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[quote name='personDJ' timestamp='1351921541' post='838210']spanking is hiting. And most of you believe in it because you were hit or spanked. You are hitting someone who has a brain that is not yet developed fully and it doesn't until about age 20 or so.[/quote] You are purposefully ignorant and way off base.

[quote name='personDJ' timestamp='1351899900' post='838017']You may come up with several reasons to hit children but the simple fact is children grow to be adults. when you hit children you are teaching an adult it is OK to hit others. Hitting children is against the law in this country as far as I know. If I am wrong then it should be.[/quote] Haha, okay.

[quote name='Jesse' timestamp='1351878794' post='837869']Me and my wife have always believed spanking is the lazy way out of parenting. Its a lot of work to teach a kid from right and wrong without hitting but once you do its drilled into their memory for life. Hitting teaches them its short term punishment. And could make them hit other kids out of anger also. I wouldnt want my child to ever have fear that i would hit them if they messed up. Im all for talking to them and figuring out why they did what they did. And timeouts also work great if you stick to it.[/quote] All kids are different. While I agree that spanking shouldn't be the "go to" it should certainly not be discounted altogether as "lazy". My wife has been against spanking long before we ever had children. She exhausted every means on our oldest until recently adding spanking to her kit bag. She is anything but a lazy parent. She has only spanked him a few times. Timeouts are working again because he knows that it can go to the next level. He will probably only be spanked a few more times in his childhood, but it won't be out of laziness. Making broad generalizations about parenting techniques is lazy philosophy.

[quote name='luke9511' timestamp='1351876235' post='837833']she does not spank him on the butt and i have not been around him much but he used to have cuts on his legs ALL the time and she has said its cause he falls ALOT her words not mine[/quote] My son is three. I have never seen him without cuts and bruises on his legs since he learned to walk. Also, to the comment regarding not feeding him if he refuses food; so what? That's what you're supposed to do in order not to raise a spoiled little brat of a child, like i see everywhere I go. My son goes to bed without dinner all the time. If he doesn't eat what I give him, he doesn't eat. That isn't child abuse smart guy. Kids can't starve by refusing food now and then. They will get hungry enough to eat eventually. Trust me. The parents that give in to this tactic are being manipulated by a child, and that is the reason we have so many obese children... because the parents claim all they will eat is french fries and Coke. They will eat veggies if they have to. Trust me. Now, only you can be the judge of what's going on there, but make sure it isn't just your own sense of importance driving you, as in "I wouldn't do it that way." If you really think there is a problem, grow a pair talk to the mom about it like an adult. Not in an accusatory argumentative fashion, like an adult. Don't go running off to the State. Last thing, do you have any kids?

[quote name='mikegideon' timestamp='1351875189' post='837814'] Sure they will. Line 'em up on the window sill and run a broom handle thru the trigger guards . Haven't figured out how to bump fire them that way, but I'm working on it.[/quote] Haha, genius!

[quote name='Sour Kraut' timestamp='1351866877' post='837745']Mosinitis......you all have it.[/quote] Ha, I managed to stop at one. I just wanted one in new condition with a hammer/sickle stamped on top. Got my wish on the first try.

Every household should have a G19. I have a Gen 3 and I love it. At least if you don't like it you can sell it for near what you paid. If you buy one used you'd probably break even. They tend to sell easy.

But grown folks collecting beanie babies and stuffed bears from Vermont is totally normal. I collect. I only have two arms, so I'm not so delusional to think that having so many firearms is going to protect me more than if I just had one.

Congrats. Now, everyone remember to stay off the grass.

Was anyone here in any city in Iraq when their soccer team was sweeping the Olympics ('04)? I knew whether or not their team won because the entire city would erupt into automatic gunfire simultaneously. By then we learned that 1 inch plywood as an overhead cover for the roof guards would stop a falling bullet.

Heinous crimes were being committed in this country long before the internet, 24 hour news, television, radio and the AP. The population was a lot smaller and things didn't always get whipped up into a national frenzy for the sake of sensationalism. By law of averages, as the population increases so will the number of heinous crimes committed by young people. It's the same with "severe" weather. Everyone wants to point to global warming and such. Fact is, severe storms were hitting this country before there were large population centers. I used to live on an island in the keys that was completely wiped out in the '30s. Was manbearpig around back then, or was it just a matter of people in other parts of the country weren't affected by it? Nowadays, that would be a very big deal.

Any law enforcement officer can enter your house, detain you and confiscate your guns, just like anyone else can break the law. Laws don't stop people from breaking them. They only are relevant once the law is broken. What else can be done to address the possibility of the gov confiscating your guns in a disaster? I dunno. Seems like Tennessee has gotten ahead of all that post-Katrina. What else should they do? Disband all LE agencies? Not respond to natural disasters? What is the issue here?

Yep. I went through the first two seasons and gave up. Way too dramatic. I was hoping for Sopranos and got General Hospital with bikes.

This guy eats tacticool and poops badass. I would love to tell him that, but he probably wouldn't hear me over the sound of how awesome he is.

I get what you're trying to say. Just rest easy with the knowledge that the relatively few Soldiers tasked with performing these duties is a drop in an Olympic size swimming pool. It doesn't reduce readiness or is it a drag on our military resources. There are plenty of obsolete and wasteful jobs in the military that should go before we abandon this honorable tradition.

I don't consider safeties as a necessary feature for responsible gun owners. For the types of people that look down barrels and finger twirl with their drunken buddies, absolutely. The only pistol I have with a safety is my 1911, but that is required due to the SA design. DA pistols and revolvers don't need safeties.

Maybe... a DA can press all the charges he wants. If someone is on my property and they ain't supposed to be, they will have the options of walking out or being carried out. I'm okay with the repercussions.

You mean the ones the Government is forcing us to buy because there are secret monitoring devices in them? Of course not!

Why do I even step out of my bunker? Every week there is something new that will be the fall of mankind.

Ugh, how awkward.

Privatized or not, our postal service doesn't need to be populated with lazy, shiftless and rude scumbags who have no fear of being fired. Lots of people need jobs. The postal service need to clean house and start hiring people that appreciate being employed.

Nope. I reload and rack with the gun on target the whole time. It's a lot quicker once you get the hang of it. Imagine, if you will, you have gone dry. Your non firing hand retrieves your spare mag as you simultaneously release the empty. The pistol is still extended and on target. As you bring your mag up with your left hand you slightly tilt the butt of the pistol to accept the mag. Once in, immediately tilt the pistol back in the other direction to present the slide to your left hand, pull back slightly and reacquire your grip. I used to use the slide release until I was forced to do it the other way in training. It is much quicker.

I never got into the extended slide release, as I don't use slide releases on pistols anyway. I like how the Glocks are nice and slick down the sides. I recently stripped and polished the barrel on my G19 to give it a slicker look. It came out real well. I also added one of those neato laser engraved slide plates on the back after someone posted a link to the website here. That's where I ended any mods. I love my G19; it's perfect.

Well that may go without saying. When you consider that one ritzy home on the Jersey coast costs more than an entire ward in N. Orleans. The lost revenue due to the cleanup effort is going to stack up quick too. But as a matter of power and destructiveness, this was a weak storm that happen to make landfall at the very worse time of day, which probably doubled or tripled the amount of storm surge related damage.

Haha, okay, I want your post office. I could write a friggin book on post office stories. One may call it all anecdotal, I would call it consistent. I have encountered some of the rudest and lazy people in my life going into the post office, and that says a lot considering I used to be in the Army.