So, Wally has flat out lost whatever mind he had. Yesterday, he decided he could do as he damned well pleased WITHOUT HIS CANE. I was tired of fighting, Tyler was freaking out because if Wally falls, it will be the hospital again. So, he managed to get out there, and drag a rake one handed. Made a big assed mess is what he did. He still thinks he can use the chainsaw and reciprocating saw. Every doctor and therapist has told him, "NO!" Eff them. He knows better.
He says I cannot have a new dryer. This is going to be a major point of contention. Pretty major. We are watching the news about the San Bernardino active shooter. I swear to God, earlier, I was outside HANGING UP CLOTHES ON THE STUPID, PIONEER CLOTHESLINE, and I heard 1. Sirens; 2. Pistol shots. Pop pop pop.....pop pop. Hmmmmm...it was coming from the direction of the high school. Thank god my kids have all graduated. Anyhow, I think "Oh, I'm being overly dramatic like everyone says....it's nothing..." POPPOPPOPPOPPOP.........(VERY DEEP MUFFLED) ratatatatatatatatatataat. Not a pistol. An sutomatic rifle. I know what shots sound like. It was not like a nail gun, it wasn't from Ft. Hood, although since it was cold and rainy, they sent troops out in the field to bomb the hell out of it. Our house sort of jumps off the ground all the time. We don't even notice anymore, so this that I was hearing, was definitely not that. Then, I hear: sirens. More sirens. Time: 1:2something. Kids out..coming back from lunch maybe? I don't know the times. I just stay away anytime near 4:00. You can't get down the street when they are dismissed. Anyhow, I heard the pistol shots further away...down towards a convenience store, our vet, and a trailer park. I came in, told Wally, turned on the news and found out about San Bernardino. Nothing about here, so who knows what I heard.
Oooohhh...WARNING: THIS IS ABOUT TO TURN INTO A RANT, AND I DIDN'T PLAN IT. Don't blame me.
I am in favor of the 2nd amendment. I shoot, my husband shoots, my kids shoot. I have been shooting since I was a wee tiny girl. My Daddy is from remote West Texas, and naturally, you take your kids out and train them with a .22 rifle. We did that several times. I grew up around guns. We lived in the actual...LITERAL (you know I hate that word being used incorrectly), however, LITERALLY IN THE MIDDLE OF A PLACE CALLED NOWHERE. You shoot. Kids carry pocket knives all the time. Not to kill people, but because it's a tool. I have two scars on my right thigh and knee where I shut my knife wrong. Who cares? I didn't even say anything. I sure as hell didn't run and cry.
Anyhow, back to guns. I am pretty damned good. I have a 9mm that is just mine. I love it. It's a Smith & Wesson 639. Stainless and I am used to it. We have probably, seriously, no exaggeration, probably close to 20 guns that we shoot regularly. Some are very large weapons that even shooting ranges won't let us shoot. I promise....I guarantee...that if someone in that building had been able to carry a gun...this would have been much less serious. Here, you never know if someone is carrying, so you best behave. If there is a sign saying you cannot even bring in concealed carry with license, then you aren't supposed to. Who knows you have it, though? (Not condoning that, it's ILLEGAL.) Anyhow...if people were able to conceal carry everywhere, there would be a shit ton less of these damned ridiculous horrific situations. Who goes into a place that serves people with developmental disabilities???? What the hell? Really. If I had been there, and had a gun...at least ONE would be dead.
My husband is absolutely POSITIVE that we will have to defend our HOMESTEAD...WTF? I know, it's the Homestead Exemption, but still... He is sure we will all have to defend the ole homestead from a tribe of government agents. He's POSITIVE. We must be ready. Nobody cares and we don't listen and find him insane. Fear not. After his stroke, he can't do it. Whew.
My point, and I do have one this time, is that these effed up individuals need to be terrified to go into any place because they won't know who the hell could have a gun and be more than ready to shoot them dead in a hot second. I know California is not a very gun friendly state. Imagine if it was. Let's face it. Criminals are going to get guns. They aren't going to do it legally, more than likely. We get ours from gun dealers. We have inherited guns. We lock them securely with biometric safes.
24 years ago, our town was the genial host to what ended up being a huge mass shooting. A major insane person from the next town over decided to ruin many people's lives. He drove from his town to ours, decided to crash his car through the windows of a cafeteria called Luby's. It was either Boss' day or Secretary's day. I can't remember. It was full. They nutjob got our of his car or truck or whatever and proceeded to shoot people calmly and cooly. He targeted women. (He had problems with the ladies. Idiot. It was probably because he was BATSHIT crazy.)
My husband had to respond to that, along with state troopers, the rest of our city's PD, EMS, Firefighters...other town's PDs. It was a horrible horrible scene. Many of the people who were shot had guns in their cars. Had they been able to conceal carry, that man wouldn't have been able to do this. My husband's partner shot the fool. Then the fool shot himself. Before he was shot, he hollered, "I have hostages!". My husband's partner yelled back, "No you don't!" and shot him. None of these brave but idiot fools, (including my husband) had their vests on. FOOLS! My husband's partner was using a state trooper's car as cover and reached in and got a vest off the seat. FOOLS! My husband always wore his vest after that, and I had a big sign on the door telling him to wear it. ANYHOW...., they had the highway shut down and helicopters there to take wounded to a large hospital nearby. (The same hospital Wally was in after his stroke.) However, 23 people died that day. In a restaurant in the middle of the day. The man was not connected to the restaurant in any way. He was simply some crazy person who snapped and went and killed many innocent people. Had he known someone could and probably would have a gun, no way, Jose. In Texas, you can pretty well assume more than one or two people will be armed. Had it been so then, many people would have lived.
How did I get on this subject? I try to stay away from decisive issues on here. So..yeah. FAIL.
The press just asked the police chief of San Bernardino what the gunmen used. I just yelled: "GUNS!" Jeez.
With that, I bid you A DOO. (a student of mine used to close all of his writings with that. Awesome.)
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