A moving story.
Just passing it along
As a guitarist, I play many gigs. Recently I was asked by a funeral director to play at a graveside service for a homeless man. He had no family or friends, so the service was to be at a pauper’s cemetery in the back country. As I was not familiar with the backwoods, I got lost.
I finally arrived an hour late and saw the funeral guy had evidently gone and the hearse was nowhere in sight. There were only the diggers and crew left and they were eating lunch.
I felt badly and apologized to the men for being late. I went to the side of the grave and looked down and the vault lid was already in place. I didn’t know what else to do, so I started to play.
The workers put down their lunches and began to gather around. I played out my heart and soul for this man with no family and friends. I played like I’ve never played before for this homeless man.
And as I played ‘Amazing Grace,’ the workers began to weep. They wept, I wept, we all wept together. When I finished I packed up my guitar and started for my car. Though my head hung low, my heart was full.
As I opened the door to my car, I heard one of the workers say, “I never seen nothin’ like that before and I’ve been putting in septic tanks for twenty years.”
Apparently, I’m still lost…
Yes, I miss this.
Then again, it is one of several reasons my lower back is hors de combat. One of the few things I do not regret doing even at the cost.
Washington State Man buys & chops gun for Gun Control, forgets obligatory background check.
Via Reddit.
“I bought this thing off the street,” he says last night, not 20 feet from where the unthinkable happened. “This is a gun that was probably never tracked. No one knows where it came from. No one knows where it would’ve gone. [I bought it] off the street, you know—friend of a friend. Thing is, I put out the word that I wanted a gun, and seven or eight hours later, I was buying it out of the trunk of a car.”
Source: How to Cut a Handgun in Half with a Chop Saw – Slog – The Stranger
If the story is true (you never know with these Gun Control types) the owner of Cafe Racer, Kurt Geissel broke Washington State’s law about private transaction of firearms without the proper background check done by a licensed dealer. The law categorizes this crime as a gross misdemeanor.
If arrested, tried and convicted, Mr. Geissel could be punished by “imprisonment in the county jail for a maximum term fixed by the court of up to three hundred sixty-four days, or by a fine in an amount fixed by the court of not more than five thousand dollars, or by both such imprisonment and fine.”
Now let’s see if the authorities do their job and arrest Mr. Geissel… yeah, I am not expecting that either, he more likely will get the Gregory Exception. Those are laws that only apply to them Gun Nuts, not artistic liberal people that have the best intentions at heart…if it only saves one life, do it for the Children! And you are racist because it is Bush’s Fault.
An honest day’s work
3.5 hours, 1,000 rounds of 12 gauge, 2-3/4 and 3 inch. Lot of fun, little sore.
Negroes with Guns Scare Miami PD.
So it’s not a huge shock that Lt. Javier Ortiz, president of Miami’s police union, lashed out at the proposal last night. What’s raising eyebrows, though, is Ortiz’s argument: namely, that if it passes, militant black activists will use the law to threaten cops.
Forget about the Second amendment and Gun Rights for a moment and concentrate on the sheer lack of logic: If the gun is visible, it constitutes a threat to police. If it is not visible because you draped yourself with a Hawaiian shirt or a Guayabera, then the gun is not a threat to police officers. Seriously?
And to the Miami New Times & Tim Elfrink: Have you even bothered to read the bill? In order to Open Carry, you need to get Florida’s Concealed Weapons Permit ans such permit only allows for handguns, not long guns (Florida Statutes 790.06) so why this picture accompanying the article?
I am sure it is an honest mistake because of the high ethical standards of the Miami New Times would not allow such buffoonery to be published on purpose just to incite unnecessary fears among your readers, right? You are well above clickbait.
About medical safety and unarmed Navy Seals in combat. (Facepalm Warning & Updated)
And we have this one from our friends at CSGV:
Not for nothing, but yes, I feel safer with my guns.
According to a new study just out from the prestigious Journal of Patient Safety, four times as many people die from preventable medical errors than we thought, as many as 440,000 a year …That means hospitals are killing off the equivalent of the entire population of Atlanta one year, Miami the next, then moving to Oakland, and on and on.
Source: Stunning News On Preventable Deaths In Hospitals – Forbes
The Gun Control Cult keeps throwing around the 30,000 annual “gun deaths” and tell us that we are having not only a crisis but an epidemic. But seeking medical treatment puts you 14 times more likely to die than actually owning a gun. If my math ain’t too messed up, we have an average of 1,205 preventable medical deaths per day, 50 deaths per hour, almost a death per minute.
And that number that should “adult scare” Mr. Gibson enough to fill his Metrosexual Pampers.
And one for the “Are you shi***** me?” files.
And that is why Navy Seals go into combat with a six-pack of pumpkin-spiced kombucha, $100 in coupons for Whole Foods and wearing tie-dyed t-shirts.
And that is why we win.
Update:
Well, well, well. Apparently Seal Team Kombucha might be a fraud.