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Funny and I love the sentiment, but they got it all wrong, nobody is allowed in the man cave w/out permission. This floor plan allows WAY too much foot traffic through the fortress of solitude. LOL

agreed! someone in another thread suggested that old farts like me need to accept all the stupidity or be left in the dust...as if I stand to lose something by not playing into someone else's fantasy, LOL

A legal penalty for carrying past a sign is something I could never stomach. The idea that someone can post a sign that makes me a criminal vs making me unwelcome just doesn't sit right.

I don't carry a lighter in my pocket, but there's one easily accessible for sure. I have a knife handy everywhere I go though.

I assume anything on TV or the Internet is to some degree fiction nowadays.

I looked it up yesterday, there's around 4,365 private and 1,920 public schools in TN. If the money goes to all schools equally, each school gets $22,275 for an SRO, but if it only goes to public schools each gets $72,917. Of course it'll be far less after all the bureaucrats in the school system slice of their chunk of the money for administration. I agree with what @TGO David eluded to, the money needs to protect all school children, not just the ones in public school.

If nobody ever used an AR-15 or any gun they think is black and scary in a crime, I think they'd still go after them. I suspect they see what they call assault style weapons as low-hanging fruit that they can use to start disarming the masses.

Same here and I have plenty of hobbies to keep me busy that don't feel like self-inflicted punishment at all.

We'll just have to agree to disagree (politely, I hope) on whether liberalism and the woke agenda is good or bad. I will just say that their/your woke social agenda is NOT going to be met with the same resistance as when they/you start trying to dismantle The U.S. Constitution, starting with 2A, like the CMA is pandering to.

I couldn't agree more!

You and I CLEARLY have a different opinion of what woke is then. Otherwise you'd know that the individuals you call anti-woke don't want to be pandered to at all. In fact, the whole point is that companies have successfully peddled their wares without being political for 100 years. Unnecessarily injecting woke politics into their ads is hurting their bottom line and they have even admitted it.

I REALLY thought Dick's would go out of business when they went woke-tard, but I was wrong. It didn't happen to Coke, Nike, or any other business either.

As much as I hate to admit it, I suspect the 2A issue is something like 30% pro-2A, 30% anti-2A, and 40% don't care. If that's even close to accurate, decisions like this only anger a little over 1/4 of their fans. They don't take these positions as casually as you think. I bet they already know exactly how big the hit will be and how long it will last. After all, the shot-callers are money-grubbing record execs not the leftist artists, right?

I would love to see less money spent at the district level anyway. There's too many bureaucrats with multiple secretaries and too many layers of bureaucrats in general as it is. If we thin out some of that excess fat, we could afford more security without cutting the budget where it matters...in the classroom.

I beg to differ, with a boonie hat and some 5.11 pants with 32 pockets you just blend right in like a gray man.

On average parents of kids in private school probably pay far more in taxes than the rest of us. So your comment about them helping pay for our kids education is very true. Property tax is just like income tax. The least affluent use the most services and pay the least in taxes. The most well-off pay the most in taxes and use the least gov't services.

That is weird. Looks like the muzzle was forced backwards maybe?

My bad, I couldn't relinquish enough self-respect to click on the Daily Mail link.

Them straps is gonna chafe his nipples.

Reminds me of when a new kid moved to your school and all they did was tell you how good their old school was and how bad their new school is...not how you win friends.

sorry I missed the fun

The Mrs and I watched a documentary about Coca Cola on the History Channel. It was quite interesting. When the feds forced them to stop using cocaine, Coca Cola was cool w/ leaving it out since it added so little to the taste. Good ol Uncle Sam jumped in and said if they did they'd have to change their name. So, they hired a NJ company that imports coca leaves directly from Peru legally. The company sells the "spent" leaves to Coca Cola and sells the legally extracted cocaine to a pharmaceutical company for profit. Apparently this is all possible because the NJ company has some kind of exclusive sweetheart deal with the feds that lets them import the leaves.

No shame in being older as long as you're also wiser, LOL. I'm not the least bit surprised at the stats so far, there's a reason us old farts are here instead of FB.

No question that gun and that sight are capable of better accuracy than I have. I really LOVE the trigger on the P365 lineup.

Sometimes a kid does good in school even if their parents don't get involved in their education, but I suspect it's rare. Most kids need their parents to step up if they're going to have a chance, but sadly, some parents only serve a biological role in their kids lives. I've heard from multiple reliable sources that school meals are the only meals some kids get. How many kids actually have a parent willing to turn off the TV long enough to read them a book? How many kids wear the same dirty clothes to school for days? I'm as guilty as anyone of complaining that the school system is trying to take control of our kids, but for a large number of households, it's the best thing for the kids unfortunately. My guess is these good intentions is where some of the woke agenda I oppose got its foothold. Security on the other hand is a lot more clear cut. We have to make our schools a harder target from these whacko shooters. I'm with a previous poster, cost doesn't matter, kids do.