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Not entirely accurate, but acceptable for brevity. My arguement all along was that Sam is a better wing than center and had more value to the team as a very good 1st line wing than he does as a mediocre center. And that holds doubly true if his wings are mediocre. I believe I was the first to compare him to Patrick Sharpe, a very good wing who could play center when needed and he wouldn’t look out of place, but is still more valuable overall on the wing.

Oh hell no. I’m sure most know my stance. This is the Sabrespace equivalent of Roe v Wade.

Didn’t LaFontaine play with a broken jaw? And ran Muni (was it Muni that broke it?) with the full gaurd on for pyback.

Y’all are nuts.

This is what happens when hyperbole is used in a conversation involving tightly held beliefs.

Checking that poured pints in England are actually 16oz is a thing. POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!!

His point output has dropped off so much. I used to drool over getting Brassard in here. But I look at what he's got for stats over the last couple of seasons and it looks like he just doesn't have much left.

Voter access has national implications. You bet I want a universal standard for who gets to vote. And the firearm laws in South Carolina affect the violent crime in Michigan, so I think there needs to be a standard there as well. If we can regulate health care, and keep a farmer from growing wheat to feed his own livestock both under the Interstate Commerce Clause of the Constitution, then certainly we can create a common set of rules for something that has as much actual interstate effect as firearms. If firearm violence was predominately an issue involving firearms sourced within the state affected I'd feel differently. But it's a pretty well established fact that huge numbers of firearms are being moved across state lines for the purpose of illegal distribution.

I get that you want to be prepared for any situation, but in light of what has been happening due to the availability of 15, 20, 30 rd magazines, it comes off as very selfish. Especially when 99.9% of your needs can be met with 7 rds.

I think a reasonable limit is 10rounds. Firearm sales. Evolved = changed to reflect reality.

The real reason for global warming...

At least you accept that you need to atone for your unclean thoughts....

I'm still a firm believer in the right to own firearms. My main break from most is, I don't think we can have high capacity magazines in the hands of the general public anymore. And I think a background check for all sales is a reasonable accommodation. As long as due process is available for those that are turned down, I don't understand the complaints of 2nd amendment advocates. And I think the NRA has been playing their members like so many string puppets. For as long as the NRA has been in my consciousness (early 80's at least) they've been telling their members that gun ownership is in imminent danger. That's 35 or so years at least that they have been crying the sky is falling. They've been lying because it is profitable for them to lie. And that isn't the only lie. Here's your fake news.....

Crazy people will find a way with less frequency as the supply tightens over time. Noone is expecting perfection. The biggest issue I see with 2nd amendment advocates is that they want to throw away ideas that will improve the rate of these events because they are not perfect. There are no perfect solutions, but there are better ones. Its difficult to justify status quo without coming off as selfish.

Why wouldn't they have commented on that post that they hit the rabbit with their car so the fuss over poison stops?

Yeah, this is a weird criticism of Sullivan. He was an opinion columnist, not a reporter.

Every law impacts law abiding citizens more than criminals until they are caught. We get impacted specifically so we CAN react to the sociopaths. As for why should the law abiding be impacted, my mind has changed alot on this. Society has changed. I think we all know this. Mass shootings weren't a thing when I was in grade school. They are now. And have been since Columbine in '99. That's most of a generation now. The cry always is that things need to go back to the way they were. But that is not possible, and not reasonable or rational. The evolution has had many inputs, most of them we probably couldn't change if we wanted to. We can't turn it back. All we can do is react to what society is now. And I think society has reached a point where things like high capacity magazines just can't be put out there for general access any more. The percentage of people capable of doing terrible things with them are still incredibly low, but higher than it ever was before, and most importantly, high enough that it is having a terrible effect. The effect of limiting access to things like high capacity magazines won't be immediate. There are too many in circulation, and as you said, too many that people won't hand them in, but if we never make any changes, the sociopaths will continue to shoot up buildings in perpetuity. At some point we have to determine that it is time to make the change so somewhere in the future some nut job that want's to shoot up a building won't have access to the tools he needs to do it. If that is a generation away, so be it. At least we'll have started the process of making these things unobtainable to the sociopath down the road. I don't see where any suggested law limiting access to things like high capacity magazines would have an affect on your ability to defend yourself, unless you are planning to defend yourself from your government, and as a member of the military I'm sure you are well aware of the futility of attempting to defending yourself against your government.

Yeah, it is pretty damning evidence.

I used to feel that way. I totally get the "what works there doesn't work here" mindset. I live in a predominately rural county. Things work differently here than they do in the urban and suburban areas. I don't want my county to do things the way that Erie, Monroe, etc. do it. It's just different here. The needs are different. But the biggest problem I see with leaving it fully with the states is the interstate movement of firearms. We all know that illegal weapons in NY, MI, IL etc aren't originating in those states, for the most part. Same with magazines and other accessories. And I've also become cynical enough that I don't trust the firearm industry any more than I trust the pharmaceutical industry. Or the finance industry. Or the insurance industry. There is no growth in the firearms business in sales to regular gun owners. Hunting is a decreasing pastime. Places to shoot recreationally are going away. Fewer and fewer people own the bulk of the firearms today. That industry should be shrinking, yet it's not really. Hmmm.... My spider sense tingles.

Que?? Seems to me that they have come together. It's a marriage of convenience, but it's a marriage. Find a Republican in Congress or Senate willing to disagree publicly with the President. How many? 2? 3? They are in lock step right now.

I coached my sons baseball teams for 6 seasons. Def the most rewarding thing I ever did.

The wall switch could have failed. Ive had it happen....

A bridge deal was a hedged bet. Protection to better assure a positive outcome. It's low risk, but low reward. If Sam didn't improve, it didn't cost much (relatively) and it eliminates the possibility of a bad deal. It's also low reward because if Sam did perform (which he did), his next contract is full market value. No discount. Sam's deal suggests to me that Jason Botteril is risk averse. Explains his preference for college prospects too. I'm not sure that is a champion's trait, unfortunately. But it is safe one.

You better listen to him, Wingnut. He's in pre-med.

Imagine what Quick's average would have been under Bylsma then.... In 20 years children would be singing songs about him.