Students issued guns!

[NCclimber 0]

Well played.

I saw a show on it recently. It detailed how meth was an epidemic in the Northwest, while the rest of the country was basically in the dark... and that it's now a nationwide problem. Definitely some bad, bad stuff that quickly destroys lives.

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While I have no problem pursuing your philosophy of fighting for you community and family personally.............I don't feel it's my child's responsibility and it's not right to put them in that position. You gotta choose your battles...........and your child should be your number one deciding factor. ps - by moving out of bear country you wouldn't get mauled by a bear.

Recent news headlines from your home town of Madison, Wisconsin:

Three people electrocuted

Tree falls on home

Sexual assault

Lightning kills golfer

It ain't safe there! Why would you intentionally put your children in harm's way like this?

Grab the kids and run for your lives!

P.S. To where will you run to avoid these dangers?

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While I have no problem pursuing your philosophy of fighting for you community and family personally.............I don't feel it's my child's responsibility and it's not right to put them in that position. You gotta choose your battles...........and your child should be your number one deciding factor. ps - by moving out of bear country you wouldn't get mauled by a bear.

Recent news headlines from your home town of Madison, Wisconsin:

Three people electrocuted

Tree falls on home

Sexual assault

Lightning kills golfer

It ain't safe there! Why would you intentionally put your children in harm's way like this?

Grab the kids and run for your lives!

P.S. To where will you run to avoid these dangers?

And your point is? Those things can happen anywhere............but you don't see bear maulings on the uprise do you? Storms would explain the tree falling on a house and dropping power lines down on the street. Are you more likely do run into a sexual assault case in a larger city or a smaller town? I wouldn't say madison is a small town, but when you compare it to chicago or milwaukee.....it's a small town.

Your argument is that dangers are everywhere..........and I agree with you on that. But you can minimize the amount of dangers that are in your area by choosing a good location. Things may change over time, but then it's time to relocate. If you wanna keep your kids around wild polar bears and leave them to fend for their own on the way to class then go ahead..........I'll make sure mine stay away from them, unless we're at the zoo.

...and you're in violation of your face!

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Your argument is that dangers are everywhere..........and I agree with you on that. But you can minimize the amount of dangers that are in your area by choosing a good location.

Eskimos have the dangers of polar bears. But they do not play golf in thunderstorms, don't have trees to fall on them, and don't have electricity to electrocute them. So who's in more danger?

Churchill, Manitoba, the "Polar Bear Capital of the World," was established in 1717. Since that time, only two townspeople have ever been killed by polar bears, despite numerous encounters.

So who the heck are you to judge their risks, and to tell them to move elsewhere?

If the eskimos could see the lifestyle you live, with cars whizzing down the roads at 70 mph killing 40,000 people per year, the crime, and the illegal drugs, it would probably frighten the hell out of them. I imagine they feel much more safe on the ice with their polar bears.

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>Eskimos have the dangers of polar bears. But they do not play golf
>in thunderstorms, don't have trees to fall on them, and don't have
>electricity to electrocute them.

Yep. Why, just last week I was in an Indian casino here in California. Was tough to see without any power, of course, and getting in and out of all the teepees was a bit hard! Fortunately they loaned me a horse.

>I imagine they feel much more safe on the ice with their polar bears.

Well, at least as safe as you feel on your oil rig!

Edited to add: or perhaps a bit less safe . . .
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Inuit crash through ice to death as warming bites
Mon May 28, 2007 8:14PM EDT

BELIZE CITY (Reuters) - Global warming has made life more dangerous for Inuit hunters in the Arctic as they increasingly fall to their deaths through thinning ice sheets while pursuing seals and polar bears.

Delegates at a climate change conference in Belize said on Tuesday that many Inuit had died in recent years because their snow mobiles and sleds crash through the ice during hunts.

"My people have been hunting on the ice for 5,000 years but now you risk death around every turn," said Nicodemus Illauq, from the Inuit town of Clyde River in Canada.

Patricia Cochran, the head of an international Inuit council, said every Inuit in Alaska knew someone who had died by falling through the ice and drowning, although exact figures were hard to come by.
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Eskimos have the dangers of polar bears. But they do not play golf in thunderstorms, don't have trees to fall on them, and don't have electricity to electrocute them. So who's in more danger?

Acts of personal stupidity don't count as dangers on the population.............you play golf in a thunderstorm, that's your own fault.......you step off the bus when the water is up to the bumper and there's fallen powerlines in it, that's your own fault (in this case I really would not consider the kid at fault, but who's parents let them out in a storm like that....that's questionable)............you don't trim the old rotting tree that's overshadowing your house, that's your fault. Those things happen.......nature has a big hand up on us. And despite how safe we think we are, it's pretty easy for nature to show us who's boss.

But at the same time, as a parent you have a responsibility to your child to reduce those risks and keep them safe..........sending them out with a gun saying ok if you get attacked use this is one option. But at the same time, as I said previously.......there's a simpler solution, just move. I'm not saying that's your only option, but it is another option and it would be a lot easier on your child. And the most important thing in this picture is your child.

...and you're in violation of your face!

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.......there's a simpler solution, just move. I'm not saying that's your only option, but it is another option and it would be a lot easier on your child. And the most important thing in this picture is your child.

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...Steve1

I'm not saying it would be easy, as I said things may be difficult for a while....but you can make it happen. Like I said, it's not the only option. But which would be easier on your child, moving or shooting at a charging polar bear? I would hope the younger kids were being escorted by adults....then again the problem may not big that big either.

...and you're in violation of your face!

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>Yep. Why, just last week I was in an Indian casino here in California. Was tough to see without any power, of course, and getting in and out of all the teepees was a bit hard! .........

BELIZE CITY (Reuters) - Global warming has made life more dangerous ..........snow mobiles and sleds crash through the ice during hunts.

this is the greatest post in the history of mankind - in one short bit you successfully -

1 - Call JR a steroetyping bigot
2 - Bring in your pet topic of global warming
3 - Put a recreational gas using vehicle in a bad light

classic

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Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants