As the saying goes “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” Zoom in. These are not Seal Team Six quality opponents. But, more importantly, there are only three of them. You just wait until one or two leave the house, blitz the other one(s) and wait for the other(s) to return and get them to open the gun safes. Now you can supply your entire gang.
You're gonna feel real stupid when it turns out that Gramps stacked bodies in countries we never officially set foot in while rolling with Delta, that the missus trains HRT guys on CQB, the eldest kid is a top tier contender, and the kid? The kid doesn't have any of that, she just likes to watch the light go out of things eyes, and is waiting for an excuse.
In your world that might be realistic but on Earth there’s a 99% chance they are an old man with twig sized arms, a ditzy 22 year old with a kid she didn’t mean to have and a teenager who spends 12 hours a day on Twitch.
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The gun hoarder fantasy is that the more they have the safer/stronger they are but realistically the only question is how many of the enemy you arm once you are overwhelmed.
He's 44. She's 43. Their oldest child is 11, making her at most 32 when she had him.
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While the husband does own some firearms, 90% of the collection belongs to her. And she knows her guns pretty thoroughly from the looks of it, spending her time customizing many of them. She isn't hoarding them to be safer, she does it because she loves guns.
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The "teenager who spends 12 hours a day on twitch" is an 11 year old who already knows how to build and fire a weapon, with the 5 year old being taught as she gets older.
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Looks like you were 100% wrong about the 99%. The atmosphere on earth IS pretty nice, you should give it a go if you ever pop back here for a spell.
@scatmandingo If they strategize then the odds of getting the guns goes up but how many can you grab before dad or mom, apparently, decide that gun has been pointed at their loved one for too long? I don't see any of this going down without a fight and those who have something to fight for always have the advantage. I don't see easy in any part of this.
@xvarnah I’m satisfied that my scenario was as accurate as @famousone’s. That guy being the same age as I makes me feel a lot better about my appearance. Maybe she is draining his life force to stay young.
@adam44 I’m not talking about a gunfight where love wins in the end. I’m talking about lethal violence with no warning. You don’t have one 4-on-3 fight when you can have three 4-on-1 fights.
@xvarnah I tagged you because I was addressing two different people in the same comment. That way you could tell which section was directed at whom. I would think after all the time you’ve spent on this site you would understand how it works. Anyway, I don’t need a high-res picture to see that guy looks like he’s 20+ years older than the age you said he was.
@scatmandingo I'm not talking about some cliched garbage. When your kids life is on the line you have more motivation then random people who want guns. If one of invaders gets shot the rest will start thinking about if it's worth it. If the parents have three bullets in them and half a magazine they'll empty it into the invaders then bite whoever is alive to death. Also, if this fight can happen anywhere then this whole conversation is pointless. The thieves could strike at a restaurant when one of the kids is alone but a stranger reacts because he's armed. There's too many variables unless we're talking about people invading the house where the firearms are kept.
You have somehow stumbled upon my point. Three people are not enough to prepare for multiple attack scenarios. That’s what makes it easy to overwhelm them. Yes, they might be prepared for someone loudly breaking a window in the middle of the night but they most likely aren’t for anything more complex. Scroll back and you will see the scenario I outlined that states a very simple and workable strategy to eliminate their defensive advantage.
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If I was in a gang or some other organized crime structure and I found out a family like this had 170 guns that I could steal for myself or to sell I would commit the time it takes to figure out how to get them.
I wasn't questioning the way the site works, I was questioning why you felt the need to involve me personally in your random appearance competition with a bunch of tiny blurry pixels? Unless it was exclusively the first sentence of your comment that you dragged me here for, in which case... thanks for involving me in your backpat? I guess?
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I hope tagging me for that made your day more worthwhile in some way
@xvarnah Let me explain it a little slower for you so you can understand. You left a comment on this thread starting with the man’s age and ending with “Looks like you were 100% wrong” which was directed at me. Then (you keeping up?) adam44 added a comment. I tagged you (just like this comment) because I was directly responding to you and not him. I didn’t involve you personally. You involved yourself when you decided to join the conversation
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I was being humorous by saying that I felt better about myself because he looks so old. But wherever you are on the spectrum you obviously missed it.
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Hopefully this was clear enough for you to comprehend.
Well I mean, he managed to waste like 15 paragraphs explaining the at symbol before he finally managed to put his reading comprehension skills to use and make a vague attempt at answering the question I actually asked -- so I guess in a way that IS impressive haha
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After all that I can finally confirm that he was tagging me initially just for an audience to watch him pat himself on the back, and now is apparently also irritated that his attempt at being humorous didn't land the way he wanted it to
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He seems to have taken my existence quite personally, and while I never really planned on living under his skin, he doesn't seem to want to let me leave. Not the weirdest fetish I've ever encountered, but I can't say it sounds particularly healthy
Oh, it’s ok. As an adult it’s part of my responsibility to help educate the youth; even the slow ones. Since a detailed explanation didn’t work let’s try a nice succinct one that might not exceed your attention span.
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If you don’t want someone to tag you then don’t directly address something they said in their previous comment. That is you starting a dialogue and it is normal for them to continue the topic with further interaction. Again, if that’s not what you want, stay quiet.
17 paragraphs now and heading with conviction directly into a brick wall
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I think I discovered where the disconnect is. See, you seem to think I'm confused about how the tag symbol works. Understandable since you seem to have a very poor comprehension of it in your own right.
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My issue, however was never in understanding how to tag someone, it was entirely in why you felt it necessary TO tag me specifically to make absolutely certain I would read that blurb of nothingness you offered as a response.
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Typically if you're going to tag a person you have something of any actual relevance or substance to say. You, however, had nothing to say in relation to what I said other than you agree with yourself, and how ugly you find the pixels on the screen
Now, granted, it was my error in assuming an "adult" would be able to pick up on this after it was stated repeatedly lol. Although considering you are the one stamping your feet demanding I give you attention, I'm not entirely certain you aren't playing a little fast and loose with that word
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You placed yourself atop one of the highest horses I've ever seen and the issue STILL managed to go leaps and bounds over your head lol. I will say, once again though, thatguyyouknow was correct -- you did manage to impress me. It's not very often you see a donkey riding horseback afterall.
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It has been thoroughly entertaining wasting your time with this, though, and seeing how excruciatingly personally you've taken it for no reason at all
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Hopefully you've had as much fun with it as I have
Let’s recap the interaction.
Scat: “There’s a 99% chance that they are ...”
Famousone: “Gramps stacked bodies ...”
Xvar: “He is 44... (directly quotes Scst’s above commment) ... you are 100% wrong about the 99%”
Scat: (tags Xvar): “I’m satisfied my scenario was just as accurate as famousone’s” (Makes joke about guy’s age then tags Adam and continues.)
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Can you not follow the topic through 4 comments without losing what is being discussed?
Lookit you! You managed to do like an entire comment in a row without explaining how the tag system works! :D
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I'm proud of ya, mate. Every step forward, no matter how small, is still progress!
I prefer Ford.
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Oh, of course! Basically it was your entire comment having no substance or relation to what I was talking about.
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Ngl, you'd think an adult who isn't on the spectrum and professes to be an authority of literacy and the flow of conversation could have picked up on that <.<
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Apologies, I didn't mean to approach you with standards. I'll try not to make that mistake in the future :P
Again you dodge and just repeat yourself. I will rephrase. How does my acknowledgement and reply to a comment where you literally copied what I said and then told me I was wrong not a related response?
For awhile we did have "maple moose" in Canada (chips, not popcorn). Idk what moose tastes like, but I do know maple and that wasn't it
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You seriously gonna try and tell me you don't have any strange flavours in Ireland?
I will take your lack of response that you have no answer to my question and that you realize your rudeness was unwarranted. Too bad you aren’t mature enough to admit it.
Scat, I understand you're desperate for my attention at this point, but try to remember you're not entitled to it.
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I gave my answer, ad naseum. You failed to comprehend it. Your lack of comprehension is a non-issue for me because believe it or not I'm not that invested in you. Furthermore, if I wanted to be responsible for educating the criminally incompetent I would have become a teacher.
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You are also the one who started the rudeness, so please stop crying victim now.
90% of what I've said has been me fucking with you because you took a question I had and turned it 50 shades of serious I find that as entertaining as I do baffling.
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You, meanwhile, not only started the rudeness, you brought autism into it -- comparing your apparent view of me being a giant ignoramus to having autism. And you did this knowing full well there are several users on this website who are autistic.
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And the only reason I find THIS fascinating is because you did this in response to a me asking a question (and a joke of yours not landing), and then you call me rude after that.
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I had no idea you had been given a starring role in "the Lion, the witch, and the audacity of this bitch."
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I sincerely hope you will finish your whining session soon. But please move forward with the understanding that, as before, I honestly will only respond to you if I find it entertaining to do so. Hopefully you've picked up on that now.
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And, hopefully, you can find some way in the future to deal with someone asking you question a little more like an "adult" :P
Most of the flavours - even the good flavours - don't taste like what they claim they're *supposed* to taste like, and generally speaking the bad flavoured ones ARE pretty rancid
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Can't remember which one was the worst ATM lol
Due to the debating going on below, here we go:
The people in the photo are Joel [44], Lynne [43], Paige [5], and Joshua [11]
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-Joel and Lynne have been married for 14 years
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-While they are BOTH collectors of different sorts, the gun collection is almost entirely Lynne's, who estimates that she owns over 170 firearms. She buys them because she assumedly likes shooting, but also because she is a collector and "loves customizing them."
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https://americandigest.org/the-ameriguns/
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The gun hoarder fantasy is that the more they have the safer/stronger they are but realistically the only question is how many of the enemy you arm once you are overwhelmed.
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While the husband does own some firearms, 90% of the collection belongs to her. And she knows her guns pretty thoroughly from the looks of it, spending her time customizing many of them. She isn't hoarding them to be safer, she does it because she loves guns.
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The "teenager who spends 12 hours a day on twitch" is an 11 year old who already knows how to build and fire a weapon, with the 5 year old being taught as she gets older.
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Looks like you were 100% wrong about the 99%. The atmosphere on earth IS pretty nice, you should give it a go if you ever pop back here for a spell.
@adam44 I’m not talking about a gunfight where love wins in the end. I’m talking about lethal violence with no warning. You don’t have one 4-on-3 fight when you can have three 4-on-1 fights.
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If I was in a gang or some other organized crime structure and I found out a family like this had 170 guns that I could steal for myself or to sell I would commit the time it takes to figure out how to get them.
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I hope tagging me for that made your day more worthwhile in some way
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I was being humorous by saying that I felt better about myself because he looks so old. But wherever you are on the spectrum you obviously missed it.
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Hopefully this was clear enough for you to comprehend.
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After all that I can finally confirm that he was tagging me initially just for an audience to watch him pat himself on the back, and now is apparently also irritated that his attempt at being humorous didn't land the way he wanted it to
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He seems to have taken my existence quite personally, and while I never really planned on living under his skin, he doesn't seem to want to let me leave. Not the weirdest fetish I've ever encountered, but I can't say it sounds particularly healthy
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If you don’t want someone to tag you then don’t directly address something they said in their previous comment. That is you starting a dialogue and it is normal for them to continue the topic with further interaction. Again, if that’s not what you want, stay quiet.
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I think I discovered where the disconnect is. See, you seem to think I'm confused about how the tag symbol works. Understandable since you seem to have a very poor comprehension of it in your own right.
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My issue, however was never in understanding how to tag someone, it was entirely in why you felt it necessary TO tag me specifically to make absolutely certain I would read that blurb of nothingness you offered as a response.
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Typically if you're going to tag a person you have something of any actual relevance or substance to say. You, however, had nothing to say in relation to what I said other than you agree with yourself, and how ugly you find the pixels on the screen
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You placed yourself atop one of the highest horses I've ever seen and the issue STILL managed to go leaps and bounds over your head lol. I will say, once again though, thatguyyouknow was correct -- you did manage to impress me. It's not very often you see a donkey riding horseback afterall.
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It has been thoroughly entertaining wasting your time with this, though, and seeing how excruciatingly personally you've taken it for no reason at all
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Hopefully you've had as much fun with it as I have
Scat: “There’s a 99% chance that they are ...”
Famousone: “Gramps stacked bodies ...”
Xvar: “He is 44... (directly quotes Scst’s above commment) ... you are 100% wrong about the 99%”
Scat: (tags Xvar): “I’m satisfied my scenario was just as accurate as famousone’s” (Makes joke about guy’s age then tags Adam and continues.)
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Can you not follow the topic through 4 comments without losing what is being discussed?
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I'm proud of ya, mate. Every step forward, no matter how small, is still progress!
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Oh, of course! Basically it was your entire comment having no substance or relation to what I was talking about.
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Ngl, you'd think an adult who isn't on the spectrum and professes to be an authority of literacy and the flow of conversation could have picked up on that <.<
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Apologies, I didn't mean to approach you with standards. I'll try not to make that mistake in the future :P
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Also you question dill pickle but not "covid liver" which is doubly concerning because my phone changed cod to covid
I'd rather get covid than eat anything pickle flavoured
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You seriously gonna try and tell me you don't have any strange flavours in Ireland?
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I gave my answer, ad naseum. You failed to comprehend it. Your lack of comprehension is a non-issue for me because believe it or not I'm not that invested in you. Furthermore, if I wanted to be responsible for educating the criminally incompetent I would have become a teacher.
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You are also the one who started the rudeness, so please stop crying victim now.
90% of what I've said has been me fucking with you because you took a question I had and turned it 50 shades of serious I find that as entertaining as I do baffling.
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And the only reason I find THIS fascinating is because you did this in response to a me asking a question (and a joke of yours not landing), and then you call me rude after that.
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I had no idea you had been given a starring role in "the Lion, the witch, and the audacity of this bitch."
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I sincerely hope you will finish your whining session soon. But please move forward with the understanding that, as before, I honestly will only respond to you if I find it entertaining to do so. Hopefully you've picked up on that now.
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And, hopefully, you can find some way in the future to deal with someone asking you question a little more like an "adult" :P
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Can't remember which one was the worst ATM lol
The people in the photo are Joel [44], Lynne [43], Paige [5], and Joshua [11]
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-Joel and Lynne have been married for 14 years
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-While they are BOTH collectors of different sorts, the gun collection is almost entirely Lynne's, who estimates that she owns over 170 firearms. She buys them because she assumedly likes shooting, but also because she is a collector and "loves customizing them."
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https://americandigest.org/the-ameriguns/