Recent content by Thain

No, but perhaps boldfaced enlarged fonts, or posts written entirely in CAPSLOCK should be...

If you look through all the Google holiday doodles over the years (seen here) you'll see that they don't do the all of same holidays from year to year. They also have a tendency towards international, rather than U.S. specific, holidays. The doodles are just a fun occassional diversion, not a...

This is exactly why the roleplaying game is called "Serenity" and not "Firefly." It is also why the book details certain non-player charcaters in broad descriptions instead of calling Badger, for example, by name.

`nuff said.

rainbowbob, you are looking at the requirements for obtaining a purchase permit, not for a license to carry a concealed pistol. The statute to which I refer is MCL 28.425b(7)(l) [lower case L there, not an I or 1), which states: "The applicant does not have a diagnosed mental illness at...

I beleive a man named Murphy once has something to say about the "lowest bidder" and military equipment.

`nuff said.

My issue with the cop in the OP is not ignorance, it is arrogance.

A violent attack, apparently random, the focus on one target and not the other person in the room, the plate glass window juming, and the mad dash across a highway... I'm no expert, but I suspect our Suspect might have been guilty of violating some narcotics laws too.

If only there was some kind of association on a national level that knew about rifles, handguns, and other firearms... and wouldn't it be even better if this group put togetehr some sort of special program to teach kids as young as preschool what to do around guns. If only...

sacp81170a, I wasn't intending to paint all LEOs with the same brush. The vast majority of LEOs I "met" through THR or similar forums have always been above board, nice folks. But there will always be a certain degree of... prudent distrust... I think thats the best way to say it. There will...

Funny. I've got a copy of the NRA's Personal Defense in the Home right here next to my computer. The NRA is considered by most to be expert on this subject... and they say no such thing.

It is a police officers job to uphold the law, protect the peace, and arrest suspected lawbreakers. It is not a police officers job to give legal opinions, nor are they qualified to do so. The "unauthorized practice of law" (UPL) is prohibited in every state that I am aware of, either by...

This, right here, is the number one thing that causes me not to like cops. I have a ton of respect for them being willing do do the job, I have a ton of respect for the training, the risk, and the thanklessness they get for little to no reward. But police officers are in no way qualified to...

School, work, visting a freind... My daughter is 21 months, and it's hardly unusual for my wife no to be home at that hour. The article does say that the child's father was home. Oh, come on! The fact that kids wake up in the middle of the night is like a fundamental law of physics. Gravity...