{"id":97343,"date":"2018-09-13T15:12:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T19:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=97343"},"modified":"2018-09-13T15:12:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T17:49:51","slug":"hurricane-florence-shoot-at-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/hurricane-florence-shoot-at-it\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Survive Hurricane Florence: Shoot At It!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_97354\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/florence.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"hurricane-florence-shoot-at-it\" title=\"How to Survive Hurricane Florence: Shoot At It!\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97354\" title=\"How to Survive Hurricane Florence: Shoot At It!\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-97354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/florence-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"How to Survive Hurricane Florence: Shoot At It!\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/florence-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/florence-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/florence.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-97354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hurricane Florence is bearing down on the East Coast, and one Facebook group thinks they know how to stop it. (<em>Photo: NASA<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For the last six weeks Clay Martin has brought GunsAmerica readers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/clays-guide-to-urban-defense-ep-5-surviving-the-concrete-jungle\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"hurricane-florence-shoot-at-it\" title=\"How to Survive Hurricane Florence: Shoot At It!\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">solid advice<\/a> for surviving in an urban setting, just the kind of info you might need in a hurricane catastrophe scenario.<\/p>\n<p>Forget all that.<\/p>\n<p>As Hurricane Florence makes landfall today on the East Coast, over 33,000 Facebook users have opted for a better idea. The event <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/397549724111127\/?active_tab=about\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"hurricane-florence-shoot-at-it\" title=\"How to Survive Hurricane Florence: Shoot At It!\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shooting Guns At Hurricane Florence To Scare It Away<\/a> has exploded in just a few days as over 100,000 people either committed to \u201cgoing\u201d or expressed interest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGet your guns and your umbrellas. And your umbrella-guns, and your beer, and your beer-guns, and your tiny umbrellas to keep your beer dry,\u201d the event\u2019s About section reads. \u201cAnd join people from all along the East Coast in scaring away Hurricane Florence to protect our country from this foreign invader!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While a line of 33,000 gun owners firing from the beaches of North Carolina sounds like the most epic pro-gun protest to date, the event is 100% satire.<\/p>\n<p>The About section also includes a \u201cNote\u201d from the event\u2019s coordinator, Ryan Stumpf: <strong>\u201cDo not actually discharge firearms into the air. You could kill someone and you cannot frighten a hurricane. I can\u2019t believe I actually have to write this.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hurricanes might be less afraid of firearms than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/crime\/firing-ar-15-horrifying-dangerous-loud-article-1.2673201\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"hurricane-florence-shoot-at-it\" title=\"How to Survive Hurricane Florence: Shoot At It!\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this guy<\/a>, but that hasn\u2019t stopped event-goers from having a little fun while they hunker down for the storm. Below is just a small sample of memes posted in the last few hours.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/meme-5.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"hurricane-florence-shoot-at-it\" title=\"How to Survive Hurricane Florence: Shoot At It!\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"How to Survive Hurricane Florence: Shoot At It!\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97344 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/meme-5.jpg\" alt=\"How to Survive Hurricane Florence: Shoot At It!\" width=\"505\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/meme-5.jpg 505w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/meme-5-150x135.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/meme-5-334x300.jpg 334w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/meme-4.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"hurricane-florence-shoot-at-it\" title=\"How to Survive Hurricane Florence: Shoot At It!\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"How to Survive Hurricane Florence: Shoot At It!\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97345 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/meme-4.jpg\" alt=\"How to Survive Hurricane Florence: Shoot At It!\" width=\"502\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/meme-4.jpg 502w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/meme-4-150x124.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/meme-4-364x300.jpg 364w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/meme-3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"hurricane-florence-shoot-at-it\" title=\"How to Survive Hurricane Florence: Shoot At It!\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"How to Survive Hurricane Florence: Shoot At It!\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97346 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/meme-3.jpg\" alt=\"How to Survive Hurricane Florence: Shoot At It!\" width=\"506\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/meme-3.jpg 506w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/meme-3-150x140.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/meme-3-321x300.jpg 321w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/meme-2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"hurricane-florence-shoot-at-it\" title=\"How to Survive Hurricane Florence: Shoot At It!\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"How to Survive Hurricane Florence: Shoot At It!\" class=\"wp-image-97347 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/meme-2.jpg\" alt=\"How to Survive Hurricane Florence: Shoot At It!\" width=\"507\" height=\"592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/meme-2.jpg 451w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/meme-2-128x150.jpg 128w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/meme-2-257x300.jpg 257w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/meme-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"hurricane-florence-shoot-at-it\" title=\"How to Survive Hurricane Florence: Shoot At It!\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"How to Survive Hurricane Florence: Shoot At It!\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97348 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/meme-1.jpg\" alt=\"How to Survive Hurricane Florence: Shoot At It!\" width=\"501\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/meme-1.jpg 501w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/meme-1-150x147.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/meme-1-305x300.jpg 305w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>But the winner for funniest post is probably Jon H. Goin II, who posted this video after the hurricane&#8217;s path moved south:<\/p>\n<p><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"width: 0px;overflow: hidden;line-height: 0\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time a Facebook event like this has formed just prior to a hurricane. Police in Florida issued a warning in 2017 after someone launched an event titled, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/article172283627.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"hurricane-florence-shoot-at-it\" title=\"How to Survive Hurricane Florence: Shoot At It!\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Shoot at Hurricane Irma.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0Police tweeted a helpful graphic depicting the path of a bullet shot into a hurricane:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">To clarify, DO NOT shoot weapons @ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Irma?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"hurricane-florence-shoot-at-it\" title=\"How to Survive Hurricane Florence: Shoot At It!\">#Irma<\/a>. You won&#8217;t make it turn around &amp; it will have very dangerous side effects<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CV4Y9OJknv\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"hurricane-florence-shoot-at-it\" title=\"How to Survive Hurricane Florence: Shoot At It!\">https:\/\/t.co\/CV4Y9OJknv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pasco Sheriff (@PascoSheriff) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PascoSheriff\/status\/906712903868469249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"hurricane-florence-shoot-at-it\" title=\"How to Survive Hurricane Florence: Shoot At It!\">September 10, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So far police in North Carolina appear better able to detect satire. No warnings have yet been issued.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">***<a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/\" campaign=\"BuySellGA_Register\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\">Buy and Sell on GunsAmerica!<\/a>***<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last six weeks Clay Martin has brought GunsAmerica readers solid advice for surviving in an urban setting, just the kind of info you might need in a hurricane catastrophe scenario. Forget all that. 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