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Honestly ? At this point I have absolutely no idea

I think this is the problem here with this guys ponds. It kinda sounds as mad as the UK enforcing its law on every man of the land must practice the longbow for at least one hour after church on sundays.

Understand, I am in complete agreement that people should be free to exercise rights, but in a responsible manner.

Walking down the street with rifles in hand is not normal behavior when you are not on your way into target practice or some good reason for toting about a deadly weapon.

Never comes to mind that he must carry those unloaded otherwise he is breaking the law.
Now as a criminal who doesn't give a rats posterior pulls up in a car and robs the idiot of his guns that he is walking around showing off, it's like wearing expensive stuff in a poor ghetto someone's gonna take it...then what, now a criminal who doesn't care or a crazy who takes it God knows what they'll do with it now.

Gun ownership is a serious responsibility not a way to flaunt your right in the face of others.

Besides this was about the ridiculous laws on water rights here in the USA not on gun laws.

let's take this to a fun place I was surfing the YouTube videos and came across this little gem.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujMoQAE7TC0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Wait, we all get free phones?! This is BS. Taxes should only be used to kill people. Anything else is communism.

Wouldn't surprise me the least.

After all, we still have the "Schaumweinsteuer" here in Germany, a special tax on sparkling wine and champagne introduced in the late 19th century to build up the Kaiser's Imperial warfleet.
IIRC there was also a special tax on matches, also to support the Imperial fleet, that got revoked somewhere around 1990.

Just think about how many ships of the line we could have by now with all that money...

Oh. Well, of course. The law must be enforced. Think of the good it will do. Strengthen arms, improve posture, and stimulate the economy. There will be an increase in bow and arrow sales.

Texas used to have this law, but sadly it was revoked in 1973: "Homicide is justifiable when committed by the husband on any one taken in the act of adultery with the wife, provided that the killing takes place before the parties to the act of adultery have separated." In other words, if the husband catches somebody in the act with his wife, it's OK if he kills the guy.

Seems like a pretty straightforward rule, but like all laws, people pushed the limits. One husband found his wife in the corn crib with a neighbor. But it was midnight and pitch black, so he couldn't be sure they were actually in the act of adultery. But he knew they were "up to no good," so he went ahead and shot the neighbor anyway. The court said that was OK. "Such positive proofs [of actually doing the wild thang] are not required and rarely obtainable."

Another killed both the "bull" and the wife. Not allowed. The law allowed killing the guy, but not the wife. He got prison for one murder.

Then there was a wife who caught her husband in the act and killed the other woman. Sorry, the law says "homicide is justifiable when committed by the husband." Murder conviction, women's prison for you.

Another husband didn't actually kill the lover, but instead just tied him up and castrated him. Nope, the law only protects you if you kill the guy. Conviction: Aggravated assault, $300 fine and 30 days in jail. About the same penalty you'd get for punching somebody out.

Eventually by 1973 it all just got too complicated. Wives of shot "bulls" were trying to collect on accidental death insurance policies. Was that an accidental death, and the insurance company should pay? Or was it not accidental, because the dead guy should have anticipated that cheating in Texas can get you killed? Instead of updating the law to deal with all the complications, the state decided to move into the 20th century and just drop it altogether.

While I think the rest of the thread is ****, I absolutely love this little part. I think you should seriously work at getting the longbow training law enforced more often.

If one reads the following wiki one could find discussion of Common Law in the area that would support this man's collection of water. All he would have to do is show that by him collecting water he is keeping property owners on land below his from having to deal with the negative effects of the water run off from his property. It is not like that guy is diverting a river for the purpose of gold prospecting