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Haha, would it be illegal to deliberately overpay, then file an amended return to get the soopah-seekret-speshul interest rate?

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^^^

I guess the one exception is hearing someone burgling your home at night and having time to get out a pistol. If someone shoots a burglar (not some poor schmoe who got in a car accident and is knocking on the door asking for help), then I’d call it legitimate use of force.

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I got an some type of alert (trivial weather issue) on my phone once. When I was asleep. Afterwards, I figured out how to turn all alerts off, including the Amber ones.

I suspect most people have done the same to preserve their sanity.

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Small nit to pick: South Korea, Taiwan, and Argentina had rather nasty governments up until 1990 or so. Read about the dirty war in Argentina or military law and the banditry laws in Taiwan.

I’m not sure if registration or wait period would have helped prevent what that guy did. He bought his guns legally, and long before the crime. Wait periods only help deter people who act rashly. Registration doesn’t matter, since the guy never intended to avoid being “caught” and the police saw no cause to take action against him before the crime.

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#1: Sticking anything in front of a motor that the motor wasn’t designed to use may well shorten motor life.

If you’re not tripping your breaker when the A/C starts, you don’t need an inrush limiter. If anything, if the inrush limiter makes the motor get up to speed slower, it may actually negatively affect its life.

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Are rampage killings something to actually worry about in the grand scheme of things? They’re dramatic when they happen, but you’re also more likely to slip in the bathtub and die than get killed by a crazed gunman.

Not a new phenomenon either — I recall it was called “going postal” in the 80s and 90s.

The solution? Stop giving the crazies free publicity. Yeah, they can still use the Internet to spread their poison, but a gentleman’s agreement among the mainstream media not to spend days publicizing their actions would go a long way to discourage copycats.

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Gun ownership is also driven by fear. Fear that you might be burgled by an axe murderer (or whatever). Look at the stats. States with loose gun laws and little crime (northern New England for example) have lower rates of ownership than higher-crime states.

If I lived in an area where I felt I needed to carry a gun on my hip to protect myself whenever I went out, I’m pretty sure that I’d move. Not worth the stress.

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I’m sure we can come of with a government program to take care of that too, like we take care of everything else…

There is one in Nevada. It’s called legal prostitution. Though I’m not sure if Elliot Rodger wasn’t too proud to avail himself of such pleasures.

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NSR: Correct.

Though the presence of guns does make it easier for violence to happen in the heat of anger.

I’d rather the number of guns in a bar at 2 am after a Devils-Rangers game be kept to a minimum 🙂

You’d be trading a lot of shootings in anger for preventing an attack like Rodger’s. I bet that shootings in anger are still a LOT more common than something like what happened in Santa Barbara.

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Exactly. Unless they were walking around the house armed with a gun, it’s unlikely a gun would have helped them.

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Seven people died. Himself, three roommates (where a gun wouldn’t likely have helped, most people aren’t packing around the house and on guard against a roommate whom they trust), and three passers-by on the street. Sounds like he was taken down pretty quickly. Unless, literally EVERYONE was carrying a gun, not sure if he could have been stopped any more quickly.

How would you make sure that everyone would carry? I for one wouldn’t be interested in carrying a heavy metal object everywhere I go. Would it be mandatory to be armed outside the house? If something like that ever happens, I think I’m dusting off my passport and moving abroad 🙂

Especially because a lot of people in modern society have anger/frustration issues. Requiring them to carry an easy, impersonal way to hurt another person is a recipe for busy emergency rooms.

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Making guns very expensive and inconvenient to own would hardly affect our day to day lives.

Exactly. This is why I really don’t get people who say “I’m moving from {x state} to {y state} because their gun laws are better.” As if being able to own a 15-round magazine improves your life in any way, unless you’re a gun collector, gunsmith, or hunter. Scratch the last one — if you need a 15-round magazine for hunting, you probably need to practice your aim.

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^^^ Good point. Better yet, look at who supplies SpaceX. SpaceX is within a hair’s distance of testing private manned space launches. If Russia gets serious about closing Baikonur to NASA, expect an influx of gov’t funding and the acceleration of that timetable.

PS – I bet JFK is rolling over right now. He’d never have imagined that we’d be dependent on the Russians for manned space travel. Sad.

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Another day another record close….

Shorts are getting the arses kicked…

Up maybe 2% for the whole year since Jan? And we have another Fed meeting in two weeks, with a taper to $35 billion expected. Tick … tock … tick … tock.

Bonus points if Ukraine blows up into full civil war mode with Russia and a few EU states jumping in.

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CA for that matter… This is not a state for low income earners…

California is a large state. All depends where in CA you choose to live and work. See also:

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-search/Yreka_CA/price-na-100000/rntsby-5?ml=3

If you live in a sufficiently rural area, property taxes are low, yet a mortgage under $100k can go a long way.

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