I was raised in a very fucked up conservative Catholic family. Dad was cold and distant when he was sober.. He wore pressure stockings, because of all the hours he spent standing, while teaching and at his second job as a mailman. Yeah, he needed the dispatcher job at night at the South Postal Annex in Boston to support his family. Teacher's get lousy pay and no protection from their criminal students. . Dad had to have mom drive his station wagon to school and the post office. His students flattened his tires and poured bear in the gas tank. I was a target of student reprisals too as were my older brother and sisters.. High school was a toilet swirly and a punch in the gut for me. I got beat up by two .. African American girls. I was in a big hurry for some class I never needed and I made a big mistake. I pushed the two.. African American girls aside, walking in front of me.. Those girls clocked me. I was curled up in a ball, while they kicked me repeatedly. A circle of my classmates watched and cheered them on.. I was sent to the hospital and then home with cracked ribs. The police did not arrest the girls, who stated I assaulted them. No charges were filed. When I got home I took down my dad's Lee Infield rifle an seriously thought about going to school with it. I wanted revenge, but something stopped me. Perhaps, it was all those sermons at Saint Peter's Church or I just didn't believe I could pull it off. A Lee enfield rifle is a bolt action. It takes a lot of skill to fire it rapidly. Today, I can purchase an assault rifle that fires hundreds of bullets in seconds. If I had access to an assault rifle after my humiliating stomping in high school, I might have done something terrible. But, fortune favored the fool. Hmmm. If your pro-life, how can you be in favor of private ownership of machine guns? I honestly do have neighbors, who own assault rifles that fire, like machine guns. Is that safe? Police have been called to their homes to break up domestic disputes. Can you see the danger here-ya? Jeeze! Those bullets can travel miles and go through walls. So, Muzzy, gets shot eating his Frosted Flakes and he never hears the shot. That's dope! I have another neighbor, who owns a Sherman tank. He drives it on the highway to tracker pull events. Seriously?! Jim Carrey you have my vote.. But, you weren't born in America.. Oy.. Were doomed. Peace out. ~~~ <^> |