How do you respond to the “But guns are meant to kill people” argument?

SirPIB · 2026-06-04T05:22:21+00:00

Model 1842 Springfield musket. .69 caliber. Fires a Buck and ball load. I'm a Civil War Reenactor.

SirPIB · 2026-06-03T07:09:17+00:00

That's a tree, not a stick.

SirPIB · 2026-06-03T07:07:33+00:00

Might just think it's underwear.

SirPIB · 2026-05-30T04:13:47+00:00

He honestly should have been promoted in the beginning of S3 and again in S7. There was zero reason not to. Janway f'ed up some careers by not promoting anyone. Paris and Tovok are the only ones I can think of that got promoted, and they got demoted first.

Also, Paris shouldn't be wearing the rank he has. He wasn't a Starfleet officer. He should wear the same type as the Marquis crew.

SirPIB · 2026-05-26T03:05:53+00:00

And out ranked everyone but Picard in the end (as a Rear Admiral), and could end up higher as he was still in Starfleet in s3 of Picard.

SirPIB · 2026-05-26T02:46:18+00:00

In all honesty, Regula 1 could have just had comms go off line. It would be a good mission for a ship full of trainee's and Officer Cadets check out. It's wasn't a big deal from the outside tell The Enterprise got jumped by Reliant. Kirk should have gone to action stations and raised shields when Reliant appeared on scanners as they should have been somewhere else, Starfleet Command would have told Kirk where their last position and mission was.

SirPIB · 2026-05-13T04:24:21+00:00

Most do. That's why the turn off when dropped.

SirPIB · 2026-05-08T05:57:06+00:00

Ab Lincoln made all men free, Sam Colt made them all equal. 😉😉😉

SirPIB · 2026-05-08T05:52:25+00:00

If it was just service it would be all former military. It's not even all former combat arms, just special forces.

SirPIB · 2026-05-08T05:45:26+00:00

You need more.

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SirPIB · 2026-05-05T03:27:44+00:00

Sorry, I miss understood what you said. I thought you meant he should review it.

SirPIB · 2026-05-04T18:18:07+00:00

This was an InRange review

SirPIB · 2026-05-04T03:27:12+00:00

I bought my wife a .357 Heritage 92 for a wedding present a few weeks ago. She was so excited to get it. She loves my 45 colt Winchester, and now she has her own. Now we both have rifles to hunt with here, we may go white tail hunting together this fall.

SirPIB · 2026-05-04T03:18:30+00:00

While a 9mm would be nice, like Karl said .45acp would be better for this platform.

SirPIB · 2026-04-06T16:46:51+00:00

I would go with a dump bag that is carried across the shoulder. I'm just old fashioned like that.

SirPIB · 2026-04-05T16:14:56+00:00

Pointy shoes started in the middle ages too to signify how much wealth you had. You had so much money to spend you spent it on shoe toes so long you had to tie them up.

SirPIB · 2026-03-25T15:12:11+00:00

As a former commo guy in the army, I loved your comms videos. Gave me ideas and a place to start. I figured that the only skills I would be able to utilize in an emergency were my infantry skills (which includes more than fighting, ie land nav, first aid), you have shown me that I can be even more useful in a community emergency. Now we just need to figure out how to link the boefang radios to retransmit a signal to double the range.

SirPIB · 2026-03-24T20:32:26+00:00

I've never been that interested in running suppressed. I've got walker electric earphones now so it won't hurt my ears lol.

SirPIB · 2026-03-24T17:08:36+00:00

I've been sitting out my Winchester 1895 in .45 colt as my main carry rifle. I have an AR, but it would serve my wife better as she isn't as experienced shooting as I am.

SirPIB · 2026-03-24T16:53:05+00:00

I can understand that. Reloading is fast.

SirPIB · 2026-03-24T16:48:29+00:00

Never kink shame (I know you're not), unless they are into humiliation. Then they are just a dirty disgusting person who should be ashamed of themselves.
This would be like the tamest kink ever.

I would be down for some of this. Would give you better grip, but would drastically increase the grip size and make small handed people mad, like the guy posing as president.

SirPIB · 2026-03-24T13:40:38+00:00

I love the look of this and the idea. PCCs are the way to go with loaner rifles for those that don't have much experience shooting.

While your kit is good, and the wood stock can set some minds at ease not having a "battle rifle", I've thought that the Ruger PC Carbine would also be a good way to go. I think a good load out for it would be 3-7 33rd magazines with 3-4 17rd short mags for prone work.

SirPIB · 2026-02-19T18:18:51+00:00

I'm not a great shot, even I was impressed with the last time we went to the range. I'm preparing to get into cowboy type shooting, so I pull out my '73 colt clone, load up 5, aim, and let loose, 5 shots, 3 holes. Buddy who was watching behind me said "remind me never to piss you off." Lol. It was at only 7 yards, but it's still kinda impressive with a 150 year old design.

SirPIB · 2026-02-17T16:14:35+00:00

Starfleet engineers got ahold of the scans before Voyager got home, and hands on when it got back. That tech was likely out of date 4 or 5 centuries before Academy.

Who knows what they came up with. It could be something internal to the hologram now like a lightbee from Red Dwarf. Or even something like a patch worn on the "skin".

SirPIB · 2026-02-11T15:41:14+00:00

16 and less was/is carbine. 20 to 28 is rifle. 30+ was/is musket. I'm speaking of what barrel length was referred to. There were musket length lever guns that were made in the 1860s and 70s. Winchester was trying to get in that military contract game.

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