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Today is the 5th day of the 8th week, the 22nd day of the 2nd month, the 53rd day of 2018, and: 
  • Be Humble Day
  • Discover Girl Day
  • European Day for Victims of Crime
  • George Washington's Birthday – before things got moved to the nearest Monday, we used to have this day off for his birthday and the 12th off for Lincoln’s birthday.
  • Independence Day:  Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom in 1979
  • International World Thinking Day
  • Introduce A Girl to Engineering Day
  • National Chili Day
  • National Cook a Sweet Potato Day
  • National Margarita Day
  • National Wildlife Day
  • Tex Avery Day
  • The Great American Spit Out – even chewing tobacco causes cancer
  • Walking the Dog Day
  • Woolworth's Day -- In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores in 1879
On this day in...

1632 – Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.  In it Galileo compared the Copernican system with the traditional Ptolemaic system

1819 – By the Adams–Onís Treaty [AKA the Transcontinental Treaty, the Florida Purchase Treaty, or the Florida Treaty], Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million US dollars.  It also defined the border between Spanish and American territories in the west which later became the boundary between the United States and Mexico.

1856 – The United States Republican Party opens its first national convention in Pittsburgh.

1924 – President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first US President to deliver a radio address from the White House.

1959 – Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.

1980 – Miracle on Ice: in a stunning upset, the United States Olympic hockey team defeated the Soviets at Lake Placid, NY, 4-to-3. (The U.S. team went on to win the gold medal.)

1983 – The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders, a play by Arthur Bicknell and described as a mystery farce, opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.

 
Quote of the day:
   “I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”
~ Edward Everett Hale [American author, historian, and Unitarian minister]

On the 14th, 17 high school students died and 14 more were injured in the 7th shooting at a school during the regular school day.   This is the fifth time  someone was injured and killed in seven weeks of one year.

 

My husband was a cop, an old-fashioned cop.  He owned pistols and rifles – enough that I think we might’ve qualified as an armory!  When he died, I chose to let them go.  He liked shooting and was qualified as a sharpshooter;.  I liked shooting too but since I didn’t like cleaning the guns I didn’t go very often but  I can hit what I aim at.  He quit the NRA in disgust when they fought to have armor-piercing bullets legalized.  I never liked one-issue organizations.

I have read a great deal about gun control, even the extremes of “take them all now” to “pry it out of my cold, dead hand.”  I have heard a great deal of nonsense and hyperbole.  I have read the Second Amendment for myself – it says simply: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”    And I focus on that phrase “a well regulated Militia”    What we have right now is certainly not “well regulated” in any sense of the word, what we have is a hodge-podge that simply isn’t working well for us. 

At the bare minimum:
  • If there is a legal age for buying cigarettes and booze, if there is a legal age to enter into a legal contract, if there is a legal age to get married, if there is a legal age to vote, then there should be a legal age for buying a weapon – any kind of weapon.
  • There is no reason to sell a rifle that shoots  30 – 100 rounds without reloading to any civilian for any reason.  Seriously, if a hunter cannot bag his prey without peppering it with shot, they seriously  need to practice their  marksmanship.  Those that own such weapons should immediately  turn them [and all the ammo]  in to the nearest police or sheriff office.
  • The purchase of ammunition for guns  should be as least as  difficult to buy as it is to get a decent antihistamine – requires a current, valid ID and the amount purchased over the period of 30 days is strictly limited.  
This madness must stop.  Our children shouldn’t have to go through drills about what to do if someone starts shooting in their school.
Permalink | Thursday, February 22, 2018