2020 is really turning out to be something, isn’t it? Who knew?

I’m still trying to keep my focus and work my way down the list of things I want to make sure I have plenty of on-hand. Interestingly, one of the things I keep on hand is a pretty decent supply of rubber buckshot and rubber slugs.

Watching the various riots is proving interesting. No one seems to be wanting to go full Rodney King Riots… I see lotsa crowds waving celphones but very few molotov cocktails, and I see lotsa cops with pepperball guns and very few people actually shooting real bullets. It’s like neither side wants to really commit.

Oh sure, there are exceptions…but broadly speaking it looks like the looters are doing just enough to avoid getting shot and the cops are throwing around just enough weight to avoid using real ammo.

For me, this is all pointless. I live in a place that is rather…mmmm….homogenous. And that tends to trend toward less crime and violence. There’ll be some college kids who think they’re “allies” or somesuch and may wave some banners or something….but a half dozen guys in black bandanas breaking windows? Someone asked me if it was time to tuck a carbine behind the drivers seat ‘just in case’. My opinion was ‘no’. Just do like you normally do and carry a pistol and, for here, you’re probably just fine.

However, if I lived somewhere else where this sorta stuff was happening….totally different story.