Recent content by kev1829

Did you ever complain about the average work week being under 30 hours or getting 25 days of vacation per year? My experience with residents of Europe is that due to the high tax rates most people find ways to keep significant portions of their incomes un-reported.

Wonderful concept. Not even close to reality.

I have 2 piercings; both hurt. The nipple piercing hurt more than the PA, but the PA put me down for a weekend. I think you should do whatever you want. The one thing that has always been my guide for tatoos/piercings is that I didn't want to make myself unemployable.

I don't trust criminals more than honest people. I just don't assume that every stranger I come into contact with is a criminal who has it in their mind to victimize me. If that were the situation, I would change my situation. I enjoy going out and not considering that I will be a victim. If...

I should rephrase that. If I were a moving target, being fired at by someone with a handgun, I would not be too concerned about being hit. Regardless of their level of training. How many "experts" can hit a moving volleyball while having the vollyball recklessly shoot bullets at them? How...

The problem with documentaries is that they are subject to the author's opinions. While it may be an entertaining piece of media, it is still just a collection of opinions supported by facts that were chosen by the author. A documentary opposing gun ownership could just as easily be assembled.

No facts. In my opinion, handguns are prone to being "pulled" when fired. Due to their short length this greatly diminishes accuracy as distance increases. I wouldn't be too worried about being hit by someone, with the minimum amount of training, firing at me in a hurried manner, from 50 feet...

Gun ownership or the right to carry wouldn't have made a difference in Michigan anyway. Restriction 1: must be 21 years old. I suppose if you aren't responsible enough to drink legally, you can't make appropriate decisions about deadly force. The use of firearms by the police is always the...

This is not an accurate statement. A requirement of eight hours of safety training including three hours of range time (firing a minimum of thirty rounds) may give you the ability to safely draw your pistol and hit a target in a controlled environment. While under fire is not a contolled...

Just think, if everyone was carrying their own hammers this crime could have been prevented! I have just read the entire thread and find the underlying problem with armed students is missing. If 5% of the students carried guns, the class would have had about eight people with guns. I would...

Will we be borrowing the money from China, to pay China?

Then he had more than two days available to make other arrangements. In the working world if you had a presentation and two days prior announced that you forgot to mention you were going on vacation, you would cancel your vacation or find another job.

How long did your friend know about the engineering competition? Was he a competitor or a spectator? If he was a spectator, he shouldn't have gone anyway and if he was a competitor he should have been able to give sufficient notice and/or make other arrangements to take the mid-term. Part...

I agree with that statement, since it finally provides a limit to the scope of the information. It encompasses a much smaller sample than: " the number of intelligent races in the universe is exactly one". Your previous statements had applied the term fact to a universal scale. Has...

So long as both hands aren't on my shoulders...