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Glad to know that I wasn’t blind.

Nederland went on offense first and ran 20-25 plays in a scrimmage format. Then Lumberton had their turn. They also played a half game like conditions but with no kicking except extra points. Even that didn’t allow a defensive rush. Nederland put up about 3-4 touchdowns combined between scrimmage and game conditions and I don’t remember Lumberton scoring. Nederland had a couple of other deep drives and Lumberton had at least one good drive getting inside the Nederland 30 before shooting themselves in the foot. I don’t know the players numbers from either team so I really can’t name anyone except Nederland’s qb. RB #22 from Nederland had some good runs and showed some pretty good acceleration inside. Receiver #9 looked pretty good. Lumberton has a big tight end that looks like he will a handful for other teams. He seemed like a big part of their offense with short passes over the middle and they can hit him deep. I think it was him that also took an inside handoff maybe going off tackle or like an inside reverse a time or two. He looked big, good hands and apparently they didn’t mind giving him the ball on the line of scrimmage.... assuming that was him but I wasn’t paying attention to numbers. He seemed pretty hard to miss unless they have a clone of him. Both teams did okay and what scrimmages are for, pointing out timing issues and such. A couple of times Lumberton got men open deep in the secondary and overthrew passes. One had a guy deep and the pass really wasn’t that close on what should have been a Raider touchdown. Of course that could happen anytime but it looks like something that can be corrected. Overall Nederland had the upper hand if someone wants to count scores and yardage but Lumberton seemed pretty scappy and swarmed to the ball several times on defense. If anything between the two teams that seems the biggest issue it would be Lumberton needing more work on offense. I think both teams got in some good work for an opening scrimmage.

More fake news? Lets look at the article as 100% fact The “minority” of whites according to the article will have more than twice the number of the next..... well, not really race. The claimed minority of white people will have more than twice the number of Hispanics.... which isn’t a race. In fact a large percentage (probably a majority) of Hispanics are caucasion or white. Blacks according to the article will be statistically identical as they are today, gainibg nothing. In fact many blacks of Spanish mix/descent are in the Hispanic column also. So many of the blacks are also included in the Hispanic ethnicity (not race). So according to the article, in 2045 whites will have 1/10th of 1% less than all other races and ethnicities combined, some of white are...... uhh.... white.... and more than twice the number of the next group, which isn’t a race and includes whites... and so whites are “the minority”. Oooookay....... Yep, fake news or at least headlines.

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What is truly shocking is that it was a 5-4 vote. The bimbo justice Sotomayor is a pure idiot and chose personal feelings over the law.

Yes, theft is terrible. Theft from children is worse. But as gun owners we make the same argument. It isn’t the gun but the person. If a person is willing to commit mass murder for which there is significant chance if death at the scene or the death penalty later, what is another law or rule going to do? I think that two signatures is reasonable and my union does that. It might give a person a bit of pause and rethink the issue. A person who is addicted to gambling and willing to risk prison time to keep it up? I am not sure that anything will stop that except getting caught.

Absolutely...... but if I was willing to steal $70,000, don’t you think that I could justforge the other person’s signature? I am not sure that any law can stop a criminal. The only thing that stops a person from a theft crime is honesty or fear of paying a penalty. Once the crime has been committed then the law only provides a punishment and no deterrent at that point.

..... pun intended!

Reading comprehension and the ability to reason are essential in this case. The OP talks about a lack of discipline, tolerance for perversion, etc., as being a driving force in today’s school. When I was 8 years old my father would have me walk to a convenience store about two blocks from my house. When I got there I would buy a box of .22 short bullets for 25 cents. Then my father and I would go to the canal near my house and shoot at turtles and snakes and things floating in the water etc. Sometimes I would do the same thing but he was not with me. So here is a young child allowed to buy bullets and walk on a public roadway with a rifle. No one bothered, no one called the police, no one challenge anything and just excepted that as life. The point is that anyone could have a firearm and anyone could buy bullets yet we had no mass murders and probably nowhere near the violence of today. There were no gang shootings, people did not have fear to live in a city for being shot randomly, etc. We drove around town with shotguns and rifles exposed in the back of our trucks window racks. We sometimes brought them to school. People did not call the police and we were in no fear of people breaking into our pickup trucks in a parking lot just to get their hands on any gun that was seen. In fact there was almost no need because you can simply buy one. So what has changed? Why could a small child get his hands on a firearm and buy his own ammunition and yet there was no fear in society? It isn’t the number of guns that is the problem. It is not the access to guns that is the problem because they are much more restricted now than when I was growing up. Not all but much of the problem is exposed in the OP. Everybody gets a trophy, no one gets their feelings hurt, you get to walk across the stage and get a diploma even though there is no way you will ever earn one, and other such nonsense of tolerance and no punishment for bad behavior is much of the issue It isn’t access to guns that is remotely the issue in American society today

Absolutely. I have said it many times in many forums. Trump is a schoolyard bully. He sufferers from Narcissistic Personality Disorder. He can serve out his term and then be re-elected or he can resign or be impeached and then removed from office tomorrow, making Mike Pence the president. Either way, Hillary Clinton is not nor ever will be the president. That is all that more than 50% of Trump voters ever wanted and they got their wish. The left is completely obsessed with going, “See, we told you!!! Blah blah blah....”. Yep, and Hillary still lost to a natcissistic bully which in the end, is all that Trump supporters ever wanted. At this point it is just entertainment watching the left come unhinged with each tweet.

You got the right guy in Teddy Roosevelt... you just missed his best quote. It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

Game Nederland 3-2

Bottom of 6, Nederland 3-2

Rally over. Top of 6 coming up. Nederland 3-2

3-2 Nederland bottom of 5, still batting.

Top of 2 coming, PNG 1-0

Nederland won the flip and will defer. Oops, forgot to swap forums.....

If I remember correctly, that same law makes it a crime up to a year in jail and removal from office for a sheriff or chief to institute such a santuary policy. I am looking forward to some chiefs and sheriffs being arrested ........

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That is not completely untrue about design..... kind of. The AR, like other combat rifles, was made to kill humans at some very long ranges. It can easily reach out over a quarter of a mile to hit a target. However...... No school shooting has ever taken place at over a quarter of a mile. In fact most if the victims are within a very few feet, up to point blank range. At those ranges the AR isn’t particularly well suited. It is almost impossible to conceal, reloading can be much slower than with handguns. It is more cumbersome to get on target rapidly at close ranges (defeating your claim of shortest amount of time) and carrying a lot of ammo is a pain in the butt and way more difficult than with handguns. It would not be a stretch that in most school shootings a high capacity handgun would have produced more fatalities than the AR. So if you do not think that those kinds of rifles should be owned by anyone, great. If you are trying to claim that if no one owned that type of rifle, these school shootings would be different, you’re out of your mind.

Lots of goods sports movies and I wouldn’t try to rate them in some kind of ranking. There are a few that I really enjoy watching more than others. A couple that really stand out are Miracle about the 1980 US hockey team’s stunning (maybe biggest in sports history) victory over the USSR in the Olympics and Hoosiers. I don’t even like hockey and I have no desire to watch any of it but the movie Miracle is great. I really like the original Longest Yard and I rarely see it mentioned and then Caddie Shack..... which like Miracle, is entertaining even if you didn’t like golf... which I do.

That is entirely correct however that still required a rifle… Which is a bad word in some circles. Almost all (with a couple of exceptions) of these shootings take place at point blank ranges where the AR is not an optimal weapon of choice. To read the Internet you would think that if the AR did not exist then no shootings wouldn’t happen or there would be less casualties when just the opposite might be true.

He is rightfully angry but an idiot. Mass murders are a society problem, not a weapon problem. We can legally confiscate weapons like Australia did, if like the Captain said in the movie G. I. Jane, we just trim a little fat off the Constitution.

Absolutely, the Armalite Rifle was designed as a combat weapon. Do you feel more vindicated in your beliefs for that reason and would feel better if the people were killed by a firearm that was not “designed to kill”? The argument against the AR type rifles is merely a ploy for more gun laws. In fact in a majority of the shootings the AR is a poor choice of weapons. In the Killeen Luby’s shooting, the suspect used two 9mm handguns in what was the largest mass murder at that time. In Virginia Tech the suspect not only used just two handguns in what is still the largest school shooting, one was a .22 which is a tiny target round and almost laughable as an offensive weapon and not even a recommended self defense handgun. Tell that to the 32 victims. As you are well aware, the AR is designed and intended to be used at ranges of a quarter mile or more. For easy of carry, concealment, speed and ease if handling, carrying lots of ammo and ease/speed of reloading, the 9mm is much more effective and just as deadly. In this shooting and Sandy Hook, had the shooters been armed with a couple of small 9mm handguns, the death toll would likely have beet much higher. I guess that would give you satisfaction since those self defense and target type weapons weren’t designed for offensive weapons and they don’t have the scary look of an AR. The entire “assault” weapon argument is simply a means to an end. It would do nothing or stop nothing but would simply be another law on the books.