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  1. carebear

    Hand gun ownership in the U.S.

    That isn't an ad for anything. It's a poster by Oleg Volk of a real girl with her real rifle. She's an actual shooter and daughter of a very responsible family of shooters. There are millions of kids like her all across our country. Astonishingly, they aren't the ones getting into trouble.
  2. carebear

    Hand gun ownership in the U.S.

    That's her gun and she shoots it... Well. So why is it disturbing? She's trained and responsible. I would trust her on the firing line next to me far more than many adults I know. She shoots with her parents and probably knows the manual of operation, principles of safety and principles...
  3. carebear

    Vintage Concealed Weapons

    Somebody sent him a Bianchi X-15 a while back but there haven't been any pictures yet. [huh]
  4. carebear

    POLL: US members: Which Region of the US are you from

    That's garbage, we don't average anywhere near that low. When we hit more than 10 below it's an anomaly. We are typically above 0 F except for a few weeks in the depths of winter. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/weather/longterm/historical/data/anchorage_alaska.htm
  5. carebear

    POLL: US members: Which Region of the US are you from

    My work here is done. :p
  7. carebear

    POLL: US members: Which Region of the US are you from

    It's 70-ish, slightly overcast with a nice breeze today. Friday it was clear blue sky, burning sun and hot in the high 70's. And the fish are in.
  8. carebear

    POLL: US members: Which Region of the US are you from

    Darn tootin! :D
  9. carebear

    Fellas living with froufrou?

    You can build a tree fort and pull up the ladder.
  10. carebear

    Hand gun ownership in the U.S.

    You can get furniture in a rainbow of colors, and you can apply durable colored finishes onto the metal, at home, as well. Infinitely customizable.
  11. carebear

    Hand gun ownership in the U.S.

    A buddy of mine on one of the gun forums has two daughters with "girly guns". One, (who's 10 now I think) has an AR-15 with pink furniture (stock, handguard and grip) and her older sister (13?) has one that's purple but has pink flower stickers on it. Nothing wrong with being girly. :D
  13. carebear

    Hand gun ownership in the U.S.

    You can boil the safety rules down to 3 (+1) and ensure that you will never have an accident. Which is a misnomer, short of a statistically unlikely (like tenths of a percent unlikely) mechanical failure, there are no firearms accidents, there is just negligence. Guns flat do not "just go...
  14. carebear

    Hand gun ownership in the U.S.

    What is this "get a gun" of which you speak? [huh] If I have on my pants I have on my gun, it's now (after almost 18 years) as much a part of my normal dress as my watch or my shoes... ...and much more convenient to carry than my bat, hammer and axe (though not my pocket knife). :D...
  15. carebear

    Hand gun ownership in the U.S.

    A book I recommend to folks from outside the US to understand why straight comparisons of gun statistics aren't the end-all of understanding distinctions in violent crime rates is Kopel's "The Samurai, the Mountie, and the Cowboy: Should America Adopt the Gun Controls of Other Democracies?"...
  16. carebear

    Hand gun ownership in the U.S.

    That microbrewed ale is of the Deh-veel. :D
  17. carebear

    Hand gun ownership in the U.S.

    And I have no problem with folks voluntarily getting together to take care of such things. Heck, reality-wise I don't have a problem with some sort of public safety net in the interim. What I'd like to see though is that before we create that net, we save some money by stopping the...
  19. carebear

    Hand gun ownership in the U.S.

    John, I see exactly what the consequences will be and I feel that they are a reasonable trade off short-term until people readjust to the fact that decisions and choices have those consequences. We certainly aren't improving the situation doing what we're doing. All we have managed to do...
  20. carebear

    Hand gun ownership in the U.S.

    Viola got it. There's no way to prevent risk, especially in a free society. If we worried about criminalizing only acts of violence against others and not about pre-emptively saving folks from themselves with hugely ineffective prohibitions we would free up all those currently wasted law...
  21. carebear

    What did your grandparents pack for personal protection in the Golden Era?

    You don't carry a gun because a place or time is "dangerous". You carry a gun for the same reason you keep a fire extinguisher in your car or insurance on your house. Forethought and preparedness. You don't really expect danger or trouble and you aren't looking for it. You just want to be...
  22. carebear

    Hand gun ownership in the U.S.

    Tom, This is a website that pulls together the firearms laws for each state. http://www.packing.org/ The issue of concealed (and open) carry in this country has been a very interesting subject for the past few decades. "Federalism at work" as carry laws have been loosened state by...
  23. carebear

    Hand gun ownership in the U.S.

    Concealed or unconcealed you can in Vermont, always have been. You now can in Alaska as well, a few other states are moving that direction. Many other states allow permitless open carry, if not concealed. With the "shall-issue" permitting system current in 38 states (last I checked), up...

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