The Pacific spiny lumpsucker lives in the freezing northern seas, and despite being a fish, it is humiliatingly bad at swimming.
It is built like a ping-pong ball. Zero aerodynamics. Instead of swimming through currents, it has a suction cup on its belly and spends its life anchored to a rock for dear life.
If a wave knocks it loose, it panics, flaps its microscopic fins with pure desperation, and immediately sticks back onto the same rock.
No ambition. No desire to conquer the ocean. Just suction-cupped to safety.
When my alarm goes off on Monday morning and I cling to my duvet, my soul is 100% this fish.
The founders were aware of heavy firepower. Fans of it, actually.
The 2A was written primarily to guarantee big firepower in the hands of citizens would be a deterrent against tyranny.
Some words to the wise. Shooting Advice from various Concealed Carry Instructors. If you own a gun, you will appreciate this. If not, you should get one and learn how to use it:
●Guns have only two enemies: rust and politicians.
●It's always better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.
●Cops carry guns to protect themselves, not you.
●Never let someone or something that threatens you get inside arms length.
●Never say "I've got a gun." If you need to use deadly force, the first sound they hear should be the safety clicking off. (I prefer the sound of a round being chambered when you load a shotgun)
●The average response time of a 911 call is 23 minutes, the response time of a .357 is 1400 feet per second.
●The most important rule in a gunfight is: Always win - cheat if necessary.
●Make your attacker advance through a wall of bullets . . . You may get killed with your own gun, but he'll have to beat you to death with it, cause it'll be empty.
If you're in a gun fight:
1. If you're not shooting, you should be loading.
2. If you're not loading, you should be moving,
3. If you're not moving', you're dead.
● In a life and death situation, do something . . . It may be wrong, but do something!
●If you carry a gun, people call you paranoid. Nonsense! If you have a gun, what do you have to be paranoid about? (I call it being prepared)
●You can say 'stop' or 'alto' or any other word, but a large bore muzzle pointed at someone's head is pretty much a universal language. AMEN!
●You cannot save the planet, but you may be able to save yourself and your family.
If you believe in the 2nd Amendment, please forward.
A carrier that hadn't been out this long hit Perth in Australia for shore leave. Five days later the main brothel (prostitution is legal in Australia) shut down because according to the (female) owner: 'the girls enjoy sex but enough is enough.'
Yeah. I'm not sure Bangkok has enough brothels to cover this deployment.