LDD

Why would you state that “the general state of the country as “The Wild West” based on the interesting state of affairs that we are currently encountering?”

What exact state of affairs has some, or any similarities, to what is commonly referred to as the Wild West?

And why would less expensive AR platforms come into play?



Because the federal government is being somewhat dismantled/recreated and that creates an environment that is unstable, very much like the "Wild West".  I live in an area of the state that is dominated by federal jobs, I have a federal job, many, many of my friends have federal jobs.  Many of my friends work in federal law enforcement (customs, ICE, prisons, FBI).  Things are changing daily.  There is great fluidity.  I have friends that are cheering the changes, I have friends (NIH) that are horrified and I many friends that are at what I would say is the cautious stage.  Much like walking into a western town...cautious.  A great hallmark of being a first world country is "STABILITY".  There are many people right now that do not have it.  
 
Secondly, since there is so much in-STABILITY...like a Wild West town, people get cautious, paranoid, angry, defensive and in case you haven't noticed...THIS IS AMERICA...when Americans get cautious, paranoid, angry, defensive, they generally buy guns.  Remember the Obama debacle?  Yup...sooo, cheap AR platforms fit well considering the American penchant for purchasing firearms when there is instability.  If someone can walk into a gun store and spend $500 on a pistol, rifle or AR because purchasing a gun is their reflex action to instability, which one do you think they will buy?  
 
If I change the analogy to a "midwestern cattle town post Civil War" does that lessen the blow for you?  
 
Generally, the "Wild West" loves itself some guns and the ARs are a pretty attractive and increasingly cheap gun.  This is America, people shoot each other...a lot.  That's all I was saying.  


Welcome to the public sector, not the Wild West.

LDD



 
If I change the analogy to a "midwestern cattle town post Civil War" does that lessen the blow for you?  
 
Generally, the "Wild West" loves itself some guns and the ARs are a pretty attractive and increasingly cheap gun.  This is America, people shoot each other...a lot.  That's all I was saying.  

lets get real
90% of those "people shooting  each other" are in less than 10% of the country in the da hoods
but now you're saying we have to worry  about laid off liberals fed workers going postal? 
 
 I'm not surprised.
 
 
 
KTF 

Joy Reid FAFO level reached 10… bUt mUaH sHoW hAD VaLuE !!

Anyone concerned about this guy?
 
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-s-protege-big-balls-is-grandson-of-executed-kgb-agent-report-says-b2703739.html
 
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen-on-musks-doge-team-graduated-from-the-com/
 

 Lets hope he can get this turned around sooner than later. His first terms total approval for 1/4 one rating was the worst among any president since WW2.
 
 

Trump’s Rating Better Than First Term, Worse Than All Presidents Since 1953 for the first month.

Trump's job approval rating is 15 points below the historical average for all other elected presidents in mid-February since 1953, but it is five points higher than his first term at this time.

DarDys

DeadGator401
So nothing eh? An uncomfortable topic for sure. 

Will be interesting to see looking back on this period. Shameful.

If you are referring to the Bannon thing you posted, do you still fall for “pull my finger” as well?

Yeah. After Musks salute - the Bannon salute and a Presidential hopeful of mexico's salute. 

They're doing this at your parties political action conference.

But yeah, pull my finger. Wonder what those who fought in WW2 would think eh?

So they're cutting staff in VA hospitals and clinics. That's supporting your military. Trumps sucks. MAGA you got what you wanted. Screw the vets. Which most of you aren't

DeadGator401

DarDys

DeadGator401
So nothing eh? An uncomfortable topic for sure. 

Will be interesting to see looking back on this period. Shameful.

If you are referring to the Bannon thing you posted, do you still fall for “pull my finger” as well?

Yeah. After Musks salute - the Bannon salute and a Presidential hopeful of mexico's salute. 

They're doing this at your parties political action conference.

But yeah, pull my finger. Wonder what those who fought in WW2 would think eh?

Since my Dad earned 4 Purple Hearts in WWII, froze his feet during the Battle of the Bulge that effected him the rest of his life, ruined his hearing, saw 6 of 10 of his small town friends not come home, shot people in the face at arms length before they did the same to him, and had a brother carried out with Murrells Marauders, I know what he would think — there is real evil in this world and it needed confronted (he gave up a full boat scholarship to Rice Medical school to go to war for what he thought was right, never was able to get back to school, ended up getting laid off 3 times, each under a democratic administration, all of which he voted for by the way, because that is what union members did, and died a hollow shell of what he thought a man should be for his generation) and there is faux outrage at mindless crap, often made up, staged, or deliberately interpreted by those who are far less than he was, went through far less than he did, and seek far more attention over nothing.

So yeah, getting one’s knickers in a knot over something like this, when living the privileged life that his sacrifice, his brother’s sacrifices, his town’s sacrifices is a kin to getting fooled again by “pull my finger” and thinking it is of some great importance.

genieman77

LDD



 
If I change the analogy to a "midwestern cattle town post Civil War" does that lessen the blow for you?  
 
Generally, the "Wild West" loves itself some guns and the ARs are a pretty attractive and increasingly cheap gun.  This is America, people shoot each other...a lot.  That's all I was saying.  

lets get real
90% of those "people shooting  each other" are in less than 10% of the country in the da hoods
but now you're saying we have to worry  about laid off liberals fed workers going postal? 
 
 I'm not surprised.
 
 
 
KTF 

yeah, and other places too. 
Stats of the States - Firearm Mortality

DarDys

Welcome to the public sector,

There ya go, classic conservative. “Screw you, I got mine”.

If there was ever any doubt that MAGA was about retribution, not governance, it’s all coming out now.