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Old 04-15-2018, 03:22 PM
 
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They can't even take care of themselves at this point, many are still living at home. You will also see all of this "dedication" fall off over time just has it has with every other voting block...

This is true lol! Some no are paying those of us who are older to teach them how to cook, clean, do laundry, basically how to do things as an adult. I'm so grateful we've taught our 14 and 11 year old how to do the basics like that.

 
Old 04-15-2018, 03:43 PM
 
Location: PSL
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How about if you wait until the students have graduated from there. Going to that high school to talk guns is like taking the survivors of the Titanic for a boat ride near icebergs.
I was about 15 years old when I thought it'd be a great idea to jump a triple with a CR500 dirtbike. I hit the ramp in the bottom of 4th gear, I cleared the landing by about 50 feet. Landed flat. Rear shock rebounded so hard it threw me clean over the handle bars.

I landed square on my back and bounced twice watching that dirtbike crumble into a ball of metal and plastic.

I was out the next day on a 250. With a bruise that engulfed my whole back still hurt to breathe.

Went down on blacktop once. Knobby dirt bike tires don't mix with wet roads.
Opened my right arm up from the wrist back to the elbow. Hopped back on the bike with tweaked bars to have my mother scrub the dirt and debris out of the open gash with a wire brush and alcohol.

Was out with an ace bandage wrapped around my arm the next day riding wheelies up and down the road in front of the house since it was my mother who wanted my dirtbikes and quads gone. And she was in the front messing in her garden.

When I was 19 right before my 20th birthday, I was in my stock car flat out coming off the 4th turn sideways. Someone came up on the inside and tapped the left quarter panel kicking me further sideways. The right rear tire blew off the bead and I went rolling over down the front stretch. No NASCAR HANS device. Just pool noodles cut to fit over the top of the roll cage bars held on by zip ties... Limped away from that one. Think I gave up racing? Pfft. 1 new wheel, new tire, pulled the plugs out whirled it over to push the oil that got past the rings out of the cylinders, pulled the body panels that were touching the wheels threw it on the alignment rack. Everything was good frame and suspension wise. Was back at it the following weekend.
That following summer I moved up to pro stocks. Faster cars.


Moral of the story.
Don't ever succumb to fear.
You'll miss out on a whole lot if you live your life in fear.
I'd not only take the titanic survivors out on a boat around ice bergs. I'd take them on a big block V8 powered jet boat around ice bergs at over 100mph.
 
Old 04-15-2018, 03:53 PM
 
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Headline could have stopped after 3 words.
 
Old 04-15-2018, 03:55 PM
 
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Moral of the story.
Don't ever succumb to fear.
You'll miss out on a whole lot if you live your life in fear.
You may want to think about the difference between surviving risks you took of your own free will vs. survivors of something horrific that was forced upon them.
 
Old 04-15-2018, 03:59 PM
 
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We can't have our children being taught BOTH sides of the argument. That's just not how indoctrination works.
I'd say the Parkland survivors have been taught an object lesson on the consequences of easy access to firearms. For someone to show up to say that, OK, so 15 of their friends are dead, but have they considered the big picture? How detached from reality do you have to be to think that's a good idea?
 
Old 04-15-2018, 04:04 PM
 
Location: Denver, CO
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Gun debate aside, I wonder if they'd let Parkland survivor Kyle Kashuv speak?

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/vi...the_march.html
 
Old 04-15-2018, 04:05 PM
 
Location: Denver, CO
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I'd say the Parkland survivors have been taught an object lesson on the consequences of easy access to firearms.
So have the families of police shooting victims. Yet hardly anyone is brave enough to call for disarming cops.
 
Old 04-15-2018, 04:13 PM
 
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So have the families of police shooting victims. Yet hardly anyone is brave enough to call for disarming cops.
Well, law enforcement can at least be trained and screened - quite a few countries do a much better job of not killing their own citizens. But it's a bit of different debate, unless this was a pivot to get out the soap box and start talking of the horrors of a having a state in the first place, in which case I'm out.
 
Old 04-15-2018, 05:38 PM
 
Location: PSL
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You may want to think about the difference between surviving risks you took of your own free will vs. survivors of something horrific that was forced upon them.
Ohhh kind of like one of my cousins that were raped when they were 16 and don't think all men are rapists...
Someone who can differentiate the two rather than conflate the two into one with a false equivalency of, well... if one, then all...
 
Old 04-15-2018, 06:35 PM
 
Location: Denver, CO
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Well, law enforcement can at least be trained and screened - quite a few countries do a much better job of not killing their own citizens. But it's a bit of different debate, unless this was a pivot to get out the soap box and start talking of the horrors of a having a state in the first place, in which case I'm out.
Nope. Just the hypocrisy of people want want to infringe on the rights of individuals to own AR-15s while being fine with cops having AR-15s, even though many of the same people for gun control know cops are racist goons.
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