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Well, yeah, that’s exactly it. You are an enemy of the State, because the State arrogates to itself exclusive use of force. Peasants are not allowed to defend themselves.

I’d disagree with you here. We don’t have a problem with school shootings. Only a handful in, well, pretty much all of US history, isn’t technically a problem.

It’s like having the “problem” of drunk driving, then setting out to ban all cars. Sure, quite a few innocent people are killed by drunks behind the wheel, but not so many as to justify the 99.999% of legitimate beneficial use of cars. It’s the nut behind the wheel that’s the problem.

And when I see these nitwit kids “protesting”, it makes me physically ill. I ask myself (usually don’t dare ask others, as that’s making BBQ of their personal Sacred Cows), “Well, would it have been better if the idiot came to school with a backpack filled with homemade pipebombs?”. Or severed the gas lines in the school basement, and then lit it up to take out the whole school at once?

We see these (adult) idiots taking dumptrucks and UHauls and running down people… so now what? ban trucks altogether?

Point being, they’re only “problems” because the media distorts reality to make it so. Blacken out the identities of the shooters so that no one will ever ever know them, ie, they don’t get to “live on in infamy”, and those sickos won’t go looking for attention.

Everyone knows Kliebold, Lonza, all those other losers. Maybe if they didn’t, the next lackbrain won’t be tempted to “go out in a blaze of glory”.

And speaking of “protesters”… what a bunch of sissy-pansy crybabies. They want to skip school, yet don’t want to be marked absent, let alone punished or suspended for leaving school property! What difference does it make if they skip school to “protest”, or to hang at the mall and smoke? Or do your silly little “protesting” after school or on the weekend, ferchrissakes.

Real protesters (Gandhi, Parks, Kent State students, etc.) risked jail time, beatings, even death to protest, and these pansies don’t want that little smirch in their “permanent records”. Bee oh oh, aitch oh oh.

That’s how far this country’s sunk. These little nitwits think they’re “effecting change” and “changing the world” and all that rot, but they’re just little sissy-pansy idiots wanting to skip school and pat themselves on the back for, well, nothing of any import.

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:beer:

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I just saw an episode of Forensic Files where the murder weapon was a flashlight, looked like a 5D Mag.

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Thread’s gettin too political for me

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I’m done with that particular subject, but no matter what you want to discuss, it’s all political to a greater or lesser degree.

So many knife-related threads here, and this same discussion can be carried over to them, practically word for word.

Lasers? OMG, you might shine them at a plane… ban them!!

“Too bright” flashlights? Well, you might attract unwanted/unintended attention camping or on the water and have it be interpreted as an SOS. Regulate them!

Or people right here being stopped by the militsiya for walking with “unusual” flashlights. A C8, yet! Imagine a Q8! :open_mouth:

That’s how nuts the world is nowadays.

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it’s not 5mm. I have the 49cm version and a 44cm copy and they are only thick near the battery.
They weigh less than 400g.

The original Shenyu is threaded in the middle so on impact it could break because that’s the weakest point.
The copy is better because is threaded near the end.
The LED and lens don’t have any impact protection so they will probably break too…

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Ain’t that the truth!

Well, I guess I just got a bit miffed of another thread starting to turn political, :weary: went from bat flashlights to guns/school shootings/protests. It’s not that I wouldn’t want to discuss it elsewhere, it’s just not what I came here for, kinda takes the fun out of it.

It really wasn’t as bad as I made it out to be, I know I could have just said nothing and ignored it or unsub this thread, guess I’m just feeling grumpy tonight and thought I’d voice my opinion too :zipper_mouth_face: please ignore…sorry for being a sissy-pansy crybabie. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Thanks for the feedback. That’s why I really like the X-110 / X-119 / SF Gladiator, it’s basically all one piece and thick throughout its entire length.

At first I thought the extra long Jaxman was a good idea (post #13) but then I thought the same thing about it breaking at all those threaded connections.

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[quote=“Lightbringer
”]
I’d disagree with you here. We don’t have a problem with school shootings. Only a handful in, well, pretty much all of US history, isn’t technically a problem.

It’s like having the “problem” of drunk driving, then setting out to ban all cars. Sure, quite a few innocent people are killed by drunks behind the wheel, but not so many as to justify the 99.999% of legitimate beneficial use of cars. It’s the nut behind the wheel that’s the problem.

Point being, they’re only “problems” because the media distorts reality to make it so. Blacken out the identities of the shooters so that no one will ever ever know them, ie, they don’t get to “live on in infamy”, and those sickos won’t go looking for attention.
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Maybe my post wasn’t clear.

I think we are in agreement, my meaning was that our problem is they get a lot of attention. We do not set priorities. The government wants to ban you from protesting by asking do you have anything to hide/reason to use it?

And to be fair to the high school kids, if I was in high school, I wouldn’t want to worry about being shot at. They don’t know better than to protest. They aren’t ghandi, they are just kids who don’t want to be shot while they’re at school. I asked my cousin who is in school what she thinks of them. She hates them. Probably because shes in school.

We can ask lawmakers to help, seeing as its perfectly legal to shoot schoolchildren as of the year 2018, I really do see a benefit of more severe laws (if they made it illegal to shoot people I think it would cut down crime 100%). I hope that they change the law so it is illegal to shoot or kill others, especially children and hopefully this will prevent further crimes.

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Assuming we’ree talking about the same case, the guy was released without charge. What do you expect the police to do if they turn up to a scene and there’s a dead guy? Just accept the alive guy’s story and leave? I think that if a relation to you was killed, you’d want the police to arrest the guy, while they figure out wtf happened.

I think this was actually a good example of UK law working properly (ignoring the death that’s the homeowner has received from the friends/family of the burglar who died)

I don’t feel like my ability to defend myself or my loved ones is overly regulated, I don’t feel like I would be any safer with a “bat-light”, even if it were legal. I’m sorry the US is so violent that you guys need such things, I hope that in the future brings more peace.

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Come on guys. The original post is for interest in this type of light. The thread is going political. I do not want to get into this type of argument. Let’s do this

1. Interested party list names, etc…

2. Non interested party illegal just say pass and be done with it.

This way there will be no drama for political laws, etc….

Sounds fair?

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I was walking my dog tonight with my intensely bright modded TR-1200 when a cop was driving by and stopped. He got out of the car and couldn’t stop gushing about how bright the light was and where he might get one. As you’re supposed to do, I informed him that I have a CC permit and I was carrying. His reaction? No problem at all. We talked about guns for a few minutes and he got in his car and left. Being an American in a part of the country that hasn’t lost it’s mind yet is the greatest thing in the world!

I directed him to BLF so hopefully he’s a new member soon.

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What does all this self-emasculated reactionary whining have to do with BLF special edition products? Or is the plan to have a flashlight with inflatable bladder and a little hand pump. You know I mean, right?

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Lightbringer yes you do have a problem with school shootings.
I live in an european country in which all guns are banned! I wish we could own guns, but not like in the US where any pissed off kid can get a weapon!

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I may be a bit crazy, but as a weapon light, I would just take a Haikelite MT09R or an Emisar D4.

Why? For the MT09R, I could just shine it in their face and burn their retinas off.

For both of them, I would get close and shine them at their face as closely as possible, to burn them to a crisp.

Would not be exactly legal though :smiling_imp:

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Amusing how US vs non-US logic works. One side thinks regulating weapons and other potentially harm-inflicting apparatus will get the country to turn into a purge-like situation with too much regulation. The other side thinks the exact same thing will happen with too little regulation. In the meanwhile, violence isn’t correlated with gun regulation at all. Maybe specific types of events, but not violence statistics in general. The only correlation that actually sticks is more education and better paying starter positions equals less social risk situation and that equals less violence

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OK, if this was about me disagreeing with guns in the USA this thread would already be shut down, but since it seems ok for USA (and other countries) members to have their say (and feeling sorry for us??), I will have my say too.
I don’t want guns, knives or anything like that being legal in the UK to carry on the streets or in the house and I’d appreciate our overseas members keeping their opinions to themselves in regards to what we can and can’t do in our country - as I do with guns etc. If you want a gun here for sports it is not a problem - so long as you don’t want to shoot 500 rounds per minute……and own 20 machine guns.
I sleep VERY safely at night with absolutely no need for either a gun or a knife, or a bat, and all that garbage that has been said about the guy defending himself is just crap, of course you can - but you don’t always have to kill someone to do it, though obviously on EXTREMELY rare occasions that may happen.
As it is if someone in the UK breaks into a property at night and gets disturbed they 90%+ of the time they will run away and no one gets hurt, they just want cash/quick sell goods - now put a gun in all their hands……. now I need to get a gun to defend my family, probably someone will end up dead. (I really DO understand that, if the robber almost certainly had a gun then of course I’d sleep easier with one too) but we don’t have that issue, and I never want it.
There are illegal guns/knives in the UK but gangs tend to shoot each other with them , not the general public, if they do our armed Police deal with it swiftly and efficiently - I’ll happily have it that way please.
Sorry that had to be said, and if it gets me banned so be it.

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You have the ‘right’ to run away. We have the right to defend ourselves. It all makes sense now. Thanks for sharing! :wink:

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WOW talk about missing the point entirely……… we don’t need to run away, nor (for the most part) defend ourselves that is the point. I won’t say any more, mock all you want.

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You just wrote:

What point did I miss?