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I think if you live a wild area, it's perfectly reasonable to be armed. I stayed with friend recently that has black bear and wolves moving on his driveway at night. And sure nature is just all cuddly all the time (not). I don't expect people to have to take their chances with a bear guarding cubs or a male alpha predator in a rutting craze. And I'd gladly see a lot more hunting of the XS deer population that prevents me from growing anything in a garden in my neighbor hood. So I'm not against guns for utilitarian purposes. But very few people have any legitimate need for a handgun, and no-one needs an assault weapon. If guns are to be present, every gun and every owner needs to be registered and the ballistics of every weapon need be filed before the weapon is sold and periodically re-verified.

Since at least on major reason for it's existence was to protect slavers from slaves, you wouldn't expect that set of motivations to produce a positive legacy.

and that's the other bait and switch we always get from guys like Kirk: "Responsible guns controls would be OK" but then every conceivable measure of any kind is reflexively opposed. So those are not honest positions, they are just rhetorical fig leaves.

Injuries can change things in a hurry, but a healthy Lions D won't be leaving the middle of the field open for Love.

LOL - Justice was served. Neither team deserved the win, and neither got it!

I think that missed stop was the game.

agree. Dallas has been moving in fits and starts - GB has had steadier momentum with the ball.

that was a pretty terrible sequence for Dallas.

Nutty game - Dallas scores their TD so fast they leave BG time to tie it up. GB pass rush less than impressive late.

so it is some kind of fast twitch/slow twitch thing where the super athletic guys don't have the fine motor, or maybe just that the only way guys without fine motor make the NBA is extreme levels of fast twitch? Chicken, meet egg. 🤔

and the funny part is that Trump would be on board for gun bans and confiscation in a NY minute as part of any plan his lizard brain could cook up to stay in power.

you know what - If the 2A fans want to push that analogy, my answer is I'd be happy as a clam if we had just as many rules and safety regs on guns, ammo, and gun owners as we have on cars, motor fuel, drivers, and drivers' licenses.

They lose to much? (!)

Sure that is the argument, and it is specious. Transportation is necessary to economic, and thus physical survival. Handguns are not. There is no analogy But nice try to move the goalposts.

The human species initially developed skills at co-operation that have allowed it to become the dominant life-form on the planet. But this ability to cooperate began around only the smallest groupings. Cooperation was based on trust, which initially was primarily a matter shared genetics - literally, if you smelled like I did, I worked with you. The history of civilization has pretty much been one long struggle for mankind to learn to enlarge the circles of cooperation needed to accomplish ever greater quality of life for itself, vs the constant tendency to withdraw back into the clan or tribe or sect. The objective value of truth ultimately doesn't matter when it comes to tribal members from outside the tribe, and tribal members will never seek truth objectively as long as they are bound to the tribe. The only, but hard answer, is that when we create a society whose members begin to identify with the larger society around them. When they begin to accept the value of every other person, to see their destiny as tied to every other soul on the planet, then will they start to seek truth objectively instead of through their tribal filter.

I guess the brain trust has crunched the numbers and decided they prefer the match-ups if they lose this game. Hard to explain Hinch today otherwise.

what are the odds either Duren or Thompson have improved their shooting any this year? I'll guess 50/50 for Ausar at least.

a little luck there - IIRC two sack were cancelled by penalities.

Tork was having a great month up to about the 20th - 890 OPS, then he went cold. Probably among the guys that started pressing.

It's the 1st time it happens - you just have to assume you are dying.

he practically took out the whole secondary.

Local guy - went to Mackenzie HS. He and my uncle ran in the same crowd of ne'er-do-wells back in the day.

yeah - last years Vierling was big add. Unfortunately when he did get in the line-up this season he didn't do much - maybe he was never right.

Agree Rob, I don't begrudge the guy anything. He's had a tougher go than I imagine most of us ever had to face and if that drives him to get as far as he can in the business, good for him. We could as easily ding a guy who is local, Mike Tirico, for not deigning to take the job that would have been his for the asking if he had asked.