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Post by impulse on Aug 27, 2014 8:20:49 GMT -5
They probably got too cocky after not getting caught the first night and screwed up the second night during pre-gaming. I was an RA (Resident Assistant/Advisor/whatever combination they call it these days) at my university's then-flagship brand new on campus apartment community. It was like brand new condos, the football team lived in our community, super nice fountains, everything top of the line. The first day of class we accidentally busted a bunch of kids with drugs because as we were knocking on doors to introduce ourselves and pass out flyers they OPENED THE DOOR WHILE SMOKING OUT. Don't be that dumb. We really didn't care what people did as long as they weren't complete idiots about it. One, I don't care what you do, and two, I'm lazy and don't want to do all the paperwork that comes with writing an incident report. Most of us only reported things when we absolutely had to to cover our butts. With a hint of common sense you should be able to avoid most trouble.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Aug 27, 2014 8:28:32 GMT -5
Well the people in this state still seem to think that making marijuana legal is somehow gonna destroy the fabric of society, god's grace, and all morals, more so than alcohol or tobacco, which consistently cause damage to people's lives and well-being despite both their legality. So I guess what's taking us, here, so long is a stubborn and unwavering attitude about just one of many things that aren't what they are told to be. Good grief, I'm glad I'm not a non-white, homosexual, pot smoker in this region. Oh wait, you meant the college kids ..... Sorry
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2014 8:37:18 GMT -5
I spent god knows how many hours sitting in courtrooms when I was covering trials. I'm damned if I'll ever do so again. I'd probably also be liable to hang any jury I sat on, depending on the case. I remember covering a murder trial way back in '87 or so (one of three going on at the same time -- thank god the 3 criminal divisions were all on the same floor of the courthouse) in which both I & my competitor (the great Little Rock newspaper war was then some four years from ending) concluded that we'd have a hard time convicting. The jury was out maybe 30 minutes before returning a guilty verdict. That sort of thing happened fairly often (most memorably in the last big trial I covered -- a theft by deception case against the state's attorney general, who till then had been the presumptive heir to the governor's seat, then occupied by Bill Clinton; I'd have acquitted, not because he'd done no wrong, but because I thought the statute he violated was overly vague). Of course, a reporter is going to have access to all sorts of information that's denied to a jury. I don't think I could willingly operate in the comparative ignorance that the system requires (understandably) for jurors.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Aug 27, 2014 10:06:40 GMT -5
9 year old vacationing with her family shoots an instructer at a gun range with an uzi. It's all on tape thanks to the modern practice of recording everything. Where was it that thought giving a child an UZI was a good idea? I'd like to know so I can avoid ever going there.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Aug 27, 2014 10:18:43 GMT -5
I just sat through several hours of voir dire and will be sitting on a criminal jury tomorrow. I've only been called for jury duty once. I was put on one case that involved an assault with a knife on a porch in Milwaukee. The case must have been pretty thin though, because before we got to hear any testimony it was time to break for lunch and by the time we got back, the prosecution had dropped the case. Other than that, it was just 3 days of sitting around waiting for something to happen. As perk though they gave us free passes to go to the nearby museum over lunch, so that was nice.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Aug 27, 2014 10:36:36 GMT -5
9 year old vacationing with her family shoots an instructer at a gun range with an uzi. It's all on tape thanks to the modern practice of recording everything. Where was it that thought giving a child an UZI was a good idea? I'd like to know so I can avoid ever going there. Somewhere down here below the Bible Belt I'd imagine. Just cause it's a stereotype doesn't mean it isn't true in some cases. My sons 11 year old friend has shot guns of all kinds. Down here were more comfortable giving under aged kids guns than we are a Playboy.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Aug 27, 2014 11:25:04 GMT -5
Where was it that thought giving a child an UZI was a good idea? I'd like to know so I can avoid ever going there. Somewhere down here below the Bible Belt I'd imagine. Just cause it's a stereotype doesn't mean it isn't true in some cases. My sons 11 year old friend has shot guns of all kinds. Down here were more comfortable giving under aged kids guns than we are a Playboy. You're not wrong. When I moved back up north, it took a while to get used to not seeing fully-loaded rifle racks in the back windows of most pickup trucks.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Aug 27, 2014 11:28:58 GMT -5
Reached for comment, Wayne LaPierre says, "You say this as if it's a bad thing." Turns out the recoil is what sealed his fate. Just dumb to give someone under 15 or 16 a firearm in this shooting range. Followup question: What was this? Some sort of survivalist summer camp? I'm wondering because I've never been given the opportunity to fire an automatic weapon, and I was in the military. UPDATE: Never mind, I found the article. It was in Arizona. Article is here: mashable.com/2014/08/27/9-year-old-kills-gun-instructor/
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 27, 2014 11:33:03 GMT -5
This 9 year old and her family were vacationing in Arizona and stopped at a restaurant called bullets and burgers. They have a firing range and her parents allowed her to take a lesson. With tragic Results.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2014 11:53:26 GMT -5
Unfortunately, we're talking Darwin Awards here on more than one level.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Aug 27, 2014 12:14:00 GMT -5
I shot a gun for the first time in my life last year. A former coworker (a product of the south) couldn't believe at 30 something I had never shot a gun. He insistently kept on me about going out in the country and shooting guns with him. I finally caved and went with him (especially hating that I couldn't have my liquid courage, cause guns scare me). This was an unofficial (as in supervise yourself) area in the country where one could set up their own targets and shoot. There were two men there shooting (what I gather) huge caliber automatic rifles, cause the fire was incredibly deafening despite having ear plugs in. Then there was a father and son. The father was shooting a what looked like a bolt action rifle of some kind, doing long range targets. His son (9-11ish) was using a shotgun of some kind (I have no real comparison, as anything I know about guns is from video games) whose recoil, as he shot at this paint can 30-40 feet in front of him, blew the gun almost completely upright in the air, and a step back. What struck me is this kid actually looked like he knew what he was doing, as he had done this before. He pointed the gun down after shooting, went over to the table, reloaded and shot again. And between shots his father would talk to him and watch him. ME a grown man, of reasonable stature, found out of the 9mm handgun and .22something automatic rifle I shot, the 9mm too powerful for my comfort level. I really didn't like being there at all, and had to really make sure that my apprehension in handling them, wouldn't do what I feared and hurt someone. That's my one gun experience in my life, and will probably be my last. Guns hold no interest to me. I don not have to hunt (despite the fact that there are so many delicious animals) and I having grown up in the now famous Ferguson, MO never felt I needed one for protection, so have no interest in owning or shooting one again. I have more fun shooting zombies and BOW on Resident Evil than I did shooting a real gun at an inanimate object.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2014 12:18:23 GMT -5
I had a BB gun as a kid. That's the closest this almost-lifelong (excepting only 2 1/2 years in Arizona, which as we've seen is not exactly a bastion of liberal effeteness) Southerner as ever come to firing a gun.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2014 12:55:22 GMT -5
I used to have one of those air pistols that looks real, but I have no idea where it came from. I never fired it, and have never touched a real gun.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 27, 2014 13:04:10 GMT -5
My boys and I go shooting semi-frequently. I have three guns in the house right now.
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Post by Action Ace on Aug 27, 2014 13:32:33 GMT -5
I get called up for jury duty, but I have a rather easy method to never get seated for a trial. I am the neighbor and frequent golf partner of the State's Attorney.
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