champu

There's a difference between requiring a person to pass a written test that includes questions about proper storage of firearms around children and how to educate kids about gun safety before owning a gun, or requiring a disabling lock to be included or purchased with a firearm, and taking that extra step and making it illegal not to use the lock at all times regardless of your living situation. Same goes for things like LCIs, magazine disconnects, and thumb safeties. If you think they're the dogs bollocks and you want manufacturers to be required to offer versions of all their guns with those options, I could get behind that too, but that's not what actually happens. What actually happens are hard requirements are written, and then people keep adding to the list of required features until they get vaporware on the list and then nothing gets approved for sale anymore. The state of California is proof that the slippery slope argument isn't a fallacy when it comes to firearms laws.

I love theories that aren't my own. It makes my life so much easier. To describe meetings where I've had to defend theories of my own as combative would be gracious.

I was expecting the attached image, often captioned, "Dick Butkus tackles... ...the Packers."

There's a speakers series each year in Los Angeles that I just hopped on board. It will probably be the first of many seasons I attend. This season is the above poll choices. I'm curious who people here would be most interested in.

You can use the "preview post" button to save your work if you want to move around between tabs before you're finished writing. That way when your mobile browser reloads the page (for no good reason) it will re-submit the form with your content rather than start you over again.

Update: I think we're going to be fine without. The rental car we picked up has a navigation system so between that, a paper map, and wi-fi the phone will stay in airplane mode. Now it's just a matter of planning hikes around the thunderstorms.

Thanks for the tips, I appreciate it. I've downloaded offline maps in google maps of all the areas we're planning on going to, so we should be able to get by without it for most of the trip. It's just nice to have when initially getting sorted out in case wi-fi is hard to come by.

Any recommendations regarding carriers for picking up a SIM to use in the Canmore/Banff area? Phone is an iPhone 5 (A1428) Is Rogers the way to go?

The only way to reliably stop someone from breaking into your house and stealing your firearms when you're not there is to have a monitored alarm system and a police response time* that is shorter than the theft rating of your safe that you have bolted into a concrete slab. Mandating anything between that and "secure the perimeter of the house when you're not there" and "secure firearms if minors or prohibited persons are going to, or are likely to, have access to the inside of the house" is dumb. D.C. v. Heller established (lol) that mandating trigger locks was a no-go. More recently SCOTUS denied cert in Jackson v. San Francisco which mandates trigger locks or a locked container. The city of Los Angeles quickly ctrl+c'd; ctrl+v'd that one, and I expect that aspect of the D.C v. Heller decision will continue to be disregarded in more and more cities as time goes on and there's no reason to believe SCOTUS will do anything about it. If you're worried about it, read a gun safety pamphlet and teach your kids what to do if they or their friends find a firearm. Further, you can ask the parents of your kids' friends before they head over or you drop them off, "Hey, are there any unsecured firearms in the house? I want to make sure there aren't." *Police are never going to sign up to a response time for an unattended residential alarm call. (in some cases they won't sign up to responding at all)

Seems facts are not your forte. 3/4 of the guns obtained by most mass shooters are done legally http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/mass-shootings-map I don't think you guys are disagreeing. When he said, "that way" I took that to mean, "...the way criminals do, illegally." Regarding the "crazy database", I suspect that will function and be managed at least as well as the federal no fly list. As long as it is only applied against gun ownership, though, there frankly won't be enough political pull to reverse or undo it if it turns out to be horrible. If we committed everyone we thought might be just a gun away from going on a shooting spree you'd have tons of backlash, but if you're just denying firearms you can get away with a lot more slop. As much as people like to whine about the NRA, the second amendment, and other gun lobbyists, very little actually gets undone once it is signed into law.

To be fair, "fix it" isn't a particularly meaningful suggestion. We're not talking about a garage door opener that stopped working. You or rehmwa saying "fix it" doesn't mean anything resembling what quade or mpohl would mean saying the same thing.

If you have three penises you should probably see a doctor about it.

It's certainly more difficult to cause as much damage with an ax as it is with a firearm if you're someone who is, in all likelihood, not fully aware of where you are or what you're doing. I have no qualms with firearm laws that would or may have prevented this guy from getting a gun or even from keeping guns if he already owned them. He had been committed multiple times. But, as I've said before, I don't think there's an amount of crazy where the correct action is to simply make sure the person doesn't have guns. To tout this event as a success of any kind of firearm law is as ridiculous as the notion that this guy was collected enough to have chosen the location because it was a "gun-free zone." But that's the state of the gun debate these days.

The interesting part of the video to me is near the end where the officer, with gun still drawn, chooses to turn his back on the guy and awkwardly step over the trailer and walk around the driver's side of the car rather than just return to his vehicle in a straight line. Psychologically I think I know why he did that, but I'm curious as to other people's opinions.

rushmc posts: 28559 search results for "re rushmc" in the subject: 23808 ratio: 0.834 Andy9o8 posts: 24209 search results for "re Andy9o8" in the subject: 20218 ratio: 0.835 kallend posts: 52173 search results for "re kallend" in the subject: 53556 ratio: 1.03 You actually edge Marc out, but kallend is demonstrably more irritating than either of you. champu posts: 5601 search results for "re champu" in the subject: 3536 ratio: 0.631 /edited also for reference: funjumper101: 1.63; Amazon: 0.873; jakee: 0.713

***You can just flush the US down the drain and the world would be a better place. Aww, thanks.

jakee already posted the wikipedia link, but here are a couple news stories about it from googling. These were about a mile from my house. One man: http://www.dailybreeze.com/general-news/20140724/torrance-to-pay-18-million-to-settle-surfer-david-perdues-lawsuit-in-mistaken-christopher-dorner-shooting Two women: http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/LAPD-Rogue-Ex-Officer-Christopher-Dorner-Deadly-Force-Newspaper-Women-Delivery-Torrance-Shooting-243564431.html /edited: sorry, fixed links and a copy/paste error

I also made reference to this case in post #197 of this thread, but part of the discussion in the decision is also important here http://michellawyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Silvester-v.-Harris_Findings-of-Fact-and-Conclusions-of-Law.pdf See pg 20 et seq. In places like California with an attorney general who loathes firearm ownership, if you don't place a time limit on how long a background check may take, it will simply take forever as a matter of course. As much fun as it sounds to have to sue the state of California / petition for a writ of mandamus every single time I want to purchase a firearm, I think I'll pass on your 100% completion goal. I agree with background checks, but everyone here knows exactly what happens when you give executives blank checks.

Only on bulk orders.

If the prosecutors would just say "we'll give you life without parole if you enter a guilty plea" and then he did, it would be over and done with. Now it's going to be a media shit show for that much longer because they won't take the death penalty off the table. I think there's irony in publicizing every minute detail of these shooters' lives and panning through it all for hints or clues as to why they would ever do such a thing, or how to stop the next guy. Now their name, their story, and everything there is to know about them is heard by millions... ...including the next guy.

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You're begging the question. There is no the hook. You can't just walk around carrying a hook and refer to it as the hook. That'd be fucking weird. Be honest; it's your hook (note: only slightly less fucking weird to carry around.) Rush, when you read that sentence does it make sense to you? There's an awkward noun phrase and a comma missing before, "I got a bridge...", but other than that it makes sense. I'm sometimes guilty of hard to parse sentences myself.

a) If four people drove to his house "minutes later" and yelled at him for shooting their drone that kinda outs them as having used the drone to snoop on the guy (even if it wasn't personal, i.e. they just wanted to spy on whomever.) I wonder if the camera was streaming and recording locally and if the memory card survived. b) If you knew someone just shot your drone down, why in the god damn world would you go to that person's property immediately afterwords and confront them? c) The guy has a point about #8 shot. Frankly at "suburb distances" unless you shoot directly at someone or directly through a window or something you're not going to hurt bystanders. I live in a city though, so I definitely wouldn't try this. d) I'm curious to know, of anyone who objects, what their feeling would be if the guy used something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE1ZRupUfPo (a net gun.)

He constantly pushes "whitening" as a service.