mikegideon

  I have no sympathy for him. He went out of his way to make his own bed. He's a carbuncle. His family needs to trade him in on a new one.

  You're pretty smart for a old fart :)  

  Good

  and the little twerp at the DUI stop.

  Which is one of the dumbest damn laws in the history of dumb. Most of my knives deploy as easily and as fast as an automatic.

  Really! I hope he loses his house this time.

  Lighten up counselor. :) This case ain't on the docket yet. My money says it never will be.

  I just think you're going way deeper than they're gonna go. I think Douchemort wasted his time again, unless he found a new love while he was locked up. If the cops did make some kind of minor error, they're just gonna go oops. Piss on Lenny.

  Leonard won't get squat out of this. Jay explained, in excruciating detail, how HE thinks it should work. Now... watch what actually happens.

I figured. You have both been pretty scarce around here lately.

  Touch? Eaten up with it. 

Good question. It would probably get more traction than the "violation" of poor Lenny's civil rights. I'm guessing the city/state is smart enough not to go there. 

Evidence list  :rofl:

  Giving Lenny's actions any credibility is just plain silly. They are not going to go into the deep study in case law for this whack job, and Lenny doesn't have the resources to push it. It's obvious to anybody with a brain.   Now... watch what happens.

Interesting. So, they didn't recognize him right off the bat? I guess lenny needs more face time on TV.

  I know you better than that. Even if you did openly carry an AR, you wouldn't go out of your way to create panic. The AR was the smaller part of the statement. The armor was the bigger part. I guess I just miss the old days, when you could get smacked in the mouth just for being a douchebag. Seems like folks behaved a little better back then.

  Threatening somebody with a weapon is aggravated assault. That's how I view Lenny's actions, no matter how skilled he is at working the law to get away with it. I write my legislators, support the NRA, and other truly lawful things to fight the anti's. I'm not going to threaten them with an AR. I was raised better.

  Yes they did, and you can bet that there was an attorney advising their actions. If Lenny thinks he's smart enough to duke it out with the city of Nashville, he may be in for some schoolin'.   EDIT: ... again

  No whiskey. I just hate that guy.

  Agreed. There is NO defense for Lenny's actions... NONE. This wasn't about rights, it was about intimidation. Fuck that guy, and all his friends.

  You're probably right. I would have probably shot somebody for a box of fried chicken after 10 days on Beenie Weenies :). Not to mention... there was NO beer. Had to get some brought in from Memphis.   I'm saying that long term irreparable damage to the power grid is really far fetched. A LOT of that energy will be dumped to ground via arc gaps and other protection. Fuses will open up. Backups will be deployed, and stuff will be rerouted. Past events are exactly the reason for the protections and backup plans.   Again, I'm not saying that a disaster isn't possible. I'm saying it won't be the end.

Is an EMP "expert" the same as a global warming "expert"? I want to see some math. Total destruction of the power grid ain't gonna happen. Can an EMP destroy megawatt level power transformers? Maybe, if it has enough energy. Can it melt every component? No. When a power component fails, it turns into something else... a fuse.   Not saying a disaster can't happen. Just saying that total destruction isn't possible. Maybe our government is on to something in this case.   BTW... power transformers normally fail from external conditions in two different ways. Either the internal voltages get high enough to punch through the insulation in the windings and create a short, or the load on the transformer gets big enough that it overheats and something melts. They're real tough, and are normally surrounded with things that are designed to protect against the two primary causes of failure... fuses and overvoltage protection. A localized lightening hit is a HUGE amount of energy, and the grid survives them all the time.

  Oh... we have a suspect. Sumbitch is fast, too. He outran all of us :)

  They need to slip some citizen 50 bucks to whip his ass right there in front of God and everybody.

Fortunately for us, the general public doesn't dwell on this idiot. Even the simple minded seem to write him off as a nutball and move on. Law enforcement has had his number for awhile. He makes for good TGO threads, and gives the media an opportunity to try to sell him as a typical gun rights activist.