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also an over blown number - the other school shootings are mostly criminal activity of drug, gang violence but get lobbed into "school shootings" and not mass murders. can skew numbers anyway they see fit to sensationalize. But can also be more limited with better security. And better security isnt a social studies teacher with a glock. lol

an overall thought on this Society has changed and there is no going back. There will never be a reduction in firearm legislation it will only go one way. With less of society being into outdoor and shooting sports this trend will only continue for increased legislation , it will go the way of changing culture whether we like it or not. A parent that has to worry everyday about sending their child to school could care less whether you get to shoot a deer or not. We have increased protections for all sporting events, concerts, banks etc we need to do the same with schools. I know if my district came out with a voted proposal to have an armed guard and increased security at each school I would be more than willing to pay the extra school tax and I believe most would. A bus costs $140,000 , for the price of 2 buses can probably have an armed guard for each school at the district i live in and one double door entry with a metal detector. For this i am in. Also the cat is out of the bag and there is no going back on media coverage. It is no longer the 50's and the media will cover every event with full coverage on a 24 hour news cycle. For the people that say that the media shouldnt cover these things and glorifiy it, those days are long gone youre being naive. The first thing I did was go to the TV when I heard of this as we all did. It flooded social media and it will every time. The network that doesnt cover it is the one that goes out of business. Also the culture has changed. With the onset of social media every ones voice is out there. Children/adolescents are now to be heard instead of seen as back in our days. Your parents spoke for you - not today. These troubled youth that have the feelings of being ignored by society or not accepted will somehow look to be noticed. Add in family instability, mental questions and the knowledge of internet makes for a potential bad mix for someone looking to do harm. We live in a free society and with a free society there comes dangers. As it has been said the US has the school shooting issues- then why is that. It is an offset of a free society and the cultural changes we have seen. Under a dictatorship people and families are under oppression and the issues they face on a daily basis are survival. When faced with this there isnt time to feel or the ablitity or the change in culture that have caused us to see an increase in episodes like this. Do we want to give up a free society for the perils it brings? As we always state whenever there is a terrorist act- to go back out and enjoy doing what you do or they have won. Live your life the same or they have won. All we can do is protect ourselves more- planes security - sporting events etc. This also needs to occur at the schools. There havent been the occurrances of these mass shootings at larger city schools - why - they have metal detectors and guards at each door. Where have these occurred - mostly smaller towns and districts that do not. It would be money well spent to secure our schools. It has seemed to be a last place that we want to give up our innocence for, when really right now it needs to be our first. Short of home school through the internet (which will be next) this is the only option. Everyone says if guns are banned then people will just use knives and vehicles and anything else they can come up with and this may be true. But to the optics of the average American seeing a 19 year old with an assault rifle go into yet another school only makes us all have fear. It has been shown you cant effetively ban guns. It has been shown you cannot predict the mental state of everyone in the nation. So therefore protection for our children needs to come right at the point of danger. With all the money the govt takes from us for taxes and spends on worthless programs lets redirect enough to protect people while they are at school as it should be. There is an armed guard at every social security office and every bank but not at the schools???? ....this is the only feasable reaction i can come up with on how to stop this. I am in the line of turning in all firearms if this would solve the problem, but we all know it will not. the bottom line is we still need to send children to school and there will always be people that look to do others harm no matter how many laws are passed. It high time to protect instead of legislate.

Can move stats anyway anyone likes - those are correct - problem is 65% of deaths by firearms are from suicide.

was hoping this was gonna be a good one. I like Christian Bale (best Batman ever)..

saw a ton of turks yesterday . 3 different fields loaded up. Makes me anxious to be in the woods! lets go spring!

thanks for this - was looking forward to seeing it but will prob wait til it comes out on cable - on Demand

It's a city dog. Lol.

Did you even make the juniper berry compote.,.... I have made a nice cranberry sauce with red wine and some butter works pretty good for venison. Those look like some good sammiches.

I feel bad for parents in these times. They have to worry about their children coming home from school. It sure shouldn't be that way. I am sure a lot of people would like to home school these days but probably can't due to also having to make a living with 2 paychecks. And in all honesty I can see the point of many people. Let me put in here that I def don't agree with it. But I can see a parent that doesn't hunt or possess a firearm and one that never will, wanting it to be more difficult to get a firearm. Again I don't agree with it but I am able to see where they are coming from. There are a lot of people that have nothing to do with firearms and never will, they aren't going to care about someone who does or hunts. All they see is a 19 old that can buy a gun that looks like something Rambo would have. It's sure a horrible thing to see these shootings continue and if the way to solve it was to turn in your guns I would be in that line. But we all know that isn't the answer. Just wish we knew what the answer might be. I'm not sure at this point this is a solvable problem right now.

And they don't take mutts! And my boy would win hands down

Happy b day

Damn I was hoping hot chicks.

Happy birthday and best fishes!

And the other 6 percent.....lol

Nice northern. Was just thinking you were prob out today since it's so nice. Lake looked pretty busy by lewis point. Nice catch.

the problem I always have is there a good show on each thing but dont want to have them all. There is a show on HBO, Netflix, amazon, hulu etc..... that interests me but not gonna pay for the whole service for one or two shows i really want to see.

i have never bought a high end bow. Am thinking about it next time, but i have had real good luck with the Bear bows , but would like to try shooting one of the Matthews, Elites, Primes, etc just to see if there is such a difference.

i think deer are just in tune with everything around them. They dont have a learned behavior that passes to the next generation. Them seeing or looking up in a tree has more to do with their awareness. Have had deer stop and put their noses up in the air to get a better scent and then might spot you or it also depends on their location and treestand height. The plane of your height in a tree is less the farther they are away. Have had deer walk right under the stand and never know and have deer look right at me 100 yards away. Just depends if something catches their eye, nose or ears and how still , scent free and concealed you are. I know its hard to believe that a deer could pick out a 275 pound redneck up a tree in their living room but they are pretty crafty!

Thats exactly it. If you drop something and it scares the dog or any animal they do the same thing. There is a drop to load up to spring forward to run.

did you try ----"here kitty....kitty....kitty......" ?

i totally thought about doing that exact thing in like May, june or Oct when I dont watch the most TV

Good god. Good thing the girlfriend travels just above the hot/crazy line. She has changed her mind 3 times about today to the point we will prob do nothing now. Venting ......

They officially filed for chapter 11 now. Sure weren't going to get any investors with that kinda debt. Investors will wait for it to belly up then move in for the parts worth keeping and any trademarks/rights .

Gun hunt. Would like to do bow but if I get tag it would be a one time shot. So odds of course better with the gun.

Thanks. The cabin we have access to is in 6. So that was first pic. But went with 6,3,2,5,1,11,4,19,18,10. Looked at numbers and location from cabin to choose. We also have access to another cabin in 18. Which isn't as good as the northern end but still worth a try.