RoyGBivensAction
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Married to a tomboy, so I have that going for me, which is nice.
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RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
6d ago
I recall some of my elders' generation reporting similar feelings, after the statement "my classmate brought a gun to school" no longer primarily implied "I want to go hunting after class too!" Like, even if this is a change that needs to be made for safety's sake, there's definitely something being lost along the way.
There was absolutely something lost along the way. Imagine* living in a place where one could have a gun rack in a pickup's back window with a rifle in it parked at the high school. Not only was no one concerned about violence at the school, it was so safe that no one would break into the truck to steal the rifle.
*I don't have to imagine it, I did live in and attend HS in such a place. Only the 90s, and yet a totally foreign country now.
RoyGBivensAction
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6d ago
It's a rural area. Loose dogs with bad attitudes running around the countryside are a Thing.
RoyGBivensAction
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6d ago
Mrs. FiveHour was once deeply embarrassed when the courthouse security took my leatherman off me at the metal detector when she asked me to come in and hang a picture for her.
In urban courthouses in my state, trying to bring a gun into a courthouse will get it confiscated and the bearer will likely be charged criminally. In my rural area, they tell the person to take it back to their car. It's no exaggeration to say everyone here carries, and they carry so often they forget they're carrying.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
6d ago
The Shooting Party by Isabel Colegate. The kind of shit (late Victorian, Edwardian, or interwar England) I want injected straight into my veins. The author was born in 1931, so at best she heard about the era from her parents and other members of the prior generation, but still well-written and captivating. I have a few of her works lined up and I'm greatly looking forward to them.
RoyGBivensAction
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6d ago
Why did this exception make it through the Fair Housing Act but not others?
Other categories are protected from discrimination by the 14th amendment and interpretations thereof. Age isn't one of those protected classes, so Congress was able to carve out the exception where it wouldn't be able to do so for religion. Historically AARP had some good lobbying muscle, which is how I imagine Congress was persuaded to create the 55+ exception.
RoyGBivensAction
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6d ago
Proof I'm on the way to the littlest league.
RoyGBivensAction
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6d ago
I was considering it for dog defense, mostly, but apparently it's legally questionable to carry one and actually ever use it in a self-defense scenario.
I've pondered getting one of those novelty 12" baseball bats to carry when I'm running as a dog deterrent. So far, the aggressive dogs who have come after me have been deterred by the rocks I've picked up (amazing how even obnoxious dogs recognize what it means when a human bends down to grab a rock), but there is bound to be one eventually that isn't deterred by that.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
6d ago
If I was hosting a party or barbecue and someone brought a knife with them
How big of a knife are you envisioning here? This is my daily carry and no one I know would blink at me taking it out during a bbq to cut open a stubborn package (although I do live in a small town in a rural area of a red state). It's not as if I'm hauling around my grandfather's WW2 Kbar knife (if only I were that based).
By choosing his pitches to the batter in an attempt to get the batter to hit in such a way that it's easier to field or will lead to a double play.
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