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We're getting a small taste now of what I imagine the late 40's was with reds under the bed (I said small, at least for now!). Washington Post falls victim to this as well, and posts a retraction: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-government-hackers-do-not-appear-to-have-targeted-vermont-utility-say-people-close-to-investigation/2017/01/02/70c25956-d12c-11e6-945a-76f69a399dd5_story.html?utm_term=.738b5b5a6242 Such poor journalism these days. No vetting, no objectivity. Reminds me of this I read yesterday. Given that there is a new found obsession with the KKK, a virtually defunct organization with almost no membership and even less relevance, A&E did a documentary on them. Except, it never aired, because it turned out that A&E was paying them to act: http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/kkk-leaders-allege-producers-paid-them-to-fake-scenes-in-canceled-ae-documentary-exclusive-1201950078/

If we were so lucky; in fact the number is much higher. Pew has extensively polled muslims from across the world, including those in the West, and their views on things are profoundly and explicitly opposed to those we generally consider to be western values. Something like 7% of american muslims say it's sometimes okay to kill in the name of islam. 30%+ of british muslims support sharia law. The vast majority (yes that isn't a typo) of muslims in egypt support the killing of a muslim who leaves the faith. Islam is an extremely important part of the culture of a great many countries, and most (all?) of those countries are nowhere any of us would want to live. You can forget free elections, freedom of the press, freedom of expression, of religion, etc. While secular leftists here want to pretend all religions are the same, islam is unique. Though only 1/4 of the world's population follows it, the huge bulk of the world's religion-based violence is committed by muslims. Literally every single thing I said above is fact and backed by quality sources.

This is a great point. I saw an armed guard at the movie theater a couple of weeks ago, the governor has armed guards, bank trucks do. But schools? Nah. Just make them gun-free zones and the bad guys won't show up.

They aren't. I think I saw another article yesterday that said something like 80% or more of them were already identified by police as being highly susceptible to this due to existing criminal records or gang activity.

Gun violence has also been there. This thread is not about that. It's about the 57% increase--"the largest spike in 60 years". How do you explain this? Again, gun laws are not the cause for the 57% increase unless we argue that gun laws in 2016 were significantly more lax than in 2015 (they weren't).

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/01/01/1-chicagos-bloodiest-years-ends-with-762-homicides.html Here is Bill in May of last year arguing that the Ferguson effect is to blame. And you know what, he's absolutely right: http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2016/05/26/bill-oreilly-how-black-lives-matter-is-killing-americans/ Some people are blaming it on guns but guns were not more available last year than the year prior. So what really happened? Cops don't want to be the next viral video. It's called the Ferguson effect because of Ferguson where the false narrative about hands up don't shoot was created and propagated everywhere.

allah akbar http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/turkey-terror-attack-live-updates-9544682

I'll admit I did kind of wonder exactly what happens.

Absolutely.

Then what are you worried about? If he's just going to be another puppet of the machine, why is the left worried? Nothing will really change.

I'm not saying it's all trash, but when all you do is make a thread, post a link to ny times, and don't even put personal commentary, you have to understand this is why many people consider it trolling.

/uptown posts another link from his only new source--NYTimes.

/uptown posts another link from his only new source--NYTimes.

He seems to be losing his status as a cool and smooth operator these last days.

Oh dear, another hobby. I have a nice 3d course at my range but somehow only got onto it once this year. I think probably because I didn't get back to shooting until mid-summer and then spent forever fiddling with my rig.

Nope. It never even occurred to me, though I knew a few do (tim wells of the notorious ones). If accuracy is not compromised, even when wearing different gloves, then I would think about it, but I'm not sure really what the benefit is either...?

A large part of it is to prove I can. I could have applied this sentiment to any hobby but it happened to be hunting (and in the past it has been other hobbies). I hate to lose when I decide I am interested in a particular outcome. Going out a couple times/year and shrugging if I don't get something just isn't interesting to me, so I was out until sunset on the last day. Hunting is also the least technological of any hobby I've ad. Though tech in stuff like bows will change and I love gear as much as the next guy, ultimately we're still walking around in the woods looking for wild animals and, although we can hear traffic in the distance, we're substantially doing the same thing people have done for thousands of years. What contrasts more with modern life than that? There is also a primal aspect to it that many people are afraid to admit still exists in all of us (even the people who are hopelessly enslaved to city life). We're the same human beings who have been around for a long time and deep down we still get a rush when we kill our food. It's biology, and it isn't shameful.

Where I hunt there are no fields really so it wouldn't impact it, but I can see how overall it would for sure. There are definitely a ton of fields full of deer. Anybody know how rifle has impacted harvest number?

I genuinely don't believe Jesus has much of an opinion on crossbow inclusion in new york. Frankly, that marginalizes Him in a pretty silly way.

It is a logical absolute that full inclusion of crossbow would impact deer numbers, activity, etc. It is beyond question, absolutely unequivocal. To claim otherwise is to claim that this change...had no change; why do some want full inclusion if at the same time they claim it won't impact anything. Of course it will impact; you can't increase deer harvest numbers during bow without impacting the number of deer that exist by gun. There will be less. The question is to what degree. I don't have the answer. But I can say as I have said that with crossbows now approaching 500 FPS their lethality and ease of use has already eclipsed compound bows by spades, and these advancements in the platform will only continue. How many guys can take a deer at 60 yards with a compound? Damn few. How how many can do it with a 470 FPS crossbow? A heck of a lot more.

I am pretty sore over how my season turned out. Went out way too many damn times for the only two shot opportunities I had. I've already started practicing with my bow again, putting 10-20 arrows daily into the target. I think this is exhibiting addictive, obsessive personality traits, but patronizing them in hunting is not the worst thing in the world; better than hitting the bottle or lines of coke, so I don't feel guilty over it. Also better than sinking hours into video games. I might get out this week and put some cams down in the public land. My last afternoon out of muzzleloader I found where half of the deer population of new york ran off to. But by then it was too late. I also didn't realize how readily deer scale vertical cliffs. I found a hellaciously hilly part of public land with so many tracks it floored me. Just everywhere, weaving in and out in all directions. Literally could not walk anywhere without seeing them. Good luck everyone on the 2017 season

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Once again you don't get half the country.

They caught the guy. Most news (fox, cnn, huffington) are careful to avoid pointing out that he also screamed allah akbar while shooting at the cops. Dailymail doesn't skip this. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4061096/Danish-police-say-man-matching-description-Berlin-lorry-attack-suspect-seen-Aalborg.html

lol how did this work out for you? http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/hb2-stays-north-carolina-lawmakers-decline-repeal-controversial-anti-lgbtq-n698696 I've admonished you already on your incessant visiting of the nytimes. It is clouding your judgement.