[tumblindice]

I think of idioms like `I swan!’ and of characters like young debutantes suffering from a case of the vapors at the cotillion when talk turns to things like shooting and getting shot at, especially when DU goos goos and others start commenting on self defense, defense of others and one’s country, and racism, `social justice’, etc. and apparently forget we’ve been getting shot-at in this country for almost 400 years.
So I preach when I can/often about the importance of body armor as well as BLOAT. (That probably set of some NSA sirens.)
To put things in perspective, todays wild-eyed, exploding terrorists pale some when compared to Apaches tying a white man to a wagon wheel and slowly roasting him to death over a low fire ... I swan! :-0

[Frank_2001]

“as well as BLOAT. (That probably set of some NSA sirens.)”

Why? A bunch of fat guys couldn’t fight very well, I would think;)

[ponygirl]

The Powhatan tribes in coastal Virginia used to tie up their captives and then the women would take sharp oyster shells and skin them alive.

But the Natives were docile naturalists, you see. Not warlike at all. /s