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  I'd say it's too late for that.  Congress already passed the FY16 budget, and it's a long shot that the FY17 budget gets done before the election without any tack on legislation, so we'll see a  CR there, which isn't big enough to carry this bill as an amendment.  There would have to be a big trade off for something that would entice liberals to swallow this passing alongside it, and for sure in an election year, that kind of compromise ain't happening...not that compromising would have a good chance anyway lately.   Maybe with the next President it can be done depending on their priorities, but the bill would have to be reintroduced since it dies at the end of the current Congress.

  Shut off registration 90 days before an election?  I think there should be same day registration at places that can handle it (small voting sites like a set up in the local fire house on election day excluded).  What reasons do you have for denying someone who wants to vote from registering close to an election?   Also, what kind of government provided transportation for voting is there?  Assistance to the polls are done by organizations (political non-profits, churches, ect) and campaigns.    And we saw what happens when you put some kind of test in front of a person and the ballot.  It will be used to deny those you simply don't want to vote from doing so.  No thanks.   Your ideas would subvert our voting system, not make it better.  At least not for Democrats, and I think that would be your goal.

  He did drop out on that date, but since the Tennessee Presidential Primary was on February 5th that year, he still would have been on the ballot most likely.  I'm sure the news that he dropped out was so low key in the grand scheme that you could have blinked and missed it.

  It's not supposed to serve both parties equally.  It's supposed to serve the electoral process by making sure people have every opportunity to vote.  If the Republicans think it's unfair...oh well.  They can get better candidates, or change their positions.  More people voting is not a problem at all.

  I think there's a difference between a situation a business creates from negligence or incompetence as in the water on the floor example, and a third party coming in and causing the harm.

  A few years back when there was a cut to welfare as part of a budget deal, Walmart admitted to investors that it's been the cuts to food stamps were hurting their bottom line.  As OS mentioned, the minimum wage hasn't increased at the federal level since 2009, and that was only the last part of a phased increase.    So, really, way to go Republicans.  Though I'm not shedding tears for Walmart getting less welfare dollars.       They're doing all they can to increase the amount of food stamps that are spent in their stores.  Kroger is the only other large chain that can go head to head with Walmart for dollars from low income or welfare dependent homes, and Walmart wants to change that to balance out the losses in retail sales.

I'm usually out and about by myself which would simplify things, but for when I'm not, my concern would be to get those with me out of immediate danger.  Not as in in the car and back home safe and sound, but out of the line of fire where I can leave them in place, or tell them to keep moving away.  Once they were no longer able to be targeted, I'd move out and take my chances against the shooter, thinking as Omega does, that the training and experience I've had can make the difference.   To use a simple but accurate quote, "bad guy shooting = bad guy needs shot."  If I'm the first one in position to make that happen, my mind tells me that's what I'd do.

  The officer's opinion is the only valid one when he is performing his duties within the law.  I'm not convinced he did that here, because if he had the authority to arrest the open carrier for failing to produce a carry permit, he should of.  If that's the case, then his supervisors will deal with it if they felt he erred.   But if CT law doesn't require citizens to produce a permit upon request like TN law does, then that officer was using his authority to harass a citizen, and that is a problem.       I think the only facts that are missing are what exactly Connecticut law has to say on this one.  That's what I'm withholding final judgement for.    We know in Tennessee if asked, someone carrying has to show their permit to an officer.  Even if the officer is an ass about it, or has no reason other than seeing me with a handgun, I have to show him my permit.  I don't like it, because it assumes that carrying a weapon is a crime, but it's explicitly spelled out in the law for our state so I comply.   But is it the same in Connecticut?  If the officer had the authority to inspect a carry permit, he should have said so and given a final warning that further non-compliance is a violation of that law and makes the person carrying subject to arrest.  So we either have an LEO trying to badger a citizen into compliance, which is completely unsat, or an officer unwilling to enforce the law, which while lesser of an evil, I'd imagine would be addressed by his superiors.

  If the officer didn't have a legal basis to compel the person to produce a carry permit, I wouldn't call said person a jackass for how he handled it.

The using the internet to avoid state sales taxes isn't unique to guns, but with gun purchases being pricier items, it's more prevalent than it is with random stuff like a pair of shoes or something else.   Tennessee's sales tax puts a decent add on to any gun purchase.  Taking the transfer fee at $20-30 is more attractive than paying sales tax at $50 and climbing based on any sale over $513.  It's one of the biggest things that makes running a LGS a challenge, I'd imagine.

  We're going to include government buildings right?  Doubt it.  But, yeah...the Chamber will go to the mattresses to prevent this one.   It's a nice thought, but its hard to make a law on the presumption that a handgun carry permit holder would always carry, and if they did, could always protect themselves.  Sometimes even someone carrying is going to get shot first, or jacked up before they can draw.   Then you have the issues of defining the scope of liability.  "Harmed" is a vague term.  Getting punched would "harm" me but is it enough to qualify as a threat on my life that would justify drawing and firing...no.  Things like that make it a bad bill, IMO.    If a place is posted, it's on the person carrying to decide if they want to assume the risk of being unarmed.  The only places I can't get around that with our free market are government buildings.

  Throw in Cristina Scabbia from Lacuna Coil. 

  If they are smart, there can be an amendment tacked on just before final voting that would do just that.  Keeping it quiet for now would reduce the outcry from the college facility until it's too late.   Maybe, just maybe, if that can happen, I'll be able to carry on campus for my final semester this fall.     Until you're willing to vote for someone else (ie: a Democrat or Independent), they have no incentive to treat you as anything other than a doormat after getting your vote.  Maybe a primary challenge can scare them, but you're still not hurting the party that is ultimately in control of things.   The only voters they will take direction from are the ones writing the checks or getting ready to show them the door.

My cousin told me that CT has open carry, but I can't remember him telling me if he's ever seen it.  I'm sure it's an oversight on the part of their legislature that it's even allowed.   If the guy in the video violated a law by refusing to show his carry permit, the LEO's should have arrested him and charged him with Connecticut's version of interfering with police duties, and he should have to answer in court for it, along with refusing to show a permit.  He could also be in the wrong for something else, but if he was just going about his day with nothing different than open carrying, he isn't doing anything wrong if he has a permit.   If there is no legal rational for an LEO to ask for a carry permit, and no law against refusal, then this was simple harassment of a citizen exercising his rights, and that's a big problem.   The letter of the law will determine if this guy was a jackass or not.

  You'd think with all the legislative influence the NRA holds on the Republican party, that a bill like that could at least be pushed out of committee with some measure of speed.   Filling out a White House petition will just get someone on the bottom rung of the West Wing staff to copy and paste whatever talking points they have on file for a "response."  Seriously, look at the other responses on the site and tell me I'm wrong.

I've been an Adele fan since the first time I saw her, back in late 2008 when she got a lucky break and was on the same SNL episode as Sarah Palin.  Saying she is a great singer seems poor and inadequate.

You get six months to claim the prize.  I'd wait at least three months for all the hoopla to die down and go into every room or meeting flanked by my new top notch tax and legal team.  Before that, I'd do everything I could to eliminate my presence anywhere online, though that would only go so far.    The money would have a secure account at a top notch bank waiting for it to go into.  And if I couldn't claim the prize through a trust, I'd be less talkative than Bill Belichick when asked any questions by the media.   I sure as hell wouldn't be on TV announcing myself to the world before I figured out what my plan with it all was.

  I put on new gas rings, it delayed the problem, but it still crept back up.  I'd like to think that if it was the gas block, it would be a consistent problem from the first rounds, not something that happens later in the shooting.

Great actor who could pull off the entire spectrum.  He'll be missed.  Condolences to his family and friends.   So, Bowie, Rickman...who's going to be #3?       He was awesome in that. 

So, obviously go see the Louisville Slugger factory.   Horseshoe Casino (Caesars property) is just over the river in Indiana as well if you like casinos.  The area in and around 4th Street Live was packed with restaurants and bars when I visited there.  I'd stay in that area so you can walk around at night, and drive to the NRA Convention.  I found Louisville to be a nice city.  The time of year you're going will be beautiful to walk around downtown day or night too.

  It's a distro list, not a harbinger of the Fourth Reich. 

Just this week, I took my "sniper style assault rifle" and my "high capacity magazines" to the range where I shot 80 rounds of ammo that could "pierce armor" which I received via internet ordering direct to my door.   I get it.  The President wishes he could enact all kinds of gun restrictions and would love to prevent everything I mentioned in the part above.  Same for Hillary.  But since they suck at it, we're living in some of the best years ever for gun rights.  Federal law in the modern era has never been better for the pro gun side, and I for one, would like to hear less doom and gloom, and more positives.  President Obama is a political lame duck.  It's time to start treating him like one.   That should have been an eight minute dissertation on how useless the President's actions are, and how gun owners can prepare for future fights like the Senate races that could determine the direction of the Supreme Court for the next 20 years.  They should have shown how gun rights have expanded through state legislatures, and how in less than a generation we've gone from a debate on nothing but gun control, to victories for gun rights.

Shame.  Al Jazeera America was one of the least sensationalist news sources out there.

  Dipsticks on the internet are like weeds in the yard.  You get some respite after pulling them all, but sooner or later new ones come in and you just have to go yank them by the root. 

  Yeah, it's kind of a biggie.  And the constant emails are beyond an annoyance.   Still better than Facebook, however.