Maybe it's because I don't live in the city, but I have no fear of any one breaking into my house. Heck, half the time our front door is unlocked. I guess if it ever happened though, I could use my base ball bat or my airsoft gun (which looks pretty real so it might scare them off).

redstorm72

I want to visit Machu Picchu.

[QUOTE="Katafran"][QUOTE="Infinite-Zr0"] Last I heard, deadly force in Texas was legal to protect life and property.Infinite-Zr0

Oh I see...sorry. Let me edit that for my hurr durr factor. :oops: What I meant was that it became legal last year.

[QUOTE="Katafran"]

I have a 9mm CZ-75b that will protect me just fine. And actually, I saw a terrible car accident today, called 911 and asked for them to send an ambulance. It took 18 minutes for the police to show up and he just took our statements. Luckily a registered nurse was passing by and stopped, but seriously. 18 minutes?!

It's like that saying, "The average police response time is more than five minutes. The Average response time of a 9mm is 1100 feet per second."

Seriously though, know the laws in your state. Up until last year here in Texas, you had to make every attempt to escape before using deadly force. It's changed now, though.

Infinite-Zr0

I have a 9mm CZ-75b that will protect me just fine. And actually, I saw a terrible car accident today, called 911 and asked for them to send an ambulance. It took 18 minutes for the police to show up and he just took our statements. Luckily a registered nurse was passing by and stopped, but seriously. 18 minutes?!

It's like that saying, "The average police response time is more than five minutes. The Average response time of a 9mm is 1100 feet per second."

Seriously though, know the laws in your state. Up until last year here in Texas, you had to make every attempt to escape before using deadly force. I'm glad the state changed the law to what it is now, though.

[QUOTE="drj077"]

Exactly, everyone ALWAYS has access to care in the U.S. Not only to hospitals often establish charity care, but they often use payment programs, as well. In America, we do payment plans for houses, cars, tvs, etc. I don't see why our well-being shouldn't be payed for as such.

Besides, for many of us, it would be more expensive to institute a national healthcare system than it would to continue to pay insurance companies, because the tax increases will be outrageous.

BumFluff122

This is my Corgi, Eddie. He's a week away from getting neutered! :o

Aaand this is my Cocker Spaniel Ernie. He's a wuss.

[QUOTE="clayron"]

May I ask what bothers you about Registration of Sex Offenders? I am not condoning it, but I have never talk to someone who was against it.

MrGeezer

I used to know a dude who ended up on the sex offender registry because he got drunk and decided to urinate behind a dumpster.

And now people can search their neighborhoods, see where he lives but not what he was convicted of, assume the worst, harrass him, maybe assault or kill him, and he won't be able to find a good job.

But the person down the street from him may have committed murder and no one would ever know. It just makes no sense to me.

[QUOTE="Katafran"][QUOTE="WhiteSnake5000"]Pedophilia should be exterminated even if it means exterminating the people who commit it. WhiteSnake5000

Oh yes, I agree with that. I honestly believe that there is no rehabilitating true pedophiles. I was just stating that the laws are currently too gray to implement the death penalty.

[QUOTE="Katafran"]

You didn't read what I wrote. They aren't cutting anything off. They're injecting hormones. And just suggesting that anyone in their right mind would propose to cut off the legs of drunk drivers and the arms of shoplifters is ridiculous.

joshrocks2245

Yeah and injecting hormones is wrong. What if that person is innocent?? What should we do about female pedophiles?? Just keep them in prison for 2 weeks and let them go do more things to kids??
That is what is going on, I hear all the time about female pedophiles being released from prison way too soon. But if a man is a pedophile they treat him like hes Satan, and they threaten to kill him and take his manhood away.

So I just wikipedia'd the subject and according to the article, they use depo-provera, the birth control shot. I used to use depo, but I stopped because it was causing my body to stop absorbing calcium and it caused weight gain.

I get that what you're saying is that it's a cruel and unusual punishment, and personally, my biggest fear is being convicted of a crime that I did not commit. Also, I believe that female sex offenderes are just a terrible and even more unnatural that male sex offenders.

What I'm saying is that while this is cruel and unusual, I feel that the sex offender registry is another cruel and unusual punishment that is far, far more commonplace. To be listed as a sex offender(keep in mind that the list doesn't tell your crime) when you're 18 and sleep with your 16 year old girlfriend? Absurd. To be listed as a sex offender for urinating on a tree? Absurd. You'll never get a job again, you'll be banned from public neighborhoods, and your chances of being murded skyrocket. To me it's walking and spitting all over the constitution.