Posted on 09/11/2009 2:04:20 PM PDT by Dallas
If guns kill people then spoons make Rosie fat.
Elmer Keith, one of my favorite writers but he was sure a believer in big guns. If it didn’t have a 4 or 5 as the first number of the caliber he thought it was too small, and he meant rifles as well as pistols.
You're welcome. It has long been one of my favorites.
It so succinctly expresses the danger of ignoring evil and failing to confront it.
I remain almost amazed at the incredible lives that most Americans alive today have had the good fortune to live. Most of us have never experienced the really challenging circumstances that the majority of people who have ever lived have had to contend with.
We have had it so good for so long that a disconcerting majority of our people occupy their minds with false dangers and unproductive economic fantasies. Such people deserve a wake-up-call that will help them to focus on where prosperity comes from and how easily collectivism can destroy it.
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