Posted on 01/22/2006 9:48:26 PM PST by Skibane
I'm increasing my collection this week. Gonna add a SigPro 2009, it looks like.
Praise God, and thanks to the Founding Fathers for the Second Amendment.
BTTT
I believe him but,
4 feet of water ?
The Blazer (K or S ?) musta had a lift kit and 35"`s on `em. Either the tailpipe would be under water or the engine would have sucked in water.
The gun is the ONLY reason they made it, and maybe the reason they are still alive.
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I have been in both an automobile and on a motorcycle in fairly deep water. The exhausts made a burbling noise like on old inboard motored boat, but they started and ran fine. Keeping the intake and the ignition dry is the important part. (Helps if the distributor ia at the back of the block, like a small block chevy V8 engine which was pretty much the norm for the older blazers.)
I don't know if a .25 would be on my top 4 list.
Sorry for the bad grammar, I reversed a correction and really messed the whole sentence up. What can I say, it's midnight.
Good story. I know the area he lived in and discusses well. I thought that the Gretna police were turing everyone back when they crossed the bridge?
A dummy gun would have worked as well. Looters tend to want easy pickins.
Put the crackpipe down and step away from the computer.
A real, loaded gun gives its owner courage to do things like take on a gang of potentially murderous looters, as here, that a "dummy gun" just doesn't provide. The idea's to promise annihilation knowing you can do it, not to bluff. The confidence that comes from that sure knowledge gives the promiser a menacing demeanor that can't come from any other source.
First of all, having been in a riot or three and having lived in South Florida during Hurricane Andrew, looters in those situations are on property after consumer goods and rarely are they aware of an armed property owner until a shot is fired. Then they may or may not scatter. I've seen looters throw a national guard chopper the "bird" and continue to loot. I say this because I was IN the chopper in question! The 05 in charge of the bird was going crazy because on the recon flight, nobody had a loaded weapon! He actually had the pilot try and hit some of those folks with the chopper skids.
The scene in N.O. wasn't a normal "disturbance." It was the apocalypse on the order of MAD MAX and predators were hunting prey. Under normal circumstances, if you look like prey you will be eaten and if you DON'T... you WON'T. In this situation, in order to prove the fact, potential prey had to prove the potential to BITE. Somehow I don't think I'd want to be rolling the dice with a toy gun.
Great post.
My brother lives in Houston and I bought him a handgun as very redneck gift for his wedding (Nice Sig). His wife was none-to-pleased until Rita was roaring its way to Houston and he said to her, "Aren't you glad we got the gun." She was.
Also, a friend of mine worked for the USCG in the rescue and he told me that when the news tried to retract the mayhem that went on down there, they were lying through their teeth. His team's helicopters and boats were shot at by looters and thugs.
very true.
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