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Victory
Keyser Söze Wrote in message:
On 6/22/16 11:06 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 22 Jun 2016 16:17:43 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:
A case of paranoia there. Pretty common among gun nuts.
Do you carry a spare tire in your car? Is that paranoia too?
How many flat tires/blow-outs have you had in your driving life?
Since the steel belted radial tire? A couple. Considering I was
driving 50,000 miles a year, it was a very rare to almost non-existent
event in the last 45 years, yet I still carried a spare, a jack and a
decent lug wrench. I guess I was paranoid about that too.
The EPA says that every extra 100 pounds you add to a car reduces
efficiency 1-2% so it is safe to say the 50 pounds or so you have with
the "doughnut" tire, jack and such costs you about 1% so it is not
unreasonable to say you wasted 25 gallons of gas a year, just on your
paranoia. (assuming the tire and jack were free)
At a certain point my $350 Ruger and a few boxes of ammo are a
bargain. ;-)
That's the whole point. You carry a spare tire because you need to,
because you've had a couple of flats or blowouts over the years. It
isn't paranoia to carry a spare and a jack.
How many times have you *had* to use a firearm to defend yourself over
the same period of time?
Tell us about the times you were sitting down to lunch with your
associates and out of nowhere other mobsters opened fire on them.
We're you packing heat at the time? If not why not? Didn't that
happen on more than one occasion?
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