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Gun Control & RKBA

friendly_iconoclast

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13. "YMMV" - "Your mileage may vary":

Reply to guillaumeb (Reply #12)

Mon Mar 20, 2017, 09:21 PM

Mar 2017

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ymmv

Literally, "Your Mileage May Vary," coming from the small print in (American?) automobile commercials in the 70's and 80's. It has come to mean an acknowledgement that the opinion of the poster may not be shared by everyone.
I thought Weezer's later albums were better than their earlier works, but YMMV.

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Connecticut Gun Permits Increase 73 Percent In 2016 [View all] Lurks Often Mar 2017 OP

K&R discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2017 #1

Meaning 30,000 possible gun incidents? guillaumeb Mar 2017 #2

"(P)ossible gun incidents"? That sounds very much like "occasion(s) of sin" to me: friendly_iconoclast Mar 2017 #8

Ooooooooooooooooooooookay. guillaumeb Mar 2017 #9

I have absolutely no problem with the public expression of religious sentiments friendly_iconoclast Mar 2017 #11

I have no problem with people believing whatever, as long as they do not guillaumeb Mar 2017 #12

"YMMV" - "Your mileage may vary": friendly_iconoclast Mar 2017 #13

Thank you. eom guillaumeb Mar 2017 #14

So you failed to pick up on what most find obvious. pablo_marmol Mar 2017 #17

Apparently you find a connection. guillaumeb Mar 2017 #19

Any honest person with a functioning brain does. NT pablo_marmol Mar 2017 #21

I'm one of them. krispos42 Mar 2017 #3

This is in reference to concealed carry, or no? pablo_marmol Mar 2017 #4

I had the same question discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2017 #5

CT residents need a permit to buy a firearm or ammo Lurks Often Mar 2017 #6

I'm a NY resident ... Straw Man Mar 2017 #7

Federal and the applicable state laws still apply Lurks Often Mar 2017 #18

Thanks LO! NT pablo_marmol Mar 2017 #16

Yes, it is. From the original source: "State pistol permits spiked in 2016" friendly_iconoclast Mar 2017 #10

Get that, FI....... pablo_marmol Mar 2017 #15

Not the "tipping point" they're after, I believe, (haha), yagotme Mar 2017 #20