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  5. Four Loko and the law... again...

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    No longer contains caffeine. Changing the recipe was easier than fighting with authorities on whether or not it appealed to underage drinkers, or combining a stimulant and depressant was dangerous.

    That's pretty common with drug users. Ride a stimulant up then ride it down with a depressant. Repeat.

    Not sure how caffeine and ethanol react with each other though. I would think they may "cancel" each other out but I have not seen any research to support that.

  6. Season 3 Top Shot on History now

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    Any favorite yet/picks for winner? I'm sticking with Dustin or Gary.

    No kidding! he really set the bar with that one, but several other shooters also made that shot look like a walk in the park. I think the people who took several shots just overestimated the effect the wind would have on that .50 at the specified yardage. I know I could look it up, but anyone have a good feel for MOA or mil correction for 500yd shot with a 40-50mph crosswind with that round?

    My fav is Gary, glad he didn't go home.

    I was surprised there were that many single shot hits with the wind the way it was. Can't wait to see what happens next week, the previews were riveting.

  7. I might get blasted for this one... CCW owners.. Please comment.

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    A couple of my favorites:

    "Gun control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it tougher for sober people to own cars."
    "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."-Thomas Jefferson, quoting Cesare Beccaria
    “Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the outcome of the vote.”
    "Those who beat their guns into plowshares will plow for those who don't."
    "If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it

    would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun."

    "In England, if you commit a crime, the police don't have a gun and you don't have a gun. If you commit a crime, the police will say 'Stop, or I'll say stop again.'" - Robin Williams

    And the winner is....

    "I say 'sorry'. It is 1999, we have had enough as a nation. You are not allowed to own a gun and if you do own a gun, I think you should go to prison." — Rosie O'Donnell, Rosie O'Donnell Show, May 1999 (it was later found that she hired a personal ARMED body guard)

  8. I might get blasted for this one... CCW owners.. Please comment.

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    "Dumb Guy" Firearms quotes....

    .”A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity.”

    ~Sigmund Freud

    Actually, this one is incorrect. From wiki:

    This is not a statement that appears in any translation of any of Freud's works. It is a paraphrase of a statement from the essay "Guns, Murders, and the Constitution" (February 1990) by Don B. Kates, Jr. where Kates summarizes his views of passages in Dreams in Folklore (1958) by Freud and David E. Oppenheim, while disputing statements by Emmanuel Tanay in "Neurotic Attachment to Guns" in a 1976 edition of The Fifty Minute Hour: A Collection of True Psychoanalytic Tales (1955) by Robert Mitchell Lindner:

    Dr. Tanay is perhaps unaware of — in any event, he does not cite — other passages more relevant to his argument. In these other passages Freud associates retarded sexual and emotional development not with gun ownership, but with fear and loathing of weapons. The probative importance that ought to be attached to the views of Freud is, of course, a matter of opinion. The point here is only that those views provide no support for the penis theory of gun ownership.

    Due to misreading of this essay and its citations, this paraphrase of an opinion about Freud's ideas has been wrongly attributed to Freud himself, and specifically to his 10th Lecture "Symbolism in Dreams" in General Introduction to Psychoanalysis on some internet forum pages: alt.quotations, uk.politics.guns, talk.politics.guns, can.talk.guns , etc.

    I do not know the validity of the others but I agree nonetheless.

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