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A scratch your head and wonder day. Sterling St. Chris within a foot of a .45 cal slug. ??? ok. Good luck Loopswinger
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Very interesting post indeed Loopswinger.
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Well,
I just hope that the badges protection qualities worked !
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I just hope that the badges protection qualities worked !
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Yes, odd indeed...
Take Care
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I guess I was puzzled at Loop's comment, but I guess the implication is Gun = Evil?
Sorry, that dog won't hunt in my neck of the woods. I'll take a stab at an analogy.
Sex is a great thing, and many, many people enjoy it every day.
Guns are great tools, we can hunt with them, we can target shoot with them, and we can defend our lives with them. Many, many people do so every day.
You never hear about the evil p*n*s unless someone does something bad with theirs. Likewise, we never hear about the millions of people who use guns for recreation, but we sure do hear about them when some whack-job uses one outside the law.
I realize folks from other countries have in large part lost their right to own guns, and are pretty much resigned to the (mistaken) fact that the gun is the root of all evil. They too have seen their crime rates skyrocket since their right were removed or severely curtailed. One need look no further than the U.K. and Australia to see how gun control (people control) does not achieve the desired effect, and merely serves to embolden those who would commit crimes with or without guns.
It's sort of sad that the tried and true maxim of has been relegated to comic status, that being "Guns don't kill people, people kill people". Notice that if there were no such thing as ANY gun in circulation anywhere in the world, there are plenty of rocks, knives, sections of pipe, baseball bats, ropes, wires, pipe wrenches, icepicks, screwdrivers, hammmers, hatchets, axes, gasoline, poisons, water, and any number of things people can and DO use to kill other people.
Geez, what a sad state of affairs when the data is right there in front of everybody (crimes rates in U.K. and Australia), but people are still willing to flock to the mistaken notion that gun control leads to elimination of crime.
Take a look at crime rates in the 37+ states that allow concealed weapons permits. Sort of #####to be a criminal when you can't be sure if your next victim is armed or not. Which of course leaeds us back to the truest maxim of them all, "An armed society is a polite society".
Therein ends today's reading from the book of cold hard facts.
DAS
Sorry, that dog won't hunt in my neck of the woods. I'll take a stab at an analogy.
Sex is a great thing, and many, many people enjoy it every day.
Guns are great tools, we can hunt with them, we can target shoot with them, and we can defend our lives with them. Many, many people do so every day.
You never hear about the evil p*n*s unless someone does something bad with theirs. Likewise, we never hear about the millions of people who use guns for recreation, but we sure do hear about them when some whack-job uses one outside the law.
I realize folks from other countries have in large part lost their right to own guns, and are pretty much resigned to the (mistaken) fact that the gun is the root of all evil. They too have seen their crime rates skyrocket since their right were removed or severely curtailed. One need look no further than the U.K. and Australia to see how gun control (people control) does not achieve the desired effect, and merely serves to embolden those who would commit crimes with or without guns.
It's sort of sad that the tried and true maxim of has been relegated to comic status, that being "Guns don't kill people, people kill people". Notice that if there were no such thing as ANY gun in circulation anywhere in the world, there are plenty of rocks, knives, sections of pipe, baseball bats, ropes, wires, pipe wrenches, icepicks, screwdrivers, hammmers, hatchets, axes, gasoline, poisons, water, and any number of things people can and DO use to kill other people.
Geez, what a sad state of affairs when the data is right there in front of everybody (crimes rates in U.K. and Australia), but people are still willing to flock to the mistaken notion that gun control leads to elimination of crime.
Take a look at crime rates in the 37+ states that allow concealed weapons permits. Sort of #####to be a criminal when you can't be sure if your next victim is armed or not. Which of course leaeds us back to the truest maxim of them all, "An armed society is a polite society".
Therein ends today's reading from the book of cold hard facts.
DAS
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to make a distinction betweem criminality and war.
Turning the tables for a second, what if we were invaded my some foreign entity? Don't you think we would fight like heck of our country? Oh, wait. None of us would have guns in your perfect world.
Of course if we had even a modicum of intellectual honesty, we'd acknowledge that the fighters in Iraq are foreign jihadists for the most part, and displaced Saddam loyalists for the remainder. The bulk of Iraq's citizens are glad we came, glad we're thare, and glad they had a chance to vote for the first time ever, no matter what Dan Rather, Peter Jennings and the rest of the socialist media would have YOU belive.
Further down this path, we could acknowledge that bombs and guns are different, and that most of the attacks on our troops and the fledgling Iraqi forces are done with bombs. Bombs are classified in the US as destructive devices, not to be confused with personal small arms.
I best stop now because I can tell from your post you have not only been hooked, but reeled in, netted, and placed in the cooler by the gun = crime mantra.
Have an awesome day metal detecting, I just hope no one wants to take your detector by force so they can hock it for crack cocaine. After all, we know you would feel "dirty" if you had the means to defend yourself.
Intellectual honesty. Check into it. I highly recommend getting some at your earliest convenience.
DAS
Turning the tables for a second, what if we were invaded my some foreign entity? Don't you think we would fight like heck of our country? Oh, wait. None of us would have guns in your perfect world.
Of course if we had even a modicum of intellectual honesty, we'd acknowledge that the fighters in Iraq are foreign jihadists for the most part, and displaced Saddam loyalists for the remainder. The bulk of Iraq's citizens are glad we came, glad we're thare, and glad they had a chance to vote for the first time ever, no matter what Dan Rather, Peter Jennings and the rest of the socialist media would have YOU belive.
Further down this path, we could acknowledge that bombs and guns are different, and that most of the attacks on our troops and the fledgling Iraqi forces are done with bombs. Bombs are classified in the US as destructive devices, not to be confused with personal small arms.
I best stop now because I can tell from your post you have not only been hooked, but reeled in, netted, and placed in the cooler by the gun = crime mantra.
Have an awesome day metal detecting, I just hope no one wants to take your detector by force so they can hock it for crack cocaine. After all, we know you would feel "dirty" if you had the means to defend yourself.
Intellectual honesty. Check into it. I highly recommend getting some at your earliest convenience.
DAS
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Didn't get the implication you did from the post. It did remind me of the many times I have dug a target where I would have thought NO metal would be likely. Often has been a spent bullet- guess they all have to come to earth some place. As to gun (people) control I recently read that Australia is now struggling with legislation to control swords and still leave the options open for true collectors. For what its worth - several billion US citizens shot NO ONE today.
Dig deep, Dig often,
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Dig deep, Dig often,
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<img src="/metal/html/grin.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":grin"> Yes,fellers we mustn't forget that this is a friendly place, we all come together here because of our common interest in detecting, (our hobby.)
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We mustn't lose focus on what the forum is about... <img src="/metal/html/wink.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt="
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My guns have killed less people than Ted Kennedy's driving habits.
To the rest of the board I apologize, this isn't the place for people control debates, I just though I picked up on an anti-gun slant to the replies.
Yes, it is an odd combo to find.
How about this one:
While "road testing" my ExpII I found a charm "Flounder" from the Disney "Little Mermaid" at about 4 inches. Rechecking the hole like a good detectorist, I hit another stronger signal that turned out to me a white metal shark figure at about 6 inches. So, in my very own yard, Flounder appeared to be evading a shark just like in the very beginning of the animated movie! Now THAT was wierd.
Again, apologies for the soapbox, and apologies to John/Jack for the less than gracious reply.
DAS
To the rest of the board I apologize, this isn't the place for people control debates, I just though I picked up on an anti-gun slant to the replies.
Yes, it is an odd combo to find.
How about this one:
While "road testing" my ExpII I found a charm "Flounder" from the Disney "Little Mermaid" at about 4 inches. Rechecking the hole like a good detectorist, I hit another stronger signal that turned out to me a white metal shark figure at about 6 inches. So, in my very own yard, Flounder appeared to be evading a shark just like in the very beginning of the animated movie! Now THAT was wierd.
Again, apologies for the soapbox, and apologies to John/Jack for the less than gracious reply.
DAS
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That's it,lighten up fellers,now back to business...
Snowy recently got permission to detect on an old school site being re-developed...
I'll keep you folks posted.
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Snowy recently got permission to detect on an old school site being re-developed...
I'll keep you folks posted.
SNOWY. <img src="/metal/html/tongue.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":b">