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Holmes's Father Is Anti-Fraud Scientist
Your link is from a 2003 article and many of it's citations are from the '90's. Are they still relevant??— July 23, 2012 10:23 a.m.
Traffic Cop Questioned in Encinitas
surfpuppy619, A 215 card is an MMJcard. It refers to prop 215. It's not really cop jargon. Most people I know understand what it refers to and I'm a little surprised you didn't.— July 23, 2012 10:15 a.m.
Holmes's Father Is Anti-Fraud Scientist
You never point a gun at someone unless you're willing to pull the trigger. And if you're pulling the trigger, you are trying to put your target down. The idea is to not let someone pull a gun on you. If someone has a gun on you, you assume that he know how to use it and that he will use it and your scenario would not be the wisest thing to do. In this case however, Margie assume when the guy tried to come thru the door, he was coming after her, so she fired. The guys wasn't armed, but she didn't know that, so she stayed where she was until the cops showed up. He ended up in jail for a few years, I guess, and there were no charges files against her.The guy didn't believe she had a gun, and that when she said she'd shoot, she meant it. Like I said, the guy picked the wrong house to break into. If the guy had waited 1 more night to break in, there would have been no one home. The driveway was empty because her car was in the shop, so the next day she was coming coming to spend the weekend with us. Like I said, wrong house, wrong time. Now if that had happened today, the guy probably would have hacked into their home network, seen from the electrical usage that some one was home earlier, seen that someone had activated the alarm earlier in the evening, seen that there was video surveillance, seen from their facebook page that they are gun enthusiasts and then probably have decided that breaking into that house, yeah not so much of a good idea. Technology, a crooks new best friend. LOL!!!— July 23, 2012 10:03 a.m.
Traffic Cop Questioned in Encinitas
Actually you're mistaken on the educational requirements required for a law enforcement job in CA. You can take a look at any of their websites, LAPD, LACSD, SDPR, SFPS OCSD and they all say the same thing: Education Graduation from a U.S. high school, G.E.D. or equivalent from a U.S. institution, or a California High School Proficiency Examination (CHSPE) certificate is required. A two-year or a four-year college degree from an accredited U.S. or foreign institution may be substituted for the high school requirement. In fact, th only major metro area on the West coast that I can think of that requires any college at all is Portland. Now, if you want to go big league, then yeah that's true . To join the NYPD, you have to have 60 college credits (with a least a 2.0 GPA) from an accredited college or university. The only exception to this requirement is if you have completed two years active military service.— July 23, 2012 12:46 a.m.
Holmes's Father Is Anti-Fraud Scientist
Many years ago, probably 1978 of 1979, a friend of ours was home alone when someone broke into her home during the middle of the night. Her husband was out of town and when he was gone, she always kept their shotgun underneath her side of the bed. As I remember the story, for what ever reason, she had woken up and hadn't gotten back to sleep yet when she heard glass breaking. Long story short, she locked the bedroom door, called the cops and grabbed the shotgun. At some point the guy tried to open the bedroom door and she basically yelled something to the affect that she had already called the cops, that she had a shotgun pointed at the door and if he tried to come in she would fire. When we got there a couple of hours later to bring her back to our house, I looked at the door and it had a hole that I could put my fist thru and not touch the wood. She said that the guy had yelled something at her and tried kick the door in. She fired 1 barrel of 00 buck from across the bedroom, maybe 12 ft or so. There were 3 or 4 pellets in the plaster in the hallway and the cops found the guy at the hospital, the rest were in his shoulder/arm area. She told us later that the cops told her this guys was a career criminal who had lots of busts for different stuff. I think she said the cops told her that the guy didn't think anybody was home because there was no car in the carport and that he didn't believe she actually had a gun.. The ironic part, at least to us was that they have always had more guns than we do. They both are still expert marksmen. They used to hunt, they target shoot, they used to combat shoot and her husband taught a firearms safety class for a long time. The guy just picked the wrong house.— July 23, 2012 12:17 a.m.
Holmes's Father Is Anti-Fraud Scientist
Actually, at such close range, a shotgun is a better bet for you. At 2-3 meters with 00 buck, you're probably talkin about maybe a 4-5 inch or so spread and those 9 pellets are gonna leave one big hole in someone. With a Glock , I'm sure you would be able to hit the target from that range and all you'd have to do is keep firing. It's hard for most people to rapidly sight and fire on a close target with a long gun.— July 21, 2012 10:36 p.m.
Holmes's Father Is Anti-Fraud Scientist
Generally speaking, burglars strike when they believe no one to be home. Now if you tried to rob me, well that's a completely different thing. Actually, it's not as "bad" as it seems. Some of the weapons are in a glass case in my office. The Winchester and the Colt from the late 1800's, my dad's old Army issue .45 amd M-1, and my first 2 guns, a .22 revolver and a .22 rifle. But all of the ammunition is locked up in a safe that you wouldn't be able to find if you didn't know where it was.And except for a Mossburg and a Glock, all of the others are locked up as well. The Mossberg and Glock are for our protection, we also have one of each at our place in PS. They are both readily accessible, but if you don't know where they are, you won't find them without tearing the house apart. But yeah, we feel relatively secure. I would like to say though, that despite the fact that over the last 35 or so years, we have felt the need to get one of the guns out on 3 or 4 occasions, fortunately we have never actually come close to needing to use it.— July 21, 2012 1:26 p.m.
Holmes's Father Is Anti-Fraud Scientist
I don't disagree with you in the slightest on that point. But I am sure that moviegoers in England don't have many worries about a masked knifeman attacking a crowded theatre, killing 12 and wounding 58. However I would be more worried about having someone pulling a knife on me on a London street than someone pulling a gun.— July 21, 2012 1:05 p.m.
Holmes's Father Is Anti-Fraud Scientist
Not exactly sure what comparisons can be drawn between this guy and Ted Kaczynski. To me, this guy is closer to a Jared Laughner type, and even that is kind of a stretch.— July 21, 2012 12:11 p.m.
Holmes's Father Is Anti-Fraud Scientist
I have a wide variety of firearms. A few of them are over 100 yrs old. Some are family heirlooms. A couple were WWII issue. Each and everyone of them is in working condition and is fired on a regular basis. They have names like Winchester,Garand, Colt, Riverside Firearms, S&W, Glock, Remington, Mossburg,and Browning.I have shotguns, rifles, high-powered and scoped hunting rifles, revolvers and semi-automatic pistols. None of them are assault rifles. The M-1 is closest, but it doesn't meet the standard. My wife and both daughters all trained in firearms and fire arm safety and the have each fired every one of them. I have never purchased ammunition on line. I want to see the brass and the quality of the load of anything I am going to fire. In the case of a couple of the older guns, they are custom loads that I have made locally. There is absolutely no reason for any private individual to have 6-7000 rounds, BUT it is not illegal. And really, in my opinion, it doesn't make any difference whether or not it can be bought online. there are enough brick and mortar store that one could easily purchase that amount almost anywhere in a few hours. Unless or until there is a national data base on ammunition sales, it will continue to be available. And unless gun laws similar to those in England are enacted, people will still have guns(in the UK in 2009 there were 0.07 recorded intentional homicides committed with a firearm per 100,000 inhabitants, in the US was 3.0, about 40 times higher). I don't think there is even a prayer that will happen and quite honestly, I want to keep my guns.— July 21, 2012 10:42 a.m.