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It's not that he's on a pedestal. But entertainers tend to touch us somehow. It could be because of something we saw from them around a big moment in our own lives or just because something they did was special to us without something going on in our lives. A lot of people grow up wanting to emulate entertainers. And that's not something new. Older men than myself talk about John Wayne the same way and post videos or memes of him and talk about how great society would be if we be like him. HE WAS AN ENTERTAINER. No one has the right to tell me how important someone should be in my life. And I certainly don't have the right to tell anyone else. Kobe didn't mean much to me. When it comes to basketball, I grew up with players that were retired before he made the league. But I do recognize that he was important to a lot of other people. Maybe to some of those people, his work was important because it was the escape from the news of service men's sacrifice, the stupid war on terror or whatever their daily drag was. You never know. I just checked the rule book and nowhere in it does it say that you can't mourn more than one loss at a time. So if people want to come here and express sympathy for Kobe's family and those that felt some personal connection to him, good for them. At the same time they could be mourning the loss of those service men. And who knows who else. But it's not my job to judge them for it and I certainly won't come on here and try to marginalize their loss or tell them they are problem because of it.

Thanks for the replies guys. This is not the same grandson that wanted the 6.5 Creedmoor, but my youngest grandson who lives in S Carolina. I have decided to give him the 308 because of what Dave posted. It will be easier, and cheaper, to find ammo for it. This grandson has no idea he is getting this rifle. He is 11 now and I will take his dad to a FFL in Charleston and transfer the rifle to dad with the stipulation Parker gets it when he is old enough. I also have previously given him a Rem 1911A1 45 and I will also take it to him on this trip. I gave him my scoped Marlin Mdl 336 30 30 a couple years ago and he hunts with it now. Has not killed anything yet, but enjoys the hunts with his friend and dad. As soon as it warms a little I will get the 308 out and sight in the scope before we take it to him in Mt Pleasant SC on our next trip. Will also sight in the 7MM 08 and make sure they are both in good condition, then make the trip. I have another grandson, the one who wanted the Creedmoor, that I will give the 08 too when I am through with it. I will say my collection is thinning as I have decided to give the rifles and pistols to family before I pass. I gave this grandson's dad a new Sig mdl 250, 45 caliber pistol last week. Thanks again for the advice.

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And in 23 years of carrying 24/7 365 I have never been asked for a permit by a restaurant I was in ....but then again I don't feel the overwhelming need to open carry in restaurants ..... You know who NEVER gets hassled or harassed or has to answer questions about their gun ? People who keep them concealed.....just sayin' .

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Speaking as a pilot myself, I find it extremely unlikely that this pilot/instructor with over 8,000 flying hours got fatally disoriented in fog. He was so well trained to trust his instruments that he would been absolutely fine, if all systems were working. I believe that a system failure is extremely likely to have caused this crash. That system could have been either the pilot's body (heart attack or stroke...?) or an instrument failure. Instruments do fail, and we are trained for that. And multiple instruments fail as well. That is why vacuum-driven instruments are backed up by electrical ones. The damage to the bodies and the equipment was so catastrophic that we may never know the cause of this tragic crash.

How my mind works when I saw this post. 1. Cathode Ray tubes implode I always heard because they are vaccuum sealed. 2. Real Tube TVs are really old. Had those little tubes inside that my old man used to always be replacing. 3. Does anyone ever say "watcing the tube" or "the Boob Tube" anymore? 4. I agree with the others if you have to pay to get rid of it smash it up in a safe manner. Elvis Style? There goes my mind again!

It sounds to me like they are preparing to try to lay blame on whoever cleared him to take-off. Unless it’s so bad nothing can fly; that’s on the pilot, who is the only one that knows his individual abilities. I used to fly with a friend for work. When the weather was questionable, he used to always say “It’s better to be on the ground wishing you were in the air, than in the air wishing you were on the ground.” And if they weren’t tracking him on radar, how did they get the information about his speed variance?

ATC told him that he was too low for flight following, which means at the altitude he was flying his radar signature was either being lost in the ground clutter, or like a lot of ATC in congested areas, radar was only being provided at higher altitudes to prevent such loss. At no point in the transmission referenced did ATC warn him that he was "flying too low", in fact its doubtful that he was being seen on radar at all ( the controller asked him to "ident", which means to briefly boost the transmission of the onboard transponder to help identify specific traffic in a crowded environment) or, if he was seen, he had reported VFR conditions, which to the controller would mean that the pilot had sufficient visual references to see that for himself. Obviously, in retrospect, he was flying too low for the terrain, but nothing in that transmission would indicate that the controllers were concerned about his altitude during that time period.

No one is elevating him to sainthood status. He was exceptional in his field and one of the few good role models for kids in the game. If that had been Jerry Miculek, Julie Golob, or even Shane Coley, it would have been talked about here (because they are exceptional in their field) but probably not on the news much. When a few people are morning their loss; it won’t make national news. When hundreds of thousands are; it will.

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peejman reposted his old posting above but I wanted to put in my agreement. The push the gun don't pull the slide method was taught in an NRA pistol class I took when several small women were having problems. I have taught several people that we're having racking problems the method since.

I retired a little over a week ago, so I decided to purchase a few things that I’ve wanted for a while. Sorry for the crappy pictures.

I bought a 1958 Ford with a in line 6 cylinder with a straight shift, 3 speed on the coelom transmission. I kept it for 2 years then purchased a 57 Chevy convertible which I sold for 300.00 cash when I went on my senior trip to Southeast Asia in 1966. Man, what a dummy! After Vietnam, I treated myself to a brand new 1968 Olds 442, with a 400 cu in engine and 4 in the floor, bright red. Only car I ever owned that would switch ends, if you dropped the clutch, and held the wheel straight, in a mall parking lot. It would run....Then I got married in 1970......this coming March, will be 50 years of wedded bliss.

My guess is, he never had one. I carry my HCP in my wallet at all times. I've carried mine since back in the 90's, never been asked for it.

While searching through the many suggestions here, Amazon popped this poster storage tube up. At $20 it was just what I was looking for. It just got here and is great! I'll probably fill a small camera bag with extra ammo and attach it to the shoulder strap. All I need now is a Bernie Sanders sticker to remove any doubt that there is anything of value inside. Now you see it Now you don't

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I enjoy history, and reading about archeological digs, what they're turning up, and what that tells them about the society and sometimes even the individual people they're studying. In 1,000 years, they're going to discover the home of someone who's obviously very high status judging by the fact that he had a basement, and the only local example of this big heavy shiny thing that obviously required lots of skill to create and seems to have served no practical purpose. However, it may have had some religious significance, since it was inscribed with a lightning bolt and the word "Zenith".