Well for someone that I disagree with on a few things, I find more that I do agree with. I too have done all that you have in the past with my own guns. I just don't do it anymore.

In regards to the dogs, I stated that they would do their jobs and allow me precious seconds to escape. about 5 to be exact, then they'd be useless I'm sure as they'd only really help me IF I were being attacked.

I can't have a loaded gun in every room, and I don't want to live like that. I need positive energy in my living space, and guns are part of my negative past that I don't want surrounding me.

Those stats are spot on by the way. I wouldn't have posted incorrect ones. I don't roll that way.

Anyway, I definately appreciate your post, and certainly your civility.

I've always found that the best defense against crime is to live in an upper class neighborhood.

I didn't see you had apologized. If true, then my post was out of line and I apologize.

I value your friendship Nirvana. We're BFFs now?

Hahaha. I was trying to quote Team America but it isn't working.

Anyway, cool. Thanks. You too.

Apology accepted.

You're welcome Frenchy.

🙂

Great movie. Trey and Matt are the best satirists and have a way to explain things in tr most simplistic terms.

simplistic terms that make a lot of sense. I wish the news would do this.

Seriously

One other thing that many people don’t consider when expounding the virtues of national gun registration is the cost and complexity of administering such a system. I’m one of those spectacle wearing paunch belly gun toting geeks you speak of 🙂. My profession is database administration and I’ve built and architected some of the largest in the country (no ****). Now lets do some estimation, the general consensus is that there are 45ish million gun owners in the US, now those same owners are estimated to have between 238 and 275 million firearms. There is an estimated 40 million change of address events every year. So basically we are saying that 15% of the public owns weapons, then you could estimate that 6 million of those owners will relocate every year. Using the average of the number of owners with the average number of firearms they own and the number of relocations per year makes for one very large and busy DB. Add to that the estimated number of LE officials at approx 1.7 million all of whom need access to this system. Factor in latency and geo redundancy and my guess would be a system that rivals that of the IRS. Are you going to write a check for that? Not me.

^ you a DBA or an architect?

^

A practicing both, basically a database architect, 22 years in the making

I am in the business side of an ETL/ELT and EDW for MPP appliances and VLDB consulting company.

^ shoot me and email if you ever want to talk business. d h 3 1 8 8 @ att.com