It is that time of the week again. Life seems to be cruising by at a breakneck pace. We are settling into the home here in Alabama. We survived our first tornado warning, which was exciting, ok not really. Had there not been such a hubbub made about it, it is likely we would not have known any warning was in place. Still it is a different experience, a different part of the country that I have never been in before, and I have been surprised a bit.
For example, I have been out here for about five or six weeks now. I have seen at least a half a dozen or more people open carrying. It seems more commonplace here in Alabama then it was in Utah. Now, open carrying does not bother me, however I do notice it, being the firearm nerd that I am. What has bothered me has been the poor quality of holsters and sometimes the complete lack of retention devices on the pistols. Listen, if you want to open carry you are free to do so, but with the ever-increasing scrutiny that firearms owners are under, part of me wishes the people doing the open carrying would at least be a better representation of firearm owners. Not saying that Uncle Mike holsters and white tank tops do not have a place, but they do not leave the best first impression.
With everything that I have been up to in getting the family settled in, I have not gone live with any website updates this week. There are things I am working on, namely the powder catalog, but I am not quite to the point I feel comfortable going live with those changes. Keep looking for it to be updated but realize it might be a bit. This next weekend we will be making one, and probably the last major haul from Texas. Got to move the rest of me and my family’s junk, unfortunately for the immediate term it is moving from one storage unit to another.
As I am writing this, more news is coming out in respect to another recent shooting in Boulder Colorado. No doubt conspiracy theories will continue to populate about the timing and the validity of these shootings. I do not subscribe to the idea that there is someone, or some people who orchestrate this nonsense on a grand scale in order to ram through a political agenda. Rather I honestly believe there are some sick individuals out there, and in a country with 300+ Million people, there can be 10 million odds of such an event in any given year and we would end up with 30 potential events.
Given these things tend to happen in clusters, one shooting seems to breed another, sadly it is not unusual to have a few of these events within a few weeks or months of each other. The great travesty is the lack of attention that is paid towards the mental and moral decay of the individual that leads to these types of atrocities. They are not unique to the United States, similar type events happen worldwide. Unfortunately, it would seem no government or political party seems interested in answering the hard questions of what drives the individual to commit these acts of evil, rather they focus on the tools, driving legislation that shifts the power from the people to the government. Thus, creating an endless cycle that feeds off the resulting contention, dividing the nation rather then healing it. I find it all deeply troubling.
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