Chucktshoes

What he said.

Go to ‘my account’ and ‘manage followed content’ and you should be able to unfollow the Swamp there. My bad. Misread your post. Can’t provide an answer to that question.

The fbi had been alerted to him last year. https://www.buzzfeed.com/briannasacks/the-fbi-was-warned-about-a-school-shooting-threat-from

If it would end mass shootings 100%, I would give up all my semi-auto guns. It won’t though. In addition, our government has neither the ability nor the authority to make that happen. Our society makes folks emotionally, mentally, and physically ill. When you combine that with easy access to guns, you have us in the current situation of monthly headlines like this. There may be no way to completely rid ourselves of the evil that resides in man, but instead of even trying we as a culture nurture and grow that evil until it always does the inevitable.

No bueno.

These sorts of mass shootings are a relatively recent phenomenon and even though a semi-auto ban most likely would have a downward effect on casualty numbers, it would still be a miniscule amount of the total annual number of gun deaths. I also can’t support any sort of action that penalizes the whole for the actions of the individual. The guns aren’t the problem though. They don’t cause the shootings to happen. Semi-auto and even full auto guns were much more accessible in years past and we didn’t have these types of shootings. Our society is sick and that sickness is causing our children to have these types of psychotic breaks. I can see the problem, but I don’t know how to fix it. What’s the solution? How do we heal something so fundamentally broken?

I’d say it’s a damn good fit.

Yep. The Wickard decision really screwed all of us and set the stage for near limitless expansion of government regulatory authority.

Quick answer is no. The only avenue is to have SCOTUS declare the carry of firearms outside of the home as a right and incorporate that against the states.

I missed the part about you using it at the hospital. If I’m using valet it’s likely a night out at a swanky restaurant or hotel. So I feel obligated to tip a bit higher.

I’ve visited all 48 contiguous since I started driving and keeping abreast of the ins and outs of each state is far more tolerable than the risk of getting the option to carry closed out altogether.

My standard base is also a fiver.

This is the same problem I have with the idea of fed gov mandated national reciprocity. If you give the Feds control of carry, you’re not going to like where it leads. It ain’t the camel’s nose getting up under the tent, but a different and much less pleasant appendage entirely.

Bingo!

Yep just as I figured. Their problems with it aren’t my problems with it. Their problems are mainly drivel.

Pakistan has become a textiles manufacturing powerhouse along with Vietnam. Chinese labor got too expensive to produce textile goods at a price that American consumers would pay. While I understand why one would experience discomfort at buying Pakistani made goods, trust me, it’s a good thing. Nothing has a moderating influence on the proliferation of extremist thought than a strong, comfortable middle class intent on maintaining their way of life.

No worries. Fixed. I’ll check out the segment, though I doubt they’ll have the same issues with it I do.

There are some drop in packs out there though I think most of the time folks have a smith modify their existing trigger packs. A drop in pack from HKparts- https://www.hkparts.net/www.hkparts.net/shop/pc/PTR-HK91-G3-308-7-62-Enhanced-Trigger-Pack-Match-p17014.htm A cat who specializes in HK/PTR/FAL/etc. triggers http://www.williamstriggers.com/page3.html

That is really cool.

Any time we can get something, anything, exempted from taxation, I’m down.

Yep. At that point you would have just manufactured an SBR.

I’d concur. The reality is that the “folks like us” that many of y’all see as the majority in this country simply aren’t.

As long as it’s not off a roof...

Considering today is the super bowl, it seems like an opportune time to bring this up. Do you let your kids play tackle football? If so, why? In the last few years the NFL has been having to deal with a lot of fallout from the increasing awareness of CTE and it’s relation to the concussions and repeated hits that are part and parcel of the game. It isn’t just NFL players being affected. The data is showing that the damage done to a developing brain by those hits may be just as, if not more damaging than the concussions on grown folks. There are initiatives under way by advocacy groups such as “flag until fourteen” which push to keep kids from playing tackle ball while preserving the other valuable aspects of football while kids’ brains are at their most vulnerable. This wasn’t a subject I thought much about until we had our twin boys, but since then I’ve thought about it a lot and I know that my boys won’t play tackle ball until at least high school. As an advocate of a free range childhood like many of us grew up with in the 80s and prior, I’m not some overprotective helicopter parent. However, I’m also not going to ignore mounting evidence of a clear and present danger either. If you’re a parent of boys, or even girls who want to play ball, do the research and at ensure you’re making an informed decision on the risks associated with the sport. Here are a few links to articles that are either op ed pieces by advocates of delaying tackle ball or articles detailing studies looking at the dangers of youth tackle ball http://www.esquire.com/sports/a12437805/youth-football-cte-concussion/ https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-archie-cte-football_us_5a6f87a2e4b00d0de222f3cc http://www.espn.com/espnw/voices/article/17493946/talking-kimberly-archie-mother-sued-pop-warner-football http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/health/sc-hlth-youth-football-players-head-injury-risk-1025-story.html http://abcnews.go.com/Health/children-play-football-hits-head-originally-thought-study/story?id=50519830