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Bring back the sling stones and atlatl too. If I'm shooting for fun, give me a bow: the experience is much more involved and tactile and immediate. There's mor

Bring back the sling stones and atlatl too. If I'm shooting for fun, give me a bow: the experience is much more involved and tactile and immediate. There's more room to learn, more room to have fun. Everything archery teaches you about handling your body and the ballistics of projectile weapons also transfers usefully to other activities. If I need something to die, then I want the firearms. I'm glad to have my little .22 rifle whenever I need to eliminate varmints chasing chickens etc. When I forget to grab it and find myself facing something with nothing but a machete in my hand it's always ugly. And more effort and danger.

6LLvveMx2koXfwn 4y ago
Came for random violence, appeased by imagery of tech wizards chasing wildlife with machetes!
- meepmorp 4y ago
  merely a form extreme debugging
  - tornadofart 4y ago
    Maybe this guy should apply for a job at twitter as he obviously is extremely hardcore.
Loughla 4y ago
If I'm shooting for targets, give me a pcp air rifle (also cheaper than a decent bow). There is so much to accurately shooting those that it's not even funny. They're spectacularly fun to work with.
AtlasBarfed 4y ago
Why not artillery? Hand grenades/explosives? Rocket propelled grenades? Air incendiary bombs? Fully automatic machine guns? Nuclear weapons? Lasers? I think one of the things this naive/dumb snippet (if taken at face value) is that the American obsession with the personal firearm is an arbitrary categorization in its own right, as arbitrary a line in the sand that bow/arrow would be. Your instinctual desire for "no, I want a firearm" is just a reflection of cultural values, not any practical need. If you want firepower, use any of dozens of approaches that are more potent, some easier and requiring less industrial base than a rifle/handgun. For example, a sling/catapult that flings a bomb/makeshift grenade, you just need gunpowder and rocks for that. I didn't even get into chemical weapons. Or biological weapons. But yeah whatever, your .22 cal fits in the "strict constructionalist" interpretation of the second amendment. The fact the court interpretation of the second amendment aligns with the gun industry's sweet spot of profitable convenient consumer products is just a magic, mysterious coincidence.

6LLvveMx2koXfwn 4y ago

Came for random violence, appeased by imagery of tech wizards chasing wildlife with machetes!

meepmorp 4y ago
merely a form extreme debugging
- tornadofart 4y ago
  Maybe this guy should apply for a job at twitter as he obviously is extremely hardcore.

Loughla 4y ago

If I'm shooting for targets, give me a pcp air rifle (also cheaper than a decent bow). There is so much to accurately shooting those that it's not even funny. They're spectacularly fun to work with.

AtlasBarfed 4y ago

Why not artillery? Hand grenades/explosives? Rocket propelled grenades? Air incendiary bombs? Fully automatic machine guns? Nuclear weapons? Lasers? I think one of the things this naive/dumb snippet (if taken at face value) is that the American obsession with the personal firearm is an arbitrary categorization in its own right, as arbitrary a line in the sand that bow/arrow would be. Your instinctual desire for "no, I want a firearm" is just a reflection of cultural values, not any practical need. If you want firepower, use any of dozens of approaches that are more potent, some easier and requiring less industrial base than a rifle/handgun. For example, a sling/catapult that flings a bomb/makeshift grenade, you just need gunpowder and rocks for that. I didn't even get into chemical weapons. Or biological weapons. But yeah whatever, your .22 cal fits in the "strict constructionalist" interpretation of the second amendment. The fact the court interpretation of the second amendment aligns with the gun industry's sweet spot of profitable convenient consumer products is just a magic, mysterious coincidence.