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I think it should be available but not required. Just as cooking, sewing, child care, driving, and other life-skills (non-academic) are offered but not required. If I want to take marksmanship as a PE elective for one of my required PE credits, then I think that should be OK. In freshman PE (almost 30 years ago now), we pretty much did a survey of all the PE electives in addition to general PE stuff. The school's rifle program shut down (from lack of interest, in rural KS, you learned to shoot before HS) a few years prior, but the .22 bolt-guns were still in the storage room with the fencing gear. If we were to introduce this program locally and I was asked for input, I would suggest we make marksmanship a PE elective and include a week of basic rifle safety and marksmanship in the freshman PE class. As with sex ed, parents who don't want their children attending, file for an exception and their kid has to sit and read, go to study hall, whatever the local school has for something like that. -- Rob

Ok... Don't tell my 8th grade English teacher. -- Rob

"The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that you never know if they are correctly attributed." -Winston Churchill. I actually remember that Einstein quote from a biography I did on him almost 30 years ago. (well, I didn't recall the exact words. google helped with that) The other one I've only seen online, and have no idea who really said it. Irregardless, didn't you know that 87.2% of all internet statistics are made up on the spot? yes... I put "irregardless" in there to troll someone... anyone actually -- Rob

you're funny... I know you think it's a satirical response, but by completely missing my point, you come off as a jackass. I know you probably aren't (I don't know you, I wouldn't call you a jackass based on one post) but just the way you come off here is incredibly condescending and dismissive. I'm sorry I have my own ideas that don't agree with yours. May I continue living? Is that OK with you? Reminds me an Einstein quote "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." Also reminds me of "condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance" though I've seen that attributed to so many people, I don't know who said it. And Bignugget, as we'd say in Texas, "Well bless your heart". -- Rob

Texas has a law that will cause criminal charges to be brought against a gun owner whose firearm was not "reasonably secured" and is taken by and fired by a minor. (resulting in injury) It's a very specific statement of one responsibility, but it is there. Also much of the Texas CHL class is about when you are allowed to use deadly force, what constitutes deadly force (less than you might think) and where you are not allowed to carry your gun. Much of the optional training Dave referred to has, as a prerequisite, possession of a CHL so that they know they don't have to cover this. Sadly the same can be said for everything. drivers, skydivers, gun owners, students, professors, journalists, politicians... the list goes on... The problem I see with mandatory training is that it will devolve to the bare minimum and the cheapest classes will be the ones most attended. Also likely the ones of less quality. I saw this in my CHL renewal class 5 years ago as it felt like high school gym with several videos to watch. I don't attend that instructors classes anymore. -- Rob

Still smarting I see. Well actually that one was just a joke... Did you reply to the wrong post? Drink more. Type less. It IS a weekend after all. -- Rob

"Limited" "no". he's got a lot of leeway from the mods. he uses it on those of us he deems unworthy. Still smarting from being called on your mistakes, I see. ah... Ah prof at an institute of higher learning holding himself to the same high standards of the common western bridge troll. -- Rob

Hey!! At least lance had the ball to finally tell the truth. -- Rob

Get a grand jury to true bill them. Let's get it done. The people who did (and still are) destroying economies and causing devaluation of currency should all be held accountable. Whether they are in the private or public sector. -- Rob

if he were interested in having a discussion, he might. But he rather enjoys trolling those who disagree with him. Intellectual dishonesty at it's finest. From a professer of physics and engineering. Well, at least they're subjects that aren't subjective. He uses logic at work. He doesn't have any left for here. -- Rob

"Limited" "no". he's got a lot of leeway from the mods. he uses it on those of us he deems unworthy. -- Rob

as in never let a crisis go to waste. -- Rob

the whole country is basing their conclusions and legislation on those incomplete, incorrect reports. And the most complete, most correct possible reports are being sequestered. By the time they're released, all the legislation will have been written based on incomplete and incorrect info fueled by emotion. "gimme a break" please! give us all a break from the media pushing their agenda down our throats and being aided by the courts. -- Rob

and then when they pummel their enemy, somehow, we end up with all that we've given them (over the years it's been training, guns, jets etc... with various enemies of our enemies) gets used on us... and we continue to not learn from our own history. -- Rob

That video was pretty widely distributed. It looked like a saiga-12 to me. -- Rob

and the signal to noise ratio gets smaller still. -- Rob

I would wonder about pronoun agreement. grammar nazi :P -- Rob

He's too busy blathering on and diluting whatever useful content he produces with the noise he's providing. It's done nothing but marginalize and discredit him. But he sure is good at it. -- Rob

--------------------------------------------------------- Reminds me of the first 'die hard' movie. Bruce Willis said that Glocks were made out of porcelain and were undetectable by metal detectors. Which is just as laughable as the supposed logic behind any of kallends posts. Hell, I have a few ceramic blades with plastic and rubber handles that will NOT show up on metal detectors, but they sure as hell will show up on the airport x-ray machines as the density is enough to alert the tech to take a closer look. -- Rob

Semantic BS. from your side of the coin it's Semantic BS. From our side, it's not a loophole, nor does it have anything to do with gunshows. A "gunshow loophole" would imply that somewhere it's stated "if you're selling that at a gunshow, you don't have to do a background check" when in actuality, it depends on the ATF status of the entity selling the firearm at the gunshow. I've bought 3 guns at gunshows and gone through 2 background checks at the time of those purchases. The last purchase was a gentleman who was trying to sell off some of the duplicates in his collection to raise the funds to buy a specific piece. Not a dealer, didn't hold an FFL, and therefore no background check. Though I did fill out a firearms bill of sale and he did record my information for his records. -- Rob

It works because violating this law would take away the income that these legal firearms dealers enjoy. Requiring the same for all citizens who sell part of their collection can not be assumed to be followed to the same degree. -- Rob

invest in your future crime machine? -- Rob

I've thought for a long time (Dec 2000 when it was proposed by many democrat "sore losers") that was a better way to allocate the votes. Regardless of who wins, it protects less populous states as the electoral college was originally intended to, and at the same time lets the allocation of electoral votes more representative of the local population. However, it opens the possibility of more gerrymandering which would have to be guarded against. -- Rob

I wish outsourcing worked that well. Unfortunately it depends on the group that gets the work. I've been involved in dealing with low cost country dev groups and some of the code was so bad we tossed it and started from scratch. -- Rob

I have a lot of relatives in the area. Several live in Johnson county and work on the other side of state line road. It's interesting to note that property on the KS side of the line isn't going up in value like the property on the MO side of the line. People ARE moving. -- Rob