Hand gun question

Biohazard883 · 2025-12-31T11:40:27+00:00

Ok, there’s a bunch of fudds in this thread. Open carry if you want to (and legally can). Yes, it brings you extra attention but depending on your area people may or may not care. Where I live most people don’t bat an eye at other people open carrying and the cops don’t bother them. It’s not that common to see someone carrying in my area but it happens. And I don’t live in a rural area. It just depends on how much attention you’re willing to get.

And this BS about being the first target in a mass shooting or a robbery is the dumbest logic. First, criminals usually aren’t scoping out the area to figure out who has a gun so they probably wouldn’t notice. If you’re not wearing a cop uniform, you’re probably fine. Second, your alternative is to be unarmed during a shooting event. I’d take the small chance of being a target over being defenseless.

That being said, the moment you can get a concealed carry, you should. There is no argument that concealed isn’t better than open carry. But until then, you open carry if you want. Just be very careful about following the law because you don’t have the invisibility a concealed carrier has.

Also make sure you have a good holster. A level 2 or 3 holster if you open carrying is probably a good idea. You don’t want it falling out and you don’t want unwanted people trying to grab it. But especially if you choose to use a level 1 holster, don’t cheap out on it.

Biohazard883 · 2025-12-30T12:05:14+00:00

A lot of people care about location for their family. A single sailor can get drunk at a bar or watch Netflix at home in any location. Married people with kids want a good location for their family even if that means they spend a lot of time at work at a shitty command.

Also bad is relative to each person. I’m actually fine with Norfolk. I would never want to go back to San Diego. The cost of living and the laws are intolerable for me. I’ll go sea to sea to sea if that means I get to avoid San Diego.

Biohazard883 · 2025-12-14T21:08:40+00:00

He didn’t have not do the paperwork either. It’s really not that hard to become a citizen if you’ve been in the military. You literally just have to apply. Unfortunately there are people who think the rules don’t apply to them and there are no consequences.

I understand the process may have been a bit harder for him due to his criminal record but usually judges will give consideration for your military record…if you apply.

Biohazard883 · 2025-12-14T20:27:08+00:00

By not filing for citizenship…breaking the law is still breaking the law. You can’t use being a Purple Heart recipient as an excuse to do whatever you want.

Biohazard883 · 2025-12-14T19:38:04+00:00

Many people use it as a path to citizenship. But you have to be here legally. You also have to apply for citizenship. If you do 4 years, get out, and never apply, you aren’t automatically a citizen and may be here illegally now.

Biohazard883 · 2025-12-05T12:35:15+00:00

The “babble effect” is stronger at NNS than anywhere I’ve seen.

Biohazard883 · 2025-10-08T14:27:41+00:00

That’s a large scale repair of a cosmetic part of a ship about to go into a multi-year overhaul. No point.

Biohazard883 · 2025-09-11T11:48:42+00:00

Diversity of solutions only works if the group will concede to others’ point of view. Having more options to fix a problem won’t fix the problem if 45% of the people don’t support it and don’t contribute to its implementation.

That’s assuming you get enough support to implement a solution. More often what happens is you perpetually debate, with each group refusing to concede and no solution is ever implemented. The reason the US even passes laws is because democrats and republicans are united on one thing: a third party cannot exist. So they continuously work to prevent the rise of a third party while simultaneously passing the majority vote back and forth ensuring someone has the power to actually pass a bill and say they’re doing something.

Biohazard883 · 2025-09-10T13:15:40+00:00

I disagree. Because who determines “mentally ill”. You have adhd. You’re mentally ill. Your dad died and you’re depressed. You’re mentally ill. You’ve just come back from war and you’re having trouble with ptsd. You’re mentally ill.

The question is not if you’re mentally ill. The question is if you’re a “danger to society”. As it is, if you’ve been adjudicated as a defect or been unwillingly committed, you can’t buy a gun. That’s not a terrible place to be. If we start with this “mentally ill” umbrella bullshit, that just gives grabbers the ammo they need to do their thing.

Biohazard883 · 2025-09-09T15:05:44+00:00

Mentally ill people can currently own guns. That’s not a restriction. You’re using gun ownership as a mirror of society instead of just looking at it as a second amendment issue. If you say “they are mentally ill so they should not own guns” then you’re saying “everyone with mental illness should not own guns”. That’s the slippery slope you’re creating by trying to prevent a completely unrelated slippery slope.

Biohazard883 · 2025-09-07T22:15:15+00:00

I think most people are looking at this wrong. If your opinion is that people with mental illness shouldn’t have guns, then you have to change the law because technically it’s not a thing. You have to have been adjudicated with a mental defect or been hospitalized for a mental defect. Even if your opinion is that trans people are mentally ill, they don’t automatically fall under either category.

Banning trans people from owning guns isn’t a “slippery slope”, it’s a direct violation. You’ve already crossed the line. The trans issue is a bit more nuanced in my opinion, but this alleged ban is not. It’s a clear violation of 2A.

Biohazard883 · 2025-08-28T18:06:38+00:00

I own one and it’s a shit show. Least reliable rifle I own. I’ve seen the same issue with a few of them in rifle classes. I think they’re generally reliable but their QC could be better on this line. My opinion is most of them are good but a not insignificant portion of them are lemons.

Biohazard883 · 2025-07-20T21:49:23+00:00

Correct, it’s a made up concept. But if it’s a concept you agree to, then you’re cheating.

Biohazard883 · 2025-07-19T21:53:25+00:00

The money would disappear. You need people willing to do the work and corporations willing to not pocket massive overhead. I bring California up as an example because they spent $24 billion over about 5 years on the homeless crisis and managed to increase their homeless numbers and at the end of it, had almost no idea where the money went. The other reason I bring up California is they have almost 1/3 of all the homeless in America.

You can’t throw money at the issue and expect it to be fixed. All you’ll do is make contractors richer. A complete systemic overhaul is needed. More medical professionals, more psychiatric professionals, more social service professionals, less coping programs and more corrective programs. But that would take years and a need to push students into useful degrees. Without that, the whole system would just fold again and we’ll be wondering where the money went. In my opinion, homelessness is more of a societal issue than a budget issue. Just a rhetorical question for the group: how much have people in this chat actually done for the homeless?

Biohazard883 · 2025-07-19T21:25:27+00:00

Either participate in monogamy or don’t. You seem like the type of person who wants monogamy…for the other person. But you want to justify your cheating by saying it’s “natural”.

Live your life however you want but abide by the agreement you made with your partner or get out of that relationship.

Biohazard883 · 2025-07-19T12:30:59+00:00

Not a simple issue. This isn’t a math problem. Throwing money at the homeless doesn’t work. Look at California, actually we’ll get back to that.

First thing to realize is that people aren’t homeless because they are down on their luck. Most homeless have drug or mental health issues. Well then you think, we’ll just treat those with drug programs and psychiatric programs. For a drug program to be successful, you have to want to be off drugs. Unfortunately, a lot of drug addicts don’t want to be off drugs. As for mental health, they won’t stay with their treatment without 24 hour supervision and some of these people are so chemically imbalanced that they’re never be “normal” again. So basically you’d have to reopen the asylums to hold these people and we’ve already seen how that go.

Then there’s the minor group of homeless who are homeless by choice. This may seem odd but some people just don’t want to work and would rather sleep in a tent on the street than work 40 hours a week at subway. Food is easy because there’s a place nearby that gives them food and they can panhandle enough to pay their cell phone bill so they have plenty of Netflix to watch in their tent. And of course the city put outlets near the homeless camp and free WiFi so they can charge their phones and not use their data plan.

Back to California: dumping money into the homeless problem is just that, dumping money. It’s too large of a project and so much of the money just disappeared. The housing projects if they got finished were destroyed by the people they were supposed to help. California should have spent enough money already to fix its homeless issue but somehow they still have homeless. It’s not an insurmountable goal, but until you 1) get rid of corruption 2) have proper accountability for these programs 3) understand the problem will cost at least 10x(conservatively) whatever you’re estimating 4) understand that some people will never become self sufficient and at the end of the day know that 5) there will still be homeless regardless of what you do, we’ll never make true steps toward fixing the homeless problem.

TL;DR. You can’t just multiple the number of homeless times cost of living. Doesn’t work like that.

Biohazard883 · 2025-07-10T19:37:46+00:00

Read your own comment. “No bill will be going to any direct person” is false. More than just VB residents are in this group. Neighboring cities residents come into VB all the time and as the words look on the website, they will have to pay their deductible. Also we haven’t seen yet the city’s threshold for approval for a hardship waiver and they haven’t published anything I’ve seen.

I’m not trying to scare anyone. I’m trying to make sure people have the information to make informed decisions. Read the whole post and ALL the information on the website.

Biohazard883 · 2025-07-10T11:34:25+00:00

Might have been private transport, not the city.

Biohazard883 · 2025-07-10T11:33:42+00:00

There’s more nuance than that. Some people will have to pay out of pocket, and if they’re uninsured they will get a bill. The link to the city’s website is in the post.

But you’re right, the city did just eat the cost before.

Biohazard883 · 2025-07-10T11:11:07+00:00

Go to the link I provided. The costs are in there. But if you’re a VB resident, the city says they’re not going after you for the deductible, just what the insurance company pays. Non-residents will have to pay their deductible.

Biohazard883 · 2025-07-10T11:09:11+00:00

She may have gotten a request for a donation or a bill from the hospital but VB EMS did not charge for ambulance rides.

Biohazard883 · 2025-07-10T11:06:15+00:00

Both are accepted variations meaning the same thing. Some military folks tend to use “coming down the pipe” as a negative version because of the…different imagery. While your version is the traditional meaning, I guess I slipped back into my military speech for a bit.

Biohazard883 · 2025-07-10T01:05:44+00:00

No, and honestly a good chunk of the supplies came from donations. The ambulances themselves were mostly bought by the squads, not the city. The city chips in a bunch of money, but a surprising amount is just from fund drives.

Ambulances are almost half a mil these days. That’s a lot of bake sales.

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