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: relating to what is real rather than to what is possible or imagined
: likely to succeed and reasonable to do or use
: appropriate or suited for actual use

Bing dictionary:

concerned with matters of fact: concerned with actual facts and real life and experience, not theory

Now look at what a dumbass [Durham County sheriff’s deputy] depadee shurf offers as practical:

Lemay recommended that people think about buying a camera system to secure their home, instead of a handgun.

“Nobody got hurt with a camera system at home,” Lemay said. “If you have a gun, there’s a possibility we may be taking you to court one day.”

True enough, and the ‘nobody’ that ever got hurt by a camera system includes the thugs that have trespassed, robbed and murdered under the watchful eyes of cameras.
Thousands of armed robbers are identified every year by cameras, none of them were dropped in their tracks by cameras. The dead victims remained dead even after the usefulness of the camera had been exhausted.
… Unless, of course, the depadee was insinuating that you should throw the camera at criminals, or beat them over the head with it.

But the camera bit is just the stupid part of what the depadee had to say. The rest of the quote sounds a bit sinister: “If you have a gun, there’s a possibility we may be taking you to court one day.”
If you don’t have a gun, somebody may be taking you to a cemetery one day.

Michael Lemay, a Durham County sheriff’s deputy, emphasized the responsibilities of owning a handgun. The weapon must always be secured.

“When a teenager says, ‘Dad’s got a gun at home,’ what is the first thing his friends will say?” Lemay asked.

“Can I see it?” several in the audience answered in unison.

Unfortunately, that is true in most cases, because most teenagers’ only exposure to guns is via the ignorant representations of media and the entertainment industry.
If kids have never been allowed to see, much less wear, a pair of socks the reaction would be the same when one says ‘Dad’s got socks’.
Where I’m from, if a kid says ‘Dad’s got a gun’, his friends would have said “A gun? Just one?” and then, since they are kids, would have broke into song: “yer daddy is a pussy! yer daddy is a pussy”

But that’s not the sum of the stupid that was dished out by the good depadee :

Lemay recommended that the woman keep two things by her front door: a whistle and a can of wasp spray.
“It shoots 20 feet, it’s cost-effective and it does the job,” Lemay said.

And that’s just the amount of stupid that was mentioned by the ‘practical tip’ reporter. Makes me wonder how many more ways to get yerself kilt were offered.

If wasp spray was even remotely effective in stopping an armed criminal, the depadee would have been quoted as saying
“If you have a gun … or wasp spray … there’s a possibility we may be taking you to court one day.”

Why Gun Owners Should Oppose 8 Million New Anti-Gun Voters

“[A] Pew poll suggests that illegal immigrants, if given citizenship, would vote for liberal, anti-gun candidates by an 8-to-1 margin.” – GOA’s Erich Pratt, commenting on Pew poll findings as reported in The Washington Post (7/22/13)

Next Wednesday, the House Republican leadership will announce a set of “principles” for immigration reform. Supposedly, if these “principles” are not well-received, the House will shelve the issue for the remainder of the year.

To be blunt: The health of the Second Amendment relies on demolishing these “principles.”

Immigration reform will add over 8,000,000 anti-gun voters to the voting rolls

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Speaking at the United States Conference of Mayors on Friday, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said the approximately 11 million people who are in the country illegally have “earned the right to be citizens.”
“An earned path to citizenship for those currently present in this country is a matter of, in my view, homeland security to encourage people to come out from the shadows,” …

And if you were to break the glass and crawl through Mr. Johnson’s bathroom window, manage to make it past his deadly cameras and wasp spray to the living room couch, he would add your name to the deed of his home.
That’s right. He would do that. Especially if you managed to hide in the shadows of his basement long enough to pump out a few anchor kids, why he might go so far as to give you half (or more) of his paycheck and let you sleep in his bed.

well, cwap. I shoulda read the comments before going to the trouble of typing the above commentary.
From the comments:

So anyone who sneaks into Johnson’s basement and stays there for a few days has earned the right to live there permanently. Oh and of course if theta person has no income the Johnson is responsible for providing him with food and healthcare, and letting his family stay too.

And this one too:

Exactly how did they earn the RIGHT to citizenship you worthless commie p.o.s.? ….

» The Ghost Rat Cannibal Ship Will Enrich the UK

In the last century, the United Kingdom has become an astounding tapestry of cultures hanging on a multicultural loom in a lunatic’s attic filled with an array of astoundingly diverse garbage. Every year people from around the world arrive in the UK and many of them move to Tower Hamlets and begin threatening to behead all the other cultures for being much too multi.

But it’s nothing that can’t be handled with an uncomfortable visit to a mosque by a few government officials, some online courses about fighting extremism and a new Muslim character on EastEnders.

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The future begins with each of us. We must lower our walls, open our doors and welcome our new neighbours to our shores. And one day, as we pass our neighbour, the cannibal rat now running a shop specializing in cannibal rat meat, and the cannibal rat’s son who now works in the NHS and the cannibal rat’s four grandsons who are all on the dole and his other son who is gnawing on the leg of a dead British soldier, we can be proud of ourselves, our ethics and our humanism.

HSBC customers have been prevented from withdrawing large amounts of cash because they could not provide evidence of why they wanted it
….
Mr Cotton says the staff refused to tell him how much he could have: “So I wrote out a few slips. I said, ‘Can I have £5,000?’ They said no. I said, ‘Can I have £4,000?’ They said no. And then I wrote one out for £3,000 and they said, ‘OK, we’ll give you that.’ “

This is Englandistan, mind you. But don’t think that U.S. banks or the alphabet bureaus aren’t already considering something similar or worse.

Free men do not tolerate anyone asking why they want their own money. Period.
There’s only one valid answer to the question of why you want to withdraw any or all of your own money. If you’re now wondering what that one valid answer might be, then you don’t get it. And as far as your money, you might not get that either.

Here’s a fact: No PVC pipe in the ground has ever, will never, ask you anything. Just sayin’.

“For the State of the Union, one of the things President Obama really ought to do is look in the TV camera and say to the over 5 million Americans all across this country who’ve had their health insurance canceled because of Obamacare, to look in the camera and say, ‘I’m sorry — I told you if you like your health-insurance plan, you can keep it,’” the Texas senator said on Face the Nation on Sunday. “‘I told you if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, and that wasn’t true — I’m sorry.’”

… and then blast himself in the temple with wasp spray.

» CBS News Censors Senator’s Blistering Criticism of President’s Unprecedented Abuse of Power

Have you been paying attention to what has been happening in Argentina, Venezuela, Brazil, Ukraine, Turkey and China? If you are like most Americans, you have not been. Most Americans don’t seem to really care too much about what is happening in the rest of the world, but they should. In major cities all over the globe right now, there is looting, violence, shortages of basic supplies, and runs on the banks. We are not at a “global crisis” stage yet, but things are getting worse with each passing day.

The government has good reason to use ObamaCare to push ever more people into Medicaid. Under it, not even death is a haven from government confiscation

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In the beginning, all we were told was that we would save $2,500 per year on health insurance (Obama promised this at least 19 times; it is actually raising premiums by a staggering $7,450 for a typical family of four), that if we liked our plan we could keep it (Obama repeated this lie at least 36 times), and that they had to pass the bill by whatever means necessary so that we could find out what was in it. Now we are finding out. As the details unfold, it becomes ever more obvious why not a single Republican could be persuaded to vote for ObamaCare.

Congratulations to the quintessential RINO, John “Lettuce” McCain. This ought to be a real feather in his cap from the point of view of the liberals in the government and media that he has made a career of sucking up to, even while duping Arizona voters into regarding him as the least awful candidate election after election

As President Obama prepares for his State of the Union speech Tuesday night, he has solicited members of his Cabinet for ideas of executive actions he could enact without Congressional approval that would further his goal of tackling income inequality.

In the first weeks of January, Obama has repeatedly said he has a “pen and his phone” and will use them to bypass Congressional gridlock and help his agenda.

A Picture Of Barack Obama’s Personal GPS
Built-in directions to bypass Congress…