jdege wrote:There's a bit in Heinlein"s Starship Troopers where the protagonist is musing over corporal punishment.

Apparently if a juvenile commits a serious offense he and his father are strung up in public and flogged, side by side.

“...and his father...”.

And therein lies the rub.

daleamn wrote:Well, as one of the national level commentators asked, Okay, are we going to go after the parents of the carjackers?

That was my first thought, given the epidemic of violent, armed juvenile terrorists.

What are your thoughts on regulations around lead water pipes? Completely unnecessary I take it? Pretty much; yes. Read up on water treatment techniques, and look at the cross section of a removed lead water service line. Lead service lines haven’t been installed for almost a century. In that time ...

Knowing almost nothing about SLAP rounds, I did a quick search of the topic. Every source was quick to advise against using saboted rounds with a muzzle brake not specifically designed for them. Given the shots were going wild, one wonders if the rounds were creating a restriction at the muzzle, and...

Rip Van Winkle wrote:I'm not going to waste my time watching Bubba trying to kill himself with his 50 BMG.

This is the same troglodyte who made a video intentionally blowing up an M1 Garand.

I thought he looked familiar.

Lumpy wrote:Do we have enough people here to go in on a table of ten? I'll commit.

Was think about that myself.

I’m in as well. H

Rip Van Winkle wrote:Thanks Brian!

^^^^THIS^^^^

Anyone - and everyone not part of the solution is part of the problem.

Cheaper than ammo.
More valuable than your guns.

Gorman's Restaurant
11011 Stillwater Blvd
Lake Elmo


A small town, family owned restaurant.
https://www.gormansrestaurantlakeelmo.com/


Meeting time is 0900
We have reserved tables in the back room of the back room, under the name of 'MN Gun Club'.
Hope to see you there.

Always worth a view:

Holland&Holland wrote:I can’t think of any scenario where I would willingly give up my guns.

^^^This^^^^

In Utopia, there a lot of time and places for target shooting. After all: it’s utopia.

Rip Van Winkle wrote:What does this story have to do with Castle Doctrine?

Nothing.

Nothing turns the mainstream media against something like having their own ox gored. Once upon a time at the 1968 Democratic Convention when reporters got caught up in the "police riot" that Daley unleashed against anti-war protestors, the media suddenly discovered police brutality. I ima...

Chicago news crew robbed at gunpoint while covering armed robbery - BearingArms.com How well are Chicago’s restrictive gun laws working out? Pretty good, at least from the perspective of armed criminals, who have an almost endless supply of unarmed victims to choose from. The website CWBChicago rep...

Did they shoot his dog, as well?

Journalist's Guide to Firearms Identification I've seen that poster many times and yet it still makes me laugh. Whoever came up with it is, IMhO, a genius. I am ALWAYS perplexed that 'journalists', who are supposed to be after the TRUTH, who are supposed to go out and find the NEWS and then present...