Good Morning and how ya doing? Ever play cops and robbers while younger? Not now mind ya because if you’re playing it at our age, You are either the cop or the robber and that would not be a plastic colt 45 stuck in your waist band and further more it’s for real at our age. Well I ask that because some goobers have to play and sometimes that play gets out of hand and someone gets hurt or worst gets shot. Unlike the plastic guns where we would make our own sounds.. like Bang… or kapow! Or those who like to imitate Clint Eastwood… KABOOM! Anyway guns are dangerous and well, I guess boys will be boys and forget they to often to into men but forget that fact. Like the following articles I would like to call…
Armed and Clumsy
People who accidentally shot themselves recently: Opherro Jones, 32, shot himself in the stomach while allegedly pistol-whipping a man (Honolulu, June). [Star Bulletin (Honolulu), 8-7-07] Hmmm karma is hell sometimes….
( A 23-year-old San Francisco police officer accidentally shot himself to death while demonstrating police training techniques to friends at a party (August). [San Francisco Chronicle, 8-31-07] Hmmm perhaps we are safer with him out of the police force….
( A 24-year-old man accidentally shot himself in the foot while aiming at a turtle (Massillon, Ohio, August). [WEWS-TV (Cleveland)-AP, 8-14-07] hmmm those darn turtles are faster then they look.
( A 17-year-old boy, and 19-year-old Patrick Jefferson, accidentally shot themselves while "holstering" handguns in their waistbands (in, respectively, Pittsburgh, September, and Chicago, August). [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 9-13-07] [Chicago Tribune, 8-23-07] Yeah…
( Eric Titov, 22, accidentally shot himself to death while fleeing from police (perhaps caused, they said, by his tripping on his baggy shorts) (Houston, October). [Houston Chronicle, 10-29-07] I always wanted something to happen to those guys who wear their trousers around their knees… I never really wished death on any of them…but perhaps now they will wear them like the pants were intended to be worn.
Other then that guns kill period! You know, you can teach and teach and talk and talk until your head turns blue…but some people just don’t get it… well until they…get it I guess… Like the fools who have 4 wheel drive and oh lets say it’s snowing… sideways! Blizzard if you may… and they drive the speed limit or above just because they have 4 wheel drive and this truck can go through a mountain if I want it to. Yeah it will also plow over dogs and cats, small cars children you name it because oh, lets see.. ice is ice and rubber still slides on ice no matter if 4 wheels are engaged or not… Bonnie and I were bringing her car home from the New Years Eve party the next morning, road conditions were lets say…F/U in layman’s terms that means BAD!! When I say bad I mean bad… here comes along Mr. US Postal Carrier in a tractor trailer and baring down on me in the Durango which I had been right in back of Bonnie in her little Mazda Protégée which is tiny just the same.. and she is driving like Ms. Daisy took the wheel over… 20 mph on nasty at best roads this truck blew around me and I swear to god, if he knocked her off the road, I would have hunted him down and beat him into next week… I am not a violent man but, stupid can’t be fixed… so thank god I did not have to pull that Marty out of nowhere… all ended well, but…my god the roads are bad this time of year, 4 wheel or not drive responsible and use common sense. Oh hell I preached enough for one dang day… Stupid is stupid no matter how you stack it up…
Have a wonderful day.
A huge great big Michigan Boy Huggeroo and a pat or two.
Mart
PS I am glad Writer Deb took pity on me…
