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    More of the same we can believe in! -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    So you feel like you should be able to have any quantity of any substance on your property? I'm not so sure the rest of the world agrees with you. Serious question: How many propne tanks (or total propane) do you think you should be allowed to store in your home? Would you equate the potential fire hazard from gunpowder to propane, or are you more worried about the gunpowder, even if the hazard is the same? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    The right to have children and raise them to your standards is so fundamental to the human condition, that I am not comfortable allowing the government to take it from anyone, ever. I know very good people who others think should have their children taken away because they choose to raise them in non-traditional manners (for example, home schooling instead of sending them to public schools). I am very wary of allowing the group to dictate to parents on child-rearing. I understand that you are talking about cases of extreme abuse, but it seems that whenever the government is handed just a little bit of extra power, it pushes it to the extreme. Today, you sterilize child abusers, and in 100 years? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    Sure there is. Gitmo is perhaps the most expensive place we could operate a prison. I'd much rather put them somewhere cheaper. Not at all. Promising those things was a great idea. It got him lots of votes. That's what campaign promises are for. The notion of actually doing the things he promised? Well, that's a bit different. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    If being you scares them off, they're not the right guys for you, are they? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    Head shots won't kill the zombies anyway. You have to fully decapitate them. So we're all going to need swords...and chainsaws... -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    Planned Parenthood is the NRA of the abortion debate. Most of what they do is contraception and education (most of what the NRA does is gun safety courses). But the stigma they've had attached and the polarizing nature of the mere mention of their name means that it'd probably work better to have a new, un-stereotyped organization. I think the best case would be (yes, I know it's a pipe dream) if two groups on opposite sides of the issue (picture Planned Parenthood and Operation Rescue) cooperated to set up (and supervise) a new organization that worked solely on pregnancy prevention. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    I'm sure there will be further investigation, but I'd hardly call that fact conclusive evidence of anything. Heck, if I went and did that they could look through my phone and find any number of DZ.commers phone numbers there. Would that make this place a den of wacko's likely to snap and start killing people? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    Let's look at it from a practical stand point though. Does it make sense to keep that much ammo all in a large, single shipping container or would it be better to not put all your eggs in one basket? To spread it out a little. I'm not an expert on mass ammo storage, but I suspect there's a reason that the army stores their munitions in depots, rather than spreading them out. Perhaps they are easier to secure? Or perhaps the net effect of spreading a bunch of flammables out is worse than keeping them in one tight space, where they burn only each other, rather than everything else? I guess the thing I'd recommend is consulting with people who actually have expertise in storing ammunition (there's bound to be some in the military) before prescribing some policy. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    You have some actual numbers on that? Or are you just indulging your personal bias to cast out generalizations? This thread supplied the data. I think it might be wise to seek actual data, rather than stereotyping millions of people based on some things posted by a couple folks on the internet. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    I can see holding him liable for the neighbors barn (and other property damage) if his storage procedures were inadequate, and caused the fire (which looks to me reasonably likely). But I don't think he's done anything criminal. In general, I don't think this kind of thing is much of a threat to public safety, because even in this (pretty extreme) case there wasn't any huge explosion that knocked houses flat, or anything like that. Basically just an extra scary fire. For that reason, I think it would be more trouble than it would be worth to try to regulate non-commercial ammunition storage. I wonder if he had any Raufoss in there? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    I'd assume that any organization giving out free contraception would be open to all comers. I don't think they'd make some people pay, and others not. I was thinking of a voluntary, privately funded (i.e. charity) type effort, which would serve anyone who asked. It seems like you ought to be able to find some pro-life folks who'd want to contribute to something like that. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    And it was completely full of ammunition? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    A more accurate analogy would be: "...concluded that none of the first responders were parachuting experts." Unless you are saying that the firemen were actually the shooting buddies of the homeowner, and that this incident occurred at a shooting range? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    Based on the fact that they called in a bomb squad, I'd guess the firefighters actually weren't that knowledgeable about it, and did the prudent thing--called in experts. The reporting in this case looks a lot like the typical reporting about a skydiving accident. Even if the guy hooked himself in, we get to read that his "parachute failed to open." -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    You have some actual numbers on that? Or are you just indulging your personal bias to cast out generalizations? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    Shockingly, perhaps, there are actually some people posting on these forums who have expertise in the things they are posting about. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    In the thread about the fire burning the stored ammo, I got to thinking that "a thousand rounds" sounds like a lot if you don't shoot much, but serious shooters can go through that much pretty quickly. Maybe I ought to start a poll asking how much people think "a thousand rounds" of ammunition would cost, or how large that would be in stored form. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    I think you're unfairly stereotyping the "other side" there. Saying that all pro-lifers want to kill doctors who perform abortions is like saying that all pro-choicers are in favor of abortion on demand right up until the second before live birth. It sounds impressive, and shocks people, but it's a long way from the real truth. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    Here's a case where I'd advocate some civil disobedience on the part of the reloaders--who obviously know better. Do you happen to know what the X number is? And do you have any idea how much powder an average reloader keeps around? Back at the original post, I don't think there's anything wrong with storing thousands of rounds of ammunition. I know guys who go through that much, recreationally, in a few weeks, and it's far cheaper to buy ammo in quantity (or reload, of course). -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    Do you know if there are any non-profit organizations dedicated to giving out birth control? I'm sure someone must have already thought of this. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    do you mean tax payer provided birth control? I wonder if there is a road forward in having pro-life groups subsidize birth control? I'm not pro-life, and I understand that some pro-life folks are against birth control too, but I wonder if you could get them to kick in funding for long-term birth control, to reduce the number of abortions? If it were voluntary support? I'm all for it. But no one here ever talks about voluntary. Well, some of us do. But we're definitely in the minority. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    More to the point, where is the Gitmo closure and reduction in overseas troop levels that he promised during the campaign? I'm a Ron Paul voter, but I'll admit there were times during the campaign when I was attracted to Obama's anti-war and pro-due process rhetoric. I felt like this was the first time in quite a while that I was going to be reasonably ok with whoever won the election, because if Obama won, at least he'd be with me on those foreign policy (and domestic things like wiretapping and military tribunals) type issues (and if McCain won, I'd like his domestic economic policies better than the alternative). I'm pretty disappointed to learn that this is not actually the case. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    do you mean tax payer provided birth control? I wonder if there is a road forward in having pro-life groups subsidize birth control? I'm not pro-life, and I understand that some pro-life folks are against birth control too, but I wonder if you could get them to kick in funding for long-term birth control, to reduce the number of abortions? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com