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kairos12

(12,852 posts)
Wed Jun 15, 2022, 01:42 PM Jun 2022

Overheard

While standing in a custom service line this is the loud conversation ahead of me in line:

Dude#1: Yeah, I got me a sweet AK, to go along with my (gun fetish unintelligible gibberish)

Dude#2: Yeah, I got my AR-15 and go out shooting in the woods all the time, take all my other (gun fetish unintelligible gibberish)

As an infantryman I say, you are some kind of dumbass to buy all these weapons, join the Army and you get them issued to you for free. Even bigger ones, Yeehaw!!

Here's the thing, though. The ABSOLUTE worst part of this. These Gun Weasels look exactly like me. Ball cap, short hair.

I would grow hair. Can't. I have cargo pants fashion sense. No help there. My wife concurs.

I just stood further from them.

I went home and took a shower.

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Overheard (Original Post) kairos12 Jun 2022 OP
it appears that with all the shortages at the moment, barbtries Jun 2022 #1

barbtries

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1. it appears that with all the shortages at the moment,
Wed Jun 15, 2022, 02:04 PM
Jun 2022

AR-15s aren't one of them. I can't get a CPAP machine to improve the quality of my life but I can go get a killing machine quite easily.

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