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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 13, 2012 -> 02:22 PM) Though only one is a constitutional guarantee. It is interesting to see the contrasts between this debate and the one when any requirements are placed on voting. You should have to prove you meet the minimum legal requirements to vote. Here is an easy bottom line for me. Criminals have guns and commit crimes. One solution is we should take the guns away from the honest people so the criminals will not be hurt. Maybe the criminals will even stop carrying guns if honest people didn't have them. That just doesn't make sense to me.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jun 13, 2012 -> 02:02 PM) In a perfect world no one would have guns, but you cant close Pandora's box. Id be more fine with people owning guns if they had to go through mandatory training. I would to. In Texas there is a pretty solid course before you can carry a concealed weapon. I certainly believe it should be as hard to get a license for a gun as it is to get a license to drive.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 13, 2012 -> 02:02 PM) Like in the case that gave rise to this thread. The right guy was killed. (Seriously, read your own post. it's ludicrous. If both people have guns, two lives are lost, because they both get shots off perfectly aimed, simultaneously?) You said more guns escalate the violence and I agreed. When only the criminal has a gun, all the victim can do is run and get shot in the back. Unlike in the movies, most people do not die instantly from gun shot wounds. So one guy gets shot and while down shoots the other. We have escalation. Fact is, if you feel better holding your car keys when a bad guy points a gun at your family and I feel better holding a gun, I think I should have that option and you should have your choice.

QUOTE (GoodAsGould @ Jun 13, 2012 -> 01:55 PM) I always have people who are in love with guns tell me states that allow you to carry a gun have lower crime rates but never bothered to look up the statistic myself. And I'm not certain that stat is even relevant. For a hypothetical example if I happen to carry a weapon and never get robbed, my crime rate is zero. Do I care that a thousand other people who do not carry are robbed? I would be carrying to protect my family. If they are safe, I have accomplished my goal. Too bad there isn't a stat comparing crime rates of those that carry versus those that do not.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 13, 2012 -> 01:51 PM) But you don't have to file charges for there to be a report of the attempted robbery, in fact it would likely be the exact opposite. If a person is robbed, files charges, and the perpetrator is never caught, is that not a robbery? No charges are filed if the case remains unsolved. Same standard. If that was the only crime committed, I agree it would be written up. What I am suggesting is when the police arrive and there is a person lying in a pool of blood dead, the police will be investigating that crime and would not also file a report on the burglary. But I have not tried to find a source. They would have to investigate the shooting and in that investigation the claim of breaking and entry, etc. would have to be investigated, so maybe they do.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 13, 2012 -> 01:49 PM) But statistics also show that the presence of a gun consistently inflames situations and makes a violent outcome more likely in the event of a confrontation, regardless of who initiates it. If you remove the impediments to carrying and using a gun, then you wind up with more people carrying and more using. The impediments to carrying and using are not effective on the criminals, they continue to carry and use. Fact is, most gang bangers live under a constant death penalty. Those impediments are designed to stop victims from protecting themselves, from sportsman from enjoying their pastime, and honest people from enjoying a nice hobby. You are correct though, things do not escalate if only the criminals have guns. The victim is killed. Only one life lost, not two if the victim gets a lethal shot off.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 13, 2012 -> 01:46 PM) If one of the 2 people winds up killed you don't think there'd be a report filed? Sure there would. Just not attempted burglary. The police would be busy filling out a report on the shooting. I can't see the cops saying "I know this guy is dead, but we ought to charge him with breaking and entering so the crime stats are accurate"? Maybe they do, and it would be useful, but it just doesn't seem like that is how it would work.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jun 13, 2012 -> 11:31 AM) We have a fundamental difference with our belief in humans. I believe humans are imperfect and prone to mistakes. A bullet is also a cheap price for an innocent victim who is killed when someone misses their intended target. 1 innocent life is not worth 700 criminals. I'm not so certain. We allow police to have weapons and they have killed innocent people. Are you suggesting we should disarm them? I'm not certain that the public has any worse a track record than the police.

I'm surprised they track that if there will not be an arrest or even an investigation of the burglary.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 12, 2012 -> 05:52 PM) Oh, and study out of Texas A&M finds statistically significant 7 to 9 % increase in homicide rate associated with establishment of "Stand your Ground" laws, with no statistically significant impacts on other crimes (burglary, assault, etc.) That translates to ~ 500 to 700 additional homicides per year across the 23 states that currently have passed that law. They conclude that the presence of those laws lowers the expected consequences of using deadly force, leading to greater use of it. Do they charge a potential killer with murder if the potential victim kills them first? If you kill a burglar, does the now dead burglar get charged with burglary? I don't think so. Don't defend yourself and get killed - rising murder rates. Defend yourself, kill the criminal, stagnant or lower crime rates. I am seeing 700 criminals being removed from society at the bargain basement price of a bullet. People, take back your neighborhoods. Stand and defend don't hide from criminals.

I wonder what everyone majored in when they went to high school. For many positions a college degree fulfills the same role. College isn't a vocational school, it isn't always a job training program. Some employers are looking for employees who have a deeper and wider range of knowledge than a HS graduate. Those future employees demonstrated they can world to achieve a longer term goal, voluntarily. It can be easy, very easy, it can also be very affordable. I'm certain that America's future is more dependent on a higher skilled, higher trained workforce than a less educated one. We will lose our asses to China and other less skilled countries for those jobs. We need to leverage our education system into a stronger future. Instead we seem to be trying to lower our incomes and lower our standard of living.

The only part of the article that kind of bothered me was he kept mentioning how the lines were rehearsed and like movie script or something.

He has the potential to make us forget about Crede. Potential is a tough mistress. Crede, for a stretch played as well as any 3rd baseman since I have been a Sox fan. However, there is another guy in the dugout that was better longer. If Beckham can avoid busted ankles (Ventura), knees (Baines), and backs (Crede), he could have a very nice, solid, mlb career.

I almost hate going to the beach and having to miss the next five weeks.

I sold one on Craig's List last year. I listed it at 11:00 am on a Sunday and at 1:00 pm I met the buyer and his English speaking niece in a parking lot of a Lowes, we agreed on a price. He handed over a small stack of $50s and $100s and I handed him a Bill of Sale and the Title. I also had him give me his contact info (bogus) as it turned out. In Texas the plates travel with the vehicle. Later I received a large packet of info from Homeland Security explaining that the car had been used in a crime and was confiscated. If I still had an ownership claim, to speak up, if not no big deal. The notice that I had sent to the State of Texas regarding the sale crossed in the mail. So overall I was happy. I researched the prices and picked a price that would be a low hassle negotiation. Over trade in value but below resale. I also was very honest about the car. My current car would have been on Craig's list but my dad knew the owner and knew I wanted a full size pick up. I bought the car in Illinois and transferred title to Texas. Very easy process.

I've watched too many players get overhyped by a great stretch or great season.

crazy season. Nice that this exceeds expectations.

I wonder if that is an hour by hour thing, shift thing, or weekly number.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 29, 2012 -> 03:17 PM) The team he was under contract with at the time, more specifically. Players all time delay surgery, refuse surgery, go to their own doctors. Seems rather crazy to think a player should just have done whatever by whomever.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 29, 2012 -> 03:04 PM) The team he plays for? I don't believe any employer has the right to demand surgery on someone or to pick who does it. Plus his contract was expiring, the club had placed him on the disabled list that would extend past the end of the season. At worse they seemed to have an interest in making sure he never played again. If the surgery failed, the club wasn't out anything. If it was perfectly successful it would cost them more to sign him or he would be playing against them. Would you trust a company in that situation or want to make your own decision on what is done to your body and by whom? I would rather make the choice.

He kept most of it when he was supplying the delivery truck. I remember a couple times when I had poor nights he would slip me $5 or $10 and say thank you. Back to tipping, why don't we tip the chef, cooks, etc? Don't they work hard to prepare the meals? Damn, a nice steak dinnr might be $5 plus tips to everyone lol

Unauthorized? Who was suppose to authorize it?

QUOTE (knightni @ May 29, 2012 -> 02:55 PM) I got $1 per pizza delivery to cover gas and insurance. A buck doesn't go very far when people don't tip like they should. In 1980 or 1981 I was getting between $2 and $5 from Pat's Pizza up in Grayslake plus tips. He added it to the bill and 100% went to the drivers if they were driving their own vehicles. He changed it when he started providing the vehicles.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ May 29, 2012 -> 02:44 PM) I know someone who puts a stack of 10 one-dollar bills on the table and tells the server "This is your tip. Every time you mess up, I take away a dollar." I always thought that was a good idea, but a ballsy one too. I ripped a $20 in two and explained to a bartender and a Snuggery (back in the day) it wasn't worth anything to either of us. His tip would be the other half if he took care of us. he did and made a few more bucks from us. It became a regular thing until he got to know us.

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