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Why stop at five? One more and you get a six pack.

And I can't stress enough how many of us, especially here in the Northwest, need to carry a gun for personal safety while out in the great outdoors. I often post about the cougars, bobcats, bear that I see while I am out fishing or hiking on my own. I promise you this: get tracked by a cat once, you will never go anywhere without at least considering carrying a gun again.

True!

or this: DONG

Can I have your old one?

And was probably a good shot too, if you know what I mean. wink wink nudge nudge

Don't push that line of arguement too far, or else people will start bitching about fishing too.

The "beginning"? Where you been buddy? I agree with you completely on the threat to personal rights though!

Is there a hunting season for sea lions?

that makes me hard.

Is he single?

Idiots should be banned from pretty much everything.

Funny enough, right after posting this I saw this: http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/04/19/shooting.columbine.survivor/index.html

I threw up on that climb. But I still love it. The vistas are unbeatable.

I did not express myself clearly. None of us gets out of living with the fears that come with living in our society. Sorry those kids had to go through this. They will incorporate their experience into their lives, work through it, and get beyond it. Just like people do all over the world all through history.

This is what constitutes mentally ill? Calling girls and thinking about offing himself? Wow, that makes every teenager I've ever met mentally ill. True, Cho did freak out and kill a bunch of people, but if folks are saying that his previous "mental health records" would have given any insight whatsoever to his eventual actions, they'd need to explain where they see that link. "The magistrate acted after Cho was taken to—and evaluated by—a local psychiatric hospital, following complaints to Virginia Tech campus police made by two female schoolmates. The two women said that Cho was contacting them with “annoying” telephone calls and e-mail messages. When campus police got a phone call from another acquaintance of Cho’s, expressing concern that he was suicidal, they sought and obtained the temporary detention order from the magistrate in the Montgomery County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court. Cho was then voluntarily but briefly admitted to Carilion Saint Albans, a local psychiatric hospital doctor there reported that Cho was "depressed" but “denies suicidal ideations" and did not "acknowledge symptoms of a thought disorder,” according to records obtained by the Richmond Times-Dispatch.)

Really? They're not supposed to pack up and move to another school? (cf. gunfire outside Tommy's and my apartment) Are you really trying to compare living by a bar and hearing a couple of gunshots to school massacres? The situation at your apartment is lame (and I hope your are able to safely resolve it w/out moving), but so is your analogy. When's the last time 32 people were killed outside your aparment, much less one? My take on Gary's comment was that he was referring to the right to not live in fear of being shot. His analogy is perfect for that discussion.

Sweet! Welcome to the Dark Side jhamaker!!!

Good point!

No biggie. But I would argue that "out of the house" does not assign the responsibility for who intiated the move to one party or another. That is why I use that phrase. Of course, I argue any old point just for the fun of it. Wanna ride bikes?

You can get your low quality monitor free. Craigslist. That way, you'll have more $ for the nice one.

Yes, in this one case. I am sure there are more like his. I am sure there are misdiagnosis. Why were Cho's records public? Just curious. And the gun comment is parsing tiny differences. Many bullets on the market are just as deadly as hollowpoints. IN this case, hollowpoints were an overkill anyhow.

Funny that you assume that I left. Not all parents are like the folks on this board.

Also, gun owners are not a small percentage. There are between 77 and 90 million gun owners in America.

1. This brings to mind the arguments that companies now use in order to perform a credit background search before they hire you (even though your job has nothing to do with banking, credit systems, financial institutions, etc). I feel this is an invasion of privacy. I also find that if someone searches another person's mental records--and let's remember that psychologist are not infalible--is an intensely personal invasion of privacy. 2. The over-regulation of our drug industry is there for one purpose--to ensure maximum profits. Why do I have to get a prescription from my doctor to get Retin A or Diflucan. Come on, other countries seem to be able to allow their public the basic assumption that most people are smart enough to figure out what they need. Your last statement makes clear the irony in an over-regulated drug system. Although it sounds all nice that people should have the freedom to carry on with thier lives with the assurance that nothing bad will happen to them, but there is no guarentee in life. You may get hit by a driver who swerves onto the sidewalk, you may get raped by a man in the bushes, you may get smacked on the head by a falling peice of concrete. But do we outlaw cars, dicks, and concrete as a result? No.