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Single-car crash with witnesses, so it doesn't seem like anything more than an unfortunate accident. Who would want to kill him? General McChrystal? The Obama administration? I just can't see it.

A photo would have been helpful if I didn't know what a compound miter saw was. I didn't think that most people would know what a Mossberg 5903R looked like, so I added a photo. (I'd already downloaded it to attach to an e-mail I sent to my kids and parents.) I wasn't trolling. This thread has hosted much debate about guns and gun control in the past. I certainly don't have a gun fetish. I spend 10x more money and 100x more time on my other hobbies: amateur radio and brewing beer.

I've always made a point of paying a little bit extra so that I could live in exceptionally safe neighborhoods. I made the choice to avoid gun ownership when my kids were small -- I was a single parent and didn't have much money to spend on guns and safes, anyway. By the time my kids were old enough to be around guns I had moved to California. Concealed carry was almost unheard of, so even if I'd bought a gun it wouldn't have made me any safer when I was in dangerous parts of SoCal. It's all about an individual's right to choose. Even when I wasn't a gun owner I wouldn't have tried to force

It's pretty simple, really. You can't put a shotgun in your pocket for concealed carry. You can't kill a deer with a .22. You don't want to shoot a rifle inside your house. I have a security system, but the average response time isn't short enough to ensure that the cops will be there before Mr. Intruder and I meet face to face. I hope I didn't give the impression that I shoot hogs on shooting ranges. I shoot targets on ranges and hogs on friends' ranches. They're considered a nuisance, invasive species and they cause hundreds of millions of dollars in damage every year. The state pays bount

So what is an appropriate amount? Gun safes unlock in about 2 seconds. Trust me, I'd rather confront an armed intruder with a gun of my own rather than face him/them unarmed. Besides, who says it will be, or should be, locked up while I'm at home? If I shoot someone, it's because they broke into my house and/or threatened my life. I'm not really a collector and it's certainly not a fetish. It's more like a guy buying a toolbox full of tools instead of relying on a single screwdriver and a pair of pliers that he keeps in a kitchen drawer. It's a personal choice. I don't care what you do as

I know. No offense taken. This is the first shotgun I've owned. Short-barreled shotguns are the best firearm for home defense -- just ask Joe Biden. The risk of penetrating walls and hitting innocent people is greatly reduced with a shotgun. Rifles are completely unsuitable for home defense, as they'll possibly pass through the outside wall and into the neighbor's house. I'm the kind of person who doesn't like to get rid of things, but as of right now none of my firearms overlap in terms of their utility. I have a rifle for hunting deer, an AR-style rifle for goofing around on the range

The FBI background check will be performed by the dealer before I take possession. I'll pass with flying colors. It'll be used for home defense, so if I have the need to use it I won't want to worry about reloading. But it'll definitely put holes in plenty of range targets over the years. I know, right?

After being backordered for months, I was finally able to purchase the 9-shot Mossberg 5903R that I'd had my heart set on. I just realized that it'll be delivered while I'm at Solid Sound.

That performance of Rock and Roll did nothing for me. I love the band and listened to them incessantly as a teenager in the 70s and 80s, but their live stuff has always struck me as lesser than their recorded output. The exact opposite is true for The Who. ( I think I Can't Explain might be a more popular opener than Substitute.) Better for sure, but I think Plant and Page just rub me the wrong way when I see them onstage. Not sure why that is, but I've felt that way for more than 30 years. Old dog, set in my ways, etc.

He seems like a good guy.

One would think that would be implied when no answer has been given 8 days after the question was asked.

I've been a member of a private forum for almost 15 years and it gets far more contentious than this place ever does, but one rule that everyone follows is "don't call someone out." It's rude and disrespectful to demand that someone answer your post and it's equally rude and disrespectful to complain when they don't. It's no more difficult to be polite on the Internet than it is to be polite in the rest of your life. It's simple courtesy.

Live Led Zep always leaves me cold. I've never been able to sit through an entire screening of The Song Remains the Same. I'll take The Who any day over LZ.

Calling someone out is rather poor form, but I didn't see any sort of question -- direct or otherwise -- in your post.

That wasn't my intention. I responded to Mr. Heartbreak's snarky post with a snarky post of my own.

A friend casually mentioned it on Facebook, so I thought it was old news that I'd somehow managed to miss.

http://riotfest.org/

Only cops can be trusted to safely handle firearms.

Here's a good one: they're trying to pass a law in New York that would make it a crime to annoy a police officer. I suspect that it will be used against citizens with cameras now that the courts have repeatedly ruled that a person can't be arrested for taking photos of cops in public places. http://www.nysenate.gov/press-release/senate-passes-bill-making-harassment-police-officer-crime

You must read different news outlets than I do. P.S. Those quotation marks don't belong.

The Patriot Act would have expired if President Obama hadn't extended it. He owns it now. If the outrage from "the Right" is false because a Democrat is in office, then the outrage from "the Left" was false while Bush was in office. No it hasn't. It's still in the shitter and everyone knows it.

FISA predates the Patriot act by more than a decade. I believe it came into being during the Carter administration.

It's funny to see someone who nonchalantly insinuates that Republicans are racists, turn around and wave the "I can't possibly be racist biased because I have an African-American Republican friend" flag.

I had a great time 3 years ago. Highlights were drinking Guinness on my late father-in-law's suite's balcony while watching the boat collide with and float over chunks of ice the size of large cars, having the lounge singer stop the show to give me a hug for requesting a Warren Zevon song for the first time in his career and seeing this mama grizzly and her cub.

I was going to respond at length, but that pretty much says it all. Carry on cheerleading and calling the people on the other side of the aisle racists if it makes you feel better. I just finished brewing 10 gallons of beer and I'm heading out to drink a few with my Republican and Democrat friends with nary a political word uttered.