-
Posts
10,926 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
114 -
Feedback
100%
Everything posted by bersaguy
-
Ok, so someone explain to me the difference between a private sale between two people and a straw buyer that buys a gun for someone knowing that the person could not purchase the gun themselves. How would a back ground check prevent that from still taking place? I know that the gun could be traced back to the original purchaser but say for instance a person(straw buyer) buys a gun and 5 or 6 days later files a police report that the gun was stolen out of their vehicle the night before. Then the gun is used in a mass shooting and the shooter is killed in the shooting. The person that bought the gun but reported it being stolen to police is free and clear to purchase another gun. Right??? So how does a back ground check prevent that????
-
NRA-Domestic Terrorist Organization
bersaguy replied to AuEagle's topic in 2A Legislation and Politics
I think unless the NRA puts some new people in charge that knows what they are doing the NRA will continue to take hits like this more and more. Right now they have a bunch of spineless people in charge that all they can do is ask for their members to send them money. They ask me for donations at least twice a week but I don't see them doing anything positive to earn it.........JMHO -
Since I never open carry anyway it does not effect me as much, but it is still not right to tell a legal carry person how they must carry in order to shop in their stores. Kroger has been a lot stronger than many chain stores as they did stand up against MOMS back in 2014 when it came to allowing people to carry in their stores. They could have went the whole mile and just banned all carry but they didn't. They just ask folks to conceal carry so they are not willing to just stop people completely............JMHO
-
Back when I first moved to Gallatin 20 years ago I saw a few Hummingbirds so thought I would hang a feeder so went and bought one and put it up and that few humming birds turned into a lot of birds quick so bac to TSC for more feeders. Bought 4 more and now had 5 up and had to stop and get more sugar so bought 5 lbs and went home and made about 3 gallons of sugar water and spent most of that day sitting in my carport watching the shows at the feeders. Next time out I bought the last 3 TSC had which gave me a total of 8 hanging. I went a day that I was not home and the following day I went out to check on the feeders and they were all empty. I grabbed 2 and went in the house to fill them and when I came back out and was heading back across the patio to hang them there was 3 birds actually land on them and begin feeding while I walked to hang them up. For about 10 years I went through about 75 lbs of Sugar every summer. Then for some reason I went about 3 years with having birds but not the numbers I was getting and when I moved I was still getting about 20 birds and my neighbor said he would keep them full for me and I took the rest with me when I moved. I spoke to him the other day and he said he still has about 10 birds and said he will save my feeders for me and I told him to keep them and just take them down on Halloween and put them up next year and I will buy more.
-
I didn't bother putting up any of my feeders after my move. Murieka has one up and it has not had any activity for a month or more but she said she only had two all year. She said she has had as many as 4 or 5 but never a lot and I said if you want a lot of birds you need more than 1 feeder up. Next Spring I will put up my 8 and with her 1 that will be 9 and then we will see how many we get. I'm getting ready to get my seed feeders out and looking for places to hang them so I can see the birds when they begin feeding. I'm probably going to by several shaperd hooks cause there are not a lot of trees in the yard to hang them in. I will probably use the same hooks for Hummingbird feeders next Spring. Will just have to move them around and not put them close together like I do the seed feeders. Now as far as how long Hummingbirds will hand around in Fall. It is normally early October when you begin losing birds to migration depending on weather. An early cold spell can spark them to look at leaving early also.
-
I think more and more hospitals are going through that type of training these days and that is a good thing. A better thing would be to have the training and never need it but it seems these days it is needed more and more. I would not have expected a shooting like that to take place in a town like Midland and Odessa as there is not really a lot of populations in either town. I'm guess that the shooter did have a specific target in mind and the traffic stop interupted his plans. Had it not been for that traffic stop there may have been many more victums than there was............JMHO
-
I think Dave raised a great point about heroes in an earlier post. He brought up the often un mentioned heroes that the news seldom if ever mentions. The ambulances that many time rush into a scene while it is still active and begin picking up wounded to try and get them to the hospitals and save their lives. Then there are the nurses and doctors that are working frantically to stop the bleeding and see what they can do to save a persons life! Imagine what a hospitals first thoughts are when they hear active shooter report and they prepare for what ever comes threw the doors. I think the pressure not knowing what to expect would be overwhelming till the first arrivals came threw the doors!!!...............JMHO
-
I agree, I don't believe they are staged either. I think many if not most of them are copycat's!! They see all the notority the shooter gets and a mentally ill person that has been un-noticed or feels left out most if not all of his life decideds to make the news so he copycats those that went before him. There is no way more gun control laws are going to stop these shootings. Like you mentioned above. There are 320+ million people in this country and there is little doubt 2/3 to 3/4 of them already own 5 or more guns if they never bought another one. How many of them are the mentally ill left behind soon to be a copycat? Laws keep folks like us legal and at the same time punish us for obeying the laws by trying to inflict more on us. I think the more laws they write the more it will push those with mental problems to react sooner rather than later...............JMHO
-
From what I heard about that shooting yesterday it began with a routine traffic stop and he shot that Officer and took off on the shooting spree from that point. If that is true he was probably on his way to where ever he planned to begin the shooting spree but knew his plan would be foiled if the officer stopped him and held him so he just opened fire there and didn't stop till they killed him.
-
01 Silverado won't run after disconnecting the battery
bersaguy replied to gregintenn's topic in General Chat
So were the older cars years ago when they worked............. -
01 Silverado won't run after disconnecting the battery
bersaguy replied to gregintenn's topic in General Chat
Ain't technology great!!! That is why I'm driving a 1997 Jeep Cherokee. I can still work on it for the most part and then if I get in over my head I call my son to bring his service truck to the house and work on it. He has a mobile service truck and will do repairs on site in a persons driveway if they don't want to pay a big tow bill. His on site service has a 25 dollar fee that is a lot cheaper than a tow truck these days. He has all the computer scanners foreign and domestic chips through 2017 and will update chips again in 2020. Most cars these days have decade long warranties. -
01 Silverado won't run after disconnecting the battery
bersaguy replied to gregintenn's topic in General Chat
Well, I have ben out of the repair business since the mid 90's so I am not going to challenge what you have said. I got out of the business when my health failed but I said back about 1990 tht I would quit working on them when they got smarter than I was and that was about 1993 or 94...... -
01 Silverado won't run after disconnecting the battery
bersaguy replied to gregintenn's topic in General Chat
To begin with if the vehicle started, once it did you should be able to unhook the battery and the vehicle should remain running because it runs off the alternator voltage and not the battery voltage. The battery is only designed to store energy to operate things such as the starter and things that do not require the motor running. -
Yea, I'm glad you got to spend that time with your father for sure. As far as those kids from Curacao, they still have a lot to be proud of. They are the only team in Little League history to take down Japan and Korea both in one world series.
-
Dominos ? Peter King backs assualt weapons ban
bersaguy replied to Morgan88's topic in 2A Legislation and Politics
I got to talk to the friend I grew up with that still lives in Illinois yesterday for about an hour and he told me things about Illinois that raised the hair on the back of my neck. He said they passed a law up there a few years back that pertained to hunting. He said that if a hunter gets caught hunting over any kind of bait the fine is $10,000.00 dollars and loss of hunting privileges for life. He as his 2 sons were preparing their fields for the up coming Dove season and because they didn't get the wheat cut soon enough to make it not bait they won't be able to hunt the fields they worked on all summer. In order to have been able to hunt them they would have had to cut them in Mid July. They cut them the 2nd week of August. He said he talked with a Game Warden about it and he said that if it were him he would not take the chance to hunt the fields. My buddy said they had tons of birds coming to the fields too. He said now they are going to ahve to drive down to Southern Illinois to a family farm that has sunflower fields to hunt and the sun flower fields were harvested and cut on July 1st and still have a lot of birds. He said they used a machine called a duster that chops the seed into almost a powder that packs in chunks all over the field. The Game Warden down there has checked those fields and was also there when they cut the fields and has already passed the fields legal for hunting Doves on September 1st. That is crazy if you ask me! Sure glad I have not lived up there since 1967. He said I would not recognise our small hometown any longer as it is part of Chicago now even though it is only 2 miles from the Will County line. -
I'm glad you got to attend the LLWS and really glad you got to do it with your Father. That was a double whammy right there. They did finally put all the playoff games on TV so I was able to get to see the games on Saturday and Sunday. Those boys from River ridge didn't show those boys from Cuaracoa any mercy at all. That little pitcher from River Ridge pitched the entire game in 89 pitches which is 4 over the allowed limit of 85 but they checked with the coach from Cuaracoa and he waived off to allow the boy to finish the last batter. That is really great sportsmanship right there. Evidently they have moved the distance to the wall from home plate because there was not as many homeruns hit this year as there has been in the previous years.
-
Yea I know PJ. The only reason my son can afford it is because the division Logan is in is one of the smaller ones. They play most of the games locally within 50 miles of the house or less. Sometimes Logan is able to ride with one of the other parents that is going and then the next time Ronnie will take that boy and Logan. They all kinda work together to make it work for the kids.
-
You can bet there is a lot of sacrifices in many families for these kids. I know my grandson Logan plays and has one more year before he is to old and my son Ronnie told me it cost him almost a $1000.00 for Logan to play per year between equipment and travel to away games. Those 3 games I got to see were fantastic. Those boys from River Ridge Louisiana definately came to play ball for sure. After losing their first came they went all the way and won the Championship. The team they beat for the Championship was from the Island of Cuaracao and that team was the only team in LLWS history to ever beat Japan and Korea in the same World Series. That was the first trip for the boys from River Ridge and Cuaracoa had won it 4 previous times over the years. I'm not much on grown up baseball but I love watching the sportsmanship and all the heart those kids put in the games when they play................JMHO
-
"""Not an original thought, but if the rank and file, law abiding gun owners were the problem, don't you think we'd be in the news by now?"""" Once in a while a regular Joe makes news when some news network that is out of junk to talk about. Then a regular good guy with a gun will make the news for shooting a bad guy with a gun but you can bet the reporter is holding their nose while they type the article. The dang sure don't want news like that everyday on the front page. All the anti-gunners would ahve to find something else to do for a living besides politic against guns. You also mentioned the bad guys and how many of them get their guns to begin with. You listed a pretty good list. When a gun is stolen from an unlocked vehicle that a good guy was stupid enough to leave unsecured in their own driveway at home and allowed that to happen in many ways is as guilty as the thief that took it. As far as the so-called Weapons of War that bad guys have, I would say many of them came from the black market or someone that is selling one privately and not asking for all the information such as Carry Permit, DL, signed bill of sale and anything else they can get before the gun changes hands. I think it is a fact, if a maniac wants to do a mass shooting they will find a way to do it to get the hardware in which to carry it out.............JMHO.
-
Well I finally got to watch two of the play off games today and will get to see the championship game tomorrow. Got to see two great games today!!!!
-
I think the police should have every piece of equipment they can lay their hands on to do their job and go home safe every night!!!
-
"Regardless of what you think will happen in Tennessee; please go vote". Oh believe me my friend, that is one Constitutional Right I never fail to use to it's fullest extent. I do vote, most times in early voting. I saw on the news yesterday where the officers went to serve a warrant and it ended up with a standoff and shots fired the police finally drove and Armored vehicle into the house and set off two smoke bombs and took the two people into custody with not further incidents. That is an example of officers possibly needing to know ahead of time what they may be walking into..............JMHO
-
I have come to the conclusion that the Federal Government employee in the law enforcement don't feel they are breaking any laws till they get caught. Comey is a prime example of that. There is not any doubt in my mind that there are states that have a private registry on gun purchases. States like California and New York and several other states up in the East Coast in New England. I heard a police officer one time on the news say it sure would be nice when we go to serve a warrant what we might be going up against before we get there. I can see his point to a point but if he is that worried about doing his job he need to find work doing something else. If a law enforcement officer is going out to serve a warrant on someone it is not a warrant for attending Sunday School at the local church so all I can say is go prepared for the worst and hope for the best. .................JMHO
-
So evidently the Authorities have been able to prevent 3 or 4 mass shootings according to the news networks. Some because people spoke up and others because the future shooters posted something on Facebook or another Blog and authorities saw it and arrested the Perp and found he had a stash of weapons and ammo. I will not say I am happy they were able to get these people before they could carry out their plans because I am thrilled about it. I wish they could stop a lot more than they do. My question to folks here is how many of them really would have gone through with their plans and how many were just seeking notority and attention and that is why they shared their plans with friends knowing that the friends would tell someone that could stop them before they could carry out their plans. The authorities have said over and over that there are always some kind of warning signs before mass shootings but to many times people either don't see them till it's to late or they just don't speak up??
-
I like many view the UBC's as nothing more than a backdoor gun registry but how many here don't think that every time a person buys a gun from a gun dealer and goes through all the back ground checks and does everything by the book that the record of that purchased has not already been put in a registry right then in some Federal computer somewhere anyway? I would be willing to bet there is a secret registery somewhere and has been probably at least since Columbine and maybe earlier. I know they didn't have that kind of capability when Charles Whitman shot all those people in 1966 but things have changed a lot since those days. If a day ever comes that they do go after a legal gun owner that all at once comes up on the Fed radar as a possible furure mass shooter and they raid the persons home with a list of firearms they are looking for, what happens when they are looking for 15 guns but he only has 10. That would pretty much prove there is a registry somewhere huh?.............JMHO