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Such a dedicated fighter of crime and protector of the public, that he resigned over nothing related to those two duties...what a crock.

  I think if it makes it to the courts, they'll rule that insurance companies can justify it because just having the gun creates the additional conditions where an accident could happen, and they'd be paying for the medical treatment.  I think they would have to show some kind of risk calculation matrix or something else if pressed to justify their costs in court, but I don't think they would be denied from doing it outright.

Well, if you're a Justice on the Supreme Court, and you're going to ask the first question you've asked in ten years...at least make it a good one.  He did what Judges should do, question the logic of a practice and made the lawyer for the government provide justification for it.  He's also letting the Heller & McDonald decisions make their way into other case law, which I like.   That said, I'm not ready to get into these guys corner on this one. There is the whole element of these two guys hit a woman and are trying to pass it off as "heat of the moment," and even passively laying the blame for their domestic violence incidents due to alcohol, which I find a piss poor excuse, and even worse in some ways.   Still, Justice Thomas was asking a valid question.

  Lock the truck.  That should be a defense.   Like I said on the last page, the only thing I have an issue with is the term "secure box or gun safe."  I'd change that to something like  "any apparatus or storage space that can be secured with the goal of preventing unauthorized entry."  That way vehicles, closets with external locks, storage cabinets, ect., would be covered.

  Too vague for the things the law in question would create a clear and cut definition for.  "Neglect" in 401 has to be an act against the child:    (2) For purposes of this subsection (c):       (A) "Knowingly" means the person knew, or should have known upon a reasonable inquiry, that abuse to or neglect of the child would occur which would result in physical injury to the child. The risk must be of such a nature and degree that the failure to perceive it constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care that an ordinary parent or legal custodian of a child eight (8) years of age or less would exercise under all the circumstances as viewed from the defendant's standpoint; and     Then, under Hailey's law, the term "is used" seems vague enough to lend doubt that unless someone commits an act against the child with a weapon, they couldn't be charged.   Both those laws are also contingent on harm coming to the child...the proposed law would make a child under 13 getting their hands on a firearm unsupervised good enough to prosecute on its own.   You're a district attorney...which law do you want to argue before a Judge & Jury...I'd take the one that makes it a clear open and shut case.

  What laws cover it?  Show me in the TCA.       Same as above.  Show me which laws in the TCA can cover the exact same circumstances this law clearly covers.

  Word.  The dust cloud obscuring the truth on this one may never dissipate.

  Fort Campbell has an MWR range for off duty shooting on post that is open on weekends, but the hassles of getting to it only make it worth the time for people who live on post and have to register their weapons with the Provost Marshall to begin with.  Also, if memory serves, it's short of 1,000yds by a good bit.

I'm waiting for the NSA to create a TGO account, just so they can click "✓ Like This" on all the posts supporting Dropbox. 

  There is an old tale (not sure if it's true, or just rumor) that when Chesty Puller was watching a flamethrower being tested he asked "where do you put the bayonet?"   Some people just like having them is all. :P   And there isn't anything wrong with that.

  Damn good point to consider in these days of data usage limits.  Especially if people have kids who stream or play video games a good bit. 

  I didn't fail to miss that salient detail during my six years living in Muslim countries, both in and out of uniform.  If nothing else, being reminded that eating, drinking, or even chewing gum in public during Ramadan was a jailable offense hammered it home.   What I was talking about in that reply, was that in the 60s, the fighting between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland was a political fight, not a religious one.

  It could have been a week, it could have been a day, who knows.  Maybe the kids were given the worksheet and told use a textbook, a handout, or just Google the answers.  As to kinds learning the differences between Protestants and Catholics, it would make sense if that was covered in the discussion of the Reformation in whatever History class that was put under.   Comparing the conflict in Middle East to The Troubles is apples to oranges.  Northern Ireland was a political fight where religious affiliation pretty much aligned with politics, so that angle was present, but it wasn't the root cause when things got hot in the 60s.

That explains why it was about Trump. [emoji3] Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk, because I felt that Oh Shoot wanted to know that particular bit of information.

  Wrong thread maybe?

https://spideroak.com/ http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2402390,00.asp   Only service I've seen talk about privacy, which I appreciate. 

I stay away from a fixed percentage when tipping, because then the gal working at a small time place is at a severe disadvantage to the one at a fancy Italian joint.  In my mind, they are both working hard, and putting in an honest day.  I do have a floor of 15% as a minimum.   What I use as a rule of thumb is making the gratuity for equaling a decent hours wage for the server.  I pretty much just add whatever I felt would make a good hours pay onto the $2.13 that is required.  So, even on a cheap meal at Waffle House or the lunch special at a Mexican restaurant, I'm adding $5 even though the check was somewhere around $10, and I was in-and-out after only about 20-30 min.

  One of the evils of our society.  Thanks for the info.

  Are pizza delivery drivers on regular, or tipped wages?

  "British Imperial" wasn't a thing until it was standardized in 1824 by the Weights and Measures Acts.  After the Revolution, our system was closer to the English model than it was different.    We do have German quality beer here, just go to a store that sells imports. ;)   Not for nothing, one of the most important founders wanted us to have something metric'ish... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_for_Establishing_Uniformity_in_the_Coinage,_Weights,_and_Measures_of_the_United_States

The Shia/Sunni divide is one of the underlining causes of the region being a powder keg, and is important when you learn about ISIS, and why they have achieved as much as they have.  It's relevant as history, and current world events, both things kids should be learning.

  What, pray tell, was that reason?

  All that and you can't teach her that mum's the word on telling any of it to someone outside the family?     I agree with you that this isn't going to become law for the reasons you mention, I'm just not opposed to it as it's written.

Because it was the Reagan administration where Wall Street took off as a % of GDP higher than in normally stable years, and now we're living in the world where the investment banks are driving the economy, and have to post higher and higher profits just to survive since steady isn't sexy anymore. That was the real effect of "we're going to turn the bull loose." I get why he did it, US manufacturing wasn't keeping the dollar strong (just like it isn't today), and every President after him has been beholden to it, with the free trade agenda making the problem even worse. But now we're in a drug addict like cycle of needing high profits out of the financial sector, where the numbers are as much fantasy as reality, same as an addict needs higher amounts of drugs to get their next high. Makes me think of this cartoon.

  Or the aftereffects of Reaganomics which made companies focus on quarterly returns and short term stock prices instead of long term customer satisfaction through a quality product.