Just talked to my buddy from junior high back in Russia. Seems he had gone to fight in Georgia for a while, liked it, came back to Russia and joined police force.
He can't figure out why I want to keep guns for defense.He feels that if someone really wants to ice me, they will. Interesting view, even with some doze of sense...OTOH icing me is more trouble than icing unarmed me. He also expressed some derision for a friend of mine who learned hapkido in large part to prevent repeat rapes. He felt she was "fixated" by building her life around response to a unique event.
Also said that "500m is NOT long range with an SVD (Dragunov)". For those of you lamenting lack of live fire practice in US Army, he said most recruits in Russia aren't even issued rifles anymore...ust wooden drill dummies.
I couldn't talk all that long with him (expensive!) and he has no net connection. In talking to other classmates, I found that they tended to be more sympathetic.
One friend made me laugh by saying "my friend went to Washington DC for two months and loved the place, so interesting, peaceful, etc." Different standard of reference. Likewise, she got married at 25, and to me it seems pretty young. For them, it is rather late.
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Oleg
http://dd-b.net/RKBA
He can't figure out why I want to keep guns for defense.He feels that if someone really wants to ice me, they will. Interesting view, even with some doze of sense...OTOH icing me is more trouble than icing unarmed me. He also expressed some derision for a friend of mine who learned hapkido in large part to prevent repeat rapes. He felt she was "fixated" by building her life around response to a unique event.
Also said that "500m is NOT long range with an SVD (Dragunov)". For those of you lamenting lack of live fire practice in US Army, he said most recruits in Russia aren't even issued rifles anymore...ust wooden drill dummies.
I couldn't talk all that long with him (expensive!) and he has no net connection. In talking to other classmates, I found that they tended to be more sympathetic.
One friend made me laugh by saying "my friend went to Washington DC for two months and loved the place, so interesting, peaceful, etc." Different standard of reference. Likewise, she got married at 25, and to me it seems pretty young. For them, it is rather late.
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Oleg
http://dd-b.net/RKBA