Guns Save Lives

If you've never come across this website http://gunssavelives.net/ before, you should take a peek at some of the stories of self defense. It's always a worthy read.
This website is full of people who are tired of being a victim and they're fighting back. It's a proven fact that most gun owners are law abiding citizens who are least likely to commit a crime.

It's amazing how every state except Illinois has some kind of concealed carry law or laws governing gun ownership. With that fact, is it just coincidence that Illinois residents are killing each other in droves? Chicago used to be a city I've always wanted to visit and maybe even catch a Cubby game at Wrigley. Not now. Not ever. Only the thugs and scum on the street have guns and the average citizen has no recourse, no way to defend themselves. Hell, the way the laws are written there, if they even fight back in their own home, they're quite literally breaking the law. Why should you, the victim, have to retreat in your own home? Why should anyone be charged with a crime for defending themselves or their property? Doesn't seem right, does it?

The recent reelection of the Obaminator left me numb for days. How did this happen? Were the voting tallies correct? Were the minority sheeple so taken with Barry's persona that all that hope and change crap blinded them to the reality of our situation? Perhaps it will be one of those mysteries of the ages...just like his birth certificate. Ah, but that's a whole other story.....

Now the proverbial "wish list" of assault weapons those morons in DC want to ban, is out and the gun stores are having a field day.
Sales are up and Black Friday guns sales was at a record breaking high. Yes, I was in the middle of that chaos and our gun shop alone probably sold over 60 guns that day. It was so busy that the National Instant Background Check System (NICS) was practically gridlocked. The Blaze reported the story in all-too-accurate detail.

There's no doubt about it.....people in the red states are scared. Some may even be overly paranoid, believing that SUV's with tinted windows will surround their house in the middle of the night, using Gestapo like tactics to seize everyone's guns. I'd like to think we are a rational people and that it won't come to that.

And now, those geniuses out there in the land of liberal do-gooders think it's a bright idea to have a gun buyback program.

Wonder what that will accomplish?

Countdown to Insanity

With about 2 days left until the election, there's a last minute push by both candidates to garner votes.
If you listen to a left wing this or a right wing that, you'd hear that their respective candidate is in the lead.
I am sure that I am not alone when I say that at this point, I have grown so weary of the campaign rhetoric, that I just want this election to be over already! Alas, the day grows near...

Maybe it's the current state of our country, or maybe I've just become more in tune with today's politics, or I am just plain going senile, but I can't ever remember myself getting so emotionally charged up as I have these last 2 elections. I often have to distance myself from it because I swear I feel my blood pressure rising.
Friends, co-workers, relatives, and every social media outlet imaginable are all continuously bombarding us with campaign "gossip" and rumors. Some based on facts, others not so much. You can't escape it.
The candidates, their stance on the issues and their promises have now advanced to the vomiting stage. Yes, you heard me, vomiting stage. I'm sick I tell you! Sick of it all!

If you are a Twitter follower, you know that "tweets" are small little blurbs of lies and facts, opinions, social and racial insults, comedy, even commercials. I never was a Twitter follower until this year when I started posting my blog entries. Reading tweets is often a chore trying to decipher today's sorry ass excuse for the English language. It often disgusts me and then....well, we know about the vomiting stage so I have to cut myself off. Often times, it's like a train wreck. You know it's coming and you should look away, but our twisted little sense of the macabre just has to see all the carnage. When I read some of these politically charged tweets, my blood boils and my head spins. There are just some people who shouldn't be allowed out by themselves let alone operate electronic devices that are supposed to convey intelligence. On the contrary, the amount of ignorance is just astounding.

The atmosphere in Twitter-land has become emotionally charged and it is rife with threats over the outcome of election 2012. Some are calling for rioting in the streets if Romney is the victor. Some paint Obama as the saint and if he loses, so too, do they lose all their "entitled" benefits. There's a good bit of narrow mindedness floating around in the land of Twitter and it's rather disturbing.
I hope they don't think that my vote will be swayed by threats of violence. That kind of throws the meaning of democracy right out the window. I do not like my current President and have made no bones about it.
I did not vote for him in 08 and did not threaten to run amok in the streets if he won. I also did not use social media sites to make death threats. By not backing Obama, some might call me a racist. Trust me when I tell you that that word has become the bane of anti Obama supporters everywhere. It's simply an excuse and is in no way true. In fact, if Herman Cain hadn't done himself in, I'd have probably been swayed to vote for him. But like many politicians and wealthy business owners, he turned out to be a bit of a whore monger and found himself disgraced so he did the only thing he could do - he threw in the towel.

I have already voted absentee. I do not want to be near any polling place on Tuesday. I will be working all day just so I will not sit in front of the television, mesmerized by the explanations and diagrams of blue and red, while newscasters drone on, explaining the differences of the popular vote versus the electoral college. The last election had me standing in line for over 2 hours to vote. My precinct evidently grew considerably between 04 and 08 as I had never seen such a turnout.
For those of you that are registered voters and haven't voted yet, please go vote. Don't be discouraged.

As I was composing this entry, my fellow blogger over at Charleston Thug Life was also apparently hovering through the Twitter world and had captured some interesting tweets. Go visit his blog and see what I'm referring to. Reading is believing.

http://chasthuglife.blogspot.com/2012/11/more-mouth-breathers-pontificating.html