I've never heard of Rachel & Chrissy.

Thanks to your comment, I took a quick look at Conceal & Carry training requirements (http://www.concealedcarryclass.net/)
The 'standards' vary considerably... in some states, you can complete your training in 1-2 hours (via an online course); others require up to 15hrs (Texas).
In Rhode Island, the training is expected to between 30min - 2 hrs.

Yup... that makes me feel a *lot* better about Conceal & Carry

Yup they made a huge and horrible mistake... no one can deny and I expect that the officers have nightmares about that incident.

However, it is only marginally related to the preceding Conceal and Carry comments. Do you really expect that Billy-Bob packing a gun and a boner would have don any better in a similar high-stress and very confusing situation? I mean honestly!

I'm expect that we may have to agree to disagree on this... I'll still put my faith in the cops.

What I really don't understand about this Conceal Carry mentality is how the police and/or other 'knuckle-heads packing heat' know how to distinguish you from the real bad guy... the way I see the scene playing out is Bad guy becomes apparent... hero A draws his piece to defend society (and hopefully inflict no collateral damage)... hero B arrives on the scene and now has two targets to choose from... repeat ad nauseam.

You do realize that the real objective is to bring the suspect to justice (and justice does not necessarily mean kill them)... right?

What you choose to do in your own house is one matter. In public, like other posters have said, leave this to the trained professionals.

Amen!

First world problems... suck it up buttercup!

I guess after smashing them in the particle accelerator, they tend to get banged up a bit...
What's the warranty period?

My socks that go missing from the laundry?

Yeah... my lips get tired too when I have to read a long news article

IMHO - The real problem is that the time-scales and forces go beyond our capacity to imagine... we're now so used to pithy comments in less than 140 characters that we cannot fathom the millions of years involved in this problem.

The oil and coal that we consuming is a result of geological process that took millions of years to complete... and we're burning through it in a few hundred years.
i.e., in a comparatively short time, we're releasing back into the atmosphere millions of years worth of carbon (and a whole host of other pollutants)...

Is that the only reason that the climate is changing ? Of course not.
Is that rapid infusion of carbon going to influence those changes? I can only imagine yes
Can I prove this? No.
Can we afford not to be concerned about this? Not at all

I've decided that trying to engage in a discussion with the climate change deniers is like wrestling a pig... you get muddy and the pig enjoys it.

Go Bacon!

Di-hydrogen oxide in water causes far more damage and health risks than flouride... it should be banned immediately!

BTW - "This is That" is a satirical/comedy 'News' show... they've duped many folks with 'stories' like the one above.

Al

The Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC) radio show 'This is That' did a piece a while ago about a group proposing an Innovation Hour as an alternative to Earth Hour... in short, "If it has a switch, click it!" They're asking people of the world to turn everything in their houses and businesses on, or "run it hot," for one hour to celebrate in ingenuity behind innovation.

Here's a link to the 'story': http://www.cbc.ca/thisisthat/news/2012/09/18/innovation-hour-calgarian-asks-canadians-to-run-it-hot-for-an-hour-each-year/

I'm holding my breath too ... but that's because I just farted (and besides stinking, methane has a much higher GWP than CO2).

GWP ==> Global Warming Potential

published with a brown paper wrapper too?