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A stolen gun is untraceable to the person who used it in a crime. A metal detector cannot detect them but it is pretty useless without bullets which are detected. I would be more worried about a 3D knife. In the murder case, the fact the bullets did not match the barrel just rules out that gun...

I don't get the reason for creating a gun when you can easily buy one unless you live in a country where they are hard to get legally. I am reminded that Sweden limited who can buy a gun so the black market began selling surplus AK's from the Balkans and they would sometimes come with a free...

If I leave the house, I am almost always wearing a dress shirt and a sport coat.

The problem with Dementia is that you have to be proactive to get treatments that can help but that is difficult because you have Dementia. A certain % will go into denial and refuse treatments. A certain % will not respond to treatment. The most important thing is to try. I have a friend going...

Correct. Blacksburg is so small, everyone knew someone involved and to this day, the gunman's name is never spoken. I once did a Google search on my name and I am quoted in an article about the shooting which was a firing offense because I was an employee. Luckily, it was from a paper in Colorado.

I only buy lasers. I have an ancient HP 4100N that I rescued from a CPA firm sending it to the landfill and a Brother laser that I bought to print duplex. The HP is on the 1st floor in my Man Den and the Brother is on the 2nd floor where my wife can print to it.

When I was working, our mainframe was Linux. Maybe 1/4 of my day was spent on a Linux terminal checking logs, running tests and writing bash scripts. I kinda know how to use the GUI part of Gnome or KDE. Our Java development VM's were Ubuntu. I have installed it multiple times but really don't...

When the weather cooperates, I like to pour a glass of Johnny Walker with ice and a little soda, sit on the pizer looking at the mountain (see profile) and count my blessings one by one. I don't know who Johnny Walker is but he is the first one I count.

I love them in a curry Madras kind of thing but I'm the only one in the house that will eat them. Luckily, it will freeze.

I started on FB back when you needed a university email address to get an account. I worked for a university. The one thing I never did was have a picture of me in my profile. Cloners skip over those people because the picture of the person makes it more convincing since many people have the...

This area is so poor, scammers ignore us. When I lived in a "rich neighborhood", we were always getting scammers despite signs against them as you entered the neighborhood. Best ones: 1. Guy had pulled a security sign out of a yard and was going door-to-door offering security packages while...

My mother was bulimic when I was a kid and ended up losing her teeth. Both parents were on psych meds, mother probably while pregnant with me and my sister. My brother is a writer, I'm a software developer and my sister lives "in a van by the river".

Being in my 60's, I don't have to worry about his *except* my wife works at a WIC-related shop and there are plenty of kids being raised by their grandmother. However, many of those ladies are too young for me. Also, if I was single, the chances of getting remarried are pretty slim for me. I...

Most virtue signals are of the "Look at me. I am helping" variety. They never bothered to check to see if the child had been found or if they were even missing. Some of these lost reports only exist on Facebook with no news article to back it. It only takes 5 seconds the Google the child's...

"Well, this could have been a whole lot worse"