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This is why you need a recreational nuke. You gotta fight the storm with the power of nuclear.

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I remember a story I heard from a Katrina survivor, in which some guys attempted to kidnap her and before they could were scared off by her father emerging with a shotgun. Seems they can indeed be useful sometimes.

Of course, if you need a screwdriver don’t try a hammer, and if you need a hammer don’t try a gun unless it’s a .22 cal ramset.

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Well, I’ve been glad to have my rifles and pistols after a mass disaster. Y’all can count on the brotherhood of your fellow man if you wish, but that’s suburban white-boy thinking. That’s the thinking of someone whose very life has never been on the line, never faced real danger. Never been through it? Good! You can’t imagine what it’s like on the ground after a hurricane. No amount of pictures or video will do it justice. I still cry thinking about what I saw after Ivan and Katrina.

What REALLY happens out here in the sticks, and I’ve been there/done that, is that people pull together in ways you’ll be weeping about a decade later. City folk… are a little more mercenary.

But, none the less, I’m not banking on everyone acting in good faith. Bad actors have a way of popping up when the chips are down. Only reason they don’t come out in force? Fear of our guns. Don’t believe me? Next disaster, put a sign in your yard saying, “Unarmed and harmless.” See how that goes. I’d rather they fucking guess.

Disarm yourselves if that’s what you believe in. I respect that. But I’m not joining in. Give a shout if you need help. (Try to avoid calling the police. Good way to get killed.)

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Don’t be surprised when FEMA agents get shot.

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I hope they shoot back

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I swear there will come a day when a mass gun nut uprising actually happens, and in that moment the gun rights debate will die a fiery death, because in a civil war scenario rigged explosive drones will be far more effective at holding off the inevitable crushing under federal boots than trying to shoot the people who have better guns and also hold home field advantage and also their kids aren’t actively ratting out their positions because they despise everything they stand for.

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If thousands of dead school children isn’t enough, a few thousand dead ammosexuals certainly won’t be.

These are people who cannot accept the reality that their guns make them less safe. They each think themselves the exception to the sets of statistics that have no exceptions.

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https://www.newsweek.com/america-record-school-shooting-columbine-1891763

There hasn’t even be 1k kids killed in school shootings, but this isn’t surprising that you don’t know this, as it’s fed to everyone like kids are killed at school every 5 seconds in the USA.

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Oh, only 500…since columbine. Thanks for minimizing them. I don’t ask for proof of how uncaring gun enthusiasts are but one you always provides it anyway. It’s amazing the research one can get a gun nut to do by the use of hyperbole.

If I chanted the word to “school aged children” is no longer an exaggeration. Guns are the number one cause of death for children in america.

If I change it to “school shooting victims” it’s an under count since hundred of thousands have been in the buildings during those school shootings.

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