serial killers - the line they cross

One of my biggest fears is being abducted and tortured, but like surgery style. then you have the holocaust , imagine what those torture victims went through, its i cant think of a descriptive word that does it justice.

Its overwhelming when you put it like that, but quite possible.
We're under the impression most of the time that serial killers are all white males -

EmilyGreen wrote:

Its overwhelming when you put it like that, but quite possible.
We're under the impression most of the time that serial killers are all white males -

Well, Tony is a male,
but he is not a white.
He is more of a striped orange n black.

( However, OTHER tigers r whites. )

OmSigDAVID wrote:

EmilyGreen wrote:

Its overwhelming when you put it like that, but quite possible.
We're under the impression most of the time that serial killers are all white males -

Well, Tony is a male,
but he is not a white.
He is more of a striped orange n black.

( However, OTHER tigers r whites. )

Bored today?

I guess thinking about this made me decide to be even more careful when I'm out alone or when getting to know my neighbors. I mean, there's no reason to suspect everyone, but it never hurts to get to know your surroundings.

But seriously, there are a LOT of people on that missing persons list.

OGIONIK wrote:

One of my biggest fears is being abducted and tortured, but like surgery style. then you have the holocaust , imagine what those torture victims went through, its i cant think of a descriptive word that does it justice.

I feel the same way.
I love horror movies, but I hate the ones that include stuff like that,
because I think it gives sick people ideas. This is why I'm nuts about being careful when I go out.
I may be paranoid, but I won't end up a victim!

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OmSigDAVID -

First of all, I love your signature. Both parts of it are brilliant!

Thank u. Denotively, it means Opulent Mensan Special Interest GroupDAVID

Connotively, its like a meditative chant: OOOOOooooommmmmmmmm

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I like the cartoon where one person has a sign in their yard
stating that they are a gun owner and their neighbor is not,
and to respect their neighbors opinion about gun ownership,
they will never use any of their guns to protect them
if their home is broken into. It was worded much better than that, though.

Second - in regards to your posts -
I was actually considering the other day about getting my carry permit.

I wish it wasn't so expensive.

Your life is worth MORE.

Its better to HAVE a gun and not need it
than to NEED a gun and not have it.
( THAT can be very embarrassing. )

Revolvers are more mechanically reliable
than automatics; u need also be concerned about stopping power.

After a few years, I found out that the .38 to which I referred above
did not have enuf stopping power
( which we can discuss in greater depth of detail, if u like ).
I subsequently upgraded to a short barrelled .44 special revolver,
loaded with hollowpointed slugs.

My research has led me to the conclusion
that the optimal choice is large ( .44 ) slow ( special )
hollowpointed slugs.
I suggest that magnum rounds be avoided.

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And yeah, the missing children being taken by "the other parent" is probably right.

The police have found that to be the case.
Presumably, either parent will have good will for the child,
and be solicitous for his best interests-- more so than a stranger.
Don 't u think ?
David

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OmSigDAVID, I meant that I like your signature about gun ownership, etc.

O, I c !
Thank u.

It surprizes me that my fellow human beings
care so little for the ability to defend their lives.
Thay think its OK to confide their futures
( and the futures of their loved ones )
to the discretion of violent criminals.

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As for stopping power, that was always a concern for the US military.
They went through a series of bullets before finding one that could trave
long distance AND knock someone down.

In the Philippine Insurrection,
our troops, armed with .38 revolvers,
were repeatedly attacked by doped up Moros,
with machettes. Thay emptied out the cylinders
of their revolvers into the Moros, who perished sure enuf
from their wounds, but first thay chopped up our troops
with the empty .38s.

Then some old timers remembered using the old .45s
and reverted, much more successfully to using them.

" Wise is he who learns from his mistakes,
but WISER is he who learns from the mistakes of OTHERS. "

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Most pistols don't have much stopping power,
unless they're going to jerk the hell out of your arm.

Hence, the hollowpointed slugs.
Thay r intended to stop the slug WITHIN
the target, to avoid overpenetration,
and deliver a maximal energy dump into that target.
Every footpound of energy that is carried away
by an overpenetrated slug, is wasted and dangerous.

I 'll be interested to know what u get.
( I hope u won 't get something cheap; not safe. )
After u get something, it is important to work out with it,
at the gunnery range; get accustomed to it; comfortable with it.

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I know someone who did way too much research on the subject,
but its his actual job - and of course he shared it with me, ha ha.

As Groucho Marx used to say:
" step right up and play u bet your life. "

That is what u r doing
when u rely upon your defensive ordnance
in circumstances of predatory emergency.

Better choose something good.

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As for home defense, I have to promote the shot-gun,
because if someone hears you pump it, they won't stick around.

Yes.
That is a very popular point of vu.
Its best to have a gunsmith cut it down
to the legal limit, for manuverability indoors.

Personally, I am not a shotgun person.

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That actually happened to someone I know...
2 guys broke into his house,
and he warned them that they would get shot,
then he pumped his shot-gun...
and they scrambled over each other to get out of his house.
Wonderful moment, I'm sure.

Yes.
I 've been reliably informed by a retired police officer
that a high proportion of criminals r cowardly n timid.

( Others r the opposite, and will advance against u,
even when thay c u r armed. )

David