A couple of questions.

When seconds count, the police are only minutes away...

Do people realize making a gun, especially a single-shot zip gun, is not that difficult, even *without* a 3D printer. Anyone with a little mechanical skill and access to a hardware store can do it. If you happen to have a lathe, router, Dremmel, and a drill press (i.e. tools found in any machine shop and a lot of…

But, certain restrictions *do* hurt. They have costs and are abused. One must balance the good they would do against their harm.

Stab-proof vests are even bulkier than bullet proof ones; knives are very, very bad news. If your circumstances are such that you are seriously considering needing a big vest 24/7, you might consider changing your circumstances.

I hope she meant it was unloaded (no round in the chamber) until she pumped it. Otherwise, you are absolutely correct. This whole "sound of a shotgun being racked" thing is a gun-store-commando myth. Tactically, it is ridiculous.

I'll bite. I think, if an attacker is smart, calm, and paying attention to me specifically, carrying my CCW will do me little good. In that case, I'll just have to obey the guy and hope he doesn't decide to leave no witness. However, if the criminal is dumb, excited, or distracted (some or all of which are…

Pilots and ATC have similar, but definitely not identical, priorities.

I'm afraid you misinterpreted the story I was trying to paint with the math. My point was, about 400 people per year are capable of being NFL players across the entire league. That's a tiny number. That's why they are paid so much. They are rare. Hundreds of people pay and are paid billions of dollars to make…

Oh, there's a big supply of those guys, probably 100,000 of them playing in college ball, alone, let alone high school. However, only the top 1,696 make the pros, and with an average pro career of about 6 years, only 300 to 400 make it, per year. So, if you're in the top .3% of big slamming-on-command guys, you get…

Because there are not thousands of players who could do the same job. The elite athletes make the huge numbers because they can do something almost no one else can. No so with cheerleaders. It's simple economics: big supply = low price, scarce resource = high price.

This explanation, to my mind, is a good description of the economics of the situation.

My Tomcat had no canopy-related prohibition against flying through rain or clouds at any speed, meaning over Mach 2, theoretically. Since supersonic air is incompressable, just like water, I suspect the materials needed for flight through both are similar.

Boom goes the dynamite rape card! Well played.

Fun fact: When you're fighting another jet, if you find yourself across the circle and can work him inside your halo, he will be looking through you directly into the sun, where he will have a hard time telling what you are doing and where he can't shoot you with an IR missile.

Who said it was better? I hope my tone and pejorative terms "rude, pester, spite, dance" implied the opposite.

On a serious note, this is exactly why so much violence is associated with the illegal drug trade. Get ripped off? There is no recourse within the legal system. One's first, fastest, and easiest form of justice is beating or shooting him that done you wrong.

After reading your article and then all the replies, and being a straight man, I get the distinct impression that the men who are "hitting on" the lesbian women are not hitting on them, at all. Sure, technically, they are using words normally used to approach women in the hopes of meeting/dating/bedding them, but my…

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