James sez …….
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“Sticks? Get a grip! How about a pocket full of rocks? Will that do?
Whoeveryouare, my firearms are NOT going to fail. Not during my lifetime nor that of my children. SMH.”
I would like to think you are joking with this post, but I think you truly believe what you said.
The first sentence you attempt to mock me. You simply show your own ignorance. Do you know anything about fighting with sticks? I seriously doubt it. I do know something about stick fighting, short sticks, long sticks, most any size stick. I got my short, four foot bo staff out the other day and went through a routine with it, hadn’t forgotten a thing. You do realize that the term stick can mean anything from a pencil sized piece of wood up to a six foot bo staff, and the wood can be oak, hickory, anything dense and strong. Sticks break bones, including skulls, and they are very fast to employ.
Rocks, fighting with rocks? Certainly, if that is all I had. I’ll discuss the merits of that after you get hit in the head with a fist sized rock from out of the shadows. Perhaps the experience would alter your perspective.
The second sentence, oh boy, that is one of the more ignorant statements I have read on the internet. It’s also arrogant, but speaking definitively from ignorance often results in arrogance.
So your firearms are not going to fail, for at least two generations, you are sure of that. I would ask, how can you know that, how can you be so sure? Why do firearms manufacturers even make spare parts? Why are there armorers in every military and law enforcement agency in the entire world?
Nothing is perfect, no machine, despite our best efforts is perfect. Machines break down, and need to be repaired, replacement parts installed. Good maintenance minimizes the occurrence of failure, but it does not eliminate it.
For any firearm, one should have a stock of spare parts, at least for those parts most likely to fail, and the knowledge and tools to utilize them. Maintenance supplies should also be stocked in abundance.
Then there is ammunition. The firearm is dependent upon ammunition to be effective. Ammunition is not perfect despite our best efforts. A defective round can cause a jam = firearm failure.
When you make statements like the ones in your post, you illustrate to me that you are ignorant of certain knowledge you will need to survive. I don’t see you as a bad person for having a strong opinion, no matter it being derived from ignorance, but if you refuse to learn, out of misplaced pride, embarrassment, or anger, then I will see you as willfully ignorant, a fool.
SMH, really?
Shake your head all you want, it will just make you dizzy, not informed.
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