HA! I'm the biggest conservative in the world but I can't see chasing a kid for crossing the street to fuel his quad. How can you even compare that to someone stealing a car? But even so, I value life more than a vehicle. Well.......a Porche might be a tough call! [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

Plus nobody said let him go. He deserved to be punished. Just catch him by different means, if possible.

 

mywifesquad, I respect your opinion and stance and that is what has made America so great and such a wonderful place to live. Of course I feel we can go over board with legislation and there must exist a happy medium and I feel our legislative branch is doing a good job and we as citizens are lucky to have the freedom to voice our opinions and sometimes we get our way and other times we do not.

One last analogy on the issue of looking at a scenario and then, developing new methods and rules to better it and make it safer.

Imagine football in the early day when they wore leather helmets. This was a sport that we all enjoy but combatants on the field of play were sustaining horrible injuries. Through the years we have improved the equipment and mandated that certain equipment must be worn to play. Has this changed the sport or the ultimate goal of the teams, no. We just looked at a situation and someone said; hey you know face mask would greatly reduce facial injuries and provide a safer environment for our players thus face mask rules were put in place.

 

Well now you have hit home with me. My dad's last year of high school he started playing football, leather helmet. Then 4 yrs of college ball and off to the NFL. 13 year's with the colt's. 57 thru 69 I believe. Still not the greatest head protection. He died in january from " frontal lobe dimensia". Watched him slowly disapear over 8 years, last 2 were toughest. The cause of frontal lobe dimensia? Doctor's called it brain trauma. I know the point you are trying to make. It is just that we dont have the full story here. We have a second hand story, nothing more. It is even possible it did not happen at all.

 

Mywifesquad,

"It is even possible it did not happen at all.”

You know I have considered this, as in any debate I try to fully support my stance and with contrary facts will change my stance. In my research I have look very hard to find this story to try and get more info so I could provide an intelligent argument on it specifically. Unable to find anything I have stated several times, "If the story is as given."

Now my ability to not find the story still does not make it fictional just that it is not online for me to read and study.

I am sorry for your loss and cannot imagine the hurt for I still have both my parents and dread the day I have to lay one to rest if it works out in that order.

 

Thank's BB, And by the way, I need your home ph #, Just in case I am losing a arguement someday(not very often) and need your help. JK. ROFLOL. One question for you. Does your wife appreciate your ability to win debate's? I know my wifes despises my debating ability.

 

Big Black,

If I ever make it down to that neck of the woods, I'll look you up. I was suppose to fly into Atlanta this past summer, but we had a change of plans and coincidently, the hurricanes hit Florida, which was our destination.

 

mywifesquad,
My wife is particularly good in the debates because of her womanly power. You know if she "ain't" happy nobody is! Of course during my undergrad I was taking several logic and critical thinking classes, you know the ones, "Is the tree really green,” where you question EVERYTHING. It was then my family and friends hated it when I got off on a tangent. I have since learned to control my desire to question everything but once in a while I hit a topic I become passionate over.

LEP7MM,
Atlanta is about 3hrs away but Savannah is closer and I frequent that place a lot.


Both of you and I are probably more alike than we realize and if you ever want to just BS about anything check us out in the "Spin." We have a lot of fun there but it is all fun and BS, I think over the last 7k post we have probably touched on every aspect of life.

Oh and my English woes really show up in there, again that is my worst subject.