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Seeing how many here, maybe most live in the sunshine state, lets try this one

You've gone to the beach with your significant other [ SO ], it's fairly crowded on a holiday weekend. You've undressed from your street clothes to your swimming trunk, laid your towels out, placed your phone, wallet, handgun and other hidden from passerby's on the beach. Your SO will stay at the towel location and watch the valuables while you take a dip, then you'll let her do the same while you watch the valuables and enjoy the beautiful day.

You're in the water up to your waist, when out of nowhere, a seemingly crazy liberal wokester about 20 is charging people with a large kitchen butchers knife. You see he's injured a few at the shore line already as he looks up and directly at you, then starts wading into the water doing a B line to you.

What do you do?

 

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I'll move to deep water up to my chest and smile at him [ that will slow him down further getting to me ]. When he gets to within 5 feet or so, open up with the NAA 22mag PUG. I have the gun with a few purposes in mind.

Have it on me when I couldn't/wouldn't normally have one like swimming and as a primary carried in my hand walking across parking lots etc where someone could jump out from behind parked cars and not give me much time to draw the normal primary.

 

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Exactly! “Please Mr. bad guy; please don’t make me jump off the bridge!” 😉

We all learned to swim at a young age, and I was snorkeling and spearfishing offshore by the time I was 13.

I actually was “informed” by a former band member’s wife that “it’s a Florida thing; all you Florida boys can swim like fish!”
I never even thought about it ‘til then; I thought that everybody did. All the guys I grew up with did…. 🤷🏻‍♂️

We were given swm lessons at 6 years of age. Then in the USMC, we learned not only how to swim but stay afloat for days should a ship we were on were sinking for some reason. Not only learn how to swim but swim with a full battle pack and utilities on including boots.

I don't mind swimming, I'm comfortable in the water, yet I don't have any interest in sports involving the water.