The 2016 Presidential Election Trainwreck

[Moliere]

I can see why a person who has lived their entire life in the city would balk at the prospects of shooting an assault rifle. However, maybe they should leave their sheltered life and experience life in the country for once. My inlaws regularly shoot rifles on their property and think nothing of allowing kids to shoot them. Rifle safety is taught at a young age and id feel more safe around my 8 year old nephew shooting than some born and bred New Yorker.


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[Color Me Badd Fan]

On a multi-ward scout campout, we set up a range so the scouts could pass off the shooting requirements of the rifle shooting merit badge (among several other merit badges). We thought we had planned well and had a couple of .22 rifles on the range and thought that was enough based on the number of scouts that had signed up for that MB. Problem was that almost all the scouts decided they wanted to shoot with many ditching their other MB classes to wait in line at the range. A neighbor heard gunshots and drove over to see what was going on. He saw the lines and came back with his .223 AR for us to borrow and we quickly set up another shooting lane. Like your boys, everyone wanted to take a turn with the .223 AR.

The following day after church, my spouse asked what we were thinking letting 12-year old boys shoot military assault rifles on a campout. It seems my son thought the .223 AR was really an AR15 which was described by my son as "just like an M-16" to another kid who told his Mom that the scouts got to shoot assault rifles which resulted in a query to my wife on how her husband could allow that. Ward gossip grapevines can be fun. It also reached the Bishop who asked a similar question to his 2C who attended the campout.

I think I've shared this before, but on my mission I told two sister is missionaries that Brad Pitt died in a plane crash. Within the next couple months it proceeded to become common knowledge amongst the sister missionaries in my mission that Brad Pitt was in fact dead.

Apparently it was important enough to discuss with other sister missionaries but not on letters home. Chris Farley really did die, guys mentioned it to each other and everyone, I presume, knew within a few days. But I'm sure no one wrote home about it.

[YOhio]

Incredible. This is the best thing to come out of this election so far.

[Donuthole]

Incredible. This is the best thing to come out of this election so far.

Funny stuff. But the person who filmed that should be shot.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

Having just endured a middle school graduation, that speech was only 6-7 minutes too long. Other than that you're golden.

[Applejack]

The market is riding high?? It hasn't done anything for at least 18 months

You've only invested in the past 18 months? You missed the entire OBama effect! I'm not sure I'd trust you with my money.

[BlueK]

The Dow is at the same level today as it was 18 months ago, more or less. That said, it doesn't mean you couldn't have made money.

[Walter Sobchak]

Incredible. This is the best thing to come out of this election so far.

Robes for a middle school "graduation" ... wtf?!

[wuapinmon]

Incredible. This is the best thing to come out of this election so far.

That was great.

[falafel]

The Dow is at the same level today as it was 18 months ago, more or less. That said, it doesn't mean you couldn't have made money.

Its been riding high for 18 months!

[YOhio]

Fantastic read.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/donald...S5b9mk.twitter

[Dwight Schr-ute]

I found this Twitter feed sequence of Trump's Vegas stop pretty funny.



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[frank ryan]

I found this Twitter feed sequence of Trump's Vegas stop pretty funny.



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That's a very big twitter message.

[PaloAltoCougar]

I found this Twitter feed sequence of Trump's Vegas stop pretty funny.
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I'd have no problem at all with well-trained, armed security guards at events like this, but allowing patrons to pack? Dark room, late at night, LOTS of dope and drinking, what could go wrong once the first shot is fired?

Fantastic read.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/donald...S5b9mk.twitter

Lots of good observations in there. Among my favorites was the counter to the oft-heard defenses of Drumpf:

The thinking takes many forms, including:
--He'll learn
--He'll pivot in the general
--He'll respect the gravity of the office
--At least he'll be more conservative than Hillary.

As any human resources executive will tell you, the best predictor of future behavior is past performance. And here's an even handier truism from human behavior expert Alan Robert Neal: "You can never change a person who sees his bad behavior as an asset."

The Donald, who has said he has never apologized for anything, revels in all of his disturbing declarations; he ain't gonna change.

[Eddie]

On a multi-ward scout campout, we set up a range so the scouts could pass off the shooting requirements of the rifle shooting merit badge (among several other merit badges). We thought we had planned well and had a couple of .22 rifles on the range and thought that was enough based on the number of scouts that had signed up for that MB. Problem was that almost all the scouts decided they wanted to shoot with many ditching their other MB classes to wait in line at the range. A neighbor heard gunshots and drove over to see what was going on. He saw the lines and came back with his .223 AR for us to borrow and we quickly set up another shooting lane. Like your boys, everyone wanted to take a turn with the .223 AR.

The following day after church, my spouse asked what we were thinking letting 12-year old boys shoot military assault rifles on a campout. It seems my son thought the .223 AR was really an AR15 which was described by my son as "just like an M-16" to another kid who told his Mom that the scouts got to shoot assault rifles which resulted in a query to my wife on how her husband could allow that. Ward gossip grapevines can be fun. It also reached the Bishop who asked a similar question to his 2C who attended the campout.

I had a scout leader who's dad was the owner/CEO of American Arms.

On one campout he brought a bunch of guns and we all got to shoot his American 180. Fastest shooting single barrel .22 ever made. 1,200 rounds per minute - we cut down a small tree with it. I don't recall any parents getting upset.