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Sergeant Thorne

Just to throw it out there, so we're not being irresponsible here: "shoot to incapacitate" is probably not something a shooting instructor would ever recommend, because when someone is closing the distance in spite of your drawn weapon, not shooting for "center mass" is a terribl...

Sergeant Thorne

Top Gun wrote:All things being equal, I'd much rather defend my property with the business end of a Louisville Slugger. Far less potential for inadvertent murder or self-harm.

Home run!

There's always the possibility that you're bringing a Louisville Slugger to a gunfight... That would be a sinking feeling.

Sergeant Thorne

so, breaking and entering should be a capital offense with no trial, Thorne? Sorry, I'll pass. Breaking and entering shouldn't be at all. You totally twist the issue. I untwisted it for you once. Law-abiding citizens should have the protection of the law in defense of their property and their lives...

Sergeant Thorne

the Castle Doctrine is an excuse to shoot Black People, at least in practice. The arguments for adoption of same are based on the same paranoia around breakins, when it has been long proven that virtually ALL break-ins are with the intent to steal small portable objects of value. In other words, th...

Sergeant Thorne

I guarantee that your empty philosophy is ineffective to the lofty ends you claim, Vision. That's the real problem, in my view. In the end you lose your life, or the life of a loved one, and fail to meet an evil person with the response necessary to stop their evil, or to "redeem" them. Th...

Sergeant Thorne

It's certain they don't own a firearm...

Sergeant Thorne

There you go. Grown "men" anxious about home invasion...

Sergeant Thorne

In the world we live in, TG, what you wrote may give rise to certain assumptions. In the U.K. a shotgun is all they are allowed to own, and the U.S. Vice President--an anti-gunner--has suggested that a shotgun is all that is needed for home defense. A shotgun is basically all most anti-gunners are w...

Sergeant Thorne

Maybe you ought to overcome that and take a shooting class. That way Rambo isn't your only exposure to guns (or haven't you actually experienced that either), and you don't sound like such a tool when you're talking on the subject.

Sergeant Thorne

As far as I'm concerned, Vision, it's people like you who lack the determination to prevent society from deteriorating into chaos (breaking into people's houses for drugs, and threatening their lives) to begin with, so for you "compassion" is a revolving door plummeting downwards. It is my...

Sergeant Thorne

God you people are confused. "Tragedy" my ass. Happy ending to a nasty affair. The tragedy was that they let him out. TG maybe you'd better shoot a scatter gun a time or two before you recommend it as a home defense option for an elderly woman. A .38 pistol was exactly her speed, and it go...

Sergeant Thorne

LOL! That's great, but... Damn commies.

It's funny, though, because Bernie would have been a much tougher opponent for Trump, IMO, if he had won the nomination. (that's future, past-tense, boys and girls

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Sergeant Thorne

Overload, with SolC as a close second.

Sergeant Thorne

Well, I'll state the obvious... Clinton and Cruz both have a political history. Trump doesn't. But you know, you talk about "eligibility to be president", and that statement has kind of lost its meaning anymore. I know what some of the characteristics could be for someone who I would consi...

Sergeant Thorne

Welcome to the deep end of the pool, Jeff. Now stop splashing about, take the water wings off, and let's look a little more closely. :P I see Cruz as being more dishonest than Trump, which isn't what I would have expected, knowing just a little about where they came from (thought honestly I don't pu...

Sergeant Thorne

It's not a bet that I ever expected you to take. Trump is running on a platform of essentially ****ing up the government and foreign policy as far as the globalists are concerned. Now you're not so sure he can be trusted not to ★■◆● it up. ...The only question in my mind is whether or not he'll actu...

Sergeant Thorne

I don't know how your world works, but in my life and dealings with others, past performace is an EXTREMELY valid indicator of future performance. I'd say the exceptions to that fall under 10% In my world it works about the same in linear matters (until some change or shift marks a potential differ...

Sergeant Thorne

****? what's so hard to believe about people helping those who helped them? Actually it's your topic title, and the blanket statements in this article about the intentions of Syrian refugees. Either you know something about them or you don't, and last I heard they weren't being screened by the coun...

Sergeant Thorne

Bull****, but good for them!

Sergeant Thorne

I think that's pretty thin, Jeff. I think people who look at the past and claim it's a road-map of the future are just doing it out of convenience, because it doesn't work that way, and it's not intelligent to understand things in such an overly-simplistic way. What Trump has said and done in the pa...

Sergeant Thorne

I actually didn't say "honesty", I said does what he says and says what he will do. I've seen him in interviews, and I'm pretty sure honesty isn't a policy. I have noticed that he calls it like he sees it. On the other hand I've seen Ted Cruz in interviews and debates, and in the senate, a...

Sergeant Thorne

Both are bad ideas, and stop well short of being solutions to the problems that give rise to acceptance of the notions...

Sergeant Thorne

My perception, Krom, is that you actually don't succeed in business by being desperate. You do see a lot of people in business vying for position and failing to get there legitimately for various reasons (most don't understand why), and there are almost certainly places where it is the pervasive cul...

Sergeant Thorne

I contrasted "personality" with "will", and you pulled "experience" out of it? You're a tragic loss to the political scene. EDIT: as to Trumps 'word'......feel free to ask any major US bank how much Donald Trumps 'word' is worth. The ability to talk around the truth lik...

Sergeant Thorne

Actually, having gone back and re-read your reply, Slick, I think I jumped on you too quickly. I expect you're right in your prediction [about attack ads].

Sergeant Thorne

Preemptive Response: "Bull****"

(saves time)

Sergeant Thorne

Slick, I don't know if you're actually naive enough to consider personal wrongs to even be on a comparable scale with what the American government has done and is doing to its people and to the people's of other countries. I'm not. That rings very hollow to me. The status-quo in our government, and ...

Sergeant Thorne

I think that's all well put, Jeff250. The "reality" I was referring to is two-fold. Trump's character has been the object of a great many assassination attempts thus-far in the GOP primary. I think a lot of it is blown out of proportion, hypocritical in the grand scheme of things, or doesn...

Sergeant Thorne

Yeah, because CNN knows what the ★■◆● is going on. Not even clicking the link.

Sergeant Thorne

I'm not going to say Trump isn't repugnant in certain regards, but "equally repugnant" speaks to some very unique methods of comparison (and too many campaign ads). I don't think I have any illusions about what a Trump presidency means for America in an absolute sense, but in a relative se...

Sergeant Thorne

I think $1000 is potentially a pretty outstanding offer for any single vote in the US, so no, I wouldn't bet. I doubt that you dislike Trump as much as you dislike Hillary. I think Ted Cruz fans/GOPers have just gotten themselves really worked up, and as time goes on reality will set in.

Sergeant Thorne

A little bit of an odd response. But I'm pretty well convinced Trump is going to take it.

EDIT: I'll go a step further, TB--I think you will vote for Trump.

Sergeant Thorne

I think the guy was at least smart enough to know that Cruz wasn't actually engaging him... something you folks seem to have missed.

Sergeant Thorne

I'm not impressed.

Sergeant Thorne

I would consider making Mexico our next U.S. state. (i.e. taking over)

Sergeant Thorne

That's one of the things that troubles me about the insanity of wanting to take a captialist economy and turn it communist or socialist. It's like taking a really heavy muscle car, and magically swapping the souped up, turbo-injected engine for a washing machine motor while doing 200MPH on the Autob...

Sergeant Thorne

I'm cool with you trying out communism too. Make sure whichever country you go to doesn't block the DBB so you can report your experiences here.

Sergeant Thorne

You know, now that you mention it I was thinking of giving them a wedgie before duct taping them... **looks at self in the mirror in horror**

Sergeant Thorne

Well damnit, if the police are doing their jobs what am I supposed to do with all of this duct tape?

Also, I'm the most civilized, un-"macho" person who doesn't take any ★■◆● that you'd care to meet, so anytime you want to drop this bull****, defensive, jock strawman image...

Sergeant Thorne

So what is your cool way of handling someone who is bullying you bro? With reason, and when that doesn't work, ignoring them and going about my business. ...but your "business" in this theoretical scenario is either going somewhere they are preventing you from going, or saying something t...

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