Comments on: The ‘You Don’t Need A Gun Because You Can Call 911’ Argument Fails Again…Still

By: Hush

Hush — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 15:03:18 +0000

In reply to Geoff “I’m getting too old for this shit” PR.

Geoff, ham radio is an alternative and getting a ham license no longer requires one to pass a morse code test.
A simple hand held radio used in a vehicle powered by the car battery can be used in emergency situations assuming you are within range of a repeater that has not lost power during an emergency. Being in range of a repeater should not be a problem now days with so many up and on the air…W5EW

By: Hush

Hush — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 14:58:32 +0000

The concerning time is the time it takes for a bad guy to pull/squeeze the trigger in which case the LEO could be on your front door entry and his job would switch from rescue to calling a detective to investigate the scene with an expired body.
Of course having a gun may not help if the bad guy gets the jump, but not having and being able to use a gun is a terrible risk to take.

By: alien

alien — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 14:23:47 +0000

Anyone living in Florida (or any hurricane-prone state) can attest to the experience of losing phone service for a few hours — or days — or weeks.

By: Geoff "I'm getting too old for this shit" PR

Geoff "I'm getting too old for this shit" PR — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 06:26:01 +0000

In reply to Dude.

“I still have a landline phone. It’s through the cable (internet provider) company instead of the phone company.”

That’s still vulnerable to an internet attack, unfortunately.

A POTS (plain ‘ole telephone service) landline over copper wire should be unaffected, but they killed that nearly 20 years back around here.

A plain ham radio repeater is probably the most resilient to attack. You can set up something similar to use, many VHF-UHF mobile radios have the ability to exploit a cross-band-repeat setting. Get the radio and antenna up as high as you can and power it with batteries charged by a solar panel.

Viola, your own personal communications system…

By: Shire-man

Shire-man — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 20:45:07 +0000

The simple fact that a phone outage for a few hours made national news headlines for two+ days shows how dependent, fragile, unprepared and afraid we all are.

By: Dude

Dude — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 20:08:18 +0000

I still have a landline phone. It’s through the cable (internet provider) company instead of the phone company. It’s only about $10 extra per month, so why not?

I’ve had a similar conversation with someone, except I didn’t bring up the possibility of their phone not working. I’ll be using that next time! Anyway, she couldn’t process it. In the end she kept saying, she would call the police, and they would come rescue her.

By: .40 cal Booger

.40 cal Booger — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 19:33:38 +0000

911: “911, what is your emergency?”

Victim: “I’m at Robb Elementary School. ”

nuff said right there, says it all.