bersaguy

NASCAR died with Dale Earhart sr. They have been going down hill since he died and have been changing to all these crazy points races games. I quit watching them the year after Kyle Busch won the points chanpionship after coming back from that bad wreck in Daytona in the opening race and missing the first 7-8 races. NASCAR threw him a bone and said he could still run for the Championship and he did and won and that was my last year watching them.

I had that same issue. I did't see any business listed I do business with now or in the past!!!

I don't own any AR15's or Ak47's but that is by choice and not because I'm afraid they will come and take them away from me and arrest me. I own 1 long gun and it is a Marlin 60 22cal with a scope in case I want to go squirrel hunting. The politicians keep calling the AR's assault weapons or Military style weapons but I know several people that hunt with them and are very successful deer hunters. Yea to a point they are the gun of choice in many of the mass shootings but so have pistols also been used in much the same manner. The mass shooting at W Virginia Tech, 33 people were killed and the shooter was using a Glock 19 and a Walther P22. Are those considered assault weapons now too? Of course not yet!! There have been several other mass shootings where a pistol/pistols were used. The reason the politicians call these guns assault weapons is because if you were to actually sit down with several of them and have a debate you will find most of them could not tell you what gun is which or tell you who the manufacturer is, what the caliber is or anything else about them. It is mostly follow the leader and nothing more. It is a case of the Blind leading the blind and all falling in the same hole!!! Also the politicians that don't want Americans to have guns are the same ones that when they leave their homes they have anywhere from 4 to 8 body guards protecting them with of all things, guns!!! Many of them also carry one themselves. Also I wonder how many of them can tell you what type of firearms Charles Whitman used back in 1966 when he began shooting people from the Tower at Texas A&M. He didn't have one of these so called assault weapons but still managed to kill 11 people and wounded numerous others before law enforcement shot and killed him. It was later said after an autopsy that he had mental issues due to a tumor in his head. So how many people honestly believe that if they did get the so called assault weapons taken away they will stop the mass murders? If that is what they believe they are dreaming!! There is not a law that can be written that will stop Criminals from obtaining guns. There is not a law that can be written that can stop a mass murderer from carrying out their plans. If they can't get a gun they will get a truck, a car, a knife, a ball bat or some other type of weapon but they will continue to kill people. That is what they do...................JMHO

I have several pictures of the planes striking the towers store on my computer and I thought about posting them but I think anyone and everyone that was alive back then remembers what they saw. I use them to show my grandchildren and explain to them what happened that day is why 9/11 is so important to the American people. And when I talk to them I tell them who was flying those planes that day because here recently it has been said that some people are trying to get the American people who these people where and what their goal was and still is. There is an elected official that has gone to great length to try and make us forget who was flying those planes and it was brought up at a ceremony yesterday! Speaker at 9/11 Ceremony Questions Muslim Congresswoman's Patriotism A speaker at New York City's Sept. 11 commemoration ceremony on Wednesday assailed U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Muslim member of Congress, over her recent "some people did something" reference to 9/11. Nicholas Haros, whose mother was killed when al-Qaida hijackers flew planes into the World Trade Center in 2001, said, "Our constitutional freedoms were attacked, and our nation's founding on Judeo-Christian principles was attacked. That's what 'some people' did. Got that now?"

I was watching the news last evening and was thrilled to see how many teachers were doing things with their students to allow them to ask questions and many of them actually took their classes to Washington DC to the 9/11 Memorial and other places that are related to that day. They said that their students need to know about it even though most of them were not even born then. There are many children still losing family members. Fathers are still being claimed even today from events that happened that day that spent many days working at the site of the towers. Prayers should be said every night for those brave men and women that gave it all and still are giving to this day.........JMHO

Like I said earlier if you insist on doing open carry you may need to have plenty of room for a very large garden and a place to raise your own chickens, pigs and beef if your going to eat. That or be a good hunter and be able to fill your freezers with wild game...........JMHO

GOD had plans for you my friend. If you have not figured out yet what it is you will. I would say if you have to talk with your children about that day 18 years ago you have already recieved some of what GOD had in mind for you. I'm sure as time moves on you can bet your children are going to be very glad you got to leave those few minutes early. GOD does move in very mysterious ways my friend. Just feel blessed and not guilty every night when you lay your head on the pillow. I don't think GOD had guilt on his mind that day for you.

I remember exactly what I was doing when the first plane hit the tower. I was fishing and listening to the radio in the boat when the news broke and by the time the second plane hit I was on the trailer and heading for home. I was pulling in my yard when they said the 3rd plane had crashed in a field. (Defender) has a good point about it happening again. Those same people have not given up on destroying us. They just are waiting for the right time and the right target..........JMHO

To a point yes but when you welcome someone into your country to live and prosper that does not give them the right to attack it and try to kill the people that welcomed you in............JMHO

Well I guess I am a Fudd to then........... It is not that I don't care about what the businesses are doing. What I see is companies compromising on what should be done and they are not against gun owners. They just don't want people walking around in their stores showing off their guns which to me is not necessary to begin with. If a person chooses to open carry that is their choice and they can accept what the companies are choosing to do or choose to not do business with them. It is not like the companies are not giving anyone options!.............JMHO

I personally support your decision 100%. I have never shopped at an Aldi's but know folks that have and none of them open carried anyway so it won't effect them either............JMHO

I have said this a couple times and I will say it once more. I have never and plan to never open carry a firearm period. I even go out of my way to amke sure I never print when I do carry. I don't want any bad guy/badguys to have a clue I am armed. That is to my advantage, not theirs. As far any stores of any size that chose to stop Open Carry in thier business it is their privledge to do that. I would very much rather see a No Open Carry sign on a business then a Gun Buster sign on a door preventing me from trading there. I honestly think these store and businesses are trying to work with gun owners if you stop and think about it. They are not taking the easy way out and just putting up gun buster signs. People talking about boy cotting certain grocery stores. Ok what happens when the rest of them follow suit and either go No OC or No Guns period. You better hope you live on a farm and can grow all your food!!! Myself, I am will to accept the decision of Krogers. I avoid Walmart like the plague! Would only go there in an emergency!!! I have been doing business with Walgreens most of my adult life and don't plan on changing anytime soon and I wear my gun in there every time I go and no one knows it but me. I think those businesses that have gone to CC only are trying to compromise with gun owners and I respect them for that...............JMHO

Yea but at least during the Civil War you knew who your enemy was. These days the country is divided into so many ways no one really knows who all the enemies are!!!

Ok, so someone explain to me the difference between a private sale between two people and a straw buyer that buys a gun for someone knowing that the person could not purchase the gun themselves. How would a back ground check prevent that from still taking place? I know that the gun could be traced back to the original purchaser but say for instance a person(straw buyer) buys a gun and 5 or 6 days later files a police report that the gun was stolen out of their vehicle the night before. Then the gun is used in a mass shooting and the shooter is killed in the shooting. The person that bought the gun but reported it being stolen to police is free and clear to purchase another gun. Right??? So how does a back ground check prevent that????

I think unless the NRA puts some new people in charge that knows what they are doing the NRA will continue to take hits like this more and more. Right now they have a bunch of spineless people in charge that all they can do is ask for their members to send them money. They ask me for donations at least twice a week but I don't see them doing anything positive to earn it.........JMHO

Since I never open carry anyway it does not effect me as much, but it is still not right to tell a legal carry person how they must carry in order to shop in their stores. Kroger has been a lot stronger than many chain stores as they did stand up against MOMS back in 2014 when it came to allowing people to carry in their stores. They could have went the whole mile and just banned all carry but they didn't. They just ask folks to conceal carry so they are not willing to just stop people completely............JMHO

Back when I first moved to Gallatin 20 years ago I saw a few Hummingbirds so thought I would hang a feeder so went and bought one and put it up and that few humming birds turned into a lot of birds quick so bac to TSC for more feeders. Bought 4 more and now had 5 up and had to stop and get more sugar so bought 5 lbs and went home and made about 3 gallons of sugar water and spent most of that day sitting in my carport watching the shows at the feeders. Next time out I bought the last 3 TSC had which gave me a total of 8 hanging. I went a day that I was not home and the following day I went out to check on the feeders and they were all empty. I grabbed 2 and went in the house to fill them and when I came back out and was heading back across the patio to hang them there was 3 birds actually land on them and begin feeding while I walked to hang them up. For about 10 years I went through about 75 lbs of Sugar every summer. Then for some reason I went about 3 years with having birds but not the numbers I was getting and when I moved I was still getting about 20 birds and my neighbor said he would keep them full for me and I took the rest with me when I moved. I spoke to him the other day and he said he still has about 10 birds and said he will save my feeders for me and I told him to keep them and just take them down on Halloween and put them up next year and I will buy more.

I didn't bother putting up any of my feeders after my move. Murieka has one up and it has not had any activity for a month or more but she said she only had two all year. She said she has had as many as 4 or 5 but never a lot and I said if you want a lot of birds you need more than 1 feeder up. Next Spring I will put up my 8 and with her 1 that will be 9 and then we will see how many we get. I'm getting ready to get my seed feeders out and looking for places to hang them so I can see the birds when they begin feeding. I'm probably going to by several shaperd hooks cause there are not a lot of trees in the yard to hang them in. I will probably use the same hooks for Hummingbird feeders next Spring. Will just have to move them around and not put them close together like I do the seed feeders. Now as far as how long Hummingbirds will hand around in Fall. It is normally early October when you begin losing birds to migration depending on weather. An early cold spell can spark them to look at leaving early also.

I think more and more hospitals are going through that type of training these days and that is a good thing. A better thing would be to have the training and never need it but it seems these days it is needed more and more. I would not have expected a shooting like that to take place in a town like Midland and Odessa as there is not really a lot of populations in either town. I'm guess that the shooter did have a specific target in mind and the traffic stop interupted his plans. Had it not been for that traffic stop there may have been many more victums than there was............JMHO

I think Dave raised a great point about heroes in an earlier post. He brought up the often un mentioned heroes that the news seldom if ever mentions. The ambulances that many time rush into a scene while it is still active and begin picking up wounded to try and get them to the hospitals and save their lives. Then there are the nurses and doctors that are working frantically to stop the bleeding and see what they can do to save a persons life! Imagine what a hospitals first thoughts are when they hear active shooter report and they prepare for what ever comes threw the doors. I think the pressure not knowing what to expect would be overwhelming till the first arrivals came threw the doors!!!...............JMHO

I agree, I don't believe they are staged either. I think many if not most of them are copycat's!! They see all the notority the shooter gets and a mentally ill person that has been un-noticed or feels left out most if not all of his life decideds to make the news so he copycats those that went before him. There is no way more gun control laws are going to stop these shootings. Like you mentioned above. There are 320+ million people in this country and there is little doubt 2/3 to 3/4 of them already own 5 or more guns if they never bought another one. How many of them are the mentally ill left behind soon to be a copycat? Laws keep folks like us legal and at the same time punish us for obeying the laws by trying to inflict more on us. I think the more laws they write the more it will push those with mental problems to react sooner rather than later...............JMHO

From what I heard about that shooting yesterday it began with a routine traffic stop and he shot that Officer and took off on the shooting spree from that point. If that is true he was probably on his way to where ever he planned to begin the shooting spree but knew his plan would be foiled if the officer stopped him and held him so he just opened fire there and didn't stop till they killed him.

So were the older cars years ago when they worked.............

Ain't technology great!!! That is why I'm driving a 1997 Jeep Cherokee. I can still work on it for the most part and then if I get in over my head I call my son to bring his service truck to the house and work on it. He has a mobile service truck and will do repairs on site in a persons driveway if they don't want to pay a big tow bill. His on site service has a 25 dollar fee that is a lot cheaper than a tow truck these days. He has all the computer scanners foreign and domestic chips through 2017 and will update chips again in 2020. Most cars these days have decade long warranties.

Well, I have ben out of the repair business since the mid 90's so I am not going to challenge what you have said. I got out of the business when my health failed but I said back about 1990 tht I would quit working on them when they got smarter than I was and that was about 1993 or 94......