https://www.legalshield.com/

They’re above board, no bullshit. I’m not aware of any other such firm in the US. I mainly know because my dad was an insurance salesman in the 90s. Worked for 20 firms, only sold you what fit your needs, not locked to a single outfit’s offerings. He was a fan, and given his morals, I had a look. Plus they’re originally from Oklahoma, like me!

Company before last offered us the benefit, and since I already knew about them, I signed up. Funny thing, I’m not sure I’m paying a dime extra for the “benefit” since I quit that place.

People have commented online, “I’m not in legal trouble and I don’t plan on suing anyone, don’t need it.” But legal issues are like violence, they’re up in your grill, instantly. In any case, it’s damn nice to literally have a phone number in your pocket for legal aid. I’ve mostly used it to ask, “Can they do this to me?”, “What recourse do I have?”, “What if I do this thing?”

LOL, the law ain’t what most think. Yes, they can do that. No, you don’t have recourse. Don’t do that thing. But still, having a real lawyer to talk to is damned instructive. It’s the difference between the rich and poor.

PREACH! Mine is $26 a month and well worth it. I can get a lawyer on the phone within an hour for any trivial question or thing I need to investigate.

For those not in the know, it’s basically legal insurance. Many services are free, EOL docs and such. I believe they’ll draft a letter for free as well, haven’t tried that. For actual litigation you get 30% off, which is significant.

My divorce lawyer was fucking awful. My child custody lawyer, Jesus, he put a stick on my ex-wife and mopped the courtroom floor with her dumb ass.

Science has become political, projecting an antivax attitude resonates with the rubes. Nothing more to it.

I know we evolved to handle ethanol, but thought it was a recent thing, since the invention of beer. Weird.

Yes, I understand we didn’t evolve from chimps.

Well, we did get worldwide protests out of that event. And now “woke” is a bad word. Go figure.

LOL, no list. I just grew up in a white-bread Presbyterian church, know the Bible well enough to argue, if not exact chapter and verse.

And your point? Of course they needed a pretext and this turned out to fit the bill. Roll the propaganda machine!

LOL wut? It’s the perfect thing to say. They’re playing this for all the propaganda they can squeeze. Meanwhile, liberals be like, “But this is obvious bullshit!”

They’ve created a perfect “us vs. them” litmus test. If I wore a “Charlie Kirk: Single shot through the engine block!” T-shirt in my little hick town, I would be challenged, escalating to threat. And it would end with someone getting shot.

We’re playing fair while they cheat their ass off, in front of god and everyone. Calling out the hypocrisy is useless. We need propaganda of our own. Problem is, people like me, and presumably you, have a hard time lying for social or economic gain.

Acquaintance from high school married a preacher man, “met” him on FaceBook. Very intelligent and well educated man. His doctorate in divinity is real, he worked for it, absolute expert. His arguments were well crafted and we loved poking each other. Plus, we were both hot pepper fanatics and growers. :)

Here’s the point: That’s the only Christian I’ve met in life that could actually debate Biblical views. I can turn most of them into a raging, spitting, cursing mess with a dozen questions, and they almost never engage for the whole dozen.

Guess I should include my best friend. He was a conservative Southern Baptist, very angry when I announced I had turned to atheism, though he was fine with me as a deist. LOL, I corrupted that fucker. Now he’s an atheist, liberal, and supports gay rights. But again, he’s an exception. His best traits are that he’s intelligent, way more so than I, and best yet, he can admit he’s wrong and is willing to examine his beliefs. Exceptions proving rules and whatnot.

This is why the fascists are winning. They know how to play the propaganda game. Libs would have shit bricks if we tried to politicize the murder and attempted murder of the Minnesota state lawmakers.

We’re beyond playing fair and taking the high road, Democrats still playing the game from a decade past. And fucking losing.

Seems you’re correct. So how are poppy seeds so common if they’re Papaver somniferum? Weird.

Thank you for your take! American gun nuts tend to think Europeans can’t own a weapon, at all. Funny enough, what you’ve described is most of my gun collection. A dozen shotguns, mostly single shots and vintage/antiques. Loads of .22s, but my wife’s Walther .22 is a total POS! How funny is that? And yes, American hunting rifles are typically bolt-action. I think there are a couple of states where it’s illegal to hunt with an AR platform? The rounds are too wimpy for clean kills. (That’s a joke meme.)

Only the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum. The rest are just fine.

No, I don’t expect parents who are ignorant about guns to teach their kids safety. We shouldn’t have to, but that’s where we’re at.

Sounds like an elective class. My ex-wife’s niece was in an after-school shotgun club. I gather it was more target practice than hunting.

I’m of the opinion that familiarity with actually shooting is more of a deterrent to the school shooter mentality than fetishizing guns. I’m basing that mostly on the idea that these school shooters can’t seem to handle a weapon, given that kills are the goal.

Taught my kids the basics at 9 and 11. They need to understand the lethality of guns, what is safe and not safe, and maybe most importantly, how to recognize someone who is not being safe and get the hell away from them.

Plus, took the mystery out of the whole thing. Now they just don’t care much.

As someone on reddit once pointed at, the AR-15 platform is designed such that the dumbest 18-yo recruit can use it.

Gunshot wounds are surprisingly survivable given swift medical attention. Which astounds my because I know a fair deal about guns, shoot most weeks, and know what various weapons and rounds are capable of.

I’m guessing the shooters are scared shitless and shaking like leaves. I doubt most are as cold blooded and methodical as the Columbine shooters. I’m also guessing the Colorado shooter lost his nerve in a hurry when he saw the consequences of his actions. The vast majority of wounds don’t seem to be anything like the Charlie Kirk fountain. In a way they’re more horrifying because the victim drops like a puppet with their strings cut, not much blood at first, no drama, just dropped straight down. Somehow that scares me more.

That incident being, in my opinion, the beginning of these shootings. Shit like this simply didn’t happen when I was a growing up, 70s through 90s. And civilians had access to the AR platform that whole time.

Funny thing about Virginia Tech, most of his kills were from his .22 pistol, about the last gun we would ever ban. That guy was calmly going for a high score. Again, that seems very atypical. Las Vegas shooter was the same particular brand of batshit insane.

Another shooting that should have been worse was the Aurora movie theater. Dumbass used a tacticool high-capacity mag. No, not the 30-round mag the gun was designed for, it was either a 50 or 100-round. It jammed almost instantly, because of course. LOL, I absolutely support idiot mags like that.

I’m actually for this. No, it shouldn’t be necessary, but it is and that’s that.

Taught my kids guns at 9 and 11. Took them out to our camp and shot a bunch of different .22s. Now instead of guns being these mysterious things “you should never touch”, well, they’ve touched and just aren’t really interested. LOL, that was 100% against my custody agreement, but I was terrified the kids would find someone’s gun one day and have Hollywood perceptions. Their mom didn’t say a word, which was really strange, so I believe she agrees.

One interesting thing I showed then was shooting an empty can with a .22. “See how that made a little hole of both sides? That’s what many people think guns do. But people are juicy, so it looks more like this.” They shit kittens when I shot a can full of water and it absolutely shredded. I think that was impactful. :)

I taught them never to pick up someone’s gun for the same reason even professionals won’t do so. “It’s not because I think you’re dumb kids, but you don’t know anything about that particular gun. What if there’s something wrong with it? How can you tell if it’s loaded? When you’re older, never accept a gun from a person who does not first clear it and show you the empty chamber. Even professionals do this. If they don’t practice this simple etiquette, they are not to be trusted and you need to get away, and stay away from that person.” Later overheard my son telling his big sis, in great detail and with great authority this rule.

Gonna suck when they’re teens. If they’re emotional wrecks like I was, they won’t see a gun in this house.

Right!? I was excellent at French in college, but it’s been 35-years.