- From the “Yes, but” Department – A new study claims that men and women show love for their spouses in different ways. According to scientists in Texas, men tend to show love by initiating sex, doing household chores, and enjoying leisure time together. Women, on the other hand, are said to express love by being less antagonistic. I tend to agree with the findings for men, but not for women. Irish Woman is affectionate, both with me and with the children. She also shows her love, and will admit to it if questioned, by cooking certain dishes, doing household work so that I won’t have to when I get home, and not putting up a fight when I say I’m going off to do something for the day. Honestly, it’s usually her suggestion that I get to the range. My opinion is that if the only way you can tell that your wife is expressing love is expressing her love for you is that she eased off on starting fights or making pithy comments for a while, maybe you need to re-evaluate your whole “I know she loves me” analysis methods.
- From the “Ummm, No” Department – A man in Oklahoma is appealing his sentence for shooting and killing a would-be robber after he had already shot him and the man was down. Basically, two guys started to rob the store, the man pulled out his gun, shot one of them in the head, causing him to drop. The other robber ran out of the store with the man in pursuit. The man then returned to the store and shot the already wounded robber to death. He’s claiming that his Asbergers syndrome made it impossible for him to make a good decision in the chaotic situation. To this I say: You should have thought of that before you put the gun in the holster that morning. You can’t look back on a shooting and say “Wasn’t my fault because I didn’t have the capacity to make a good decision”. I’m pretty sure that most states have a question to the effect of “Do you have any conditions that would make you unsafe to carry and use a deadly weapon?” on their concealed carry license application. If you answered honestly, then you shouldn’t have been carrying the gun. Either that, or you’re grasping at straws because you didn’t control your anger and adrenaline, which I’ll grant is very difficult. But that’s the responsibility you take when you say “I am responsible for my own safety and security, and a firearm is the tool I am going to use to do it.” After being shot in the head and laying on the floor bleeding, the deceased was no longer a threat, and neither was his buddy that you chased after he left the store. Coming back and finishing off the guy you just shot makes it murder, not self defense.
- From the “Mother of the Year” Department – A woman in Utah, along with a man in Oregon, are under arrest after the man provided the 13-year-old daughter of the woman with an iPhone loaded with shirtless pictures of himself, and the mother assisted the girl in taking nude photos of herself with the phone and sending them to the man. Apparently, the mother was OK with this sick situation, and claims that she and the man had agreed that he and the girl would refrain from physical sexual contact until she turned 18. Well, thank the Lord for small favors! Hopefully both of the adults in this case are sent somewhere dark, damp, and dirty for a very long time over this, and the young girl gets as much psychological support as can be had. She’s got a long way back to something approximating “normal” if this is what her mother has been doing to raise her.
- From the “Atrocity” Department – A 24-year-old man in Colorado has been arrested after police claim he threw a gas or smoke grenade into a theater showing the latest Batman movie, then opened fire on the audience. Reports are that 12 people are dead and 50 were injured in the attack. Police are searching his apartment, which appears to be booby-trapped and the suspect claims contains explosives. I’m not going to go over the detailed and hotly argued self-defense implications of this scenario because I’m sure better minds are already going over that, but my first instinct would be to grab the wife and kids and run. My gun will be used to clear any threats that are between my family and the exit, not to engage an attacker that is not impeding our progress. I’d rather be a live coward with an intact family than have people opine about how brave I was to stand between the attacker and the bodies of strangers at my wake or the at my daughter’s hospital bed. We all have hero fantasies, but this isn’t one of mine. All of us will be keeping the people hurt by this in our thoughts and prayers. If you’re of a mind to, please do so as well. Of course, the normal gang of idiots are clamoring for the government to tighten gun laws. Basically, murder with guns is bad, so we have to make murdering people with guns more illegaler. To those who will use this tragedy for gain, on either side of the argument, all I can say is “Shame on you”. Before you start pushing any agenda, give the families time to bury their dead and heal their hurt. Oh, and Mayor Bloomberg, there are precisely zero things that a president can do to deter or stop things like this from happening unless you totally disarm the civilian population and put a heavily armed policeman or soldier every few feet in all public spaces. Even then, it’s no guarantee. Danger, even the danger of something horrific happening, is the cost of liberty. In order to take away the right that this monster abused from other monsters, you would have to take it away from all of us, and I will not let anything, even the deaths of children, do that.
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Posted by daddybear71 on July 20, 2012
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/ July 22, 2012For that scumbag to try and blame his murder on ‘Asbergers syndrome’ is disgusting. Aspies have a very high level of awareness of right and wrong – I say this as the proud parent of one.
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