Beware of Gun Nuts! 😳
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When I was about 8 I used a hammer to smash an entire roll of paper caps. On that day I learned my grandmother could levitate.
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Good point.
Obviously, the more a person knows about certain subjects, the more likely they're able to understand all the nuances about it. But that isn't really what I think of as "common sense". That's more of a direct skill kind of thing.
I'm more of the opinion that "common sense" relates to a person's ability to relate tangential knowledge/experience to the world around him. "Tangential" as opposed to "direct" knowledge/experience.
I don't reload (yet). By my understanding about such things as how ammunition works (whether by actual experience in using it or how the individual components are designed to work, or even the simple knowledge that something within the cartridge drives the bullet by "exploding").
Now, if you don't know what a primer is at all because it's completely outside your realm under circumstances similar to your scenario...yeah, maybe "common sense" doesn't apply quite so well. This is a bit more in the line of a "prank", the way I'm thinking of it. (And common sense might still apply...like recognizing a sibling or shipmate asking you to do something like this seems to fall in line with "prank behavior". Kinda depends.)
This is the reason why I never bought into the whole "we didn't know it was bad for us" excuse when it came to smoking. Horse pucky...it doesn't take a medical or biology degree and decades of research and studies to come to that conclusion. The simple knowledge that setting something on fire and then breathing in the smoke/fumes is generally bad for you should cue a person in on this...even to the tune of knowing that people die from smoke inhalation in burning facilities all the time. Not to mention the fact that your body actively tries to tell you it's bad via coughing and burning sensations while inhaling smoke.
Another example of common sense is knowing that getting hit by a car is likely to be a dangerous, painful, and possibly fatal experience. You don't have to have actually been hit by a car to realize this. Understanding experiences like hitting your thumb with a hammer, stubbing your toe on furniture in the middle of the night, having a jar fall of a shelf onto your noggin, slamming a door on your fingers, falling out of a tree, etc. are painful, injurious events which one can derive a "common sense" conclusion that running out into traffic is not a good idea because it could cause similar injuries or even death.
People who appear to have no common sense either "don't think" (for a variety of reasons) or actively "refuse to think" because acknowledging any negative consequences may be counter to their own desires.
I appreciate @Jeppo posting this for all to see. The esteemed State Senator has much to be ashamed of as well as Live Down. He also showed an abnormal reaction to his fear of another human by Keying his automobile, then denying it until video confirmed his quilt. If my memory serves me correctly our elected officials are the worst offenders when it comes to breaking the law yet we continually re-elect them to represent us.
This case, having been made public, causes me to be skeptable of all those running for office as to their honesty. This official and those like him have been trying to deminish our rights for decades so next election is the time to vote them out.
This case, having been made public, causes me to be skeptable of all those running for office as to their honesty. This official and those like him have been trying to deminish our rights for decades so next election is the time to vote them out.
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If he feared anything, it was the vehicle because the driver/passengers weren’t in view. 😂
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those too... but no, if i came across a shotgun shell (we didn't have firearms growing up) it would rapidly get cut open for the primer to smash and the gunpowder to light on fire.. the shot would get wrist-rocketed away.
Wrist rocket???
Now you are telling your age, or lack of. Our sling shots were made from the fork of a dogwood tree and a piece of old inner tube.
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not really... the internet tells me they were made under the brand name from 1954 to present...
but I do remember a good chunk of the 80s, clearly remember the berlin wall coming down on tv news, and knew that the church basement was our fallout shelter.
Were you even born then? Lol
They might have been around back then but no one in my neighborhood could afford one. We had to make ours.
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if it counts... i'm pretty sure it was my dad's wrist rocket. he "loaned" it to my big brother in the early 80s, and "loaned' it to me in the late 80s. I'm pretty sure it's still in his closet somewhere. Though he did have us make our own out of branches at some point, but why bother with those when the real thing was available?
Of course, he also taught us to expertly use the very safe "stick it between your legs" method to string a recurve, and taught us to shoot clothespins in the back yard with daisy air rifles before we were strong enough to pump the levers on our own.
but no - no hunting, only light fishing, no real guns - yet somehow all 4 of us (2b+2g) grew up to have our own guns that we enjoy shooting.
some might argue that being paranoid gun nut prepper Christians runs in the family. I guess that's why the govt is supposed to raise kids for everybody.
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I used to shoot the empty shotshells w/primers with a BB Gun.
The Wrist Rocket came much later, but I grew up with the old coated wire ones and beefed them up with heavier rubber bands. That and the little 5cent bags of BB's that I would dump into my mouth to hold. Then I graduated to the nice heavy duty wooden slingshot that used the heavy bands that were like 1/2" wide and almost 1/8" thick, with a leather pouch. The wrist rocket came after that.
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Funny how he said "gun nuts" but I didn't see any gun stickers on the car. Just "JB Sucks". I guess he lives in this binary world where there are people that support him, and The Others. And The Others are all gun crazed, religious homophobic racist domestic terrorists clinging to their guns and religion.
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I don't doubt that there are 2nd Ammendment Advocates that harass him mercilessly due to his own Anti 2nd activism in the legislature. The "nuts" are living rent free in his head.
Mom used to get sooooooo p*ssed at me for making wrist rockets back in the 70s.
The JC Club in high school used to have a group of kids every year that made and sold hangers out of aluminum round stock...'bout 1/4" thick or so. Mom liked the heavy duty aluminum hangers, so she'd buy 10 every year (they sold for $1 each).
I'd invariably nab a couple, cut them up, bend the snot out of them to get them the right shape, tape up the grip, and use surgical rubber tubing from the hardware store to make the straps. Old leather boots would give me all the pouches I could ask for.