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by hga 10y ago
And that doesn't work for the web site, which is, after all, the only thing taken down. No mention of The Yes Men, it really tries to look legit and claims an NRA copyright etc. Even the whois info for the domain dead ends at the Who
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by hga 10y ago
The NRA, as a 501(c)(4), is most certainly able to do electioneering, although there are of course constraints (I think it's limited to members?). But it also has a PAC, the Political Victory Fund, which is quite able to do the usual s
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by hga 10y ago
I not sure this purported program could include the homeless, for per the infamous Form 4473 ( https://www.atf.gov/file/61446/download has a 2012 version), you've got to supply your "Current Resident Ad
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by hga 10y ago
It has forced a lobby group that is perceived to have an unyielding view point on the 2nd amendment The NRA's stance is very much exaggerated, e.g. every piece of Federal anti-gun legislation passed with their approval until the 19
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by hga 10y ago
Looking at the copies stored on the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ShareTheSafety.org they don't immediately look false, although they don't copy the NRA's curre
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by hga 10y ago
Especially since helping the "impoverished" become responsible gun owners is something various pro-gun activists do, so while it's very hard to see the staid NRA start such a program, especially right now, it's hardly
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by hga 10y ago
People are perhaps deservedly ragging on Wal-Marts in this topic, but I can attest the ones in my home town of Joplin, including their first really big store that became their model for SuperCenters (well, two buildings later), have plenty
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by hga 10y ago
It's got to be something related to the hunting season for another species. The only big one in the spring I (sort of) know about is turkeys. So it turns out the question might actually be, what happens after April 17th? The 18th is
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by hga 10y ago
Well, in the case of Missouri, coyotes are an invasive species, so presumably some of the other mechanisms beside starvation that would normally keep their numbers controlled aren't in effect. I presume they've moved into Missouri
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by hga 10y ago
Err, sorry for my lack of clarity, I meant hunting itself is a 50-50 hobby and food collection thing. The one big animal a year back when my father did that, plus upland game birds and miscellania (including the bull frogs I hunted for dis
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by hga 10y ago
Speak for yourself. My father and I have a policy that everything we hunt that isn't a varmint (pest control and the like, due to our removal of other apex predators, including dealing with invasive species like coyotes) we also eat
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by hga 10y ago
"Being in a burglary", such that you might get killed, counts as robbery in the US, and per that page: UK robbery incidences: 76,179 (THOSB – CEW page 61, paragraph 2.) 76,179 / 561 = 135.72 US robbery incidences: 354,396 (F
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by hga 10y ago
The same reason that ... coyotes have come back, we limit hunting permits. That depends. They've vastly increased their range, it extended into western Massachusetts in the early '80s as I recall, and in my home state of Missou
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by hga 10y ago
Is that really true for the U.K., where the courts first stripped its subjects of the right to effective self-defense (using more force than the perpetrator) in the 1950s, then the Parliament by statute in the 1960s, and of course this was
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by hga 10y ago
Don't the ages 5 and 14 strike you as strange? What boundaries do they fall on? Not any standard one I can remember for young children, and 14 is a bit more common, but it's not when you become a teen, or the traditional coming
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by hga 10y ago
Nice move the goalposts, that's for children aged 5–14. And since those ages are completely non-standard in the literature, we can be sure the data set was massaged until they could "prove" their point using just that interv
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by hga 10y ago
Statistically, it's far more likely that one of your children will kill themselves, or a friend, or each other, with your gun than it is that it will be helpful for self-defense. That can't be true, for the number of fatal gun
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by hga 10y ago
And if you do store your guns appropriately, you won't have time to get them in a self defense situation. Simply not true: https://www.google.com/#q=push+button+gun+safe (Americans are problem solvers, after all; you
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by hga 10y ago
Only the latter addresses customization of guns, and I've done a fair amount of that, plus fixing a couple of issues, plus of course all my cleaning of them, at home. Or assembling your own, in the US AR-15 pattern rifles are pretty m
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by hga 10y ago
And carrying concealed, which is allowed in 42 states, plus many less urban counties of California and New York, and cities in Massachusetts. That's something like (from memory) 72% of the US population, as long as you're an adul
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by hga 10y ago
Also, people nowadays seem to be afraid of fats in their diets. That might be because of a full 6 decades of propaganda against them, weakly if at all supported by legitimate science. The powers that be are only now starting to admit th
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by hga 10y ago
Yeah, if you're in an earthquake zone, like the Pacific Ring of Fire ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_Fire ), which most certainly includes California and the Philippines, you're eventually going to be v
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by hga 10y ago
Doing nothing? This is essentially what MF Global did ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MF_Global ), except for the minor detail of then putting their customer's cash in for sure money losing investments, and then
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by hga 10y ago
As long as everyone continues to believe California is some sort of special, magical place It is when it comes to the enforcement of non-competes. True for the US in general, and a few minutes with Google makes it look like they're
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by hga 10y ago
It's not going to be very interesting, but the entire lists of NYC residents who got handgun and long gun licenses was published a while ago, less than 60K each for a city of 8 million (I counted the totals myself, easy with a fixed nu
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by hga 10y ago
If you can honestly say it's a shorter commute that's also a good reason to give (although I'd avoid telling them were you are going).
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by hga 10y ago
I just happened to be checking my water bill online earlier today, and it pointed me to the company's water quality evaluation ( http://www.amwater.com/twq/JP_twq.pdf ), which listed daily water supplied as its firs
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by hga 10y ago
Meanwhile, Toyota is allowed to ship buggy, untested, unauditable ECUs[0]. How can SE be considered a legitimate engineering discipline when such examples abound? In the bad old days, steam boilers would blow up a lot; check your state an
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by hga 10y ago
I suppose, but unless he felt a true calling to become a theoretical physicist, as is partly outlined in this piece, his decision was clearly right, for the previous golden age of physics was well over by late '50s, and progress since
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by hga 10y ago
Sorry for my lack of clarity, I was talking about both types of roofs, since the classic Somerville triple decker has a flat roof, and the classic Philadelphia a pitched roof with shingles. I was wondering about the former since I've

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