I did watch Diane Sawyer and her co-host presenting a show "If I only had a Gun", and I don't think she is going to carry a gun any time soon. She wants to protect those children that she won't teach to behave from having drugs, poisons, prescription drugs, guns and damn fool stunts watched on other media that children seem to want to copy and improve on; "Fast and Furious" anyone?
I had one of the inmate workers look up causes of death in the United States - and firearms were not the leading reason children die, but they do seem to be something the government should be able to control. The government can't control illegal immigration, alcohol and drug abuse, can't stop murder by other means (not of firearms), illegal gambling, tax evasion, rape, child rape, arson and a few other crimes against people and property, but somehow the media believes that the government can control firearms. Our government can't even protect us from its agents when they decide to kill everything that moves and let God sort them out. Not often moral is our government, but then government isn't a being with a soul and a real relationship with God.
Ah, well, ABC News is related to Time magazine and Disney, they do live in a fantasy world and this was supposed to be a real test of what would happen if.. isn't this the network that does Super Nanny? - and I know my son never lacked for rules, reasons and care - what is going on in America? Are there any responsible adults out there?
Teach a chosen few how to handle a pistol, give them a pistol to conceal (?) put them in a classroom of undercover (working for ABC) folks and bring in a bad guy to kill them all. The bad guy knows where the cameras are, which of the folks has the gun and that he has to take out, the tested person has to pull the gun that they think is loaded with something that won't kill and take out the bad guy (which is not really a surprise! today you are going to die scenario - but closer than I practice). Okay, and they did get the results they wanted, no one was able to survive the attack or kill the attacker. They didn't put everyone in the classroom without a gun and see how many survived, but that wasn't what the show was about.
The show was designed to convince the Oprah crowd that carrying a firearm for your own defense won't work - you aren't good enough, don't train enough and the killers always have to win so we can sell advertising time on television so we get rich and you are just another victim - of so many things that you should fear... hmm, that last must all be mine. Yep, my errant thoughts have intruded. I have always said, I did all my killing in cold blood and tried to teach that, but not being in the killing business now I don't mention that, I do stress that emptiness and becoming one with the weapon, the target and the moment will work - but that is Zen and y'all are anxious Americans, always in a hurry to get to the point you can never reach. Take care out there, go gently, focusing front sight on target, squeeze. Diane Sawyer can't hit with her own skill set and production team, but then we did watch the last election didn't we?
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I watched Zulu this morning, cough lingers, I drink more liquid and wonder if it is time for Cromwell; what do men fight for, what is the cost and what is freedom - standing on your own and doing the best you can for all that you love, works for me.
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I do enjoy your wisdom on this subject. We took a trip to Alaska a while back and met a guy in the sporting goods section while my husband was pricing rifle shells. They got talking about the crime rate there. This man told us that when they changed the gun laws there and made handguns illegal the crime rate went up substantially. The powers that be then changed this back so that any citizen without a criminal record could carry a gun as long as it wasn't concealed. The crime rate went down so they changed it again so that the same people could carry a concealed weapon. He told us there was virtually NO crime in that area, people didn't even bother to lock their doors. He said that you just never knew if someone might be packing or not and no one wanted to take that chance. He called it the deterrent factor :)
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I didn't expect too much and it was delivered. I wrote it up for your enjoyment but then you are busy pushing your values and views, aren't you? http://wmearl-justthelibrarykeeper.blogspot.com/2009/04/gun-news-and-then-back-to-battle-long.html Thanks for trying, but Gunshow Loophole isn't or more value than assault weapon as a real term.
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greetings from the sunny shores of florida,
first of all, earl, thank you for your service to our great nation.
i'm very glad that i stumbled upon your blog with all of your insights to life in these troubled times. i dream of becoming close to the person that i read about in your posts. father, husband, friend, mentor, teacher, librarian, spiritualist, shooter...the complete man. it is a real pleasure to read your thoughts on the state of life in this weird world we live in today. i really feel the same things you feel when you are on the trusty triumph, the way you percieve the wolves of the world,a nd the way you are prepared to deal with them. having grown up in these troubled times, i am glad to find good information from my elders about ways to be a complete person. you are, to me, one of these complete people. thank you.
the folks on the news don't understand the time, practice and awareness that the ccw crowd uses every day of our lives. they will never see the repeated times that folks like us defend against the wolves of our society. their staged events do not portray the very real surprise to the wolf when he finds a sheepdog in his scenario. thank you for pointing out our point of view for the un-informed.
reading your posts daily,
rainman in daytona beach
thank you once again,
frank graham
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