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Um the M4 is fully automatic with no three-round-burst selector. And to the person above me the M4's fire selector has options of safe, semi, and full auto so yes an assault rifle can be both. edited to add: more likely Daley was misquoted. www.FourWheelerHB.com

Appears to me the Rev threw himself under the bus. If Obama was able to make his comments and appear visibly angry at the same time then Billary has no chance. Please explain. I am having a hard time figuring out your point. Thanks I guess I have a different perspective. I would say this is exactly what Obama needed to separate himself from Wright. Convincing me this supposed feud wasn't premeditated would be not be easy. www.FourWheelerHB.com

Appears to me the Rev threw himself under the bus. If Obama was able to make his comments and appear visibly angry at the same time then Billary has no chance. www.FourWheelerHB.com

That's an excellent question and one I cannot answer. I would assume since the undercover cop had his gun on him that he also had his badge so in my mind the prudent thing to do would hold the badge out on display with one hand while the gun is in the other. But there could be reasons not to do that since he was approaching a vehicle filled with men who he believed to be armed so might have thought it more prudent to have two hands on his weapon while his badge hung around his neck or was clipped to his belt which then could easily be mistaken as "bling." www.FourWheelerHB.com

last time I filled up my bike it cost $18.50 for 4.5 gallons of 91 octane. At 45 miles per gallon that's $.09 per mile. www.FourWheelerHB.com

You forgot... - look even further right to check the crosswalk/sidewalk to make sure you don't run someone over as you roll throught that red light. Green light has right of way. Of course if the uturn guy is a smart driver he look out for the idiot that rolls through the red and tried to hit him. www.FourWheelerHB.com

The only reason this story even made it beyond local news is because the "groom" was due to be married a couple hours after the incident. Other than that its the same old story. - cops attempt to stop suspect. - suspect assaults cops with vehicle. - cops then have the authority to use deadly force and open fire until the threat is eliminated. This is why the prosecutor attempted to create doubt that the undercover cop identified himself as police. BECAUSE if he did not identify himself as police then the driver would have been reasonable in trying to run the cop down with the vehicle. Right? I don't think the cops didn't screw up but I do agree with the verdict. www.FourWheelerHB.com

Being "dark skinned" I can say without a doubt America is incredibly racist. www.FourWheelerHB.com

keep saving since our military machine won't run without it. www.FourWheelerHB.com

Has anyone been recalled for more than 24 months? I doubt it as that's for Ready Reserve only. If you're on inactive reserve and get recalled....you're screwed and will serve out the remainder of your 8 year contract on active duty. I was fortunate that my 8 years ran out in the fall of 2001 otherwise I would have been recalled. No sense in recalling someone for only a couple months I guess. www.FourWheelerHB.com

Yes. It lets you shoot your guns without irritating your neighbors as much and with a lower risk of hearing damage (with supersonic bullets you can't get rid of the sonic boom, just the muzzle blast). We restricted (put a $200 tax stamp on them, which was a lot of money in 1934 when the average annual salary was $1368 among the employed) them because of concern over poaching during the Great Depression. Shooting rifles is a relaxing zen sort of sport. Breathing correctly has a huge impact on accuracy - a .01" misalignment between front and rear sights means you're going to miss the X ring at 100 yards; .02" moves you out into the 9 ring. Loud explosions on either side of you make that harder to do. Silencers on the entire firing line would be nice. I have to say, as an avid shooter, shooting just wouldn't be the same without the loud explosions on either side of me. If I want to have a zen experience I'll just get in the pool and do some drown proofing....or meditate. Wanting a silencer for a quieter firing range is pretty ridiculous considering many people scoff at paying $20 for hearing protection. Try combining ear plugs with very nice and "not so cheap" hearing protection as it will still be a hell of a lot cheaper than purchasing a silencer. The OP has posed a very good question and I can't come up with a reasonable answer even though I am pro-gun. The fact of the matter is silencers are useful for military and law enforcement applications not civilian. Not that I support outlawing silencers but shooting varmit? lol www.FourWheelerHB.com

They also made it very clear during bootcamp. For the Marines, you are not 100% obligated to fulfill your contract until you graduate and can finally call yourself a Marine. Prior to that point you can tell your drill instructors you want to go home and they will happily send you on a bus. In fact there is nothing that will make a drill instructor happier. www.FourWheelerHB.com

The most celebrated Marine in history is Major General Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller and he once said while on Battalion inspection.... "Take me to the brig. I want to see the 'real Marines.'" www.FourWheelerHB.com

Nope. That just proves how on the mark Obama's statement really was. www.FourWheelerHB.com

It was the same for us and any tats below the sleeve prior to recruitment needed a waiver. An individual that can be described as "sleeved" would have never been allowed to join. Perhaps that changed with more difficulty in recruiting. 6 months to a year ago I read an article regarding Marines overlooking tats below the sleeve or "roll" and the consequent crackdown. Navy and/or Army recruiters could have easily mistaken or spun this as recruitment policy IMO. www.FourWheelerHB.com

When I went to USMC bootcamp in November of 93 we started with 70 recruits. 8 were felons told by the judge to join the Corps or go to jail. This is nothing new for the Marines and I completely support this method of rehabilitation. Incidently all 8 of those recruits graduated where we lost more than half of our platoon to either injury, failure, or voluntary drop. I don't believe it was ever policy for the Marines to allow tats below the sleeve. If memory serves, it was overlooked for a time and too many young Marines were taking advantage of it which lead to a crackdown by command. Don't know for sure though. www.FourWheelerHB.com

McCain's time spent as a POW is some cause for concern when considering him for the oval office however this piece is ridiculous. He has a short temper? Ok. No real big deal to me as long as he isn't violent and certainly after 26 years of public service someone would be able to find a decision he's made that was affected by his anger. He has medical issues and takes medication? Show me a 71 year old that doesn't. He refused early release due to fear of being court marshalled? LMAO. www.FourWheelerHB.com

that link lead me to a whole bunch of videos I never wanted to know were on youtube. www.FourWheelerHB.com

A whole lot of people have been exonerated years after their convictions. You are OK with the state killing innocent people in YOUR name? 6 months ago I read about a man who had been on death row for 14 years and was finally exonerated by dna evidence two weeks prior to his scheduled execution. That's when my support for the death penalty officially ended. www.FourWheelerHB.com

I didn't say I believe. I said it wasn't my experience and then followed it up with wanting to learn more. You have to keep in mind as I do that no one is going to come out of this thread and say to themself,"holy shit! She's right! I have had it wrong all this time." Nope...we'll come out of this all believing what we initially believed but more tense. With this understanding I enjoy engaging in conversations like these in order to better understand and perhaps in the end I'll be more informed which is always a good thing. Unfortunately and ironically this thread will never last long with patience and understanding but if we get a little hostile then this will go on for a couple hundred pages at least. edited to add: oh and btw I have no idea what Pope JP2 said concerning evolution. Please fill me in. www.FourWheelerHB.com

Sounds like the only people who will admit they are Christians to you are of the fairly fundamentalist variety. Because I know plenty of self-identified Christians who believe in evolution, and who think that there is a lot of truth in the Bible, but most of it's not in the specifics in Genesis . Me, for instance. Wendy W. You're probably right since I don't actively seek out conversations about religion with Christians so those conversations I do have are always with someone wanting to convert me. My favorite one is... "we'd sure love to have you on our side when armegeddon comes." But I understand your position completely as there are things I do not believe about Buddhism. www.FourWheelerHB.com

I think such things are an abuse of religion. Many religious Christians have no problem with things like Evolution and so forth. Pope John Paul II was one example. Many Catholics & mainstream Protestants feel the same way. Why do you suppose that is? As for homos causing Katrina, well WTF can you say? The Bible in many places deals with the fact that this world is often an unjust place. Bad things happen to good people a lot. To say for example, that when someone gets killed in a hurricane that it is because they deserved it, actually goes against the message of the Book of Job. There Yes it is an abuse of religion but it doesn't answer my question. I've never met a Christian that believes and accepts evolution because evolution says humans came from apes while the bible says humans came from Adam and Eve so to believe evolution as a Christian is to believe Adam and Eve were apes. So all I can say is that has not been my experience but I would be interested to learn more about this. To me, and perhaps this is a bit cynical, religion is about money and power simply because humans are involved. Yet I am Buddhist and proudly admit it. Funny don't ya think? www.FourWheelerHB.com

I agree regarding the current God. However his name is still pinned on natural disasters like Katrina and the tsunami by the religious even though they can be explained scientifically. Why is that do you think? We can sit here for an eternity debating the existence of God and in the end we would have progressed no further than,"He exists!" "No he doesn't!" Because it is an argument with no possibility of being proven either way. Yet religion Christianity threads tend to be the most popular here in speakers corner. www.FourWheelerHB.com

"THE reason" nice. I think that if you took 10000 people that believed in a deity of some sort (I don't care either way), you'd get 10000 reasons. Some that align with that description, some that are nowhere near it, and everything in between. To think one can get into their minds and simplify so much and so negatively is nuts. But it is easier to just put everyone in a uniform bucket and then proceed to spit into it. Heck, it's even easier with policial groups, races, etc..... I like it, it makes me feel special. I can cling to it, like my agnosticism, and my guns and my general disdain for small ratlike dogs. So, I think that generically belittling another's beliefs just because they disagree with yours, by making it about fear or something negative, is etc, etc, etc, etc so there I read that as HIS reasoning people believe. Not necessarily why beowolf thinks people believe on a personal level. In a way beowolf has a valid point. The human mind is too fragile to accept non-existence. The survival instinct is too overwhelming and when a loved one dies it reminds people of their own mortality. So when grandpa dies he's in a better place or grandpa is watching over me. It's too painfull to accept the fact he is gone.....forever. The question of the existence of God is similar in that humans use him or her to explain the unexplainable. Throughout the history of humankind every society and culture has used dieties to explain something in one way or another. Before it explained solar eclipses, lightning, volcanos, etc. Since the advent of science humans now use religion, God, Alah, and Buddha to explain such things as the origin of the universe and the afterlife. Both being unexplainable and unprovable coincidently. www.FourWheelerHB.com

My never ending search for a woman with no gag reflex. www.FourWheelerHB.com