Just A Few Shots

‘‘The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subjected peoples to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing.’’

– Adolph Hitler, Edict of March 18, 1938 – Me – With quotes like this, one can see why almost all Americans can easily hate this guy.

“The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.”

– Thomas Jefferson – Me – This is, unfortunately as our great leader Thomas Jefferson states, is the sad truth.  When it is needed, the bullets will have already left the barrels, and liberty will be on the line.

My last gun related note for today.  I saw a sticker recently, “My next door neighbor wants to BAN all GUNS!  Their house is NOT armed!  Out of RESPECT for their opinions I promise NOT to use my guns to protect them.”

That is all.

The Artistry of the Hard Core

The beauty of this is awesome.  Yet when watching in person one might only see the hard core extreme nature of riding vert.  It is nice to stop, and think of alternate perceptions of life, like this BMXer shredding vert and perceive it from the photographer/videographer’s perspective.  Props to Oton Bačar for a wicked good job putting this together.

Just Stupid, Awesome, Impressive Driving

That is all.

The Things I See

I wonder about town a lot and see all sorts of things.  A lot of these things I see and know there is danger to be seen everywhere, but certain things stand out distinctly.

The Oddball Knifer

Recently I was walking down the street and saw a ruffled fella, probably homeless, walking along fiddling with a pocket knife he had.  This isn’t something normal that one does, walk around and fiddle like this.  Seeing his physical appearance and such I questioned his sanity, and wondered if he wouldn’t fall into the realm of a random stabber.

I immediately distanced myself about 12-14 feet.  But he just walked amongst others who paid little to no attention to this man.  He then caused concern to me as he brushed up a young lady, probably in her early 20s who paid no attention.  As he brushed against her, probably not entirely aware of it himself, he made a stabbing motion forward.  She still, obliviously walked along just stepping away slightly.  She had not noticed that this had a knife, or could have stabbed her.

I followed him a little way and looked around for an officer.  As the saying goes, there wasn’t one around when I needed one.  I kept pacing along behind this guy, watching him carefully.  Eventually he put the knife away and walked off with a jittery hand.  Having seen no officer, I deemed that I’d just let this go.  I can’t save the world, but I felt compelled to keep an eye on this situation since so many are oblivious to these immediate dangers.

Why do I see these things?  Probably my childhood, a bit of New Orleans life and an overt desire to be aware of my surroundings?  I’d bet on all of these things.

I am truly amazed humanity manages as well as it does, but there is some inherent order to things.  Days like this though I’m just shocked by these little intricate details that massive numbers of people never notice.  Fortunately, as statistics prove, people are generally good souls.  Even the downtrodden and poor beaten souls.