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Well 'd'uh'!!!

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I worry every day about my elderly mother in a retirement community in FL. Not so much the community where the 2nd Amendment has been, um, "modified" to incorporate the well-regulated militia (security guards) part but when she ventures out beyond the gates to encounter the infamous "Florida Man", a sub-species that will eventually make itself extinct due to stupidity but in the meantime....

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At least require firearm insurance for home ranges.

Concerned neighbors, innocent bystanders, and the government might not be able to tell you to stop firing your guns, but perhaps an aggressive insurance company could price you out of the market.

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How do you know you haven't rounded up some else's cows if they're not marked somehow? Around here they use ear tags and at least some places in Ireland they spray paint markers on the sheep.

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If you wrote the above paragraph, are you sure you are not Micheal Moorcock?

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Of course they need to be marked. We brand ours to mark them as ours, and also give them ear tags with a numerical code so that we can identify them individually.

But when we mark ours, we necessarily do it when we have them captured. The original writer of the passage seems to expect the rancher to brand them while they are still at large (i.e., before they are captured).

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I apologize for the delay in responding. I was trying to come up with something besides "eyeroll" and "LOL"....but to no avail.

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Their procedure may be different from ours. But the way we run things here , the point at which the cattle head to the slaughterhouse is the point at which the brand no longer matters. And the brand inspector requires that our brand is on any we sell in any capacity. Regulations vary, but it is by no means strange that one would capture the cattle, brand them and do other things such as vaccinate, deworm, etc, and then release.

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I could see where that would be a bit awkward for everyone involved. Unless you used your drones to drop balloons with paint, you know, like you do. That would just be weird.

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i thought in florida as long as you're kinda light skinned and, apparently thin-skinned since you're shooting people dead, you can discharge your firearm in the directions of the less fortunate like brown skin people, be it woman, men, children....

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"Like white on rice" is my favourite simile for that.

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The obvious response would be for the neighbours to build their own berm[s] facing the asshole's house, & have regular BBQs that include target shooting competitions using the heaviest firearms they have. I wonder how dipshit-boy would about dozens of 'stray' rounds punching holes through his home - & anybody standing upright - a few times a week.

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How do you expect him to brand them before he captures them?

Whoever wrote this doesn't have the first clue how cattle ranches operate in general, or why. Yes, I'm a cattle rancher. Yes, I'm also a super liberal registered democrat. Let's try not to sound like idiots, shall we?

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For some reason, I'm stuck on the idea of raising chickens in your basement. I bet that was a horrific stinky mess.

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If they are unreported....how do you know about them?

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Everglades television.

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