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I guess the argument is over then...you win.

That subject is all done...thanks for clearing that up.

I don't break any laws and I have to register my pets and pay an annual fee for renewal. I couldn't adopt a pet without a background check.
I don't break any laws, have never even received a ticket, and I have to pay to get my car registered. To operate my car, I needed to take a proficiency test, pay for a license, and continue to pay for the renewal of that license.

Mental issues are not the cause for inner city crime. (The bulk of all gun crime) It's poverty, drugs, and education. Good luck fixing all these. I'm down with looking into these probs as well as gun laws.

I don't break any laws and I have to register certain things. I have to pass background checks for certain things. I have to pay fees for certain things.
Guns should get a free pass?

I think you'll enjoy Tennessee a lot.

I think you'll enjoy Tennessee a lot.

Do people ever get tired of reading this stupid argument in every gun thread?
Only gun nuts think it makes sense.

I don't necessarily believe that it has to be all or nothing. I do believe that SOME people should have the right to own SOME types of firearms, but I don't think EVERYONE should have the right to ANY type of firearm.
That being said, if it was an "all or nothing" choice...if I had the choice between keeping the right to bear arms (knowing that 100 innocent people would die for every 1 innocent person saved by a gun), and tossing out the right to bear arms (knowing that 100 innocent people would live for every 1 innocent person that dies that could have been saved by a gun), I would choose the latter.
It's simple math. More people die from civilly owned guns than are saved by them.

I'm from Montana, so I grew up in a culture where gun ownership is normal. However, even I see that for every one instance where someone has used a gun to defend themselves, there are at least 100 cases where someone (or someone's child) has killed themselves or someone else accidentally (or, God forbid, on purpose at a school) with a gun. Even if a small minority got some limited benefit from their gun once in their lives, I don't think the right to own that gun is worth the hundreds of innocent lives that are lost when people exercise it. This isn't the Wild West. We don't need militias anymore.

I got my NOA2 today so I could care less about this poll.
LOL

Yeah but people never kill themselves or others with their hurricane or flood insurance.

I meant confidential in the sense it needs not be discussed in a public forum lest people become judgmental.

I think you'll enjoy Tennessee a lot.

Just call back and speak to someone else, simple.
I am not sure if you are the petitioner or the beneficiary, but to say "not the immigrants they have working there" is quite ironic considering either you or who you are applying for is a soon to be immigrant.. Not to mention the fact that every single person in this country or their ancestors at one time were immigrants to this country, the most ridiculous statement I have ever seen in all of my time on this site. Nice attitude, SMH.

Nice dig at immigrants in your last sentence. I'm sure that will go over well here.

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I think I must have checked my package about 50 times before I placed it in an Express Mail package and sealed it. I did not buy a fancy folder, nor did I include fancy cover letters for every section of the package. I made things easy for whomever was going to open the package. I paid for Express Mail to have peace of mind, and to get it their faster. It turned out it wasn't going to be as fast as I wanted. I went to the post office on July 19th, a Friday. The USPS employee told me it would not be delivered Saturday because of course U.S. Government buildings are not open on Saturdays. He did assure me that delivery was guaranteed and they would deliver Monday, July 22nd. Sure enough, I checked on Monday and it had been signed for and delivered. I was not expecting USCIS to send me and NOA1 or even cash my check until maybe a week or two after. I checked my bank app on July 25th in the morning and saw that USCIS had cashed my check. A few hours later I received an email from USCIS stating they had accepted my package, NOA1. I was completely extatic! I know NOA1 is not a big deal, but still this was very exciting for me and my fiance. I did not think I would be getting more notifications until 5 months or so, but on July 30th I got another notification stating that my Alien Registration Number had changed relating to my I-129F, Petition for Fiance.
I know my journey has just started, and I still have a long wait ahead of me, but I hope this information is useful for someone else. I hope people use this forum to also document their same sex K-1 journey. I will continue to update this forum as time progresses. I really do hope I am helping someone else out with this forum. Please feel free to use this forum for your questions and to share your journeys!

Link please.
How does chasing a unarmed teenager not engaged in any criminal activity making the place safer?

But you cuss out cops when they put their lights on you?
And you will never understand it because you don't see it or live it.
I'll take it a bit further. The cops bit comes from your reaction when you had that little run in with the law a few posts back. I remember thinking, you have this blatent disregard for law enforcement, but in the case of TM and GZ, you were so patient and understanding when it came to GZ following TM.

Something is fishy here. These guys can't even agree that water is wet.

All of them. Just because something is in the Constitution does not mean it shouldn't adapt as the world and society adapts.
That doesn't mean distort them until they're unrecognizable and no longer rights. There shouldn't be a problem with taking a look at very old laws/rules/rights and saying "okay, how can we apply these to the world of today?"

At least you realize that your statement was wildly incorrect.
Gun laws are useless if they aren't enforced, which they aren't. Everything that's illegal in this country still happens on a daily basis. Simply being illegal isn't enough of a deterrent for people.
But that doesn't mean that laws need to be done away with because people don't follow them.

Something of yours is broken because Chicago, LA and DC aren't states.
For as dangerous as Chicago and LA are, Illinois and California didn't even crack the top 10 in states with the most gun related homicides in 2010.
Louisiana topped the list with the most gun related murders. Tell me how strict their gun laws are.

You sign where it states 'Signature of Applicant' and date it there where it asks next to the signature. In the rectangular black outlined box area, you print the name and would put None for A# since neither of you have one. The signatures on the forms and letters of intent must be originals.
Make sure to provide copies of the passport stamps for your visits together in person.
The foreign fiance(e)'s birth certificate is not required with the I-129F petition. The purpose of providing the USC's birth certificate is to prove their US citizenship. A USC petitioner can prove that with a copy of their US birth certificate, naturalization, or a copy of their entire passport(all pages).
The birth certificate for the foreign fiance(e) will be needed later for the K-1 interview.

College education should never have become something that everyone requires to get decent employment. It's completely senseless. Most people with US degrees have no more need of them in their daily work place than they have for a chocolate teapot. While a college education should be available to anyone with the brains and desire to pursue it, most people just need a general education. If the emphasis was changed, college could be free and accessible to everyone that wanted and deserved to go regardless of financial background. Misguided management policies on hiring requirements are partly to blame, and a weird skew that led to a belief that being 'college educated' was meaningful in and of itself. It's not.

We all already do that when America's competitiveness in the world is diminished as a result of our lack of investment in education. We all are already bearing the burden of our own education, or rather, lack thereof.