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At the age of 30, I got rid of my smart phone and switched back to my flip phone. I've used the same one for the last two years. Battery lasts for a week.
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I was told Avengers was mind-blowing, the best Marvel movie to date. I hear some stuff happens that fans are upset about though. That may change things for some people.
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Meh. I like to bounce around.
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Just because I have a Captain America tattoo on my shoulder, that does not mean I'm a manchild. It's my love for juvenile humor and poor decision-making skills that define my manchildness,,,
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If you don't like Pinkie Pie as a grown-ass man, then you shut your normie mouth and sit the fuck down.
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I'm 32. Married, 3 kids. I've been roleplaying online since I was 14-ish. Started with chat rooms, then forums in my late teens. I graduated with a bachelor's degree in criminal justice a few years ago after going back to school online following a disastrous attempt at college (18-20) when I first graduated high school. I spent some time bouncing around crappy jobs, then enlisted in the national guard when I was 22. I deployed to Afghanistan about two and a half years later as an airborne infantryman. I came home in 2011 and bounced around a few jobs. I spent a lot of time working as a security officer for the public school system and mentoring young kids that didn't have much in the way of positive adult male figures in their lives. I'm still enlisted, I now work for the marketing department of an insurance company as I strive to purchase a house.
I like to think I specialize in modern, realistic settings, though I'm open to everything if it catches my interest. I have an enthusiastic interest in most forms of combat and a background in mixed martial arts and self-defense, as well as both the use and construction of firearms. I'm a big comic book enthusiast, particularly a fan of Captain America. I read a lot of Vince Flynn's American Assassin series. I play video games when my family gives me the chance, but nothing very serious. I host Dungeons & Dragons at my house every other Sunday with a handful of friends. If I think of anything else, I probably won't add it, but you can sure ask me about myself anytime you like.
I like to think I specialize in modern, realistic settings, though I'm open to everything if it catches my interest. I have an enthusiastic interest in most forms of combat and a background in mixed martial arts and self-defense, as well as both the use and construction of firearms. I'm a big comic book enthusiast, particularly a fan of Captain America. I read a lot of Vince Flynn's American Assassin series. I play video games when my family gives me the chance, but nothing very serious. I host Dungeons & Dragons at my house every other Sunday with a handful of friends. If I think of anything else, I probably won't add it, but you can sure ask me about myself anytime you like.
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Plans on reading and posting some time today or tomorrow
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Make a political thread and then get salty when people disagree with you.
... Riiiiiiight...
Make a political thread and then get salty when people disagree with you.
... Riiiiiiight...
It may be the wine I had this evening but...I mean, I can't argue with you on most aspects of this discussion. I do, however, fully stand behind the biometric device. I believe it's a great idea to prevent illegal use of handguns which lead to incidents such as the one here. Your wife/friend/neighbor may not be able to play with it at the range, but maybe something can be done about finding a way to activate/deactivate the device. Only you as the owner would have the option to do so though.
And the argument where someone threatens you at knifepoint or whatever is a bit silly, but I was trying to look at every viable option to try to cover all grounds in favor of the biometric device.
I do have to admit that you're probably the first person with a different belief than mine who's successfully managed to get me to agree with some of their viewpoints.
I strive very hard to turn arguments about controversial topics into conversations and discussions with differing viewpoints. I never believe I'm right and you're wrong, just that we disagree, and I like to state the reasons why I feel the way I do, while listening to someone else's.
Not every teacher should be armed and any who are should be processed, vetted, trained, and kept on a living record. It should be a conceal carry option for those that qualify in it, with the addition that if a school does not wish firearms to be on the campus in the hands of teachers, either because they cannot afford a privately owned weapon or because ideologically they are against firearms, there should be a waiver written for it. This would place all liability on the school itself and it need to find alternative means that afford the same level of protection, be that a police officer, rather officers, by an agreement with local or state law enforcement, or by using other techniques such as metal detectors, interlocks, and screening areas to achieve roughly similar effect.
I certainly do not believe every teacher should be armed, but those who are should be held to the highest standards of reliability and follow processes the federal government already uses for the arming of its members and when they are not authorized to bear firearms. Example being that if said certified teacher is on medication that is mind or mood altering, they are not permitted to carry their weapon; same with those undergoing counselling or those with financial issues. In short, lift a process from one side that does work and has worked and shift it over to the other.
I 100% agree with everything stated in this post.
See, Germany in 1939 thought the exact same thing. So did Venezuela when they outlawed firearms. You can't take away something as basic and fundamental as protection on the idea that, "Pft! That'll never happen!" Especially when we have someone as ridiculous as Trump running our government. Having the odds in my favor is like saying, "Car air bags hurt people. I'm probably not ever going to be in an accident, and neither are you, so you shouldn't endanger the life of yourself or those in your cars by installing them."
I kind of see what you're getting at as far as privilege vs right, but the idea of making it so that the government "allows" you to own a firearm is never going to fly. If it's a privilege, it can be taken away for no reason. That gives the government the power to outlaw it at their whim. America is a nation that was born from citizens fighting tyranny, meaning civilians with privately-owned firearms fighting against a government with military ordnance. That heritage is the reason behind the second amendment, and it's the number 1 reason that amendment will never be repealed.
Insurance is something that's out there, but it's not an insurance policy in the way that most insurance policies operate. Car insurance means that they will pay for the damage you incur in the case of an accident. Gun insurance would mean they would pay for the damage you incur in the case of your firearm causing damage- either to a person or property. 9/10 times that is only going to happen if you are committing a felony or protecting your life, in which case no insurance company is going to cover you if you are committing a felony, and if you are protecting your life or the life of those around you, no one should hold you liable for the damage you cause when you kill a perpetrator. The USCCA (United States Concealed Carry Association) offers concealed carry insurance, but that insurance doesn't give a fuck about the person you shoot- it's made to protect the person doing the shooting in the case of a justified shoot by offering legal representation and money to even pay for another firearm while yours is being held in police evidence.
And a biometric trigger lock is a great thing. They're currently testing the technology. I wouldn't be against it, but I wouldn't want it to be mandatory. If I have a gun at home that I want to take the range and have my friends shoot, I'd like it to be able to be shot by everyone, not just me. I'm all for keeping guns in a biometric safe- I have one, and only my wife or I can open it, but making it so you have lock individual firearms is impractical for most gun owners.
Then there's the scenario you've painted about someone being threatened to unlock their safe for someone else to use their gun... What are they doing the threatening with? A gun? Why would they need mine? A knife? What would stop me from opening my safe and grabbing my gun and killing them? And what's the fun of having a super kick-ass firearm that you spent way too much money on if you can't brag about it to your friends?
You see the incidents of bad people with guns more than good people with guns because A) Bad people create situations in which they use their guns, whereas good people react to them. B) the media doesn't cover incidents when guns save lives. Those don't have double-digit body counts, so they don't make the news. C) Good people that own guns that don't cause problems don't make the news. The bad does not out weigh the good, it just makes the news more often.
Just because a person owns a gun doesn't mean they know what the fuck they're doing with it, and that often results in negligent discharges and accidents. It would be really nice to make training more affordable, which could be easily doable if the government would subsidize it. You could hold community gun safety training classes at the local community center for free and do a hell of a lot of good for some otherwise ignorant people.
I kind of see what you're getting at as far as privilege vs right, but the idea of making it so that the government "allows" you to own a firearm is never going to fly. If it's a privilege, it can be taken away for no reason. That gives the government the power to outlaw it at their whim. America is a nation that was born from citizens fighting tyranny, meaning civilians with privately-owned firearms fighting against a government with military ordnance. That heritage is the reason behind the second amendment, and it's the number 1 reason that amendment will never be repealed.
Insurance is something that's out there, but it's not an insurance policy in the way that most insurance policies operate. Car insurance means that they will pay for the damage you incur in the case of an accident. Gun insurance would mean they would pay for the damage you incur in the case of your firearm causing damage- either to a person or property. 9/10 times that is only going to happen if you are committing a felony or protecting your life, in which case no insurance company is going to cover you if you are committing a felony, and if you are protecting your life or the life of those around you, no one should hold you liable for the damage you cause when you kill a perpetrator. The USCCA (United States Concealed Carry Association) offers concealed carry insurance, but that insurance doesn't give a fuck about the person you shoot- it's made to protect the person doing the shooting in the case of a justified shoot by offering legal representation and money to even pay for another firearm while yours is being held in police evidence.
And a biometric trigger lock is a great thing. They're currently testing the technology. I wouldn't be against it, but I wouldn't want it to be mandatory. If I have a gun at home that I want to take the range and have my friends shoot, I'd like it to be able to be shot by everyone, not just me. I'm all for keeping guns in a biometric safe- I have one, and only my wife or I can open it, but making it so you have lock individual firearms is impractical for most gun owners.
Then there's the scenario you've painted about someone being threatened to unlock their safe for someone else to use their gun... What are they doing the threatening with? A gun? Why would they need mine? A knife? What would stop me from opening my safe and grabbing my gun and killing them? And what's the fun of having a super kick-ass firearm that you spent way too much money on if you can't brag about it to your friends?
You see the incidents of bad people with guns more than good people with guns because A) Bad people create situations in which they use their guns, whereas good people react to them. B) the media doesn't cover incidents when guns save lives. Those don't have double-digit body counts, so they don't make the news. C) Good people that own guns that don't cause problems don't make the news. The bad does not out weigh the good, it just makes the news more often.
Just because a person owns a gun doesn't mean they know what the fuck they're doing with it, and that often results in negligent discharges and accidents. It would be really nice to make training more affordable, which could be easily doable if the government would subsidize it. You could hold community gun safety training classes at the local community center for free and do a hell of a lot of good for some otherwise ignorant people.
I'd probably be down.
Jason hadn't heard anyone call him "Mister Chambers" since the last time he got pulled over for speeding seven years ago. The title surprised him a little bit, and further affirmed his suspicion that he was being dealt with by civilians and not military personnel here. Landstuhl wasn't a name he was particularly familiar with, but it sounded German, which made sense if he had been flown to Germany. Ramstein was the base in Germany that the U.S. sent all of its injured soldiers before they were brought state-side, but that was all Chambers knew about the place.
Listening to and looking at the woman as she spoke, she took on a very soothing demeanor. It wasn't just her soft voice, her gentle touch, her physical closeness, or the expression on her face, but some combination of the sight, touch, sound, and feel of her presence and maybe some other kind of intangible sensation in the air. Chambers could feel her concern wash over him like a thin, warm blanket of comfort. It was almost as if he could feel his blood pressure decrease along with his pulse. When he looked at her and listened, he knew he didn't want her to stop talking, or stop looking at him with that expression and those eyes. Jason tried to understand when the last time someone had made him feel this way, or what was so special about this particular woman, when he heard a beep from the machine his IV bag was attached to, and realized he was on morphine.
When she extended her hand, Jason looked at it, and then at her face, quizzically. She might have just been resting it, but it seemed like she was offering it to him, or maybe it was just another effect of the morphine. None of that mattered though. Chambers reached over just slightly with his broken arm, as she had placed her hand within inches of his, and grazed her fingers with the pads of his fingertips. When she didn't move her hand away, he grew slightly bolder, until finally he found several of her hands wrapped in his. The cast on his arm went all the way to his wrist, crossing his palm, which made gripping things in it difficult, but didn't allow him to rotate his wrist either. While only able to hold her fingers, he felt the squeeze of her own grip in return, and a smile suddenly cut across his lips.
"Thank you," was all he said as he felt the effects of the latest dose of morphine start to cause his head to feel fuzzy and drowsiness to set in once again, "Would you mind just sitting for a while, with me, and just... talking?" The drugs made him completely incapable of embarrassment.
"I just would like it a lot if you just sat and talked and looked at me. It doesn't matter what you say, I just want your voice and your eyes right now, if you can. Please."
He didn't pay attention to the words she said after he learned her name, the tone of her voice just brought him back to a soft, safe place in his mind, and he was back asleep again in minutes.
Listening to and looking at the woman as she spoke, she took on a very soothing demeanor. It wasn't just her soft voice, her gentle touch, her physical closeness, or the expression on her face, but some combination of the sight, touch, sound, and feel of her presence and maybe some other kind of intangible sensation in the air. Chambers could feel her concern wash over him like a thin, warm blanket of comfort. It was almost as if he could feel his blood pressure decrease along with his pulse. When he looked at her and listened, he knew he didn't want her to stop talking, or stop looking at him with that expression and those eyes. Jason tried to understand when the last time someone had made him feel this way, or what was so special about this particular woman, when he heard a beep from the machine his IV bag was attached to, and realized he was on morphine.
When she extended her hand, Jason looked at it, and then at her face, quizzically. She might have just been resting it, but it seemed like she was offering it to him, or maybe it was just another effect of the morphine. None of that mattered though. Chambers reached over just slightly with his broken arm, as she had placed her hand within inches of his, and grazed her fingers with the pads of his fingertips. When she didn't move her hand away, he grew slightly bolder, until finally he found several of her hands wrapped in his. The cast on his arm went all the way to his wrist, crossing his palm, which made gripping things in it difficult, but didn't allow him to rotate his wrist either. While only able to hold her fingers, he felt the squeeze of her own grip in return, and a smile suddenly cut across his lips.
"Thank you," was all he said as he felt the effects of the latest dose of morphine start to cause his head to feel fuzzy and drowsiness to set in once again, "Would you mind just sitting for a while, with me, and just... talking?" The drugs made him completely incapable of embarrassment.
"I just would like it a lot if you just sat and talked and looked at me. It doesn't matter what you say, I just want your voice and your eyes right now, if you can. Please."
He didn't pay attention to the words she said after he learned her name, the tone of her voice just brought him back to a soft, safe place in his mind, and he was back asleep again in minutes.
I built this myself from custom parts and had it cerakoted because I wanted my wife to be able to enjoy the hobby as much as I did. Totally worked, btw, but now she's demanding a silencer.
And I feel like the best way to teach kids is to introduce them to things early and educate them about these things so that they aren't afraid of them, but nor do they have a natural curiosity to play with Dad's guns.
And this is my short barrel rifle with a *Dun-dun-duuuuuun*
Silencer.
And it was so EASY. All I had to do was pay an extra 200-dollars for a tax stamp and then wait 9 months for a 7-page form to be submitted and a thorough background check from the FBI to come back approved. Oh, and I had to go through the SAME process to have a barrel of less than 16" on a firearm with a stock, ie, a short barrel rifle.
And I feel like the best way to teach kids is to introduce them to things early and educate them about these things so that they aren't afraid of them, but nor do they have a natural curiosity to play with Dad's guns.
And this is my short barrel rifle with a *Dun-dun-duuuuuun*
Silencer.
And it was so EASY. All I had to do was pay an extra 200-dollars for a tax stamp and then wait 9 months for a 7-page form to be submitted and a thorough background check from the FBI to come back approved. Oh, and I had to go through the SAME process to have a barrel of less than 16" on a firearm with a stock, ie, a short barrel rifle.
My opinion is that gun ownership shouldn't be a right, but a privilege, if that. Obviously what I believe doesn't matter so since that's not changing, I've yet to see any real change be put forth in the aftermath of all these school shootings. If I'm mentally ill (bad example because that bill was struck recently), all I have to do is tell my friend to go buy the gun for me and that's it. That's all it takes.
Right, the reason it's easier to buy a gun is because guns are a right, cars are a privilege. I'm very disappointed that you feel that way, but to each their own. What change do you propose being made in the aftermath of these shootings? Everyone keeps talking about how "nothing is being done" but no one has any actual practical propositions that would work.
Straw purchases, ie, your friend buying the gun for you, is illegal. So yes, that's all it takes for you to get a gun if you are mentally ill. But murder is also illegal, and all it takes for that is for me to slit someone's throat, or wrap my arms around their throat and squeeze until they stop moving. There's literally nothing stopping me, except my own values and the repercussions for what happens after. If someone wants to murder a bunch of people, what do you think we should do in order to prevent that?
You talk about buying a gun being extremely easy, and you're right, it is "easy" if you're a law-abiding citizen. A thorough background check is conducted, and some people have to wait several days for the results of the check to come back. Anyone with a purchase permit or a concealed carry permit has already been subjected to a thorough background check as well. If you don't have any legal issues preventing you from buying a gun, then yes, it is easy, though it takes about 6 pages of paperwork to transfer the firearm in addition to the background check, not to mention the price of firearms being pretty high, depending on what you want to buy. If I timed it, and a person came in knowing what they wanted, having all the proper permits, did not exhibit signs of substance abuse, aggressive behavior, or mental instability, they could buy a gun in probably fifteen minutes.
But that means that they have to have a clean background, proper ID, and the necessary funds. For the average criminal, those are not easy.
As for why not insurance for gun owners, again, it's a right, not a privilege. The reason it's a right is so that what happened in Germany in the 1940's can't happen here. The same thing with North Korea, and Venezuela, and any other totalitarian regime. An armed citizenry is extremely difficult to impose injustice upon.
And "must buy insurance for my health" is also a huge bullshit issue I have as well, but they repealed that part of the affordable care act, so it doesn't matter any more. You shouldn't HAVE to buy anything just to be alive- but that's going down another stupid road.
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