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What happened Friday was a nationwide travesty.  If you feel unaffected by what happened, teach me that trick because I spent the lion's share of my weekend in front of the t.v. watching CNN, ending in the service last night where President Obama and others spoke directly to the families and first responders; it was incredibly powerful and gut wrenching.  I worry about all the people involved but when things like this happen the first responders are usually at the forefront of my mind and the primary focus of my prayers because they will never, ever, be able to get those mental pictures out of their heads, and what makes it even more horrific is that these were essentially babies, that is on a whole other level of evil and horror.

I am a strong supporter of the second amendment, that having been said I've never hunted for anything that I needed a 50 bullet clip for, sorry folks.  There is a reason we refer to them as assault rifles, when was the last time you heard of a hunter being arrested for "assaulting" an animal he held a license to hunt?  NO you hear about people assaulting people, duh.  I just need ONE person to tell me what species of animal they would use these types of magazine clips on.  I read about an idea to resolve two challenges the U.S. is having, the high unemployment rate amongst vets and security on school campuses.  I say hire straight from the VFW, like crossing guards but with high powered rifles (discreetly carried) and lethal force training to monitor the campus until the very last teacher leaves at night; to protect our most valuable resource, our children.

Alright so I heard from my son's parents and they have been so busy lately, and that is the only reason I hadn't heard back from them and they sent a ton of pictures and brought me up to speed on Christopher and where he's attending college so I can stop worrying over that, thank goodness.  I couldn't appreciate his family more, they did such an amazing job raising him to be this incredible man


More later.