Nadler To Chip Roy: ‘What Do You Use Semi-Automatic Weapons For?’

In 2021, during a House Judiciary Committee hearing,Rep. Jerry  Nadler (D-NY) askedRep. Chip Roy (R-TX) what he uses semi-automatic  firearms for.

Rep. Roy’s answer is worth listening to.

Dick Potter’s checklist for buying property

1. Privacy and acoustics
   1. secluded?
   2. vehicle traffic
   3. motorcycles
   4. guns
   5. noisy neighbors
   6. industrial noise
   7. under flight paths
2. Lay of the land
   1. exposure direction
   2. view
   3. topology
   4. general grade
   5. geometric shape and area
   6. standing water or stream
   7. top soil depth
   8. good building site
3. Utilities
   1. pressure water or well depth
   2. power
   3. perk test
4. Assessments
   1. taxes
   2. sewer
   3. clear title
   4. other
5. General
   1. size and type of trees
   2. surface of frontage road
   3. county road
   4. proximity to all types of stores
   5. commuting distance
   6. access, up or down steep hills
   7. zones
   8. able to subdivide? when/cost/how many pieces/roads
   9. wind

The best way to live life is to choose the experience that will have the most anecdotal value

If you need to care, don’t drive it.  If you need to drive it, don’t care.

One step past defensive driving, I call it evasive driving.  “Keith Winston”

“The best way to live life is to choose the experience that will have the most anecdotal value.” – Peter Sagal / Steven Weeks

Beware the lollipop of mediocrity, lick it once and you will suck forever!

Experience is a harsh teacher. First comes the test, second comes the lesson.

“What we are doing is hard to explain.  It would take diagrams and curse words, complicated facial expressions and lengthy descriptions of little known tools.”  — Clemens Starck

Engineers will only tell you the limits of what’s feasible, and the closer to a limit they come, the more uncomfortable they get. In order for projects to be interesting, they have to be outrageous, and to get outrageous, you can’t listen to engineers. At least not rational ones.  

If it weren’t for eating crow I wouldn’t get enough protein.

“No matter how cynical I get, I just can’t keep up.” – Lilly Tomlin

The same thinking that got us into this mess is not going to get us out of it.

If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself. – Tecumseh

“Argumentum ad metum” (appeal to fear) is a logical fallacy. Let’s be wise, not random.

Rules for rules

Eliminate redundancy. Eliminate negative phrases. Eliminate complex grammar.

The problem in a dystopia is that there are no criminals, only crime

The problem in a dystopia is that there are no criminals, only crime. So the progressive solution is to go after an inanimate object incapable of doing anything instead of addressing the criminal element.

Investment risk has to do with the chance that you will need to withdraw funds when volatility has the portfolio value down.

Investment risk has to do with the chance that you will need to withdraw funds when volatility has the portfolio value down.

If someone is in your home uninvited, you may assume they are there to commit a felony

If someone is in your home uninvited, you may assume they are there to commit a felony.

Do  not place value of property over human life.

You shoot to stop felony, not to kill.

When looking for intruder, you want lighting in “other” room and dark in current room.

“Ability” is disparity of force based on relative ability and numbers. You can admit weakness and back off to establish others’ ability.

Verbal threats establish “Jeopardy”.

Other person in confrontation:

• keep hands visible
• no idle talk
• go to knees, fall flat on floor, palms up, face away

Sign and date anything about gun use to have for evidence of subjective impressions.

For police descriptions, give brief description but not a lot of details. Talk to lawyer first.

Expect five years and at least $40K for both civil and criminal court cases.

Safe Room should be equipped:

a) deadbolt lock

b) telephone

c) flashlight

d) firearm

e) comfortable clothes/shoes.

If rights are to mean anything, they must be inoculated against subjectivity

If rights are to mean anything, they must be inoculated against subjectivity. We do not restrict speech because some people are offended by it; we do not deny the accused a fair trial because some people are nervous that there will be an acquittal; we do not inflict cruel and unusual punishments because some people think it is deserved; and we must not limit the Second Amendment because some people are scared of guns. There is a reason that we Americans chose to write down our liberties on paper.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh

If you don’t do it this year, you will be one year older when you do.

“if you don’t do it this year, you will be one year older when you do.”

-Warren Miller 

If you need to care, don’t drive it. If you need to drive it, don’t care.