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Question of the Day: What Can The People of the Gun Learn from Puerto Rico?

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‘We have been completely abandoned by our government and the US. My brother’s friend is a cop, his advice was arm yourselves with whatever you can find and do what you need to do. If you had signal you could try calling the cops but they won’t come. He said that if we shoot someone we should just leave their body in the street and they will come and pick it up in the morning.” What does that quote from 22-year-old Puerto Rican Haniel Pomales [via dailymail.co.uk] tell you?

 

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Robert Farago is the former publisher of The Truth About Guns (TTAG). He started the site to explore the ethics, morality, business, politics, culture, technology, practice, strategy, dangers and fun of guns.

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    • I can’t tell you how many times what I learned as a Cub/Boy Scout from 1970 until 1981 and later as a leader and summer camp staff member/Program Director/volunteer has helped in natural disasters, from a historic 1,000 year flood, to blizzards, severe thunderstorms, and hurricanes like Sandy I knew what to do and was prepared for the worst. I thanked my father before he passed away for getting me involved and donating his time as an assistant scoutmaster and Sea Scout Skipper letting him know if it wasn’t for him and others I would have been as lost as some of my neighbors were in those trying circumstances, he replied ‘that’s what it’s all about”.

      If you can, volunteer, you can make a difference, you may not reach all of them but the ones you do will appreciate it when the skills they learned as a Scout are put to good use.

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  1. In Montana, you can be prosecuted if you buy a resident hunting license when you don’t own a car???

    Seriously, he was probably careful to meet the residency requirements for the US Senate seat (Hillary has already proven that’s no great hurdle) and assumed that since he had officially declared his residency, Montana was the place to buy his resident licenses. I’m at a loss as to why somebody thought that merited full-on prosecution.

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  2. I got a friend working the relief effort. The sheer amount of supplies being shipped there is staggering. The supplies are getting there, politics are only allowing a trickle to get to the population.

    POTG should take note, the government won’t support you, do it yourself.

    I have a question, if you live in an area that has a propensity for violent weather patterns, why don’t you have your own supplies, why are you relying on .gov to support you completely when you did nothing prepare for what could happen. Maybe alot of people did, that’s why I suspect the civil unrest isn’t as bad as it could be.

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  3. Ladies and Gentlemen the walkers are here instead of feasting off the flesh of the living, the brain dead walkers (Liberetards) go from society to society with their “progressive” ideals and feel good to the ears legislation.

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  4. This is at least the second time this question has been asked on ttag.

    The better question would be to ask what’s the biggest gun that’s been fired. At you.

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  5. You would think people would have learned after Katrina, the government will not be there when you need them the most. It is just not possible for them to be able to provide help to everyone. Prepare as best you can, especially if you live somewhere prone to natural disasters or terrible weather.

    I thought having a week’s worth of food would be enough, but after how long it may take to restore power, you might want 1-2 months, plus the ability to have water enough for the same amount of time. That way you don’t have to rely on the government immediately to “save” you. The 1-2 months of food and water allow you to figure out how to acquire more or evacuate the area.

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  6. Puerto Rico has been a socialist society for many years. Sucking from the socialist tit and relying on their government for everything. Over 60 Billion dollars in debt. A 3rd world infrastructure and now Mother Nature comes along and throws chaos into the mix. Not to hard to figure out the outcome. They don’t have the ability to run their country. Why would anyone think they could rebuild their country. Should We help…Yes… They are a part of our nation. I do believe that help should come with a cost. Since they will Never be able to take care of themselves as shown with their recent history. They should be made to choose. If they wish to continue down the road to socialism We grant them their Independence(As many there have been wanting for years) and let them sink or swim on their own. Since I know many people who have come from Puerto Rico to escape the socialist controlled government and the problems that has created. Everything I have said about the country is fact based.

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  7. I’ve used one of those Gerber Gators every day for six years. It’s pretty good for the money, though I got both of mine courtesy of uncle sam

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  8. Yawn. This isn’t news. Cody’s machine is a worthless pile of crap and his “engineers” are even worse to deal with. Why didn’t your article even attempt to cover how much money you have to pay him to retrofit the spindle on a machine so it’s “capable” of doing this? I could go on and on…

    If you fellow PoTG are so worried about being on a list, don’t go anywhere near his crappy organization. Go to your favorite machine shop and buy a mini mill and go to work.

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    • Please do go on and on. This is the first bad stuff I’ve read about his machine. Please put some electrons to use and tell us why his is a crappy organization.

      And to the TTAG folks, this is still one of the worst comment systems on the web.

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  9. what can you learn? when the government is wiped out and the infrastructure destroyed, people are on their own. what happens next depends on the type and quality of the people. is it “each man to himself” with looting, robbing and raping, or do they pull together and work it out? if they were good people, they should have not much more hardship than when the first settlers to that island got off the boat. no roads? no electricity? houses, cars and hospitals smashed? no food trucks? big deal.

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  10. It is interesting that in your data Nord Arms OPEN 308 had the lowest recorded recoil at 6.3750 vs 6.4375 for the Precision Armament M4-72, yet without any further testing you named the M4-72 as the winner. I see you recorded that the OPEN 308 recoiled 6.7500 in the first test then 6.3750 in the second, and that the first test is what brought the average recoil higher than the M4-72. Why do you think there is such a relatively large difference between test one and test two for the Nord Arms OPEN 308? And being that the OPEN 308 is the runner up and was recorded with a lower recoil, don’t you think further testing would be required to definitely say the M4-72 recoils on average 0.51% less than the OPEN 308? I know I’m nitpicking here, just curious as to what your thoughts on this are. To be honest, I would have liked to seen you do a few more tests on only the top five to reduce the effect of outliers on the average. Thanks for the review!

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  11. A typical liberal eletists little fool think they have certian privlages over the rest of us their the arrogant pompous old peacocks strutting and parading around thinking their oh so special and their better then us ordinnary birds who sit lower on the roost what they need is a little lesson in humility and were a republic not a monarcy

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  12. Things I’ve learned

    1. At the end of the day, the only person that gives a damn about you or your family is you. No matter what anyone tells you, to the government, you are nothing but tax revenue or political pawns.

    2. If you have a say in the matter, don’t live near area that get super strong hurricanes.

    3. Be prepared for anything. As mentioned in point 1, no one cares about you, so make sure you can ride out the bad times

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  13. No amount of aid and centrally-administered “assistance” can handle a disaster when the people are willfully incompetent & passive. Don’t be that guy. Or the other that guy.

    (Giving aid to willfully passive and incompetent folks – doesn’t help. Being willfully incompetent and passive – so much suck.)

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  14. “Aid” — classical: helping people help themselves.

    “Aid” — modern: goods and services provided to people who wast and abuse them while demanding more.

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  15. “What Can The People of the Gun Learn from Puerto Rico?”

    That’s an easy one:

    (1) Living on an island in the Caribbean accessible only by sea & air is dangerous.

    (2) Living in a community where the majority of the population is dependent on government to survive is a recipe for disaster.

    What gets me is that only 50% of Puerto Rico’s National Guard appeared at their armories when “called up” prior to the storm hitting the island, they MUST be held to accountable and face Court Martial.

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  16. We’ll see a massive uptick in “gun death” hot takes, with newly inflated numbers.

    Personally, if a particular murdering thug is a quad confined to a wheelchair, I’m willing to count the death as “enabled” by the gun – “gun violence.” Otherwise, the killing was enabled because the victim was unarmed, and counts the other way – “killed by gun control.”

    They won’t count that way. Given PR’s gun laws, there will be way, way, way more of the second kind.

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  17. We have an elderly female friend who lives on Vieques. We don’t know yet what happened to her. She was trying to sell her so-called slice of paradise years before the hurricanes…PR is dead. No lesson but don’t live there,be armed,PREP and above all NEVER trust the gubment…

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  18. The bevel improved the looks over the previous gen. Still not very sexy but slight improvement. That shelf on the frame must have been an oversight?? Never liked the Glock trigger or grip feel though so still not on my radar to purchase. I’ll stick with my Springfields and Kimbers.

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  19. The lesson I see at PR? Same as in Baltimore, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, New York City, Los Angeles, Austin, Tampa, Miami, Orlando, Tallahassee, Detroit, Jacksonville, Sanford, Alexandria, Charlottesville, Houston, Minneapolis, St. Louis, the DC Swamp, Chiraq, etc, etc.
    The lesson is NEVER TRUST any libtard/progtard, ever, specially if they’re “with the government” and there are live TV cameras around.
    They will push anybody into a lava pit very quickly if they think it helps their political grandstanding in any way. Suffering be dammed as they just look down their noses at everybody else, which they consider beneath them.

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  20. I would argue that Manson is NOT a gun control advocate. Please cite further evidence other than a Michael Moore documentary and a Rolling Stone article, I mean, c’mon, Farago.

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  21. Diseased Hogs? What kinds and are they easy to differentiate while hunting? What do you do with inedible swine?

    I would think that eradication and the means would still make it fun, but not being able to butcher the animal for food might make it a lot less worth it.

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  22. He does indeed seem to be at least tacitly pro-gun. IF this comment doesn’t disappear into the ether I hope he(it?) is OK…

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  23. Got the news on another tab. Medical. That’s what you got at this point if you get caught in such a place/situation..

    Not that most of those OFWG’s care. They got their gun and that’s all they need. And no, don’t bitch, we’ve seen EXACTLY those “I don’t need medical I gots my gat” comments here before. We’ve seen ’em by the truck ton.

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