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Every time I eat there the Arby's sauce is soon to follow......

Water wasn't down too far. It was good last year. The fishing was better at drift fence and Pacheta. Easier on those smaller lake with the kayaks when the wind picks up.

Headed up to reservation lake this weekend. Looks like we are gonna get wet.

I've never thought to burn a$$wipe after being used. New tictok challenge?

Gonna miss his contributions.

Nope, just pure clean water.

One of my kids is at NAU currently to become a teacher. I told him he is crazy. Why would you want to put yourself through that? He said because not all these kids get a fair deal and I want to help them to succeed. I'm still not sure what's wrong with that kid....

This was not a popular opinion when I spoke my mind the last time this happened, and I don't expect to be popular this time either. I don't really care, this is how i feel about where we are as a society. This is non applicable to the majority of us on this forum. We have raised our kids to be in the outdoors, hunting, fishing, camping, off-roading, etc. We have been involved in our children's day to day lives. unfortunately, this is not the norm these days. This generation of young adults is not our generation. We were raised with respect. We valued other people. We had both parents in the home. If we didn't, the one parent made up for the others absence. Todays youth is not who we were. They do not share the same values. The majority of us worked through school. We had chores. we didn't have 24/7 access to video games, smart phones, tablets, or the internet. My oldest son bought an AR from my friend when he was 18. It stayed in my safe until he was 21, when he bought his own safe. I trusted him with my life, and still do. I never have thought twice about the implications of him owning such a weapon. He was always driven. Always respectful. Always appreciative. He worked from the day he was old enough to. He has never asked anyone to help him, or pay his way. He had respect for other people, regardless if he agreed with them or not. He just graduated from Embry Riddle with a major in Aerospace engineering and a minor in computer science. He is what we all strive for our children to be. I never knew how much he appreciated how much I was there for him until he had to tell the judge when I made it legal and adopted him after he was an adult. Switch gears to my own biological son. He was always against the grain. Always fighting with anyone he could get a rise from. His mother played the mental game with him, trying to pit him against me, my wife, and my 3 adopted sons. I always(before my current wife and after) included him in everything I did. Hunting, fishing, fourwheeling, camping, etc. I coached his baseball and football teams. I went out of my way to make sure he was included in everything trying to counter the damage his mother was doing. To make sure he knew he was included and loved. I had custody of him, but she managed to do her best to pit him against anyone I cared about. Unlike my adopted children, I did not, and do not to this day trust him. He is unappreciative, unapologetic, self centered, irresponsible, destructive, and just not a nice person. He has a few hunting rifles that I got him over the years that he will never have access to. He is not an individual that needs access to a firearm. I've seen it in his eyes. Lets muddy the waters a little more. He has been in the Navy for just over 7 years. How do we say a person is not mentally fit to have these types of weapons, but can still serve, or vote? You can't drink, smoke, or gamble until your 21. The lines are very blurred between being a child or an adult these days. I agree with the few of us that not everyone should have these types of weapons at the age of 18. A lot of people do not mature enough at the age of 18 to possess a firearm at all. But, its still not fair to the majority of our youth who are responsible. What do we do? I have two perfect examples that grew up under my roof that make the case either way you want to spin the debate. Is rolling semi auto centerfire rifles into the class III category going to do any good? I don't know. Will it stop school shootings? Probably not. Is it worth talking about openly and having a mature conversation, absolutely. The guns are not he problem. The mental state of our society is. If we can't find a solution or attempt to tackle this head on, the left will force it, and they will win. Let the bashing begin.............

No need. Just destroy it, like i destroyed all my evil instruments of death.

Sportsmans in mesa had a few boxes yesterday.

WTF https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-9mm-guns-texas-uvalde-mass-shooting#&_intcmp=hp1bt2,hp1bt

While Department of Public Safety officials initially said the gunman, Salvador Ramos, was confronted by an armed officer outside the school, those same authorities denied that version of events at a press conference Thursday. The Wall Street Journal reported that the gunman fired shots for 12 minutes after crashing his truck outside the school before walking in “unobstructed.” Police arrived on scene four minutes later “and exchanged gunfire with Ramos, who locked himself in a fourth-grade classroom.” Cheap Car Rentals From $7.95 - We Save You Up to 70% on Cars Ad Ad www.save70.com/special-deals According to the story, it was around 12:40 p.m.—about an hour later—when a Border Patrol tactical team entered the school, and then the classroom, and killed the gunman. In that time, parent Angeli Rose Gomez said she was handcuffed by U.S. Marshals outside the school, was later freed, hopped a fence, went into the school, grabbed her children, and fled. Videos from that time show frustrated and frantic parents urging officers to act. “The police were doing nothing,” Gomez told the Journal. “They were just standing outside the fence. They weren’t going in there or running anywhere.” Victor Escalon, a DPS official, said Thursday that officers called “everyone that’s in the area” to help. They then waited on “specialty equipment” and body armor. And so on Thursday, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer had some pressing questions for Texas DPS Lt. Chris Olivarez. “Don’t current best practices, Lieutenant, call for officers to disable a shooter as quickly as possible, regardless of how many officers are actually on site?” Blitzer asked. “Correct,” Olivarez replied. “In the active shooter situation, you want to stop the killing, you want to preserve life. But also one thing that, of course, the American people need to understand is that officers are making entry into this building. They do not know where the gunman is. They are hearing gunshots. They are receiving gunshots,” Olivarez said. “At that point, if they proceeded any further not knowing where the suspect was at, they could’ve been shot, they could’ve been killed, and at that point that gunman would have had an opportunity to kill other people inside that school,” he continued. “So they were able to contain that gunman inside that classroom so that he was not able to go to any other portions of the school to commit any other killings.” Blitzer also asked Olivarez why authorities initially claimed an armed officer confronted the shooter outside the school. “So that’s information that we received early on in this investigation,” he responded. “That goes back to what I mentioned earlier by trying to corroborate all this information by getting factual statements from these witnesses,” he added. “The Texas Rangers are now conducting interviews with those officers trying to establish exactly what was their role, and that will help us establish a more factual, concrete timeline.”

From the link above. Doesn't seem like this happened in this case.

Oh do tell, what party would that be?

Now its being brought up that the parents sue DD. This is the dumbest thing I've heard. I have an SRT Challenger. I like Bud light. So, lets say I get drunk, get in the car, get in an accident and kill someone, are the families going to be able to sue Dodge for marketing a car that can go fast, and my good friends at Anheuser-Bush for making a product that made me reckless? Then, will the Dems demand that alcohol and fast cars be banned? Where does this end? God forbid if I were to do this in my truck! High capacity vehicle and all.....

I run Goodwill britches.

Wonder if that's a typo, or she ment to say automatic weapon to stir the pot.

Waiting to go into that school is unacceptable. If that was my kids school the officers would have to shoot me to keep me out. Didn't the same thing happen at the Parkland shooting?

That picture was found on the internet. It has to be true that that's him.

Do you think these pictures of this freak will make to mainstream media?

Dude I was thinking the exact same thing.

NRA convention is in Houston this weekend. The timing of this last string of shootings is odd. The last few years at the convention has been very low on anti gun protests. I think I've seen maybe 10 people total. Wonder if thats going to change.

It's hard to not somewhat believe this. This will somehow end up being a "ghost" gun with a pistol brace problem.

This chit didn't happen when I was in school. There also wasn't Facebook, twatter, ticwhater, or any of this crap out there. Kids had respect for their parents. Kids worked. Things were expected of them. Xbox and playstations weren't the babysitter. No phones tablets or any of that garbage. We all had 12 gauges in gun racks in unlocked trucks in the parking lot at school. Nobody worried about this. People quit raising their children and let society, social media, and video games do it for them these days. But what do you expect when there are about 58 different genders to identify as?

Just saw this today and spent a few hours on YouTube. Great stories. He had one heck of life. Condolences to you and your family. My dad's pushing 80 and glad he is still around. I'm slowly hearing some of his stories from Nam when he was there. My grandfather died too young to tell anyone of his experiences during WW2. Not sure he wanted to anyway, he died chasing the bottom of a bottle.