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I attended my first Lutheran service at our CO. It was a breath of fresh air compared to what I was accustomed since I was raised Catholic. It was a contmeporary service that kept my Tigers engaged. Afterwards we help reconfigure the hall for the soup luncheon.

This a timely thread for me, I've been contemplating learning the bugle to wake up my Cubs, play taps, and call to colors.

The award didn't exist in your pack so they are couldn't have earned. To blw2: if your son's absences qualify for him the award he should get it. If not, it shouldn't be tweaked to fit. An excused absence is still an absence.

I originally planned to apply to staff as an RSO, that was until I saw the $850 price tag attached. Instead I am sending my daughter with her Venturing Crew. Perhaps by the next Jambo I will accompany her crew, or I will attend the one after when my son in a Boy Scout. After all, it is their time in Scouting, if they get the experiences I didn't as a youth I will be content.

We were told the eight girls from our Crew will be the only girls from our Council contingent of 100.

I am not sure of my daughter's crew # for the Jambo. Let me ask the Crew Advisor.

I regurlarly shoot with members of Philly PD, and some of the others in the area, they are not as highly trained as they would like us to believe. They are the civilian authority, so any regulations forced on we little people should be forced on them as well. Citizens face the same criminals the police do, usually before the police are involved. Just today there was a home invasion and murder four miles from my house. Three suspects are on the loose. Would anyone here want to be limited to ten rounds in a fixed magazine if they sought to see refuge in your home?

"I believe that is incorrect, since technically, a Police officer is always on duty, even when not on duty" Duty status notwithstanding, they are still civilians. They are not the military, therefore they are civilians. My brother who is a Federal Agent, is a civilian. Yet he has a submachine gun in his vehicle when driving to and from work, and in his safe when he gets home.

Stosh, You forgot rule #1 of a gunfight: Have a gun.

Since the police are civilians in unform, does your plan apply to them as well? You can not propose something like that and stick to the argument you support The Second Amendment. What makes ten the magic number?

One caveat about the camp listed above, the fire alarm. Our Crew stayed at a Hostel in Fairmount Park and the girls loved it. You could also schedule an overnighter on the USS New Jersey across the river in Camden, NJ.

It is relevant. He has experience in close quarters shooting, he knows where the armed individual was, and went right towards them. Everyone else in the room was LE or ABC personnel and told to run when the shooter starts. Add a little realism, not everyone is going to run for the door, or hide. The pit an individial who is used to carrying a gun against someone who is not. The expert is the aggressor and the defender is a novice at best. The aggressor comes into the room knowing who is supposed to engage him, he has his weapon at the ready while the defender with no training is forced t

I will concede many who carry would not react properly. But the "attacker" in this video is a firearms instructor, he knows who is armed and targets them. Apples and oranges. I get it, you don't think people should go about their daily lives armed even though you have a CCW. You only carry when you go to the store at midnight, that's fine. You live in the almost-ghetto, yet you have never needed your weapon. Good for you. That is your choice. I respect your choice, please respect mine. You are not going to change my mind. I no longer live in the city, I carry a firearm, I have been shot

BD- if you feel that way about those who carry, why do you have a CCW permit?

Not you Pack, not yet anyway.

Is the Venturer/Ranger Handbook the standard handbook?

Since the shootings in Aurora and Newtown I have taught eleven of my liberal minded friends and family to shoot and took them to my local gun dealers to pick out a firearm. In four cases they bought more than one firearm, and have applied for and received their PA license to carry. Seven of them have joined the gun club where I taught them to shoot. Their reasons varied from their distrust in society as a whole, to exercising a right while they can. They are still liberal minded and our opinions still contradict each other on most politcial and social issues. The VP at one of my childre

There are some people whose opinions I don't care to read and find it easier to have technology help me bypass them. No fear involved.

Is it just for show? I have ignored one user five times and I still see his posts.

Imagine that, a Bushmaster. Call me paranoid(some already have), but am I the only one who finds it intiguing that all of a sudden these killers are using Bushmasters? The media used to call everything an AK47, is Bushmaster the new media label?

In response to the comment about dogs. I don't bring them for protection, they come with us on family camping trips. They love fresh air, lake swimming, and hiking in the woods too. I am less worried about bear attacks than I am about malcontents I have encountered on the AT or in State Parks.

There are seven movie theaters, the Aurora shooter picked the only one that was posted as a gun free zone, not the closest one to his house.

I can't see Beavah's posts, his writing style gives me a headache.

So Calico, is it safe to say the politicians' lives are more important than yours or mine, or that of our respective families? Many gun enthusiasts, myself included have paid for our own training to ensure we are proficient and justified should the need arise to use our firearms. Conversely, a right is not something we should be required to ask permission or prove proficiency to exercise.

You're right BD, we don't know each other. We will have to agree to disagree on this topic. We're not going to change each other's minds. I worked at a Scout Camp where we were confronted by a group of vandals with knives, and other improvised weapons. What made them see the err in their ways? The firearm of a retired LEO who happened to be in camp with us. While walking to the car after an OA meeting, I was confronted a vagrant with a utility knife who wanted my coat. A leader asked if he was willing to get shot taking a kid's coat. He ran off. These instances happened when I was a teen