It must be pretty quiet where you are and pretty loud at the gun range to hear it all from two miles away. That must be the acoustics of the great plains of North Texas. :)
Okay, so when the neighbors are engaged in all this automatic and semi-automatic gunfire, are they actually shooting at anything, or what? I mean, it's obviously legal to just shoot, but I'm wondering if there's actual purpose to it other than making loud noises and wasting ammo.
I can see New Year's and Independence Day being loud, but what's up with Christmas? Everyone get that new weapon they wanted so they run out to test it after Christmas dinner?
You wouldn't be a part of any of these festivities, would you?
We had a bunch of fireworks going off around our house the night of Independence Day, and it was okay for the first two hours. Then, my wife had to go to bed to get up in the morning for work, and when I came in about a half an hour later, it was still going on, and they'd left the loudest for last.
I'm not sure how the granddaughter slept through it.
I'm sounding like i'm not a fan, but that's not entirely true. I like fireworks. I just don't need them going off when I'm trying to sleep.
well..most of it is target practice but we can tell if someone is hunting because they'll be in one of the pastures nearby. The loud explosions we don't know what they are but they've shook the house before.
sound travels out here like nothing I've ever seen before, but it is flat with few trees between us and the range.
Christmas fireworks and gunfire is actually more than the 4th in volume and loudness. for a couple of days before and the day of and a little a day after. we don't celebrate that way but I think we should start since it's such a Texas thing!
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We've got the I-5 freeway which is probably a mile away as the crow flies, and we have a motorcycle dirt track that's probably about that, too, maybe a little farther, and we have railroad tracks about that. During the day, we don't hardly hear any of that, but at night, or towards dusk, we'll pick it all up.
Our area isn't entirely flat, but the highway is built up on a rise so the sound carries over the top of us, and basically it's the train horn we hear when it blows, and it's not a constant noise from the track, just when they're gunning the engines faster.
Not a whole lot of gunfire here, though. That's cause for alarm. Or a car backfiring. There's also some industrial plants down the way that when they get going will create some noise.
We actually live in a rural area, though. It's just a little busy. :)
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we also have a dirt track for cars and they do that 2 nights a week, we can hear them but it's not real loud, the track is probably 2 miles in another direction, not the same as the gunrange.
"Not a whole lot of gunfire here, though. That's cause for alarm."
haha! yes sir that IS cause for alarm!
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Okay. Yes, it is cause for alarm that there is no gunfire here, but I also think there's a happy medium between gunfire all day every day and gunfire here and there so we're not all thinking there's a shootout going on. :)
Actually, that would require a pretty drastic change in people who live here and then gun laws. I'm pretty sure they don't allow for shooting guns in our neighborhood, but there may be nearby fields where it's fine to go hunting. Haven't really checked into that. I've been to a gun range with some friends of mine, and there wasn't that many people the time we went.
When you're walking around, there's conceal carry, no open carry. And while there will be trucks with gunracks or deer horns, or jacked up off the ground, they're not plentiful.
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hey Glen, I just got this from a guy in Australia, can you tell me if this makes sense?
"I've always thought of the American Civil War, as the 2nd War of Independence, where England (The Banking Throne Of Europe, whether Europeans like it or not) reclaimed America, as its own.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on this."
what would you say? I don't quite get it.
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Interesting. I wonder what they teach about the Civil War in Australia that they don't teach here. :)
My guess is, there were actually European countries involved on one side or the other, be it financing weaponry or providing other types of support. Maybe he's talking about the US going into debt to fight the war and basically becoming beholden to England's central banking? I don't know. Never heard of something like that. I'll do a quick search.
Sorry not finding anything specific that would answer that, and I've never heard of such a thing. I wouldn't think England would want us back, anyway, and we owe more debt to other foreign powers than we do the UK or the EU.
Sorry not much help, but it's hard to know with that what all he might be referring to or how he came to think it. :)
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thanks so much Glen, yeah it had me stumped but I'm not a Civil War buff or researcher. I'll ask him what he means. thank you sir!
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