(June 2, 2022 at 1:53 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: There are more firearms in that pic than we had in our company armory.  We didn’t even have any handguns( otoh…I dont see any missiles, rpgs, or grenades…bad form, they’re unprepared).  I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a bit jealous.  

How many do they need, one in each hand is all they could use!

It depends upon the use. I'd suggest the primary instrumental utility of that collection is in balancing some mental equation. I've opined in the past that we are far more motivated by our anxieties and insecurities than we ever are by the prospect of gain or pleasure. A mind not motivated by anxiety would buy what it needs and at most double that in case what it needs is temporarily unavailable at some point. Buying that many guns is an attempt to spend away some feared loss.

(June 2, 2022 at 2:08 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: How many do they need, one in each hand is all they could use!

Ish….. but at some point ( that they’ve blown through) more weapons doesn’t amount to more ability- just a high value target.

I’ve noticed trump flags and upside down us flags out here. Every time I see that - often without ever seeing the dwelling…I know that’s where to go to get more guns, should I need them….with or without the approval of the owners.

Reich wing America looks, to me, like a one stop shop for securing most of the shit you’d need to stamp out reich wing America. Wound t work against a professional force- but it would work against them…and that leads me into the next thing.

They’re obviously -not- prepping for a war. War is when both sides are shooting at each other. They’re prepping for summary executions.

(June 2, 2022 at 2:40 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote:

(June 2, 2022 at 2:08 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: How many do they need, one in each hand is all they could use!

Ish….. but at some point ( that they’ve blown through) more weapons doesn’t amount to more ability- just a high value target.

I’ve noticed trump flags and upside down us flags out here.  Every time I see that - often without ever seeing the dwelling…I know that’s where to go to get more guns, should I need them….with or without the approval of the owners.

Reich wing America looks, to me, like a one stop shop for securing most of the shit you’d need to stamp out reich wing America.  Wound t work against a professional force- but it would work against them…and that leads me into the next thing.

They’re obviously -not- prepping for a war.  War is when both sides are shooting at each other.  They’re prepping for summary executions.

(Emphasis mine)

‘Drones! Your government has DRONES! You’re bringing a gun to a drone fight!!’ - Jim Jeffries, social philosopher.

Boru

Here's a higher quality version of that photo, uncropped (or at least less so)

I'm counting somewhere in the area of 200 guns in this photo, and the more I look into it, the more levels on which this is fucking insane outside of the obvious shit that's already been mentioned, like the fact that they have 18 of those firearms on the roof in a way that they could easily slide off and hit someone (admittedly, it's clearly just for the photo, but that clearly looks precarious even if it isn't something designed to punch a hole in a living thing to make it not be a living thing anymore), or the fact that it looks like a fucking bazooka is one of those guns in the back, or that, factoring in a $500 per gun average, someone's shelled out somewhere in the area of $100k on that panoply, as opposed to, well, literally anything else, like repairs for that house or a college fund for those kids.

Firearm deaths are only epidemics in big cities, I thought.

Iowa doesn't have any city close to the population of Chicago.

But it's the zip code? Ok, tell that to the two dead women shot outside of a church in AMES IOWA! Population, a little over 66k. Chicago population, almost  2.7 million.  Firearm violence isn't a zip code or skin tone issue, it is an ease of access and saturated market issue.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/...492598001/

(June 2, 2022 at 9:37 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Here's a higher quality version of that photo, uncropped (or at least less so)

I'm counting somewhere in the area of 200 guns in this photo, and the more I look into it, the more levels on which this is fucking insane outside of the obvious shit that's already been mentioned, like the fact that they have 18 of those firearms on the roof in a way that they could easily slide off and hit someone (admittedly, it's clearly just for the photo, but that clearly looks precarious even if it isn't something designed to punch a hole in a living thing to make it not be a living thing anymore), or the fact that it looks like a fucking bazooka is one of those guns in the back, or that, factoring in a $500 per gun average, someone's shelled out somewhere in the area of $100k on that panoply, as opposed to, well, literally anything else, like repairs for that house or a college fund for those kids.

That picture is extremely disturbing if real. There is absolutely no rational reason anyone would need that amount. Shit, you only have to hands anyway. And what the fuck? If they are "preppers" they are morons. Radiation would pollute surface water, crops, canned food, underground water table. You might survive for a few days, or months if you don't die from nuclear fallout, but even then, you'll be murdering your neighbors over resources and property. Fuck that shit. If our enemies shot off a nuke, I would simply want to in ground zero so I am vaporized. I have no desire to live in such horrible conditions.

It apparently is real. I don't know who's in the picture, but I know it was shot by Gabriele Galimberti as part of a project called The Ameriguns. It's a photojournalistic look at American gun owners, and there's many photos of owners with comparably massive armories, though this is the largest armory that I know of to be in the project.

(June 3, 2022 at 1:44 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: It apparently is real.  I don't know who's in the picture, but I know it was shot by Gabriele Galimberti as part of a project called The Ameriguns. It's a photojournalistic look at American gun owners, and there's many photos of owners with comparably massive armories, though this is the largest armory that I know of to be in the project.

That is some serious Cliven Bundy, Timothy McVeigh shit. Wait, I got it, David Koresh spent summers there as a kid. He left his toys there.

(June 3, 2022 at 1:57 am)Brian37 Wrote:

(June 3, 2022 at 1:44 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: It apparently is real.  I don't know who's in the picture, but I know it was shot by Gabriele Galimberti as part of a project called The Ameriguns. It's a photojournalistic look at American gun owners, and there's many photos of owners with comparably massive armories, though this is the largest armory that I know of to be in the project.

That is some serious Cliven Bundy, Timothy McVeigh shit. Wait, I got it, David Koresh spent summers there as a kid. He left his toys there.

You’re making a lot of unjustified assumptions.

Boru