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mbryson

mbryson

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SAMI said:
Far more good than it is bad. Obviously we hope folks seek the training. I've offered my assistance across my social media to any new firearm owners that would like some instruction.. Perhaps those of us that are proficient with firearms reach out to offer some instruction/training.

Solutions.
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This comment will take this thread off the rails. Honestly, I'd be interested in actual training. I ALWAYS pick something up when I take advantage of an opportunity. Rifles and handguns are different animals (yet the same---keep the business end away from anything you don't want to destroy). I feel pretty proficient with a rifle but that's more of a hunting type proficiency than a defensive discipline.

My wife did a ladies defensive handgun class quite a few years ago. She needed filler for the class as a few folks weren't able to make it. I used my carry weapon for the class rather than a "range" or "truck" type pistol. It was a great way to go through the class even though I had to reload mags all night. At the time, I hadn't had a handgun for more than a few years. I'm pretty comfortable with my Kahr and I attribute a lot of that to that class.
 
benjy

benjy

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Spork said:
There's always been the hospitals are going to be overwhelmed argument. According to https://www.ksl.com/article/4676774...mo-i-have-no-plans-to-shut-down-utahs-economy it says 171 currently hospitalized, looking at this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hospitals_in_Utah there are 504 beds just in their facility in Murray. Total the numbers from the wiki link and there are 7047 beds in Utah. So maybe someone that can math good will be more accurate but I'm going to say that's about 2-3% of capacity.

If they shut down the state for 2-3% of capacity I'm going to think they are all idiots and vote for anyone that says this is stupid.
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The problem is with ICU beds and ventilators, not total available beds. A few weeks ago, the StG ICU was at 2/3 capacity (only 1/4 of those being COVID patients)... It really would not take much to overwhelm the system, considering the large area the StG hospital serves. In the same report the ICU manager reported that when the 5 county area is reporting 30 cases/day, the ICU will be overwhelmed within 2 weeks, and yesterday there were 47 cases confirmed. So I guess we'll see if the hospital is overwhelmed. https://swuhealth.org/covid/

How did this thread derail to COVID? I thought it was about protests 🤔
 
jeeper

jeeper

I live my life 1 dumpster at a time
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So Jo, Ut
anderson750 said:
And in other news of whether to protest or not to protest or prejudge what is fake or real.

www.nascar.com

NASCAR statement on FBI investigation at Talladega Superspeedway

NASCAR made a statement on Tuesday after the completion of the FBI's investigation into the noose in Bubba Wallace's garage stall at Talladega.
www.nascar.com www.nascar.com
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Are you kidding me??? It was a garage door pull rope?? The news made it sound like a full on rope and noose. What a joke.

Once upon a time I was threatened by police, and told I could not leave my property because a little girl in our neighborhood had been shot at with a paint ball gun while riding her bike in the neighborhood, and it was thought that I did it. The paintball hit the girls back tire, and popped it. There was a large police presence, and it was quite an ordeal. I don't know what all happened behind the scenes.. but it took a few hours of investigating. Eventually, I walked to the little girls house to see what was happening. The police had all left. I looked at the little girls bike, and teenager me took all of 3 seconds to realize what had happened. The girl lived on a hill, and had training wheels on her bike. She skid down the hill, and her tire popped, exploding all the green tire slime onto the tire. I called the police captain and gave him a piece of my mind.
Point is, the amount of stupidity is unreal sometimes. How many people should have caught on to what was really happening in my story, and the nascar story.
 
UNSTUCK

UNSTUCK

But stuck more often.
TRD270 said:
nypost.com

Oregon county issues face mask order that exempts nonwhite people

Lincoln County, Oregon, has exempted nonwhite people from a new order requiring that face coverings be worn in public — to prevent racial profiling. Health officials announced last week resid…
nypost.com nypost.com

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“For many black people, deciding whether or not to wear a bandanna in public to protect themselves and others from contracting coronavirus is a lose-lose situation that can result in life-threatening consequences either way,”...


There are so many things wrong with this article, but I'll just focus on this one. First of all, don't wear a bandanna (and thanks changing the idea of medical masks into bandanna anyways?!?!?) as an aid to prevent the spread of covid. It won't work. Secondly, why in the world would the general public be afraid of a black person wearing a bandanna? Why would that be different than any other color person wearing one?
 
Stephen

Stephen

Who Dares Wins
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Herzog said:
Mark my words... They will claim to be an independent nation and then they will call on the UN to help them.
This is globalism NWO 101. Watch it happen.

I'll gladly eat crow if they don't attempt this move. It's pretty obvious at this point... from claiming the land via flag (this is Maritime Admiralty Law shit...) and then they will claim they need protection from the US and ask for UN to step in.
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www.nationalreview.com

Seattle Autonomous Zone Begins to Disband as Protesters Leave the Area | National Review

The “Capitol Hill Occupied Protest” (CHOP) moved towards disintegration on Thursday as protesters began leaving the area.
www.nationalreview.com www.nationalreview.com

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Herzog

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TRD270

TRD270

Emptying Pockets Again
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SaSaSandy

When will the stupidity end 🤦‍♂️

I think the Democratic Party should turn the looking glass on itself and call for it’s abolishment

Founded in 1865, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) extended into almost every southern state by 1870 and became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era policies aimed at establishing political and economic equality for Black Americans. Its members waged an underground campaign of intimidation and violence directed at white and Black Republican leaders. Though Congress passed legislation designed to curb Klan terrorism, the organization saw its primary goal–the reestablishment of white supremacy–fulfilled through Democratic victories in state legislatures across the South in the 1870s. After a period of decline, white Protestant nativist groups revived the Klan in the early 20th century, burning crosses and staging rallies, parades and marches denouncing immigrants, Catholics, Jews, African Americans and organized labor. The civil rights movement of the 1960s also saw a surge of Ku Klux Klan activity, including bombings of Black schools and churches and violence against Black and white activists in the South.

From the late 1870s, Southern state legislatures, no longer controlled by so-called carpetbaggers and freedmen, passed laws requiring the separation of whites from “persons of colour” in public transportationand schools. Generally, anyone of ascertainable or strongly suspected black ancestry in any degree was for that purpose a “person of colour”; the pre-Civil Wardistinction favouring those whose ancestry was known to be mixed—particularly the half-French “free persons of colour” in Louisiana—was abandoned. The segregation principle was extended to parks, cemeteries, theatres, and restaurants in an effort to prevent any contact between blacks and whites as equals. It was codified on local and state levels and most famously with the “separate but equal” decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896).
 
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4x4_Welder

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It getting to the point where nobody should ever express an opinion for the sake of offending future generations. People now are taking one aspect and saying that negates any good a person could have done. Yes, bigoted hatred is bad. 50 years ago, it was normal. That does not mean that we should immediately just accept it, but we need to look at it through the filter of the times then, not retroactively apply modern knee jerk morality on it.
 
jeeper

jeeper

I live my life 1 dumpster at a time
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So Jo, Ut
4x4_Welder said:
It getting to the point where nobody should ever express an opinion for the sake of offending future generations. People now are taking one aspect and saying that negates any good a person could have done. Yes, bigoted hatred is bad. 50 years ago, it was normal. That does not mean that we should immediately just accept it, but we need to look at it through the filter of the times then, not retroactively apply modern knee jerk morality on it.
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I won’t post anything on my fb or insta, or even comment on others post because I am afraid that someone will see something as it shouldn’t be, and cause problems for me. I have had a lot of thoughts and things I’ve wanted to share.. but won’t.
I think its a very sad situation when people (like me) are afraid to say or do what we think is right. If it was boogaloo time, sure.. but I don’t have time right now to deal with a bunch of garbage fall out over something stupid, while still getting work done and going about normal life.
 
jeeper

jeeper

I live my life 1 dumpster at a time
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So Jo, Ut
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