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I guess we each choose our own poison. I always wanted a M1, but never found an authentic one at a reasonable price and currently own a WWII authentic M1 carbine as well as a 45 Semi Auto pistol from 1943.
I did not start thinking or talking about my war until well into my sixth decade after I found out I had not buried it deep enough and it began to regurgitate in my life. I probably should have digested it 50 years ago. While I never lost the Christian faith, I began to doubt my interpretations of it and I daily ask for forgiveness of all transgressions both real or imagined. |
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I can well understand your reluctance B.T. to hold an M16.
My father never wanted to ever touch a M1 Garande ever again, and never talked about his days in WW II until he got into his 7th decade. My supposition about you and my father is that you and he were raised as good Christian boys to become good Christian Men. Raining death upon other humans, many no more evil or good than yourselves, is a terrible duty. That is why I revere patriots like you and Robert Earle Deatherage with such great conviction. |
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You and I are what my dad used to call “$hit Stirrers;” people who just try to stir up a stink.
I plead guilty. One of the few promises I made to myself after returning from Vietnam was that I would never touch an M16 or any variation thereof. I have fortunately been able to keep that promise. I have friends who own them and often they will try to hand them to me to look at. I tell them thanks but no thanks. That does not make me antigun and I don't believe it gives me the right to prevent others from their own choices; I have owned shot and touched multiple other rifles and pistols over the years but that one variation of rifle holds significant memories for me and I choose not to own one. I hope to live out the rest of my life fulfilling that promise, but one thing I do know is that if and when I ever have to break that promise, I will not need to own an M16, AR15 or so called "Assault Rifle." There will be plenty laying around to pick up if needed. You might say that I think I have paid my dues. The second amendment does not guarantee safety. All the legally owned guns in gun safes, under beds, on the mantel, on the pickup gun rack, in the closet, on the belt or under the shirt are of no good if they stay there when someone of ill intent decides to enter a school or anyplace armed and prepared to do harm to others. Only people of good intent can ameliorate and prevent the damage of done by a deranged armed person. They can do that with bats, bricks, rocks, or guns but the weapon of choice is not as important as the willingness to defend oneself. The choice of weapon merely increases the odds that one will succeed in their own and other's defense. |
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The Trumpster "Tweaks"; excellent evaluation.
I'm kind of the same way. Even though I know I am right to the core, I often just want to piss some people off, while inflaming the passions of those that will try to make a difference. I would do this if I did not believe that I was right. The President believes he is right, and ... he most often is; especially when he accuse the Obama administration of "wiretapping Trump Towers", which truly pissed off the Fake News to no end. The "Basics" that you speak of is at the core of being an American, and many Americans will never fully what those basics are. That is how you lose a republic. |
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In a world ruled by absolutes on both side of any issue, I am somewhat amused that President Trump seems to be one of the few who actually is trying to advance the debate and rein in the extremes from either side of this issue.
Most people may eventually come to realize that his Tweets (I call them Tweaks) are nothing more than an effort to foster debate and discussion. I think he understands he is not a dictator but merely another President in a long line of Presidents. For many years many people have asked for our politicians to either stay out of our lives or take over our lives. The fact is that there are no absolutes in human existence. I think our founders understood that when they limited the absolutes to just a few (10 or so). Flawed as it may be, our system is based on mutual agreement on just a few basics. Since Benjamin Tyler Henry conceived the first practical, lever action repeating rifle we have been arguing math instead of heart. "Patented in 1860, the Henry gave a single man the firepower of a dozen marksmen armed with muzzle-loading muskets." www.henryusa.com |
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I really have to work at it. I want to do what is right, and I want to be a good citizen of His world.