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Being veterans day I figured is share this. My dad's cousin recently found this transcript of an interview of my grandfather Felix V Balodis and his experience during the attack on Pearl Harbor. https://www.nps.gov/valr/learn/historyculture/upload/FelixBalodis.pdf

Corvette vs Capitalism The Corvette. A man named Tom Nicholson posted on his Facebook account the sports car that he had just bought and how a man approached and told him that the money used to buy this car could've fed thousands of less fortunate people. His response to this man made him famous on the internet. READ his story as stated on Facebook below: A guy looked at my Corvette the other day and said, "I wonder how many people could have been fed for the money that sports car cost.� I replied I am not sure; it fed a lot of families in Bowling Green, Kentucky who built it, it fed the people who make the tires, it fed the people who made the components that went into it, it fed the people in the copper mine who mined the copper for the wires, it fed people in Decatur IL. at Caterpillar who make the trucks that haul the copper ore. It fed the trucking people who hauled it from the plant to the dealer and fed the people working at the dealership and their families. BUT,... I have to admit, I guess I really don't know how many people it fed. That is the difference between capitalism and the welfare mentality. When you buy something, you put money in people's pockets and give them dignity for their skills. When you give someone something for nothing, you rob them of their dignity and self-worth. Capitalism is freely giving your money in exchange for something of value. Socialism is taking your money against your will and shoving something down your throat that you never asked for.

Liberty is a reputable manufacture at a good price point and offers many sizes and styles. You can't go wrong with a Liberty.

this is what happens when a kid doesn't truly learn to drive. and lets face it. if you've only driven FWD cars, you don't REALLY know how to drive, or handle anything abnormal. chances are this kid learned to drive on a 92hp honda shitbox, and till this car never drove anything other than low power FWD cars. fast forward to a RWD higher powered car, and suddenly he's dead. this isn't meant to disparage the kid......but i see stuff like this all the time.

I pledge my support to Remington and will buy as much of their ammo as possible.

I want to point out something. If the Red Flag law was what's in play, then guns are confiscated and a court date is set where the person gets a chance to explain why he's not a threat. No one is arrested as part of this process. This guy was arrested because he made terroristic threats while under police 'surveillance', and as a side effect his guns were confiscated. He's in jail and will have a day in court not of his choosing. So, this is not a Red Flag law case. But of course NJ.com will tout Red Flag every chance it gets.

I've been noticing some things lately that I wanted to address: 1) Some of you tend to call out the name of an administrator and/or mod (using the @ sign and their individual name) to draw attention to something (a technical difficulty, an obvious spammer, someone hurling personal insults, etc.) Let me say... it is always good to draw our attention to problems. There are only a few mods and we do NOT follow every single thread with eagle eyes, so chances are excellent that a poster will notice something before we do (simply because there's far more posters than mods). 2) But, there's a much better way to get our attention. Within each post you have the ability to click on "report post"... and then write in your description of the problem. On the backend, this sends an immediate email to ALL admins/mods and it also flags ALL of their screens on their next login (if the issue is still open). This is the fastest, most efficient way to get an actual problem addressed. Some of you have been really outstanding about using this feature to alert us to spammers - we appreciate your ongoing help with that!! 3) I've noticed some of you prefer to Private Message (PM) an admin/mod.... maybe because you have more of a relationship with that individual. Of course, you can always reach out to us individually using a PM, but again, just keep in mind if that individual you PM'd is offline for a day or 2, your issue will be sitting there in their messages... unopened. So if it's a time-pressing matter, use that "report post" feature! That way, the first of us to see it will jump in to help. 4) I will speak only for myself on this next point: I like to moderate "lightly" - with a robust respect for free speech. With very few exceptions - like spamming, vulgar language, etc. - I try not to interfere with your conversations even when they get, shall we say, "lively". That said, I think many of you are unaware of just how many "clicks" these forums get! For every one of you that makes a post - there will be thousands more who have read what you posted. In this hostile anti-2A environment that is the State of New Jersey, I believe it's imperative that we not only continually attract new members, but provide a welcoming environment that invites those lurkers in. As such, a platform chockful of bickering posters is not helpful to that end, don't you agree? 5) If you have a "problem" with another poster on here - their opinions, their politics, or their posting style irks you - pls handle that like a mature adult. Look away. Turn the other cheek. Don't engage. Don't harass. Don't insult. Don't pick fights. Don't engage others in your ongoing battle. If you feel they have broken forum rules, use the "report" feature and let the admins/mods sort it out. And if you really feel (for some ridiculous reason) that you must engage with that poster "mano a mano" - here's a thought - move it to a PM or the chat feature! Why clog up everyone else's screens with your personal vendettas? It gets old - and I do suspect a majority of you agree with this statement. Thanks for your consideration!

I read in a article last night, his Dad gave him the car. No one needs a car that can go over 25 mph, or holds more than 5 gallons of gas, or has any external accessories or addons. You should have to go through complete background check anytime you get a new car and only drive it to work/school and back home.

I am Greek. For hundreds of years the Turks enslaved and then tried to exterminate my people. Yes, that's right, genocide. They did this by first disarming us (confiscation) then telling us we no longer had rights under their laws (red flag), and then proceeding to murder as many of us as possible (genocide). They did this with us, then with the Armenians, and now with Syria. Want to guess how we stopped this? We picked up rifles and we fought back. We won back our freedom with a gun. I will never condone taking anyone's rights away without due process. If the person is a true danger, then you should be able to prosecute them in a court of law. Why can't the liberals find a way to curb all this danger without violating law abiding citizen's rights? Because that's not what the red flag laws are about.

Ahhh ... then you want the KFC on the corner of Communipaw and MLK. AFAIR real bullet proof glass and lazy-susan style carousels to pass the food to the customers.

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No offense to @fishnut (respectable list that it is), but go experience real Jersey City and skip the yuppie spots. Park Tavern on West Side Ave., and Communipaw. Best burger in Jersey. Speaking as a life long resident (recently moved). You will pass it on the way in to St. Peters Prep.

This sets a horrible precedent, not even just for firearms manufacturers but as some of you already pointed out, a number of industries. I mean, being held responsible for third party sellers? Let me get this straight: Remington sells this firearm to a gun store, the gun store has the NICS check done, sells it legally to someone, that someone's son takes the gun without permission and shoots a ton of people. So they are trying to create blame a number of levels backwards? Can I sue Yuengling and Chevy if I drink too much at the bar and crash? Can I sue Boeing if a pilot screws up a land and bounces too hard, causing injury? If I take the bus somewhere and the driver decides to run a red light to save time, then crashes, can I sue Greyhound? It's insane how horrible this will go. I feel for these people. I really do. No one should have to suffer the death of a child from some psycho who shoots up a school. But Remington is so far down on the list of who could be blamed, it's senseless.

Who really needs a magazine that holds a hundred clips? In other news..... Two bears and a salmon voted on what’s for dinner.

You’ll appreciate the subtlety of this play… specially you car guys.... run time 1:38

Yup, I missed that one too... The dude committed multiple felonies, even before he left the house that morning.. But........ it's the gun and the manufacturer's fault...... again.....

Maybe I missed the Remington ad saying: Kill your mom. Steal her firearms. Go go school and kill people.

Actually after I posted this I remembered a commercial of theirs where a pickup truck did fly into a second story of a house. Life imitates art again.

Agreed. It's another example of addressing the symptoms rather than the problem. Taking his guns out of the house and not addressing his anger issues just leaves him with his machetes, chain saws, rat poison or whatever. And possibly a new situation was created by further angering a nut left alone with his helpless family. If someone is a ticking time bomb then they need to be defused not stripped of his possessions. Not made to feel any further inferior and helpless to the institution he/she is already threatening. Why can we coddle drug attics with safe houses to shoot up in, allow people to pee and poop in the streets and allow stealing from shop owners but not address these anger problems properly? Seems to me a couple of Xanex here and there instead of the authorities stealing one's private property might go a long way.

As others have noted (like @45Doll above), this case was more about terroristic threats (where the government has always had the ability to intervene and make an arrest). However, in the true "red flag" cases, it seems that more often than not, the person is NOT arrested/jailed... meaning he is quite free to go home and rig up a pipe bomb, or rent a box truck, or buy a 5-gallon container of gas w/ a book of matches. So, you must ask yourself... how dangerous were those folks really if they didn't even do anything that merited an arrest? Aside from the troubling lack of due process in these red flag laws, they don't seem to appropriately address any underlying mental health concerns, and worse yet, they don't even provide a full-fledged solution. It focuses on 1 tool... not the "criminal intent" (if it even existed within the accused in the first place). It's all a bit nonsensical.. and "thought police" for my tastes. That's why I (and others) believe it's just a convenient way for the left to chip away at firearm ownership... and due process... and any other Constitutional right they can bash at the same time. There's a bigger picture here... a slippery slope.

I wouldn't know if they call me for the polls, since I never answer the phone unless caller id displays someone I want/have to talk to. I also do not understand the reasoning behind polls in the first place. I do not base my opinions/decisions/actions on the opinions/decisions/actions of other people. All the polls tell me is what I already know, I'm surrounded by idiots and lemmings. They also only polled less than 900 people in a state of nearly 9 million.

But that's not random. Right out of the gate, they've selected for people who answer calls from unknown numbers and are willing to spend time conversing with strangers on the phone. That rules out a LOT of people. It certainly rules out me, and everyone in my family. I've no idea how those factors would influence the results of the poll, but it's an enormous amount of selection bias.

Soon as a read "Ammunition clips" the whole poll became invalid and fake news lol

You keep pushing the violence and genocide thing to advocate violating someone's rights. In my opinion genocide and rights violations are equally wrong, (and even the same thing if you think about it). Why not give the guy his day in court? The answer is that red flag laws were not made for removing a danger to society or eliminating a threat. They were constructed to disarm us, the law abiding citizens, and the liberals hid this behind the lie that they are concerned with violence.

See Something, Say Something, Do Something ..... Investigate, Not Confiscate.

The Thought Police ...

Trying to ignore the shitshow of personality conflicts this thread rapidly became, I'm pretty much with you here. A paranoid 51 year old anti-semite living with mom and dad isn't really who I want ot be the poster boy for this, but the law is messed up. There's really only two ways to have a legitimate search warrant under the constitution. 1) have a judge sign a warrant based on probably cause. 2) a search without a warrant under exigent circumstances, also with probable cause. (the above assumes, rightly, that one's dwelling is a place you have a reasonable expectation of privacy) NJ's red flag law goes out of its way, in its attempts to avoid giving the victims of said law due process or a right to a court appointed defense, to reassure us it is NOT a criminal proceeding, but civil. I'd like to see the tortured reasoning that permits a warrant to seize property based on probable cause for an INCOMPLETE civil hearing.

Only if they are still in the box

Dating in 1958 You need to be able to remember the era to appreciate this.. It was a hot Saturday evening in the summer of 1958 and Fred had a date with Peggy Sue. He arrived at her house and rang the bell. "Oh, come on in!" Peggy Sue's mother said as she welcomed Fred in. "So, what are you and Peggy planning to do tonight?" she asked. "Oh, probably go dancing, and then maybe grab a bite to eat at the malt shop, maybe take a walk on the beach..." "Peggy likes to screw, you know," Mom informed him. "Is that so?" asked Fred, incredulous. "Yes," said the mother. "As a matter of fact, she'd screw all night if we let her!" "Well, thanks for the tip," Fred said as he began thinking about alternate plans for the evening. "Have fun, kids", the mother said as they left. Half an hour later, a completely disheveled Peggy Sue burst into the house and slammed the front door behind her. It's The TWIST , Mom!" she angrily yelled at her mother. "THE DAMN DANCE IS CALLED THE TWIST!"

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