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I didn't even think of the double meaning with Trigger. I just wrinkled my nose and wondered if he has a bit of red-pink drybrushing on the exposed skin to represent the recreational steroid use.

You guys have me beat on swords for sure. I did realize last year I have knives, daggers, hatchets, and throwing axes just... hidden around the house, by accident. Like someone will give me one, I'll tuck it on a shelf, find it months later, and I'm like WTF, am I expecting an assassination attempt? (Clearly we DO NOT HAVE KIDS.)

Anyway, don't want the realistic soldiers in this line, but I would be an easy sell on some civilians with good articulation. If the priest can stand in as an exorcist? All the better. I hope the cheerleader has hands that can hold a wooden stake.
 
JakeEkiss said:
Yeah. I've messed with guns a bit thanks to friends who are more into them and I 100% get the aesthetic appeal, the fun of plinking targets and such. It's rad. No doubt.
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Same. I learned trigger discipline when I nearly shot myself literally in the foot once, but yeah... a lot of fun.
JakeEkiss said:
Yeah. Like, I love watching me some Jonathan Ferguson videos on youtube. I've bought all but one of the weapon packs from Valaverse just because I want my Punisher ARMED. But that's the academic, fictional interest in guns, not the things as real life objects with an explicit purpose.
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Right. I used to own a shotgun for home defense, and got rid of it once the kids started happening, but... also... I don't know that I have it in me to pull the trigger on a person, even someone breaking into my home. I definitely don't know that I have it in me to be okay with taking someone's life. As angry as I can get (I definitely have temper issues) and as much as I joke about harming people, I REALLY don't want to, not even emotionally. And I also don't believe in owning a gun to brandish if I'm not prepared to use it. As in "Get out of my house, I'm armed" then won't actually shoot the person if they challenge me.

I dunno...moving on.
docsilence said:
I didn't even think of the double meaning with Trigger. I just wrinkled my nose and wondered if he has a bit of red-pink drybrushing on the exposed skin to represent the recreational steroid use.
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Haw! I also didn't think of that meaning.
docsilence said:
You guys have me beat on swords for sure. I did realize last year I have knives, daggers, hatchets, and throwing axes just... hidden around the house, by accident. Like someone will give me one, I'll tuck it on a shelf, find it months later, and I'm like WTF, am I expecting an assassination attempt? (Clearly we DO NOT HAVE KIDS.)
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I used to do the same before kids. Right now, I only have a machete ready. But again... could I actually hack into an intruder? It's even more personal and involved than pulling a trigger.
 
My house is packed with weapons, due to life-long martial arts practice and current status as a theatrical fight director (I’ll be play-acting beating up crippled children in Disney’s Newsies this weekend, yay! . . . 😬) , but real-life guns give me the absolute ick. I’m . . . selectively seduced by the Rule of Cool when it comes to fictional guns, but even then my biggest heroes are the ones, like Batman, who take guns away from people rather than using them.
 
Ru1977 said:
But again... could I actually hack into an intruder? It's even more personal and involved than pulling a trigger.
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Gawd, I hate to say it but we've all been to dark places I guess--a short blunt object you can snap with one hand / wrist will probably be better. A crowbar will ruin a human body with less margin of error than a machete if you're in a panic. (Saw your comment about if there was anyone from Southie to shut those guys up at the panel and, ah, yeah I saw a carjacking thwarted with a crowbar not far from there and it became my zombie apocalypse weapon of choice.)
 
For what it’s worth:
I don’t keep conventional weapons in my car, but I do have a crowbar in the back of both my car and my wife’s.
 
Awesome. My mom has one in her car. She refers to it as 'my noggin' knocker'. But yeah, I should get a couple to have around the house.
 
If I have to defend myself in my home, I'd go for something pointy and double-edged if possible. The problem with any type of bar-like object is that it's VERY easy to take away from someone. If you have to use a crowbar, I recommend hitting with the smaller/less curved end as they have less mass up there.
 
I actually have a spare crowbar in my basement that I just don't know where else to put and every time I have to pick it up to rehome it I'm like - this is a weapon of war, this thing.
Damien said:
If I have to defend myself in my home, I'd go for something pointy and double-edged if possible. The problem with any type of bar-like object is that it's VERY easy to take away from someone. If you have to use a crowbar, I recommend hitting with the smaller/less curved end as they have less mass up there.
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Yeah, you use the hooked end to make sure it doesn't slip out of your grip. And honestly, that fucker connects with a skull your bigger issue isn't going to be having it taken away from you by the attacker, it'll be if you're up on manslaughter charges.

(EDIT: Also why one of my cousins tried to stop someone from running into a street fight with a bat... and then he watched said friend have the bat taken away from him and used against him and my cousin's like I TOLD YOU)
 
docsilence said:
I actually have a spare crowbar in my basement that I just don't know where else to put and every time I have to pick it up to rehome it I'm like - this is a weapon of war, this thing.

Yeah, you use the hooked end to make sure it doesn't slip out of your grip. And honestly, that fucker connects with a skull your bigger issue isn't going to be having it taken away from you by the attacker, it'll be if you're up on manslaughter charges.
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As always in any martial scenario the caveat is : don't swing it at someone that knows how to fight. Because they ARE going to take it from you and you might die.
 
All this talk about weapons brings me back to a convo I had in Ireland where someone warned me Limerick had a lot of knife crime, and when I talked about the violence I'd experienced in America I felt like a barbarian explaining life on the plains to a civilized society.
 
Damien said:
As always in any martial scenario the caveat is : don't swing it at someone that knows how to fight. Because they ARE going to take it from you and you might die.
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In Texas the default position should be to assume EVERYONE you meet is concealed carrying and leave anything that even looks like it might become a fight early. I'm sure it's not quite so severe elsewhere, but here? Nah. I assume everyone packs heat.
 
Yeah, today I went rapidly from never even thinking about needing a priest figure to needing one for several reasons. And wondering if generic gangsters would look better with Tombstone or Hammerhead.
 
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