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Australia's homicide rate has been steady since the 1970s. There have been mass shootings, along with other mass murders without firearms, since the "buyback" so it didn't stop homicide, it did not stop homicides with the use of firearms even....because criminals do not care. No, they do not have the same homicide rates as we do in the US but that could also be due to the size of each country. Australia has 23,232,413 (July 2017 est.) people versus the US population at 326,625,791 (July 2017 est.). Rape, assault, auto theft, burglaries, robbery, suicide rate, and total crime victims are higher in Australia than in the US. Fear of crime by citizens is higher in Australia. Australian vs United States Crime Stats Compared

I realize that is not the entire 2nd amendment. I was replying to another post: The 2nd amendment was never intended to make it a right to carry any weapon whatsoever for any purpose whatsoever. Personal possession was never the main focus. With that in mind, an unlimited individual right to bear any kind and/or number of weapons can not, and should not, be interpreted from the context of the 2nd amendment. And no matter if they purchase through an FFL dealer or not it is still against the law to purchase or possess a firearm if you have been adjudicated mentally ill. It is also against the law to sell a firearm to anyone on the prohibited list even in a private seller setting. I am not saying that the purchase could not be made from a private seller, but it is still against the law and is punishable by up to 10 years in prison. https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/usao-ut/legacy/2013/06/03/guncard.pdf

Two school years ago, I one had a child fall from monkey bars, using his arms straight out in front of him to stop the fall. When I got to him, his arm was in an S shape. Ouch!!! So, I called dad and informed him that I needed him to come and pick him up immediately because his arm was broke (mind you I NEVER SAY THAT, I always say that I am not sure since I do not have x-ray vision, but this time I had no doubt!!!). So I had his arm stabilized, ice applied, etc. waited 20 mins (we live in a rural district but I know they only live about 10 mins at the most from the school). Dad still had not shown. I called dad again, no answer. Waited about 5 mins called again, no answer. So, I called his emergency contact (his grandma) told her the story of the fall and that I had contacted dad and he has failed to show. I notified her that I would be calling an ambulance as soon as we hung up because I can not let him sit in pain. She stated that she was on her way and would get a hold of dad to see what the hold up was. Immediately my phone rings and it was dad, who was furious. He stated that he was leaving his house as we speak and wanted to know how I knew his arm was broke. I explained that when an arm is normally straight and now an S shape that was a huge indicator. When he arrived to pick him up 5 minutes later, dad yelled at me and told me his son's arm was not as broke as I thought it was...dad is a paramedic. I was stunned! There was no doubt in my mine that both the ulna and radius were broken. I received a phone call the next day from the grandma, who apologized to me for her son's behavior and told me that yes both bones were broke and they were headed to surgery to repair them!!! Dad has not even step foot in my office since! If I call him for his son being ill he sends the mom or grandma to pick, lol....

There is alot more to owning an automatic weapon than just obtaining a permit! How to Purchase a Machine Gun as an Individual: Confirm that they are lawful to possess in your state Find a currently registered machine gun made before 1986 either at a gun shop or a private individual. You can search locally or online (but out-of-state online sales of all firearms must go to your local gunshop). Purchase the machine gun as an individual or through a trust (you are looking at spending upwards of $25,000 or more for an automatic machine gun) - but, no, you can't take it home yet! Trusts were popular to avoid certain requirements (fingerprints, law enforcement approval, etc.) but ATF changed the rules last year. Previously, your local Chief Law Enforcement Officer (CLEO) approval was required but the ATF changed the rules last year to only require notification. Also, members of a trust could obtain new NFA firearms without fingerprints/photos but now every lawful possessor is required to submit them each time. These rule changes removed much of the reason to get a trust. Fill out an ATF Form 4 application to transfer an NFA firearm. This application will include a $200 check for your tax, your fingerprints, a passport-style photograph, and information about you and the firearm. Wait 9-12 months for the ATF to approve and return your paperwork. Abide by local, state, and federal gun regulations: Assuming one has the record and the patience to pass the background check along with the actual cash to purchase the firearm, that person now finds themselves subject to a host of new regulations. The ATF registers the new fully-automatic gun owner. They notify local law enforcement of the name and address of the person who owns the firearm. And they strictly regulate the transportation of these weapons. If a civilian wants to cross state lines with their new purchase (say to attend the Big Sandy machine gun shoot in Arizona), they'll have to apply for permission. More legislation regarding machine guns exist at the state level and can impose long prison sentences. In fact, fines of up to $250,000 and prison sentences up to 10 years can be instituted to those in possession of an unregistered machine gun. Sam Paredes, executive director at Gun Owners of California said that machine gun owners are already under enough scrutiny. "The federal government knows exactly how many [machine guns] are out there and everybody who owns them," he told ABC News, adding that the background checks are extensive. "It takes anywhere from six months to two years to have the privilege granted to you to buy one." And procuring a machine gun can be difficult. "It's not like buying a .410 shotgun if you're going to go squirrel hunting," said Jim Wallace, executive of the Massachusetts Gun Owners Action League. "The license for a machine gun, let alone the weapon, is not easy to acquire." The average middle class citizen more than likely will not own one. It is extremely costly to obtain one. Firing any firearm generates a very high temperature in the firearm's barrel and elevated temperature throughout much of its structure. If fired too fast, the components of the firearm will suffer a structural failure. This means that all firearms, regardless of whether they are semi-automatic, fully automatic, or burst mode in their firing methods, will overheat and fail if fired too often. This is especially a problem with fully automatic fire. In actual use (for example the MG34), a gun might be able to fire at 1200 rounds per minute, but in one minute it may also overheat and fail. So guns used in a repeated firing mode must not be fired too often. The MG34 is fired manually in bursts of 5 to 7 rounds (no automatic disconnector mode in this gun). It can fire at an effective rate of 150 rounds per minute.[3] Similarly semi-automatic firearms will also overheat if not allowed to cool. A semi-automatic rifle typically has an effective firing rate of 40 rounds per minute.[citation needed] A large part of the reason that this is so low, is that the recoil of firing a round pushes the gun's aim off target. The time it takes to "reacquire" the target slows the effective firing rate.[4] The Army Study Guide lists the sustained rate of fire for an M4 Rifle at 12 to 15 rounds per minute.[5] Anyone that is not looking to use their firearm for illegal uses, would never use a "bump-stock" for their firearm. They are not accurate and completely a waste of ammunition. So, yes, I guess technically you are correct, but it would destroy the firearm to shoot it at 400 rounds per min. And yes fully auto are still legal to own, but as stated, not for a normal average citizen. I know a lot of people that own a lot of firearms in Missouri and not one of the everyday average citizens owns one. I know firearms dealers that own them. It is a deep rabbit hole! There are millions of opinions on this, not one is "right". I think it also has a lot to do with where you live, the experiences that you have had with firearms or lack thereof. I personally know someone that used a firearm on her ex that was trying to harm her and her children, they survived, he didn't. He made a poor choice and she saved her children from harm. I also have been in that situation with my ex trying to break into my house, I did not fire my firearm, but the sight of it was enough for him to stop and leave. We live in the country and law enforcement is a minimum of 15 mins away, we would be dead before they could get there of we did not have a way to protect ourselves.

Our last day is an early out on the 20th and we come back the 3rd....in Missouri. Then begins the countdown until Spring break!!! On topic though, An adult has to see the kid vomit...no bathroom pukers will pass...and for the most part it is 24 hours before return, with some discretion.

Anyone with a mental illness, by law is ineligible to possess or purchase a firearm. Doesn't mean that they will not steal them to get them, just like a criminal will use a firearm to murder someone, again which is against the law and they do not care. Products - Data Briefs - Number 37 - May 2

I'm angry and frustrated, too. I DO own guns, lots of guns actually, and I DO NOT shoot anyone (although, if my family or myself is put into a situation where I would need to protect us, I would!) Easy as pie....it is called being a law abiding citizen with the right to bear arms.

Actually that is exactly what the 2nd amendment meant. The right to bear arms shall not be infringed. Also, if you want to be taken serious by individuals that truly believe in the 2nd amendment, you need to do your research on firearms before you spew out false "main stream media talking points". Can you show me a firearm that is legal to own in any state that can fire 400 rounds/minute?

PCR and serology find no association between xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) and autism | Molecular Autism | Full Text Xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) is a retrovirus implicated in prostate cancer and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Press releases have suggested that it could contribute to autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In this study we used two PCR assays and one antibody assay to screen 25 blood samples from autistic children born to mothers with CFS and from 20 mixed controls including family members of the children assayed, people with fibromyalgia and people with chronic Lyme disease. Using a real-time PCR assay, we screened an additional 48 South Carolina autism disorder samples, 96 Italian ASD samples, 61 South Carolina ASD samples and 184 healthy controls. Despite having the ability to detect low copy number XMRV DNA in a large background of cellular DNA, none of the PCR assays found any evidence of XMRV infection in blood cells from patients or controls. Further, no anti-XMRV antibodies were detected, ruling out possible low level or abortive infections in blood or in other reservoirs. These results imply that XMRV is not associated with autism.

For a thorough analysis of the flaws and misinformation associated with the current CDC autism "cover-up" conspiracy theory, we recommend the posts on the subject at ScienceBlogs, which note of the claim at the heart of this matter (i.e, allegedly suppressed proof of a 340% increased risk of autism in African-American boys after MMR vaccination) that: Vaccination data were abstracted from immunization forms required for school entry, and records of children who were born in Georgia were linked to Georgia birth certificates for information on maternal and birth factors. Basically, no significant associations were found between the age cutoffs examined and the risk of autism. I note that, even in the "reanalysis" by Brian Hooker, there still isn't any such correlation for children who are not African American boys So is Hooker's result valid? Was there really a 3.36-fold increased risk for autism in African-American males who received MMR vaccination before the age of 36 months in this dataset? Hooker [performed] multiple subset analyses, which, of course, are prone to false positives. As we say, if you slice and dice the evidence more and more finely, eventually you will find apparent correlations that might or might not be real. In this case, I doubt Hooker's correlation is real. There's no biologically plausible reason why there would be an effect observed in African-Americans but no other race and, more specifically than that, in African-American males. In the discussion, Hooker does a bunch of handwaving about lower vitamin D levels and the like in African American boys, but there really isn't a biologically plausible mechanism to account for his observation, suggesting that it's probably spurious. There are multiple other studies, many much larger than this one, that failed to find a correlation between MMR and autism. What [Hooker] has done, apparently, is found grist for a perfect conspiracy theory to demonize the CDC, play the race card in a truly despicable fashion, and cast fear, uncertainty, and doubt about the CDC vaccination program, knowing that most of the white antivaccine activists who support [him] hate the CDC so much that they won't notice that even Hooker's reanalysis doesn't support their belief that vaccines caused the autism in their children. What got lost in the brouhaha over Dr. Thompson's "confession," allegations about a "cover-up" at the CDC, and threats of whistleblower lawsuits was what should have been the main point: Did collected data actually prove that the MMR vaccine produces a 340% increased risk of autism in African-American boys? The answer is no, it did not. On 27 August 2014, Dr. Hooker's article published in the journal Translational Neurodegeneration that concluded "African American males receiving the MMR vaccine prior to 24 months of age or 36 months of age are more likely to receive an autism diagnosis" was removed from public domain due to issues of conflict of interest and the questionable validity of its methods: The Editor and Publisher regretfully retract the article as there were undeclared competing interests on the part of the author which compromised the peer review process. Furthermore, post-publication peer review raised concerns about the validity of the methods and statistical analysis, therefore the Editors no longer have confidence in the soundness of the findings.

In a 2010 report examining contraceptive use in the United States over the last 30 years, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reaches this conclusion: One-half of all pregnancies in the United States are unintended, and the average probability of an unintended pregnancy in 12 months of contraceptive use in the United States is 12%, unchanged from 1995.

I am feeling pretty lucky, maybe I should stop complaining about the ONE item I want and cannot get approved...A vision screener (Spot screener by Welch Allyn, Plusoptix, etc). Admin states that it is too expensive (although we have raised about half the money for it, and even if I raised the full amount they still deny it ) But I have a good sized office 12 x 14, and a bathroom. I have standing orders for almost anything you could want (minus Narcan). my own mini fridge, microwave, etc. plenty of storage (if that is even truly a thing, lol).

You don't have a standing order for these?? Okay so we do not have a standing order for Narcan (I have pushed for this, especially because we have an opportunity to get it for free in our high school, I am at the elementary school, but I talk to the nurse at the high school multiple times a year that we should get this!), but epi-pen (we get free) and albuterol inhalers (we pay for) are both on standing orders. It is crazy to me that any school would not have these as a standing order! Drives me nuts that we do not have Narcan!

You took the words out of my mouth! I am a pro-life christian. I do not feel like abortion should be used as a form of birth control, as the majority of them are. Even in the instance of rape, I would not have an abortion, but also understand that there are women who could not carry a baby conceived in this manner. My first pregnancy was ectopic, there was NOTHING that I or the doctors could do to save my pregnancy, I ultimate had to have emergency surgery to stop the bleeding. In no way do I feel as though I made the decision to kill my child and abort it, my body was already in the process of doing that.

This is one of the most frustrating things I have to deal with!!! I have one family that has multiple children (5+), for the last 4 school years they have been infested with lice! The first year I treated 4 of the kids at least 5 times (mom was pregnant and refused to treat them), there was one not school aged still at home, not being treated. I did call DFS NUMEROUS times!!! They would go out and offer services to the family (which they never accepted). I continue to periodically (once every three or four months) check them, if they have live lice they are sent home. Once treated they can come back. I make sure that the girl has her hair pulled up everyday and her belongings are on a hook with no other coats around them (our teachers are pretty discreet). It is well known in her class that she has it because she chooses to not keep it a secret. I do not make it a point to check them daily or weekly any longer, because it really does me no good and is a complete waste of my time, since mom refuses to care for them. I do not do complete class checks unless I have more than 4 kids in the same class with it. I have had to do that twice since I have been here, both times were in the first two years and in the above mention kids classrooms.... I understand that the CDC states that this is not a "disease", and it is considered just a nuisance, but I can tell you, I have been ripped up one side and down the other over kids that have gotten lice numerous times, been treated numerous times and continue to get it from "school". I am informed that it is "extremely expensive" to treat numerous times, especially when "the kids that keep passing it have medicaid, and can get their treatment free". I do feel it is unfair to the parents that treat and three months later have to do it again because their child was forced into a bus seat with one of the kids that are not treated....but as a school nurse....what do you do? I have tried to get admin to agree to, no live lice, nits ok (which is our current policy), but add if after three weeks there are still nits, the child is excluded from school until nits are gone...specifically because we have those kids that parents refuse to do anything about it. I explained, for the millionth time, that until we put responsibility back on the parents this is going to continue to be an issue, although they stated they agree, the idea was "shot down", mainly because they know they will "lose money" if the kiddo is not in school.