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one thing I do like about your attitude in such discussions: It allows me to skip reading your posts without missing anything intelligent or insightful. -- Rob

look... armchair cop!! someone has been watching too many movies. -- Rob

I usually start these public vs officer discussions on the side of the officer. That's the way I viewed this video. I could see shooting him. I wouldn't have had a problem with that. He was moving towards one of the officers, reportedly wielding a knife. Where I have a problem is the shooting continued well after he was down on the ground. Six officers fired 46 rounds. I get that handgun rounds don't stop someone immediately, and if it was one officer firing 8 rounds to stop someone, that could be understandable. But I have a problem believing it took 46 rounds from 6 officers to stop a threat. -- Rob

while she is no genius, nor a diplomat, what I thought was seriously humorous around that time was that the media outlets comparing her and Obama so that he would have someone to come out ahead of. -- Rob

What about the guy that has gotten a lot of practice saying "What Vice President Biden meant to say was..." -- Rob

not a "mass shooting". Bad guy shoots cop and civilian while he's being served eviction. Other cop shoots bad guy. I have an AK-47 and it's not fully automatic. Careful or you'll sound as smart as the reporters this poster makes fun of.http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/journalists_firearms_identification_guide/ -- Rob

and yet somehow when you phrase "you're a liar" this way, it's not considered a personal attack. -- Rob

butbutbut... that NEVER happens here. -- Rob

as this thread drags on, all I see is "you're a douchebag!!" "no!! you're an idiot!!" "oh yeah! well you're a douchebag!!" "no I'm not you idiot!!" repeat. -- Rob

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different schools of problem solving. One (yours) focuses on understanding the initial cause, and knowing how the problem came about in hopes to come up with a long term solution. The other (mine) focuses first on solving the immediate problem and then on prevention and a long term solution. Your school of problem solving usually comes up with a very nice long term solution and when implemented properly usually takes less time to implement. Though almost always takes more time to find the solution, and in doing so takes more time from initial problem solving onset to final solution implementation (as the initial problem is now harder to solve). My school of problem solving usually comes up with an immediate solution that may not be a long term solution, solves the immediate problem, and then can take the time to go back and work on a longer term solution. My school of problem solving suffers from people who half-ass the long term solution because there is no more immediate pain being felt. I understand why you think what you think, I just disagree. solving real-money problems for large companies is what I do every day. I see both types of problem solving in my work. Mine is more effective when there is high immediate pain such as great loss of assets or potential profit. (such as overspending a budget putting a country in to huge debt) Yours is more effective when the problem is pervasive but isn't causing the client as much immediate pain. -- Rob

what happened to transparency? -- Rob

usually the first step to solving a problem is identifying it. -- "negative cashflow" Then you look to a solution. if you wish to prevent it from happening again you look to the cause which is, as you say, 20+years of overspending by politicians. by ignoring the search for a solution and continually focusing on the cause, the problem gets worse and harder to solve. fuck that. they need to quit finger pointing and start proposing workable solutions. Until we as citizens insist they do that (through our votes and our insistence through communications to our representatives) it's going to end up the same old song and dance that you perpetuate here as well. "it's not my guy's fault" ... "oh yeah, well MY guy didn't do it all" fuck that. -- Rob

yes yes... the same old song & dance... it's not "my guy's" fault. fuck that. as was said above, we have a cashflow problem. quit blaming and start solving. raise taxes, cut spending. do both. pull back on foreign military operations, cut foreign aid, sensible reform for entitlement programs (that won't cost more than they save) -- Rob

yes, of course I am. My give a shit is broken right now and I'm fucking off rather than working. sure. sounds better. So being based on Rule of Law, wouldn't it be good if our chief executive didn't ignore some laws? -- Rob

It's all in the definition of "dealer". From what I've read on it (I looked into getting my C&R FFL a couple of years ago) selling part of your collection in order to make room for different guns or to use that money for buying firearms or other necessary purchases isn't considered "dealing" firearms. Of course if you move guns through your "collection" too quickly then the ATF becomes the aforementioned ton of bricks, calls your collection "stock" and busts you for dealing without a license. So Bob might have a booth selling lots of things, and some of those things happen to be firearms, but they are not his primary wares. This is how I bought my first Mosin... from a guy selling leatherwork and backpacks. He had 3 mosins on the table. I bought one. (his name wasn't bob) Almost bought my first 1911 this way too. The guy was selling old books and knives and had a Colt Argentine on the table. Ended up buying from a dealer 2 tables down. -- Rob

you keep saying "democracy", yet you start your post referring to the US government. I don't think that word means what you think it means. Because it doesn't describe our system of government. edit to add: I do not mean to pry, but you don't by any chance happen to have six fingers on your right hand? -- Rob

They may as well try outaw the ingredients to ANFO bombs while they're at it. -- Rob

So we can put you down as wanting more licensed concealed carry holders to increase the odds of someone being onsite to stop things like this? -- Rob

http://www.skyventure.com/indoor-skydiving-comes-to-texas/ -- Rob

sure... nobody ever died from getting hit or choked with a baton. -- Rob

sign # 432 that bill doesn't want his own argument turned against him. He dodges the question :) -- Rob

much better. so if the officer chose to pull over the 1mph speeder and ask for his ID, would he be violating anyone's rights? What about if that person was acting suspiciously, and refused to identify himself? Should the officer then let him go? -- Rob

come on bill... talk about straw man. This discussion isn't about prioritizing which laws to enforce. It's about seeing one violation and choosing to enforce or ignore it. -- Rob

so let him walk away? Choose which laws to enforce? -- Rob