Posts by ASTAC

Quote from lazs

It is a fact that even being the most popular long gun in America it only accounts for 3% of all homicides. Even when I tell my conservative friends this stat they are surprised. But.... they are trending in the most popular for school or 'mass shootings' they are easier for people who cant shoot to .... well.... shoot. reliable and powerful.

About a hundred people are killed a year in 'mass shootings' 136 in 2021 for instance. 100-136 is hardly a large number in a nation of 350 million people. Where we have over 3 million deaths a year.

Sooo.... say I was a mass murderer and I could not get my hands on one of the TWENTY MILLION Ar's in America and several million other semi auto rifles.... I would go all Josey whales on em. 4 revolvers with speed loaders. .357 mag... 90% chance of fatal wound... 8 shot each (yes they make 8 shot revolvers) That would be 32 people shot it would of course take me almost a minute to reload all those guns when empty but then... back in business.

lazs

Display More

Of course it only accounts for 3%. The AR-15 type isn't really for killing. It's just something for drooling mouth breather overweight tacti-cool wanna be militia cowards to hang a bunch of useless optics and accessories from.

My 13 year old declared today that "this war is boring". He is quite knowledgeable about the history of Europe, their wars, and warfare in general. So I trust his judgement on this and have to agree.

Boroda, tell your people to get off their lazy asses and conquer Ukraine already, or take your dumbasses back home. Either way do you think maybe y'all can wrap this up?

if you pay to see that movie you are a groomer by proxy.

https://www.tampabay.com/scien…afficking-libel-20190619/

Quote from Gman

Top Gun Maverick

Ok, so Cruise is a nutjob, but it can't be denied that he puts in a TON of work for his films, and he's a pilot of many types. In his 15 minute special with that fat British late night host, they flew in Cruise's own P51, a jet trainer, and a Hondajet bizjet, all piloted by Cruise. I thought that the flight sequences were VERY well done in that.

Then I saw the film last night. Holy effballs, the flight cinematography was off the charts, I've never seen anything quite like this. The story was a bit lame-ish IMO, but I wasn't there for that really anyway - it was tolerable, and not distractingly bad or anything. Well worth the $ for IMAX IMO, hell, it's worth double for any of us who are into aviation. I heard Cruise got a 10 minute standing ovation at the premier, if true, he deserved it.

Go see.

Display More

Paying to see Top Gun: Maverick is basically giving money to Scientology. That's no better than giving money to Disney.

Quote from Danneskjold

That's the history of every country, all the time. No country is free from it, at any time, including current european countries.

I really don't care much about the country anymore. I'm just living my life, loyal to only me and mine. This society is too sick to participate in more than absolutely necessary, and as a country we are too far gone to "save".

Did we ever have a soul? Seems our complete history is nothing but constant war, division (based on race, religion,economic and social class), and general hatefulness towards each other. Take a close look at it and you will find there has never been a time of peace and contentment in this country. If we as a country ever had a soul, it was corrupted and sold to the devil long before any of us came along.

Quote from Boroda

Sure they did

I want an investigation. But no Ukrainian misslie was able to sink Moskva. Even if you imagine stupidity like what led to sinking Sheffield.

Please compare. 18 MANPAD launches at Ka-52 - no hits, and DPR warriors shooting Ukrop choppers OTW from Mariupol' with captured Stingers.

Republics need more supplies

Display More

Sad that you'd rather admit to gross incompetence of the officers(all officers of any country service are incompetent) and crew(should have a clue) in regards to the Moskva sinking.

Damage and sinking due to an attack is honorable. Why not go with that?

Sinking because the sailors let a non-combat related fire get out of control is embarrassing. Why even push this story at all.

Either way it proves your little regional Navy is nothing but a paper tiger. Best to keep it in places like the Black Sea and Baltic where they are never very far from land, a salvage ship, and tug boat.

Quote from storch

That's correct.

Is that for or against my argument? Lol

https://transformdrugs.org/blo…tting-the-record-straight

Levels of drug use in Portugal have been consistently below the European average over the past twenty years. This is particularly the case among younger people: Portugal has some of the lowest usage rates in Europe among those between the ages of 15-34.

Quote from Arrow

I'm not sure were Switzerland stands today, at one time they had free drugs for everyone. Seems drug use went up.

Besides killing people, drugs have another unique feature, seems no one wants to pay for them. Hence the killings. Making them legal may not stop the violence.

So you are for supporting our corrupt for-profit prison systems by jailing folks over minor drug charges. That helps no one except the corporations that own the prisons. It often also helps turn someone who was originally just a drug user into actual criminal.

Do you realize decriminalized does not mean they are legal? It's a focus on treatment instead of incarceration.

But yeah...spending billions on misusing military resources which haven't put a dent in use or importation is the way to go. Or innocent folks getting shot in no-knock raids after the goose stepping, jackbooted swat team couldn't get an address right is totally worth it.

Quote from Frode

Key word there is "properly". Not just maritime interdiction, but eradication at the source(s).

Right. So we go into another sovereign nation and start waging war against the producers of the drugs? Seems reasonable since that sort of stuff has worked so well for us in the past.

Truth is this is a "war" we never should have fought in the first place. It is really what started the militarization of our police forces.

Portugal seems to be doing okay after they decriminalized drug use. Perhaps we should look into the same.

Quote from Frode

Or we wage it the way it's supposed to be waged. But this country hasn't fought a war properly since the end of WWII, due to political meddling.

Having served my last sea duty only fighting the war on drugs, I say it's a complete waste of time and resources.

Quote from Frode

Especially drug addicted ones.

Drug addicted mothers probably shouldn't have custody of a baby.

Quote from lazs

I think that not all women can breast feed their babies.

lazs

I'm sure enough could, that this "shortage" wouldn't be a thing.

If only there was some way women could feed their babies naturally. That way this wouldn't be an issue.

Quote from Bj229r

Those pellets taste pretty good if you put ketchup on them

This again? It's mustard only on pellets

I wonder if he was ever really serious about the deal

Https://www.reuters.com/techno…ter-deal-hold-2022-05-13/