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How Many People Own Guns in America? And Is Gun Ownership Actually Declining?

March 19, 2013 at 8:51am

Let’s see if I have this right. The phone rings and some stranger asks if you own a gun. I know how I’d answer that question.

I suspect the ‘seeming’ decline in gun ownership closely parallels the public’s trust in government.

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Would Mandatory Gun Ownership Laws Violate Citizens’ Constitutional Rights?

March 12, 2013 at 9:06am

Or offer a property tax reduction for those of us who are armed. After all, those who can take care of themselves reduce the load on government services.

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‘Kind of Scary, Kind of Exciting’: Man Records Plane Crash From the Passenger Seat

February 16, 2013 at 9:13pm

I’ve experienced a couple of those.

Anything you can walk away from is a good landing – Any landing after which you can reuse the aircraft is a GREAT landing. :-)

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Stunning Pics & Video: Reports of Many Injuries From Meteorite Strike in Russia’s Ural Mountains

February 15, 2013 at 6:51am

In reply to The-Monk.

Good day Monk and Secret.

Russians have dash cams for self preservation, and to save their rubles. There’s so many bump-and-scam artists, bad drivers (think vodka), and crooked cops, over there that insurance companies offer large discounts if you have a dash cam.

Drive like a Russian. (my apologies to “Walk Like An Egyptian” :-)
You too can easily equip you vehicle with not only a dash cam, but a simple low cost system that watches all four quadrants; front, rear, both sides, and records audio. Tiger Direct, ( http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3946798&CatId=6031 ) and many others, sell simple four camera security systems. Make sure and get one, like the above, that uses a 12-volt DC power supply, and simply hook it up so it’s powered whenever your ignition is on. The included 500GB DVR will record about a month of video before it wraps and writes over the previous month. You can off-load your best video clips to a thumb drive, for uploading to youtube. ;-)

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If ‘Assault Weapons’ Are Bad…Why Does DHS Want to Buy 7,000 of Them for ‘Personal Defense’?

January 26, 2013 at 3:25pm

In reply to RockyCreekRanch.

Wrong-O ROCKYCREEKRANCH, Kalifornia, and several other states, have long prohibited ‘We the People’ from having class-III firearms, suppressors, and those classified by the BATF as AOW ‘Any Other Weapon’. In the somewhat freer states like Arizona, Texas, and others, the citizens can, with registration and payment to the Feds, have AOWs, suppressors, and the like.

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Don’t Call a ‘Magazine’ a ‘Clip’: We Spoke With an Ex-SEAL About the Difference and Why It’s Important

January 25, 2013 at 4:32am

In reply to Keatonc333.

Compromise is the heart of successful negotiation, but only when the unintended consequences are not injurious to those doing the compromising. Mandatory firearms registration or licensing is one compromise proven time and again to be injurious, many times to the point of death, to those accepting the compromise.

As a life long gun owner, I too would like to keep all dangerous tools and implements from the hands of crazies, criminals, and incompetents. These dangerous devices would not only include firearms, but encompass all manner of potentially harmful items or activities.

KEATONC333, I will see your suggested compromise – and raise you one of mine.

All adults, whether or not they wish to own or operate a gun, automobile, knife, or other object deemed dangerous, will be required to pass a background check, mental health screening, automobile safety, knife, fire extinguisher, and firearms safety courses. If they FAIL any aspect of these requirements they will be required to carry a special ID card, or implanted chip, indicating what item(s) they are prohibited from obtaining, or using. This would be considered a ‘reverse’ permit or license. Only those prohibited would be listed in a government database. Failure to inform a seller of ones prohibited status would garner a multi-year prison sentence for the first offence, and life or death for the second.

If you expect me to me to jump through bureaucratic hoops, would it not be fair that you do the
How Are Advancing Tech, the ‘Singularity’ and Gov’t Regulation All Connected? Buckle Up and Let Glenn Beck Explain

January 18, 2013 at 10:12am

In reply to alinskythis.

Because it’s the future!

In but a few years, we’ll be 3D printing our steak diner, with the option of printing it fully cooked to our precise liking. The Star Trek replicator is coming nearer.

Within the next generation, the world will be far more different than today is from Socrates’ time.

“Any sufficiently advanced civilization is indistinguishable from magic” – Arthur C. Clarke
“I want to be a magician! I wish I were 10 again so I’d have a chance to experience more of tomorrow.” -Shoot2Stop

Reading these comments is entertaining yet frustrating. Like all new things there’s those of us who embrace them, and the Luddites who want to burn the books and those who wrote them. Stifling knowledge is a fool’s errand. When will the flat-earthers learn, once let out, you can’t put the genie back in the bottle.

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Oh No: Glenn Beck’s Wife Accidentally Flushes Her Wedding Ring Down the Toilet…Before Their Anniversary Celebration

January 17, 2013 at 7:34pm

Glenn, if you’ve got one of those government mandated low-flow toilets, her ring is probably still floating around in the bowl.
‘Smart Guns’ Being Developed That Only Shoot in the Hands of Authorized Users — But Is the Tech Up to Snuff?

January 17, 2013 at 4:55am

As the video rightly stated, “Over the years, there’s been many who’ve tried to develop a smart-gun.” They’ve all failed, not necessarily because of the technology, but due to reliability and other issues.

As DTOM47 said, “Try it on the cops first”. Once the police forces have used it for a decade or so, without failure or loss of a LEO’s life because of it, I ‘might’ consider it – Or not.

Wide Area Control? Just like the ‘No Guns’ signs. Places where the only people with a working firearm will be the bad guys with dumb guns.

If this is offered, but not made mandatory, I suspect it will sell like GM’s Volt. If it’s made mandatory, there will be a thriving underground business for those who can make smart guns dumb again.

Thank you but, I’ll just stick with my trusty old, fully mechanical, 1911. John Browning’s piece of heavenly perfection has never let me down.

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‘Shoot Him Again! Shoot Him!’: Husband Coaches Wife to Shoot Home Invader in Chilling 911 Audio

January 10, 2013 at 6:24pm

Good husband! Good wife and mother.

Never get between a momma bear and her cubs.

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