I see it more like a marriage. It takes two to tango. If one is beating up the other, the other needs a way out without the consent of the one doing the beating.
I keep an inexpensive plate carrier with coated AR500 plates next to the bed, along with the carbine. It isn't going on patrol, so weight isn't an issue. It's just there to gain an advantage over a home intruder(s). When Red Dawn/WW Z comes (lol) I'll have more important things on my mind than...
Coping is something done by people who are connected to the event. You find somebody in pieces by the side of the road somewhere in the third world, you probably joke about it. You put one in the skull of someone shooting at your buddies, you might want to stand over his body and laugh. Some...
I agree, coping is a real thing and people have lots of ways of doing that.
But a lot of the posters in this thread aren't coping, they're rejoicing. The jokes, the smarmy self-righteous comments, the assumptions. I'm pretty dissapointed in quite a few people here.
I learned to shoot using a Remington nylon and Mark II in dad's basement. I still go over there and shoot every now and then. We've fired thousands of centerfire handgun rounds down there. Anything up to and including .357 mag could be handled by the bullet trap. .44 mag brought the dust out of...
Haven't paid much attention to the run-up this year, but I usually do. How is Spain? Those teams from a few years ago were awe-inspiring. Complete and utter domination.
So you're saying that pre-Heller, his view is that the 2A meant a certain thing. Now post-Heller, no matter what may have been intended in his view, it now is the constitution by default.
Or, to put it another way, only in the post-Heller world is a 2A repeal needed, in his view.