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My last final was tuesday. yeah

I posted some nice pictures a month or so ago in one of Putty's pic threads. Girl is beautiful.

I'm thinking dinosaurs. Edit*- shit, just read the article. No dinosaurs.

I so wanted to say that, but held back my smartassness.

For the people that don't care to click my link: Myth: Concealed carry laws increase crime Fact: Forty states150, comprising the majority of the American population, are "right-to-carry" states. Statistics show that in these states the crime rate fell (or did not rise) after the right-to-carry law became active (as of July, 2006). Nine states deny or restrict the right to carry. Fact: Crime rates involving gun owners with carry permits have consistently been about 0.02% of all carry permit holders since Florida’s right-to-carry law started in 1988.151 Fact: After passing their concealed carry law, Florida's homicide rate fell from 36% above the national average to 4% below, and remains below the national average (as of the last reporting period, 2005).152 Fact: In Texas, murder rates fell 50% faster than the national average in the year after their concealed carry law passed. Rape rates fell 93% faster in the first year after enactment, and 150At publication time two more states, Kansas and Nebraska, have pass shall-issue legislation, but insufficient data was available to determine how the change has impacted crime rates. 151 Florida Department of Justice, 1998 152Cramer C and Kopel D. Shall issue: the new wave of concealed handgun permit laws. Golden CO: Independence Institute Issue Paper. October 17, 1994 Gun Facts Version 5.0 Page 23 Copyright 2008, Guy Smith www.GunFacts.info All Rights Reserved 500% faster in the second153. Assaults fell 250% faster in the second year.154 Fact: More to the point, crime is significantly higher in states without right-to-carry laws155: Fact: States that disallow concealed carry have violent crime rates 11% higher than national averages.156 Fact: Deaths and injuries from mass public shootings fall dramatically after right-to-carry concealed handgun laws are enacted. Between 1977 and 1995157, the average death rate from mass shootings plummeted by up to 91% after such laws went into effect, and injuries dropped by over 80%.158 Type of Crime % Higher in Restrictive States Robbery 105% Murder 86% Assault 82% Violent Crime 81% Auto theft 60% Rape 25% 153 Some criminologist believe measuring first year change is shortsighted as it takes more than a year for permits to be issued, reach critical quantities, and for the criminally minded to recognize the new situation and avoid violent confrontations. 154 Bureau of Justice Statistics, online database, reviewing Texas and U.S. violent crime from 1995-2001. 155 John Lott, David Mustard: This study involved county level crime statistics from all 3,054 counties in the U.S., from 1977 through 1992. During this time ten states adopted right-to-carry laws. It is estimated that if all states had adopted right-to-carry laws, in 1992 the US would have avoided 1,400 murders, 4,200 rapes, 12,000 robberies, 60,000 aggravated assaults – and saved over $5,000,000,000 in victim expenses. 156 FBI, Uniform Crime Reports, 2004 - excludes Hawaii and Rhode Island - small populations and geographic isolation create other determinants to violent crime. 157 Federal legislation created a nation "gun-free schools" policy, effective in 1996. Some criminologists maintain this created a new dynamic, encouraging mass murder on campus. Thus after 1995 it is increasing difficult to make comparisons based on the effects of CCWs and mass shootings. 158 "Multiple Victim Public Shootings, Bombings, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handgun Laws: Contrasting Private and Public Law Enforcement", John Lott and William Landes, Law School of the University of Chicago, Law & Economics Working Paper No. 73 Gun Facts Version 5.0 Page 24 Copyright 2008, Guy Smith www.GunFacts.info All Rights Reserved Myth: People with concealed weapons permits will commit crimes State159 Permits issued Revoked permits % Revoked Violent Crime Rate Change160 Florida 1,327,321161 4,129 0.3% -30.5% Virginia 50,000162 0 0.0% -21.9% Arizona 63,000163 50 0.9% -28.7% North Carolina 59,597164 1,274 1.2% -26.4% Minnesota 46,636165 12 0.03% 16.8%166 Michigan 155,000167 2,178 0.1% 1.4% Fact: The results for the first 30 states that passed "shall-issue" laws for concealed carry permits are similar. Fact: The general public is:168 • 5.7 times more likely to be arrested for violent offenses than CCW permit holders. • 13.5 times more likely to be arrested for non-violent offenses than the than CCW permit holders. Fact: In Texas, the general public is 14 more likely to commit a crime than a CCW permit holder. They are also five times more likely to commit a violent crime.169 Fact: Even gun control organizations agree it is a non-problem, as in Texas – "because there haven't been Wild West shootouts in the streets".170 Fact: Of 14,000 CCW licensees in Oregon, only 4 (0.03%) were convicted of the criminal (not necessarily violent) use or possession of a firearm. 159 Reports were as received. No selection or filtering process was used. 160 Violent crime rates are from inception of "shall issue" CCW through 2006, the most recent period available through the Bureau of Justice Statistics online database. 161 October 1987 through Jan 2008 162 1995 – no follow-up data available 163 1994 through 2007 164 1995 through 2004 165 2002 through 2006 166 In 2005 and 2006, Minnesota had an abnormal spike in robbery and aggravated assaults. The first three years of CCW in Minnesota saw violent crime rates being roughly stable. 167 2001 through 2007 168 "An Analysis of the Arrest Rate of Texas Concealed Carry Handgun License Holders as Compared to the Arrest Rate of the Entire Texas Population", William E. Sturdevant, PE, September 11, 1999 169 Texas Department of Public Safety and the U.S. Census Bureau, reported in San Antonio Express-News, September, 2000 170 Nina Butts, Texans Against Gun Violence, Dallas Morning News, August 10, 2000 Gun Facts Version 5.0 Page 25 Copyright 2008, Guy Smith www.GunFacts.info All Rights Reserved Fact: In Florida, a state that has allowed concealed carry since late 1987, you are twice as likely to be attacked by an alligator as by a person with a concealed carry permit.171 Myth: Texas CCW holders are arrested 66% more often Fact: Most arrests cited are not any form of violent crime (includes bounced checks or tax delinquency). 172 Fact: The VPC "study" only includes arrests, not convictions. Fact: Many of these arrests in this premature VPC "study" came in the early years of Texas CCWs when the law was not understood by most of the law enforcement community or prosecutors. Fact: Compared to the entire population, Texas CCW holders are about 7.6 times less likely to be arrested for a violent crime. 173The numbers breakdown as follows: • 214,000 CCW holders 174 • 526 (0.2%) felony arrests of CCW holders that have been adjudicated • 100 (0.05%) felony convictions Fact: A different study concludes that the four year violent crime arrest rate for CCW holders is 128 per 100,000. For the general population, it is 710 per 100,000. In other words, the general public is 5.5 times more likely to commit a violent crime than a CCW licensee.175 171 Florida Department of State, "Concealed Weapons/Firearms License Statistical Report", 1998 – Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, December 1998 172 "Basis For Revocation Or Suspension Of Texas Concealed ", Texas Department of Public Safety, December 1, 1998 173 Texas Department of Corrections data, 1996-2000, compiled by the Texas State Rifle Association, www.tsra.com/arrests.htm 174 These are year 2000 records. As of 2005, the number of Texas concealed carry permit holders was 248,874. 175 "An Analysis Of The Arrest Rate Of Texas Concealed Handgun License Holders As Compared To The Arrest Rate Of The Entire Texas Population", William E. Sturdevant, PE, September 11, 1999 Texas Crime Rates-1,0002,0003,0004,0005,0006,0007,0001996199719981999Per 100,000 populationGeneral PopulationCCW LicenseesSource: Texas Department of Public Safety (1996

'SWAT came into my house. Disrespected my whoe famiry.'

http://www.gunfacts.info/pdfs/gun-facts/5.0/GunFacts5-0-screen.pdf with sources. Lots of reading

I'm on it. BTW, Diana, I don't mean to come across as an asshole, more of a smartass. For the record, I am not a CCW permit holder. Back in a bit with some stats...

They hire Sam to fly over there and turn them by hand.

I'd boost it.

yeesh.

If I lose my satellite radio I'ma be pissed. I've got 6 months left on my contract. Even though, I must say I prefered the music before the merger.

huh?

Emotions are for pussies.

I'll call the cops for you. and I <3 LJ.

It's not that I don't respect your opinion...it's just that your opinion is wrong.

:bangbang: :bangbang: :bangbang:

I don't have a problem with a bailout as much, as long as they do some damn restructuring. I want the UAW GONE!

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BOOM!!!! Headshot.......

I saw a guy do the same exact thing once, however, he stuck around. It was the drunkest I have ever seen anybody in my life. I'd almost say it was sort of like an alcoholic coma. I'm still not sure how he survived. Preston with the orange Mach 1 on here was there at the time as well. Shit was epic.

God damn, you need some education on this subject. You voted for Obama, didn't you? Hope? Emotions driving your decisions? Yep, you're a naive democrat. Take a step back into reality and realize that this world doesn't run on Hope and heros and that nobody is going to save your ass but YOU. Nobody. Before you continue to throw out your misguided, emotion-driven opinions on the subject, how about you do some research on it first? 1. People aren't heros 2. 1 armed criminal would laugh his ass off at 10 unarmed, and dead, 'heros', if they even did step in to save you. 3. Cops WILL NOT be there in a timely manner 4. They aren't even obligated to save your sorry ass. 5. CCW is PROVEN to work. Let me say that again; IT'S PROVEN. 6. CCW holders are trained on the proper use and legal issues. 7. People that have the drive and desire to obtain their CCW do not take the responsibility lightly.

I, too, am sorry for your loss. I would agree with Rick; if you are truly convinced that it was malpractice, then I'd let the Ohio Medical Board do an investigation. One thing I will say though, and I don't mean to sound like an asshole, but please don't just jump to conclusions and automatically assume it is the doctor's fault. I'm not saying it isn't, but I'm sure you're having a lot of emotion right now and putting misguided blame on someone would be easy. It sucks that your mother died because of a possible error, but this is why it's called practicing medicine; NO ONE has it 100% figured out.

This isn't a broad question at all. I'm sure you already know my answer, though. Go rent a bunch; buy what YOU like.

http://tbl.imageg.net/graphics/product_images/pTBL-3728694v250.jpg They've been a great boot so far. Not as comfortable as I would like, but as long as I keep moving, they aren't bad at all. I tried the gel inserts for like the first 3-4 months when I got these but they were a waste IMO. They weren't any more comfy than the regular soles and were kind of a PITA when putting the boots on; they liked to roll and scrunch up, which was annoying as shit. I LOOOOOVE not having to tie my boots anymore in the morning. Slip on and go FTW. I also love the textured black part at the bottom. It's extremely durable which is good for me because I'm constantly kicking things at work as a form of persuasion. The steel toe makes that nice as well. One thing I learned real quick is to invest in a couple weeks worth of shin-high socks. Ankle-highs + those boots were fail for me the first day. Another trick I learned real quick, too, was to take the socks and fold them over the top of the boot. Otherwise, they'd slid down inside the boot and again, it was annoying. Overall, the best thing I found for comfort for me at work was to keep moving around. That works great M-F, but come Saturday, I'm stuck standing in front of a computer, dealing with customers, and don't get to walk a whole lot. My knees are about ready to give by noon on those days.