boxian

I’m glad it’s not just me, I’ve just tried it a few times and it is just rancid black coffee so I’m a hard pass on stumptown

I didn't know I needed this support group

Can you give some examples of where you can/can't carry?

Basically, everything I've ever learned is that you CAN'T carry in any place that you would most likely want to (for example, you like a dive bar or literally any bar - liquor serving places are off limits. You are afraid of crazy academic types, either Columbine or VT - off limits. You are driving in a seedy part of town or doing a drug deal - you probably shouldn't be doing either of those, and a CCW class would either not pass me or tell me to not go there. You work in a bank or government building or hospital, where there are rules against weapons AND security. Every movie theater has a no weapons policy/sticker, etc etc), just between most places and then you are breaking the law by carrying because no one has "gun cubbies" for you to place your weapon while you're there.

Also, do the "no weapons allowed" stickers mean anything? I have heard conflicting information from some of my CCW friends.

Lindy hop

What do you think happens to IS after their local defeat in Syria - where do they move to in a diaspora assuming that not all can be removed?

Do you think that IS ideology can be defeated in the same way that Nazis, Communism, or Imperial Japan were defeated - in that the solution to the extremism can be fundamentally military in nature and that through enough military defeats, the cause itself becomes defeated? Or do you think that more success will come from a economic/political/civil/academic spheres of influence where they moderate rather than radicalize their people?