@MrGoat "are you finished?"

@Pungent melanin will do that.

@HereticTheoretician yeah, lol, they don't want to have to actually do the war part, they just want to play dress-up.

@Pungent a crossbow would be a lot of fun. I've never shot one before.

@Pungent yeah, I'm thinking of selling them all and just keeping my 22.

I love archery, and I can do it in my backyard without the police showing up.

@HereticTheoretician totally agree. I strongly feel that if someone wants to own a firearm, they should have to earn it by proving they are safe and responsible enough to not be a threat to society.

I have a CDL-A commercial drivers license. It was very difficult to obtain and I have to do things every year to maintain it. As a result I need to be the most responsible person on the road. My livelihood depends on not getting a speeding ticket.

@Pungent yes, very true. As a veteran, I trained and used an m16a2 and an m249. I am drawn to the idea of an AR15 because it feeds my army nostalgia, and lets me excercise the skills I developed.

On the other hand, literally any dipshit can own one, and does. These guys think they are a tier 1 special forces operator when they go to the range and its disgusting to think that I could be confused for one of them.

Its like, false valor, but the 2a crowd is totally ok with it.

when I think of the firearms I do own, they remind me of a time when it was how I bonded with my father, it was my sense of belonging. Now I don't speak to him due to many complicated reasons, and they only serve as a reminder of that.

Last week I considered selling them all, to alleviate myself of that dreaded "nostalgic value" that has kept them kicking around in my life over the decades. Trading them all for just one home defense weapon blah blah blah.

This is my poorly thought out rant.

I have a hard time discussing the 2nd amendment. I used to defend it, believe in it, and in many ways still do, but it's becoming increasingly difficult when firearms are in the hands of the least intelligent, least disciplined, least mentally well, least responsible people.

While I dream of how cool it would be to add "name firearm here" to my collection, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth of who I am associating with by doing that. Gross times we live in.

@JailTheTrumps hahaha, I was half way through before I realized it was the onion.

What does that say about the state of our society?

I'm looking to join a new woke mob. Looking for a mob that values tolerance and equality. The last mob I was in demanded that rich people didn't assault their workers, so I'm pretty hardcore.

@hallmarc @Alfred he was on board the USS Iowa when its main gun exploded during a training exercise, inspiring 2 made for tv movies.

He didn't die though, that would be too good of an origin story for me.

@hallmarc @Alfred also, incredible coincidence, my father was in the navy....

@hallmarc @Alfred all this time I just thought my father was an irresponsible bum with no consideration for the lives he brought into this world. I have been a fool.

This winter I wrote about 30k words. I'm just enjoying the process, and I think thats a great place to be.

#writingcommunity

@Alfred then what happened 😳

@Alfred tell me a story about a duck named Jim.

@Alfred the only public record I want to see is his obituary.

@Alfred I could ask my brother, except I've never met him, as he is a member of my fathers secret family.

@Alfred I would ask him, but I don't know where he is, and haven't for 38 years.