Gov. Rick Perry Indicted On Felony Charges

When he classifies the former as the latter, the statement stands.

I'll PM you later.

Ramyrez, here's the test to determine whether you can participate:

1.) How do you pronounce "Mexia"?

2.) Have you been to a bachelor, bachelorette, or combo party where the entertainment included sniping coyotes off haybales with a .22?

3.) How do you pronounce "pecan"?

4.) How terrifying are wild hogs?


5.)



What is that? And if you happen upon the right answer, how would you pronounce it emphatically?

I could totally pass that test, too bad idgaf about rick perry.

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I'd say:

1) May-he-aa

2) Not specifically a pre-wedding party, no. But I've had to snipe porcupines at the family camp before. Little guys just insist on chewing on every piece of wood in sight, including tool hands, furniture, and the camp itself.

3) "delicious in pie".

4) Didn't need your freebie. Wild pigs are generally aggressive ***. And they tear up land to boot.

5) I'm assuming you're suggesting it's a chupacabra. I'd pronounce it emphatically as "ugly little ***!"

Though in truth I'm just playing along; I'll *** whatever politician I feel like!

Nah, that's a KUY-oat.

I figured it was just a coyote, but given the appearance of illness, and knowing that people have suggested manged coyotes they've killed have been chupacabras, I decided to get playful.

But really. That's an unhealthy-looking coyote.

You might be surprised how many of them look that way, mange is pretty common in wild Coyote populations.

I'd only be surprised because I'd suspect in a place like Texas -- especially given the described-above bachelorette parties -- enough would get shot or otherwise killed as to avoid the mange spreading through the population like that.

Unless you are actively hunting coyotes, it would be hard to do that.

Especially since one would have to hunt over 100s of different pieces of property.

Actually, you're both right. People in the back-woods made claims that mangy, sickly coyotes were the infamous Chupacabra in the mid-2000s. :/


One word...Cleburne. That was my explanation for it.

I think everyone gets a pass since KN isn't here to weigh in. Carry on.

EDIT: Nix the last part.

Hehe. Yeah. I knew there was a whole big thing where they sent a few coyotes for DNA testing because zomg hairless coyote, must be a monster!

Honestly, where I'm from is very, very similar to Texas in many ways. We've even got oil where the rest of Pennsylvania has coal.

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How many people even use their guns for anything other than going to the range/hunting/waiting for the war with the government?

I use my gun to keep children away from me.

Besides gang members and those who rob convenient stores?

The first two are the reasons I have always owned guns in the past, and consider them valid reasons to do so.

I mean, I guess I still technically do, but they're locked in a gun cabinet 150 miles away from me for the past decade. Haven't had a need.

The bolded are the more acceptable reasons to own a gun, just my opinion though. Stock-piling in paranoia is silly. I never understood the "security" argument either, but to each their own.

I'm not against an open/concealed carry permit in certain situations; if I lived in the city or regularly traveled somewhere I felt was unsafe, I would probably have a concealed permit myself.

I carried concealed in both AZ and AK, for vastly different reasons. In AZ it was because construction had me out in the boonies alone with the real threat of being mugged. In AK because we were literally outside the edge of civilization with few means to protect ourselves from wild animals like wolves and moose (which are far more aggressive than people think). In both situations, carrying concealed was preferred because a holster is something to get caught on rigging or wires.

It's really not irrationally defended. The country was founded on the idea that oppressed people could rise up and overthrow their government. Why on earth would people think the founders wouldn't want future generations to capable of doing the same thing? Do you think that we states or people could group together today and establish their own freedom?

Because your average gun owner is a well trained and disciplined rifleman capable of wielding a dozen machine pistols like Neo...

And you think that they will still be untrained if they were serious enough to stage a revolution against their own country?

Rights are given to us by our creator, not our government. That's pretty much why the constitution is so important. It was the first founding of a government based on such principles.

Ignore Pleebo. He is beyond hope.

I always find the war with the government reasoning entertaining. It's fairly serious though... I know a guy who's spent hundreds of thousands of dollars stocking up on weaponry and has a small bunker on his property. I told him I'd come visit if the zombie apocolypse ever hit.

Around 230,000 guns are stolen every year from law abiding citizens around 170,000 from home burglaries and the rest from various property thefts. I got a gun in my house and a NRA sign on my lawn... Please come steal my gun while I'm sleeping or away at work! I saw a post elsewhere once where a guy commented that no one would steal from a house with an NRA sign in front of it... the guy he was talking to countered with "unless they want to steal your gun"

The number of uses of guns for self defense is highly contended ranging from 100,000 to 2,000,000...

To be honest though we are past the point of take all guns off the street as there are almost more guns out there in civilian hands than there are people in the country... To me its more about educating people on how to use the guns they purchase... I've always been an advocate of something like the requirements to obtain a drivers license or subsequent military or police experience.

We can sensationalize it any ways we like highlighting mass murders, single ones or on the other side argue how we might need to rise up one day or protect our families from a burglar or any other type of criminal. None of it will do any good for what's actually happening out in reality. It's all good and such for you to want to have 10,000 kids have guns on school campus to stop the one that goes bonkers but then you have 10,000 unexpereinced firearm owners armed with deadly weapons that they will probably end up shooting another student with in an attempt to stop the offender.

Something needs to be done but we're mostly focused on the extremes on both ends to do any real good.

That has nothing to do with rights being absolute with regard to the law. Most, maybe all, are not.

So only people who are officially trained like NEO should be allowed to own guns? The whole point of a gun is that it levels the playing field so that some working stiff such as myself is on equal ground with neo from the matrix.

The level of training and discipline required to stage anything more than another Waco is a lifelong commitment. Some people are serious about maintaining militia, but the state of the modern military completely invalidates current militia and gun enthusiasts as revolutionaries. The time for training is BEFORE an attack. I still don't understand this romance with revolution. If you could organize enough people to pose any kind of threat to the union, you'd have all the necessary power to change the government without force, that's the purpose of "democracy". The right to settle grievances is also a protected right. It calls to question the stability of people who threaten revolution before attempting peaceable solutions.