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Right.
How many times do we have to go over this?
Those quotes DO NOT show me saying the opposite.
Yeah, they do.
Right.
How many times do we have to go over this?
Those quotes DO NOT show me saying the opposite.
Of course not.Geez...you think snakes eat deer?
No, they don't.Yeah, they do.
No, they don't.
How many times do we need to go over the same ground?
Maybe review instead.
Well, I live on the edge of tens of thousands of acres of woods. My daughter killed her first deer maybe 200 yards from the house, where the lawn turns to woods. Trail cams at that edge of the yard routinely catch deer, coyotes, squirrels, skunks, opossums, raccoons, and the occasional bobcat. But no. I don't live in the woods. And even though rattlesnakes and copperheads are fairly common in the area, we don't have snake problems up by the house. We keep the grass cut short, and don't allow rodent infestations, brush piles, or overgrown junk cars.Obviously you have never lived in the woods.
Well what do deer have to do with snakes, then?Of course not.
Try reading it again. Maybe slow down.
Or were you trying to be funny?
Try reading it again. Slowly.Well what do deer have to do with snakes, then?
Snakes require a food source. You started babbling about deer and mountain lions.Try reading it again. Slowly.
(I honestly thought you were joking).
The FBI calculates that there are approx 1.2 million violent crimes yearly in the country. Very few of those crimes are perpetrated against armed law enforcement officers which leaves the rest as attacks on citizens.To me people who carry a fire arm are slightly out of balance with life. I have worked as a doorman in San Francisco and elsewhere and never felt any need for a firearm.
What are you talking about?Snakes require a food source. You started babbling about deer and mountain lions.
Just admit that rattlesnakes eat rodents like rats and mice. You're spinning in circles to avoid that admission.
I guess those 20,000 people who get murdered every year didn't need a gun, either.To me people who carry a fire arm are slightly out of balance with life. I have worked as a doorman in San Francisco and elsewhere and never felt any need for a firearm.
What are you talking about?
Try actually reading my post again.
I live in a riparian forest. It has a thriving eco system, top to bottom. The nearest house to mine is over a mile away.
Household vermin has nothing to do with it. It's a Forrest.
You really are coming across as some city slicker or suburbanite, wholly unfamiliar with truly rural environments.
Mostly small mamals.What do the snakes eat in this thriving eco-system? You seem to be hesitant to say.
Yeah prompted by a long mess of a conversation with @NolanVoyd
Here's an example of someone just minding their own and they were attacked out of the blue. For no reason. Imagine if she had been armed....Olympian Kim Glass suffers gruesome injuries after she was attacked in Los Angeles
Olympian Kim Glass said over the weekend she was attacked by a homeless man in Los Angeles and it left her with gruesome injuries.www.foxnews.com
How about this father who was armed, and shot two attackers?
Was he a scaredy cat living in needless fear? Imagine if he hadn't the means to defend his family at that moment!Texas father shoots pair of teens who attempted to rob car with infants inside
Two teens were shot in Texas after allegedly attempting to rob a family arriving home in their SUV late Sunday night. Both teens are believed to be in stable condition.www.foxnews.com
In both cases above, and these were just from today, innocent people were minding their own business and were victimized by bad actors.
In one case, the victim was badly injured but saved thankfully because others showed up to help her. In the other case, two perps were stopped before a family was harmed.
Does anyone really think it's fear that drives those of us that carry, to carry? Or is it a grim determination to not be victims?
I do not carry out of fear, though I do know there are those that do because of where they live or the situation they are in. But not everyone who carries carries out of fear.
Coming from you that means literally nothing.No one needs anything more than a small snub-nose revolver for self-defense purposes.
Mostly small mamals.
It's a Forrest. That isn't "vermin" it's nature.
Your point that I wouldn't have snakes here if I somehow dealt with the vermin problem in the forrest is just really silly.
You sound like a clueless a urbanite.
No one needs anything more than a small snub-nose revolver for self-defense purposes.
Coming from you that means literally nothing.
I need my AR15 though.
Stuff coming from 4-star generals, trauma surgeons, and law enforcement mean nothing to you either. You are a true believer and so impervious to any rationality or reason.
Not for self defense.
My house is in the woods.Around your house, not out in the woods. Do you have no buffer zone between your house and the woods?
What's with the personal attacks?
My house is in the woods.
And what personal attacks? Quote me.
A bit late to the party, and something I might have mentioned once or twice or so.Right.
Live your life in fear of you want to, I just couldn't live like that. You poor guy.