[Oe List ...] Salmon: Conversation on Sandy Hook

[Del Morril]

For years I had a lovely revolver that I enjoyed target shooting with.
Although expensive to target-shoot as a 38, a friend used to make iron
bullets for me so it was less expensive.  I really enjoyed that activity.  I
used to carry it when I taught on dark campuses and kept it in my bedside
drawer until our grandchildren were born and then I put it away.

 

HOWEVER!! Much as I loved that gun and shooting at targets (I used to rifle
shoot with my parents in Alaska on barren islands where no one could get
hurt),

last year after a couple of terrible and unnecessary killing of many
"innocents" I got so sick of our violence in America that I took that gun to
the police station and asked them to destroy it.  The cop there couldn't
believe it - he said I should sell it because it is such a superior gun - I
could get a lot for it.  I told him, NO! I do not want this weapon on the
street in anyone else's hands.  He assured me it would be done.  At the
time, I knew it was just a tiny drop in the ocean, but it was an important
symbol to me that I do this. I still miss that gun now and then, but I'm not
sorry I took the action I did.  

 

Del

 

Del Hunter Morrill

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Tacoma WA 98407-5419

H: (253) 752-1506; W: (253) 383-5757

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Web site: www. hypnocenter.com

 

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. (Joseph Campbell)

 

 

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[mailto:oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of William Salmon
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2012 7:48 AM
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Subject: [Oe List ...] Salmon: Conversation on Sandy Hook

 

Randy, you're a dandy.

    How do we satiate the Baals?

    Domestic Tranquility could well be the answer. There is no appropriate
response such as gun control. My friend, a gun freak, would say the response
to Sandy Hook would be for someone who had a licensed gun to defend the
children and kill the gunboy; thus, the more guns the better. 

    The answer is changing our gun culture. Doesn't Great Britain still make
it illegal to possess guns. Are the London "Bobbies" still unarmed? If so,
this is the direction that is necessary to take. 

    Perhaps, the Supreme Court will take up the definition of the "Right to
Bear Arms." Is this a right reserved for those trained in a "citizen's
army," or is it the right of every homeowner to bear arms in its own
defense. 

    Recently, in Wichita, KS, an intruder was shot while invading a home. Is
the purpose for gun ownership? 

    As for me and my house, I do not keep guns, although, I am not opposed
to the use of guns for hunting or recreation. 

    The ultimate question to be answered is, how to we change a nation's
attitude about guns when we punish prisoners with the death penalty, and
support a military presence around the world? 

    The god Moloch (one of the Baals) gets fed regularly with the young
fruit of our loins. During this event in Connecticut, old Molly must be
vomiting from the kill.     

    Inner Peace, says it more than ever!

    Bill Salmon

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