Comment on Time to arm yourself by dickie

dickie · 6/10/2026, 1:38:14 PM · permalink

I was driving through Connecticut last year, allegedly carrying a completely hypothetical .357 revolver, when I encountered what appeared to be a migratory herd of approximately 100 ATV and dirt bike riders.

These weren't merely ignoring traffic laws. They were treating the double yellow line as a decorative suggestion. Traffic lights were apparently being interpreted as performance art. The cops were standing there watching the whole thing like they had been assigned to observe a nature documentary.

At that moment I realized something important.

The .357 was completely inadequate.

Not because anyone was attacking me. Not because I was in danger.

Because I suddenly felt under-equipped for the apocalypse.

You spend years thinking, "A revolver should handle most reasonable situations."

Then Connecticut presents you with a Mad Max audition featuring 100 dirt bikes and you start mentally upgrading your shopping list.

".357? Hmm."

"Maybe an AR-15."

Five minutes later:

"Perhaps a crew-served weapon."

Ten minutes later:

"Do they make civilian anti-aircraft systems?"

By the time I got home I was pricing decommissioned naval destroyers.

The real lesson is that once society reaches the point where a hundred people can ignore every traffic law in broad daylight while the police watch, your brain immediately jumps from 'personal protection' to 'I wonder what the ammunition budget for a small European country looks like.'

Again, for legal purposes, this is a joke.

Mostly.

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