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LOL...Bill's producers must've told him what a stupid gaffe that was because he's apologized twice by my count. Sent from my Kindle Fire using Tapatalk 2

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How'd we make the quantum leap from some young, gun-totin' hottie to racist boor Jamie Foxx? Sent from my Kindle Fire using Tapatalk 2

While O didn't yell over him he did mislead with outdated info on the Aussie crime rates since their ban. Now he's got Juan Williams spewing that, and much other nonsense. Sent from my Kindle Fire using Tapatalk 2

(In my best Ed Norton voice): "Sh-e-e-e-sh!"

Same question I asked myself as I got an email from an FFL offering up some Stags, saying the AWB "will be passed".

While I think the reasoning behind canceling "AG's" sucks, I must say that it had the most unlikeable cast of any reality show I've watched lately. Even a couple of the 'smiths, especially the heavyset guy, came off (to me anyway) as real humps. And is the daughter even 18?

I'll keep saying/writing it till I'm blue in the face or have carpal tunnel syndrome: this tragedy in CT has the anti's smelling a big, popularly-supported victory. BUT they are not being honest about their end-game. Every story I've read in the Daily Snooze and the surprisingly anti-2A New York POST, has their editorials and journalists calling for tougher gun control. No specifics really....but they KNOW they have to be tougher. Like Bloomberg, with his blanket disclaimer of "I support responsible gun ownership", they are simply not telling the truth: they want ALL GUNS BANNED, BAR NONE. This is what we are up against, not some possible patch-quilt of hurriedly-passed new regulations that will add to our misery while fueling the desire of the anti's to do something...anything about the evil guns out there. Nope, they want them all GONE, but don't have the courage or the balls to just come out and say it. They can make us die the death of a Thousand Cuts by making stricter, ever more Draconian gun laws, but I think they should just come out and ask for a total ban, a la the U.K., so we can get this national dialogue on guns started in the proper context.

To anyone who is already fed-up with the demonizing of gun owners and the exploitation of this tragedy by anti's, do NOT pick up today's NY Daily News. There is absolutely NO balance to the "reporting" in there today. Its usual anti-gun stridency has been multiplied tenfold, with feature articles and a couple of op-eds calling for something to be done about guns in this country, whatever that means. But they are too intellectually-dishonest just to come out and demand a total BAN on guns, which is what these mealy-mouths really want. I emailed Lupica on several occasions over the last couple of years on his inaccurate and inflammatory articles, but--of course--never received a reply. I won't be bothering this time around. This is a watershed moment for the firearms community in this country, and with the anti's having pretty much the whole (media) playing field to themselves, not a particular promising one at that.

Aside from seeking more 2A-friendly environs, THIS is the main reason I'm looking to vamoose. The idiotic dem voting base consistently puts these leeches in office and I find myself working longer, keeping less and having a lower quality of life overall.

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Maybe it's just me, but Dave Grossman came across as a damned tool on that Fox appearance, his credentials and background notwithstanding. How many times exactly did he tout his website? And why did he carry on like he did, having to be interrupted several times from his diatribes in which he constantly repeated the litany of recent shooting sites? Add to that the video game argument, and I don't think it was an effective appearance or convincing thesis at all, IMO. I grew up in an era with NO video games. We had TV shows that had violent content (the multitude of Western shoot-em-up's; "Combat"; "Rat Patrol", etc.), but oddly, they never showed copious amounts of blood coming out of the victims or showed gore of any type. We constantly played with our toy guns outside, in the schoolyard, outside of church, and aside from stickball and other street games, "shooting" each other was pretty much our favorite activity from that era. If I had a dime for every time I yelled out "Bang! Gotcha, you're DEAD!", I'd be retired by now. Yet, not ONE of the neighborhood kids I grew up with went bad from that kind of childhood, and neither did I. I agree wholeheartedly (wow) with RubberBullets above: it is the piss-poor parenting that can be blamed for a lot of what we are dealing with in society today. Decency, compassion and values seem to be something that isn't on the menu in a lot of homes these days.

Welcome. I believe you're gonna fit in here just fine....

I wouldn't take a LEO'S job at twice the salary. The one thing I've always detested in my work life is to be second-guessed or judged without all facts being known and considered. Sent from my Kindle Fire using Tapatalk 2

Too soon to have a motive disclosed for this maniac, but I reject anyone linking it to economic situation of the shooter, or any resultant "stress" he may have been experiencing. We had the Greatest Generation come up hard through the Great Depression, win the 2nd World War and then help usher in the most prosperous era in our history. Their hardships didn't create monsters on this level; they overcame and triumphed as a group.

Oh boy. Can't wait to see Costas' reaction to this tragedy. http://www.wzzm13.com/news/article/234892/2/Report-Two-dead-in-Oregon-mall-shooting

olimits7 posted: "Oh ok, thank you! I was going to put down applying for 3 handgun permits just to have them on hand, but if they expire in 180 days then I guess it doesn't make sense...I don't see myself buying a 2nd handgun any time soon." What are you? Some kinda COMMIE??? LOL.

As some of you may know, I am not a big fan of Taurus. I bought a 1911 back in November, 2011, and wound up sending it back a few months later with a broken extractor. That time I had to pay for the overnight shipping. It took them a month and a half, IIRC, to send it back, and it went out of commission again about 100 rounds later. The second time I spoke with CS, they sent me an email link with a pre-paid FedEx label that I printed out and slapped on the box to return the gun. Turnaround time this instance was several weeks. I've since put around 200 rounds downrange through it and it is handling well, shooting accurately, and cycling ammo fine. I'll give a tentative thumb's up on the direction that the company seems to be heading in, and hope their new CEO is a man of his word.

I've never heard musician Dave Matthews wax political on anything. Then again, I don't care for his musical style, either, so I didn't listen to him much.

Most relevant part was the last minute of the video, where Chuck summed up very well the reason the 2A is under dire threat today. Well, counting him, I think we are up to around a dozen Hollywood types willing to speak out on and take the right stance on this issue.

Happy Hannukah, guys! Mmmm....latkes. One of the best things in "Jewish" cuisine. Regards, Scott (1/8th member of the Tribe) in Bayonne

Thanks, guys. While I understand some may disagree with my position, it's mine and I'm sticking to it. I pray to God I never have to put it into practice, though. BLF, I never thought you or anyone else was doing a basheroo on me; it was just frustrating trying to translate how I felt when someone entered my property at night during adverse circumstances, and thinking about how that might embolden them to go a bit further in the near future. Respectfully, Scott in Bayonne

Once again, making it clear that I'm carrying ON my property as a deterrent, hoping it never gets to the stage where anyone will be taking someone out first. I didn't have the option of putting up barbed wire on my fences, or posting a bunch of "Beware of Dog", "Premises Under CCTV Surveillance", "Protection by ADT" signs around the front of my home, so I thought anyone skulking around outside--and there were plenty of skulkers in this part of town--who could clearly see onto my property, realizing that I was armed, would be DETERRED from doing anything illegal. In the days following Sandy, neither my neighbors or I saw ONE Bayonne police car come down the block. On night 2 someone opened my front gate, walked about 15' down the alley and dragged out my gutter and downspout that had been blown off. Thanks to two generators running near the house I never heard a sound. Did I really care about losing what was now scrap? No. What absolutely bothered me was the fact that someone would feel free to enter my property at all. Again, would I "brandish" the gun at someone for simply looking into my property? No, I would not. Would I draw the gun because someone suddenly turned up, uninvited, in my basement while I'm working there? I just might. And I think that's being a helluva lot more honest than some of the holier-than-thou posters on this subject. It has nothing to do with protecting my property, and I'm sure not worried about garnering "justification" at that point. I've got an intruder in the house, with my family members upstairs, and I'm not really concerned about playing 20 questions at that point in order to figure out the guy's motivations.

How? Well, when they glance into the alley way, or in my yard, and see a person wearing a gun on his hip, they may then realize that it isn't the ideal place from which to pilfer from, invade, cause bodily harm, etc. Maybe "scare the caca out of them" was the wrong phrase to use. How about: "I WILL cause them to reconsider whatever scumbag behavior they were thinking of engaging in"?

And again, you guys are building a scenario that I never once posited.