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
3217 North Mason Avenue
Tacoma WA 98407-5419
H: (253) 752-1506; W:
(253) 383-5757
Web
site: www. hypnocenter.com
The cave you fear
to enter holds the treasure you seek. (Joseph Campbell)
From:
oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of William Salmon
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2012
7:48 AM
To: OE@lists.wedgeblade.net
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