This was from last month: https://kval.com/news/local/sheriff...-dead-near-estacada-determines-cause-of-death
If it was already discussed here, I missed it. I do not have any more details than scarce ones in the linked article. This has the appearance of people that were robbed and shot for their guns.
I'm always mindful that Platt and Matix obtained their firearms by ambushing people that were shooting alone at the gravel pit. They did that at least twice. I also believe Davis and Twinning were shooting in the San Gabriel mountains in the Angeles National Forest that day before Twinning encountered Tidwell in a road-range incident and later Gore and Frago pulled Twinning and Davis over. While those infamous days are best known for the lessons learned by law-enforcement, there are plenty of lessons to be learned from them for civilians if we look for them. Consider Tidwell, Kness, Briel and Collazo -- any one of us could find ourselves in their circumstances.
While we often think of our firearms as protecting us from criminal threats, our firearms can also make us a target. This is especially the case when we're alone in an isolated place and we can certainly be expected to have the guns the assailants want.
Criminals, addicts, and other desperate people can readily trade guns for cash or drugs on the street, or they can use them for hold-ups. They're desirable not only to intimidate victims, but for protection from gang rivals.
My rural town is steeped in the gun culture and shooting throughout our vast public lands is popular. I often shoot alone in various pits outside town that are also used by other shooters. I never approach other shooters. I never attempt to share a spot.
Although I think my choice of guns would be a sore disappointment to a would-be gun-jacker, I think I'm just going to avoid the more popular pits altogether. There are plenty of good places for shooting with safe backstops that nobody else frequents. It just makes more sense to me not to be where someone could expect to find a person isolated and alone with guns.
Another thing I practice is to have a gun loaded with self-defense ammo on my person while I'm there. I may be shooting a rifle, a handgun or a shotgun, but it could have target loads or I might have just emptied it into targets. Alone in the pit is not a place to be caught with only an empty gun.
If it was already discussed here, I missed it. I do not have any more details than scarce ones in the linked article. This has the appearance of people that were robbed and shot for their guns.
I'm always mindful that Platt and Matix obtained their firearms by ambushing people that were shooting alone at the gravel pit. They did that at least twice. I also believe Davis and Twinning were shooting in the San Gabriel mountains in the Angeles National Forest that day before Twinning encountered Tidwell in a road-range incident and later Gore and Frago pulled Twinning and Davis over. While those infamous days are best known for the lessons learned by law-enforcement, there are plenty of lessons to be learned from them for civilians if we look for them. Consider Tidwell, Kness, Briel and Collazo -- any one of us could find ourselves in their circumstances.
While we often think of our firearms as protecting us from criminal threats, our firearms can also make us a target. This is especially the case when we're alone in an isolated place and we can certainly be expected to have the guns the assailants want.
Criminals, addicts, and other desperate people can readily trade guns for cash or drugs on the street, or they can use them for hold-ups. They're desirable not only to intimidate victims, but for protection from gang rivals.
My rural town is steeped in the gun culture and shooting throughout our vast public lands is popular. I often shoot alone in various pits outside town that are also used by other shooters. I never approach other shooters. I never attempt to share a spot.
Although I think my choice of guns would be a sore disappointment to a would-be gun-jacker, I think I'm just going to avoid the more popular pits altogether. There are plenty of good places for shooting with safe backstops that nobody else frequents. It just makes more sense to me not to be where someone could expect to find a person isolated and alone with guns.
Another thing I practice is to have a gun loaded with self-defense ammo on my person while I'm there. I may be shooting a rifle, a handgun or a shotgun, but it could have target loads or I might have just emptied it into targets. Alone in the pit is not a place to be caught with only an empty gun.
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