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If we can afford to give pretty much every American $3k for existing through the pandemic, we can afford to buyback the nation’s guns. Give people three years. You can either surrender your weapons for destruction and receive immediate fair compensation, or you can declare that you’re keeping your weapon(s). After that, require annual inspections, registration, and insurance. Registration costs a fee, but on a sliding scale, where single shot hunting rifles are a nominal fee and automatic/assault rifles are astronomical. Gun locks are provided for free with registration. Multiple weapons increases the fee. A lengthy questionnaire is required yearly for registration which asks about physical and mental health history, as well as those in the home, where both certain responses and random flags will require physician clearance. Remove statutory liability protection for gun manufacturers and prohibit automatic weapons from being produced. Commission of a crime with an unlawful weapon is a mandatory two-year felony. A first unregistered or uninsured weapon requires destruction of all weapons owned by that individual, and inability to register a weapon for ten years. Subsequent is a two-year felony and inability to ever register a firearm. If your registered weapon is used by another in the commission of a crime, and you didn’t report it stolen, two-year felony for you both. I don’t want to hear it’s not possible. It is. Our leaders just have to care enough.

So you'll get to watch the Tigers?

How about we give every member a civics exam.

The reason the Tigers are so bad is because they can't develop their own talent, period. Bringing in a few free agents will not make that big of a difference when your farm system kicks out a decent hitter once every years. They have not spent enough on scouting and development and I hope that is where Harris will make the biggest difference.

Yeah, but its only been 24 years...........you gotta give it time, man.

Did anyone post her video from 2010 where she said states have the right to secede? Florida, you are on the clock.

They didn't get a lot of publicity or attention, but on the development side, I am interested to see what (if anything) comes from the new coaching staff hires. Particularly on the pitching side, the fact that they have a coach on their MLB staff who is an expert in kinesiology seems like a big deal given all the injuries they have sustained over the past few years.

Explosion in Space today. Well, not today, but 140 million years ago. A "perfect" explosion https://scienceblog.com/536582/astrophysicists-discover-the-perfect-explosion-in-space/

Cisnero, in really good shape and maybe the best shape of his life, has lost 12 pounds.

Is this in reference to Cade? He was definitely not a "no brainer", Mobley and Green had good cases to go #1. Regardless, it remains to be seen if Cade was even the right pick until he can prove to be healthy. 2 fairly significant injuries in 2 years is concerning so Weaver shouldn't get credit for Cade either until he proves something. I'm a big fan of his upside but he needs to get, and stay, on the court.

I had super slow trip to North Carolina from DC by rail that took an extra 8 hours because the ground under the tracks were wet. That's not acceptable. But, because Amtrak is a toy and not meant to be reliable human transportation its allowed. The NE corridor is reliable. I'm told its reliable in some other places as well.

the WMATA has a definite development supercharging effect here in NOVA: houses replaced by highrises and corner stores replaced by Google and Rolls Royce regional HQs. I realize Michigan folk are anathema to the idea of mass transit. I don't think that changes anytime soon. I have that same attitude when i ride the metro here. Its basically impossible to move at speed through the system.

That is a feature of baseball that they don't. Don't be like other sports.

I feel like a good 2023 season won't be measured by wins and losses as much as it will be by laying the framework of actually identifying, acquiring, and developing talent, and then actually following through on it. I suppose some of the prework has been done, but it might be evident to fans just yet.

I used to enjoy parking off the Silverdome and riding a bus into the place on a special route. That made the experience a lot easier. Gimme a metro station at the corner of 6 and middlebelt that could take me to a baseball game and back and i'll bet real estate prices at 6 and middlebelt would skyrocket.

Right now it's 60 degrees in Dearborn at 9am on February 15th. There is no way Opening Day is going to be as nice as the last 3 days here. This has been the easiest February of my life (in Detroit anyway).

Was Jim Joyce consulted prior to the approval of this?

Dude... None of this "Happy Holidays" BS! Call the holiday by its REAL name!!! HAPPY SPRING TRAINING OPENING DAY ladies & gents!!! (I'm just being a smartass here but... you know...)

Damn!!! I typed exactly this 3 or 4 years ago on the old site. I mean, not word-for-word, but almost! Sliding scale fees. Multiple weapons increase fees. I don't think I had different fees for classes of weapons but... I like that idea!!! Annual registration requirements. Annual mental, financial (those under financial duress are liable to do...) reports. I think I had weapons crimes as mandatory 10 year federal crimes felony... but maybe that's a bit draconian? Anyways: TWO THUMBS UP for you MC!!!

Jesus!

just another reminder how stan van gundy set the franchise back a decade.

Their Antipasto is a must order every time. Minestrone is damn good too.

There is nothing more profitable to the political machine than an unsolved problem.

And "unauthorized" ≠ dangerous. These campuses are also publicly funded community centers. There are cafés and libraries in these buildings that are open to the public. Non-students and non-faculty going inside the academic buildings include visiting academics, local high school students, retirees, tourists, etc. The more you stretch to prevent actually attacking the problem (guns), the more you turn schools into voluntary prisons.

That's what I was trying to say. And also, thanks for throwing your previous teammates under the bus, it was their fault that you lost.

Betrayer is the Rodney Dangerfield of the forum.

Per Beck on twitter...Mize had back surgery as well as TJ. Not counting on anything from him