Ben Beckerich

Yea bro... I think you're a flaming fucking moron... so if you pick up hostility from me, it's no surprise at all.

it is this aggressive attitude about gun ownership that is the most disturbing and IMO the reason why the recent gun initiative passed. If gun owners came across as sensible and responsible individuals, non gun owners wouldn't give a crap about people owning guns. NRA says that people kill people not guns killing people. When we hear such aggression coming from gun owners,(even such a minor comment such as "eat it") it is not a big leap to think it would be good to get guns out of these peoples hands. There are many pro gun activists that say the craziest shit and it scares the bejessus out of the rest of the country. A few bad apples ruining it for the rest of the playground? The fierceness with which gun people defend gun rights comes from a century of constantly battling new gun control legislation and the knowledge that there's a very mean minority absolutely bent on restricting our rights. It also comes from the fact that gun ownership is unfortunately primarily represented by conservative/Republican/Tea Party types who automatically repulse anyone left-of-center- which is more to the point; gun control isn't about gun control, it's about people control and spite. Anti-gunners don't hate guns, they hate YOU (Mr. Gun Owner), and they know your guns are the best way to get at you. How can you blame people for having an aggressive attitude? The laws on the books are complete bullshit, from a Constitutional perspective. We've finally turned the tide a bit in the last decade and the lawsare easing up and becoming more reasonable, but the topic has also become more polarized- so you have pockets of major resistance to liberalization, often founded on media-fueled and sensationalized mass shootings. But you know as well as I that the crazies you see on TV are never representative of the whole. The media doesn't interview calm people at rallies and protests- they show the asshats that are going to get them ratings and deepen the polarization that makes them billions. Dudes walking into McDonalds with AKs slung down their backs are fucking retards of the highest caliber, and DO NOT represent the American gun owner.

And you know this. You know that for every New York Times internet poll that shows a decline in gun stoke, there are 50 reliable studies that show ownership is up, especially among "assault weapons," and that stoke is mega high. There are more gun dealers, better gun laws across the nation, more gun ranges, more people getting licenses to carry, more ammunition being purchased, etc, etc, than at any other time in history. Eat it.

Good luck with that. I've never seen a new generation as pumped up about semi-automatic rifles, full-capacity handguns, and honoring the 2nd Amendment as this generation coming up. The only place I see any indication that America's young adults and youth are less pro-gun is the mouths of anti-gunners like you. Fortunately for the rest of us, saying it's so ain't make it so.

No problem with surgical drone strikes for appropriate targets. Not sure why anyone does have a problem with that. Like anything, it's technology that can be abused.... maybe it's being abused to some degree? I can't say. I know a missile coming off a drone has to be less destructive than a 5000lb JDAM, which is how we used to do "surgical strikes." It might still be death and destruction with occasional, hopefully minimal collateral damage, but it IS progress. Tsjvalphabet - I have no problem with anything you wrote above, except your weird fixation on guns. I just wish you'd accept it's an irrational fear and not even bring it up until you can articulate SOME kind of rational argument in favor of taking the one tool the People have against tyranny away from them.

What makes you think we weren't already savages?

You don't get out much, do you? The rest of the world hasn't gone completely ambiguously gender neuter, bro. The English language doesn't even presently have a way to do it without pretty drastic changes in sentence arrangement; I for one, don't give a shit enough about appearing to be overly inclusive to do that, just yet.

No shits given, sorry. Fuckin' scum bags come murder our people by the thousands, and you think our boys shouldn't do whatever they can do to get whatever information from these pieces of shit as possible? Public policy: no torture Real life for the men on the ground: do what needs be done, boys

From the twelve posts you get every day? I doubt that's an average.. sometimes the classifieds goes a couple days without a single post Regardless, it's the rule... if they can make it so they don't even have to enforce it, that's cool.

Did the story actually end at attaining the summit ridge, or am I missing something?

No thanks bru.

bump bump bumpity dump

Yup.. It's a rule. Don't be a rule breaker, now.... rules are important!

Also need rain shell pants, same criteria, same sizing - small or small medium. Definitely no LONGs, I have short legs (of steel) Been wearing my good shit to work - that's not cool. BUMP

Is it a Sumtec, Raven, Viper, X-Class, or Alpax Special, it's mine. Please PM for my address

When ALL you have is a hammer, specifically. As to using the scope as your bino..... NO GO. I'd be really surprised if there's still any professionals out there teaching that BS. You don't point your weapon at anything you're not will, and probably about to, destroy, "sniper" or not. I get pretty dark when I see hunters out walking around clear cuts with scopes on their rifles and no binos hanging from their neck.

Here's what's up with your harness: The loop is probably no less safe, looking like that, than it was the day you walked out of REI with it. But where do we draw the line? Visible fraying on nylon products is a good place to do it. Your call, though..... it's your life. And your partners.

Yea... except the native culture actually WAS annihilated.

LOL.. what? Mr. Fuck-the-Constitution-in-the-ass sayeth what? I'll take my licks for being a willfully apathetic, jaded, political cynic- but not from you. If they drew a line in the sand, raised our heroes from their graves and passed out guns, it'd be you and Susan Sontag on one side and me and Lincoln on the other. And it'd be an easy fight, 'cause guns would be illegal on your side. Irony.

Good man; good words. Lost meaning; lost cause.

While this is absolutely fucking horrible, is it really any worse than any other current main-stream genre? Need I present supporting evidence..... (please don't make me)

This is a wanted ad? Yea, should be in the classifieds.. but you've got a lot of competition- rug makers bogart 'em pretty good.

Wow... that seems like a good way to go. Can't beat $50. Not going to take the place of bag, though.. no pant can ever be warm enough to do what a bag does. But that's a pretty simplistic statement.

Our good friend Joe Poulton posted a today-AM pic of a frosty looking Crown Jewel.... don't know HOW frosty, though... probably a damp kind of frosty. Maybe he'll chime in and clarify for us?

Well?? The silence in this forum makes me suspicious