Mega Millions

[FlyerInHi]

If I won the lottery, I’d build a nice gun collection. Good guns never depreciate in value.

When it comes to self defense, you want to be more badass than your opponent.

I bought myself a sigsaur for Christmas. I wanna go to their academy.

[spdrun]

Personally, I really don’t like the things. I can appreciate the right to own one, but I’d rather not personally do so.

[FlyerInHi]

I’m anti-gun as a general rule. There should be more restrictions.

But if we are to have an arms race, I’m playing to win.

I’d rather buy guns as toys than a car. At least guns only appreciate. They will appreciate even more if there are more controls. So buy, buy, buy as much as you can reasonably buy.

[flyer]

[quote=FlyerInHi]
That makes me think of Syria. Imagine living a nice upper middle class life in Damascus. The regime could collapse and the country overtaken by sectarian violence to last decades.[/quote]

Good point, FIH. We have friends from London who had business interests there, and lived there off and on before the violence started. They said they never believed it would escalate to the level to which it did–making it clear that it could happen anywhere. They’re worth a fortune, and they still had to leave.

IMO, mega (or even several million) might buy you some time in a catastrophic or apocalyptic situation, but I wouldn’t bet on the funds or whatever they provide saving you for long.

Personally, I believe in making sure you are set for retirement, while still living to the max in the present. So many people wait until “retirement,” to start living, and then they never make it to that age, or can’t enjoy it due to illness,etc. At that point, even mega millions won’t make
much difference–except to your heirs.

[Hatfield]

I wouldn’t be so much worried about the zombie apocalypse. I’d be much, much more worried about the hangers-on and long-lost “friends” and “relatives” popping out of the woodwork once your name and likeness were splashed across the press. Only a couple states allow you to win anonymously, but apparently in California there is a way to set up some sort of trust inside a corporation that allows you to collect anonymously. Maybe make it a Nevada corporation, because ownership and officers are not a matter of public record. I’d want to keep that new Gulfstream a secret.

[flyer]

[quote=Hatfield]I wouldn’t be so much worried about the zombie apocalypse. I’d be much, much more worried about the hangers-on and long-lost “friends” and “relatives” popping out of the woodwork once your name and likeness were splashed across the press. Only a couple states allow you to win anonymously, but apparently in California there is a way to set up some sort of trust inside a corporation that allows you to collect anonymously. Maybe make it a Nevada corporation, because ownership and officers are not a matter of public record. I’d want to keep that new Gulfstream a secret.[/quote]

Good points, Hatfield. Friends have a G5 Gulfstream, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the new “mega” winners (secretly) pick one up soon.

[spdrun]

I wouldn’t be so much worried about the zombie apocalypse. I’d be much, much more worried about the hangers-on and long-lost “friends” and “relatives” popping out of the woodwork once your name and likeness were splashed across the press

Since I’ve spoken to 99% of the people whom I care about in the last year, it would be easy to tell any such folks to perform physically impossible acts with fire.

[LesBaer45]

[quote=FlyerInHi]I’m anti-gun as a general rule. There should be more restrictions.

But if we are to have an arms race, I’m playing to win.

I’d rather buy guns as toys than a car. At least guns only appreciate. They will appreciate even more if there are more controls. So buy, buy, buy as much as you can reasonably buy.[/quote]

So basically you are a class A hypocrite when it comes to guns. It’s ok as long as it fits your way of thinking and for your specific situation but not ok if it doesn’t.

Got it.

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