AwgustaDawg

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hundreds of usual suspects shot someone while you posted that.



let's be honest 75% of this site would do the same thing to livvy dunne while she was at LSU as teen.

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It took about 5 minutes to write that. Statistically there were .23 people shot in that 5 minutes somewhere in the US. I understand hyperbole but jumping christ in a handbasket? More than a single hundred people were shot by black folks in a random 5 minute period of time in the US (usual suspects is dog whistle for black folks, if you mistakenly used the term its understandable). Come on man, I can remember when racists at least tried to stick to the truth.....

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He lives in ATLANTA!

Have you not been to Atlanta?

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I lived the first 35 years of my life in an era when crime was far worse in Atlanta than it is today and in an area where it was far worse than most of Atlanta at the time. Never encountered a reason to have gun on me other than when I was going hunting, going skeet shooting or simply going to shoot some shite. Owned guns and had access to guns from about the age of 7 or so. Have yet to need one to defend myself and like about 99.99999% of Americans never will. It just not necessary. Shooting shite is fun and its a right we have as Americans. That is all the justification one needs to own a gun....casting about for anything more is simply irrational.

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Wow, you should watch more ID channel shows!! I live in a great neighborhood, have had multiple children that are now grown and gone, and have always kept multiple guns loaded with bullets in the chamber in the house, and conceal carry everywhere I go including church. What good does it do to have a gun in the house in a safe when a burglar breaks in?? It only takes one time to lose your life or the life of someone you love. Would rather have one and not need it, than need one and not have it. I also trained my kids to never handle any of the guns unless we were out shooting.

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I am 60 years old and lived the first 35 of those years on the south and west sides of Atlanta, ITP. Never had anyone break in a house while anyone was home or anyone wasn't at home. It is HIGHLY unlikely statistically. Most of those 35 years the house wasn't locked, day or night, with us there or not. Those neighborhoods are much safer today than they were then. I have guns in a safe because I like to shoot shite. Its damned fun. Like about 99% of Americans have never needed one to protect the house. Can't imagine living in the rare area it is a significant threat and doubt many people posting to these forums does. I know for a certainty the people I see around my current residence toting a gun to McDonalds is not facing a statistically significant threat that would necessitate it.

What kind of folks you going to church with that makes you need a gun? About 40% of Americans claim to attend church "somewhat regularly". If that is about half accurate that would mean somewhere around 60 million people go to church in the US each week. Lets say half of that, 30 million. That is 1.5 billion chances a year for a person to be killed in a Church, just on Sunday. Its way more than that the other 6 days of the week. In the last 141 years 155 have been killed in church. About 30% of those are the result of cowards bombing the church. In that instance everybody present could have had 10 guns and they'd have still died. About half of the remaining killings were family members targeting family members. About half of the remaining killings were the result of people taking issue with the type of church involved...and its seldom a mainstream Christian church. If you figure 1 million people have attended church in thos 141 years each week, a very low number, that means there were 733 million people in churches, on Sundays alone. who could have been shot. That is a .002 chance of being killed in a church in the US in the last 141 years based on very low attendance numbers. The math simply does not support the idea that being armed in a church is necessary. The odds of being struck by lightning are 3 times higher yet no one finds it necessary to tote a gun to prevent being struck by lightning. Being alive in the US is 4 times as likely to cause someone to die from being shot. It would be difficult to find a place where a firearm is more useless than a church. The constant carrying on about violent crime rates, particularly shootings, DRIVES anti-gun sentiment in the US and a HUGE source of that misinformation comes from gun owners who, for any reason, think its necessary to carry a gun at all times. Their constant refrain of "protection is needed, I can't live without it" creates unfounded fear and unfortunately many people suffering from those irrational fears are also irrationally afraid of guns. If we simply acknowledged the fact that we have the right to carry a gun because we have the right to do so and did not have to cast about for irrational justifications for it the public would be far less debilitated by their irrational fear of guns. Shooting shite is fun. Hunting is fun. Owning a gun is a right granted to us by the constitution. That's all we need. Our constant pearl clutching about protection makes idiots think its necessary to own a gun and many of those people are anti gun and conclude that the gun is the problem. It ain't by accident. The industry is all to glad to continue the rhetoric and drive up sales.

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Wasn’t Mason to have been the replacement for Goff?

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He was. I was wrong. It was a difficult period for many of us LOL....

Glen Mason was a pretty good coach. He'd have been a good sacrifice following what was the most successful coach in UGA history at the time and pretty damn good coach for the era. Ray Goff is a DGD but he was soooooo far in over his head you almost had to feel sorry for him. Didn't help that the legend he replaced was still in the building.

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I have 2 pistols and have my CC. I keep both of them in lockboxes and don't carry regularly. I will probably end up donating them in the near future because of so many stories like this. I also know several people who have lost teen children to suicide as well - almost always coming from a father's gun.

If something like this happened to me, I don't know how I'd go on. I just don't...

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I have several pistols and more long guns than I can count off hand but at least 30 or so rifles and shotguns and I have never, in 60 years of life, ever thought about keeping a loaded gun in the house and certainly never carried one on my person because I do not live in nor do I go to crime ridden neighborhoods where I am scared of my personal safety. I did spend the first 34 years of my life on the west and south sides of Atlanta, ITP, in what were some truly horrific years for violent crime statistically in those areas of Atlanta...and I never carried a loaded weapon and never needed one. Slept most nights with the doors unlocked...never locked a car door, still don't. I don't know how y'all live in these shitty areas where leaving your front door is so risky you gotta have a gun. Move. There is about 99.99% of the United States where you do not have to live that way.


I see folks in my area toting guns, can't leave home without one. They are TERRIFIED to be unarmed and away from the house. Its truly sad that grown, adult folks need a weapon to soothe their irrational fears to the extent that they do in this country.

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You sure like to hear yourself talk don’t you? What an insufferable douche bag you must be irl

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How does one hear one's self talking while writing? I don't know that you are in a position to know if I like to hear myself talk, have we ever spoken to one another?

Pretty disgusting habit but how is sniffing drawers a crime?

The Caucasian side of that a-hole's gene pool is notably a violent race of human beings....

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I'm calling bullshite.

You literally never saw anyone just throw a 100+ HP outboard or any other engine off their boat or dock at Allatoona Landing.

You made that up, or extremely exaggerating something else you once saw someone throw in the water.

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I have seen the repair shop crew at Allatoona landing drop inline 4 and 6 cylinder GM and Ford marine engines directly from the engine bay into the lake...far easier than loading it on a jon boat and unloading it. I have literally been sitting or standing on the deck of the boat they were working on, shooting the shite, when they did this. No, it wasn't every day, and they didn't do it every time...if the block could be rebuilt I am certain they didn't do it.

I won a big fish pot with a 4.5 lb spotted bass on a Thursday night tournament that I saw next to a small block chevy engine in about 4 feet of water at the shore side of the dock my boat was moored at. The tournament started at the bridge at Red Top Mountain. As I was leaving the boat to meet my buddy at Red Top Mountain I saw that fish at the end of the dock and when we blasted off we went directly back to the marina, I threw a 6 inch strawberry flip tail worm, texas rigged with a 1/4 ounce bullet weight past that clearly visible engine block and on the first hop that spot ran out from under the dock and inhaled that worm. We wound up with 3 fish total....it was the dead sea after all and a 4 hour tournament...and that fish was the big fish by better than 2 pounds. Unless someone has moved that engine...doubtful....it is still there and when the water level drops in the winter it is 10 feet from the water. I would bet if you scope the ends of those docks you will find all manner of shite in the water.

I just remembered this one...it would have been January of 1985 we had a HELLUVA ice storm in North Georgia and when ice starts to form on the roofs of those docks it has to be removed. It can't wait until tomorrow, it has to be removed as its forming or the roof will collapse and they have been known to turn over under the ice. As i have said I did electrical work around the place instead of paying slip rent. They had about 20 or so local rednecks, all in our 20s, who they paid cash to remove ice. When we did it antennae's and sizeable sections of metal roofing would come off as we were scraping with shovels. If you don't know where ALL of that shite wound up you don't know much about 20 something year old rednecks in North Georgia in the mid 80s. Most of those young men probably hauled a load of garbage down a dirt road once a month or so and tossed it out....if you think for a minute that they'd tote a dead battery up a hill when there was a lake right there you simply do not know the thought processes, such that they are, of a 21 year old north Georgia redneck.