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I have a few firearms, but nothing in comparison to some as far as collections go. I have an ACR I like to shoot targets with @ 200 yards, and a old 22 LR and a M1 Carbine my father gave me and finally a .38 s&w house gun for protection my father also gave me. I currently don't have a CHL but I had an incident that happened on friday that changed my mind. I was driving in Houston for my job and I had to go run a ticket at a Dillards in a mall in the west part of houston. I decided to get off the freeway and take what looked like a 'shortcut' but ended up becoming a massive pain in my ass. The street I was on was Bissonnett. Its under construction and I was in the middle lane, which goes straight...the left lane either turns left. There was a lincoln town car in the left lane and and when the light turned green I proceeded to go straight as well as the car to the left of me which should have turned. I see Im getting boxed in fast...so I punch it to try and squeeze through...only to get hit by the lincoln regardless. I point at the driver and tell him to pull over. The driver hops out and we discuss what happened and then 4 women riding in his car jump out and start yelling at me telling me I hit him...it was all my fault...yadda yadda. So I knew the situation was going south fast, so I wished the women a happy holidays and told them they look nice (they were fucking nasty by the way) but I was trying to peacfully trying to resolve the situation. I get on my yellow pages app on my phone and pull up the closest police station on bissonnett. Oh goody. It's only 2.1 miles away. So I call the number and request a police offices to be dispatched to my location. I answer a battery of stupid questions [did you rear end a police officer? Why the fuck would I call and ask for another cop if I rear ended a cop to begin with?] So I just close my door to my car and I can see the women yelling at the young man that was driving the car. I figure this is because he doesn't have insurance and in houston you get arrested for not being financially responsible. Well, I wait. I wait. Next thing you know I've been there for over an hour and a half. I call back that number and get told that it can take 2 hours for police to respond to non-emergency calls. So the driver is getting impatient. He tells me. Yo I'm not gonna wait much longer. I got shit to do. He said if you want you can follow me to my apartment around half a mile down the road and we can exchange insurance since 'mine isn't in my car'. Well I should have known he straight up didn't have insurance, but I was supposed to be working...my work phone was blowing up...and I was seriously late for a call. So I went against my better judgement and left the scene after waiting for an hour and 40 minutes and went back to his apartment. Now if the driver was as rude as the women he was with...I would have never have left, but for some reason he seemed trustworthy. Well I follow him back to his apartment complex where he basically did the same maneuver he did to me to 2 other drivers along the way and we finally get there. I see a parking spot at the very front and I BACK in. He comes to my car and I tell him to get his insurance card and well make the exchange of information. Well he starts to go up and I see this nasty old woman with titties hanging down to her ankles saying...TYRELL YOU AINT GOT TO GIVE HIM SHIT! He hit YOU. And I said...excuse me? Were you there? Then he said...please sir don't yell at my mamma. As soon as that happened, I saw 4 burly ass dudes say...fuck that whiteboy and start heading towards me. Yes I was the only white person in that whole place. So I jump in my car and I peeled the fuck out of there and left black marks on the pavement from my tires. I go back to the scene when the cop finally showed up and I get the police report done...I called my work and tell them what happened and I wasnt running that job and to give it to someone else. I came home and signed up for a CHL class and borrowed my dads beretta 9mm for my class today. Of course my dad has told me that I will get a brand new .40 S&W for getting my CHL and he's been telling me that for quite a while but never felt the need for one until this event. So my question is...I have a granddaughter that comes by and I have a closet where all of my guns are located and locked up every time she comes by. But since I will keep the .40 in my car I wanted to know if any of you have experience with biometric or fingerprint trigger locks and if you have any recommendations, and also if you have any recommendations for a holster for fitting my pistol in my car...possibly in the center console or under the dash. Thank you in advance.

This isn't a selfie but it is the newest member of our family wishing everyone a happy and safe new years.

Absolutely. There was no malice. Happy holidays to all at dz.com

No selfies ------------------------------------- So I wish you happy holidays and you want to take a shot at me anyway huh?

If you had instead posted this photo you could have received more credibility. Happy Holidays Jcalor and everyone at dropzone.com

this shouldn't be too far away from your home. http://www.break.com/video/christmas-with-an-insane-norwegian-2556220 happy holidays

As a child sex abuse victim that endured years of abuse from someone I looked up to I wish I had brothers like this. My brother left home when I was 7 and didn't return for 12 years.

Are you serious? Posing with firearms desensitizes children to the dangers of a firearm? What desensitizes children to the dangers of firearms are: 1) Parents who neglect their jobs of raising children to be respectful towards life. 2) Hollywood Progressives who continue to produce their violent movies. Now I am not calling for Hollywood to be censored (even though the vast majority of the movies Hollywood produces these days are pure garbage). But if you want to find the source of who has desensitized children towards the dangers of firearms, it is poor parenting and the make believe world called Hollywood. Back to this family, please provide us proof that they have not educated their children on the dangers of firearms. I do not know this family, I have no proof that they have been taught to respect firearms, but once again I wish to live in a society where people are "Innocent until proven guilty". I have to step out away from the 'puter. Have fun trying to defend your ideological intolerance. You want to know what desensitizes children to firearms? Let me show you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60ArTdz_cTY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL39jJN9hHM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C2T75EWtgU This is in mainstream america and some parents let their kids watch anything. So tell me this...whats more dangerous? A parent who lets their kids become truly desensitized by watching shootouts on their TV on a daily basis...OR a parent that teaches their children about firearms from a young age and those same children grow up knowing not only how to safely operate a firearm, but understand that they are NOT toys and they are instead objects that can be fun, but are respected at all times. I think I'll take door #2. Of course since Door #2 was how I was raised by a ex army captain and 45 year police officer who teaches other police officers how to better utilize their weapons. You are barking up the wrong tree. Edit to add: Sorry my kanuck friend, my post was for jaclor, I think I just replied to the last on the list.

I'm just alerting a few posters here to possibly modify their travel plans.

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http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cd6_1388055411 Be careful of older brothers when attempting to molest 13 year old girls.

Kampala, Uganda (CNN) -- Gay-rights activists in Uganda warned Monday of mounting violence against homosexuals after parliament passed controversial legislation last week that would make some gay acts punishable with life in prison. "The witch hunt had already started, and now it has been legitimized by the parliament of Uganda, which is very scary," said Clare Byarugaba, coordinator for the Ugandan Civil Society Coalition on Human Rights and Constitutional Law, an umbrella gay-rights group. "We don't know how brutal the police will be now that the bill has passed. With this legitimization, it's going to get worse." Homosexuality is illegal in most African countries, where sodomy laws were introduced during colonialism. Currently in Uganda, homosexual acts are punishable by 14 years to life in prison, according to rights activists. But lawmakers in the conservative nation sought tougher legislation, saying the Western lifestyle risks destroying Ugandan family units. Gay activists in Uganda are regularly detained, blackmailed and harassed in what they say has been an ongoing campaign led by religious and political leaders in the conservative East African country. "What we are convinced and sure of is that nobody can in one's right conscience and consciousness choose to be homosexual," said Simon Lokodo, Uganda's minister for Ethics and Integrity. "This must be under pressure or conditions because we know that the natural tendency is always for a male to go for a female and vice-versa." The moral fervor has even impacted the expatriate community in Uganda. A retired British man is facing up to two years in prison over the possession of a gay sex video. The man says the images were stolen along with his laptop in a break-in at his home. Images from the video were later published in a local tabloid newspaper notorious for outing gays. Bernard Randall, 65, was scheduled to appear in an Entebbe court last week, but his case has been postponed until January 22. Randall was arrested and released on bail last month and is charged with "trafficking obscene publications," which carries a sentence of up to two years. His partner, Ugandan Albert Cheptoyek, was arrested and will stand trial alongside him, facing a more serious charge for "gross indecency," which carries a sentence of up to seven years. "There certainly seems to be a ramping up of pressure from the state here against homosexuals," said Randall, citing a string of arrests and trials against gay activists in recent months. "I'm still very concerned if they drop the case or if I'm found not guilty." Early this year, another British national, David Cecil, faced up to two years in prison for staging a play with a gay character without government permission. Though the charges against him were dropped for lack of evidence, he was deported from Uganda one month later. Cecil has since filed an appeal against his deportation at the High Court in Uganda, but those proceedings have also stalled. The bill, which in its original form prescribed the death penalty for cases of "aggravated homosexuality" -- for instance if someone is infected with HIV -- was reduced before the vote to life imprisonment. Clauses that criminalize the "promotion" of homosexuality could cause activists and even doctors treating gay patients with HIV to face prison time. Member of parliament David Bahati praised the bill's passage on Friday, thanking the speaker "for the courage and defending the children of Uganda and the cause for humanity, to protect our marriages, to defend culture and to defend the future of our children." The International HIV/AIDS Alliance said in a statement that the bill will have a "disastrous impact on the country's HIV response." Uganda is one of only two countries in Africa with a rising AIDS rate, after being hailed for its early success in fighting the epidemic in the 1990s. President Yoweri Museveni still has to assent to the bill for it to become law -- "So our only hope now is with the president of Uganda -- and we plan to put as much pressure as necessary to ensure that this bill doesn't pass into law," said Byarugaba, who is also a winner of the U.S. State Department's 2011 Human Rights Defender Award. To become law, it requires Museveni's signature within 30 days. Human rights groups are also on high alert and outspoken about the recent measures. "President Museveni must veto this wildly discriminatory legislation, which amounts to a grave assault on human rights and makes a mockery of the Ugandan constitution," said Aster van Kregten, deputy Africa director at Amnesty International. "Passing the Anti-Homosexuality Bill was a retrograde step for Uganda's Parliament, which has made some important progress on human rights in recent years, including criminalizing torture. It flies in the face of the Ugandan government's stated commitment to ensure all legislation complies with human rights." Gay activist Frank Mugisha said that he has been verbally and physically attacked since the bill's passing and that many Ugandans think the bill has already become law. The 2011 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award winner told journalists at a news conference in Kampala Monday that gay-rights activists will be challenging the bill in constitutional court. The activists say they will contest the lack of a quorum in parliament, which Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi has also noted, saying the House did not have the necessary number of MPs for the bill to be passed. According to a parliamentary statement, the Prime Minister tried to defer consideration of the bill, saying that government was involved in "negotiations" over the proposed legislation. "I was not aware that this bill was coming up for debate. There are some issues on which we are still consulting," Mbabazi was quoted as saying. However the bill has public backing from the parliamentary speaker, Rebecca Kadaga, who last year had promised to pass the bill as a "Christmas gift" to Ugandans, but it was carried into the current session. The bill has also brought condemnations from the international community, which could lead to Uganda losing millions in donor aid. Last year, Germany cut off aid to Uganda, citing the bill as one of the reasons. UK Prime Minister David Cameron has also threatened to cut aid to Uganda over the bill. EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton last week urged the Ugandan government "to ensure respect of the principle of non-discrimination, guaranteed in the Ugandan Constitution, and to preserve a climate of tolerance for all minorities in Uganda." http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/23/world/africa/uganda-anti-gay-bill/

----------------------------------------------------- This is like one of those icanhascheezburger pics. Because there are youths brandishing firearms you got your panties all wadded up in a bunch. Chances are this could have been in another country but as soon as you see texas your troll sense kicked in and you felt the dire need to post that picture at all costs. Meanwhile, my Bushmaster ACR just got a new EOTech holographic weapon sight + the 3X Magnifier and NOBODY got shot. Amazing. http://www.bushmaster.com/firearms/acr.asp http://www.opticsplanet.com/eotech-hhs-i-holographic-hybrid-sight-i-w-exps3-4-red-dot-sight-and-g33-sts-magnifier.html

Yeah, that totally turns the debate on its ear. The man has probably just as much credentials as you do yet you want to berate him over and over again. You do know that if you twist that 2x4 sideways you can remove it safely from your ass right?

Seriously. Redneck motherfucker behaving like a redneck motherfucker. What a shocker. ------------------------ TB, the QB who backed up PR at Lousiana Tech

http://therightscoop.com/gay-tmz-founder-slams-glaad-they-preach-tolerance-but-they-wont-tolerate-phil-robertsons-religious-beliefs/ Levin says he is gay and doesn’t agree with Robertson, but given that this country is all about freedom of religion and freedom of speech, he believes Robertson is entitled to his opinion and shouldn’t be punished for it.

A) It applies to everybody. That's the point. B) You have an incredibly short memory. We've just been talking about the problem with the death penalty being that you will execute innocent people. That still applies here. So the 8th amendment is not just there to protect the heinous criminal, it's there to protect the falsely accused and mistakenly convicted. Most people don't care when innocent people are executed, this is because when innocent people are executed, they are still people with serious criminal records. Execute a innocent white person with no previous criminal record and then watch them howl. Ironically I never heard of this. No howling happened. http://camerontoddwillingham.com/

Dianne Feinstein has already stated several times that she wants to confiscate every single firearms from every citizen if she could do it. Just looking for the perfect tragedy to happen to use it as political ammunition. Typical. Molon Labe Dianne. Yes I know this is canada, the place that already had a failed gun registration system, yet they keep wanting to infringe on their citizens rights just like feinstein.

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/politics/archives/2013/12/20131221-160152.html

http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/21/us/heroin-marked-obama-care/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 -- What do heroin and Obamacare have in common? Nothing -- save for more than 1,200 packets of heroin that had the words "Obama Care" and "Kurt Cobain" printed in red on the packaging that Massachusetts State Police say they uncovered in a drug bust. State police said the labels are nothing more than marketing ploys. "It's a branding by the particular drug dealer so when the drug gets out to the population, you know what it is," said Police Lt. Daniel Richard. "It's just a branding so you can say if this brand is good or bad. It's like putting Pepsi or Coca-Cola on a bottle." Trooper Joseph Petty stopped a vehicle with four people in the Town of Hatfield on Friday morning after noticing the vehicle was committing several traffic violations. Tyler Robenstein and Ashley Beaulieu of Vermont and Marquese Jones and Sherod Green of New Jersey were taken into custody and face conspiracy to violate drug laws and possession charges. The driver, Robenstein, was charged with speeding, unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and failure to change lanes for an emergency vehicle, police said. The Hampshire County Jail in Northampton said late Saturday afternoon that Robenstein and Beaulieu had been released on bond. Jones and Green were still being held.

may need to review the 8th Amendment. --------------------------------------------------------- explain to me exactly why the 8th amendment should be referenced to people like this? According to the testimony of the Knox County Acting Medical Examiner Dr. Darinka Mileusnic-Polchan at the subsequent trial of Eric Boyd, Newsom was sodomized with an object and then raped by an individual. When his body was discovered near a set of nearby railroad tracks, it was found that he had been bound, blindfolded, gagged, and stripped naked from the waist down. He had been shot in the back of the head, neck, and back and his body had been set on fire. According to the testimony of the medical examiner, Channon's death came after hours of torture, having suffered injuries to her vagina, anus, and mouth as a result of repeated sexual assaults. It was also reported that her body was scrubbed with bleach which was also poured down her throat, in an attempt by her attackers to remove DNA evidence, while Channon was still alive. She was then bound with curtains and strips of bedding, her face covered with a trash bag and her body stashed within five large trash bags, before being placed inside a residential waste disposal unit and covered with sheets. The medical examiner said there was evidence that Channon slowly suffocated to death. Now explain to me why someone like this doesn't deserve what I suggested. They have no respect for life of any kind, so why should they live the rest of their lives getting 3 meals a day when their victims suffered probably a worse fate than some in jewish concentration camps.

How about telling the inmate WHILE in solitary that on a random day sometime between now and 10 years from now they will be taken out of solitary and beaten to death. I'm sure not knowing when, while in solitary would make them go insane.

I wonder if bob ford had anything to do with this.

A Marine vacationing with his wife in Australia died Saturday during a skydiving trip, an employee of the skydiving company said. Gunnery Sgt. Brandon McGraw reportedly recently returned from Afghanistan and was on a trip that his wife had won during a contest on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show." “McGraw watched his wife do a tandem jump before exiting the plane,” Ian Matthews, an employee at Euroa Skydive, told JDNews.com. “He floated for three or four minutes with a good canopy,” he said, adding that McGraw was an experienced skydiver. “A short time before landing, he suddenly began turning his parachute dramatically to the left and right and eventually crashed into the ground,” Matthews told the news site. Emergency responders declared McGraw dead at the scene. The accident remains under investigation. McGraw was assigned to Camp Lejeune, N.C., WTKR.com reported. http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/12/19/marine-dies-in-skydiving-accident-during-trip-wife-won-on-ellen-degeneres-show/?intcmp=latestnews

(CNN) -- A shortage of lethal injection chemicals has contributed to declining use of capital punishment in the United States with a new report on Thursday noting only 39 executions this year. It is only the second time in the past two decades the annual number of inmates put to death has dropped below 40. The total represents a 10 percent reduction from last year. No further executions are scheduled in 2013. "Twenty years ago, use of the death penalty was increasing. Now it is declining by almost every measure," said Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, and the author of the report. "The recurrent problems of the death penalty have made its application rare, isolated, and often delayed for decades. More states will likely reconsider the wisdom of retaining this expensive and ineffectual practice." The nonprofit organization provides accurate figures and a range of analysis, but opposes use of the death penalty. While the annual number of executions and death sentences continues to drop nationally overall, it remains a legally and socially acceptable form of justice for aggravated murder in 32 states. But just nine states conducted lethal injections this year, and two -- Texas with 16 and Florida with 7 -- accounted for nearly 60 percent of the total. Texas is among the active death-penalty states scrambling to find new lethal injection protocols after European-based manufacturers banned U.S. prisons from using their drugs in executions. Among them is Danish-based Lundbeck, which manufactures pentobarbital, the most commonly used -- either as a single drug, or in combination with others -- to execute prisoners. States have been forced to try new drug combinations or go to loosely regulated compounding pharmacies that manufacturer variations of the drugs banned by the larger companies, according to an investigation last month by CNN's Deborah Feyerick. A pending lawsuit against Texas filed by several death row inmates and their supporters alleges the state corrections department falsified a prescription for pentobarbital using an alias. Until recently, most states relied on a three-drug "cocktail," but many jurisdictions now use a single dose or a two-drug combination. Various state and federal courts have postponed some planned executions until issues surrounding the new protocols are resolved. Every execution this year relied on pentobarbital, except in Florida, which used midazolam hydrochloride -- a drug applied for the first time in human lethal injections. And Missouri was prepared to inject a single dose of the anesthetic propofol for its two recent executions, until Gov. Jay Nixon halted its application. The European Union had threatened to limit export of the widely used drug for other purposes if the state had proceeded. The two inmates were separately put to death in recent weeks using pentobarbital instead. Among the high-profile capital cases this year involved Kimberly McCarthy, the first woman executed in the United States in three years. The former Dallas-area resident was convicted of murdering her neighbor, and in June became the state's 500th prisoner to die at the hands of the government since 1976, when the Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume. So far, 1,359 people have been put to death across the country since that time, using lethal injection, electrocution, gas chamber, hanging, and firing squad. That includes three federal prisoners. Spared for now was Georgia inmate Warren Hill, whose attorneys say he is mentally disabled. Courts earlier this year stayed three separate execution dates, one with just minutes to spare. The Supreme Court in March will hold oral arguments and decide whether the Florida scheme for identifying mentally disabled defendants in capital cases violates previous standards established by the high court. Freddie Lee Hall and an accomplice were convicted of the 1978 murders of a pregnant 21-year-old woman and a sheriff's deputy in separate store robberies, both on the same day. His lawyers say the death row inmate has an IQ of 60. In Missouri, Reginald Griffin was freed in October and his sentence thrown out after the state high court found the trial prosecution withheld critical evidence that may have implicated another prisoner in a jailhouse murder. He became the 143rd person exonerated from death row in the past 40 years. Maryland became the sixth state in as many years to abolish its death penalty, joining Connecticut, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, and New Mexico. Eighteen other states have previously done so. Attorney General Eric Holder faces a tough decision in coming months: whether to seek the death penalty in federal court for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzokhar Tsarnaev. Across the country, capital sentences remain at historic lows, with just 79 so far this year. They have declined in number by 75 percent from 1996, said the report, when 315 people were put on death row. With the death penalty declining and recent polls showing a corresponding drop in public support, some legal analysts wonder if the Supreme Court is prepared in coming years to take another look at the issue's overall constitutionality -- whether capital punishment in the 21st century represents "cruel and unusual punishment." The justices in most cases continue to deny most requests for stays of executions, usually without any comment, or a breakdown of which members of the nine-member bench might have granted such a delay. "It certainly seems that it merits another day in court after 40 years," said Evan Mandery, a law professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and author of the new book "A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America." "There are a lot of reasons to think that (moderate-conservative) Justice Anthony Kennedy's vote is up for grabs and his mind is open on this question. So I don't think the outcome of a case would be predetermined one way or another." But there is no sign such a monumental legal and social review by the nation's highest court will be coming soon. http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/19/politics/death-penalty-us/