monkeylizard

I'd be somewhat surprised if ISIS targeted schools. It's certainly within their sphere of evilness to do so, but they would probably take a significant hit in recruiting capability. They'll get the crazy psychopaths no matter what, but right now they also get the impressionable angst-ridden people too which they can then work to form into crazy psychos. Start blowing up schools and you start having those potential recruits rethinking their desire to join ISIS.   Maybe I'm giving their potential recruits too much credit.

Same MO used last month to hit a pawn shop in Hermitage followed the same night with a hit on Shooters on Murfreesboro Rd.

The only First Aid training that I can recall in my school-aged years came via membership in non-school organizations. For me that was The Boy Scouts and Civil Air Patrol. I don't recall any class offerings on it in school, but it's possible that I just didn't take any of the elective classes that would have included it. It certainly wasn't mandatory. That was elementary in the 80s and high school in the early 90s.

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Nah, that would make too much sense.

  FIFY!

You need to paint in dripping red letters: "Keep Out. Dead Inside" on the back door.

But you gotta admit, Florida has a more-than-most representation on POWM. There's a reason Fark has a "Florida" tag.

Might be more to it than just "my family doesn't approve".   http://www.outdoorhub.com/news/2015/11/13/massive-wolf-rumored-shot-michigan-actually-canada/

  You got that backwards. Libel is in print while slander is verbal, you ignorant toothless hillbilly.

  An incident which can't be proven to have happened, no other witnesses, and no photos. What college kid wouldn't have their phone attached to their hand at all times to take a photo?   As for POTUS' diversity, don't forget about his cabinet: We have a black woman heading the DOJ; black men over the departments of transportation and homeland security; white women running the departments of the interior, commerce, health & human services, the EPA, and as ambassador to the UN; Hispanic men running the departments of labor, and HUD; and a Hispanic woman running the small business administration.   The secretary of Energy was born to two Portuguese immigrants. I honestly don't know if that makes him white, Hispanic, or white Hispanic. I'd lean towards just plain old white European, but I really don't know.   If a minority could just break through that glass ceiling.....

POW is a gold mine for boosting one's self esteem. It's even better than a trip to Alabama.   :D

As of their last email, they still have Field and Service Grade, plus their CMP Special Grade which has a new production wood stock, IIRC.

  Nope. I'm not a member. I was looking at joining them a few years ago before a spot opened up at Gallatin Gun Club, which is also a CMP affiliated club.

There are some online ones like Garand Collectors Assoc. http://thegca.org/

Maybe the guy needs a copy of this book: Oddly enough, the driver is in more danger than the kids, because LIONS EAT GIRAFFES!!!!!!!!

5. Why would you go to Wal-Mart?

I don't need that. I get "SPECOPSGREENBERETSDELTARANGERSSEAL Style Training" using interactive online multi-media resources.

You guys forgot about the heavy pollen from the Bradford Pears. That alone is reason to get them.

btq69r is right. The myRA fits a hole for people who want to start saving for retirement in one of those nice tax-incentivized instruments like an IRA or RothIRA but can't because they don't have the $2-3K minimum investment required. It works just like an IRA in that all of the money you put in it is put in after taxes so it's your money. You can take it out at any time without any penalty. So if your heat pump fails, you're good to go. The interest earned must remain in the myRA or incur a penalty. Once it's large enough to buy into an IRA or RothIRA, you roll it over. Note that just like converting an IRA to a Roth IRA, there will be a tax bill for converting a myRA to a Roth IRA. the only real difference between it and an IRA is that you don't get to pick any stocks/bonds/funds. It just gets the same low interest rate as the Government Securities Fund.   All that said, I don't see the point for anyone to bother with this. The interest earned and the tax factor on such a minuscule amount of money is as close to zero as you can get without it actually being zero. This really doesn't do much more than a regular FDIC insured savings account, from a purely financial/mathematical perspective. From the human behavior perspective, yeah I can see people being more diligent about keeping their hands off it to let it grow because they'll see it as a real retirement account and not just a savings account. Accessing the money is a little harder too as it's not quite as simple as going to the bank and getting it like it is with a savings account. As opposed to a savings account, the myRA makes a low earner's taxes a little harder to file and gives them less access to their money in an emergency.   I guess my final analysis is that it's a government program that's going to cost us way too much money to operate for what little benefit we gain. The .gov could probably get just as good if not better results by spending a fraction of that operational budget on educational programs to the poor and lower middle-class about how and why to get a savings account setup and set aside for building enough money to get into an IRA or RothIRA.

  I don't always buy rats, but when I do, it's from strangers in parking lots at night.

The part about him never getting closer than 10 feet is presented the wrong way in the story. The story makes that out to be a factor of why he isn't a threat. To me, if he's at 10 feet than he can be on her faster than she can react, especially as an older person with (presumably) slowing reflexes, and she's busy putting groceries away. I see the 10 feet thing in her favor, not his.

Yeah, that seems to be where I am right now.   If I try to think of what a reasonable person would think/do given her circumstances, I can certainly understand that she would be afraid. Does that rise to the level of fear of serious bodily harm or death on its own? I just can't quite get there without other information, but I'm not nor have I ever been nor will I ever be a small 67 year old woman so it's hard to know.   If I were the judge I'd probably see if they couldn't work out an understanding that approaching strangers in a parking lot (especially people likely to be crime victims like the elderly) isn't exactly the smartest thing to do, and that a stranger approaching with no other threatening signs doesn't normally rise to the level of being in fear of life or limb. If so, let's drop the charges, learn from this, and be on our way.

Hope this isn't a repost.   http://www.newschannel5.com/news/local-news/woman-arrested-after-she-said-she-pulled-gun-in-self-defense   Interesting story. I'd like to know more.

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