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Well Chicago is rich in draft capital an the Packers are young and do have extra picks as well for rodgers and Douglas, so they should improve. Detroit could do nothing in the draft or free agency and still be expected to improve as LaPorta and gibbs make that second year jump. Minnesota I don't know about as they have questions around their Q.B.

I would love to see him back, Dillon too though Jones really makes things go we need Dillion in relief.

Difficult to be too optimistic about a team paying so much of its salary cap to Rodgers who is gone and Bahktieri who has only taken a few smaps in the last three years. Also with 21 players on the injury report this week, up from the 14 to 16 they have had in recent weeks an most of the year. Finally, Lafleur's coaching has left me less than enthused*. Every game he has some instance like letting the time run out at the end of the half yesterday. Also the kicking game leaves me flat. I think this Anders Carlson has missed more extra points this year than Crosby did in his career. All that said I am very bullish on the future. Love has established his place and Clifford, as his backup, looks very promising. The packers found at least 6 W.R.'s in the last two years and two T.E.'s. The team is young and gelling. I mean here we have a playoff team, the youngest team in the league, with no pro bowlers and substantial injuries and they made the playoffs. I will be rooting hard for the improbable upset. With Jones and Alexander back they are improved an just may surprise Dallas. We both know Mccarthy is capable of making mistakes and Prescott too. * I am aware enthused is not a word.

Steelers and Packeers made pretty substantial week over week moves in the rankings.

Ravens 35, 49ers 31

I will be rooting for the Packers, of course, but I do not share your optimism. Their injury report is still too substantial.

I am a bit surprised at the Broncos ranking, especially after just losing to the Raiders.

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She should resign from their marriage and receive no alimony.

Went out to dinner last night with the extended family. There were absolutely no Insurrection Day specials available.

That shooters with little training or knowledge choose the most frequently discussed weapon is to be anticipated. It is fashion. It is aculturalization. I have no doubt the AR will continue to be the weapon of choice of those who know little. Our culture has told these folks that is the weapon to choose. Hollywood has dictated this, along with hysterical legislators who know little about weapons. The AR is certainly a very good weapons system across a variety of potential uses. All I have ever said is it is not the optimal weapon for shooting up a school in a short period of time.

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Bing Videos A decent video showing speed loading of a shotgun. There are thousands of such videos and hundreds of such systems.

That plug can be removed in under 30 seconds. Also there are drum magazines for semi autos and there are very effective speed loaders.

I do. I understand that just as the Ar 15 is a semiauto weapon so to are many shotguns. I understand that for each trigger pull on the AR 15 one round goes down range. I understand that for erach trigger pull of a 12 gauge holding 00 buck shot that 9 to 13 projectiles larger than the projectile fron an AR chambered in in most common caliber of .223 or 5.56mm goes downrange. Nine times the firepower and less accuracy required. Perfect for short distances with targets clustered together. Now out on a schools sports field where targets are at distances greater than say fourty yards and are scattering the shotgun would be useless while the AR would come into its own. Heck, kids two soccer fields away would still be in substantial danger.

Perhaps he did. Perhaps the reality of the act was different than the fantasy and he abandoned his plan after the first shot. I have been one who has put forward the argument that a shotgun is more deadly than an AR 15 in the typical circumstances of a school shooting. I put that argument forward being intimately familiar with each platform. You seem to disagree. that is fine.

Maybe this particular shooter had an agenda other than maximum body county.

Maybe it is in support of Greece?

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You make a compelling case.

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