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QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Apr 27, 2012 -> 03:04 PM) OMG dude. Have you ever handled a gun before? Seriously? Yes. And it was under very controlled circumstances, where there are multiple safety steps in the way, because I don't trust it being safe. Because it isn't.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 27, 2012 -> 03:00 PM) Not an emotion I'd equate to fear. Certainly is for me. The end result of not doing so is potentially a serious injury. Taking steps to avoid that out of a fear of suffering a serious injury is what I'd classify it as. Anyway...that's what I mean when I say I'm afraid of the person who isn't afraid of a gun. I'm afraid of the person who tells you that they know how to handle it safely. Really mean that. Because in my view...I don't go telling people I'm trustworthy, I take actions to demonstrate that. Carrying around a concealed weapon, unless you're in a situation where there's a decent chance you're going to run into a bear, is almost always, IMO, an act that demonstrates a person has simply lost respect for that weapon. They think they can control it.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 27, 2012 -> 02:54 PM) I don't wear safety shoes, gloves, eye protection and hearing protection because I'm scared or afraid. So what motivates you to wear them then?

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 27, 2012 -> 02:46 PM) I wish we would have drafted Blair instead of James Johnson. Wasn't Johnson just dumped because his cap number was in the way of more important signings? That would have been the same case with Blair if that was what happened, right?

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Apr 27, 2012 -> 02:51 PM) And that pretty much tells me everything I need to know about your stance on this issue. Guns are as dangerous as anything else - your car, a power tool, whatever. Are you afraid of your car too? Yes. More precisely, the thing that really scares me is people who tell you that they're fine with it and they're set. Because, just like with guns, it's the ones who lose respect for the device, the ones who tell you they're not afraid of it, that are going to wind up hurting/killing people. Damn well better be scared of power tools. That's why a smart person takes appropriate protective steps before using them...because they are scared.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 27, 2012 -> 02:42 PM) I'm not afraid of guns but I'm not in favor of concealed carry and armed neighborhood watches. I'm afraid of anyone who says they aren't afraid of guns.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Apr 27, 2012 -> 02:39 PM) Zero evidence to back that up, either from the perspective that CC laws are going to be more "expansive" (as I've said before, the SYG principle was just codified, it already existed in the common law in the vast majority of states as a defense) or that more killings of innocent people will happen. And the triple homicides claim came from one article that simply posted a number. It didn't say how many cases actually applied the SYG law or how many were successful. It just means more people tried to use it. If you were a defendant that shot someone i'm pretty sure you'd try to throw it in your case as a possible defense too. This entire issue comes down to a simple subset of people: people that are afraid of guns and people that aren't. For some reason people that are have this unrealistic expectation that having a gun means you're going to use it against another person. I'm guessing the statistics of that are incredibly low, like less than a percent or two. Well...first of all...when the purpose of a device is "To kill", and there are tens of millions of handguns and hundreds of millions of other guns in this country..."A percent or two" is a massacre. And secondly, you've misread the article. The 288% increase was in deaths that were found to be justifiable. So that doesn't count any that were eventually deemed unjustified.

Relative to April 21, so he's basically got 9 days to go before he can come off.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Apr 27, 2012 -> 02:13 PM) I voted for Eisenhower. I like him.

Here's the winning photo from the Enterprise flying to New York today.

QUOTE (shakes @ Apr 27, 2012 -> 01:02 PM) If those charges stick, it will be interesting to see what the commissioners office will do. That has to be the first hate crime I remember a MLB player being charged with. I would say that he can afford a legal team to get the charges reduced, but we have seen that the NY prosecuters don't care if you are a pro athlete. Let's hope the victims are Sox fans and they try and stick it to him. Stay classy Delmon. NY Has some harsh hate crime sentencing statutes. If I'm reading this right, then for a first time offender charged with assault and a hate crime, the minimum would be 3.5 years.

So this one involves Girls Gone Wild and an internship in the office of a sitting Democratic Senator. That alone ought to be worth a read.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Apr 27, 2012 -> 11:57 AM) If Lugar loses in the primary then I'm voting for Joe Donnelly, and I'm far from alone. If the right wing of the party wants to lose a Senate seat in order to send a message, then that looks like what you're about to do. If I were in Indiana I'd probably cross over to vote for him. Totally honest. The Senate is a better, more functional place with him on the foreign policy committee.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Apr 27, 2012 -> 12:12 PM) This is the first case of its kind that i've heard of. I'm sure there have been more, but I think it's safe to say it's rare. I think your guys' fear of vigilante watch captains shooting innocent people they think are criminals is a bit exaggerated. But the more expansive these concealed carry laws get, and the more expansive these "Self defense" laws get, the more they're going to happen. As we already noted, "Justified homicides" tripled in florida after passing of their version.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Apr 27, 2012 -> 10:31 AM) It gets better, Delmon now being charged with a hate crime. Now that's solid.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 27, 2012 -> 09:32 AM) Is he going to win an MVP or get tons of endorsements or make any fans forget about Frank Thomas, Robin Ventura or even Crede and Rowand? No way. There was at least 1 thread here when he was first signed asking if he could pass Thomas for the team HR mark that I can recall.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Apr 27, 2012 -> 09:27 AM) A lot of scouts don't think that Riley Reiff can play left tackle. Maybe the Bears thought he was a RT. You never draft for need. The Browns are a team that always drafts for need. Didn't the Bears just draft for need?

New poll, not sure of the source, has Dick Lugar trailing his Tea Party challenger by 5 in the primary for the Indiana Senate race.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Apr 27, 2012 -> 09:04 AM) What exactly do you mean by "take back your neighborhood"? And how exactly are most untrained "neighborhood watch" members going to accomplish this, exactly? I actually get what he's trying to say here, if you have a crime riddled neighborhood and the police on their own aren't helping so you establish and push a hard watch program and really try to catch the people who are causing the problem. You might even have patrols, you might even come up with a way to have the patrols identifiable so that people on the streets know who it is who is following them. I draw the line at having them armed. Once you arm them, you're setting up a situation with a disturbingly high probability of lethal force being employed if there ever is any sort of confrontation, and that event would be involving people who are, compared to police, almost completely untrained.

Both recycling centers and a recently installed curbside program in this city, but I can't participate in the curbside program because I'm not a homeowner.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Apr 27, 2012 -> 09:03 AM) If that was the case, this would be his final year with us, and he would have definitely not been worth the wait In that case, yes, there would be general agreement to that statement.

OK Guys, that's enough.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 27, 2012 -> 08:54 AM) I'm not agreeing, just trying to follow his logic. I'd like to be proven wrong, but I'm going to guess the only reason why a person would specifically say we have Viciedo for less time than Lee is that person doesn't understand that Viciedo has the same arbitration path as a normal ballplayer.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 27, 2012 -> 08:50 AM) $10 million signing bonus I would assume. At this point that's pretty much a sunk cost, isn't it? You've spent that money even if you release him. But otherwise, he's still under team control for the full arbitration cycle.

QUOTE (Tex @ Apr 27, 2012 -> 08:25 AM) Is there a number when it is ok to actually take back your neighborhood from criminals? You are painting this out as every time someone patrols their neighborhood something tragic happens. There are thousands of people p[atrolling their neighborhoods without problems. We hear of gang infested neighborhoods where people are afraid to be outside at night. People need to take back their homes and neighborhoods not hide like scared children. Is there a number of kids that it's ok to kill to accomplish that goal?