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I'm looking to create a website for rental properties for a retired friend. Another friend has a rental property website that's nearly ideal. All I'd need to do is change the banners and text. Maybe change the look a little. His website is only 3 pages long, plus another page for each property. These property pages are identical in layout except for the photos and text. What's the easy/best way to do this? (I've never built a website, but I"m computer savvy and understand the basics of HTML. ) Can I do it? Should I hire someone on Fivver to do it?

How do I tell if a ballast is going bad? I have six ceiling fixtures that use two of the 4-ft bulbs. The ballasts are OLD... probably 30 years old. Should I replace the existing bulbs with LED bulbs or should I bypass the ballast and use the direct wired bulbs from Amazon? Two of the six fixtures are dead. No light. The remaining four are a lot dimmer than when I changed out the bulbs maybe four years ago. One flickers a little when I turn it on, but it stops after a half minute. Even when all the bulbs are working and new, it's still a little too dark in the basement.

I'm a small, skinny guy. This makes concealed carry more difficult in the summer, but it's still relatively easy with the right choice of handgun and clothing. I made a pocket holster out of a one-gallon water jug for my Kahr PM9. I keep a truck gun in a Brave Response "bellyband" holster. The Brave Response holster is more comfortable than a wider bellyband. Plus, I can wear it under workout gear without a belt, which is a big plus for me.

Right now, I have a beautiful field of white clover blossoms. This is the best ever, probably because of all the rain. I really like this look and I'd like to let it go to seed to get another good crop next spring. It's been about one week since I last mowed. Should I let the clover keep growing or can I just go ahead and mow now? I can probably wait another week before mowing, but not much longer than that.

Nashville is growing faster than most other cities, so it has a more diverse culture. People here go to church, but they're not Bible Thumpers, like in SC where I grew up. There is a huge amount of nightlife, professional sports teams (football, hockey, minor league baseball and now soccer). Traffic is bad, but a lot depends on your daily commute route. I don't see any major gun control measures being passed by Tennessee. Nashville might do something, but the liberals just got smacked big time by the 65/35 vote against the bloated mass transit measure. I just don't see Nashville becoming Chicago or Tennessee becoming Illinois.

I'm not familiar with this gun, but I put MARK II FVT into their search engine and found that KyGunCo has this gun on their website for $386. They are in Bardstown, KY. Rural King could probably order it for you as well, if you have a Rural King nearby. I've bought several times through GB, but I've only bought from dealers with a track record.

I'll just mention that if you don't mind a holster in Kydex outside and leather on the body side, you can make your own holster and put any cant on the weapon or any belt clips you like. I like the Ulticlip, but I have some holsters with regular IWB clips. I've also made holsters with slots in the leather. I've used gun leather, but I don't like it.. too stiff and thick. I buy a bag of scraps at Hobby Lobby and use a thinner leather so it's more comfortable from day one. Kydex is easy to mold, especially if you start with the thin Kydex. As an added bonus, with thin leather and thin Kydex, the holster is a lot thinner than my commercial holsters. My DIY rigs aren't going to win any beauty contests, but after buying a drawer full of holsters, I prefer function and comfort over cosmetics. As an aside, I've never understood why someone who would carry concealed would care what their holster looked like. Once every few years, I might unholster my weapon to show it to a fellow HCPer, but in 18 years of EDC, I've never unholstered my holster to show it to anyone!

If you give the P938 to your wife, have the slide cerakoted in satin, the frame in Tiffany blue, and a white-ish grip. I've seen handguns like this. They are works of art.

Have you considered the Sig P938? You can get walnut (cherry, maple, cocobolo, etc) grips for it on eBay for about $25. I have two sets for my P938. It's 18 ounces. You can have it cerakoted in any finish you like.

I'm okay with the picture. I'd be okay if 150,000,000 more people posted similar pictures.

Are you close to Edwin Warner Park? I've seen coyotes there and they aren't as afraid of humans as the ones out where I live in the country. I doubt if one or a pack of two would attack you. Still, you were there and can assess what you saw better than me. Yelling and waving the largest stick you can find is usually enough to deter the largest dogs. It should work with a 30-pound coyote. I haven't seen any bigger than that where I live near Beaman Park (Joelton area).

You guys should just make your own holsters. A combination of leather on the body side and Kydex for the molded part to hold the weapon is really easy to make. Once you learn to make the mold, you can do all sorts of things with the leather. I have some with slits for a belt and some with clips for IWB carry. You can adjust the retention tightness with Chicago screws. I prefer to be able to hold the holster upside down and shake it without the (unloaded) weapon coming out, but that's just a preference on my part. EDITED: Let me add that I'm a really skinny guy, so finding a comfortable holster has always been difficult for me. Years ago, I gave up looking and started molding my own. Granted, my holsters aren't works of art, but again, that's a personal preference. I don't care much about cosmetics. EDITED AGAIN: Another approach is to take a leather holster that doesn't fit but comes close to fitting, soak it in warm water, wrap your weapon in Saran Wrap, put it in the holster and squeeze the holster around the gun to form it to the weapon. Let it dry and you're good to go.

I seriously thought about buying a.. what was it... RP9?... back in December for $196 after $100 rebate, but I decided those rebates might never arrive. I guess I was right.

I think our best approach is to engage those who have not made up their minds. I recently self-published a book on running. In it, I wrote a true and scary story about a woman who was followed late at night from the gym. Here's what I wrote: In my mind, the best approach isn't to confront the anti-gun activists. Their minds are made up. I think if we can get that 1 in 10 HCP number up to 1 in 3, we will win.

Last night I was tired and chose the wrong word "hypocrite" when I should have said inconsistent. Let me reword my post as follows. If we believe that law-abiding, HCP holders should be allowed to carry in school zones, then it is inconsistent to argue that teachers should not be allowed to carry in school zones. Those who argue that teachers should not be allowed to carry are using the same argument that anti-gun protesters are saying about allowing HCP permits to carry in restaurants. Anti-gunners say that allowing HCPers to go everywhere will turn restaurants, public events, etc into wild west shootouts and people will be shooting themselves. Amazingly, some pro-gun advocates are using the same argument against allowing teachers to go armed. We need to be consistent.

This is why the pro-gun movement is doomed. We cannot even agree to allow teachers to voluntarily carry guns, for Chrissake! We should all get behind allowing teachers to be armed. Period. I cannot believe that so many pro-gun advocates are SCARED TO DEATH OF SOMEONE ELSE CARRYING A GUN! Sure, it's okay if you carry a gun in a school.... it's your right, but you don't want teachers to carry in schools. Don't you see the hypocrisy in that position?

It's easy for anti-gun protesters to rally because they're rallying for change. "We want the status quo... we want the status quo!" just doesn't have much appeal. If we wanted to be proactive, we need to rally FOR CHANGE, not to just maintain the 200+ year status quo. Three things jump out at me when I look at school shootings. Two of those can be addressed with change. The first is allowing teachers to voluntarily be trained and carry. They don't have to be Quick Draw McGraw holsters. Teachers could carry in biometric holsters that require a fingerprint scan to open. They're not quick, but they do exist as gun cases. We could demand that these holster-cases be made available to teachers and pressure schools to allow teachers to carry. Second is to provide father figures for young boys. I was shocked to recently learn that nearly 100% of school shooters came from single-parent homes. Listen to this video. The final problem is mental health. It's a much more difficult problem to address. I think a more productive rallying-cry would be around the first two issues.

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The bump stock is a toy. It has no practical purpose. I'm okay with them being banned. I would have been okay with them being banned years ago. I realize this will be an unpopular position here, but whatever. I've looked at them in gun shows years ago, watched the videos, and thought, "That's a toy. It's a stupid waste of ammo." My opinion hasn't changed over the years.

Let me explain my rationale. In a school, hallways can be 200 feet long. Just from one classroom door to another is more than 30 feet. If you engage a school shooter, it's likely to be somewhere in between those distances. If I fire all 7 rounds from 3 doors down (90+ feet), I'm out of the fight. The shooter can advance on me or run away. He can shoot more kids. If I still have 4 rounds, he is trapped. He can't come towards me down the hallway or retreat without being a target. He can't shoot any more kids. That's really the objective. Now, if I turn a corner and the shooter is 10 feet away, well, I might as well empty the mag because one of us is going down real quick.

I understand your point, but I only have 7 shots total. If I had 17 or if I also carried a spare mag, it might be different. If the perp is really close, then, yeah, keep shooting.

This is a much different scenario. In that liquor store, retreat/shelter was impossible and the perp was 6 feet away. Of course, you'd keep shooting. In a school, if you were moving towards gunfire, your first contact could be at 100 feet or more down a hallway. He has a rifle. I have a concealed carry single stack auto. I have the tactical advantage of surprise for 2-3 shots, after that, the advantage goes to him in a firefight. But if I immediately take a defensive position, he can't leave that classroom without being a target. I've stopped the shooting. If I were a better shot and I carried a hi-cap magazine, it might be different... but I'm not and I don't.

They're the only staff in a liquor store... at night... and their firearms are under the counter... and they appear to be a .38 special snubnose and a .380 of some kind... not a lot of firepower. I'm guessing that both these women will be upgrading their handguns in the future and hopefully getting some training.

Since Columbine, I've given these shooter situations a lot of thought. What would I do if it were a mall, a school, a theatre? Each situation is different. Most "conversations" about engaging shooters sound like the shootout at the OK Corral. I don't think that's the smart way for a civilian to engage a shooter. I don't know how I would react in a real situation, but here is the plan. In a school, I would move towards the sound of gunfire. Upon seeing the shooter, I would look for a defensive position and only then open fire, firing 2-3 rounds. At that point, he's either hit, returns fire, or retreats. Regardless, he stops shooting at kids. I can then wait for law enforcement to arrive. I'm not going Wyatt Earp on a guy by standing in the middle of a hallway and shooting when I only have a handgun and he has a rifle. In a mall, my first responsibility would be to get my wife to safety. I'm not engaging a shooter. Almost everyone at the mall has the opportunity to get a HCP. If they chose not to carry, their failure to make a choice to defend themselves and their family is not my responsibility. Sorry. In a theater, everyone is a duck in a shooting gallery. That's why I stopped going to crowded theaters after Aurora.

I think almost all of the mass school shootings were done by shooters age 25 or younger.