Gun Rights are Women's Rights

[oldbadger]

I was stabbed once (slashed, really) and I have been in exchanges of fire. Guess which one is worse?

I think I know this one.......
I got so fed up with facing sharps and hitting instruments that in 1991 I researched body protection. Most manufacturers of body armour were so institutionalized in their areas of supply that they laughed at my civilian enquiry (Ross and Catteral- Vickers being the exception).
So my wife made plaster castes of my head and front torso and from these I made kevlar helmet (looks like a wooly hat) and breast plate, both which saved me a few times over the next 20 years. The helmet saved me most of those times from bottles, bars, head-butts and lumps of wood.

Facing somebody and looking straight into their eyes takes a long time to get used to, I found.

I've never been in military combats and contentions, but my colleague (back then) had done tours of Northern Ireland and he said the same as you.

I might post up that wooly hat (!) I placed a fire on top of it last time I photographed it to prove that it was more than just a wooly hat (!).... I might dig it out of our data-only computer and post it up on an EDIT later.


Here you go....... I still had that picture, including the breast plate. I still have the hat because its so warm in winter time and doubles as a cycle helmet, but nobody ever sussed what it was.....

 

[Kangaroo Feathers]

I think I know this one.......
I got so fed up with facing sharps and hitting instruments that in 1991 I researched body protection. Most manufacturers of body armour were so institutionalized in their areas of supply that they laughed at my civilian enquiry (Ross and Catteral- Vickers being the exception).
So my wife made plaster castes of my head and front torso and from these I made kevlar helmet (looks like a wooly hat) and breast plate, both which saved me a few times over the next 20 years. The helmet saved me most of those times from bottles, bars, head-butts and lumps of wood.

Facing somebody and looking straight into their eyes takes a long time to get used to, I found.

I've never been in military combats and contentions, but my colleague (back then) had done tours of Northern Ireland and he said the same as you.

I might post up that wooly hat (!) I placed a fire on top of it last time I photographed it to prove that it was more than just a wooly hat (!).... I might dig it out of our data-only computer and post it up on an EDIT later.


Here you go....... I still had that picture, including the breast plate. I still have the hat because its so warm in winter time and doubles as a cycle helmet, but nobody ever sussed what it was.....

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My anti blunt/stab armour is purely recreational. Interestingly, though, the cops here all wear a thing that looks like combat chest harness that is "stab resistant". I'll see if I can find a pic for you

edit: these blue things, apparently

 

[Revoltingest]

The cyclist is doing his bit to solidify the image of where all the crime seems to come from. Surprisingly, most of my encounters with cycling incidents have occurred away from cities, apart from one when I was run down by a car coming from a side street and where my bike ended up under the back wheels with me fortunately just missing be run over. His fault, and a new bike basically, so not all bad. And this happened on my normal commute into the city but not on a working day. Pretty fortunate otherwise given the amount of cycling I have done.

I was on a rural road between Annapolis & Columbia MD.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

The US is safe as a whole. Ironically the most dangerous areas are the liberal cities with the strictest gun laws, while the more rural, conservative areas where most people own guns have very little violent crime.

By a similar sort of irony, you find much higher rates of disease in hospitals than in the general population.

I can’t imagine what’s in those oncology wards to give those otherwise-healthy patients cancer.

 

[Cacotopia]

I didn't know guns had a gender identity crisis too.