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Reply to: Would you like to make your own chicken coop? Posted 2 weeks ago

I thought about it, but no. Chickens need a lot of space to be healthy and happy. Seven square feet of run each for average size, fifteen each for large. Five square feet of coop space each, with a nesting box for every two. Chicken wire or similar buried a foot deep around the perimeter to deter digging predators. A cover for the run to deter hawks. You have to put them in the coop at night and fasten a lock strong and sophisticated enough that raccoons can’t open it. Make sure there’s no way raccoons can enlarge and get in through the tiniest space. In hot summers, you’d probably need to provide air conditioning in the coop, and heating on the coldest winter days. Do you have someone who would feed the chickens and clean the coop if you go on vacation or out of town? Too hard for me. It would always be cheaper to buy eggs at the store.

Reply to: How to survive this nasty heat wave of 110+ degrees Posted 2 months ago

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Reply to: What does prepping look like in your area of the world? Posted 3 months ago

I have it and I also would take it in the case of a nuclear explosion. I took it for several days at the time of Fukushima in 2011 and had no reaction.

Reply to: How to survive an active shooter Posted 3 months ago

I thought your comments were good, detailed and well thought-out!

Reply to: How to survive an active shooter Posted 3 months ago

You too!

Reply to: How to survive an active shooter Posted 3 months ago

Excellent points! There seems to be no explanation for the at least five or six widely-reported crucial events which within days were reported to have been false. Even the governor Abbott said yesterday that he had been operating in the belief that some of these reports were true, and he is angry now that their apparent falsity has been revealed. Someone must have deliberately invented and disseminated these false reports. I have not read of any attempts to figure out who and why. That should surely be something we should try to ascertain.

Reply to: How to survive an active shooter Posted 3 months ago

Or a Border Control Agent acting independently of the police and not following the instruction the police were obeying, which is now admitted by everyone to have been a completely wrong tactic, if such it may be called.

Reply to: How to survive an active shooter Posted 3 months ago

Great advice! I’m surprised that this is such a common ever now that you and your siblings have all had threats in your schools only this year! i think Run is in first place for a good reason. I read that at Columbine several students were in the school library with the school librarian at the time. She told them to get under tables. There was a door leading outside in the library. One of the students said Why don’t we just leave? The librarian said to just stay still under the tables. Some students ran out the door anyway and survived. The others stayed under the tables as directed until the killers got there and were all killed.

Reply to: How to survive an active shooter Posted 3 months ago

I found this article on the topic. However, I had to use a search engine different from the most common one to get it. The most common one only had hits promoting a certain narrative, at least in the first few pages. https://thepoliticalinsider.com/israel-armed-teachers/ Since 1974, in Maalot, when a terrorist killed children in a school, Israel passed a law mandating armed security in schools, teacher training in firearm use, and frequent active shooter drills in schools. It’s apparently at the teacher’s discretion whether they have a gun in the classroom, but obviously many choose to have one. Since then there have only been two terrorist attacks in schools, and in both cases the TEACHER killed the terrorist. In Israel, during the intifada of the knife several years ago, the government told Israeli citizens to not go out without a weapon. I have read several reports of terror attacks begun, but cut short when an ordinary citizen shot and killed him, often with just a pistol. i didn’t say I wanted Rambo in every classroom. I want a gun within reach of every teacher. I read that since Australia is an island, it’s easier to control guns coming in. That’s not the case here. One of the articles pointed out that we have close to zero control of illegal immigrants and illegal drugs coming in. We could not control illegal guns. Even states with strict gun control laws, like Cali and NY, have lots of gun attacks and massacres. As do countries with strict gun control laws like the UK, France, and Germany. (Yes, because -.) Every attack could have been cut short by an armed citizen. My father had to have a gun on him in his job for the IRS (mafia in Las Vegas). But even in retirement, he ALWAYS had a conceal carry when he left the house. I don’t know if it was legal or not, but it wouldn’t have made any difference. He never used it. You say if everyone else did, but in the US, that time will never come. Second Amendment, large numbers of bad guys armed regardless, and the majority of Americans sensibly have a positive view of what may save their lives and that of those around them. I read yesterday that a poll found that the majority supported arming teachers.

Reply to: How to survive an active shooter Posted 3 months ago

Everyone agrees now that the police acted badly, taking the absolute worst course of action. So you can’t rely on police. If Israelis can do it, we can do it. Why is their success story irrelevant? Need training? So, train. With school shootings happening every day, everyone needs to be prepared to defend himself and those around him.

Reply to: How to survive an active shooter Posted 3 months ago

Interesting article. Lots of speculation about causes. I think it’s a misplaced sense of entitlement and resentment encouraged by our new culture. I don’t think there’s anything we can do about it deliberately. I think older values will become more attractive again and eventually change the culture.

Reply to: How to survive an active shooter Posted 3 months ago

Wow! I didn’t know that it was that many! We need to take steps urgently to harden every school.

Reply to: How to survive an active shooter Posted 3 months ago

Yes, it would be better not to shoot inside a school, but that means they need the intercom system at the very least. We haven’t had a school shooting here, maybe because of that. I think Israeli teachers keep the gun in a drawer in their desk. Has there been a problem from that? I understand the potential for a problem, but there are safeguards and solutions for many of the problems. We’re forced to plan for a scenario like this, in which everyone in the room was shot, 19 of them killed. It may be that we’ve reached the point that marksmanship should be a required series of courses to get a teaching degree.

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