True that. One of hardest things I ever had to do was shoot a dog that had come down with rabies. That really ripped me up (I'm a dog person) but it was better than the alternative. My friend had asked me to come over and help bury the thing but wasn't able to bring himself to do the deed (it was his dog) so I did it for him.
But with a sure shot a.22 works quite well and is very quiet.
Well, if you know you can get a "sure shot" you can just as easily kill them with an air rifle. I've done my share of that living in suburbia where firearms are frowned upon. If I have the option of using a firearm though the.223 is much more effective than the.22 It's quite literally a struck by lightning reaction. They are dead before they hit the ground. I've never seen a.22 pull that off except with really small critters or really good shot placement.
Norm never saw a New York City subway rat. Those fuckers can grow to be the size of a small dog. I had the misfortune of living there and had the damn things coming into our basement apartment. My roommates cat was afraid to take them on. I wound up getting a Dachshund -- that dog was a natural ratter and completely fearless. She killed over a dozen of the damn things before we moved out of that shithole apartment.
Yeah, you can do that, but if you miss (hint: headshots on small moving critters are hard) the brain the animal is going to suffer more than it would if you had used a more appropriate cartridge. Unless you are a psychopath you really don't want to wound an animal and condemn it to a slow painful death from blood loss or infection.
I've never seen a gator shot -- what kind of gun do you use on them to ensure a quick and clean kill? Do you really use a varmint gun (when I hear that I think of the Mini-14 and.223) or something with a little more power behind it?
A.22 is marginal for raccoons. It'll do the job if you do yours but I much prefer a.223 for varmint. Less likely to make the animal suffer and if you hit them square on it's a "struck by lightning" reaction. Never seen a.22 accomplish that with anything bigger than a squirrel.
I've poked at them a little bit and they just show their teeth and hiss.
Invest in a decent air rifle and hone your marksmanship skills. That's what I do with the damn things. Was more fun living out in the country and shooting them with real firearms but the air rifle is almost as satisfying.
I saw the Scientologists at the New York State Fair a few weeks ago. They were offering "free" personality tests and weren't advertising themselves as Scientologists. I figured it out when I saw the stack of Dianetics books behind them. Once I saw that I stood at attention and loudly proclaimed "HAIL LORD XENU!"
The fuckers have no sense of humor at all. They actually called the damn cops over because of my "harassment". I'm guessing it wasn't the first time they did that because the LEO handled it by pulling me aside and saying "I can't make you leave but could you please leave them alone? I don't want to fill out more paperwork because of them."
See, the "drug him" part I have an issue with. I have personal experience with both mind altering drugs and truecrypt. Let me assure you that drugs do not help you to remember a complex pass phrase....;)
I'm playing the world's smallest violin right now. If you are so self-important that you can be "manipulated" into agreeing to betray your country for a few lousy greenbacks then I have zero sympathy for you.
A LEO that offers to murder your wife if you pay him $10,000 is trying to entrap you. A LEO that poses as a contract killer after hearing that you are looking for one has not entrapped you.
That's not true. Eventually those fish get eaten, whereupon they get turned into feces and dumped into the nearest drain. And as anyone who watched Finding Nemo knows, all drains lead to the ocean.....
In fact I think population control, like China's 1 baby per family, will eventually become necessary
Better hope that you are wrong, because such a policy is completely incompatible with the notions of freedom and self-determination.
especially after oil becomes scarce and skyrockets to $1000/barrel (~$30/gallon of gasoline). Simply put either WE will impose population limits, or nature will do it for us (via starvation in the cities).
Why are you so pessimistic? We already have the technology for nearly limitless energy production with little or no carbon footprint. Oil is nice -- particularly in mobile applications -- but I refuse to believe that the human race is incapable of innovating it's way out of peak oil.
That being the case, why do we release felons if we don't feel they're rehabilitated enough to vote?
Because if you've chosen not to abide by the rules of society, why should you have a say in the running of said society?
I'm not going to say that he didn't do a stupid thing (three times over)... To lose many of ones liberties over non-violent offenses? I don't think it's right.
Your friend had three bites at the apple. It's sheer dumb luck that he didn't kill himself or someone else. I have no sympathy for him.
Tinfoil hat? Even here too many people assumed Venezuela was actually involved
That proves people are idiots who are too lazy to read the whole article. It does not prove any sort of underlying agenda to create a casus belli, which is what you seemed to be implying was the case.
Quote marks are perfectly valid because, technically, no actual treason has taken place.
Irrelevant. The mens rea was there. They are traitors. They may not have committed treason (and proving treason is difficult anyway due to the Constitutional requirement of confession or two witnesses) but that was their intent.
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True that. One of hardest things I ever had to do was shoot a dog that had come down with rabies. That really ripped me up (I'm a dog person) but it was better than the alternative. My friend had asked me to come over and help bury the thing but wasn't able to bring himself to do the deed (it was his dog) so I did it for him.
So .30-06/.308 ballpark if you want to use a rifle? How do they taste? I've never had the opportunity to try it.
Keep modding me down anti-RKBA asshats. Karma: Excellent :)
Why is the asshole who keeps throwing out insults ("cowardly child-men", "ignorant rednecks") not being modded down?
BTW, I hope you get rabies. Beating an animal to death with a stick is far more cruel than shooting it.
But with a sure shot a .22 works quite well and is very quiet.
Well, if you know you can get a "sure shot" you can just as easily kill them with an air rifle. I've done my share of that living in suburbia where firearms are frowned upon. If I have the option of using a firearm though the .223 is much more effective than the .22 It's quite literally a struck by lightning reaction. They are dead before they hit the ground. I've never seen a .22 pull that off except with really small critters or really good shot placement.
Norm never saw a New York City subway rat. Those fuckers can grow to be the size of a small dog. I had the misfortune of living there and had the damn things coming into our basement apartment. My roommates cat was afraid to take them on. I wound up getting a Dachshund -- that dog was a natural ratter and completely fearless. She killed over a dozen of the damn things before we moved out of that shithole apartment.
Yeah, you can do that, but if you miss (hint: headshots on small moving critters are hard) the brain the animal is going to suffer more than it would if you had used a more appropriate cartridge. Unless you are a psychopath you really don't want to wound an animal and condemn it to a slow painful death from blood loss or infection.
I've never seen a gator shot -- what kind of gun do you use on them to ensure a quick and clean kill? Do you really use a varmint gun (when I hear that I think of the Mini-14 and .223) or something with a little more power behind it?
That's what air rifles are for.
Actually, ignorant rednecks who think their manhood enhancement will solve anything are far worst than any animals.
The only thing worse than ignorant rednecks is stereotyping anti-RKBA asshats such as yourself.
A .22 is marginal for raccoons. It'll do the job if you do yours but I much prefer a .223 for varmint. Less likely to make the animal suffer and if you hit them square on it's a "struck by lightning" reaction. Never seen a .22 accomplish that with anything bigger than a squirrel.
I've poked at them a little bit and they just show their teeth and hiss.
Invest in a decent air rifle and hone your marksmanship skills. That's what I do with the damn things. Was more fun living out in the country and shooting them with real firearms but the air rifle is almost as satisfying.
I'm more curious how they plan to power such a device
Would a TEG work?
I saw the Scientologists at the New York State Fair a few weeks ago. They were offering "free" personality tests and weren't advertising themselves as Scientologists. I figured it out when I saw the stack of Dianetics books behind them. Once I saw that I stood at attention and loudly proclaimed "HAIL LORD XENU!"
The fuckers have no sense of humor at all. They actually called the damn cops over because of my "harassment". I'm guessing it wasn't the first time they did that because the LEO handled it by pulling me aside and saying "I can't make you leave but could you please leave them alone? I don't want to fill out more paperwork because of them."
Bait the hook for Wesley Crusher types.
Except Wesley Crusher got to have sex with Ashley Judd......
See, the "drug him" part I have an issue with. I have personal experience with both mind altering drugs and truecrypt. Let me assure you that drugs do not help you to remember a complex pass phrase.... ;)
There is no fuel or technology in the foreseeable future that would make blasting billions of people into space viable.
200 years ago there was no fuel or technology on the horizon that could lift a heavier than air machine into the sky.
If we suddenly find some sort of rainbow unicorn limitless fart power
Wow, are you a professional pessimist?
But that's not very likely
Yep, I suppose you are.
I'm playing the world's smallest violin right now. If you are so self-important that you can be "manipulated" into agreeing to betray your country for a few lousy greenbacks then I have zero sympathy for you.
A LEO that offers to murder your wife if you pay him $10,000 is trying to entrap you. A LEO that poses as a contract killer after hearing that you are looking for one has not entrapped you.
That's not true. Eventually those fish get eaten, whereupon they get turned into feces and dumped into the nearest drain. And as anyone who watched Finding Nemo knows, all drains lead to the ocean.....
Nobody consumes more than 30 kilowatts of electricity a day
Al Gore does ;)
The amount of energy expended to develop either off-Earth colonies or terraform a planet would be astronomical
.... by modern day standards.
In fact I think population control, like China's 1 baby per family, will eventually become necessary
Better hope that you are wrong, because such a policy is completely incompatible with the notions of freedom and self-determination.
especially after oil becomes scarce and skyrockets to $1000/barrel (~$30/gallon of gasoline). Simply put either WE will impose population limits, or nature will do it for us (via starvation in the cities).
Why are you so pessimistic? We already have the technology for nearly limitless energy production with little or no carbon footprint. Oil is nice -- particularly in mobile applications -- but I refuse to believe that the human race is incapable of innovating it's way out of peak oil.
Hawaii. The Big Island grows larger every single day of the week thanks to the ongoing volcanic eruptions.
That being the case, why do we release felons if we don't feel they're rehabilitated enough to vote?
Because if you've chosen not to abide by the rules of society, why should you have a say in the running of said society?
I'm not going to say that he didn't do a stupid thing (three times over)... To lose many of ones liberties over non-violent offenses? I don't think it's right.
Your friend had three bites at the apple. It's sheer dumb luck that he didn't kill himself or someone else. I have no sympathy for him.
Tinfoil hat? Even here too many people assumed Venezuela was actually involved
That proves people are idiots who are too lazy to read the whole article. It does not prove any sort of underlying agenda to create a casus belli, which is what you seemed to be implying was the case.
Quote marks are perfectly valid because, technically, no actual treason has taken place.
Irrelevant. The mens rea was there. They are traitors. They may not have committed treason (and proving treason is difficult anyway due to the Constitutional requirement of confession or two witnesses) but that was their intent.