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Shooting at Mall in Kingston
Today my mother and sister called to tell us to listen to CNN. On the national news was the story about some jerk who pulled out an assault weapon and started shooting at the mall we use most often. Really brings this crazy stuff home to you. I just was happy to hear that 2 store employees jumped the guy after he ran out of ammo. That's the upstate NY spirit! Thank God no one was killed. (I probably should have posted this in pointless and hostile!)
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My wife and I both have concealed carry permits from Ulster county (where the shooting occured). In fact that is the only type of permit they grant because they don't want people openly carrying pistols. After this event my wife wondered whether she should return to carrying her gun. I recommended she NOT carry the gun.
We once had neighbors across the street who were getting divorced. They hired private investigators to monitor each other. One guy sat outside their house at night in his car watching everything going on. It angered my wife and one night my daughter came home crying (she was about 13 years old) because she got scared when walking home when she saw the PI and my wife lost her temper. My wife went out in the road - held a gun to the private investigator's head and told him to get the f*** out of there. This guy peeled out and took off the road like a bat out of hell.
I thought that was it that night, my life was over, and that I would be visiting my wife in prison. I now recommend she not carry because she is volatile. But the amazing thing is she went to the police station immediately afterward, told them what she had done, and they laughed! As long as a woman does it - it doesn't matter. If it was me I would have been put in jail!
You can see my wife on the tractor in my pics. She is the crazy blonde that I married. But with a gun? I don't know for sure. 
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Just got back from the Kingston mall. I took the day off with wife to do the taxes and pick some things up. It was business as usual at the mall, we did see a security guard at Target (next to Best Buy where the gunman entered).
I agree with AnnBrush that anything could have happened that day my wife took off after the PI. Thank God it turned out to be a crazy story - a somewhat funny story after the fact since nothing happened. There could have been a much different ending.
However, I do believe people have the right to have arms - you do have to be smart about how you use them - as most of the people on this site seem to be. We acquired our gun permits when we had a 32' boat that we used to sleep on at anchor during the summers. The Boat US organization actually recommended that people in boats be prepared to protect themselves while in boats. So it seemed to make sense then to get the permits.
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Denwood, I added captions to my pictures. Thanks for kicking my butt to get me to do this The wife is in Pic 5 - clearly not a person to toy with! Next Valentine's day will be our 25th so we are going to do something special then. She has taken me on some wild adventures!
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I have a couple of thoughts about this two party system. First, whenever you have several parties if they are all doing their job they will converge to two parties who fight for the center. We see both parties using focus groups and surveys to find out what the average American thinks. We see here are two distinct strategies that have yielded the very close split between red and blue (electoral college perspective). There is a lot of market research at play here which spoils a lot of the fun.
Second, I believe that in politics the motivation is to win rather true belief in principles. In the end people are people and there are all these shades of gray. I was watching a show on Ben Franklin that told how originally Ben Franklin wanted to reach a compromise with the British. After he was thrashed in the House of Commons he then decided to support the revolution. Kind of makes you wonder about some of the real motivations that led to the founding of our nation.
After I get past wondering about the motivations for the founding of this nation, I wonder if where we are today in this nation would be approved by our founding fathers. I'll bet if they say some of the things going on they would want to hang a few people. They could never have envisioned many of the things we have seen.
So what is it that keeps us together as a nation? Is it our cultural flexibility? Our good work ethic and religious foundation? Our governmental system of checks and balances? Our educational institutions? Will we survive another 100 years? Or will we be like the Roman Empire?
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