Handguns and a Balanced Life

[bannockburn]

Vern Humphrey

4. You have to get out to reload.

I would think, if I was the gunner who had to reload those things, this would have been Problem #1 to me!

Sorry for the thread drift. We now return to the thread "Handguns and a Balanced Life" already in progress...

 

[Coop45]

Coop45

Hey I had an M50 Ontos when I was a kid...well it was the 1/32nd scale plastic model version anyways (Monogram?), but I thought it was a super cool fighting vehicle with those six 106mm. recoiless rifles on it!

They were fast little boogers, and all 6 guns could be fired at once.

 

[Vern Humphrey]

They were fast little boogers, and all 6 guns could be fired at once.

They were fast in the dry season, not so in the mud.

I'd hate to go up against T-54s, let alone T-62s in that thing.

 

[Sappyg2.0]

Following this thread as I have, off and on, several notions are crossing my mind:
1. Don't take the inter web and the people on it so seriously.
2. What we here consider normal may confuse many. Even to the point of being considered unbalanced. Though my wife has what could be considered an unhealthy attraction to shoes, I frankly don't get it but, she's not harming anyone and it makes her happy. So... why judge?
3. I've been on enough forums to know by now where I fit in. I hope John (OP) has found the same. It's quite a challenge I know.
4. If you're going up against Vern you're gonna need more than a t62 and a bag of fretos. And damn it. If anyone has to load one of those 106's they aught to get to pull the trigger.

 

[someguy2800]

I think whoever called it "obsessive paranoia" found a good term for it. I have fire extinguishers around too but I don't spend 1/4 of my life training to use them and another 1/4 of it on the internet discussing what the best extinguisher to use on a certain fire would be or how many of them should I take with me to the pet store. We all have obsessions. I'm obsessed with drag racing, which people may find as strange as I do about being obsessed with self defense.

I do train with my pistols and I shoot action pistol but its just for fun and the challenge of it to me. I'm sure it is making me much more proficient in self defense, but I don't do it for that. Never once have I pretended the cardboard silhouettes in the action pistol stage are a person. But to the same effect I think it would be pretty hard for someone who doesn't do that to watch people running and shooting cardboard cutouts of people in the head and not think we are all messed up and training to kill people. But this is America and you can think whatever you want of what I do or don't do, and if you want to obsess your whole life about self defense with a gun I'm happy to defend your right to do so. You can even dress up in special forces gear and talk about what your going to do when the zombies rise from the dead, just don't expect me to participate in the conversation. Just like I don't want to talk about how fast your honda is.

 

[Vern Humphrey]

I'm obsessed with drag racing, which people may find as strange as I do about being obsessed with self defense.

You like to run in girls' clothes?

 

[someguy2800]

You like to run in girls' clothes?

Takes a real man to run in a pink nightie.

 

[Vern Humphrey]

Takes a real man to run in a pink nightie.

Particularly when you see the guy who's chasing him.

 

[Coop45]

They were fast in the dry season, not so in the mud.

I'd hate to go up against T-54s, let alone T-62s in that thing.

They were amazingly effective against snipers way out yonder in that clump of bamboo. Six rounds of 106 incoming would make anyone rethink shooting from the same place day after day at the same time. Or just disappear.

 

[buck460XVR]

Here is the deal in a nutshell, I have a spare tire, hope to never need it but know how to use it. I have several fire extinguishers, I hope to never need to use them but know how to use them. I have guns and hope to never need them but train as if I might. These things don't make me paranoid only prepared.

...every time a discussion similar to this comes up, someone always has this^^^ to reply. It's like that old saying your MIL uses 40 times a day. All I can say is,

I think whoever called it "obsessive paranoia" found a good term for it. I have fire extinguishers around too but I don't spend 1/4 of my life training to use them and another 1/4 of it on the internet discussing what the best extinguisher to use on a certain fire would be or how many of them should I take with me to the pet store.

^^^Now there's a good response.

Funny how we went from handguns to Battlewagons to Drag Queens is just a few pages. Guess life is not so balanced, eh?

 

[Vern Humphrey]

...every time a discussion similar to this comes up, someone always has this^^^ to reply. It's like that old saying your MIL uses 40 times a day.

Hmmm . . . maybe that's because it IS a valid response. Carrying a spare tire, having insurance, and so on are all measures you take to deal with emergencies. And carrying a gun falls right into that rubric.

 

[ugaarguy]

After 5 pages and quite a bit of drift, I think Vern has put in a better last word than I could have. Feel free to continue your cross-dressing uniform of the day tank racing discussion in PMs - or "conversations" as the new software calls it.