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Howdy

Howdy

Amen Brother Preach on!!!

That is one sweet looking shotty!

Unless its an English Terrier vs two Akita's. Poor little guy had about 30 stitches but he survived. The Akita's made short work of him. The guy who owned the Akita's had to put them down once they took down someone else's emu. The Terrier had a whole lotta fight in him though to jump two Akita's as they crossed his yard. I miss that little dog.

Welcome and ditto on the looking for another handgun, and maybe another rifle and another shotgun and etc... Oh and don't forget the ammo.

We are confirmed for 3:00 PM with Mike. I hope we can get a few more people to come too...

Welcome

It was a whole,lotta fun!

You have a major point there!

So they are kind of like Granny from the the Beverly Hillbillies... She was a an MD, Mountain Doctor. So they would be DD's, Desert Doctors...

Very true, you are not the first I have heard say a defeat for the GOP would be the best thing for the party. I personally think that a major defeat for the Democrat party could possible save it from itself for some of the same reasons you mentioned.

It is a very good book, I read it in college.

If you volunteered then you were not drafted. And I agree with the civic duty but civic duty can be fulfilled in various ways. I believe military service is a very honorable thing, I just think it is more honorable as a choice.

Cool, then I could wear it to work!

I still left off the moral part didn't I. Conscription is immoral because it removes the ability to choose from the individual. The individuals basic ability to choose their own path is essential to the idea of personal liberty put forward by this nations founding father and the philosophers of the enlightenment. The individual if the smallest minority and should be protected from the tide mob rule.

My philosophical point was that slavery is wrong. It is morally wrong and it was wrong according to our founding fathers. Slavery (actual trade in human beings) was left legal according to the constitution until that little bit of nastiness in the mid 1800's. Conscription is a form of temporary slavery imposed of members of a society, (and no they don't have to be citizens see the Irish during the nastiness in the mid 1800's) that is still legal, or legal again thank you Jimmy Carter. That does not make is moral or right. It may be necessary and as I said if I were to be called up I would show up for my physical (and they would laugh me out the place...) Since conscription is a form of temporary slavery I am opposed to it both on moral grounds and on the grounds that our constitution was set up based on individual liberty and slavery goes against that basis in all its forms. I personally prefer Locke and Smith to Plato...

Your are so right, whether Rudy or Hillary won it would not make any difference at all.

Just because the government does something and has given itself the legal ability to do something does not make it morally right. If I had been called up in the draft between 18 and 35 I would have gladly served because it would have been my duty. The government has the power to do many things that are morally reprehensible. And various people see those things as very different. I believe socialism is morally wrong and many believe that war in any form is wrong (I personally believe war can accomplishes something good when persecuted correctly; where as socialism slowly destroys society.)

I prefer Heilein's approach; those that volunteer to serve in the military can vote once their period of service has ended. I know this is not our method but it is something to work towards. Helping to defend our way of life takes on many aspects. The military could not do what it does today without the scientist and engineers that I work for. The military would be going into combat with sticks and rocks without the support people behind them.

I am not a hat person, but if you order T-shirts count me in. And if possible several different colors of shirts and types of shirts would be good too. Maybe a golf shirt with the logo...

Militia service, defending ones home, is a lot different that being a conscript in a standing army. Militia service was alway based on protecting the town YOU lived in. Where as conscripted service, the draft, etc... is forced service in a national army. The continental army was all volunteers, the militias that fought with the continental army volunteered to leave their homes and go with the volunteer standing army. Thats a whole lot different than the British conscripted army or navy at the time. As Robin Williams said you would drink a couple of rum drinks and end up on an English ship and you had just joined the English navy. Our conscription lottery is a lot more humane than the old get em drunk and drag then to Waterloo to fight method but its still forced service, i.e. slavery.

Joe is back. I just left Hero Gear, Tungsten and Hornet Handler at the store.

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I have a SOCCOM 16, and its sweet! You should get one, you will like it.