While I don't like Governor Perry either he isn't the only one telling people what they can and can't do. Both parties do it, it is just with different issues, why should government decide that my kid can't have a stupid happy meal the one or two times a month when neither my wife or I have the energy or time to cook a proper dinner and just want some cheap quick food. As far as turning our country into a third world nation both parties have been doing that for a while with the various trade agreements, rampant spending, playing world police, and general nutjobbery. These have been done by both parties with the exception of spending during the Clintion era.
There are some kids who only respond to physical pain. I find that the severity of punishment my oldest is decreasing, my sister's kid on the other hand only responds to spankings. Time outs she just gets out, sent to her room the same, taking toys away she will go and break something of yours. Also there is a vast difference between sore ass and injury.
That could have been much worse. There was one day at practice where a couple of the freshman (9th graders) distance runners decided that they wanted to try shot put since they though our practices were easier. Well they didn't know the rules of the range and would throw their shot put out and then immediately get it. Well one of them went out while another one was throwing and of course they weren't paying attention so the one walking back got clocked in the head with the shot. He ended up unconscious with a cracked skull but luckily didn't suffer any other damage. Once we found out he was more or less ok we were thankfully he didn't get hit by a shot from Ross, Octavia, or myself as it would have killed him.
I throw punches like I would the shot put (power from the legs, hips, and back), and got the kid with an good upper cut right to the jaw. At the time I was benching 315lbs (3 sets of 10), could squat 455lbs (3 sets of 8), and clean and jerk 245lbs (4 sets of 6).
Not really, considering he had already hit me once and was going to hit me and I was up against the wall. So I chose to defend my self from an individual who should have been in juvenile detention as the individual was one who would start fights and wouldn't quit until pulled off by an administrator. Also last I checked self defense was something that was still legal provided that you didn't use excessive force like shooting someone who was unarmed.
They won't go to jail but will go through the wringer for it, even for severe forms of punishments. I have been taken to task by other parents for disciplining my oldest in public, and you know what I really don't care. I have hauled him out of stores and restaurants, given him the occasional swat on the ass (the mere fact he got a spanking it the worst part it doesn't matter how hard) and other things. Usually I get told that is abuse or will damage his self esteem but compared to a number of children he is very well behaved, he doesn't throw a tantrum, throw things, hit others, knock things over, or run wild in stores. Punishment needs to be swift and severe (no I don't mean beating the piss out of your kids, but it the punishment should be worse than the offense) so that they don't want to do it again. Sadly as you say there are too many parents who just want to be their kids' friend. I can be my kids' friend when we play or are go out to do things, but when it is punishment time I am the most loathed person in the world.
This is why I say we need to bring back the "Board Of Education" since some kids only respond to physical pain. Now granted this is usually the last resort and my oldest gets a swat on the ass probably once a month but he really has to have done something bad and has already lost what every he got in trouble with, been in time out, and been sent to his room. With him I find that it is more the fact that he got spanked more than the pain. My niece on the other hand needs a good hard ass whooping as that seems to be the only thing that works for punishment. Funniest thing was when her mom asked me to go give her a spanking and then my niece went and complained to her mother that I gave her a spanking and it really hurt.
You have (rightly or wrongly) taken from the schools a lot of their powers in regards to disciplining students. So where the school can not, the parents must. Except, the parents are not fulfilling their obligations in this regard, and the schools can not hold parents thusly responsible.
My wife is a teacher and all of her co workers ask me if my oldest will be like one of the little hellions they have to deal with. I tell them if he is like that let me know and I will solve the problem. I have been harassed by other parents for punishing my child as I will haul him right out of places if he misbehaves because that supposedly hurts their self esteem. I see lots of other kids his age and mine is an angle by comparison, he doesn't throw sand at them, hit, throw toys, take things from others.
Bullshit. You just have to find the right way. Give them the right support.
Granted for most cases this is true, but there are some that cannot be taught in a standard school because of the rules that teachers and administration have to follow. It would be nice if they could get shipped off to military boarding school but people are unwilling to do that now. One of my cousins was like that but his parents cared enough to do it and he turned out to be a fine upstanding citizen.
Also you have to look at the zero tolerance policies. Should child who is the victim of an assault be expelled same as their attacker, and then put to work? Many of these sort of violations and issues are things the school police would deal with are often times the result of these policies. If a student is the victim they get a citation same as the attacker.
I have never like the zero tolerance policies that schools have. It is basically a method for the administration to not have to think, bringing a butter knife is the same a bringing a machete, one student being attached is the same a 2 fighting. I was the "victim" of a zero tolerance policy in high school because of I fight I didn't instigate, or throw the first punch, I did throw the second punch (I was ready my attacker was pulling his arm back to throw another one) and ended the fight. The school had a policy of zero tolerance for fighting and any student involved in a fight was suspended and had 5th degree assault charges brought against them. Granted my attacker ended up much worse in the fight as he was left unconscious and was taken to the hospital to drink food through a straw for the next 6 weeks, but he did start it threw the first punch, he was 18 while I was only 17, and it wasn't my fault that he decided to go after the second strongest person in the school who happened to be a shot putter. I managed to get out the the assault charge by threatening to sue for them failing to prevent my attacker from harming me, since they were saying that didn't have a right to defend myself. My attacker was one of those who should probably have been in jail but wasn't yet, so as I joke now I guess I didn't hit him hard enough as he is now in jail. I did end up getting a 3 day suspension but that is just a vacation.
But does your CEO have a MBA (the only thing they know how to do) or is he/she a real entrepreneur? It sounds like your CEO is the later. There are lots of people who go into business or finance with the sole purpose of wanting to make a lot of money. My old manager was the groomed MBA who believes that he is gods gift to management he was good at getting others whipped up into a frenzy over trivial things and creating make work. Unfortunately I can't say he was the exception as the vast majority of people I have met who went to school to get a management degree (i.e. they didn't get it just to further their careers later on) are like this.
If you stumble through the wal-marts and targets - sorry, you won't find many American made goods if any. That's because these box stores, the Dollar Generals, the Home Depots, are all about making as much profit as absolutely possible, without regard to the communities that support them.
In general I have found the same but there are some big box stores that sell quality tools. I gave up on going into Home Depot, Menards, Lowes for tools a long time ago once they quit selling professional grade tools. In my area Mills Fleet Farm and Sears are about the only places that sell professional grade tools any more. Even Sears sells lots of crap now so you need to be careful when going there I outright avoid places like Harbor Freight and Norther Tool as they just have lots of cheap crap for tools. Even the small time hardware store like Ace or True Value has quality tools but they have a very limited selection.
Yes I pay a little more, but then I should. Shoes shouldn't cost $19. Your savings come at the expense of slave-wage labor. Your savings are another's exploitation.
There are so many sites specifically devoted to buying US made goods. Have a look and put your money where your mouth is.
I have good tools that weren't made in the US but they were made in other first world countries know for making quality products. The "savings" aren't real savings if you have to replace the stupid thing because it breaks or wears out prematurely. This is especially true with tools, good tools can take a lot of abuse, cheap tools can take none. I have broken a lot of good tools but it takes a lot of effort (6 foot breaker bar on a wrench or socket) where as cheap tool I can break them under heavy load from my own person. I stopped buying cheap tools a long time ago for this reason.
In the long run it is cheaper to buy more expensive good tools than cheap Chinese crap. All good hand tools come with a lifetime warranty and most of these are made in the US, Germany, Scandinavia, Switzerland and the like. Granted they cost like 2x as much but then I realize that I have replaced all of my screw drives at least once, probably all of my sockets at least twice, a good portion of my wrenches. Now this isn't a knock against these tools as I will do things outside of the norm to them but the fact that the hold up to the general abuse most of the time says volumes. By out side of the norm I mean attaching a 6 foot breaker bar to a ratchet or wrench and lifting with the legs, using screw drivers as pry pars, heating up a rounded off bolt red hot and pounding a smaller size deep socket to cut new edges. Add to that something just wear out like screw drives and it becomes worth while to get the good tools. I don't have to go to extremes to break cheap tools I have had cheap screwdrivers break from normal usage where the tip gave before the screw broke free, I have snapped cheap chines sockets without using a breaker bar or hammer.
I find the opposite is true, almost every tool I have bought in the last 10 years was made in the USA , Japan, Germany, or Switzerland. I have bought some cheap Chinese tools but they really are cheap crap and they were the only option available at the time (recently I bought an O2 sensor socket but that was a couple of years ago at the auto parts store since no one else sold them). Even my power tools are made in the USA. Granted they are more expensive but with tools you usually pay for what you get. Now granted I usually buy commercial grade tools since I use them frequently and want ones that won't break or wear out.
A prime example of this is with my most recent power tool purchase a wire feed welder, I could have gotten a $99 (Northern Tool brand or some cheap crap from Harbor Freight) wire feed welder but I paid $250 (best deal I could find on a Hobart) for one that would actually work consistently. Now these weren't big powerful welders, but were the smallest ones available and are still overpowered fro what I do but the cheap ones weighed in at about 10 pounds where as the Hobart I bought weighs in at 50+ pounds. The Hobart one has a fan that always runs when turned on to keep things cool inside, is all metal, has a good tensioner, and a properly sized transformer. Quality components cost money and weigh a lot but costs can be cut. After reading reviews of various small wire feed welders it sounded like the best option was spending more for a quality product as the cheap ones would work for a while then quit, be dead on arrival, melt, break wire, not feed wire, not have the rated output and thus not be able to weld.
The big problem is the race to the bottom, I will willingly pay more for higher quality, but then I am kind of an oddity now days. If something is $2 cheaper but is disposable then people will buy it where as the more expensive thing will last much longer. I am not a "Made in the USA" zealot like some but most professional grade tools seem to be made in first world countries. Now why can't the US make quality cars like Germany, Japan, and Korea seem to be able to, we use to?
The artificial scarcity of money is the only thing right now that makes it cheaper to burn a fossil fuel than to burn paper money for heating or cheaper to buy wall paper than to cover your wall with paper currency. Now we could just print more money (well we are doing that any way) but there would be no value behind it so it would just drive up the cost of everything and that is just a zero sum game since no one is any better off, except those who got the new money first before it went through the system and caused inflation. The bigger question is how do we end the scarcity of value?
Hate to break it to you but all currencies are now the same as Monopoly money. The last currency that was legally backed by a commodity was the Swiss Franc but that ended on May 1, 2000. So now you basically have money supply controlled by the respective government/central banks so how much do you trust a government to not inflate its currency. Even when currencies were backed by some commodity (gold and silver coinage) countries were still known to debase them, even the US did this when the change the composition of silver coins from 90% down to 40% in 1965 (exceptions for special collector editions know as the silver proof sets).
Well very often when I am carrying my handgun I also have a rifle or shot gun slung across my back as I am out hunting. I do open carry but not to advertise to everyone that I have a weapon, but so that if I need to get it in case of bear, wolf, moose attack (I hunt in areas where these animals are fairly common) I don't have to fuck around trying to get it out of the holster. I carry it since it is illegal to transport a loaded firearm on a public roadway unless it is a handgun and you have a carry permit so the shotgun or rifle is unloaded and slung across the back. Other than that my handgun sits in the fireproof gun safe that is bolted to the floor with my other firearms and only comes out when I go hunting or down to the range.
There are some good reasons for concealing a handgun. Most people only view of a handgun is that it is used for criminal activity or are so overcome with panic that it is highly recommended that you conceal it. Additionally if you don't want to be stopped and questions by every cop for open carry it is recommended that you also conceal it. The vast majority of people who legally own firearms show the proper respect and responsible ownership for them and you never hear of them, it is only the crazies and the illegally owned ones you hear about. Part of the problem is many people have John Wayne or Clint Eastwood fantasies, I just hope that I don't have to ever use mine as a bear attempting to maul me doesn't sound fun.
He is just using it as an extension of the penis. He probably has pictures and/or video of himself waving his hand gun around posted on the internet so everyone can see how tough he is. I have a carry permit but don't carry most of the time, and when I do it is for protection from dangerous wild animals.
So you know not all second amendment supporters are like the GP and want to start a revolution. I recently got my carry permit for the specific purpose of hunting but not handgun hunting. As it is illegal to carry a loaded firearm when on a public road (like when walking down one to go out to the deer stand) unless one has a carry permit I decided after my run in with a wolf last year (It's not the one in front of you that you have to worry about) that it would be worth getting one so I could carry a loaded large caliber revolver. I have it for personal protection from dangerous animals like wolves, bear, and moose but don't carry it otherwise.
Even well written C code shouldn't be making use of tons of mallocs and frees. The C code I at work that I most frequently work with with has a few mallocs in it but most of those are for some global storage arrays that are initialized at program run up and can be of arbitrary size. The rest are a where memory is malloced so it can be passed to a new thread where it gets cleaned up once the thread is finished running. I think the total number of malloc and free pairing in the program is 5 or so as the program is meant to run continuously and never exit so the global arrays never get freed.
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As others have mentioned don't get your ducks and beavers mixed up. They take that pretty seriously in Oregon.
And you didn't offer to console them or help them to ensure that none of them were injured. WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?
Props to you sir. I wish I had some mod points.
While I don't like Governor Perry either he isn't the only one telling people what they can and can't do. Both parties do it, it is just with different issues, why should government decide that my kid can't have a stupid happy meal the one or two times a month when neither my wife or I have the energy or time to cook a proper dinner and just want some cheap quick food. As far as turning our country into a third world nation both parties have been doing that for a while with the various trade agreements, rampant spending, playing world police, and general nutjobbery. These have been done by both parties with the exception of spending during the Clintion era.
There are some kids who only respond to physical pain. I find that the severity of punishment my oldest is decreasing, my sister's kid on the other hand only responds to spankings. Time outs she just gets out, sent to her room the same, taking toys away she will go and break something of yours. Also there is a vast difference between sore ass and injury.
I guess that is what I get for not proofing my submission.
That could have been much worse. There was one day at practice where a couple of the freshman (9th graders) distance runners decided that they wanted to try shot put since they though our practices were easier. Well they didn't know the rules of the range and would throw their shot put out and then immediately get it. Well one of them went out while another one was throwing and of course they weren't paying attention so the one walking back got clocked in the head with the shot. He ended up unconscious with a cracked skull but luckily didn't suffer any other damage. Once we found out he was more or less ok we were thankfully he didn't get hit by a shot from Ross, Octavia, or myself as it would have killed him.
I throw punches like I would the shot put (power from the legs, hips, and back), and got the kid with an good upper cut right to the jaw. At the time I was benching 315lbs (3 sets of 10), could squat 455lbs (3 sets of 8), and clean and jerk 245lbs (4 sets of 6).
Not really, considering he had already hit me once and was going to hit me and I was up against the wall. So I chose to defend my self from an individual who should have been in juvenile detention as the individual was one who would start fights and wouldn't quit until pulled off by an administrator. Also last I checked self defense was something that was still legal provided that you didn't use excessive force like shooting someone who was unarmed.
They won't go to jail but will go through the wringer for it, even for severe forms of punishments. I have been taken to task by other parents for disciplining my oldest in public, and you know what I really don't care. I have hauled him out of stores and restaurants, given him the occasional swat on the ass (the mere fact he got a spanking it the worst part it doesn't matter how hard) and other things. Usually I get told that is abuse or will damage his self esteem but compared to a number of children he is very well behaved, he doesn't throw a tantrum, throw things, hit others, knock things over, or run wild in stores. Punishment needs to be swift and severe (no I don't mean beating the piss out of your kids, but it the punishment should be worse than the offense) so that they don't want to do it again. Sadly as you say there are too many parents who just want to be their kids' friend. I can be my kids' friend when we play or are go out to do things, but when it is punishment time I am the most loathed person in the world.
This is why I say we need to bring back the "Board Of Education" since some kids only respond to physical pain. Now granted this is usually the last resort and my oldest gets a swat on the ass probably once a month but he really has to have done something bad and has already lost what every he got in trouble with, been in time out, and been sent to his room. With him I find that it is more the fact that he got spanked more than the pain. My niece on the other hand needs a good hard ass whooping as that seems to be the only thing that works for punishment. Funniest thing was when her mom asked me to go give her a spanking and then my niece went and complained to her mother that I gave her a spanking and it really hurt.
You have (rightly or wrongly) taken from the schools a lot of their powers in regards to disciplining students. So where the school can not, the parents must. Except, the parents are not fulfilling their obligations in this regard, and the schools can not hold parents thusly responsible.
My wife is a teacher and all of her co workers ask me if my oldest will be like one of the little hellions they have to deal with. I tell them if he is like that let me know and I will solve the problem. I have been harassed by other parents for punishing my child as I will haul him right out of places if he misbehaves because that supposedly hurts their self esteem. I see lots of other kids his age and mine is an angle by comparison, he doesn't throw sand at them, hit, throw toys, take things from others.
Bullshit. You just have to find the right way. Give them the right support.
Granted for most cases this is true, but there are some that cannot be taught in a standard school because of the rules that teachers and administration have to follow. It would be nice if they could get shipped off to military boarding school but people are unwilling to do that now. One of my cousins was like that but his parents cared enough to do it and he turned out to be a fine upstanding citizen.
Also you have to look at the zero tolerance policies. Should child who is the victim of an assault be expelled same as their attacker, and then put to work? Many of these sort of violations and issues are things the school police would deal with are often times the result of these policies. If a student is the victim they get a citation same as the attacker.
I have never like the zero tolerance policies that schools have. It is basically a method for the administration to not have to think, bringing a butter knife is the same a bringing a machete, one student being attached is the same a 2 fighting. I was the "victim" of a zero tolerance policy in high school because of I fight I didn't instigate, or throw the first punch, I did throw the second punch (I was ready my attacker was pulling his arm back to throw another one) and ended the fight. The school had a policy of zero tolerance for fighting and any student involved in a fight was suspended and had 5th degree assault charges brought against them. Granted my attacker ended up much worse in the fight as he was left unconscious and was taken to the hospital to drink food through a straw for the next 6 weeks, but he did start it threw the first punch, he was 18 while I was only 17, and it wasn't my fault that he decided to go after the second strongest person in the school who happened to be a shot putter. I managed to get out the the assault charge by threatening to sue for them failing to prevent my attacker from harming me, since they were saying that didn't have a right to defend myself. My attacker was one of those who should probably have been in jail but wasn't yet, so as I joke now I guess I didn't hit him hard enough as he is now in jail. I did end up getting a 3 day suspension but that is just a vacation.
But does your CEO have a MBA (the only thing they know how to do) or is he/she a real entrepreneur? It sounds like your CEO is the later. There are lots of people who go into business or finance with the sole purpose of wanting to make a lot of money. My old manager was the groomed MBA who believes that he is gods gift to management he was good at getting others whipped up into a frenzy over trivial things and creating make work. Unfortunately I can't say he was the exception as the vast majority of people I have met who went to school to get a management degree (i.e. they didn't get it just to further their careers later on) are like this.
If you stumble through the wal-marts and targets - sorry, you won't find many American made goods if any. That's because these box stores, the Dollar Generals, the Home Depots, are all about making as much profit as absolutely possible, without regard to the communities that support them.
In general I have found the same but there are some big box stores that sell quality tools. I gave up on going into Home Depot, Menards, Lowes for tools a long time ago once they quit selling professional grade tools. In my area Mills Fleet Farm and Sears are about the only places that sell professional grade tools any more. Even Sears sells lots of crap now so you need to be careful when going there I outright avoid places like Harbor Freight and Norther Tool as they just have lots of cheap crap for tools. Even the small time hardware store like Ace or True Value has quality tools but they have a very limited selection.
Yes I pay a little more, but then I should. Shoes shouldn't cost $19. Your savings come at the expense of slave-wage labor. Your savings are another's exploitation.
There are so many sites specifically devoted to buying US made goods. Have a look and put your money where your mouth is.
I have good tools that weren't made in the US but they were made in other first world countries know for making quality products. The "savings" aren't real savings if you have to replace the stupid thing because it breaks or wears out prematurely. This is especially true with tools, good tools can take a lot of abuse, cheap tools can take none. I have broken a lot of good tools but it takes a lot of effort (6 foot breaker bar on a wrench or socket) where as cheap tool I can break them under heavy load from my own person. I stopped buying cheap tools a long time ago for this reason.
In the long run it is cheaper to buy more expensive good tools than cheap Chinese crap. All good hand tools come with a lifetime warranty and most of these are made in the US, Germany, Scandinavia, Switzerland and the like. Granted they cost like 2x as much but then I realize that I have replaced all of my screw drives at least once, probably all of my sockets at least twice, a good portion of my wrenches. Now this isn't a knock against these tools as I will do things outside of the norm to them but the fact that the hold up to the general abuse most of the time says volumes. By out side of the norm I mean attaching a 6 foot breaker bar to a ratchet or wrench and lifting with the legs, using screw drivers as pry pars, heating up a rounded off bolt red hot and pounding a smaller size deep socket to cut new edges. Add to that something just wear out like screw drives and it becomes worth while to get the good tools. I don't have to go to extremes to break cheap tools I have had cheap screwdrivers break from normal usage where the tip gave before the screw broke free, I have snapped cheap chines sockets without using a breaker bar or hammer.
I find the opposite is true, almost every tool I have bought in the last 10 years was made in the USA , Japan, Germany, or Switzerland. I have bought some cheap Chinese tools but they really are cheap crap and they were the only option available at the time (recently I bought an O2 sensor socket but that was a couple of years ago at the auto parts store since no one else sold them). Even my power tools are made in the USA. Granted they are more expensive but with tools you usually pay for what you get. Now granted I usually buy commercial grade tools since I use them frequently and want ones that won't break or wear out.
A prime example of this is with my most recent power tool purchase a wire feed welder, I could have gotten a $99 (Northern Tool brand or some cheap crap from Harbor Freight) wire feed welder but I paid $250 (best deal I could find on a Hobart) for one that would actually work consistently. Now these weren't big powerful welders, but were the smallest ones available and are still overpowered fro what I do but the cheap ones weighed in at about 10 pounds where as the Hobart I bought weighs in at 50+ pounds. The Hobart one has a fan that always runs when turned on to keep things cool inside, is all metal, has a good tensioner, and a properly sized transformer. Quality components cost money and weigh a lot but costs can be cut. After reading reviews of various small wire feed welders it sounded like the best option was spending more for a quality product as the cheap ones would work for a while then quit, be dead on arrival, melt, break wire, not feed wire, not have the rated output and thus not be able to weld.
The big problem is the race to the bottom, I will willingly pay more for higher quality, but then I am kind of an oddity now days. If something is $2 cheaper but is disposable then people will buy it where as the more expensive thing will last much longer. I am not a "Made in the USA" zealot like some but most professional grade tools seem to be made in first world countries. Now why can't the US make quality cars like Germany, Japan, and Korea seem to be able to, we use to?
To be fair it is not just the republicans, Clinton was gung ho on free trade.
The artificial scarcity of money is the only thing right now that makes it cheaper to burn a fossil fuel than to burn paper money for heating or cheaper to buy wall paper than to cover your wall with paper currency. Now we could just print more money (well we are doing that any way) but there would be no value behind it so it would just drive up the cost of everything and that is just a zero sum game since no one is any better off, except those who got the new money first before it went through the system and caused inflation. The bigger question is how do we end the scarcity of value?
Hate to break it to you but all currencies are now the same as Monopoly money. The last currency that was legally backed by a commodity was the Swiss Franc but that ended on May 1, 2000. So now you basically have money supply controlled by the respective government/central banks so how much do you trust a government to not inflate its currency. Even when currencies were backed by some commodity (gold and silver coinage) countries were still known to debase them, even the US did this when the change the composition of silver coins from 90% down to 40% in 1965 (exceptions for special collector editions know as the silver proof sets).
... squirrels, birds, trees, cats, gasoline, diesel, small children, ants, dogs, large children, nylon, foam, rubber, paper money, credit cards.
This sounds like an interesting way to get some "reasonable suspicion" and be able to search anyone any time.
Well very often when I am carrying my handgun I also have a rifle or shot gun slung across my back as I am out hunting. I do open carry but not to advertise to everyone that I have a weapon, but so that if I need to get it in case of bear, wolf, moose attack (I hunt in areas where these animals are fairly common) I don't have to fuck around trying to get it out of the holster. I carry it since it is illegal to transport a loaded firearm on a public roadway unless it is a handgun and you have a carry permit so the shotgun or rifle is unloaded and slung across the back. Other than that my handgun sits in the fireproof gun safe that is bolted to the floor with my other firearms and only comes out when I go hunting or down to the range.
There are some good reasons for concealing a handgun. Most people only view of a handgun is that it is used for criminal activity or are so overcome with panic that it is highly recommended that you conceal it. Additionally if you don't want to be stopped and questions by every cop for open carry it is recommended that you also conceal it. The vast majority of people who legally own firearms show the proper respect and responsible ownership for them and you never hear of them, it is only the crazies and the illegally owned ones you hear about. Part of the problem is many people have John Wayne or Clint Eastwood fantasies, I just hope that I don't have to ever use mine as a bear attempting to maul me doesn't sound fun.
He is just using it as an extension of the penis. He probably has pictures and/or video of himself waving his hand gun around posted on the internet so everyone can see how tough he is. I have a carry permit but don't carry most of the time, and when I do it is for protection from dangerous wild animals.
So you know not all second amendment supporters are like the GP and want to start a revolution. I recently got my carry permit for the specific purpose of hunting but not handgun hunting. As it is illegal to carry a loaded firearm when on a public road (like when walking down one to go out to the deer stand) unless one has a carry permit I decided after my run in with a wolf last year (It's not the one in front of you that you have to worry about) that it would be worth getting one so I could carry a loaded large caliber revolver. I have it for personal protection from dangerous animals like wolves, bear, and moose but don't carry it otherwise.
Even well written C code shouldn't be making use of tons of mallocs and frees. The C code I at work that I most frequently work with with has a few mallocs in it but most of those are for some global storage arrays that are initialized at program run up and can be of arbitrary size. The rest are a where memory is malloced so it can be passed to a new thread where it gets cleaned up once the thread is finished running. I think the total number of malloc and free pairing in the program is 5 or so as the program is meant to run continuously and never exit so the global arrays never get freed.