Me and a gun.
It's been almost five years since I first got my firearm license.
Don't remember why I decided to do it. Haven't really thought much about it since.
You may or may not have noticed I use a lot of song names when I title my blog entries. Most times it's the song playing on the ol' mp3 jukebox, or just heard it on the radio etc etc. Just now I actually looked ahead into the future (of my playlist) and saw this gem.
Me and a gun.
Guns are portrayed too dramatically nowadays. It seems like "in theory" everyone in the "hood" is packing and yet most kids have never seen a real gun. Don't start freaking out on me about kids and guns now please. I still believe that education is safer than ignorance, and just because you may decide not to own a gun doesn't mean your children won't ever encounter one. Anyway, back to my point, too dramatic. People see a gun and think a select group of thoughts mostly revolving around suicide and or murder. Chances are your great great grandfather shot a meal at least once in his life. Home security is one of the main reasons anyone purchases a handgun today, and why not? Every other show on television is about a crime scene or a murder trial or some other "taken right from the headlines" dramatized true story about how rotten the world is today. When as Americans we are so much safer on a day to day basis than people in many many many other parts of the world... Then again I think it almost makes sense that things seem so cut and dry for frustrated individuals looking to express themselves in society that prides itself on the fact all of our cereal comes in the same size boxes. And only have of them contain any usefull nutrients what so ever. The world of secure commercialism we live in gives us no breathing room in our boundless freedom. The law is non negotiable. Prices are non negotiable. There's no room left to say well maybe "that" isn't so... "That" being the intagible arguable point in any pointless argument. Speaking of pointless, did you think I was going somewhere with any of this? Let's be honest, I was just killing time till my dinner was ready.
Brad
Don't remember why I decided to do it. Haven't really thought much about it since.
You may or may not have noticed I use a lot of song names when I title my blog entries. Most times it's the song playing on the ol' mp3 jukebox, or just heard it on the radio etc etc. Just now I actually looked ahead into the future (of my playlist) and saw this gem.
Me and a gun.
Guns are portrayed too dramatically nowadays. It seems like "in theory" everyone in the "hood" is packing and yet most kids have never seen a real gun. Don't start freaking out on me about kids and guns now please. I still believe that education is safer than ignorance, and just because you may decide not to own a gun doesn't mean your children won't ever encounter one. Anyway, back to my point, too dramatic. People see a gun and think a select group of thoughts mostly revolving around suicide and or murder. Chances are your great great grandfather shot a meal at least once in his life. Home security is one of the main reasons anyone purchases a handgun today, and why not? Every other show on television is about a crime scene or a murder trial or some other "taken right from the headlines" dramatized true story about how rotten the world is today. When as Americans we are so much safer on a day to day basis than people in many many many other parts of the world... Then again I think it almost makes sense that things seem so cut and dry for frustrated individuals looking to express themselves in society that prides itself on the fact all of our cereal comes in the same size boxes. And only have of them contain any usefull nutrients what so ever. The world of secure commercialism we live in gives us no breathing room in our boundless freedom. The law is non negotiable. Prices are non negotiable. There's no room left to say well maybe "that" isn't so... "That" being the intagible arguable point in any pointless argument. Speaking of pointless, did you think I was going somewhere with any of this? Let's be honest, I was just killing time till my dinner was ready.
Brad
posted by Brad O'Brien at 7:29 PM
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point taken
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