Posts by PareMesAlt

Off Topic: I too lived abroad in Spain for 6 years, where regular Policia Nacional often walked around the cities with large automatic weapons. It was interesting to note that though they had similar gun control laws to the US, the...

I see that this post has brought up a lot of auxilary issues like: Gun Control (which I oppose on libertarian grounds) How other countries deal with guns Honor and Safety for those in the Military and Police Personal Rights and...

I'm in.

I see that I may have offended some people. Please excuse that. It is not my intention. The conundrum I see is that in a flawed world where there is violence, do we teach our children that violence is a valid answer? Some people...

Newtown is not too far. It is near Danbury right?

For those of you who are close to police officers. If they encounter a suspected criminal with a weapon, what is their training and what is their instincts? Shoot to kill or shoot to wound? I brought this up with an upstate friend of...

"Why do Police have guns?" asked my nearly five year old son. This past weekend, he came home with 2 soldiers and 2 army trucks. Being mostly a pacifist, I said he could play with them for a day, but the next day they would go...

I go for layers. I switch off the lowest layer everyday and switch the other layers less often. Of course when I was running short on shorts we had to do a Valley Forge.

I might be in. I have not played since 78 when my house was destroyed in a mudslide and I moved to another house in Reseda were the boy across the way was into it.

My dad is mostly like that. He had this back problem, and was going from doctor to doctor looking for a fix, and nothing worked. I suggest Tai Chi. Surprisingly he started a senior yoga class, and says it helps a little. Two years...