Posted on 11/03/2012 7:08:10 AM PDT by Kartographer
Ever since Sandy strafed the Queens peninsula and tore up the boardwalk, it’s become an often lawless place where cops are even scarcer than electrical power and food. Locals say they are arming themselves with guns, baseball bats, booby traps — even a bow and arrow — to defend against looters. Thugs have been masquerading as Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) workers, knocking on doors in the dead of night. But locals say the real workers have been nowhere in sight, causing at least one elected official — who fears a descent into anarchy if help doesn’t arrive soon — to call for the city to investigate the utility.
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“Saw this report about a school that is a shelter that will ALSO have children returning to class. Peeing in water fountion, human excrement under tables, etc. Must see!”
Good grief. There certainly is a lot to be said about home schooling.
During a particularly bad flood a few years ago I carried an elderly couple out of their home. Behind me was 15-20 people, unknown to them and me, packing and moving their stuff to safer elevations.
That area of Far Rockaway has many projects and is largely black & Hispanic. A little further to the west is Rockaway and Breezy Point, largely white and home to many present and former city workers. At one time the Rockaway Beach area was largely Irish and Jewish and was considered the premier summer beach community of the middle class but since then huge condos in one area and city housing projects in another area has robbed the whole area of its identity.
If this had happened in a open carry state, things would be much more orderly and there would be no screaming in gas
lines.
An armed society is a polite society.
4 to 41/2 feet of 3/8” cable looped, a few hex nuts and washers in the loop to add weight and cutting ability, roll of duct tape tape to tape the ends together some type of lace for a wrist loop about 6”-7” from the end ball the tape up on the end so your hand doesn't slip off.
Even if you hit something solid with it it will give and you can still follow through.
That’s OK I’ll keep my tomahawk and my guns as well. ;-)
Kart, as much as I like and respect you, the tomahawk is an asinine recommendation.
Why deliver a fatal blow with the tomahawk, with all the trouble use of such a weapon entails once normalcy is restored, when a nice collapsible baton like an asp will achieve the same goals without all the “deadly weapon” ramifications.
You can disable someone just as fast with a baton, and not have to deal with the messy cleanup (both literally AND figuratively.
November 1, 2012
Don’t Get Swept up in O(mob)ama Mentality: Surviving the Romney Riots
by CTD Suzanne
Be it conspiracy theory or not, there is Internet chatter about planned riots after the election if President Obama does not win. Historically, riots have occurred during time of intense political strife, racial tension, and harsh economic conditions. In the coming days and weeks, the time is ripe for people to be angry and frustrated following the outcome of the election. Regardless of your political affiliation, everyone thinks the other candidate is going to destroy America; whether through taking away our rights or taking away our money, neither one will we tolerate. Though there is no way to predict exactly when and where civil unrest will happen, it is best to prepare just in case violent rioting breaks out in your city.
Ummm ...plenty enough well heeled folk on the Upper West Side and Upper East Side of Manhattan as well even a good amount of liberals, men and women. I can count off 20-25 of my old friends and acquaintances off the top of my head. The armed native NYC dwellers all seemed to have relatives or second homes well past city borders where handguns are easier to acquire. Lots of the transplants brought up never registered family guns from Texas, Mississippi, Virginia, Indiana, etc. Pretty much all were capable established professionals or business owners. One guy, a rotund happy Coptic Egyptian had been a weapons designer/engineer back home. If he considered you a close friend he was more than happy to do repairs and tune ups just to keep his hand in. Lots of surprises in the Big Apple
Guess I just know where to hide the bodies better than you. ;-)
You would have to have a lot of training to be able to use a baton for a multiple intruders. You need to be able to put a man down and know he is staying down or is completely out of action and most people don’t have the skills and the train to do that with just a baton.
By the way I never recommend something I don’t have.
I once saw someone do that with a can of starting fluid (ether). It created a fireball that was 10-12 feet in diameter.
Long story. Basically, it was the whole Shoreham fiasco. LILCO wound up with $5-billion in the hole, and the State bascially took them over. LILCO was fundamentally a well run utility driven into bankruptcy by regulators. Mario Cuomo was the one who put the final bullet into its struggling corpse.
People who elect officials like the Cuomos (pick one) do not deserve the benefits of modern technology.
Reminds me of Burt Reynolds from Deliverance.
Slouching towards Sarajevo...
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Well said.
Watch this girl speed shoot a bow...
http://youtu.be/1o9RGnujlkI
Better Burt than Ned Beatty!
How does one determine which eye is dominant?
Har!
NYC residents cant even talk on a cell phone while driving, much less buy a gun to protect themselves.
They do get to pay plenty of taxes though.
I love my Kukri.... Their ass is grass and I’m the lawnmower...
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