Bring in gun control. Please!

I find it interesting Za that you mention your height at what it is and your weight of 141 is too much according to medical records, but whose I need to ask. I'm 5' 9 " and in at 165lbs, 55years and still take the kids on cycling........so much of this is a matter of perspective, focus and of course your bodily make-up and metabolism. I have trained a few folks in loosing 25-60 lbs on a bike and it works, don't have to be a hammer head but 12 minutes a day of some exercise if vital, that is a full on gurantee in this day of way too much business. Have further opinions but will not go there ..................... ~ hopeful the McD boy is just a photoshop graphic ?

E ~ and to stay on topic my woman is death with an AR-15 at 100 yards

 

Well said Gents, but Miguel, you need more to go on with that blanket-statement that most obese people are over weight thanks to eating too much. Lias-made some great points in his posting. Personally for me, I never have been able to go out and eat all I could eat-or i'd be puking it all back up at the dining table. At my most eatingest-out days-and when I was a poor college student-going to an all-you-can-eat place was the "thing" to do. You get filled-cheaply. I never could eat a large pizza in one sitting-like most everyone I know can do so. I never could finish one of those 1/2 pound hamburgers in one sitting. If I ordered a chickenfried steak, I always had enough left over for a complete 2nd meal.

My problems with weight gain did have to do with health problems I had at the time as well as genetics. Since im over the age of 40, I can easily see that I resemble more and more-my Grandfather (the Norwegian side of the family tree) and when I see some pics of him in his older years-though he wasn't a bad-looking guy and was actually quite handsome as he was growing up. However, after the age of 65, he reminds me of a Walrus-not weight-wise but with his general "look" about his facial features.

Anyway, it took me 30 years to gain my weight and will probably take another year of really watching the eating habits, till im satisfied with myself. Yes, and I did most of my losing weight by eating more fruits and veggies but, I could also go out and enjoy a Chickenfried Steak w/ fries and sweet tea-and not gain back an ounce I worked off. Thankfully since having surgery, my lungs for the first time since my double pneumonia, completely fill with air - which is somehting I have not been able to enjoy-for close to 25 years.

One thing about Texas-the people living here) is that the "Valley" area of southern texas-has the highest percentage rate in the country-for having certain diseases like Obesity and for Diabetes.

 

This is good to hear and am glad for you.

 

so am I as well Carl, good for you and keep at it !!

 

Thank you Ike, thank you Erich, I greatly appreciate your kindness on this. I can hardly wait till im cleard by the Doctor, to get back to riding a bike, and also using my hand-weights. Right now, I think it's still going to be about two months before im even allowed to lift more than 15 pounds. Stretching execrises are out for the time being as well.

Don't you just hate having to restart your exercise routine? I was doing appx 30 minutes of stretches a day, along with 20 mins of walkiing. Right now all im allowed to do, is the walking-which wouldn't be so bad if it weren't so darn humid here and also with a bad Mesquito problem. ;-))

 

In the Dutch army we didn't even get that one, but the cheaper C5 Diemaco. A M16 license build (i.e. ripp off).... It didn't give me that much confidence, shooting it. To boot they gave us a Glock 17 as a side arm. My instructor told me, I might have said this before; "When you are within 25 meters of your target, you'd better throw the thing at him, you have a better chance of actually hitting him..."

 

Actually the SAS use the Demarco rather than the US made M4, not sure it's cheaper as they managed to iron out a few reliability issues and the sights they use are pretty mint.

 

Maybe....what I remember you had to calculate in quite a bit of (I am not sure how to say this in English) how the bullet travelled after leaving the nozzle. 40 Cm down over 400 meters or something like that. Later they got the telescopic sight that is not standard. Didn't have that in my day.

Fair enough, I'd prefer it over the uzi and the Fall, which it replaces, although the Fall's 7.62 caliber had something going for it too. With the 5.56 you just have to hit some organs to be able to stop your target. I am sure the SAS dont have problems doing that. They just pump you full of led. We were only allowed to "push off" two bullets at the time.....thats basic training though...

 

I remember the guys in the field ripping the single shot function of the M-16 out for full on auto fire only, damn the rounds wasted but that was the point when you were dealing with Charlie in the bush. the crap we used in Nam compared to now is almost no comparison how much arms tech has advanced, though I was wishing back then a full auto 50 round clip for the 45 cal side arm

 

Glad you are recovering Carl. Don't trust doctors too much, I know more old drunks than old doctors.

 

My offspring will engage in motivated PT while still in the womb.

 

Just teasing, Slipdigit...You know me....Just a few posts before I disappear again into the crevasses of the internet...or the "sticks" of the internet...

 

Thank you my friend. Sorry I haven't been around-Hurricane Ike closed my window to the outside world.

The only good thing to happen during the storm-was that I am now-as of last Thursday and slightly after midnight, a Grand Uncle for the third time. ;-D The baby is a boy and he weighed in at 10 pounds 9 ounces-or 10 pounds 6 ounces? I forget which? ANywahy, he's a heavy lad-and looks exactly like Winston Churchill ;-))

 

That is some baby! congrats G uncle Carl.if he looks like winnie then he might remind you yanks who won the war

 

Here's a different take on gun control...

Gun Control as told by a criminal - AOL Video

 

Every month,the NRA magazine has a section with recent stories of armed homeowners defending their homes and businesses. Then, there's stupid criminal stories. And now, Texas has the "Castle Doctrine". If you shoot someone, all you have to prove is:

A) They are on your property, and

B) You are in reasonable fear for your life.

Homeowner Joe Horn saw two criminals burgling his neighbor's house. He called 911. He told the dispatcher that he was going to shoot if the burglars tried to escape. He saw the burglars leaving the house (the Police weren't there yet). On the phone you could hear him warn the burglars to stop. You then heard three shotgun blasts. Despite an autopsy that showed that he shot one of them in the back (both were hit in the shoulder) a Grand Jury no billed him.

It turned out both burglars were career criminals and undocumented Mexicans-they actually made their living by burgling. Burglaries in the neighborhood came to a dead stop after the two burglars were killed.

 

Well American kids don't have any gun control.We should fix America's gun control then the other countries will follow in suit. Must amitt every country copies America!

 

Well I must admit it once crossed my mind. I used to live in a house in Normandy that had a small German garisson during the war. After they left, the square hole left in the wall for their MG was fixed with a small window pane , so it was a great strategic opening where I could see everything that happened without being seen. One night I saw three burglars break the window of our local bar , I called the cops but they did not show up until the next day. I'm still wondering what I would have done if I had a gun at that very moment. Therefore I'm glad I didn't.

 

Sir , this is facts here,um If a burgular is robbing you're house and you attack him on you're property to protect youre self and belongings and you injurer the burgular, he can sue you to court, that s/x