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Wow! Compact little bugger.

I've had friends saved by it. I am not aware of any friends who have been saved by guns. Have you? I've seen three folks saved by hardhats.

So I was imagining Erik going out West and backpacking with Burnham.... <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/FcsXC2xFis4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

We're talking backpacking out in the woods here?

I got charged by a momma black bear while backpacking. We were just about to hang our food between two trees when she came into our campsite with two cubs sitting in a tree up the hill from her. I stood up tall, arms out at my sides to look even bigger and yelled at her to go away. She...

Well I'm not exactly Mr. Mechanic. Bad analogy then but you get my drift. Being prepared is good but it should be balanced by what the most likely risk is. How common are house break ins with the owners home? It seems like the scenario that is brought up the most when it comes to folks who...

Carburators fail, do you carry an extra one of these around? There are limits to that analogy. I have hiked all over the Western States and have never felt Ike I needed a gun. I have waited to get picked up at the Richmond Amtrak station after dark and wished for an invisibility cloak or...

You beat me to llamas!

I hear llamas make excellent guard dogs and keep coyotes and even wolves away from livestock.

Since I've never heard anyone say the sentences that start that piece, I think I'll pass on all that text.

Now that you mention it Ed...

He could kill with any manner of weapon, gun, rock, stick, shovel, whatever was handy. I think he might have been a minor death god.

She was a volunteer for the Audubon Society and took kids on nature hikes. We learned about nature through a hand lens and binoculars. We scored points by getting a good picture of wild animal, not shooting it. I fought fire with a guy who grew up on on of the largest ranches in Arizona. He...

He was an old school programmer for Bechtel. We used to get boxes and boxes of old punch cards. We're talking Fortran here.

It's the Pilgrims, they were gun crazy and we inherited it. I am largely indifferent about guns but I think that's because I was raisd in a very safe suburban setting by a mother who was a naturalist and a father who was an engineer. Guns just didn't factor into our lives. Others want them...

Wow, I'm shocked too. Mostly because I didn't use the word obsolete or any of it's synonyms. I think what I was shooting for was because the ideas and expressions were dated, it added a certain ambiguity to the passage. What the Constitution says is debated in the courts every day even though...

Unfortunately the passage of time has made that ambiguous. We no longer have militias per se. We no longer gather up all the men folk and have them bring their muzzle loaders to fend off incursions.

Every right has limitations. What those limitations are have always been subject to debate. The right to free speech, free press, freedom of assembly, you name it, they all have boundaries and they are constantly being tested in the courts. Don't think that gun rights are any different than...

Lively thread.

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