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In high school you're younger, weaker and lighter. Also, the coach is trying to toughen you up. Not saying they're always wise about when to send you to the bench, but it's nothing like the pros.

Once you get into the pros, those guys are monsters, fighters with a lot more to lose. And of course they're literally financial investments.

Surprised no one has mentioned jobs like the NSA. They're thought to be the largest single employer of mathematicians.

I've done a whole 8-ball in one night. Coke doesn't make you stupid or blow out your inhibitions. This guy was something special to begin with.

"Just remember, what you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening." - Donald Trump, 2018

That book is hilariously expensive now. Check eBay or Amazon, $150+.

As seen here. :)

All true! But in the end, they still affect my life, so I do have to care what's said, even if it is a bot or a filthy Russian.

Got two vintage bolt-action shotguns. Both suck, but they weren't that great to begin with. Been wanting a lever action! Seems that would be about as fast as a pump? Never touched one. LOL, never seen one IRL.

I didn't say a bolt-action was potentially worse? I did say that a pump is mostly better than a semi. I did say a single-shot is potentially worse than all of the above.

I know that doesn't make sense, very counter intuitive. But I have never, not once, had a single-shot fail unless the load itself failed, and I have some truly shitty single-shots. I should add the caveat that the single-shot needs to eject the spent shell, or you're really going to be slow.

Hard to explain unless one has the experience. With a single-shot you get into a rhythm; aim, fire, break, reload, fire, aim, fire, break, reload, fire. It's easy to spaz out with a semi and loose all your ammo. When your shots are limited, you take the extra split second to aim, make it count.

Or, consider this, if we're talking about mass causalities; what about reloading? There are techniques like "violin reloading", or "combat loading" singles, that go fast, but take serious and continuous practice. If we were both challenged to send 10 shots downrange, on target, bet I could do better with a single shot. First 5? Ya got me, assuming you didn't spaz out and spray lead all around. 10? I never stopped or hesitated, and I had the extra second to consider the situation and aim.

Anyway, if you ever make it to Florida, hunt me down and we'll go to my little camp in the swamp. Have a friendly shoot!

This is lemmy. You have to spell out every detail, in finer detail, or you will be misunderstood.

My take? Harris would have done nothing different in materiel support to Israel. She would have made slight condemning noises, but America would still be shipping money and munitions.

OP was asking about Israeli support in particular.

Their gun laws are strict, compared to America. But the notion that Europeans and other first-world citizens can't have guns is far from the truth. Hell, some laws are looser. Most (all?) Europeans can buy a suppressor, and I gather those are mandated in some places, or at least you're frowned upon for not having one.

One of my favorite GunTubers was visiting and interviewing in a central European gun shop (forget the country, sorry) and I was like, "Well, shit. They can buy about anything we can buy!"

America doesn't have a gun problem. America has a culture problem. I could tell you a dozen stories of idiot Americans not understanding the laws we already have. Many of those idiots are dead or in prison.

A pump shotgun is far more reliable than a semi-auto. Want to kill a bunch of people? I'd never trust a semi. Bring the pump.

Hell, for that matter I might pick one of my single shots. Takes less practice than a pump, cannot fail to send lead down range. I know that's all counterintuitive. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast, as they say. :)

SOURCE: Own 12 shotguns of all ages and sorts.