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I suspect there is more to the story. If not, I suspect the school district is about to be subject to a costly lawsuit.

Oh, definitely not impossible to defeat... just not in the general, easy way you were describing (ex: placing a magnet on it). If we're including complete disassembly of the gun and mechanical modification (like you're saying, reroute the charge directly to the firing mechanism), or hacking the...

I'll never forget the people who opposed gas development in NY presenting "BUT IT WILL DESTROY OUR ROADS!" as one of their arguments. Which roads, exactly? I live near the PA border. You know, where there's tons of gas drilling. You can tell when you cross the border into PA because you stop...

That means there is no mechanical contraption to defeat. The "mechanism" is software.

They are private investigators. Skip step 1 and go straight to shutting the door.

The point is that attempting to extend religious protections to reinforce political positions is likely to result in an erosion of protections for things that are actual tenets of said religion. No one is going to go to hell for respecting someone else's preferred pronouns. Be careful about...

I will reiterate my position that every legislator should be required to demonstrate that they have read and understand the entirety of a given bill prior to being allowed to vote on it. As we are told, ignorance of the law is no excuse for violating it. Well, ignorance of the contents of a bill...

Nothing you posted instructs you in regards to which pronoun you must use when referring to another person, or prohibits you from using nontraditional pronouns. IMO, this position works against your actual interests... attempting to extend religious protections into areas they don't exist could...

Seems like the right decision to me. His rights were not violated, primarily because his religious convictions do not in any way prohibit calling people by the name or pronouns they choose. His employer set a standard that they expect all employees to follow. He had three choices: follow the...

All that shit goes down, and what call comes in to 911? "OMG MAN WITH GUN!"

Interesting. Just doing some back-of-envelope math, it seems that this may put us more in parity with each other, or perhaps even put TaxChester in the #1 spot. I think we can certainly agree that this is a race to the bottom that we'd rather not be in, lol.

Yeah, the pizza inflation blew my mind as well. Really, any restaurant is insane nowadays. It just really sticks out at pizza joints because the product is still cheap to make. A large cheese pizza with ingredients bought in bulk is still only $2 or $3 in ingredient costs.

There are so many little ones that we don't notice, or don't think of as taxes. Buy a house? The county charges $1000 to file the deed or something. Vehicle registrations, inspections, driving licenses, pistol permits, hunting/fishing licenses, turkey stamps, doe tags, duck stamps... all...

They'd be wrong, though. Note that I said property tax to home value ratio. TaxChester has the highest median property taxes in the nation, but the county also has houses that are worth a lot of money. Broome, on the other hand, has high taxes and homes that aren't worth shit. The net result is...

Last I checked, Broome County had the worst property-tax-to-home-value ratio in the country. That makes my county #1 of the #1 state. woohoo.

Lot of discussion about that going on right now in congress, in relation to the ATF's arm brace tomfoolery. Good question! I found this page that mentions both. It's not 100% clear, but it does seem to suggest that killing a mouse that is neither a nuisance nor damaging property might indeed...

I've never had an issue with any cash or checks I deposited at an ATM, but I've always been a bit leery about it. If I'm depositing more than a couple hundred in cash, I'll go to a teller. They do other things, too. I needed dollar coins (because I'm the tooth fairy!), rolls of those don't pop...

I went to McDonald's with my daughter the other day. Just the two of us. The bill was slightly more than $30. :oops:

Right, but then Newsom pushes through a law that requires refineries in the state to first supply the state, or imposes punitive regulations, etc etc. I totally agree that companies need to start playing hardball with these liberal idiots. Just pointing out that I get why they don't - doing so...

This is the first stage. Second stage is mandating gun safes - "after all, we subsidized them!"

Believe it or not, California is the #3 state in oil refinery capacity (about 1/3rd the number of refineries of Texas, but nearly tied for second place with Louisiana). My point here is that retaliation is unlikely because California holds a lot of sway over the refining industry.

I think one of the biggest problem with minimum wage hikes is that it doesn't apply across the board. This is more or less a 25% raise for minimum wage workers, but hardly anyone who already makes more than that per hour will see any increase in their pay. The net result is that everyone's...

IIRC, they approach it from the opposite direction. As in, "everything is protected except X, Y, and Z". Also IIRC, I believe X/Y/Z are woodchucks, red squirrels, and porcupines. <does some googling> I was pretty close!

This will just make it very affordable to automate the jobs away. The transition is already underway - most fast food restaurants allow you to order via an app, and/or have kiosks for you to place your own order. Machines can easily cook, assemble, and wrap a burger. We're not far from one...

One interesting tidbit about that is how the Soviets took all of the grain Ukrainian farmers produced and distributed it to urban areas... leaving the people who produced the food without any of the fruits of their labors. Only urban areas received rations, rural areas received nothing and often...

By golly, I've got it: open up a donut and coffee shop right next to every school, with free donuts and coffee for on-duty officers. Have it owned and operated by BOCES or something like that. Program would pay for itself several times over, and there'd be a nearly-constant police presence at...

A dog jumping against or standing on a vehicle can easily cause thousands in damage. Just one scratched panel is $1000 in paint work, unless you can do it yourself (most can't). Unless police departments are going to accept the liability for this, then dogs need to keep their paws to...

Too late. Every SCOTUS decision should be 9-0, based entirely on the law, not political leanings. Instead, every contentious issue is decided along predictable party lines. SCOTUS is a political institution.

China basically claims the entire South China Sea is their territory. International standards do not support this claim. In situations like this, I think it's helpful to consider how the US would react to similar behaviors. Two current situations come to mind: 1) South China Sea. How would the...

Definitely a fair point. I will posit that one armed old timer is still a lot more of a deterrent than <nothing>, and a lot of these old timers might actually be better for the job due to their seasoning - they might be less likely get all jumpy or excited over small things, and might be good at...

Exactly. There is nothing worth protecting more than our children. That should be #1 priority in policing. Everything else can come after that. That said, somewhere along the line, someone really messed up with SROs (police in schools). They went from protecting the school to policing the...

My heart breaks every time I think of those parents who tried to do the job those fucking cowards refused to do. If you won't go in and handle the situation, at least get the fuck out of the way and let someone else try. Ugh. I get so infuriated just thinking about that scenario.

Ugh. No, he was not arrested for saying there are only two genders. He was indefinitely suspended from the school for saying there are only two genders. He was arrested for returning to the school while still under suspension - a.k.a. banned from the property. We call that trespassing.

The article writer has some ridiculously dumb proposals, namely significantly curtailing coyote hunting in the state and penalizing any hunter who can't tell a 50 pound wolf from a 45 pound coyote at 50 yards (which, in the majority of cases, is pretty much everyone). Coyote season is currently...

That's a very slippery slope that we definitely should not go down. It's not hard to find ways to blame people for their health issues. What you're saying is akin to "everyone should have guns except the mentally ill." As we've seen in NY, the definition of "mentally ill" quickly devolved into...

"What's your security plan?" "I'm not telling you. Fuck around and find out." :ROFL:

The inevitable backlash to the abuse of felony murder laws has started. They just had to push the envelope, now the baby will be thrown out with the bathwater. Example: two goons attempt to rob someone, one goon gets shot dead by the intended victim. Second goon ends up charged with the murder...

1. "Right to housing" my ass 2. Surprise surprise... once again, NYC is the problem.

"Sure, I'll help, but first you need to tell me it is okay for me to carry on your property." ...that said, I understand why you wouldn't want to take this route either.

The world might be a better place if this were a standing policy everywhere.

I lol'd in his discussion about home security. I'll summarize: "I have dogs. I won't get into the many other layers of home security I have... as my friends say, 'Fuck around and find out.'" :ROFL:

Given the number of cameras throughout the mall, I have to say it is a little surprising that someone can get away with this.

Imagine the response if 53% of white people said it was okay to be black.

Meh. Back when I went into an office, I would trip just like that on stairs a couple times each year. Only difference is I don't have camera crews following me around to catch it.

In this state? Hah.

Fucking NY.

In before GoPerfect advises committing one crime at a time :)

I don't think anyone here will say that quality training is a bad thing. Mandatory training is bad. Not because training is bad, but because it gives gun grabbers something to exploit. They've repeatedly and reliably demonstrated that for every inch given to them, they will take a mile. How do...

I support OC for three primary reasons: political, tactical, comfort. Political OC is great for normalizing firearms, and an excellent means of countering anti-gun rhetoric that you really have no other way to do. What I mean by that is things like this: gun grabbers teach their kids that guns...

From that article: I love it :ROFL: