Thanks for pointing me to the thread Gunny.
I agree with you wholeheartedly; we gun owners can take care of ourselves, weeding out the nimrods as we go. Seeing as how our culture is saturated
with firearms
they should teach gun safety in high school as a required course too.
Off topic: You've probably seen this before, but I got this email from a friend last night and thought it was hilarious.
Why waste the young?
I am over 60 and the Armed Forces thinks I'm too old to track down terrorists. You can't be older than 42 to join the military. They've got the
whole thing ass-backwards. Instead of sending 18-year olds off to fight, they ought to take us old guys. You shouldn't be able to join a military
unit until you're at least 35.
For starters: Researchers say 18-year-olds think about sex every 10 seconds. Old guys only think about sex a couple of times a day, leaving us more
than 28,000 additional seconds per day to concentrate on the enemy.
Young guys haven't lived long enough to be cranky, and a cranky soldier is a dangerous soldier. "My back hurts! I can't sleep, I'm tired and
hungry." We are impatient and maybe letting us kill some a##hole that desperately deserves it will make us feel better and shut us up for a while.
An 18-year-old doesn't even like to get up before 10 a.m. Old guys always get up early to pee, so what the hell. Besides, like I said, "I'm tired
and can't sleep and since I'm already up, I may as well be up killing some fanatical S.O.B."
If captured, we couldn't spill the beans because we'd forget where we put them. In fact, name, rank, and serial number would be a real
brainteaser.
Boot camp would be easier for old guys. We're used to getting screamed and yelled at, and we're used to soft food. We've also developed an
appreciation for guns. We've been using them for years as an excuse to get out of the house, away from the screaming and yelling...
They could lighten up on the obstacle course, however. I've been in combat and didn't see a single 20-foot wall with rope hanging over the side, nor
did I ever do any pushups after completing basic training.
Actually, the running part is kind of a waste of energy, too. I've never seen anyone outrun a bullet.
An 18-year-old has the whole world ahead of him. He's still learning to shave, to start up a conversation with a pretty girl. He still hasn't
figured out that a baseball cap has a brim to shade his eyes, not the back of his head.
These are all great reasons to keep our kids at home to learn a little more about life before sending them off into harm's way.
Let us old guys track down those dirty rotten coward terrorists. The last thing an enemy would want to see is a couple of million pissed off old farts
with attitudes and automatic weapons who know that their best years are already behind them.
How about recruiting women over 50 ... in menopause! You think men have attitudes! Ohhhhhh my God! If nothing else, put them on border patrol ...
They'll have it secured the first night!
Oh, one more thing. I've had a photo of Lt. Col. North raising his hand to testify before Congress on my desk for almost 20 years. I don't care what
anyone says, he is a good Marine.
It's this one (although it's a properly cropped 5X7 the AP sent the paper to use in the story.)
