Flatpoint
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This may sound silly, Ruger GP 100 .357 mag, 4" bl. Reliable, powerful. An easy choice for me.
Sooo....now that you're homeless, where are you going to cast your own bullets exactly?(I handload and cast my own bullets, so ammo cost is negligible for practice).
Your argument presumes the homeless person (recall my description of the "technically homeless" seasonal loggers in rural Maine) is desperately poor -- many are not -- and hungry -- which few or none are. "Feeding the homeless" is a particular favorite piece of liberal nonsense. The homeless don't need food. Would they propose relief to house the hungry?
The reason that the "technically homeless" are such isn't because they have no income or assets; it's because they are mobile, or drift from temporary job site to temporary job site, working under the table for cash, and have no credit for a house or even a decent apartment -- which they would then have to maintain at their expense while away for months at a time. It's easier for them to live out of cars, or even in abandoned cars, or squat in tent camps or even to work as caretakers, or to squat, in camps/seasonal homes. These homeless folks have guns, as well as other significant assets.
I encounter them in the woods from time to time, and in other places, and have even represented some -- not all as court-appointed counsel. I find them interesting, and their existence, their survival and their comparative success compels reconsideration of several general assumptions about homeless people -- as well as a couple of other things. One even showed me the way to something I had been looking for in the woods.