tntnixon

I'm actually not cop bashing. I know that most cops are good people trying to do their jobs in a responsible manner. I do, however, have a difficulty with the amount of crontrol and power that we have reliquished to them. In many ways we have become a police state. The second ammendment was intended to keep the government and the people on equal footing, to prevent just the sort of thing described in my scenario. It wasn't necessarily intended for us to protect ourselves against each other. It was intended for us to protect ourselves against the government and it's entities. Our founding fathers would have assumed that our rights to protect our lives and properties would not have to be spelled out. They were concerned about government. Oh, how the times have changed.

How many more citations do I need to put on here? I can go all day.

[lbo-talk] Former BART officer charged with murder in New Year's killing Memphis police officer charged with murder Woman (Pentagon Police Officer) charged with attempted murder CITY PC CHARGED WITH BAR MURDER ; Police officer in court accused over dancefloor attack on barrister's clerk | Article from Evening Standard - London | HighBeam Research Police Officer Charged with Murder of Missing Ohio Woman - Associated Content Atlanta Police Officer Charged With Murder, Assault - 11Alive.com | WXIA | Atlanta, GA Obviously you haven't seen any of these. I could have put many, many more on here but I think I proved my point. I also remember being a teenager walking down the road one afternoon. A LEO pulled over, threw me to the ground, frisked me and took the $20.00 I had in my wallet. That was a little over 20 years ago, but the memory is still fresh. And no, I didn't look like a perp. However, I did look vulnerable (who's going to believe a 16 year old kid). My only crime was walking down the road. As a "Saints" fan you probably also know that the NOPD has notoriously been a lawless group committing murder after murder.

I've always found it interesting that a LEO can come onto my property(not in my house without a warant) while I'm mowing my lawn. He can have his sidearm drawn and point it at me but I'm not supposed to consider it a threat to my life and have no right to self-defense. In this scenario, I'm supposed to hand him my weapon and my HCP and assume that all is right with the world. The truth is there have been more unjustified homocides commited by LEO's, over the years, than by HCP holders.

I've heard of a few people who swear they saw a Cougar in Sumner County. When they asked the game warden he told them "Officially there are no Cougars in this area. In reality, though, we know they're here."

I've read all the TWRA rules about "hunting" coyotes, skunks, and raccoons. I've read where artificial lights, night vision scopes, and FMJ ammo is "illegal". My question is this: I take my two miniture schnauzers out to potty at 4:30AM in the morning and 10:00PM at night. We have all these critters around our house from time to time. Are the rules still in force if I'm shooting to protect my dogs? I'm not really hunting because I'm not looking for them. I just don't want something to hurt my dogs. Next question is: If it is permissible to shoot under these circumstances is it absolutely necessary to spend $2000.00 on a night vision scope or would a $250.00 weapon light be sufficient for my purposes? I'll spend whatever I need to in order to protect my dogs. They're the only "children" my wife and I have ever been able to have.

I would say "Like you I once had my doubts about whether or not non-law enforcement officials should carry weapons on/or about their persons. But then something happened. I remember it like it was yesterday. I was standing in my patient's room and the television was on Good Morning America. They were reporting about a plane that had accidentally flown into a building in New York City. And as I glanced up at the television a second plane ran into another building. I remember thinking to myself 'What the hell is wrong with these pilots?' Then it hit me like a ton of bricks. This was no accident. A shiver ran along my spine and I knew we were a nation at war. The realization that my way of life will never be the same swept over me like a flood and it found a home in my heart. Several changes in me were made that day. First, I realized that we, as free people, have a responsibilty to each other and to our society than I ever imagined. Secondly, I realized that it is beyond the scope of our government to protect it's citizens from all harm. And thirdly, that if each and every passenger on one of those jets had been armed, none of it would have ever happened and so many innocent lives would have been saved. Later, I further extrapolated that if we had a continuously armed citizenry banks would never get robbed, covenience store clerks wuld always be able to go home and hug their children after their shift, women wouldn't get raped in the park and a married couple wouldn't get gunned down on the street for $5.00 and some credit cards. So when you ask me "why do you feel the need to carry?" I say it's my responsibilty as a good citizen of this country. And then I'll ask you "why don't you carry? Do you feel that you have no responsibily to our lives and freedoms other than to go to work and pay your taxes?"

Last time I was there I got chlamydia, the crabs, and gonorrhea. But I could had supersized my combo and gotten HIV for an extra 99cents.

1.) Sunset Boulevard 2.) Full Metal Jacket (THE WHOLE DAMNED MOVIE, you can't beat using the VC for a ventiloquist dummy) 3.) The Green Mile 4.) The Quiet Man 5.) Pulp Fiction You've probably seen all these except Sunset Boulevard. If you haven't, rent it. It's 50 years ahead of it's time. Cover looks like a chick flick, title sounds like a chick flick, definitely NOT a CHICK FLICK!!!!

This probably true now. However, if he had gotten a job, within six months of losing his coverage, that offered insurance they would have had to cover him and the pre-existing clause would have been waived. This was the whole purpose of HIPAA. HIPAA stand for the "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996". Everybody knows it for it's privacy clause. However, that was not it's original intent or the meat of it. The actual intent was exactly the scenario that your son-in-law was facing. The law provides for a waiver of all pre-existing conditions if the party affected was covered at any point during the last six months. Unfortunately, very few people actually take advantage of this until it is too late.

Most of the clubs available are JROTC organizations. Since I don't want to back to high school, I was wondering if this had ever been considered. It's only $30.00 for a "club" to join. Hell, I'd be willing to pay it myself just to be able to pick up the ammo and/or a Garand. Just wondering.

There are still some of these left, aren't there?

I don't know the guy but I thought this might make him feel better st such an important time in his life. You go, girl. By the way, Barney Franks said "What's up?"

I think next week they're gonna break into the Pottery Barn and the Sherwin-Williams store so they can start to re-decorate the place. Just think of how nice it will be with just the right wall color and some area rugs. It will be well worth risking your life to get the stuff. Oh, and don't forget some ferns. Everybody needs ferns during The Apocolypse. Ferns and well manicured nails, preferably acrylic.

Lesson number 3: "Personal Responsibilty" Another factor that figure into the health debate, as well as all facets of our society, is the lact of personal responsibilty and it's impact on cost. In health care circles we call it "non-compliance". This phenomena is responsible for a huge amount of our health care costs. Let me give you an example: Every patient I get for an outpatient sedation procedure is told to have a sober, able bodied person to accompany them to be their ride home and to get instructions post-procedure. Somehow, people seem to think that this is meant for everyone but them. So here's an example of what happens: the ride drops them off and goes shopping, they go to the bar and get drunk during their loved one's procedure, the "driver" is in worse physical health than the patient and has an expectation that we'll provide care for them as well (for free, of course), or the patient decides that there is nobody in their life that they can trust enough to get their instructions or drive them home. Countless hours and money is spent just to accomodate the "idiot factor", which is rampant in America. Then there's the patient and/or family that believes by being rude and nasty to their health care providers that they'll get better care. The truth is that rudeness and quality care are usually inversely proportional because the provider just avoids them like the plague. The truth is health care has some major flaws. However, instead of trying to point fingers at others, we need to all look in the mirror whether we're a patient, a provider, a government agent , an insurance representative, a malpractice lawyer or from some nameless advocacy group.We all have some piece of this we can call our own. What we don't want to do is "throw out the baby with the bath water". We have the most caring, technologically advanced health care system in the world. We are the envy of all others. Why do we want to destroy all that is right? People want to point to statistics and use them to decry our system by saying that mortality and morbidity rates are higher here than in other countries. That is simply because, in America, whether we like it or not, we are free to make bad choices for ourselves. Unfortunately, that is all too often. But that is what makes America great. Because a lot of good choices are also made. Choices that have helped make us the envy of the world. There is nothing great or unusual about the soil or natural resources in these United States as opposed tothe rest of the world. The United States is great because great men and women made unusual choices and had great ideas. We have done things different than other countries and had great outcomes. If we try to do things like everyone else, we are likely also to have the same outcomes they have had.

Does anybody on here know how to finish an a** whooping? If there had been some people from the South the asian girl would have gotten curb-stomped while she was down. And why are they making weapons but not using them? They could have impailed the big guy on the "booger picker" or at least caught him on fire with the blow torch. Now that'd be TV worth watching.

Now lets move on to lesson two. We'll call this one basic math. $1,300,000,000,000 (that's the cost of this bill, $1.3 trillion dollars for those who are overwhelmed by the zeroes). 300,000,000(that the number of men, women, and children who live in the USA). 32% of all tax returns have zero or negative tax liabilty. That leaves 204,000,000 people picking up the bill. That leaves $6372.00 for the burden of every man, woman and child in a tax-paying family or roughly $25,000 for a family of four. 30,000,000 (the number of unisured in America, for whatever reason). Divide the total cost of the bill by the number of uninsured and you get a cost of 43,333.33 for every man, woman, and child that is uninsured or $173,333.33 for a family of four. Now I'm gonna give the libs the benefit of the doubt (although I dobt it quite a lot) and assume that they're telling us the truth with regards to being able to keep your current benefits package. The average family of four would be paying for all their own health care (premiums and payments to providers) and still be "on the hook" for $25,000 for someone else's benefits. Is that acceptable? And, I'm sorry, but you can buy a family plan all f'ing day for less than $173,000 regardless of your "pre-existing conditions". The cost is absolutely absurd.

I find itsomewhat amusing and very scary how little people know about healthcare and how it's actually run. Part of the problem is the fact that since health insurance and Medicare/Medicaid started, people don't actually pay their bills other than the premiums. It's the old cliche "that which costs nothing has no value" and causes a huge abuse of the system by the patient, the provider and the insurance company and/or the government. First lets examine how bills are paid. When you are admitted to the hospital you are assigned a DRG (Diagnosis Related Group) meaning that all your health problems are lumped together with other people with similar problems and a fee is set. If it costs the hospital more money to treat you than the fee (you have unexpected complications) that is a loss. If it costs less (the hospital is super-efficient in getting you better) then that is profit. I hear all these talks about $60.00 Tylenols and, being a member of the health care community, I laugh. I laugh because I know it's a lot of smoke and mirrors. It's a game that the hospitals and insurance companies and/or the government play, knowing that it will never be reimbersed. If the hospitals sent a bill to the insurance company for exactly the actual cost of services, the insurance company would try to pay them less. So we all play this little game where we send crazy bills knowing that ultimately we're going to be paid based on the DRG. If you look at the EOB(Explanation of Benefits) your insurance company sends you, you'll see it as "plan savings". I also hear about peoples' insurance company kicking them out of the hospital. This is also false. The insurance, once again, pays based on a DRG, not on hospital days. Therefore, if you're kicked out of the hospital, it's for two reasons. Either you're better than you think you are but still want someone to be your hired help in the hospital(this actually happens a lot) or you are dealing with a hospital and/or physician who is trying to improve their own bottom line(this also happens, but not in any hospital that I have ever worked for). This last scenario is never believed by patients because they don't want to admit that they have made bad choices in health care providers. Therfore, the insurance company gets blamed because it's a faceless entity. Let's call this lesson one in medical reimbursement.

The only thing that was worthwhile on this show was how to make "wood gas". That's a nice little tidbit I'll keep stored in the back of my mind.

First, don't go to an optometrist for this. Most decent opthamologists should be able to help you but may recommend a different set of glasses or contacts just for shooting (I would steer away from contacts as they may "attract" gunpowder residue, but that's your call). Lasik is also an option but once again, your call. I would suggest making an appointment at the Vanderbilt Eye Institute and see what they can offer you.

I do miss the days of a free box of ammo with every gun purchase and the NRA 10% (these used to be standard operating procedure at all gun stores from sea to shining sea). This is not to be taken as a knock against current gun stores. In most cases, the pricing makes up for it. I'm just being nostalgic.

You don't have to worry about that from me(I'm a quiet guy that asks can I see that -insert name of gun here- and then asks you to start the process. No BS just straight to the point). I've bought a lot of weapons from you, especially in the last year, and have always found your prices fair without having to haggle over pennies. Anyway, +1 for G&L.

I'm not giving a hard time to retailers at all. Generally speaking, most have been very fair. The best prices I see in the classifieds are usually from retailers. G&L, for example, is almost always cheaper on their new guns than most of the used guns I see advertised. And their used guns are marked down even further. What I am questioning is the fact that most of the used guns I see advertised, are more expensive than the new ones I see in shops and box stores. Sometimes I wonder if they go and buy one at a store and then try to sell it at a profit. Who knows? I mostly just find it interesting. I made a grave error in judgement a week or so ago and posted the retail price of a gun in one of the classifieds (I didn't realize it was taboo). I was severly scolded by more than one member. So my question then becomes: Is it more wrong to question a price or to screw a fellow member? I guess everyone has to answer that for themselves.

I guess I don't consider that a discount any more than if you bought a stereo, played it for a while, took it apart, put it back together and sold it to me for the regular price tag and told me how much money I was saving by not paying taxes.

I'm not new to shooting but I am new to the gun culture. I guess I'm a little misinformed, and this is truely a quest for knowlege, not a statement to prove point. I have been buing guns for years through various outlets (gun shops, box stores) and still shop extensively (always pricing). So what I don't understand is private transfers. I understand the process. I just don't understand the pricing structure. I've only recently started going to gun shows and looking at classifieds and notice a complete lack of correlation between the price of the weapon and the manufacturer's MSRP. The asking price is almost always higher even for weapons that aren't rare and are easily attainable. I see comments about how "that's a great deal" when I know I can go buy a new one cheaper. Is it the thrill of the chase that drives people to buy used guns for more than they can buy a new one? Is it that I don't see the behind the scenes haggling (I hate haggling)? Is it that the buyers can't or don't want to pass the background check and it is worth it to them to pay more? Please enlighten me.