My, my, aren’t we snippy? Oddly enough, I have a reasonable command of the English language, so yes, I’m well aware of the definition of ‘implies’.

The federal approach makes more sense to me, if for no other reason than that your duty weapon is the weapon that you’re probably more proficient with it. I’m going on the assumption that most people’s definition of proficient doesn’t include drunkenly break-dancing with a loaded firearm stuffed in the waistband of…

I’m sadly certain that nothing short of that will ever get through to some of his fans.

I don’t know if my neighbors were watching, but they sure as hell were hearing me scream at the television while little Ricky was blathering away.

You know, once-upon-a-time I had a huge admiration for Dershowitz. That started slipping with von Bulow, dove into the deep end with OJ, and has now completely disappeared with the clown-car-media-whore Dershowitz.

Except no, it isn’t, no matter how many internet lawyers say that it is. That pearl of wisdom is based on a single bit of dicta in a hundred year old case about another issue entirely.

Federal agencies actually tend to be much harder on this thing than local LEOs, for the same reason that most of them have much higher employment standards in the first place - they have a lot more applicants to choose from in the first place, so they can be pickier.

Yeah, it kinda is. That’s pretty much the only way someone would find it reasonable to engage in that sort of dance-off in a public bar with a loaded gun stuff in his pants.

I’m not familiar with the current FBI regulations, but for most departments, carrying your duty weapon while off-duty is a big huge no-no that can get you one or more of those unpaid vacation days even if you don’t accidentally shoot an innocent bystander while drunkenly indulging in a dance-off (and if I had any…

You might want to re-think that argument. Yes, a court said a department could refuse to hire someone because they think that person is so smart that they’ll find a better job. That’s not the same as it being routine for police departments to refuse to hire people they think are too smart.

Since you apparently don’t have your dictionary handy, let me point out to you that dangerous and stressful are not the same thing.

True enough. Despite the blatherings of the idiot-in-chief, MS-13 membership in this country hasn’t been going up. It’s been about the same for more than a decade - about 10,000 members nationwide. (Considering a population of more than 300 million, that’s less than a drop in the bucket.) There’s any number of reasons…

She’s an attention whore that thrives on being a victim so that she can stomp her feet and have a tantrum. No wonder The Donald loves her. She’s him in a dress.

So as was said further upstream, you’re just enjoying your hate boner.

Except that your “posit” is purely a figment of your imagination and bears little to no resemblance to the facts of the case and completely ignores the actual timeline.

The decline in NFL viewership actually has been about the same every year for 5 or more years now, though, pre-dating the whole stand/kneel controversy anyway. And despite that, the league continues to set new profit records every year, so apparently TV viewers are not the most important revenue stream available to…

Except it could as easily be argued that the NFL itself endangered league revenue by introducing political displays thinly disguised as patriotism in the first place. If management makes a poor decision that costs the company money, is it ethical to make ends meet by demanding employees dig into their own pockets to…

“Evidence that he was is that the initial shots were to his abdomen, not his head, giving the possibility of having time to pocket the gun.”

A drunk guy listening to loud music in his own home that happened to be near an elementary school.

“This “author” tries to make it out like he just closed the door and was shot.”