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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Yeah that price is unbeatable! I might have said in my last comment, can’t recall, but I’d like a P365. shot very well with it in training courses and it’s the smallest little guy. I think it would be impractical for me to carry at this point in my life due to the job I work, and I think my SO would have a major problem with it. But as you said, whether it’s coming from above or below, it feels a lot like threats of violence could be increasing in the next decade. So I dunno. I’m also reading Citizen-Protectors: the Everyday Politics of Guns in an Age of Decline by Jennifer Carlson. It’s interesting, if unsurprising stuff. Have you read it? It’s a pretty even-handed look, by a sociologist, at the who-what-where-why’s of pistol carry in the USA. It’s a decent read.


  • Ooooh, I bought it two administrations ago, feeling similar to how I do now. It was the lead up to the election that put Biden in the white house and guns were selling out like crazy while Trump was stoking his base months ahead of time that if he lost it would be because the election and by extension the democratic process had been rigged and soiled. The idea that half the electorate would be stoked on that kind of brain poison and more armed than ever, and, that if one needed a gun they’d have a hard time obtaining one moved me to break out the old credit card. So. Whenever that was. Five years ago I guess? Never touched it until I took a number of shooting classes a couple years back. But I’ve only just now been making an effort to get back into shooting. As it was then, I don’t have any grand delusions about how and when I would ever ‘need’ to use a gun, but the current climate just makes me feel I’d rather have it and not need it than the other way around.