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    3 hours ago, Adrian_D said:

    That's why I asked before just saying "ban this ban that" since there always are two sides to that story. Same reason why I asked about why there were no guns in the crowd at the Orlando shooting. 

    I don't know, in this part of the world and for me it does seem weird to carry as a precaution. 

     

     

    The problem is that the media and politicians are trying to appeal to people's emotions and fears rather than looking at empirical evidence. The statistics just don't match the emotional outcry.

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    18 minutes ago, nem said:

    I believe everyone should be educated on proper gun handling in school. Hell if I remember correctly we were taught gun safety in 8th grade. All this media craze just amazes. If we could educate more people, then these people wanting to cause terror may rethink their action.

    They should fear us not the other way.


    No gun safety, though we did learn butchering and proper meat handling. Oh, and acetylene balloons.

     

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    I regularly clean and maintain firearms while drinking alcohol. I just make sure to lock up all the ammo beforehand.

    Again, totally legal to drink and carry in Texas provided you aren't intoxicated or appear to be intoxicated. Kind of fucked up, but there you go. :shrug:

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  9. Posted · Edited by Penguin4x4

    For clarification, the DVD power switch is a latching switch, aka a push-to-make/push-to-break switch, like the power switch for the NES; hence the reason you can't remotely turn it on/off.

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    Discovered a very specific "feature" troubleshooting my parent's TV setup.

     

    One HDMI input is hooked to a DirecTV receiver, and one set of RCA inputs is hooked to a old ass DVD player. The DVD player has a manual power button; switch off puts it into standby mode, switch on energizes the player. There is no on/off via remote, just playback controls.

     

    With the switch off DirecTV works, but when you hit the switch the HDCP in the DirecTV receiver kicks on and displays a "TV does not support this program's content protection" error message. Apparently, the DirecTV receiver can detect when the RCA input on the television receives signal.

     

    Fascinating.

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    Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration; that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather.

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    4 hours ago, sandt38 said:

    To add to this, a nightclub would still be defenseless. In almost every state you will find that CCW laws include a disarm clause for any licensee in an establishment that sells and serves alcohol. So a nightclub, by it's very nature, would be a gun free zone.

    Just like there's nothing stopping you from driving a car without a license or insurance, there's also nothing stopping you from stashing a gun in your pants before you go to a night club.

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