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Wed Dec 26, 2012, 10:40 PM

77. Mechanical engineer

I'm currently deployed overseas with a defense contractor. Used to design & test this stuff, and then they actually let me go and actually USE the stuff. Beats the hell out of the office. In the end, having the experience of field repair and modification in addition to being the end-user, I think should improve my skills as a deign engineer. Tent-life takes some adjustment though.

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182 replies	Author	Time	Post
Why anti-gun laws will never work in US [View all]	golfguru	Dec 2012	OP
Good point!	Turbineguy	Dec 2012	#1
Not to mention the government's track record is quite poor when it comes to banning things	davidn3600	Dec 2012	#2
I challenge anyone	aardvark401	Dec 2012	#110
All or nothing?	sellitman	Dec 2012	#130
chloro flurocarbons	wilt the stilt	Dec 2012	#157
Nah, now it's just the outlaws who have chloro flourocarbons.	EOTE	Dec 2012	#164
Yep...	99Forever	Dec 2012	#3
Where to start?	nadinbrzezinski	Dec 2012	#4
Not sure what this has to do with the OP...	zappaman	Dec 2012	#5
"Trained historian"!	cleanhippie	Dec 2012	#136
My best friend is a 5th generation American	golfguru	Dec 2012	#32
They were in colonial times	nadinbrzezinski	Dec 2012	#36
and I have no way to refute your splendid knowledge of history.	golfguru	Dec 2012	#48
What works is not more guns	nadinbrzezinski	Dec 2012	#53
"There are these things called books...I am sure you have heard of them"	zappaman	Dec 2012	#137
Talking Point of the Day, "We can't change anything, so let's give up!!!"	Ikonoklast	Dec 2012	#6
So we should pass legislation just so we can say we tried?	davidn3600	Dec 2012	#7
What? It's better to give up and say mass shootings of kids is fine	Lex	Dec 2012	#8
Motor vehicle accidents kill more kids than guns	davidn3600	Dec 2012	#18
Really?	zappaman	Dec 2012	#19
Precisely. It's an "accident" when cars kill people. Guns are designed for one goal	Lex	Dec 2012	#21
Not everyone thinks of a gun in that way	davidn3600	Dec 2012	#25
No I'm not proposing to ban all guns. I do know other countries have had success	Lex	Dec 2012	#41
One of the first rational posts I've read on this subject in days...	EnviroBat	Dec 2012	#123
Not to put too fine of a point on it...	JohnnyRingo	Dec 2012	#155
Thanks! I am going start riding an AR-15 to work starting next week!	XRubicon	Dec 2012	#49
You could probably ride a GAU-8 to work...	OneTenthofOnePercent	Dec 2012	#58
Amazing... guns as transportation. What will they think of next.	XRubicon	Dec 2012	#66
Yes, actually.	OneTenthofOnePercent	Dec 2012	#69
What are the odds. wow.	XRubicon	Dec 2012	#73
Mechanical engineer	OneTenthofOnePercent	Dec 2012	#77
ahhhh, weapons are your business. so you personally profit more with less regulations	bettyellen	Dec 2012	#88
Umm, I am not in the personal weapons business. Sorry to dissapoint.	OneTenthofOnePercent	Dec 2012	#92
Actually gun deaths are tracking passing car deaths which is extraordinary	MightyMopar	Dec 2012	#95
Mass shootings of kids is impossible in this place and has not happened since	golfguru	Dec 2012	#23
RW talking point divorced from reality	nadinbrzezinski	Dec 2012	#24
Not wise to dismiss something that actually works as RW talking points	golfguru	Dec 2012	#56
Because it is	nadinbrzezinski	Dec 2012	#59
You might want to read this about Israel	neverforget	Dec 2012	#33
Correct, those armed guards were instituted to protect against terrorists	golfguru	Dec 2012	#52
Alas they don't post these armed guards	nadinbrzezinski	Dec 2012	#55
Please let me hear your solution to IMMEDIATELY protect school children from	golfguru	Dec 2012	#60
Well the gun show loophole	nadinbrzezinski	Dec 2012	#62
I'd like a cite for that.	beevul	Dec 2012	#101
Look at ALEC legislation	nadinbrzezinski	Dec 2012	#102
Uh yeah, except you said "the NRA is trying to restore gun rights to convicted felons", not...	beevul	Dec 2012	#113
Except the NRA and Alec ave been working on loosening	nadinbrzezinski	Dec 2012	#115
Well, I guess that excuses you from backing up what you said...	beevul	Dec 2012	#124
Yup I guess the media made this up	nadinbrzezinski	Dec 2012	#127
When called on bullshit, moving the goalposts is an excellent option!	zappaman	Dec 2012	#139
Oh and here you go	nadinbrzezinski	Dec 2012	#140
I believe you said "is trying to...", not "tried twelve plus years ago to...".	beevul	Dec 2012	#141
Look, loosening of gun laws is happening	nadinbrzezinski	Dec 2012	#142
I didn't say the loosening of gun laws wasn't happening.	beevul	Dec 2012	#143
How about these...	billh58	Dec 2012	#151
Resurrected recriminations from over a decade ago.	beevul	Dec 2012	#158
Just as I suspected, point-by-point	billh58	Dec 2012	#159
Typical.	beevul	Dec 2012	#160
More bile from the NRA...	billh58	Dec 2012	#161
Snort.	beevul	Dec 2012	#162
Oh horseshit Bubba, I just proved that	billh58	Dec 2012	#165
LOL. I didn't lie about anything.	beevul	Dec 2012	#166
Right Bubba.	billh58	Dec 2012	#170
Yup, right.	beevul	Dec 2012	#172
Here you go Bubba	billh58	Dec 2012	#173
Why thanks.	beevul	Dec 2012	#174
I fully understand what	billh58	Dec 2012	#180
Speaking of teachers, please educate yourself before sharing.	libdem4life	Dec 2012	#37
Please educate yourself about Israel's gun laws. Israel bans assault rifles.	Lex	Dec 2012	#42
I have never posted anything in favor of assault rifles	golfguru	Dec 2012	#63
It was the remark about Israel that	Lex	Dec 2012	#70
Do you get double time if you post on a Holiday?	XRubicon	Dec 2012	#51
I am on permanent holiday lol	golfguru	Dec 2012	#61
Or give up and accept mass shootings as the new normal	nadinbrzezinski	Dec 2012	#10
Straw Man.	Ikonoklast	Dec 2012	#11
This message was self-deleted by its author	davidn3600	Dec 2012	#15
Not just that, it's historically inaccurate.	nadinbrzezinski	Dec 2012	#9
This part got me...	Ikonoklast	Dec 2012	#14
I know.	nadinbrzezinski	Dec 2012	#16
My current memo is DO SOMETHING QUICK	golfguru	Dec 2012	#34
Seriously! This is the third post today with the same lame NRA talking point. They're out in force	Squinch	Dec 2012	#35
Lots of NRA talking points showing up on our forum.	sellitman	Dec 2012	#131
It might take 50 years to have an impact, but doing nothing will just put more on street.	Hoyt	Dec 2012	#12
Do you really want to wait 50 years?	golfguru	Dec 2012	#26
Why don't you ask the teachers if they wish to be armed?	Fumesucker	Dec 2012	#31
I don't think teachers should be armed. I suspect most don't either.	Hoyt	Dec 2012	#39
My wife is a teacher and she and many of her coworkers would gladly be armed	rl6214	Dec 2012	#108
Spouses of Denizens from Gungeon excepted. Would you give up your guns, if you thought it would	Hoyt	Dec 2012	#117
Would you give someone a gun for protection if you knew it would save their life?	rl6214	Dec 2012	#144
I doubt you can come up with plausible scenario like that, but gun cultists obviously aren't	Hoyt	Dec 2012	#146
I agree on limiting ammo, assault weapons, large cartridges, etc. n/t	golfguru	Dec 2012	#65
Uh, actually teachers in Israel	billh58	Dec 2012	#64
Just since the election there may be 100 million more on the street	rl6214	Dec 2012	#107
I notice you and your gungeon buddies aren't posting your monthly celebration of more guns	Hoyt	Dec 2012	#118
I never have but you will lump anyone and everyone one into any group	rl6214	Dec 2012	#145
Certain assumptions apply.	moondust	Dec 2012	#13
Please read my post above #26 n/t	golfguru	Dec 2012	#28
It won't work because gun nuts think they control the conversation	Taverner	Dec 2012	#17
I have a gun for protection. I would be more easily persuaded to give it up IF....	Honeycombe8	Dec 2012	#20
Hear hear from all the females in US	golfguru	Dec 2012	#29
And what about all the women	thucythucy	Dec 2012	#40
Exactly....because the victims did not have access to the great equalizer	golfguru	Dec 2012	#67
I think you missed the point.	thucythucy	Dec 2012	#121
I'm totally in agreement......	Isoldeblue	Dec 2012	#83
I grow weary of 'it can't be done.'	Comatose Sphagetti	Dec 2012	#22
Welcome to DU	nadinbrzezinski	Dec 2012	#27
Incidentally, I do not own a gun	golfguru	Dec 2012	#30
Look at it another way.	Glassunion	Dec 2012	#38
I concur 100% with your points	golfguru	Dec 2012	#46
The trick is keeping guns out of their hands in the first place.	Glassunion	Dec 2012	#68
I vote your post as the most rational, most logical, most practical on this thread	golfguru	Dec 2012	#75
A longer view on where I stand.	Glassunion	Dec 2012	#86
You know why?	nadinbrzezinski	Dec 2012	#76
I hear you.	Glassunion	Dec 2012	#82
Good	nadinbrzezinski	Dec 2012	#84
Glad to hear it.	Glassunion	Dec 2012	#89
We are both fighting something, and we need to do the car show	nadinbrzezinski	Dec 2012	#90
Good luck with the car show and feel better.	Glassunion	Dec 2012	#93
And I got a flu shot this year	nadinbrzezinski	Dec 2012	#98
I never get flu shots any more.	Glassunion	Dec 2012	#99
I'm sure it had nothing to do with anti-gun ideologues being nominated for the position.	beevul	Dec 2012	#103
Of course, anybody enforcing the laws	nadinbrzezinski	Dec 2012	#104
Except nobody other than you said that.	beevul	Dec 2012	#114
Hum hum, if a gunny says such.	nadinbrzezinski	Dec 2012	#116
Uh huh.	beevul	Dec 2012	#125
Is this stupid or what? David Gregory investigated for DC gun laws!!	golfguru	Dec 2012	#43
Read tmz and politico update on this.	nadinbrzezinski	Dec 2012	#45
Australia did it.	backscatter712	Dec 2012	#44
Yes, Australia did it. If they did it, we could, too. If we have the will.	Dems to Win	Dec 2012	#97
You should stick to golf	XRubicon	Dec 2012	#47
The result of this line of thinking	billh58	Dec 2012	#50
so golfguru	Fresh_Start	Dec 2012	#54
Why do we pass laws against murder when people murder anyway.	Agnosticsherbet	Dec 2012	#57
That is true...you just proved that laws do not stop lawlessness	golfguru	Dec 2012	#71
We pass laws to set a clear limit of what is and is not acceptable to maintain public safety.	Agnosticsherbet	Dec 2012	#78
and I agree with all of that	golfguru	Dec 2012	#81
Nobody from the President to Congress or the Senate have called for banning all guns.	Agnosticsherbet	Dec 2012	#85
we have illegal firearms for sale because that's how the NRA wants it	BainsBane	Dec 2012	#72
Screw NRA...and this will be my last post tonight...it is nearly bed time.	golfguru	Dec 2012	#79
Your point is that gun control is pointless	BainsBane	Dec 2012	#91
Don't even pretend there has been any attempt to keep guns out of the hands of criminals	BainsBane	Dec 2012	#74
I am perfectly fine with thorough background checks	golfguru	Dec 2012	#80
Too bad	BainsBane	Dec 2012	#87
Uh...what?	beevul	Dec 2012	#109
The most vulnerable to gun violence are poorer females who live in	golfguru	Dec 2012	#126
300,000,000?	OneMoreDemocrat	Dec 2012	#94
Anit-gun laws...rofl!	Rex	Dec 2012	#96
Stringent gun laws that are actually enforced will work.	jmg257	Dec 2012	#100
But it can't be done by the end of the year, so any attempts to do so are useless.	RC	Dec 2012	#111
Can't argue against that...your key words are "if enforced"	golfguru	Dec 2012	#128
Defeatist bullshit. If we can get 50% off the street, let's do it. 30%, it is worth it.	morningfog	Dec 2012	#105
I think we should pass them just to piss off people like yourself.	Comrade_McKenzie	Dec 2012	#106
Your post is complete nonsense.	gulliver	Dec 2012	#112
Excellent post!	billh58	Dec 2012	#120
It is too soon to talk about gun laws...	quaker bill	Dec 2012	#119
I will conclude this thread with 3 points...	golfguru	Dec 2012	#129
Why only children?	quaker bill	Dec 2012	#132
Until the police do what really needs to be done,	golfguru	Dec 2012	#133
But wishful thinking is what WE are all about	Puzzledtraveller	Dec 2012	#122
You're missing the point - the convicted criminals aren't massacring scores of people at a time.	dutchroll	Dec 2012	#134
Indeed. nt	XRubicon	Dec 2012	#135
Thank you for	billh58	Dec 2012	#150
australia.	spanone	Dec 2012	#138
+1.	Robb	Dec 2012	#168
"good guys" and "bad guys" is a fallacy, non-starter	jade3000	Dec 2012	#147
yes and no	golfguru	Dec 2012	#148
sort of, but what about the future	jade3000	Dec 2012	#149
Your scenario is improbable but has a small possibility	golfguru	Dec 2012	#176
Allow me to fix that title for you.	billh58	Dec 2012	#152
Believe he meant: We had terrible public policy;therefore must continue to have it.	Disgraceland	Dec 2012	#154
I believe collecting guns door to door...	JohnnyRingo	Dec 2012	#153
Thank you for your support:	billh58	Dec 2012	#156
No need to go door to door - just have designated collections points...maybe at Gun Stores?	jmg257	Dec 2012	#163
Imagine buying back all 300 mil guns	JohnnyRingo	Dec 2012	#167
Just to be clear - it is not my plan to buy back 300 million guns.	jmg257	Dec 2012	#171
Confiscation?	JohnnyRingo	Dec 2012	#178
Sorry. We tried your way.	Robb	Dec 2012	#169
With all due respect, Robb...	beevul	Dec 2012	#175
What percentage of the American population qualifies as "the bad guys?"	stopbush	Dec 2012	#177
In theory you sound good	golfguru	Dec 2012	#182
America is a gun culture	jambo101	Dec 2012	#179
Just as a reminder	billh58	Dec 2012	#181

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