vivadanang
I’d be more interested in your stance on DI vs Piston
was a 90s soldier so only messed with DI rifles and crew served stuff. I wouldn't mind owning a piston driven rifle like a g3, I like those 70s and 80s hk setups.
or your favorite operating systems.
irix
os2/warp
solaris 5.5
In 2021, there were a total of 48,830 firearm deaths.
so with 400m firearms, 330m potential users, their interactions with firearms resulted in 40,000 dead people - this isn't an accounting of all the gun violence, just the deaths.
sir. 40,000 dead people. Double the death count of the battle of Antietam on both sides. It's tenfold the deaths on d-day.
And we're doing it every fucking year. Gun violence has eclipsed car accidents as the number one killer of children.
I'm trying to interpret what you're asserting but the I feel strongly the premise is ignored in these discussions and it's more of the same - we respect firearms for different reasons. I respect them as dangerous weapons our society is overly fascinated with and it's bothering me that more people don't share that respect.
Incredibly, no one discusses the real threat to firearms ownership, and that's the inevitable backlash that will result in 'more firearms is the answer to firearms violence' - this childish idea that no one would ever take your toys, no matter how bad the carnage gets.
my take is that for many they’re rarely used items that are prolifically displayed (often inaccurately) in media,
In 2021, there were a total of 48,830 firearm deaths.
That's not a media myth, it's a fact. Our country has become an free fire warzone and I didn't sign up for this shit.
As of september there were over 50 school shootings just this year.
Myths? Misconceptions? Please, don't. Just don't. That's an incredibly poor way to respond mate. Dead kids, dead innocents, deserve better than 'it's just a myth'.
This is my problem with firearms. They're so nifty that people lose their fucking minds when it comes to being responsible owners. Which then makes it ridiculously easy for people who can't access them legally access them anyway. And I'm fucking tired of adults acting like children when it comes to weapons.
I would LOVE to meet him, if just to ask: does it ever bother you, the disconnect between responsible gun ownership, historical preservation, and outright firearms idolization?
oh yeah, love Ian and the work he's done for over a decade.
I'm a big lover of the engineering and design of firearms, but think we're ridiculously over-armed in the US. Puts me in an odd position; I'm prior service - I look at weapons as weapons. Some people see them as fetishes and it gives me the creeps.
The enormous differences between korean and japanese writing are interesting for someone who can read neither. Is it related to your factoid about the language's relations?
You might enjoy Cathode Ray Dude on youtube. Really obscure 80s-00s stuff.
SDF1 main gun. Anything larger than a city shouldn't be considered a ship.
"any moment now anyone who got the vax is gonna flop over and start foaming at the mouth, I heard it on the My Pillow Guy show."
I can't decide which is more depressing, people stupid enough to believe the shit, or the absurd lack of credibility their sources provide - fucking rubes and idiotic liars deserve each other I guess.
midis are great, have a bunch on my phone from NES & other classics. zelda secret flute, f-zero start screen, metal slug theme... so good.