you don't want to go, let them go.

[Pekka]

also reason for getting a better knife is because if the 'other guy' is wearing a loose jacket, you need some blade already to make the difference.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Repeat that "learn to use it" part a million times.

This weekend, some gangbanger moron hiding from the cops managed to shoot himself with a 9mm Glock in his pocket about 30 feet away from us.

It didn't sound like a shot from anything that big, and when the guy went down, it looked like he just slipped on a little slope down to the beach (it was Memorial day afternoon on the beach, after all). He got up again, and then collapsed without a sound. Still thought he was trashed. Got up a third time, then down for the count with his face in the sand.

Went over to him, and (a) there was a major blood trail, (b) his leg and jeans were soaked from the groin to the ankle. and (c) we spent most of the rest of the afternoon and evening describing what happened to the cops.

In this particular moron's case, he wasn't used to using or carrying a pistol. He was one of three who got into a confrontation and brandished the weapon, but didn't shoot anyone, about a mile from us. The cops responded quickly, and caught the other two near the scene. One of them was the brandisher, and passed the pistol to our fearless moron for him to try to sneak away with it in his pocket.

Lucky for him, the actual owner/thief/user didn't know anything about proper firearm maintenance, so the pistol misfired and didn't develop near normal muzzle velocity - not even enough gas pressure to eject the cartridge.

Unlucky for him, he didn't understand the concept of the handgrip safety on Glocks.

More unlucky for him, the muzzle flash and blowby from the slide was contained between his jeans and his skin. It isn't too likely that he'll have any more use for his genes than he will for that pair of jeans.

Even more unlucky for him, the round traveled longitudinally down his thigh and severed his femoral artery. Amazingly, he didn't bleed out before paramedics arrived to stabilize him, but almost certainly he'll lose the leg at the hip, if he lives.

If he lives, his next destination will be prison, where the Pegleg Pete act will assure his reputation, once the prison population finds out he blew his own leg off by accident and crispy-fried his gonads.

In other words, if you're going to carry a lethal weapon, learn how to properly maintain and handle it.

[Lancer]

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
As well, remember to always consult laws relevant to your locale concerning keeping weapons for self defence and using such weapons in any sort of situation

Better to be tried by twelve than carried by six.

[Lancer]

Oregon has carry laws, my guess is that NM does too. The east coast is wierd, only the bad guys have guns.

[MichaeltheGreat]

California is uptight too - it's a real pain in the ass to get a concealed carry permit in most counties, unless you have a documentable business need - say a gold dealer, jeweler, pawn shop owner or something similar.

[Dis]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat


Better to be tried by twelve than carried by six.

says you

I'd rather be dead than in prison

[Lancer]

That sucks. No wonder Cali has gang problems.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Lancer
Oregon has carry laws, my guess is that NM does too. The east coast is wierd, only the bad guys have guns.

yet amazingly most of the crime is on the west coast.

[MichaeltheGreat]

That's what jury nullification is for.

Besides, prison you eventually get out of. I haven't heard of anyone paroled from being dead.

[Lancer]

"yet amazingly most of the crime is on the west coast."

1) I don't buy this, except in Cali, see MtG's post.

2) If true, then more people should use their right to bear arms.

[Lancer]

"Besides, prison you eventually get out of. I haven't heard of anyone paroled from being dead."



Let me tell you about my Lord, Jesus Christ...

[Japher]

yet amazingly most of the crime is on the west coast

Dissident, could you please indicate which states on this map has the most crime?

[Lancer]

Huh, I'm amazed by Washington state and far eastern Oregon.