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If they're buying sushi from Kroger they're probably getting what they deserve.

So if someone owns 17 guns they're a "super owner"? I always thought anything below that was 'cute' and 20 was 'a good start'

If you didn't take advantage of this group buy, go ahead and kick yourself...

It's actually called WIC (Woman, Infants and Children). It's for single women or women in low income relationships to help feed the kids. If a mother breastfeeds her coupons double because there's a stinger need for good nutrition because of the breastfeeding child. Otherwise it's coupons to cover formula. As a teenager I would go with my mom who worked for MSU to deliver them to mom's who had just given birth. It's why I didn't ever have a child as a teenager. I helped deliver WIC coupons to girls my age. As for the EBT part, what comes first? The chicken or the egg? Until you elect officials into office who truly want reform, we as the middle class will continue to support broken programs. But unless you live a perfect life on the up and up, you really shouldn't give two seconds of thought to someone else's business. Might as well get a Facebook for posts like this one. My single mom worked her butt off and we had government assistance which back then was food stamps before everything became electronic. But I guess she was terrible because once or twice a week we'd get pop and Burger King or Little Ceasars. @LINKS2K is 100% right in his posts. To judge someone from a tiny window, makes you no better.

Got mine today - and, so far, haven't cut myself. That Wicked Edge really is wicked!

I'm sorry, but I can't make assumptions and judge people like this. I had a crappy childhood, and once lied about my age to get a warehouse job. After leaving active duty life was pretty crappy, so I worked crappy jobs. I've never been on public assistance, and my family has been well off for over twenty years, so I could easily make assumptions about those on public assistance. I've learned that unless you really know a person, you never know what circumstances lead to a person being in certain situations. Are there abuses? I'm certain there are, but I'm not judging everyone on assistance based upon a snapshot of what I see at a convenience store. It's like walking up on an employee at work who has been busting it for hours, then decides to stop for two minutes to catch a break at the exact moment that you walk around the corner. Many times all you have to base your opinion on is the snapshot of that moment. That's not a good thing.

I have to disagree, I don't need to have a conversation with someone that has expendable funds to buy things like pop and sushi, to be pissed off when they break out an EBT card on the side to buy other things. If things are so bad that you need an EBT card, you will not be in a position to have 'extra' money. Make me king for a day and this is the first issue I'll fix.

Badmouth Memphis. That will kick him up a notch or two

I hope I don't offend anyone but I have to rant... Was in line at the Kroger this afternoon and a pair of seriously overweight and heavily tatooed individuals were in front of me w/ their 2 darling kids. I couldn't help but notice all the sugary cereal they were buying w/ food stamps. Being a parent myself I wanted to suggest the "Cheerio's for your 2- and 3-year old might be better choices", I refrained. They bagged up their groceries and then paid for the final 3 items with their Bank-card. A 12-dollar box of Sushi, half-drunk Soda Pop, and a pack of gum. It took every ounce of civility I had not to say something. Folks, I've been there, we've all been down on our luck, but I'll be damned if I'm going to buy your kid's groceries while you take 'your money' and drop it on Pop and Sushi, fer crying out loud..... Send your husband (errrr. baby-daddy?) through the line separate so I don't have to watch you spit in my tax-paying face like that. Gawd! Thanks, I feel better. Rant-off. - Kevin

Envy One of the 7 Deadly and so so woven in our culture today. All I want is for America is the anti communism line......to each, may he be happy with what he has earned.

I like my assumptions though. Growing up in a family of five, I remember my mom crying one day when she was doing their taxes ( was probably 11 or 12 at the time) because she seen that they made a total of $10,000 that year. Not only had our electric cut off, but even had our water cut off a few times in that era. So I know exactly what it is like to be poor. Know what happened? When the whole understanding about being poor set into my brain, I went door to door asking and started mowing yards. From the age of 13 on, my parents never bought me a single item for school, my clothes or anything. Everything came from the money I made. Still wasn't much, but the whole point is that we are pacifying laziness and mediocrity because of the 'poor baby' syndrome. Poor thing is so bad off, we just have to give them something... Who are you to judge what they went through... yada yada yada. Philippines has a fantastic welfare policy that we should adopt - if you want to eat, you go find work. problem solved. You want to have 11 babies? You better find a lot of work.

Not sure, but I can tell you that if you know how many you have, you don't have enough.

I've got no words....no civil ones anyway.

What is the punctuation mark for period?

17 is the magic number according to the article. I passed that in my early teens.

Yeah but it's more complex. The Glock is nice and simple with very few parts .

I got ya covered.

I'm trying to find a way to license my plow truck in TN. [emoji56][emoji38]

I didn't find any other tread for it.

Most folks here are probably already familiar with this presentation or, at the very least, with the concepts discussed. Still, a little review doesn't hurt and there might be something new to learn. I think it is also a pretty good presentation to show to friends and family members who might not be as 'in to' this kind of thing as many of us. Heck, just the information about the three stages of response in a stressful situation were interesting, to me. An outside organization rented one of the rooms where I work yesterday to have a presentation on active shooter situations. Staff here were invited to attend, as well, and so most of us sat in on the presentation. The presentation was done by a gentleman who works for the FBI and is designed to help non-police civilians know how to respond if they find themselves in an active shooter situation. Of course employing a firearm wasn't discussed but as many of us cannot carry at work in some ways that makes the presentation even more useful. I was also glad to see that this presentation didn't take the, "Just hide under a desk and hope they don't hurt you," approach to dealing with such situations. Even if people decide that their best option is to try to hide there was advice on things that can actively be done in order to make hiding from or avoiding an attacker more effective. I work on the second floor of a two-story building and there is an exit with a set of 'back' stairs that lead to a door on the first floor which exits outside the building. The funny thing is that, before the presentation started, I told my co-workers (who work downstairs), "Just so y'all know if I hear gunfire I am hitting the back stairs, getting out of the building, getting in my truck and I'm gone. I'll call 911 when I get on the road." The funny thing is that, once the presentation started, something similar was exactly what the presenter recommended. He said that the best response, if you can, is to get to the nearest exit and get as far away as possible and then call 911 rather than calling 911 and then trying to get out. He said, "Don't call 911 first because 911 will not save your life." He said that law enforcement response times to such situations have greatly improved over the past, couple of years but even in the short, three or four minute interval before police/SWAT, etc. can arrive a lot could happen - and you could be quite a distance away from the threat by that point if you get a chance to get out. That is the 'Avoid' part. Further, he went on to recommend against simply hiding under a desk, etc. Instead, in cases where getting away is not possible, he talked about locking/barricading doors, especially ones that open inward, doing a 'tactical cinch' (something I had not hear of or thought of) on doors that open outward and that have a hydraulic arm at the top of the door, and other such things. He said that there are actually only two recorded instances in a mass shooting of the shooters going through locked doors and in both cases they were specifically after someone in the room. Otherwise, shooters tend to move on to easier to access targets because they know their window of opportunity is short. Denying the attacker access is the 'Deny' part. Then, of course, there is the final 'D' - Defend. He discussed that people absolutely have the legal right to defend themselves by whatever means they can in such a situation. Of course, he didn't present an unrealistic idea that an unarmed person defending against a person armed with a gun should necessarily be the first option but made clear that it should certainly be considered as an option. For instance, he said that if the best option you have is to hide under a desk if the attacker is coming your direction don't just hide there and hope he passes you by. Instead, come out swinging when he gets close because a shooter in such a situation probably isn't going to expect anyone to attack him (or her) so you might be able to catch them off guard and knock them down/disarm them. The biggest thing he talked about was situational awareness. He discussed the night club fire at the Great White show several years back and the fact that most of the people in the crowd tried to use the one, main exit - likely because they weren't even aware that there were three other exits from the building. He pointed out that just having taken two minutes to walk around the building before the show started to find out where all the exits were might have saved a lot of people's lives. Instead, everyone tried to go out the front door and people became wedged in the door so tightly that people outside were trying to pull them out and couldn't. I think he said that 30 people died in the doorway. One of the videos he showed even mentioned the difference between 'cover' and 'concealment'. All in all, a pretty good, practical presentation. Anyhow, this is the website for the ADD program. The video that is linked there (available on YouTube) is one of the videos that we were shown. It is pretty good and I think he said it was done by or maybe in conjunction with Walmart because this is an issue of concern to Wally World. The video from the LA County Sheriff's Department at the bottom right of the main page wasn't shown during the presentation so even folks who have seen the presentation could get more info from the website. http://www.avoiddenydefend.org/

Amen. I started off hauling hay, sticking tobacco and the best, cutting thistles with a grubbing hoe. Was damn glad to have my own money at age 14.

I'm just tired of all of it. There are fewer of us paying the way, and more and more takers everyday so until the bubble busts, there will be more and more of this. Personal responsibility and pride in making your own way are old fuddy duddy ideals, like me. Peace out.

I've seen good and bad with Food Stamps and EBT cards, it might irk me to see some of the things being purchased or how people with EBT cards use their personal money but I'm not going to let it eat me up. One of the things some of you fail to realize is a lot of politics went into the Food Stamp and EBT programs where people purchasing applicable items do so in grocery stores. At one time IIRC cheese and some other food staples were directly given out by the government. We can debate and fuss about this at length but the reality is some people really need these programs and some others for whatever their reasoning make poor choices in using them.

They mean concealed there. Otherwise, it isn't much different from Tennessee.

I was a newbie at the job I have now in 97 and my wife was pregnant and the doctor wouldn't let her work since she normally lifted heavy things. SO I was the only income. We BARELY even got WIC . We were like around $65 from not getting WIC . And we only got it for around 3 months but others got it for several months and I think because they lied. Thank God we got it cause the baby formula was expensive. But other people in the parking lot were driving nice cars and trucks and stuff. We were in a 1989 Toyota Tercel ( LOL my user name and I loved that car). I was so pissed . We were wearing Walmart and Dollar store clothes. EVERYONE ELSE were wearing designer clothes and shiney jewelry. I will always remember that and how greedy those other people were , even though I was a working man and no one there freaking worked ! Don't even get me started ! We are doing good now but that same crap keeps going on and on. We got off of that and got on our feet but these other people steal from that program.

I'm not attempting to defend it. I just don't think that this is a one size fits all situation. That's usually how these threads turn out.

Sorry Link, I would never bat an eye at a woman buying orange juice, cheese, milk, bread, etc (used to be called WICK, don't know if it still exists) to keep a child fed but when you witness day in day out flat out ABUSE of the system, then it not only needs to be called out but changed. There was no reason that woman at the convenience store needed me and you to buy her Monster drinks and beef jerky, none! No one here would deny a needy person a meal, but to have these folks wrap their lifes around the free stuff that allows them to have their phones, rims, and cigarettes when it was designed to keep them fed is BS! Don't try to defend it, not defensible.

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If I ever catch the ear of a politician that cares, I am actively asking that they ban the use of food stamps at convenience stores. There is NOTHING needed at a convenience store that these should be used for. I watched a lady buy slim jims, monster energy drinks and sundry other crap on the EBT and stared her down like a basilisk. Another time I got in trouble working for the old gun shop. I swept up the parking lot and found a Walmart receipt. Took a look at it and noted 2 containers of cupcakes, 6 each, purchased on the old EBT. I took a pic of it and posted it on Face book (back when I used it) and then got told to take it down. Didn't want no one angry if they associated me with the gun shop.. Pfft And then there is the super calculators. Got folks at work that will tally up their hours and either go home (taking a point towards dismissal) or refuse overtime just so they don't exceed the take home that boots them off EBT. The same folks complain that we don't pay enough. Call it what it is, free loaders. When it all comes tumbling down, they will be the ones on TV complaining they can't live cuz the gubermint aint there to feed and house them and they can't call cuz the phone don't work no more. Screw em

Proof that beauty IS in the eye of the beholder. lol

Received mine today and it is sweet. Thought for a moment it wasn't numbered but then I saw it.

Love this knife. Probably already one of my faves.

Arrived, right on time this afternoon.

LINKS2K is a man of few words.

Knew a crazy guy in Texas. He tried to legally change his full name to "Squirrel". However, the state demanded that he have a last name. He chose ".". They said it couldn't be a punctuation mark. So, his legal name is not "Squirrel J Period". LOL

Makes sense. Kind of a 'pay your money and take your chances' thing, I guess. Just another reason to be glad that the exit I am talking about using is a back exit with a door that can't even be opened from the outside and which is on the opposite side of the building from the main exit.

I'll take punctuation marks for $500 Alex.

So what is the number required for "Super-duper" gun owner? How many do I need to unlock the next achievement level?!

Based on the demographics, the majority are rich old white veterans out in the sticks..... bet they're a bunch of bible thumpers too.

Granted I only have some limited experience here and there at the range, but for my hands, the 17 is easier to manipulate and shoot well with. As to the size...I carry a VP9, and I'm not sure where it falls within the size comparison, but I find it just about right all things considered.

I personally don't know why anyone would pick a 17 over a 19. The 19 is just about the perfect size gun for carry or concealability. The trade off of two more rounds and less than 1/2 in. in sight radius isn't enough to cover the larger size. That slightly larger size is just enough to make the 17 exponentially harder to conceal carry.

Whoo hoo, I have achieved super owner status!

I have an email into the fantasy help desk on that. When we drafted, the system retroactively scored week 1 with our lineups. I thought adjusting all the scores to 0-0 would take care of it, but alas no. Worst case, I think i can manually adjust the playoff order if needed to compensate for week 1 wins & losses as the system sees them. Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk just to give Oh Shoot something to be grumpy about.

My kids team got an invite to play a showcase tournament at UT Knoxville. It was today... Lets just say they showed up and showed out!!! Maddie HAMMERED one 250+ With the eyes of a major SEC coach on her...and maybe more... Afterward, they got invited into the facility, and into the players lounge and locker rooms she is the catcher... Even the Ump had praise for her Curve ball, yes, that was still a strike! player lounge, talks with the Weeklys (coaches) Oh, and for whatever its worth, she batted 1000...lol

Well it made it to New Zealand.....

That's the FIRST thing I think about. I have 8 AR's. With the exception of the two fighters, which are virtually identical, they're all very different guns. The platform is real versitile. My little collection spans 4 calibers. Only one is a $600 gun.

Finally. Someone who understands basic supply and demand. If a law is keeping prices below the equilibrium point there will be a shortage. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'm brewing some chai tea to bicycle over to folks stuck in safe spaces.

JAB, Thanks for the excellent detailed write-up! Our hospital hosted an Active Shooter Class last May for the Emergency Room staff. The instructors were members of the Oak Ridge PD...which is Great considering these guys would be our actual Response Team/members in such an event. Even better is that we know them and interact with them on a daily basis. Our class was excellent, very similar to the class you received. Even going so far as to utilize blanks in an AR platform so that students (mostly non-gunny folks) could hear the sound of a gun being fired in an adjacent room and even experience the cordite smell from a fired gun indoors. We had several practice runs in "Team vs Team" competition (timed) at running and actively blocking/securing rooms and improvised weapon consideration. Of course the Number one thing they also taught was to immediately evacuate the area, and as you were taught...then call from a safe distance. We also practiced strikes, punches and elbow strikes, and low kicks on pads. There are several guys that work in our department, but I will tell you right now I wouldn't want to back several of the ladies I work with into a corner! They obviously had some pent up aggression just waiting to be unleashed! I was impressed! It was a far cry from the older "Run-Hide-Fight" training of the past. Thank God!