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orthoclad

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3. Several.
Sat May 13, 2023, 11:10 PM
May 2023

A robber with a pistol. "This ain't no joke!"
A hallucinating-episode friend who later told me I was lucky, after I talked him down. He thought I was someone else he was mad at.
A Vietnam vet who let us little kids fire his .38 loaded with wadcutters. Lucky we didn't shoot each other.
Cop putting his hand on his gun.
Kids shooting at us with .22s in the woods.
A drive-by shooting on my block. "Hit the floor!"

and others.

I did some target shooting when young. Now I just plain hate guns. I know people who hunt for the pot. I stay out of the woods in season.

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Yup. I was trying to talk a young woman out of shooting herself in the head one day. brewens May 2023 #1
Your heart was in the right place Not Heidi May 2023 #7
I was terrified. Her and her husband were good friends. Things have turned out well for both brewens May 2023 #13
Well now that you asked . . . AndyS May 2023 #2
I don't like that moral Not Heidi May 2023 #8
Several. orthoclad May 2023 #3
Damn, orthoclad Not Heidi May 2023 #9
A type of bullet. orthoclad May 2023 #15
Low velocity target rounds oneshooter May 2023 #16
Yep Faux pas May 2023 #4
Jesus. Not Heidi May 2023 #10
Yes Faux pas May 2023 #17
Working late alone in the office, came out of a room and face to face with a pistol pointed at me sanatanadharma May 2023 #5
Yipes. Not Heidi May 2023 #11
Only in combat zones. nt MarineCombatEngineer May 2023 #6
Had to be scary. n/t Not Heidi May 2023 #12
It was, MarineCombatEngineer May 2023 #14
Ha. Had a SSgt at the range screwing around with his hand placement on his .45. yagotme May 2023 #18
Yikes!!!! MarineCombatEngineer May 2023 #19
Nope. yagotme May 2023 #23
I was never an RO, but, as a senior NCO, I did carefully watch the RO's MarineCombatEngineer May 2023 #24
When I was a kid, hanging around in the woods with my friends ... Straw Man May 2023 #20
Damn, that's scary. n/t Not Heidi May 2023 #21
Yeah, it was. Straw Man May 2023 #22
When I was a kid we were fishing and some hill billies not much older that us were skipping .22 captain queeg Jun 2023 #25
I think I did, Maybe jimmy the one Jun 2023 #26
Very smart move giving up your wallet, MarineCombatEngineer Jun 2023 #27
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