So happy living in Idaho!

The whole 18/21 thing - - well - just like back in 1970 - old enough to fight, old enough to vote....old enough to die/kill for your country, you're old enough to buy and carry a handgun to protect your life.
(you should also be able to go into a bar & have a beer - but - that overstepping of federal authority is the topic of a whole 'nuther discussion)
 
Hal said:
The whole 18/21 thing - - well - just like back in 1970 - old enough to fight, old enough to vote....old enough to die/kill for your country, you're old enough to buy and carry a handgun to protect your life.
(you should also be able to go into a bar & have a beer - but - that overstepping of federal authority is the topic of a whole 'nuther discussion)
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I agree but I guess if every 18, 19 and 20 year old could be completely and fully trusted with guns, alcohol and wherever marijuana’s been legalized just the way they can with getting a job, voting, becoming a member of the armed services, living on their own and getting married then I guess there’d be a lot more states that would allow it.

The one thing I totally disagree with is taking away their ability to buy tobacco at 18. Yeah sure, changing it to 21 might stop a few people but if a person wants to smoke or use chewing tobacco, they’re gonna do it regardless of the law.


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corneileous said:
The one thing I totally disagree with is taking away their ability to buy tobacco at 18. Yeah sure, changing it to 21 might stop a few people but if a person wants to smoke or use chewing tobacco, they’re gonna do it regardless of the law.
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By the time I reached 18 I had already started smoking and then quit.

I never got carded for alcohol until after I had turned 21 and was legal.
 
When I was in the Marine Corps we did some training for a while up in Idaho with the Idaho National Guard. Mostly in the Boise area. Beautiful country. Nice and clean and seemed like there were a lot of good people. I'd go back and stay for a while but it is too close to Yellowstone. About the only superstition I have is that Yellowstone is going to blow sometime in my lifetime and I don't want to be anywhere near it when it does! Nice to hear they have decent gun laws.
 
Yellowstone is going to blow sometime in my lifetime and I don't want to be anywhere near it
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If Yellowstone actually does go, it doesn't matter how close or how far away from it you are.
 
Yes, if the Caldera in Yellowstone decides to pop, the only different is how fast you most likely will die. I live nicely in the deep blue area....
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I can imagine my guns will be pretty much destroyed or worthless but welcome to come fetch them a few years after the big boom.:D
 
Funny how folks who live closest to the caldera are quick to claim we will all be goners if it blows anyway.

There are actually several possible scenarios as to the extent of a future eruption.

If it takes me twenty or thirty more years before I die from that thing blowin, I'm good with that.

But thank you for attempting to ease my paranoia anyway.
 
The one thing I totally disagree with is taking away their ability to buy tobacco at 18. Yeah sure, changing it to 21 might stop a few people but if a person wants to smoke or use chewing tobacco, they’re gonna do it regardless of the law.
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The devil is in the details of laws like that.
The way those laws are written, they don't punish the actual underage lawbreaker - they punish the seller of the products via heavy fines.

It's a back door form of taxation - one of the very things our founding fathers fought against.
 
Zoo....believe me, I am not claiming anyone else will but the chance is you and most east of the state will die within a few years of the boom. Based on info from quite a few sources.

Heck there are some who will say it will blow so slowly even many of us in the blue area will have time to head south. But in reality, NO ONE KNOWS.

And I know I am not going to determine where I live or what I do based on fear of something that may never happen in my lifetime. And chance are greater I will be ash floating in the air long before the caldera creates a giant ash storm across the earth.

But please understand, I do not care about you and I am not trying to calm your paranoia.

It's your paranoia, it is your fear, you alone have to learn to live with it.

But I'm wondering where in the USA is there a location that never has any natural disasters or a natural disaster as likely as the Yellowstone caldera?
 
May 18 1980

Yup, I was here when that one happened. Darn near lost my best buddy along with his family. There are still plenty of bodies under all that mud.

Mt. St. Helens was expected to erupt, not explode. Well it def. exploded. They thought they set up a large enough zone around the mountain, they were wrong.

I lived in Spokane Wa back in the 80's. Idaho was still 18 YO to buy alcohol. The high school seniors liked that a lot. It's a quick trip from Spokane to the border.
 
But I'm wondering where in the USA is there a location that never has any natural disasters or a natural disaster as likely as the Yellowstone caldera?
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Doesn't matter, RETG. I wasn't claiming to be rational. The only one I care about is Yellowstone. ;)
 
Mt. St. Helens was expected to erupt, not explode. Well it def. exploded. They thought they set up a large enough zone around the mountain, they were wrong.
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We were going to fly up and train with a TOW unit up in Yakima that June in 1980. Got called off due to St. Helen blowing and stress cracks in our aircraft. Just as well I guess. But it sure would have been nicer than the alternative our commanders decided upon, 29 Stumps... blah.
 
Passed thry parts of Idaho 51 yrs ago on our honeymoon. Had to go to Sandpoint to make a phone call then took some shortcut and ended up on a Forest service rd.
Didnt have a shovel/bucket/axe and got a permit to complete pass thru w/out fine.

Saw a BIG pile of bear scat and picked up a HUGE pine cone on the FS Rd.
Great time was had.
 
Idaho has always been my favorite state by far. Unfortunately people from Kalifornica and Oregon and Eastern Washington have discovered it and are trying to bring their very liberal ideas with them at the expense of the natives.
 
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