It only ever takes one. You can go 20 years and bam. That's thr damage done. Same as any thing in life. Get a gun to hunt off the government and Mexicans or whatever it is trump wants you to hunt this week. You'll be more popular with your neighbours. Or at least go rambo with a giant knife and a red head scarf and compound bow. Actually you kind of have to
I do have a machete, a red gaiter (similar to head scarf)... My son's old (barely above toy) bow is in my garage. I'm ready to be a Temu version Rambo.
Or you could stop off for gas and buy the proper stuff for 20 bucks. You can also get tnt to stick on the arrows then.
At your local Walmart along with hand grenades, armour-piercing cannon shells, and tactical nuclear missiles if the reports on national television over here are to be believed.
The local gas station/tackle shop/gun store/clothes store. There was a great one we used to stop for petrol in where I went for work one time. It has so much outdoor stuff and any weapon you could ever want.
Meh.... Can't even buy guns or ammo at Walmart anymore... This country has gone soft, I have to go the readily accessible sporting goods store if I want to buy a gun now.
My ex had a rottweiller/dogue de Bourdeaux cross that died a few years back. Had a head like a ****ing space-hopper. As you say, a more gentle animal you'll never meet. I remember well babysitting her then 7-year-old one evening when her rabbit got out of its hutch and she grabbed this 60kg 'monster' by the ear and led him into the shed so that she could stop him chasing it, and he meekly complied. That said, another dog (a German shepherd) started on him once when out walking with my lab (who absolutely loved this 'brute and looked up to him like a big brother). It didn't end well for the shepherd - Rio never started fights, but he usually ended them. A lot depends on how big dogs are raised and treated - even a lab can be a **** if it's mistreated. The problem, as MITO alluded to, is that the people over here who tend to get pitbulls are the Wayne and Waynettas from your local sink estate who keep them in tiny yards, unsocialised, and brutalised.
When Mike Moores done the documentary.' Bowling for Columbine' he showed that you got to choose a free weapon when you opened a new bank account!
I've known a lot of pitbulls. Pitbulls are the single most common breed of dog in South Carolina. My two rescue-mutts both have pitbull in them- one is mostly pit, the other is mostly lab/golden retreiver. I'd say the mostly pit is more gentle and loving than my mostly lab... but the pit is very impulsive- which is not ideal in a powerful 80lb dog. My wife and kids can't control her walking. If she sees a squirrel, she forgets she is on a leash, loses her good manners and pulls your arm off. (sweet but impulsive is what the breed is known for). I trust the mostly-pit off leash on my property though, she runs away from strangers barking, and I know she won't wander away. The mostly-lab has to be monitored... she will go walking long distances and leave our property looking for other dogs to make friends with the moment you turn your back on her. Every pit I've known personally has been very sweet... but I have encountered some loose that made me very nervous, on one occasion I thought one was going to attack me while out walking (it was scared off by a car that passed really close to it... thankfully)... and yes, the reason they're the most common dog in SC is the toxic masculinity... it's the breed you're going to see chained up to a metal pole in the middle of a trailer park outside a trailer being ignored 9 times out of 10. In the cities, it's what the gang members will own, or anyone who thinks they're hip and toughman. It's probably also why almost every mutt has some pitbull in it, these aren't the owners who are going to take their pet to the vet to get them fixed/neutered.
As much as I'm against how many guns there are, and how easy they are to get... things aren't quite the same as they were back then. They're still easy to get, but not quite as easy as they were then. Getting a free gun for opening a bank account has never been typical... getting a free gun for anything isn't typical, guns ARE expensive after-all and more than your typical free giveaway deals. A lot fewer places sell guns now too. No store I typically go into sells guns, you have to specifically go looking for them, they're not on a counter anywhere you'd be going if you're not looking for one. The exception would be hunting guns in a sports store, even then, most sports stores won't sell them, just a few, people don't want the liability of their store having them. Still too many guns, but things aren't what they were 30 years ago, where you walk past them in Walmart and Kmart and even some convenience stores. Michael Moore WAS making a documentary with a purpose and a message, so he would naturally gravitate to the most extreme examples he could find. I bet you couldn't find a bank giving away free guns today.
Imo the yanks didn't add guns to their sacred constitution. People added it afterwards in 1791 People then reinterpreted it in 2008 to convert it from a militia to the individual. "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." The intent is historically clear. The people, not the person, have a right to form a militia and bear arms to offset any federal government army. It is loose so the modern yanks who )with one hand would make out the constitution is a bible that can't be changed one iota and with the other ram in any interpretation that suits them) want to have fun with guns. Playing rambo with ar15 and being the big man ia not being a well regulated militia. If they want to have little militias with arms by all means go right ahead. But at least have some discipline and organisation on a town or local level. If they want to play with guns they should really grow up or join the army proper to go do that.
Also, in those days, the US was wary of Britain trying to invade through Canada and take them back into the Empire. And obviously the founding fathers couldn't have anticipated the type of lethal weaponry that is available today.
I had a 40kg chunky black lab. If he was insistent on chasing something (neutered males and on-heat bitches were his speciality), then he was ****ing hard to hold back, I tell you. Just walked my daughter's 35kg fox red Lab here in 'Boro for her. Lovely mannered, gentle dog - but so strong when he pulls on his lead. And that is the thing about dogs: they're probably twice as strong as humans, pound-for-pound. A big dog over 35kg takes some holding if they're not trained or socialised. I well remember when my lad was a pup a great Dane, that obviously was rarely let out of the house, was being walked by a some tiny, 55kg-wet-through female dog-walker attacked him. I kicked the ****er off and had to hold my boy up and drop him over a fence whilst the male dog walker intervened. They were apologetic, but I was fuming and screaming in the street that she could have put a ****ing saddle on her dog and ridden around the ings on it, never mind walked it. The point is that only people who know what they're doing and are prepared to put the time in should get big dogs. But if they're loved, well-exercised, and used to other dogs - dead important - then I truly believe that all dogs want is to love, be loved and be happy. Except for female jack russells - they're bossy little bastards and I've even seen the biggest of dogs put in their places by those haughty princesses.
Yeah, my mostly Pit (DNA results were something like 2/3 pit, some Boxer, some American Bulldog, some Chow... obviously from a long line of mutts) is in that range, 80-something lb- so that's 35-40kg range. It's not that she's not trained... she's just impulsive. She knows how to behave, she wants to behave, she just forgets everything the moment she sees a small little animal scurrying away. I'm fine with her, I can control her... once the red mist leaves her she is fine- it's just those first few seconds she sees a squirrel or a rabbit that she forgets all training. Would not allow my daughters to go walking with her though, and my wife won't because she has been literally pulled off her feet before.
More Trees will fall today! We're having two unusual weather events today. The first is something called freezing weather, the other is something called snow, not sure what that is... but all the trees that are at 45degree angles from the last hurricane are probably all going to fall once covered in snow and ice.
The 1991 comment doesn't really hold though as it's been the individual for at least a 100 years . Interesting that one of the few times gun control laws were passed was when the Black Panthers started arming and wandering around with said legal arms
what 1991 comment? District of Columbia v. Heller Supreme Court of the United States Argued March 18, 2008 Decided June 26, 2008 this breaks the link between the individual and a militia Bascially washington Dc tried to make people disassembly and lock up thier fireamrs unloaded and a case was taken agasint this fairly basic security measure the ruling istelf was the first that specifically dealt with the fact that any individual could own fire arms and the 2nd ammendment didn't refer to having to be in a militia in short this ruling in this century meant that americas can keep their guns LOADED, not trigger locked and not disassembled. in other words they can be locked and loaded and ready to shoot at all times. A normal rational person in a normal rational safe country would neither need a fire arm for the purpose or personal protection but if a normal rational country happened to allow an individual to own a hand gun or rifle they would also require precautions to prevent accidental discharge of said firearm. Say I could own a 357 magnum cos i like clint eastwood movies. I can put 6 bullets in it in the us and keep it without even the safety on. Now if I could own such a gun in canada I'd have to unloaded it and put it in a state where there is no possibility of it being fired without being unlocked.
