Spucketts

First off, in posts back to me you've said I was foolish and now crazy. If you have an opposing view fine, present your opinions and statistics as I welcome the debate and the education. However resorting to the use of such terms turns the discussion into the equivalency of debating a 3 year old. I had two different neighbors in Smyrna get home invaded, one in an adjacent apartment building and one on my floor just across the hall. I heard it happen and loaded my 12 gauge but due to the way the door opened, I couldn't get a view of the other door not without stepping into the breezeway an

To do what? You're talking like the mission is to pop out of the philodendra looking like Rambo and drop the perp in his tracks. What homeowners want is for the criminal to stop what their doing and leave. Nobody wants to live with having killed someone even if it is a crook.

What am I "trying to do"? I'm simply stating that for the average homeowner, who has minimal training, who spends almost no time at a gun range or maybe hunts a little, has zero training in a real world scenario where a perp or two or more is come at them, they would have a greater chance of scaring off or at least hitting the perp(s) with a scatter gun vs any other type weapon. You personally might be able to draw and shoot like Marshal Dillon but not Joe Average and not someone sitting in their first gun training course.

Snake shot disperses but a fraction of what a 12 gauge round carries. As for aiming, someone's coming at you in the dark covering 20 feet or so at a quick pace, you aren't going to have time to place your bead or your reddot square on their chest, you're going to point and shoot and a scatter gun'll let you be off a bit. As for shot spreading, a single pellet won't penetrate a wall, at least not with any energy left. Even a straight line shotgun blast will dissipate energy going through a sheet rock wall. A handgun shot with the right type round will go through not only the near wall but the f

I happen to think a short barreled 12 gauge is the perfect home defense weapon because it allows for a greater margin of error, especially in the dark, with a fast moving target and in the hands of a homeowner who's heart is pumping 100 miles an hour. First off, a bullet is about > < that in diameter while a blast from a short barreled shotgun loaded with birdshot is going to be about the diameter of a computer screen or greater. Secondly the action of a pump shotgun puts two hands in better position to handle recoil so that additional shots can be taken on target, you don't need to ai

Just my experience, I've never been shot at or held up by a crook with a gun, and I'm in Atlanta's bad neighborhoods a lot. I have been shot at some five or six times by people who had their guns legally but were using them improperly or illegally. Nothing like sitting in a tree stand and hearing that whizzzzzz then a bang because some jerk thinks it's OK to just shoot blindly into the woods (he shot some 6 times in rapid secession) or the sound of birdshot raining down around you because someone isn't paying attention to what's beyond their target. I was on an archery only parcel and told the

The Supreme Court long ago decided that rights granted by the second amendment, like most rights, are not unlimited. From their recent decision on the District of Columbia v Heller-"It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose: For example, concealed weapons prohibitions have been upheld under the Amendment or state analogues." In the same decision they state that "The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, suc

I didn't say anything about his 2nd amendment rights, I said right to carry, these are two different things.

I hate the "warm body" human resources management style. I've experienced it on both sides of the counter, as a customer and as a manager. The one that needs to be fired is the human resources officer that keeps hiring unqualified people.

Seems every anniversary I learn something new (or maybe am just reminded of something I had forgotten). The other night I heard recorded phone conversations between LBJ and Chief Justice Warren, and, LBJ and Senator Richard Russell (the two didn't get along) insisting that they be part of the investigative commission. LBJ was barely being polite but he knew what was at stake and didn't have time for personalities and hurt feelings. He told Senator Russell something like "if I tell you ta suit-up for this country, by God, you're gonna do it!"

I'm of the opinion that anyone with a restraining order, charges of assault, a plea bargain that includes mandated anger management courses and similar should be denied a right to carry permit. Such a persons previous behavior has indicated a tendency to solve problems with violence and they should not be allowed the right to carry a weapon out in public. A guy repeatedly beats up his wife but she presses no charges after the police have been called so he has no arrests or convictions. Should he be able to pass a background check? He would based on a conviction only standard and that makes

Maybe everyone is overlooking something here, maybe this girl was a PMSing C-word that deserved to have a gun pulled on her and for her to be thrown out of her own house. (Philosophy used by many in the Martin situation)

And a restraining order and an assaulting an officer charge that was plea bargained.

Gee, I try and stay away from "the kittens" at hunt'n camp. And bring'em home? My wife'id kill me. LOL

The thought is that "splatter" goes places and seeps onto cracks and crevices that you just can't clean, especially when you're busy cooking a meal. It even splatters on your clothing, few change after prepping a bird. I suppose the proper way is to look like you're about to perform surgery, gown, mask, gloves.... And those giblets? They get cooked and cutup and thrown into the stuffing! just don't tell my kids.

I read yesterday that they've confirmed an animal killed in March is the first grey wolf killed in Kentucky in 150 years. At first they thought it was just a dog or hybrid animal but genetics have confirmed the animal as a wolf.

The latest I've heard from the so called experts is to not wash/rinse your poultry at all as it just splashes the germs all over the place. They say proper cooking is the only key to not getting sick. But I know come Turkey-day morning I'll prep the bird and that'll include a rinse in the sink. My bird gets stuffed with my special recipe (if it wasn't in the bird it's not stuffing, it's dressing) and it cooks at 300 while we head to Marietta so the wife and kids can run the Gobblejog. When we get home it's near done. We usually cook one Thursday, for the whole family, and one Friday just

A criminal trial isn't an attempt to find "the truth" nor is it an attempt to decide right and wrong, it boils down to a contest as to who is the better attorney in proving or disproving whether the law, as written, was broken. Different in a civil case, the parents should sue the kajeebers out of this guy.

Is this a case of the mother suing or is just another case of an ambulance chaser looking for their next pot of money to dip their hand into?

They are installing landscaping at the hospital, pine straw, soil, maybe some other debris associated with this work. Although you'd then think the contractor would handle anything accidently dumped in the roadway, he'd have people and equipment right there.

My old vacuum was one with the replaceable bag and every time I'd vacuum in January you'd get a refreshing smell of pine having vacuumed up the needles once the tree was taken down. It extended Christmas through the dark months. I've never mined vacuuming up a few needles, only takes a minute. The new vacuum is even better on cleaning them up but it has a plastic hopper that you dump every time so the smell doesn't linger anymore.

Aww that fresh cut Christmas tree smell. Bet your whole house smells like pine.......Oops, er plastic? sorry, I'm a traditionalist. It's just too perfect.

I didn't make any games this past season but went to 4 or 5 the previous year. Never had traffic trouble getting in and out of the stadium, never had trouble parking (lots just to the north), never a problem with crime. Now think of driving to Cumberland Mall during rush hour today, 75s packed, 285 in both directions isn't moving, 41 isn't an option, Spring is a parking lot, and we're going to add another 18,000+ cars to the mix? I once lived in an apartment behind the clock tower and actually drilled a hole in the floor by the door so that I could stick a rail road spike in the floor to preve

A lot of people take MARTA to the Braves games, black and white, rich and poor, the busses are packed full on game day. You park for free and you miss a lot of the nearby stadium traffic is two reasons why. They'll have to substantially expand public transportation at the Cobb location because the first time someone from north Fulton or Gwinnett shows up at the game during the 7th inning stretch'll be the last time they buy tickets to a Braves game.

In order to place the new stadium in the prime location for MARTA access they had to buy the church property so the city kept pushing and upping the money, the churches didn't want to move. I don't know if this was a case of evil Arthur or evil city government, probably a bit of both. Curse? I think it's a case of Falcons everywhere being upset over the use of their name for a professional sports team.