Think Before You Speak

I am here to confess that I am not an authority on much in this world.

Each of my days begins with a cup of coffee to wash down a handful of prescription pills and supplements.

While I am choking down this cocktail of pharmaceuticals I try to figure out how to productively proceed with the balance of my day.

I treat every day as though it was my last because it may very well be.   A physical ailment, a la heart attack, traffic collision, errant meteor, home invasion, ladder fall, or a Steinway piano falling out of a 757 jetliner, could all cause me to breathe my last breath.

I don’t dwell on dying; I dwell on living.

So it was with interest that I have been following the goat rodeo that occurred in Florida at the hands of some loser.

The puke who murdered 17, and wounded numerous others, is a coward.  He attacked a “soft” target – one that has very little in the way of protection, because he could kill more people more easily.

Broward County, Florida, has a weak sheriff who employs equally coward-like deputies to protect the members-at-large in his community.  This is where that senseless shooting occurred.

Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel is another loser who is afraid of guns in the hands of the average citizen.

Ignorant Nitwits

We often get quotes from law enforcement regarding armed citizens.  The standard line is, “At least we got another gun off the streets.” Or, “We need to get all guns off the streets.”

This sentiment is painful to honest, law-abiding members of society who are careful with their firearms, exercising safety while engaging in self protection.  People protect themselves because law enforcement can’t or won’t.

Sheriff Israel feels an AR-15 in my hands should be forbidden because, like his deputies, he, too, is a coward.  He has little concern about the Second Amendment; people with whom he disagrees should lose their rights.

And those high school kids that feel it necessary to make everyone hear their feelings are free to do so.  That is a right.  Just as killing babies through abortion is a Constitutional right.  For the record, over 900,000 innocent children were aborted in 2016, alone.

So as Sheriff Israel and school shooting protesters cherry pick their causes, they blindly aim their ire at anyone except those who deserve it.

Somehow, faulty logic is inserted about the National Rifle Association, innocent AR-15 owners, large-capacity magazines, Avis car rental, and even President Donald Trump being responsible for these senseless shootings.

It is time for the truth.

When I was born in the 1950’s there were only 48 states.  World War II had recently ended, and the Korean War/Conflict was in full swing. 

Surplus guns from WWII were plenty and were easily available via mail-order.

Ads in virtually every print magazine offered 1911 pistols for $6, Italian Carcano rifles for $18, M-1 carbines for $11, and trophy German Lugers for less than $25.

These were all popular and affordable, as ammunition was readily available for roughly a penny per round.  Many Japanese rifles and Mauser rifles were converted to hunting configurations with new or refinished stocks, and telescopic sights.

The most amazing part of all this is that any of these tools of war could be purchased with a simple Post Office Money Order.  They were sold to anyone without a background check or even identification.  Six bucks got you a pistol that now sells for over $1,000.

I, as a sixth, eighth, 10^th, or 12^th grader could own one for some lawn-mowing money.

But I didn’t, because we kids settled our differences in less violent and deadly manners; we knew better.

In 1963, President John F. Kennedy was killed with one of these mail-order rifles purchased and used by Lee Harvey Oswald.  This tragedy caused the Gun Control Act of 1968, effectively ending mail order guns.  Period.

Some 23,000 gun laws later and anti-Second Amendment nitwits are now blaming honest, legal gun owners for their woes.

Just remember, after September 11, 2001, America cried together to protect Muslims who were not guilty of anything other than belonging to a particular religion.  We were told not to group all Muslims together because they did nothing wrong.

How about applying that same theory to AR-15 owners and the NRA who likewise did nothing wrong.

Amen