Re: LewisArtillery
Travis;
Bless your ornery, calloused, gun-toting (but beloved) soul. I will tell just
one incident that I experienced first
hand.
I used to live (for 12 years) in a beautiful, quiet, peaceful upper-middle-class
community called Miami Shores. During
the Clinton escapade in Haiti, a flood of Haitians (many thousands) came into
Miami, and surrounding areas. No problem.
People there were open, kindly, helpful and accepting. For whatever reason,
Miami Shores started to become the "Little
Haiti" of South Florida, just as S.W. 8th Street (Miami) became "Little Havana"
years earlier. Still, No. problem.
Then the crime wave started. The criminal element in Haiti saw a free lunch in
Miami, and with Clinton's help, came
there. 20 bucks a day to these people was considered RICH.
One night, two doors away from me, a home was broken into by two Haitian males.
An elderly couple lived there, with a
visiting grand-daughter.
The couple were watching television in the front living room. The elderly man
was shot in the head, and died instantly.
The elderly woman, who screamed during the entire incident, was beaten and raped
by both assailants.
The Grand-daughter, 15 years old, woken from sleep in a back bedroom by the
screaming and the gun shot, slipped into her
grandfather's room, where he had showed her he kept a loaded .357 magnum
revolver. The grand-daughter crept quietly out
to the living room, where she saw one assailant raping her grandmother. She
pointed the gun at him, closed her eyes, and
pulled the trigger.
He was hit square in the head, and killed. The other assailant ran out the door,
and escaped. He was captured shortly
afterwards after hitting three parked cars on the street where the crime was
committed, running a red light and smashing
broadside into the car of a nurse who was driving
home after work. She was badly injured, but recovered.
The grandmother who was raped and beaten, did not recover. She died of her
injuries three days later. I don't know how
the little girl did, because I packed up my family, and two days later, moved to
a farm in southern Illinois.
While there, I joined the NRA, bought several handguns, rifles and shotguns, and
had my entire family trained in their
use.
We've since moved back to Florida (but, NOT Miami), which we all loved so much.
You can send this note to Kat, if you want, but it won't make any difference.
Anti-gun (and all other leftist causes,
are her religion. You can't defeat a religion with logic).
Good luck to you in the Wild West. Sounds lovely.
Jim Duffy
(Now safe in the gut-totin' Florida panhandle)
Travis Beaty wrote:
>
> Howdy y'all!
>
> Although this is extremely off-topic (now), I felt that I'd like to
> contribute a little to the discussion here, as I live out in the middle of
> what most folks still consider the "Wild West." (Which, BTW, was nothing
> like Hollywood has portrayed it.) Out here in this part of the world, it's
> rare to find a house *without* a gun, and a little odd to find a house with
> just one. And, although this might get me flamed, yes, yours truly has a
> firearm. Mostly, the guns here are used on the coyotes, since they take a
> likening to eating cattle, especially calves. But there is also the matter
> of defense, as the main corridor between Amarillo and Ft. Worth runs through
> town, and we have a major interstate 10 miles away. Yet here in Claude, we
> haven't had a murder in a **very** long time. Nor have we had "accidental"
> shootings. Amarillo is much bigger than Claude (~150,000 people), yet
> compared to other cities of that size, its crime rate is extremely low, with
> only maybe a half dozen murders per year.
>
> So I ask myself the question: why didn't I get a wild hair to take my dad's
> gun to school (back in the 80s) and start shooting up the cafeteria? Just
> like the jackasses ... and that is the correct word for them in my opinion
> ... in Amarillo (1996), Paducah, Colombine, ad nauseum, I was picked on in
> school, horribly. Yet it never even crossed my mind to do something like
> that.
>
> Well, I tell you why. When I was seven years old, my dad took me out to the
> back forty with a .45. He put it in my hand, then had me take a shot at a
> watermelon. I can remember how that watermelon exploded into a thousand
> pieces, and how that thing threw me back a good couple of feet, and that's
> when I got this piece of wisdom that none of the aforementioned jackasses
> had: respect for the gun.
>
> Also, although Kat might object to this, I believe it's pertinent to the
> discussion: we have become a god(dess)less world. Now, before every else
> jumped down my throat, I'm not necessarily talking about the Christian god.
> But what I am saying is that morality pretty much comes part and parcel with
> religion, and since most of the "developed" world is now missing religion,
> it has also begun to start missing morality as well. I truly believe that
> had these children spent a little time in church/synagogue/mosque/circle,
> they might have had the sense of morality that keeps people of doing things
> like that.
>
> If you want to respond to this, please feel free. However, please do it
> privately, so that we can help this off-topic thread come to a conclusion.
> 
>
> Happy Hunting,
>
> Travis Beaty
> Claude, Texas.
>
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