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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Aug 27, 2014 13:38:50 GMT -5
My boys and I go shooting semi-frequently. I have three guns in the house right now. My wife grew up with guns in the house, and knows how to to shoot, how to be safe, and how to be responsible. I never did. And being that a gun's purpose is to kill, I have a very biased fear of them. My father in law hunts, and has invited me to go with him, and teach me and all, but despite liking wild game, I'm too afraid to use one again. I admit I am biased about guns, and don't try to influence others, I just hate to hear of news like this. I feel like somewhere down the line there's a balance between, one side rallying when this like this happened, and people walking in to Chipotle's with loaded guns. I'm sure there are a lot of responsible gun owners (I know my father in law must have been since his daughters all know how to use them and never shot anyone) it's the bad things like this and that, that get all the media attention, that don't help me quash my own bias.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2014 14:00:54 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. You never know. When I was covering the courts in the late '80s, I was surprised to see a former (or maybe current? surely not) FBI agent get seated, as well as a former assistant attorney general.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 27, 2014 14:02:28 GMT -5
We had one U.S. magistrate judge get seated on a criminal trial semi-recently.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2014 14:02:59 GMT -5
My boys and I go shooting semi-frequently. I have three guns in the house right now. My wife grew up with guns in the house, and knows how to to shoot, how to be safe, and how to be responsible. I never did. And being that a gun's purpose is to kill, I have a very biased fear of them. My father in law hunts, and has invited me to go with him, and teach me and all, but despite liking wild game, I'm too afraid to use one again. I admit I am biased about guns, and don't try to influence others, I just hate to hear of news like this. I feel like somewhere down the line there's a balance between, one side rallying when this like this happened, and p eople walking in to Chipotle's with loaded guns. I'm sure there are a lot of responsible gun owners (I know my father in law must have been since his daughters all know how to use them and never shot anyone) it's the bad things like this and that, that get all the media attention, that don't help me quash my own bias. In the latter case, I think we have to assume that those guns' purpose is to make the people carrying them look like the worst kind of drooling redneck imbeciles.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2014 14:41:02 GMT -5
As a drooling redneck imbecile I'll have you know I'd never go to Chipotle.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2014 14:41:20 GMT -5
Just kidding, I love big burritos.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Aug 27, 2014 14:51:10 GMT -5
My boys and I go shooting semi-frequently. I have three guns in the house right now. My wife grew up with guns in the house, and knows how to to shoot, how to be safe, and how to be responsible. I never did. And being that a gun's purpose is to kill, I have a very biased fear of them. My father in law hunts, and has invited me to go with him, and teach me and all, but despite liking wild game, I'm too afraid to use one again. I admit I am biased about guns, and don't try to influence others, I just hate to hear of news like this. I feel like somewhere down the line there's a balance between, one side rallying when this like this happened, and people walking in to Chipotle's with loaded guns. I'm sure there are a lot of responsible gun owners (I know my father in law must have been since his daughters all know how to use them and never shot anyone) it's the bad things like this and that, that get all the media attention, that don't help me quash my own bias. My dad was a deer hunter in his younger days, so we always had rifles in the house when I was a kid. Carefully locked in a gun cabinet. He let me fire a few shots from a .22 rifle when I was in my teens. It was my first try, so I didn't actually hit the target, but I was steady enough that he said he wouldn't want me shooting at him. In boot camp (Navy) we had gun training culminating in firing a .45 caliber pistol that had been modified down to .22. We got to fire 4 shots total, just to prove we could handle a firearm without hurting ourselves or others. Didn't even get to see if we hit the target, which was disappointing. After leaving the Navy, I've never had a need to touch a gun, so I never have. I've never had a need to own one either. No desire to hunt. I prefer my food already dead and cut up for me. But the concept of a restaurant where anybody off the street can be handed an Uzi for fun just boggles the mind.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Aug 27, 2014 14:51:56 GMT -5
Just kidding, I love big burritos. "I like big burritos, and I can not lie..."
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 27, 2014 15:05:00 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 in the "heartland."
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Post by DE Sinclair on Aug 27, 2014 15:22:55 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 in the "heartland." Somewhere in the "dumbass-land". Which is apparently in Arizona.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2014 15:29:02 GMT -5
Somewhere in the "heartland." Somewhere in the "dumbass-land". Which is apparently in Arizona. We all know the collective IQ there declined precipitously after I left.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2014 15:30:25 GMT -5
Just kidding, I love big burritos. We got a Chipotle here a couple of years ago, & I've been twice. Pretty good, but it's on the other side of town from me. If I'm that far out, I tend to just head on down the road another couple of miles for the Indian buffet (not to be confused with the Indian buffet that's several miles closer to me).
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2014 15:34:59 GMT -5
I wish we had Indian (or anything other than Mexican, Chinese and sushi) here.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2014 15:38:03 GMT -5
We're lucky as hell to have two Indian places. When I moved here in 11/01, I don't believe there were any. Then one opened up 6 or 7 years ago, on -- very gratifyingly -- the weekend of my birthday. The other one opened up a couple of years after that. The first one relocated to Pensalola, but it came back (or maybe opened a 2nd location) here at the beginning of this year.
Didn't really know how much I liked Indian till then, really. I'd been to one in Little Rock a couple of times, but again it was really out of the way.
We've got lots of Korean places, too (Hyundai has had a big manufacturing plant outside of town for more than a decade), but the couple of times I've partaken I haven't been particularly impressed. No doubt they all sorts of good stuff I'm unfamiliar with, though.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2014 15:40:25 GMT -5
I've only had Inidan once, when I was visiting my sister in Houston but it was phenomenal. I get some of those Indian frozen dinner things every once in a while, and they're decent for what they are but obviously not ideal.
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