RobertNashville

Before you can have a quality of life, you first have to have "life" and moving to an area known to be dangerous to life while concurrently being unable to have access to the best tool to protect life seems like a bad idea to me. Just my $0.02

To answer the basic question; it makes sense to me that if you want to keep people out you would want the barbed wire facing "out". However, I think it would be pretty effective no matter which was it was facing. I have to say though; if I felt I needed that sort of fencing around my property to keep people out I would move to a better location....truly; regardless of which way the barbed wire is facing, is sounds like you are building a prison for yourself. Just my observation.

You know, if all the better shooters can't be there maybe I can actually not be dead last this time. At the moment I actually have that Saturday free so I may just be able to make this one!!!!!

Well, aside from 5.56 I have an 300 Win Mag and a 308 Winchester; I guess I'd be okay with one of those.

What would be a more "suitable" gun?

There have always and likely will always be officers who will go beyond the boundaries of enforcing the law - maybe I'm missing something but I don't see how this court decision make that situation either better or worse?

I see your point but isn't that always the problem? By that I mean, any law enforcement officer or public official with power (by virtue of the office they hold) can abuse any law or any rule if they want to do so....that's why it's important for us to elect good people...good people who oversee/run our police departments and law enforcement agencies so that they hire good people in the first place and get rid of any bad apples that show up (and even from the best apple tree you'll usually find a bad apple now and then).

Forgive me but I don't see a problem here or maybe I'm just ignorant of the law??? For the sake of argument, let's say I'm fencing stolen property, I'm arrested in the act, and when I'm arrested I'm holding a file folder with the names and addresses of who I bought the stolen items from and who I've sold stuff to...would a police officer need a warrant before they could open the file folder and look at the information? I think they do not but I may be wrong. If they don't need a warrant to search the paper file folder I"m holding in my hand, why would they need a warrant to search my smart phone which for the vast majority of people today, have replaced the paper file folder??? If there really is a difference and some one can explain the difference to me I'd appreciate it.

Yeah; I realize there are other ways to find out...I just like the simplicity of one company checking for me. As I've gotten older, the thing that has become most important to me is my time...anything that can save me time and simplify things I tend to like!

One of the things LiveLock Ultimate does is search all public records including arrest records where the customer's ID (name, ssn, DL #, etc) was use. As has been noted, that doesn't stop it from happening but it's a lot better than an nasty surprise like being hauled off to jail on a felony warrant issued by Texas that is actually for the thug that used your ID!

I keep everything in Quicken but once a week, I withdraw what I need to spend in cash (gasoline, groceries, laundry, etc.; basically anything that doesn't come directly out of my checking account) and put that cash in my Dave Ramsey envelopes that I've been using since 1997; works great and I never go over my budget because once I run out of cash I stop spending...so simple even Congress could do it if they wanted to.

I'd be willing to bet that the hospital is a "Gun Free Zone"...if so, this story couldn't possibly be true.

A Glock G20, or 21 or 31 of if full-sized aren't your thing then the compact or sub-compact variants of the same calibers.

I think the show is entertaining, yes but I think it's useful too. At the very least, it can give us ideas about what other people are doing. After all, there is no "perfect" way to prepare for a disaster and I suspect that if something happens and we are in the middle of it. we'll all find out that we've done some things that work and some things that don't work!

I don't think your overall question works or more to the point, I don't think if can really be answered. It's like testing the performance of what are supposed to be performance cars....what variables count...how do you eliminate the differences because of "drives" or the weather during the testing...etc. You try to be consistent and do the best you can but often, the "conclusion" is based more on opinion than objective measurements. I have wheel guns in 38, 44Mag and 454 Casull and autoloaders in 357 Sig, 45 and 10MM...I love all of them; for different reasons! As for the 10MM/44 Mag; my 44 Mag is a Dirty Harry (S&W Model 29 with full 8 1/3 barrel); and a G20 and a couple of 1911s in 10MM...I've never noticed that either is "more" of a hand cannon than the other and neither has ever made my wrist sore. I will say with the 44; you "feel" like you are holding a cannon but it really isn't...it's just cool to shoot.

My next Route 66 trip is going to have to include a stop over in Vegas...last time I was there was '09; it's time to go back!

If somebody REALLY steels your ID they may well need to spend that $1M to put things right...the possibilities for bad things happening are almost endless. How would you like to be arrested for a class A felony because someone using your info committed a serious crime or have the IRS come after you because they think YOU committed fraud against them? We all need to be careful today.

I DO NOT want to get into a caliber war but I've really never quite understood the appeal of the 40 S&W. Ammo isn't inexpensive (comparatively) to 45 or 10MM, at least not enough to make a difference to me anyway. The 40s I've shot didn't seem to be any more "controllable" than my 45s or 10mm. Performance of the ammo isn't impressive compared to 45/10. Please don't misunderstand, to each his own and I've not "against" the round...I've just never gotten the appeal.

I get email updates monthly or whenever something has changed. I was looking at refinancing last month and got an email alert from LifeLock the same day the inquiries showed up on the three bureaus. I got an alert today that a new sex offender had moved into my zip code. As was noted, diligence is the best defense but I can't check everything every day; LifeLock seems to do that or at least more often than I can and the faster you can spot a problem the easier it is to fix it.

I too have life lock ultimate and have been impressed with them. Last November, some ###hole in Georgia used my debit card info to buy a child's car seat (of all things) from Walmart over the web. I caught the suspicious charge (about $230) easily the day it hit my checking account (because I update my accounts online every day). Called Walmart and they were able to cancel the shipment so the dirtbag didn't get their car seat and my bank returned the money that same day. I got LifeLock the next day. Since then, I found out that someone filed a fraudulent IRS return with my SSN for the 2010 tax year....I hope there is a special place in Hell for these dirtbags (right next to the folks who sit in the passing lane and won't pass). And frankly, ANYBODY who steels another person's identity is a scumbucket of the highest order, that goes double when it's a relative. Moving on...not using the internet today makes about as much sense as refusing to use a telephone in the 1930s....or limiting your music to 45rms singles - technology isn't the problem; good, old-fashioned dirtbag criminals are the problem and the only thing that can end that problem is to eliminate the criminals.

I'm sick to death of the stupid "private property rights" argument....the opposition to this bill has Zero to do with property rights and 100% to do with campaign money.

I emailed Ron Ramsey a couple of days ago (surprisingly I haven't heard back from him) to express my disappointment with him and the rest of the leadership from the governor on down. It's beyond irritating that they grovel for the votes of firearm enthusiasts and will expound at length about their support of our second amendment rights yet won't even let a bill come to the floor for a n up/down vote. All the cowards and liars need to be voted out and I hope we get some good, true conservatives to run so that the current power structure doesn't have the power they now wield.

The delegates and "who" they say they are "for" are actually immaterial. According to the chair of the TN Republican party, the delegates will be awarded proportionally to the winner and second place finisher depending on a somewhat convoluted formula about percentage carried statewide and percentage carried by district...usually by the time a first and second place finisher are awarded their delegates there aren't really any left for third, fourth, etc. If, for example, Santorum wins or finishes first or second, the party will work with Santorum's campaign staff to actually pick "who" his delegates will be at the convention.

What "edit" are you talking about? The post I replied to and quoted still says (at this moment) exactly what I said when I replied to it.

I'm not taking it personally but it does make me happy that you FINALLY answered my question.