DoubleDose

Don't get me wrong, I am in agreement with you (see my earlier posts). Man can only do something about carbon emission and pollution (not global warming), because it comes from us. The USA should be doing this for the USA and Americans quality of life. The USA is insignificant on rest of world in this regard due to Europe, Russia, China, India, and Australia which make up way more of the world than USA! The USA had already achieved (and I believe exceeded) its goals in the Paris Accord so there was no reason to continue being in it. This is pure politics and trying to be the Global Leader rather than America's Leader.

Well deer, do you feel lucky? or Make my day deer!

Are "Hunting" and "Liberal" mutually exclusive terms? I'll respond literally. No, they are not mutually exclusive. My wife would argue that I am definitely a liberal hunter. Saying I hunt what I want, whenever I want, as much as I want, and never ask her about it. I would argue that I am definitely a conservative hunter, I only hunt certain species, only when in season, never as much as I would like, and always tell her when I am going.

First this is an infringement of his rights, based solely on an accusation. Second, if she feels threatened she needs a restraining order and/or a gun, he is the threat not his guns. Typical illogical government reaction to guns and the mentality "If this saves one life it is worth it!" What IF it costs one. He no longer has a means to defend himself because the government disarmed him, but that is okay. This is my advice to anyone in this situation. Photograph all your weapons and their serial #s. Ensure the police give you a list of everything confiscated (Make/Model/Serial#) to ensure return of all; and politely & respectfully cooperate. After they have left, go to your nearest guns store and treat yourself to another gun! Appreciate all your guns are now in a computerized police report/database which is tantamount to registration!!!!!!

Absolutely have to see it that way. Almost all serial killers start out killing small animals. Your desire to hunt may just be symptom and first step that you are a serial killer. Denied!!!!! NEXT

Your perspective is incorrect. The psych eval is not to allow you to own a bow, it is to stop you from owning one!

Bad example. You banged his sister and expected him to shake your hand?!

You are being overly simplistic and short sighted if you think Trump "turned Americans against each other". The divide was already there thanks to both parties political leadership & MSM and in fact it is what got him elected the first time (forget the deplorables comment, clinging to guns and bible comments)) and almost the second (~half the popular vote). Appreciate too, many people in 2016 were fed up with the status quo and career politicians, America was already divided, and embraced an outsider they thought would/could unify. Unfortunately, this experiment failed.

Here is an Orwellian prediction. Let's for sake of argument say that the government has successfully removed all firearms from civilian ownership (and no one is manufacturing their own using 3d printers or CNC machines). Crossbows will be next, and compounds bows after that. It ultimately isn't about firearms, per se, it is about disarming the populace. For those of you who think this is far fetched and our government would never do that, remember history and that our government has embraced slavery, enacted many laws and policies for the purposes of discrimination, exterminated native americans, deliberately infected them with smallpox, internment camped Japanese citizens, deliberately infected the Tuskegee airmen with syphilis, deliberately exposed soldiers to nuclear bomb fallout, told first responders the air at ground zero WTC was safe to breath,....TBD

This actually is not funny, but sad for America, and here is why. This is MSNBC, part of the MSM. This is parody and belongs on SNL, Colbert, Maher, etc not the MSM. This is precisely why the Right does not trust the MSM and considers them Fake News.

This is what is so bad about the whole thing. Firearms ownership is a right, not a privilege. It is the only right in the Bill of Rights that has the words "shall no be infringed". It is unconstitutional. If this was all rewritten to apply to any of the other rights we have (which do not say "shall not be infringed") the ACLU and Supreme Court would stop it. Regarding the psychological/mental illness standard, that will be weaponized to prevent ownership. History has shown this. The communists use this angle for every dissident that is not pro-communism. Differing opinion, yep mental illness and needs treatment (indoctrination). Why do you need a firearm? Protection. Protection from who? Criminals. Yep, paranoid and delusional.

She is actually looking for Federal funding of a new magnet to be put at the North pole to replace the one that has been moved

Wiping down once after every use? That's not OCD, that's being clean and taking care of what you worked hard for. Kids take everything for granted. OCD would be wiping it down multiple times over or repeatedly after a single use, after ever use.

Global warming and carbon emission/pollution are two separate and distinct things. We cannot do anything about the former. The latter we can, particular because it is exclusively a result of man. I have no issue with trying to minimize, to the most reasonable extent possible, carbon emission/pollution. However, this has to be done in a science-based non-political way that doesn't cause alternate worse polluting or destroy people's lives. Example, in the past there was a push to get away from disposable diapers because they were filling up landfills; and it was politicized. People were being shamed to go back to cloth and washing. A study showed that the detergents from washing would do more harm to the environment than the disposable diapers.

That's great. In corporate America, you have folks regularly filing "offended" complaints with HR to destroy the careers of others; particularly those they see as obstacles to their advancement. What's ironic is that these people do not realize that these frivolous and self-serving complaints do not go unforgotten. Retaliation is expressly prohibited but when there is a reorganization and downsizing, these folks are somehow always on and high up on the release list. When they are not let go, they cannot understand why they haven't been promoted or cannot get a position in another department.

Let's all remember some basic FACTS we were taught in elementary school. The earth is approx 4 billion years old today. The earth is heated by the sun and its proximity. The whole earth, all of it, at some time was a tropical rainforest and dinosaurs roamed. Some cataclysmic event occured that caused a global ice age and killed off the dinosaurs. Glaciers than reshaped the earth and melted. So if our proximity to the sun has not changed (moved further away) than logically the earth would be warming post-the cataclysmic ice age event. This warming would be to its natural state which logically would be a tropical rainforest, since that is what it was prior. We have only been recording weather patterns since 1880. That's 140 years of known versus 4 billion years of unknown. Consider 140 years to earth is less than 1 second to our lifetime. The glaciers melted and so will our polar ice caps eventually as earth warms toward it s prior natural state. Mother nature ALWAYS gets her way! Man's abilities are laughable compared to hers. Is global warming real? YES Is global warming caused by man? NO Can man mitigate global warming? Not a chance.

Rack is more elk-like than caribou, MO.

Yes, it's all in the eye, more precisely sensitivities, of the offended. In this instance, the offended person does not need to be a "Chinaman" (which is an offensive moniker), or chinese at all for that matter. They just need to be offended by the language. While we should not be using labels that are offensive, this "offended my sensitivities" culture has been weaponized to hurt people under the guise of virtue.

...and Biden's boy Kerry has already said if the US drops emissions to ZERO, it will not solve the problem!

Completely agree. Down state, 5 boroughs & LI, shooting facilities are few and far between. We need to be careful with mission creep here. It is a hunter safety course. It is not a hunting course. It is not a firearms education course. It is not a shooting qualification course.

So the answer is don't make it easier for the majority of law abiding hunters because it also makes it easier for the minority of cheaters? Not a good strategy, IMO.

Cheaters are going to cheat no matter what the system or process is. Using family and friends for extra tags is not something new and will never be stopped (see first sentence). The DEC rules and processes should be for the benefit of honest law abiding hunters (the majority) and not the minority of cheaters.

Agree. Joke: How about an Executive Order that you can't say "C'mon man!"? According to Pelosi, using "man" is not gender neutral, it is sexist, it is divisive, offensive, etc.

This is a good thing. When my son came of hunter age I had a hell of a time finding a course and then one that was not already booked. IMO, these courses were a bottleneck to license sales $$$, and probably the driving force for going online. I do not believe for one second this is primarily to facilitate hunting in NYS, that is a secondary benefit.

Looks like the deer Robert DeNiro's character was hunting in the Pennsylvania woods in the movie The Deer Hunter!