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QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Apr 30, 2012 -> 02:46 PM) So my parents decided to become permanent campers like us. Since they are going permanent, they decided to upgrade from their 23-foot expandable to a 29-foot travel trailer. We went with them to look and found one that we fell in love with. So now we are upgrading from a 12-foot pop-up to a 32-foot travel trailer. It's got an entire room with 4 bunks in the back and a TV hookup, so our kids can have their own little space. I just got the call that we've been pre-approved for the loan. Got to go up and finish the paperwork this weekend. Hopefully we'll be all be camping in our new trailers within the next 2 weeks. Anyone interested in a 12-foot pop-up or a 23-foot expandable? Both are going up for sale real soon. Actually I am looking for a pop up but the shipping to Texas may be too much.

People add stuff to their cars and don't believe they are NASCAR wannabees. People add stuff to their bikes without thinking they are Lance Armstrong.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Apr 30, 2012 -> 11:41 AM) Is it Getty Images? They are well known for this type of action.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 30, 2012 -> 01:49 PM) Yeah, one tragedy is a good reason to ban DUI. And I'm for banning the equivelent action in concealed carry laws. The legal limit for DUI in most areas is .08%. People are allowed to drink as long as they do not reach that limit. I believe people should be allowed to carry, however some actions should be punished. Threatening with the gun would be one such action.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 30, 2012 -> 12:05 PM) And thousands of people do drive home intoxicated without incident. yet you want to ban things when one tragedy happens.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 30, 2012 -> 08:00 AM) Or, we place limits on Alcohol and arrest people for misusing it. I think that you've just made a great comparison. Legalized concealed carry laws are just like legalizing DUI. Thank you for agreeing it is a great comparison. Of course you then tried twisting it in an illogical manner to suit your argument. Legalizing CC laws is like the 21st Amendment, legalizing alcohol. We then arrest people for misusing guns or alcohol. You can safely carry a concealed weapon, you can not safely drive while drunk. You seem to believe that anyone carrying a weapon is automatically placing everyone else at risk like a drunk driver.

Sure Balta one bad apple and all. BTW instead of comparing guns to cars, let's compare guns to something that does not serve any valuable purpose in our society, alcohol. You start looking for stories of irresponsible gun owners and I'll start looking for irresponsible drinkers and the damage they do. If we apply the same standards to everything else that you apply to guns nothing will be allowed. This weekend a 13 year old kid died in a jet ski accident when the operator was irresponsible. Let's ban jet skis. Utopian societies where all risks are eliminated does not work.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Apr 29, 2012 -> 05:28 PM) So what you are saying is that the Mexican government is so rife with corruption that when banks report to a government body that the information is readily available to cartel and other unsavory characters to use for nefarious activities? i can believe that, seriously. With the oil down there the country should be rich, with no need to send its poor northward. But we all know it isn't Perhaps in your end of the country they are sending their poor. Here, the wealthy arrive to invest, educate their families, and pursue the American dream. Over half of the real estate on South Padre Island is owned by Mexican Nationals, over 80% of the new business start ups in our area are started by Mexican Nationals. And think about all the professionals that immigrate here from everywhere else on the planet. It isn't because they are all poor. Mexico has few privacy laws. Just like we know how much Obama gifts to his children each year, tax reports and such are public information.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Apr 29, 2012 -> 03:25 PM) I think that may be a little overboard, but I do think that there is a lack of profound respect for guns in general. Usually by the anti crowd. The anti gun crowd blows guns way out of propertion more than the small minority of legal, law abiding gun owners who think of them as toys to be played with. I've been around a lot of gun owners, soend a lot of time on various Scout gun ranges, and I can't think of one that acts like Balta has painted some gun owners to act.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 29, 2012 -> 01:10 PM) You're likely correct to say this but I kept hearing the same thing about Dunn for 5 and half months last year.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 29, 2012 -> 12:20 PM) I think they had to lose at least 4000 season tickets, if you compare the worst sales from last year to the worst sales so far this year. Hence the $25 million salary cut. And it highlights the lack of connection between ticket sales and salaries. Unless each season ticket was about $6,250, which is about $70 per ticket per game, the loss in season ticket revenue is less than the payroll drop. BTW, I believe it was a great April.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 29, 2012 -> 12:24 PM) So, it cripples the local economy...but it also stops an illegal activity? Sure we can help Mexico collect taxes owed to them. The Mexican Nationals that deposit in the US are now more likely to be kidnapped when criminals know their net worth. And banks in the US have less capital to lend out. Of course one of the accounting types here can explain what happens when 40% of a banks deposits are withdrawn at about the same time. I'm guessing that isn't pretty. But yes if any American has money deposited in Mexican banks and not paying taxes on the interest, we can prosecute them. I'm certain there are a lot of Americans depositing in Mexican banks.

When my kids were younger my guns were basically disabled. Balta would have felt safe in my home. That was the best choice for me in that situation.

http://www.themonitor.com/articles/banks-6...sury-along.html

http://www.valleycentral.com/news/story.as...82#.T5y2HKtSTF8 Damn, there is a one in three chance he attends my school. He is probably a 7th grader, but could be an eight grader. I am also worrying he could have been one of my athletes. what if what if.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 28, 2012 -> 07:09 PM) If a person actually cares for them, keeps them appropriately safe, unloaded, and locked at home, isn't carrying them, transports them safely (unloaded, locked), keeps them unloaded, but has the means to access them quickly at home should they feel the need (and there's no one else in the house who can easily figure that lock system out), fine. That is an appropriate level of responsibility in most cases and if people regularly did that it would save several hundred innocent lives per year, minimum. Your gun doesn't threaten me when it is unloaded and locked up. I just hope you don't shoot me if I ring your doorbell at 2:00 a.m. asking for help after a car accident. In other words hope the police arrive in time while you hide in a closet.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 28, 2012 -> 06:45 PM) And I assume you were at the time driving around the city hunting down vagrants? Otherwise this statement doesn't apply to anything in this thread. Really? It seems as if you have said that guns make situations more dangerous.

At 2:52 am this morning someone rang my doorbell. I was faced with the choice of turning off my security system and answering it or not. I know I felt better knowing if it was someone wanting to harm my family that help was closer than a phone call to the police.

We're discovering that a lot of the plastic we were sending to our local recycling center was not being recycled. They can only accept 1 & 2 and we have as much 5 here. We also will have to drive over to the city's facility to drop off glass.

Yes. Last night the employees threw her a party without the bosses around. I am certain the "retired" story was exposed.

I am certain as soon as guns are banned that criminals will throw all of their away, then even the police won't have to carry them. Y'all are painting the millions of honest, law abiding gun owners as the bad guys and protecting the criminals. Cops kill innocent people with guns and are sometimes punished. Private security personnel kill innocent people with guns and are sometimes punished. Private citizens kill innocent people with guns and are almost always punished. Cops save life and property by using their guns. Private security personnel save life and property with their guns. Private citizens save life and property with their guns. There are levels of risk associated with each scenario. I would rather live in a world where law abiding citizens have the same access as criminals. I don't want to be hiding, hoping the cops find me in time. Cops here shot and killed an eighth grade student who was holding a toy gun. I doubt that made your local newspapers. Zimmerman, shot and killed an unarmed man and it was national, even international news. Why? The difference between a cop killing a kid and a private citizen.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 27, 2012 -> 02:37 PM) but I am telling you that the person who tells you he or she is a good driver...isn't. So how bad of a driver are you? My dad, a truck driver has logged well over 1,000,000,000 accident free miles with no tickets. Are you really suggesting when he says he's a good driver he's not?

Police and their guns have killed many innocent people. Our military and their bigger and scarier weapons have killed tens of thousands of innocent people. The list of items that have killed people is long. We can not make a risk free society, there are risks in almost everything we do. I would rather people called police and continued to keep an eye on someone. I don't mind them carrying a baseball bat, a pocket knife, a gun, or whatever. I will support that position until the day after the last criminal carries a weapon.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 27, 2012 -> 07:50 AM) Is there a number of kids that it's ok to kill to accomplish that goal? Is the rule then one death and we stop using it is that was involved?

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 27, 2012 -> 10:59 AM) LOL. Come on now. You don't seem to be painting an accurate picture of Sanford Florida. The ends did not justify the means in this scenario. This wasn't mid 80s Cabrini Green with Zimmerman being a self appointed Batman to save the day. OK, I will agree then that in the case of this town and this town only. But there are a lot more towns that would benefit from people doing more than hiding from the criminals.