The 7 humans and 6 ponies made their way to the entrance of the castle of the 2 sisters. For the humans it was... To say the very least, a once in a lifetime experience. They had all heard fantastical stories of things like thing both in their youth, and present day. " So... Element's of Harmony, right?" Brandon Herrera asked Twilight as he stared up at the rotting front gate and ramparts that stood in their path.
"Indeed we are," Twilight responded. Mike glanced back over at her. " What do they look like?" She ignited her horn again, and the shimmering image of 5 golden necklaces and one cheesy tiara appeared in mid air. Each one had a different gemstone at their center. " Huh? Look's like the Infinity stones." Donut joked, he followed it up with a look of, " Don't question it."
"So, shall we?" Matt asked gesturing to the grandiose door in front of them. "Alright, Brandon, Greg, Scott, stack up on the left side of the door We'll go right. Breach the door on the count of 3." Angry, Matt and Donut staked up behind Mike, and the other's followed though on the other side. " Twilight and the other's looked on with their usual confusion.
"Just stay out of our way, and you'll be fine." On the count of three the team beached both door's, sweeping left, right, and center at the same time.
"Alright, rooms clear." Mike shouted. "It's safe, you can come in!" Twilight and the other's nervously entered into the building after them.
"So, were exactly are the, ' Element's of Harmony' Twilight?" She pointed up at the half dozen stone spheres attached to 5 metallic arms which themselves restated atop a mossy stone pedestal which glowed with an eerie blue when the spheres were removed by Rainbow Dash.
"Weren't there supposed to be six?" She asked Twilight. " Is this a geode situation? How do we get them out? And, how in gods name are we supposed to stop that big angry horse with them?" Brandon questioned as he threw his hands up in frustration.
"Uh, what did you just call Nightmare Moon?" Twilight asked him, " Well... It's uh... As Donut said, we'll explain later." Pinkie blinked, did somepony say Donut!?" Cody facepalmed and groaned in frustration. " Yes, that's my nickname-You know what? We don't have time for this shit."
"You know, I kinda find it ironic we've gotten away with as much as we have. The profanity, the boom sticks, ect." He raised his AK74M. A few of the other team members uncomfortably snickered at the though of those snowflakes over YouTube demonetizing, age restricting, and suppressing their content. Sure they were fine with letting some waste of oxygen's video about them putting glue in their own hair make the front page, but when it came to anything gun related... It was the typical, " This content has been flagged as offense." Bullshit, didn't anyone ever teach them the concept of, ' sticks and stone may break my bones but words will never hurt me?"
Uh, just out of curiosity, where's the 6th one? And how do we get them out in the first place?" Angry questioned. Twilight sat down, " The book said that when the 5 are present a spark will cause the sixth element to be revealed. " Mike shook his head, " So let me get this straight, the fulfillment of this whole prophecy thing is dependent on us deciphering whatever the hell that vague riddle was?"
"Well... Yes." Twilight responded. Brandon clapped his hands and pointed down at the unicorn, alright, does anyone have a lighter? Or matches, I'm pretty sure either one will do."
"Plus, there's six of you little ponies here. 13 in total if you count us, but I don't thing we're supposed to be part of this." Hickock added. " How 'bout we just focus on trying to get these sphere's open first? After we've got five we can work on getting the sixth.
Angry flicked open his baton and stomped over to the one closet to him, he gestured for Applejack to back up before he began hacking away. "Damnit!" He yelled as he stopped abruptly. " What is it?" Scott asked him. " Well, I'm pretty sure this thing can only be opened by magic." Brandon scratched his head, " Let me guess, Drill Sargent's intuition?"
"You got it buddy!" Angry turned to Twilight, " Think you can figure this out?" She scrunched up her face for a moment, then nodded. " Sure, I can try." She sat down next to one of the little stone balls and lit her horn.
"Back up everyone, she needs to concentrate." Applejack asked the other's, who all backed away, with the exception of Angry. Who hovered over her while silently watching her every move. " Someone needs to stay here and make sure the blue smoke doesn't come back, besides, in what situation have I not made someone finish their work faster, and better?" But as soon as the other's had broken line of sight, the blue smoke returned and began to levitate the spheres into the air.
"Well shoot me in the foot and call me a 5 star general, back for more Miss Moon?" He asked, putting his hands on his hips and clenching his fist.
"Gah! Leave me be whelp!" Her voice cried out, in an instant it disappeared, taking the Element's, Twilight Sparkle and Angry with it. A menacing scream of primal anger echoed through the halls of the castle a few moments later. The remaining 11 rushed back into the room, " Mike, what now?" Hickock asked, rubbing his temples. Brandon Herrera was the first to raise his hand. " There's no way in hell I'm facing this sober." He proceeded to pull a bottle of vodka from his assault pack and take a sip from it. " So how about this, we break up into team's, and we sweep the castle floor by floor, room by room, until we find them?"
" Mostly solid idea Brandon, except for one thing. I'd rather we all stick together because, you know, we're fighting, well... You know who. And, I don't really thing we're gonna need to look hard because, well... Look over yonder. " Matt pointed out the window, revealing a distant section of the crumbling fortress emitting a bluish glow, and easily discernable grunts of annoyance and frustration from both parties involved.
Just to add to the chaos of the whole situation, Brandon jumped out of a nearby window. No particular reason, he just gave a winded thumbs up, and vaulted through the ancient stained glass window with a cry of, I need to get something!" the humans just stood their and stood there in confusion with their rifles hanging from their slings.
" Wow, uh, ignoring the fact that Brandon just went full Bear Grylls/Superman on us for no apparent reason... Let's go and stop the evil alicorn! Everyone, on me!" Donut waved them onwards, completely oblivious as to where Brandon had run off to.
Meanwhile, half a castle away...
Angry and Twilight appeared side by side, directly in front of them was a fully corporeal Nightmare Moon, with the 5 stone spheres suspended in mid air around her. She slowly cackled as a bolt of lightning flash in front of Angry. But, rather than scaring him, it only served to amuse him.
"What the fuck was that lady? Tell you what, you stay right there, and I come up there and kick your furry ass back to the fucking moon for making me and my cohorts hike that god awful forest!" He unslung his rifle and began stomping his way towards the alicorn.
'Umm... What are you doing?" Twilight asked him, to which he calmly answered, " Teaching dipshit over here a lesson." Nightmare Moon took this as a sign to charge at Angry, something she was about to regret...
They charged, Then what?
It was so valiant So romantic
So they wrecked each other?
You can say that
They kissed! Moony and Angry KISSED!
It aint right I tell you
I feel so alone
I'm having them over for tea and cake later
SHOW ME YOUR WAR FACE!
Bring on the carnage
If you're old enough to remember Peanuts (Charles Schulz), Charlie Brown's little sister Sally scrambled that saying into "Talk softly and carry a beagle (Snoopy).".
Several people have scrambled the second amendment into "The right to keep and arm bears". Nice posters.
This is also the title to a collection of Gordon Dickson's stories of the planet Dilbia (an alien race that resembles giant bears). I read them back when they were first published. They are very good.
As best I can tell from a quick scan of the internet, nobody has yet said "The rite to keep and arm bears.".
Angry is about to go WWE on Nightmare Moon. Celestia might not get her sister back in one piece.
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Well, from what I read on the internet, the Supreme Court is about to decide some second amendment cases. Depending on how it's worded it could outlaw every gun control law in the USA, Including those that prevent children, lunatics, and violent felons from owning guns. It also could legalize assault rifles, biowarfare weapons, poison gas, etc.
Not sure that's a good idea.
& if you're talking the Constitution what about the part of the Preamble that says "insure domestic tranquility for ourselves & our posterity."?
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What evil will you invite when it knows you are defenseless?
Arms - let everyone be armed - Highway men & criminals in government will always have arms,
Balance evils force by arming honorable citizens.
All arms not just fire arms.
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Arguably worked for the Wild West. I've read that aprox 1 lawman was killed in line of duty for every outlaw hanged.
No idea if that's true although I'd point out that many outlaws were shot resisting arrest.
Nice to read about the Wild West. Not so nice to try and live there.
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Wild West is a fantasy
Try real history
Private persons owning cannons, Frigates, Submarines, Arms of the day. Machine guns, Mortars, tanks, war ships, Aircraft, Weapon systems.
Think bigger
Think history
What did the Founding Fathers live through?
What is the answer to security of free people?
Here's a big Hint [It's not the government]
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It's been 50+ years since I was in high school but I vaguely remember that privately owned warships & privateers were outlawed by treaty shortly before WW1. (Dating back to the Louisiana Purchase, SCOTUS says "ratified treaty = law".)
I had a number of relatives who are (or were) teachers + I remember some of my old teachers. Not sure I'd want them firing guns in classrooms (ricochets never miss). I KNOW I don't want people throwing grenades, carrying flamethrower etc.
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What is the supreme law of the land?
Your teachers were very very wrong.
So a 17 year old serving in an armed service firing weapons driving tanks throwing grenades and other 'dangerous' things
can't be trusted to CCW in a public settings including school? or vote or smoke or drink booze?
As someone who jumped a school shooter [Late 70s] I'd rather shoot back then tackle them to the ground.
After the event I was informed of others who were armed at school and no one knew [They were late for the party, School Schedule and all.]
Cops are always way too late - But their hand writing and reports are tidy and neat.
Shootings were rare until the late 80s when the political powers put "gun free zones" in action, Like chumming the waters for sharks.
from 3 to 4 in the 70s 20 to 40 odd in the 80s & 90s to 400+ when the government got the idea to violate the 2nd Amendment
Like the 2010 to now violating the 1st Amendment by proxy. The last two years on steroids . . .
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Congratulations on your survival.
I do trust our soldiers. According to Wikipedia the USA has won 100 out of 110 conflicts since 1775, by far the best winning %.
Do you trust them to NEVER miss the target and hit a bystander? That's The Lawsuit From Hell just waiting to happen. I favor giving teachers tasers. Yes, they can be abused, yes they can kill someone, & yes they can be defended against but IMO it's the least bad answer.
A few stats from Wikipedia
Aprox 100 US soldiers died per day in WW1 (3rd highest rate. Includes disease.)
In 2020, about 110/day died from gunshots. About 200/day were shot but lived.
The USA has 120.5 guns per 100 people. Mostly military, but an estimated 71.8 million are owned by civilians. In terms of armed individuals, the USA civilian population is the largest armed force in the world.
According to you, we should be the safest in the world. Instead, we have about 4% of the population -and about 35% of the yearly gun deaths. IDK if they still do, but they used to train combat medics by having them help in big city emergency rooms on weekends. IMO, this is unacceptable.
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Basically, Napoleon gave the USA a time limit on the Louisiana Purchase. Jefferson felt there wasn't time to go through Congress so he just signed it & had the Senate ratify it later & cut the House of Representatives out entirely. (At the time, a BIG no-no.)
Naturally, he got sued & SCOTUS ruled it was legal. Since then, ratified treaties are equal to the Constitution for top law.
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Tasers don't work a hundred percent of the time. The only effective way to counter lethal force is with lethal force.
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So you'd rather 30 dead over 1 or 2 dead?
Tasers? You'll just end up ventilated - Body armor and just heavy fabric can stop tasers and the last few nut bags wore expensive body armor used expensive weapons and loads of expensive magazines full of expensive ammunition on a salary from working at a 'fast food' business
(Who's paying for this stuff?) FBI/CIA ? Fast & Furious? Las Vegas?
Yea, Trust the authorities to protect you?
And treaties do not over ride/rule the Constitution - Read more Federalist papers and realize the Supreme Court gets it wrong at times.
The Rights are yours at birth and most of the Amendments and Constitution prohibit Government from excessive powers and do not grant any rights.
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Yes, the Supreme Court gets it wrong all the time. In the last 232 years, it has overturned itself 233 times. Just about once per session
Most famously, Brown v Board of Education overturned Plessy v Ferguson (which basically said the 14th amendment wasn't really serious about the equal protection of the laws. (All those white enemies & Rosa Parks got mugged by a black man! Of course, it's Not Politically Correct to draw attention to this. That's why I mentioned it.))
Now, it's all but certain to overturn Roe v Wade.
According to Wikipedia, if SCOTUS gets it wrong the executive branch can fail to enforce it (Andrew Jackson infamously did this when he deported the Cherokees from Georgia) or the legislative branch can defund it.
Otherwise, we're stuck with it.
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Right now,
Abortion kills 625,346 (2019)
Cigarettes killed 480,000 (2020) including 41,000 from second hand smoke.
Medical Error killed 251,000 (2021) Disputed but I'd go with CDC figures.
Gun deaths 45,222 (2020). The majority were suicide or family members. This is a lower per capita rate than the 1970s.
Car deaths 42,915 (2021) WAY lower per capita than the 1960s.
Top 5 preventable causes of death in the USA.
You drive impaired they yank your license. You don't think it makes sense to keep guns away from people with a record of violence?
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You must live a sheltered and timid life.
Due Process before Life, Liberty & property is taken applies to government - But it doesn't stop same government from abusing your rights.
Does your deaths from medical malpractice include victims from those Experimental vaccines they're pushing? [450,000 estimated dead in 6 months]
Can you really trust a government who's gotten more wrong then right in the last 24 months? You're such a trusting soul.
45 k dead [most are suicide (50%) HHS stats and a whopping 2.5 million arms prevented death/criminal acts FBI stats] Not bad at all.
Have you ever sworn an oath to protect and defend the Constitution? or is "Wickapedia" doing the standing other then your own two feet?
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That 2.5 million figure is highly disputed. Professor David Hemenway says it's a misinterpreted figure from a 1990s study. He says the correct figure is more like 100,000. In other words, your chances of deterring a crime are less than your odds of getting shot.
I enlisted in the USMC back in the 1970s. I proved physically incapable of making it through boot camp, but I did enlist.
According to the internet, 1 million+ dead. A doctor I know claims that figure is vastly inflated -they counted everyone who died with Covid as killed by Covid. Still, it's about 1 death per 86 cases.
Where'd you get the 450,000 figure?
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HHS deaths by all causes quarterly - from 2016 through 2021 + three quarters deaths were 2.8 million a year each year = 8% to 9% of population average .....
It spiked by 450 thousand + in last quarter of 2021 and start of 2022 it's still spiking... over 11% of population. [only one added matrix in the mix, EUA vaxx]
Numbers continue to rise for all diseases, cancers, strokes, heart issues on the rise 400% to 4000%] ----- The numbers keep changing at CDC better numbers traced to insurance actuaries and funeral home / Mortician reports...???
About 8 people I knew got the Rona and easily lived through it - plenty of OTC treatments - [One used speed from the Doc]
Know more who got bad reactions from the "slab Jab" Nephew in the Corps got the heart issues and a family friend was killed on the booster [Got a bad reaction and got the booster anyway]
Mom said I should of been a Doctor, I picked flying, maintaining, designing helicopters - military, private and Sheriff Air Unit / public service.
Went to MCRD San Diego after Army, Removed for the good of the Corps.
Then again finding 2,000 lbs of cocaine in the bottom of a boat you're flying off of doesn't help either... mid 80s was crazy
2.5 million saved is from FBI and DoJ ongoing crime data. [It's how grants are distributed to city Law enforcement]
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Population of Los Angeles (city, not county) about 4 million. Number of murders 4000. 1 per thousand. This year is on pace to beat last year.
Population of EU about 448 million. 22,000 murders. 1 for 20.3 thousand. Many nations have mostly unarmed police.
Population of Japan 125.8 million. Number of murders 874. About 1 per 144,000.
They're not as culturally diverse as we are but the EU certainly is + close to Mid East. I just think reducing the number of guns would reduce the amount of gun deaths.
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EU is lost - National identity crisis - Yellow Jacket protests ongoing NWO restrictions and energy crisis
Japan is Japan an Ant Colony with extremely high suicide rates, low birth rates and a secret nuclear weapon program from 1962
Chicago DC and all other Gun restricted areas have excessive crime and gun death rates -
So small arms [pistols and automatic side arms] caused the most death/crime,
Why does the government want to 'ban' rifles and magazines that caused on average 400 odd deaths a year?
Criminals Highwaymen and Corrupt governments want control of their victims, No arms = You lose
Like Communist/Fascist history of takeovers killing millions. You disarm the people, release prisoners, wreck the economy.
If you think criminals are giving up their guns you're crazy and devoid of reality.
and Los Angeles has way more than 6 million goons in its borders... Cruising the 101 has more people weekly
and boy you can smell the crack!
If you don't want a side arm don't buy one, But do not disarm a people against their right of self defense.
Kiel of Kenosha beats Ghost of Kiev - One is real the other a fable
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You're mixing LA County (10 million) with LA City. Couldn't easily get murders for the County so used the city.
Best estimate civilan guns per 100 civilians
USA 120.5
Falkland Islands 62.1
Yemen 52.8
New Caledonia 42.5
Montenegro 39.1
Serbia 39.1
Canada 34.7
Uruguay 34.7
Cyprus 34.0
Finland 32.4
Bottom 10
Malawi 0.3
Singapore 0.3
East Timor 0.3
South Korea 0.2
Solomon Islands 0.2
Christmas Island 0.0
Holy See 0.0 (Vatican)
Indonesia 0.0
Nauru 0.0
Taiwan 0.0
Well, they are both all over the map on wealth.
Before retirement, I was often a nightshift convenience store clerk. Held up once, robbed once on the way to work. Got beat up twice for refusing to sell beer after hours.
IMO, if they had thought I had a gun they'd have shot me to keep me from shooting them as they fled.
This doesn't count numerous beer runs & drive offs.
Japanese suicide rate isn't the highest in the world. That goes to Hungary. It's about double. Based suicide/murder rates they tend to kill themselves, we tend to shoot things that annoy us.
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Guess you don't give a shit on the limits imposed by the Constitution and its amendments
You want a future of easy slavery with armed criminals, children killed on the liberal alter of
"Gun free Zones" and Socialized top down Government... Sad to waste a Legacy of the Founding Fathers.
Government supported BLM, Anti Fa riots, Perversion and mass Shootings.
[Follow the players & $$$$$]
Smedley Buttler or Lee Harvey Oswald - One stopped a Coup the Other "Assassinated" JFK both involved a Bush.
You just don't see the real "enemy" like the rest of the sheep lead to slaughter.
Enjoy your stay.
The next stop the Twilight Zone
I lived close to LA - South-East -North- The numbers are way off, We have more Illegal Aliens then legal population - Sanctuary city BS. Not mixing county with city.
Guns are not the problem
Government sponsored lawlessness is. [follow the $$$] Where's my damn Bullet Train!
Russia, China, Armenia,Africa, Cambodia, Cuba, all disarmed their populations and killed millions to solidify power. Australia & Canada on the way out - gun grabs, C camps, lock downs, beatings and assets frozen -
WORK WILL MAKE YOU FREE - PAPERS PLEASE - IT'S FOR YOUR HEALTH
Like I said , Guns are not the problem - Detroit, Chicago, DC... Ask Gov Lightfoot
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I live in Phoenix, AZ. We don't get your number of illegals but we get enough I won't argue your claim that the official figures are undercounted. AFAIK, you can't easily undercount dead bodies.
You want to buy a single shot muzzle loaded flintlock, be my guest.
We will have to agree to disagree about guns.
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My dead uncle has one.
Like I said you don't want it don't buy it.
Gun free zones are just shooting galleries.
The only thing a criminal in or out of government fear is not knowing if the victim is armed or not.
Don't buy into the propaganda the government is here to help [Police do not self dispatch or are they required to help you]
Only knew 3 good Deputies in the department in the whole County.