Nah Blue Flame,

Didn't offend me a bit!!! In fact I was impressed.. You showed remarkable restraint. My posts on the otherhand would have sounded like an angry drill sargeant yelling at a recruit.. ( imagine Full Metal Jacket - my posts would have made that film seem like "the muppets take manhattan"!! )

I can't stand chest beating, and the putting down of others beliefs/feelings. It's a typical bully mentality. I despise bullies..

Even though I'm new here in the forum, I viewed it for a while before joining. I was, and still am particularly impressed with the civil nature people demonstrate here. No flaming, no put downs, just a group of people from all walks of life that are truly interested in the fieldcraft of survival.

Equipped To Survive is a rarity. Almost all other sites i've visited have had a political, religious, or monetary gain adjenda to it. A bunch of kooks trying to convince one another they're right.
Doug and Chris have done a great service to folks like us with this site from the gear reviews, the stories, to this forum.. I hope it stays around for a long time..

matt

Gosh, I missed it too. I know I tried to keep it civil in there, guess it didn't go. Anyway, back to the various bag 'n flashlight topics.

Pardon me, Please Martin, for using your Post as a Reply, but I wanted to do so with the most recent Post in this Thread.

I Stand Entirely Behind Chris's Decision in this recent, particular case. Concerning the Impropriety which may very well have been going on.

But at the Same Time, I would Hope that this Doesn't Extend to All Firearms Threads which *Are* within all "Topical Permissability", and Within the Spirit and Purposes of this Site / Forum. I would Hope we are Not Throwing Out some Good Babies with any Bathwater, in the Process.

And this comes from one whose personally Not all that much into Firearms.

I would Hope that Entirely Responsible Past Threads, such as the one on the "Lowly .22", are Still Around.

As with Discussing how to build an Emergency Fallout Shelter in the event of Nuclear Occurrances, is within the Spirit / Permissability of this Site, -While the Politics and all of it is Certainly and Rightly Not within our Scope. -This Same, I Beleive holds True for all Prpoer Discussion of Firearms. I've seen this Clearly Stated in the past.

I would Really Hope that we are Making all the Proper Differentiations and Distinctions here. Maybe we Fully Are.

The Pitching of the Recent Offending / Contrary Post and Thread, certainly was the Proper, Called For, Decision. That refers to Bathwater. Other Responsible Firearms Related Posts, I would Really Think to be Babies. Grunge and Glop No, -Gems and Gold, -Yes!

I have Not yet gone back to see, the Status of such prior Posts, but to see " Thread*s* Eliminated", as oppossed to "*Thread* Eliminated", Does concern me.

It can be Very Understandable to eliminate the Bunch, in the recent circumstance, but I really Hope we're Not throwing Good Babys out, with Bad Bathwater!

I just Want to Helpfully and Constructively make Mention of this. [color:"black"] [/color] [email]ScottRezaLogan[/email]

Well I'm under the impression that we can talk about machine guns, tanks and benefits of 88s over standard artillery. We can talk about anything as long as it serves some kind of purpose and it is a constructive discussion. Minute it becomes a flame war or a stand off or just pure provocation than the discussion doesn't serve any purpose and we are wasting each other time. Everyone has an opinion and they have a right to defend it, but they also should know where to quit and be a bigger man or when to ignore something.

If the individual that was a reason for this post showed up and asked what we think about a 9mm handgun as a hunting/survival weapon he would have gotten a wild range of responses that would probably branch out into discussion of long rifles, different calibers and probably no firearm survival at all. I know from experience that this works because I was asking similar question when I was getting my Springfield Scout. But if you come down here and say that you can shoot off rabbits ear from 500 yards with a 9mm while plowing your cornfield and reading newest NRA magazine I find it maybe impressive (heh) but also ignorant. I think that I will never stop learning in life especially from such diversified crew as we have here on this board. And it doesn’t matter if your are older, younger or French* or Polish. Many of us became friends here and we have respect for each other. It doesn’t matter how many posts you have, you will get treated with the same respect you deserve.

Honestly if you feel that you can fit a bazooka in your pack and carry it as a survival weapon hey it's your choice. On the other hand if you are planning a totally firearm free survival than you will have my ear as well.

In conclusion Scott I don’t think posts about firearms will be deleted. Only the ones that are stupid and don’t have any educational value. And we experienced few of them cutesy of billysomething. But this also extends to other types of posts that have no place here.

Matt

*Frenchy no hard feelings I’m trying to make this post little lighter…
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I leave you all for a week and a flame war starts. Surely you don't all miss me that much <img src="images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Hi, Matt !!

No offence taken, as there was none offered .... <img src="images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

And I totally agree with your post.
But my english fluency (or rather lack of -), prevents me to write such long posts as some of you do ... so, I prefer to let you do the talking ... well, no ... writing ... <img src="images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I know how you feel. Chris K can leave for a month, but 5 days when we're not around, and the flames start! <img src="images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />