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sol740

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  1. For curiosity's sake, what do you guys feel was wrong with the legislation?

     

    Because everyone in their right mind understands that this legislation would do absolutely nothing in regards to preventing a mass shooting.

     

    Because NY has proven to everyone who has ever used the "slippery slope", "give an inch, they take a mile" arguments that they weren't just political obstructionists, and that whatever garbage they try to pass really is just an eventual gateway to even more restrictive laws. If 10 round magazine limits were safe, why bother pushing for 7 round limits? The next logical step is no guns with detachable magazines, and I bet you see such stupidity within the next ten years.

     

    Among others.

  2. I test drove the Turbo, and as a driver, it was laggy, overall made you feel disconnected. The steering and throttle felt wholly electronic, and made no effort to disguise it. That said I think it would make for a great DD, decent room for its' class, practical, good mileage, available in manual, or paddle-shift auto, Bluetooth and touchscreen standard. Ugly in a likable, bulldog sort of ugly. Wheels are just plain regular ugly though.
  3. Why does anybody care why someone will or will not patronize a (insert place) because of whatever reason? If the answer is "the (insert product/service) is so good, it is worth setting aside your ideological differences for", I could at least entertain that, but all I am reading is presumptuous, character-profiling.

     

    I carry a firearm almost everywhere I go that won't get me arrested or fired. Of course I respect the rights of business owners, private property and what have you, if you do not wish to have non law-enforcement armed, I will decide which I prefer, carrying or whatever you're offering. I will almost always prefer to be armed, and that's my worldview, and right.

     

    As to the entirely hypothetical, wholly subjective, and therefore pointless, exercise in "how one would react" in a high-stress defensive situation, there are so many variables, a sweeping generalization is sorely inadequate on both sides. One must accept that there are more possible outcomes than "scaredy person does nothing and helps no one" and "hero person saves everyone and therefore proves everyone should carry" (of course both of those scenarios are assigning a responsibility to the carrier that 1. he doesn't have, and 2. he shouldn't walk around thinking he has).

  4. I don't think this is accurate. Maybe better than 70-80%. But this is far from good.

     

    And I knew the second I read the comics that we wouldn't be seeing a good bit of it on AMC. But some of the changes they've made were unnecessary and very bad. Season 2 and the Sophia farm fest I chalked up to the showrunner change with Darabont being pissed at AMC for telling him to make twice as many episodes for half as much money. I may have mentioned this before but maybe this will give you some perspective as to why I'm so disappointed in this show and what they've done to it... AMC actually suggested to the crew during season 2 that instead of wasting time and money on makeup/extras they should just have zombies make sounds off camera sometimes. Don't even show them. Just sounds.

     

    But this season, with the show being as big of a hit as it is and the time and money they put into basically building a prison... they've continued to make plot-breaking changes that weren't necessary to get them onto basic cable. There's rape, decapitation of children, suicide attempts, etc., etc. during the prison story line in the comics. I didn't expect that to make it in. I even thought maybe having Maggie take Michonne's place during the interrogation could have been good. But the whole way Michonne ended up with the group, Andrea being in Woodbury, Tyreese showing up so late and ALSO ending up with the Woodbury group... bad choices that have resulted in people not liking their characters (hating in Andrea's case) and little to no story progression since the first half of the season.

     

     

    So are you still going to watch?

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