I was nervous too, especially if there were people around me because really I didnt trust myself yet and didnt want to put people at risk. I already had two accidents right in the beginning too....first I took a shot forgetting to take my laser bore-sighter out of the front of the barrel, luckily my glasses blocked a plume of smokey backfire. Second I had been looking over my safety glasses to look through my scope and a brass case ricochet off the wall right back over my safety glasses and bounced off the white part of by eye. Ill tell you, Ill never do that again lol I was really lucky, and Im glad there was nobody there to see it (my range/club has no range officer unless there are group events, its like the wild west, lol!)
Going to the range is certainly essential and I dont think you should own a gun if you do not intend to practice, my opinion. Also, why the hell wouldnt you go? I found it to be extremely fun, its like going to the gym and getting your mind off things and when you go back home you just feel good.
Ouch, good to be careful. I do a lot of renovation work for family and friends and I often realize I am not great with eye protection - I usually put it on right after something bad happens and I almost get shrapnel'd. I haven't done that with guns yet.
One of the big things I really try to practice is the basics of don't put your finger on the trigger until you are ready to shoot, and don't point the gun anywhere you don't intend. Even with that in mind, I've caught myself handling unloaded weapons that I've checked more carelessly than I should and I still have to practice that....just because you want to build that habit while it's not loaded. My philosophy is that if I'm out in public though, it won't even come out of my holster unless someone is about to see it go off. The holster is a great safety mechanism.
Keep in mind the term "Conspiracy" was weaponized by the deep state during JFK assassination to discredit those who questioned.
You will find the deep state make up their own conspiracies and flood the "conspiracy" world with crazy conspiracies to discredit real conspiracies as well.....usually its the "bigfoot" or "alien invasion" stuff and the viewer at home link real conspiracies with crazy crap together and thats that. The government doesnt need everybody to believe them, just the enough so their ship doesnt sink.
Yes its true, some people just believe anything and say anything, and others maybe perhaps they are just trying to make a dollar or two.
There is this, but there's also the idea that if you have a little bit of truth about something, flooding that truth with a bunch of obviously incorrect facts will make people remember the 10 falsehoods and forget the 1 truth - even if the 1 truth was damning. All people see is that the overall "idea" was debunked and they associate that with the one fact that was not debunked but they don't realize it.
Like, you know, Clinton raped someone and prevented them from being able to get their day in court; but suddenly that's not true because it's just a witch hunt over him cheating on his wife. Everyone forgets what he really did and focused on the blue dress. And thus, lying under oath and robbing a victim of her day in court goes down as nothing big because it was really about him getting a hummer from Monica in their minds.
Its both really good and freaking scary as hell. Defending our Bill of Rights and having full force aggressive accountability to those who violate it is crucial to protecting our freedoms, life and liberty, unfortunately we all know its not the case and most people buy/vote into this system. Really sad.
You should look into China's facial recognition tech, they have cameras there EVERYWHERE....some restaurants I sit in have cameras pointed at every single table, and almost every single street corner has a camera if not all in Beijing. They bring up all your info in real time, and every where you go its permanently put on a data base and if they ever bring you in for anything they can instantly pull out your file and tell you they know everywhere you have been. And if the camera doesnt recognize you it brings up fairly accurate date in real time about how old you are, weight, etc......
Honestly, I'm kind of on both sides. In public, I have no reasonable expectation of privacy so any recording should be fair game and this should go for EVERYONE. As far as being able to search through a database, this is why things like the opening an investigation on someone without evidence, like was done to Trump, becomes very scary - because the people are in a position where this enormous power to gather info on someone without cause. People don't see where that leads and to some degree I don't blame them because I am not sure I really fully understand the implications.
But of course if someone commits a crime and I have them on video, I am all for being able to insert that face into a database and get a name once just cause is established.
I didn't take the time to see if anyone responded to this ridiculous comment, but I'll bite.
Are you actually comparing a fentanyl overdose to being on testosterone?
Just want to make sure we are living on the same planet...
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