• Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).

No Greater Love

OldBuzzard

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I thought about it a lot before I started open carrying. Not about which vegan snowflake was going to be offended, or which quivering beta was going to be frightened, but I realized the great responsibility that comes with open carrying. First, if a shooter opens fire, he might want to take out the one who can fight back first. Is rhat a risk that I will accept? Second, if there is a shooter, and I do have the ability to fight back, will I have the courage to run toward the danger? I still cannot answer that question. But I sincerely hope that the answer is “yes.” I contemplated the words of Jesus. “No greater love has a man than to lay down his life for his friends” (paraphrased) It won’t happen but it would be nice if people could see a gun on someone’s hip as a symbol of brotherly love and the people who carry them as people who have voluntarily made the decision to give their lives for their fellow man.
 

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