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QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 11, 2015 -> 04:59 PM) Trent Richardson - inactive for a playoff game. What was worse, the Browns drafting him so high or the Colts giving up a 1st round pick after watching him suck? The Colts.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jan 11, 2015 -> 05:10 PM) I tend to agree with you. But without knowing the prices, the store location, there could be other factors at play. I'll bet more graffiti artists buy their paint at WalMart than some local store. Does that mean WalMart knowingly allows them to buy paint, or they just sell a crap load of paint? Regardless, my main point stays, punish criminals not honest citizens. And criminals in this country must be convicted of a crime. I'm not really comfortable with closing companies down with anecdotal evidence, no matter how compelling. In Knoxville TN, and I believe here as well, there are "nuisance" laws, where they've shut down businesses without the business committing a crime specifically because many crimes are committed there. They were regularly used against bars that often had people arrested for selling drugs, bars that commonly had fights, and a "glassware/smoking supplies" dealer that was basically selling all the legal accessories that go along with marijuana use but never actually selling the weed themselves. Those are actually fairly useful tools for law enforcement because it means that business owners can't just "look the other way" when they know things are regularly happening on their property, they need to have some level of control over it. You can legitimately quarrel with how they're used, but this is quite standard in the parts of the country where I've lived.

If it was just the straw buyers that were the problem, there wouldn't be a trend where 1 shop has 50000% more guns used in crimes sold in its facility than the average gun shop, the buyers would spread out. There's clearly a reason why they're using those particular shops. That's the correct number by the way.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jan 11, 2015 -> 04:37 PM) You can paint all people with the same brush but not this? Come on Brian. I believe we can't paint anything with the same broad brush. Not religions, not gun owners, and not earthquakes. Especially people. I'm pretty sure I'm the one saying "The huge majority of the Islamic community are denouncing these attacks so it's silly to say that they're not", are you crossing me up with the other people here?

QUOTE (Tex @ Jan 11, 2015 -> 04:28 PM) I was assuming you would be in the anti-fracking community or I have your beliefs way wrong. But should you be tainted with the same broad stroke since you are all geologists? There are classrooms all over that believe fracking is OK. Come on, you must really believe that it's ok. Did you publish that in the past couple days after the Dallas tremors? You must denounce it daily and if the leaders of geology don't also do that, you should consider a different way of life. Actually with the recent Dallas ones we're not 100% sure. According to multiple reports there are no active pumping operations in the area of the epicenters of those recent quakes, which makes connecting to them tenuous. There are plenty of other ones directly connected to wastewater disposal and now a few directly connected to fracking as well. There's no need to exaggerate. You're painting all earthquakes with the same broad brush.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jan 11, 2015 -> 04:03 PM) Why isn't anyone speaking out against the oil princes who keep their countries poorly educated and with nothing approaching equality of opportunity or life choice for women? SHHHHHHH. Oil is at $50 a barrel right now! If you say mean things about them they might raise the prices again.

QUOTE (daa84 @ Jan 11, 2015 -> 04:18 PM) Throw out the rules. Watch the reply and ask yourself, did he catch that ball? You are lying if you say no. The call was correct, cuz it's a dumb rule Once I saw that ball pop up after hitting the ground I said no. The ground jarred it loose.

QUOTE (zenryan @ Jan 11, 2015 -> 04:13 PM) the ball popped up in the air and he re-caught it on his back. and if he "quickly recovered it" then that means at one point he lost the ball. If it hit his body or the defender and he "quickly recovered it" that would have been a catch, but you can't hit the ground and then recover the ball on a catch.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jan 11, 2015 -> 04:04 PM) So this dealer is making thousands of illegal sales and no one will shut them down? Wow. Any other criminal enterprises on that level operate in the open and don't get shut down? My guess is that they're selling them legally to "straw purchasers" or something like that who then sell them in personal deals that don't require documentation or background checks to people who take them into the city. The sales are legal in the state but basically it's the equivalent of being an arms dealer in a civil war, you follow the law enough and ignore the carnage you create. If anyone asks questions you then employ good lawyers and start screaming about how gun rights are being violated.

I don't know how you can call that one a 'Stupid rule". The ball hit against the ground and bounced out of the grip in his hand. That one actually looks quite clear to me and I don't think there's any interpretation that would allow that to be a catch.

No it isn't there's one shot where you can see the ball move loose upwards as a consequence of hitting the ground. Overturn was correct.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jan 11, 2015 -> 03:50 PM) Point 3. It shouldn't be too tough to find illegal sales at those stores and shut them down. Why haven't they? Because they're selling guns and there's virtually no level of carnage that will cause a gun dealer to be shut down. And if we could get rid of a lot of that trash, it would literally save thousands of lives per year and it'd leave me a lot less to complain about. I could find ways to be ok with that. But if all people give me is the choice between the lunacy we have right now and banning outright, I'm going to pick the one with hundreds of thousands fewer corpses. So, when I hear "this is too complex" as a reply in some form, my answer is going to be "ok, here's the simplest way to do it."

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jan 11, 2015 -> 03:07 PM) There are plenty of things that kill far more people and we don't ban those...so...where do you draw the line? Sterilize society so much that life is boring and nobody wants to live it? Easy. With things that are specifically designed to kill and have no other purpose. And IMO, anyone who "doesn't want to live in a society because they don't have a gun" has bigger problems than not having a gun...and probably isn't the best person to have a gun.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jan 11, 2015 -> 02:47 PM) Should you be excused from doing less? Geologists are pumping fracking chemicals into our watershed, destroying it and causing earthquakes. But that is your responsibility to denounce, not mine. I'm not a geologist. Actually a very apt comparison. The fact that you make that statement without finding out what I've actually written and said about the subject is not an indictment of me, it's an indictment of you.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jan 11, 2015 -> 02:39 PM) I usually agree with you but . . . Background checks are required in all states to buy a gun from a dealer. Private sales are not included. How are you going to regulate private sales? What penalties will you impose? Stores are required to track all guns in their inventory by serial numbers. ATF regularly audits stores for compliance. A couple years back I can remember Glick Twins and Academy Sports, one a local sporting goods store, the other a regional sporting goods store, were both fined for having missing guns. Both stores claimed they were stolen by employees or "customers". Are you going to close them down, putting thousands of employees out of work because they were victims of theft? You seem to also be suggesting that a store who legally sells guns that are later used in a crime should be closed. Legally sold. The buyers passed the state background check. Based on a legal transaction, approved by the government, a store owner would be forced to close? Would every WalMart have to close or just the store that had the high rate? Isn't bankruptcy a cruel and unusual punishment for someone who completed a legal transaction and later the other person committed a crime? Moat of the guns used in crimes have passed through multiple hands, why ruin the life of the original dealer? Point 1: if your argument is that it's too difficult to regulate them, then let's ban them. f*** it, they kill tens of thousands of people per year. Half a million dead people in 15 years is a bigger deal than people being unable to hunt. 2. You want a gun? You have a certificate saying you passed a background check. Put it in families too, these things are tools for killing. We should act like it. Try to give your child a car, doesn't the government have to know about it? 3: 20% of guns used in crimes in Chicago are purchased at 4 stores. 4. Most stores in the area on average have 3 guns tracked to crimes in Chicago over a 4 year period. One store had 1516. One single store sold guns used in one thousand, five hundred, sixteen crimes in Chicago in 4 years. If 1516 people living next to any kind of factory got cancer over a 4 year period when a normal area saw 3, we'd do something about that. We'd declare, accurately, that factory to be killing people.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jan 11, 2015 -> 02:33 PM) However, I think Islam has a bit of a unique problem in the modern world. I don't think random acts of violence should be attributed to the whole...but when your religion [islam] actually has sects that have buildings/places/countries where they teach a corrupted version of your faith, THEN I believe you, as a Muslim, absolutely have the responsibility to denounce that "version" at every turn, and the leadership of said religion, whoever they may be, must do so on a daily basis...INCLUDING turning them in to authorities, instead of harboring them (which a LOT of those Muslim countries are doing). They know who they are, they know WHERE they are, and they hide them/harbor them, and in some instances, these are LEADERS of that faith. And if many of them are doing exactly that but you don't see them or choose not to see it happening, what does that say about you?

QUOTE (Tex @ Jan 11, 2015 -> 02:24 PM) We all "just accept" something, that's part of faith. Even science in this debate requires you to accept something. Usually we believe for something to be scientific fact we should be able to recreate it in an experiment, independent of anyone else. We can't do that with the origin of life. There is a theory that a never to be duplicated event happened on this planet and life began. I find that believable. If we believe that our universe has boundaries, that it doesn't go on for eternity, we accept that there is something on the other side. Is it bigger, smaller, the same? Does it have the same rules of physics? Carbon based life? Water? Gravity? We will probably never know. People that never ponder questions like this, are "just accepting" a scientific theory which also cannot be proven. Totally off topic, but its worth considering just how weak of an argument this is. Literally all it takes to have it demolished is evidence of life beginning somewhere else or an actual experiment that produces it abiotically. What happens to your faith when that happens? If your faith is only based on there being something we don't currently know, and then someone figures that out, does that invalidate your faith permanently? What science actually requires us to believe is this one statement...the universe behaves in a predictable way, subject to rules that we can understand. Gravity doesn't change in unpredictable ways, we don't suddenly double in mass, carbon bonds the same way one day as it does the next day, and if we characterize that one day, it works the next day also.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jan 11, 2015 -> 01:49 PM) I sure as hell ask why ANYONE teaches ANY made up bulls*** religion. In that area, it's the same reason it has been for decades...it's a way to keep the heat off the oil-rich oligarchies and on something else. It's the west's fault, it's Israel's fault, its this other sect's fault that there are no jobs. And frankly, it works. The west gets their oil and the wealthy still have the money for it. Those are the 2 important things. The rest, the terrorism/killings, those are minor annoyances as long as there is still flowing oil.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jan 11, 2015 -> 01:35 PM) Spinoffs are still related. You have to get rid of them, through ridicule, or through force, either way, they can't be allowed to spread and grow that bulls*** "spin off". If you allow it, then you've allowed your entire religion to be corrupted. And I don't know exact numbers, and I sure as hell don't think its 1.3 billion, so I'm not sure where you get that. But I do know if you continue to let them teach that corrupted version of Islam, someday, it WILL be 1.3 billion...give it enough time to let them continue teaching that bulls*** and see what happens. I don't care what they do X Y or Z in the name of, if a sub-section of people spring up to the point where they're teaching this kind of hate in countries, and these countries are known to harbor and cultivate that kind of s***, SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE. You don't just ignore it and hope for the best. And it is EVERYONES responsibility, and all because you people insist on believing in fake floating men in the sky that tell you to be good, or tell you to be evil. They're not telling me anything...I'm good because I want to be...I don't need anyone to tell me to be. But what you still won't do is stop and ask why these places spend their time and money teaching this ideology. Something needs to be done as long as it doesn't involve anyone having to stop filling up their gas tanks. That's too big of a sacrifice.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jan 11, 2015 -> 08:05 AM) As soon as you help me take illegal guns out of the hands of people who get arrested multiple times and shoot young black kids for no reason whatsoever, while "keepin' it real" livin' the thug life, yo! I'd love to make guns harder to get! Thanks for finally agreeing that part of our problem is way too many guns in this country. Now let's start with some basics, basic background check for all sales, requirement that stores register their guns so that we know which ones are being lost/stolen/sold off the books and can recognize which stores are major suppliers for weapons used in crime and close them as nuisance businesses.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jan 10, 2015 -> 08:18 PM) He's also a responsible wine bottle owner. And if that's what you think is a responsible gun owner that explains a lot about your preconceptions about people. You're better than this. Then help me do something that takes guns out of the hands of people who get arrested multiple times and shoot young black kids while thinking they're being heroes. Show me that there's a difference.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 10, 2015 -> 05:38 PM) So if Mariotta falls to the Bears somehow, do they take him? I'd say yes to either of the top 2 QBs. I'm wondering what QB might be available around the start of the 2nd?

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jan 10, 2015 -> 07:43 PM) Too bad you weren't talking about that time. If he'd had a gun this time he'd have been fine because no one would have been able to file charges against him and he'd be able to be the hero he was last time. We already know he's a responsible gun owner. He's exactly the kind of person I think of when I think of a responsible gun owner.

Assuming no MRI is needed I'm ok with this, everyone's noticed him being a bit gassed and worn out lately.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jan 10, 2015 -> 05:51 PM) I hope so, because his deadly weapon was a wine bottle. Well, not the time he heroically killed that person.