Guns and Tranquility

I once knew a guy that had issues with drainage fron his kitchen sink. It was an old house with iron soil pipe that went almost horrizontal under the floor in the basement. He didn't have the proper tools to clean out the plug, so he removed the cap from the end for easy access. He then put the barrel of a 12 gage shotgun in the end and removed the stoppage with one shot. That's nothing I'd recommend, but it worked for him.

Here's why this came to mind.

Last month Mr Long decided to install a satellite television system in his Deepwater home. His efforts to make a hole in the outside wall came to nothing because Mr Long did not possess a drill.

But he did have a .22 calibre gun.

He fired two shots from the inside of the bedroom.

The second killed his wife who was standing outside.

There's idiots in all parts of life.

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A lot of Lefties continually complain about the gun violence here in the old USA. They either lie or they've got their heads squarely up their asses.

A British man I met in Colorado recently told me he used to live in Kent but he moved to the American state of New Jersey and will not go home because it is, as he put it, "a gentler environment for bringing the kids up."

I've been to Garfield and Newark N.J. many times on business. From my perspective that's one of the arm pits of the country. People wake up pissed at the world and stay that way all day.

Brits arriving in New York, hoping to avoid being slaughtered on day one of their shopping mission to Manhattan are, by day two, beginning to wonder what all the fuss was about. By day three they have had had the scales lifted from their eyes.

I have met incredulous British tourists who have been shocked to the core by the peacefulness of the place, the lack of the violent undercurrent so ubiquitous in British cities, even British market towns.

And they come from a place that has extreme gun control laws, including a ban on handguns.

Wait till you get to London Texas, or Glasgow Montana, or Oxford Mississippi or Virgin Utah, for that matter, where every household is required by local ordinance to possess a gun.

Folks will have guns in all of these places and if you break into their homes they will probably kill you.

They will occasionally kill each other in anger or by mistake, but you never feel as unsafe as you can feel in south London.

It is a paradox. Along with the guns there is a tranquillity and civility about American life of which most British people can only dream.

It might be because of getting older, but I've noticed a personal attitude change since I started carrying. It takes an awful lot to get the anger rolling these days. Maybe tranquil is the correct word.