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Societies without firearms access for persona protection will certainly have predation by armed criminals be more successful. So to the degree that...

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06-18-2013, 10:40 AM

TomF replied to a thread "My Month With a Gun:" in The Bilge

Why might a warning shot "work," Phillip? What is the explicit threat? What makes the object dangerous to 4 year olds when the mechanism works...

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06-18-2013, 10:13 AM

TomF replied to a thread "My Month With a Gun:" in The Bilge

Before you jump down my throat - yes, I understand that the "variable" you see is ... well, perhaps the intent of the firearm owner isn't to shoot...

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06-18-2013, 10:06 AM

TomF replied to a thread "My Month With a Gun:" in The Bilge

Variability? Cripes. You're the target shooter - how close is a reasonable grouping? If a properly aimed and fired weapon purchased for...

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06-18-2013, 09:59 AM

TomF replied to a thread "My Month With a Gun:" in The Bilge

Phillip, it's hard when a point is rather unanswerable, yes? What I wrote was quite carefully worded:I'd quite explicitly tried to soften what...

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06-18-2013, 08:21 AM

TomF replied to a thread Finding Hoffa in The Bilge

One wonders if there's any compensation offered to the property owner either when they don't win the jackpot ... or when they do.

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06-18-2013, 07:24 AM

TomF replied to a thread "My Month With a Gun:" in The Bilge

It's a dishonest argument to observe that when a "personal protection" gun is fired and does what it was intended to do, a person is dead? And that...

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06-18-2013, 07:19 AM

TomF replied to a thread BTO in The Bilge

My God. This was definitely the pre-video era, eh? Musicians, not models.

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06-17-2013, 02:55 PM

TomF replied to a thread "My Month With a Gun:" in The Bilge

We have drug and associated gang problems too. Increasingly, those gang members are choosing to carry handguns, as while theyr'e not sold here...

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06-17-2013, 02:48 PM

TomF replied to a thread Thousand Island's - New York - Camping - Bugs? in The Bilge

That's just past the peak of black fly season in places further North. Enough bugs around to dessicate small children in situ if they're left...

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06-17-2013, 02:13 PM

TomF replied to a thread "My Month With a Gun:" in The Bilge

How many times have you given those examples? How many times have the numbers, e.g. of swimming deaths, been provided back to you? How many...

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06-17-2013, 01:57 PM

TomF replied to a thread "My Month With a Gun:" in The Bilge

Horace, the comment is unfortunately more accurate than you wish to think. There are significantly fewer children being shot, accidentally or...

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06-17-2013, 12:50 PM

TomF replied to a thread "My Month With a Gun:" in The Bilge

Funny, that's not the first thing that comes to mind.

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06-17-2013, 12:21 PM

TomF replied to a thread "My Month With a Gun:" in The Bilge

Only valid in some countries. Other places, people deal with such insecurities in other ways.

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06-17-2013, 12:10 PM

TomF replied to a thread I'm over loud pipes. in The Bilge

My son competes next weekend in a pipe and drum band. The pipes are loud, but have nothing on the snares. :D

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06-17-2013, 11:58 AM

TomF started a thread Man of Steel in The Bilge

Saw it last night. Yeah, the "flying Jesus" stuff was irritatingly present ... e.g. both Jesus and the Man of Steel were 33 when they started...

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06-17-2013, 11:25 AM

TomF replied to a thread Our Student Killed Today on a Ride for Cancer in The Bilge

The 3 yeal old daughter of some good friends has just finished 2 years of periodic chemo for leukemia. It happens that the mom's a surgeon, the dad's...

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06-17-2013, 08:34 AM

TomF replied to a thread Our Student Killed Today on a Ride for Cancer in The Bilge

I'm so sorry, Deb. This is a very hard thing all round. Yes, accidents happen. Yes, in many accidents ... there's part of it that maybe wasn't...

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06-15-2013, 06:47 AM

TomF replied to a thread kiel probes and pitot tube arrays in The Bilge

what do they do? shoot darts at the other drivers?

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