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KOMO - Seattle, WA : Schrammie: Disability-collecting state senator wants to cut option for others | Ken Schram | Seattle

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 15:12:43 +0000

Yes Ken, it is different. Armed forces disabilities can only be had by people who have put their lives on the line in service of their country. That's about as "different" as it gets. You've clouded the issue by bringing in your question about whether this particular disability is disabling. But that's nothing to do with the point you originally made which is that all these benefits are the same.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Flying car gets closer to reality with test flight | National & World News | Seattle News, Weather,

Tue, 3 Apr 2012 21:29:23 +0000

PAL-V "A helicopter is an machine designed to shake itself to pieces" Rotary aircraft are a whole new dimension of expensive, every hour in the air represents something like a fifth of an hour of certified A/P mechanics time (plus air certified parts cost etc). Like the idea, but it's not the "everyman" jet pack they told us to expect in the 60's ;)

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Flying car gets closer to reality with test flight | National & World News | Seattle News, Weather,

Tue, 3 Apr 2012 21:23:54 +0000

Nice plane. The problem is the decline of general aviation. We've always had cool technology; you can find a flying car from the late 60's at the seattle flight museum, moler has had a really neat ducted fan car (no runway) since the 80's... the problems are the cost of risk management, liability and traffic control. When my dad came home from an infantry tour in Korea, the average guy could get his private ticket and hope to fly frequently enough to stay current and enjoy the hobby. I work in technology and have a family, there's no way I could do that on my median-ish salary Let's see a flashy video about that, set to jazzy electro tunes ;)

KOMO - Seattle, WA : The Schrammie: All in good fun? I think not | Ken Schram | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Breaking N

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:09:20 +0000

"tacky" yes, "picture"? no. That's a caricature Ken, it's intended as humor.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Man pleads not guilty in deadly shooting at Redmond party | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weather

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 04:34:57 +0000

I think it's a shame that, in this particular forum, so many people are describing range mishaps. This incident was (apparently) about a drunken sole idiot performing a single tragic idiocy. I don't think it's accurate to paint gun ranges as hotbeds of similar activity. While we've had a few highly reported problems locally, gun ranges are not typically dangerous places to be, you do not see national statistics that back up the anecdotes being publicised here as the -norm- for range behaviour at least in terms of injury or death. Please take anecdotes for what they are. At the range I teach at, anyone who -heard- "Don't worry it's not loaded" would be expected to ask the person to leave and to report them to the next board meeting. The board would absolutely act on that report and if investigation corroborated it in any way that would be that persons (the one whose gun is "not loaded") LAST day on our range. Even though according to this anecdote no injury was created. So, sure, people make mistakes, but in most places systems are in place to lower or eliminate the likelihood of harm as a result of mistakes. Doesn't always work, but it's not the "wild west" version of keystone cops that we're seeing here IMHO.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Man pleads not guilty in deadly shooting at Redmond party | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weather

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 04:26:00 +0000

From the article that seems true. You probably know that it's statistically unlikely though, but even if it is his first crime that's the way our system works. You -are- innocent until you're proven guilty that first time. So we can't expect to stop a crime like this before anything has happened. The thing policy has to be focused on is making so it doesn't happen a -second- time. And we're really not good at that (hence the statistics that a lot of crime in recidivist...)

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Man pleads not guilty in deadly shooting at Redmond party | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weather

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:25:50 +0000

Plenty of states have tests like that. For years in the south your skin color was part of the test, until rather recently the CPL (it's CPL in Washington) test in Boston required you to fire with the Sheriffs gun, whether it had sights when it was your turn depended on who you knew. I'm sorry for this tragedy. Enforcing the laws that we have will help prevent this sort of thing from happening in the future.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Man pleads not guilty in deadly shooting at Redmond party | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weather

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:22:59 +0000

I've seen a lot of weird stuff at ranges and shops over the past ~20 years but never anything like your 2 or 3. At the ranges I go to (bellevue and other) either of those would end in criminal charges.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Man pleads not guilty in deadly shooting at Redmond party | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weather

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:20:26 +0000

How about we use "first-degree manslaughter"? That's a pretty serious charge.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Boy, 12, shot by own brother at Bellevue home | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | KOMO

Tue, 1 Feb 2011 18:59:11 +0000

We need a bill that fines people for suggesting legislation based on emotion with little or no fact. And, that's not just emotion talking...

Politics, Guns & Beer : "We shall never forget them..."

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 20:41:47 +0000

Managing risk means choosing, not hiding.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Boy Scouts argue perversion files should be secret | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News |

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:35:04 +0000

Have commenters read the fine article? The files are identities of people who are -barred- from volunteering. They're not people convicted of crime necessarily, but people the scouts choose not to allow near their kids. If this is publicized, no organization like the scouts will be able to keep files like this for fear that they will be sued by the folks on such lists.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Police kill man who pointed water nozzle at them | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | KO

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:49:44 +0000

And I imagine you have some sort of background in firearms we can verify? I've been a certified instructor for 12 years and -I- wouldn't bet someone else's life on that being something other then a firearm from 20 feet away. Go look at some google images of short polymer framed semis like the kp45

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Ken Schram: Guns, grinches and gridiron | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | KOMO News |

Mon, 6 Dec 2010 17:32:14 +0000

Right so without the billions in federal funds running the "private" sub they would implode in a puff of smoke. While the legal system may have a wall most -people- wouldn't consider that very "private" and walls like that are routinely probed in court.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Ken Schram: Guns, grinches and gridiron | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | KOMO News |

Mon, 6 Dec 2010 15:43:03 +0000

Why do posters here keep calling amtrak a private business? It's run on DOT funds...

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Ken Schram: Guns, grinches and gridiron | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | KOMO News |

Mon, 6 Dec 2010 15:41:49 +0000

Self defense shootings don't happen at even half that distance. Last time I checked UCR more then 90% were at 7 yards or less.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Ken Schram: Guns, grinches and gridiron | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | KOMO News |

Mon, 6 Dec 2010 15:37:16 +0000

It is easy, you keep them in prison where they only have free access to illegal drugs and cell phones.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Ken Schram: Guns, grinches and gridiron | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | KOMO News |

Fri, 3 Dec 2010 20:19:17 +0000

You must have replied on the wrong comment because I didn't type that you should "settle".

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Ken Schram: Guns, grinches and gridiron | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | KOMO News |

Fri, 3 Dec 2010 19:59:16 +0000

This change in amtrak policy is a change -from- a complete ban on legal possession on trains -to- allowing them checked in luggage. I see a lot of pro freedom people here acting like that's a -bad- thing. It is in fact an incremental step toward liberty. Would I prefer to see Mechguy click his heels together and turn our country into a free Republic? It's a stupid question (and I hope you have bad dreams over the image ;) 'cause it ain't gonna happen. For gosh sake take a breath, enjoy a moment of "that's better" and -then- push on to "best".

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Ken Schram: Guns, grinches and gridiron | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | KOMO News |

Fri, 3 Dec 2010 19:54:55 +0000

"NRA never wants to talk about the responsibility of gun ownership. " Hi, maybe you hadn't heard that NRA was formed about 200 years ago to teach marksmanship and firearms safety. At considerable cost I became an NRA certified firearms instructor in the Seattle area around 10 years ago. Since then I've volunteered hours every year teaching hundreds of people to be safer and more responsible with firearms using nationally standardized and refined curriculum. You can find a list of classes (and local locations offering them) here: http://www.nrainstructors.org/searchcourse.aspx As the ads say "I'm the NRA". But I suspect you still haven't "heard NRA talk about the responsibility of gun ownership ..." because it just doesn't fit your world view (here I mean, of course; -stereotype-). In the immortal words of spongebob; Good luck with that.