Now as you may know by now, I have been on the receiving end of a gun or two.
I have not been shot, but I have been shot at.
It's weird because if this tiny little piece of metal makes it's way into a vulnerable part of your body, you can be dead in minutes.
If not, then you just get an adrenaline rush x 5.
It certainly is nothing like television. I was up last week with The saint and he told me how it use to be...one quick shot...no blood and no one yelled...they went quiet.
[I think he misses the old days]
Anyway, we live is a far more dangerous world. Today a man was shot in London for jumping a turnstile, yet it made sense. The NRA continues it's lobby for automatic and semi-automatic assault weapons for "hunters" (gotta spray those deer!); and we speak opening of freedom when we really mean death. Another man was drunk and waved a gun which went off through his head...death and more death.
That is why guns exist...whether for humans or animals or whatever. They deliver death, which comes anyway, but a bullet comes sooner.
I like water guns, and even disks that ricochet off teeth...because it's all in good fun on some level.
Death is not.
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This was really interesting, was giggling through it till the last entry with real guns. I became sober, yet, wasn't repulsed because the 'tide changed' it did leave me to consider peoples intent with guns, whether it be toy or real.
Each one has a specific purpose which can bring joy or pain. Then of course you want to go out and buy the super soaker!
I also got a bit confused with the end of the 'lemonade incident' where in italics it said 'what came next' then you go into the real guns. I think i missed something. If so could you please tell me what went over my head?
Good point! I changed it.
and not that it matters, but when I was 16, first job, ever, I too was on the receiving end of a gun.....held up at gun point by a WOMAN no less, for narcotics.
I laughed, thought she was kidding, even as her nylon strapped face glared at me with desperation and anxiety.
I OBVIOUSLY came out unscathed, but the elderly pharmacist I worked with had triple bypass surgery because of it.....guess if she only got 3 mths in jail.
LOVED this entire episode on guns. TALENTED.....YOU ARE.
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