And you suspect DDG first and not the social media company known for spying on everyone?

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Wait you can do that?

Ice isn’t so bad unless you step on smooth rocks

Humans: Lets make EVERYTHING like smooth rock!

For real. 2016 was a whole decade ago! Imagine the gear and skills they could have developed!

I think a lot of people consider it overkill or just a conservative thing. But no it’s for everyone! Just like you don’t need to be a “car person” to use a car or a “tech person” to use a phone, you don’t need to be a “gun person” to have adequate equipment and skills. And just because you have the option to use guns doesn’t mean peaceful change isn’t an option

But just like you can’t expect others to speak or protest on your behalf you can’t just say “everyone else with guns should do something”

Boise Idaho is cool! The city is chill and if you like anything outside there are tons of mountains and hiking spots everywhere. Had some killer ice cream there. The Space Bar has a speak easy!

Portsmouth NH is like the day trip city for people in the Boston area. It’s small but has lots of nice restaurants. You can walk across one of the draw bridges to Maine!

Key West Florida can be a great time too. It’s one of several small islands (there are bridges that connect them all) that you can explore on foot. Lots of small expensive homes and some military facilities but it’s got a party atmosphere. Lots of places to drink, eat and relax and you can snorkel out in the Gulf of Mexico to see some beautiful reefs.

I’ll preface this by saying I don’t like how this situation went down.

But I know it’s going to spark a ton of debate on use of force and potential reforms to it’s use. With that in mind it helps if you know what the way it’s supposed to work from a legal perspective. So here’s some basic stuff I found. In this case the person shot being in a vehicle complicates this a bit compared to a face to face encounter.

I might make this a separate YSK post.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_force_continuum

https://legalclarity.org/what-is-the-force-continuum-and-how-is-it-used/

If you’re an American citizen than you (yes you) have gun rights too. If you feel the need to step up, by all means

“I don’t use AI”

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Bloons tower defense tack thrower irl? I’m in

That’s awesome thanks!

Playing Hitman World of Assassination! I love causing chaos as Santa

A war in Europe will do that to you

Look he does B&E on millions of houses a year without being caught, he can get whatever he wants

Something something bringing home the bacon

Gun rights are rights of ALL American citizens.

If you feel the need to arm yourself, train, and protect what means the most to you by all means do it! It is your right to do so. The same info and equipment is available if you want it.

But like how freedom of religion doesn’t mean everyone is religious, many people opt to not to use that right. And like people in different religions, the people using that same right can differ vastly from one another on beliefs and motivations.

Some people take up guns for fun and competition and nothing else. Others to defend themselves from crime or other personal harm. And some have guns for added community resilience if government cannot/will not help. Like major disasters, civil unrest etc. It can be all the above too.

Gun owners are not a simple neat group or a political party. One can’t control what another does or what tolerances they have any more than you can control what another person says when they use free speech. And following that line of thought, you cannot force someone to use their rights in the way you would prefer.

Better than being dead I guess

(the club is at a nursing home)

When it comes to domestic use america’s military is finding themselves in a bind. I don’t think we’ve seen a president that has pushed so hard for military use in relative peacetime. It’s coming into more and more conflict with how the military has been trained and the principles they are held to. I think that internally the military is taking a hard look at what they can and should do about this.

They all took oaths. Enlisted members say this

“I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.”

Those regulations include the laws of war. All military members get yearly training on this. What is and isn’t a combatant, what is and isn’t a lawful order etc. This includes a duty and obligation to disobey illegal orders, but usually the process is to get clarification from one of their officers. An officer’s oath of enlistment looks like this.

"I ___, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God. "

Note there is not a President mentioned there. The enlisted have a duty and obligation to disobey illegal orders, but officers play a key role in leading those units, and they have even greater obligations to their units legally. Enlisted members rejecting an order from some officer is one thing. Officers, or many officers rejecting an order is another.

I think what we are seeing is a careful balancing act. The military is going where they are told to go, but maybe not sending as many or being as aggressive as they administration would like. Stay involved enough to not be outright fired or replaced but try to hit the brakes on this mess and internally pushing back.

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