There is good news...

I am going to work very hard on becoming an American Rifleman. I can't be a Nation of Riflemen, but I can be an American Rifleman. There are tough times ahead, I need to be able to take my rifle and ammunition and make that well aimed shot and hit the target as I called it. That kind of skill and discipline is exactly what will get me to that great life that my family has always worked for, each shot is new and exactly (if one is doing it correctly) like the last one.

Those life skills don't change either, what has made my life a success to this point are truths that I can offer to others, and have. Many may count the number of dollars to mean their success, and others count the numbers of A-list invitations and coverage by Star and People magazines, but I count the smiles of the people I love, the laughter of the children I tease in their growing up, the touching of the elders that have lived it all before me - before they go away. I count the thank you's that I can respond with "It was nothing" or "de nada" and mean it. It costs so little to be so good, but it does improve with practice.

Yes, I will work on becoming an American Rifleman, each shot a work of art, a moment in time when the man, the rifle, the bullet and the target are one - dependent and yet separate - frozen in thought, action, follow through and release - on to acquire the next target.