Guns don't kill people. People kill people. A challenge.

The gun debate rattles on for the NRA which organizationally is a lot like the NBA. Eventually, only one team wins. Every else gets eliminated.

So let's test this little truism about 'Guns don't kill people. People kill people.'

Here's my proposal and challenge to Wayne LaPierre.

I challenge you to a duel at 30 paces. I get to use an AK47 with a 100 round banana clip and fully automatic option.

You get your choice of any human on the planet. May I suggest President Obama or Hillary Clinton. Both seem to be good choices. Alledgedly they are among the most lethal human beings on the planet.

After I've used all 100 rounds to prove to you that guns kill, I'm going to spit on your grave.

When would you like to meet?

God says, Kill those who might kill you before they do kill you.

It's 1 am and I'm sleepless. Guns, gun violence, murders, political, social, and religious support for guns deny me some sleep. Perhaps even my rest.

Do you remember the shooting of those 20 kids in that classroom? Sort of, eh? Details are faint. The horror is as distant as the date.

That shooting in the movie theater? Did the jury send him to the electric chair? I don't know.

The two reporters murdered during a live TV broadcast? The recorded video is the Hell in my eyes right now. I see the video running in my head. The gun is pointed. It fires. The blond woman sort of jumps and jerks. The sound track screams. The scream suddenly interrupted by the next bullet crushing through her skin. The second bullet rips the air from her lungs in another scream. And, the video repeats this pattern. The sound track screams and screams until it is cut.

I feel like I was there. This live video bit of horror marked me forever.

And, yet, I knew there would be another shooting. Any day. Any moment. Just like the screaming woman, our society can't avoid the hail of death.
And, yet, what did we do? Nothing. Except for those with a religious or political agenda. That is, if there is a difference anymore between religion and gun politics.

So while I can't sleep I'm reading what others are saying about the latest shooting, hoping to find some comforting words. something to make the horrors distant again.

But their words make the horrors real again. Not the images of the shootings. The certainty, the absolute certainty that more innocent lives will end as metal slugs slam though human flesh.

Among all the words I've read in support of more guns, I found a writer talking of our "sacred civil scripture," the Constitution, and how it describes our right to have guns. The words built a clear path to a safe society. We must kill those who might kill us before they do kill us.

Who will make that decision as to who might be plotting against us? Those who have access to a "higher scripture than that we have written?"

How can I sleep tonight when a gun nut hugs the US Constitution, calls it a sacred scripture and says, our national disgrace can only be stopped when we eliminate those guilty of having a "dark heart?"

Submitted to the Gainesville Times as a Letter to the Editor.

God says, Kill those who would kill you before they do kill you.

At last, the Holy Call has gone out and the final solution to our rampaging gun problem has been solved. It is time for the right thinking protectors of our Holy Civil Scripture to hunt down the dark hearts and kill them before they kill us.

I launch my unholy outrage at the letter of Michael Hawkins who used phrases like, scripture "that we wrote for ourselves for civil use," and 'our sacred civil scripture' in his letter.

So we have the proper Christian approach to gun violence.

Hunt down and kill those among us who are deranged or who plot to harm us.

Kill them all and Let God sort them out.

Digging a hole to fit a lake

Over a decade ago, some land developers in Hall County, Georgia, decided to create an amenity lake by damning a creek. The creek feeds into the river which feeds into the lake which supplies the water to flush toilets in Atlanta, Georgia.

So, there were permits to buy. Inspectors to bribe. And reasons to lie.

So the permits were purchased fair and square but magic happened.

'Our lake is too small. We don't like that at all. Give someone a call. Let the government fix the law.'

So county government began digging a financial hole called The Glades. Yes, I should have used a swamp metaphor. Next time.

During the worst economic crisis in the modern era of man, local government laid off hundreds of people with some terminations announced on radio. Yeah. Some people were driving to their jobs when the local radio stations repeated the terminations. As in, last night, in a public meeting, the Hall County Board of Commissioners voted to fire 25 people immediately to save a few thousand dollars.

Have to explain that better.

The Commission decided to fire the people on a Thursday night rather than a Friday morning to save money.

Yeah. Desperate times. Desperate measures.

So we saved a little money at the price of basic human dignity and happily used the money to dig the hole to fill with gold.

So in the second decade of the Glades, we have a $15,000,000 hole. A scheme to spend unlimited money, whatever it takes, to recover the losses made by political bosses.

Time to fire some County Commissioners or give them shovels.

I am not a member of the Communist Party ...

Gainesville Times

It's public knowledge that I resigned from the Democratic Party some years ago.

I vote in the GOP primaries.