Soap Box: Personal Carry, Concealed Carry Gun Laws and Universities.

I am a firm believer in the right to protect yourself and your family. To me, my friends are my family too.

I also believe in the right to carry a weapon upon your person for that protection, with due training!

Oregon courts ruled that the Oregon University Systems ban on concealed carry on their premises was illegal, violating the laws of the state. Hmm, it only took them 41 years... and because it violated the laws at a state level, they didn't even look at how violently they violated our 2nd amendment rights.

US Constitution, 2nd amendment (wikipedia) In District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), the Court ruled that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to possess a firearm, unconnected to service in a militia^[1][2] and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home


Read the news story... and think, would the massacre at Virginia Tech have happened if there were a couple legally carrying students on campus? or if their security officers had been armed? No, probably not, instead they had to wait for the local police to marshal forces. 


According to a state firearms expert and trainer from the Bend Police Department, it takes someone less than .3 seconds to refocus his direction and shoot the second or third or fourth round at a new target. It takes only a few seconds to drop the magazine and reload another to start firing again. Assuming that a shooter shows up on a college campus with a handgun, how many seconds pass while the students stand by and waiting for tragedy before the police can get to the campus? 


Just a thought. National statistics show that of all the public active shooter situations they have encountered, not one of the shooters held their concealed carry permits.


Outlaw guns, and only outlaws will carry them. do you want to be helpless, and defenseless?

 

Warning! Pissed off Rant: Spoiled Teen

The Following post may be found as annoying, offensive, or in some cases, re-assuring...

Check out this blog post: Because You're a Moron: 

Another Example of Spoiled American Teens

Alright, so, to make this a shorter post... read that post, then check my comment:

I am 22, I moved out on my own when I was 17. I graduated high school with honors, while holding a full time job, and taking advanced placement classes. I think I may have dodged a generational bullet. I think this post is spot on! AND I see several of your examples in my friends and families lives... and I just sit back, and in the back of my mind, I think, "give her a year, and then see how bitchy she gets..." When I was a kid, I paid half of my families bills, I made stuff and I sold stuff, I started working when I was 12, I had my own tv, and my own dvd player, that I bought. I was given a PS1 with a car compatible screen as a gift for my b'day when I was accepted into advanced placement high school classes, before I even began high school. When I turned 17, I bought my own car, paid for my own license, and made the repairs on that car when it broke down... it was a 1990 Ford Escort Pony, 2 door, FWD. Held together with duct tape, bungie cords, tin foil, rubber bands and 3 yards of hemp string. I made it through school, started college (all on academic scholarships and loans taken out in my name.) then got married and am graduating college with a degree this next spring, all before having any kids. I may be $70,000 in debt, but it's my debt, not my parents.

Now don't get me wrong, I love my parents, and I love everything they did for me, but the best thing they could have done for me, was to make me fend for myself, guide me along the way, loan me a few bucks here or there to get me through, and demand that I pay them back. I am tired of the bullshit of kids being handed everything silver platter! Oiy! 

 

Summer catch-up!

It seems that my summer ran away and hid... it got a late start, and now it is nearly over! School starts back up for me in a week and a half!

I have been trying to do EVERYTHING and therefore have gotten NOTHING done! Go figure, right?

I have restored my account on Etsy, and listed a few hats, hoping to get some other stuff on there soon.

And, I received 2 custom orders in the last week!

One is for a pair of Mary Jane style slippers in rainbow stripes (a trade for crafty goodness of Chrissy)

And the other is for 2 custom designed Owl Cowls for a friend from high school. (Shantae)

I am super excited, because with custom orders, I get to communicate with the customer, and get a feel for JUST what they want! And I know that they will be enjoyed, because in this case, I know both of the customers personally.

 

whoa! get this SUNSHINE!

That's right, 2 straight days of sunshine!

Yesterday was my 2 year wedding anniversary! I shared it with my best friend! We are so unbelievable broke at the moment, that we had to borrow $20 from my mom so we could eat and have gas. But we made the best of it, we went hiking at Smith Rock State Park, a 3 mile muli-terrain hike in the mid 70*'s was nice.

But now I wanna go again!

See that lump of rock in the middle of that dip? looks like snoopy's shadow? no? thats just how far away it was. That is where we hiked to... called Asterisk Pass, also known as Asterisk ridge, Asterisk hill, Asterisk rock, and Snoopy rock. This trail ends about 300 feet before the actual ridge, but we went almost all the way, Adventure dog doesnt like heights.

 This is a picture from just below snoopy rock. looking back the way we had come! That gorgeous river, that is the Crooked River, feeds off of the Greater Deschutes River. Great fishing...

Look, it's adventure dog and Hubby!

 

Movie review

Movie Review!

Hanna....Hanna Hanna Hanna. What can I tell you about Hanna? Absolutely nothing. After sitting in this film for over 2 hours, I have no idea what Hanna was about. This movie is musically and visually dynamic...if you were not sober. There are few movies that I can honestly say would be better viewed on a small screen. This is one of them.

Young girl, trained in the wilderness to gut an animal, get in a fight, win, and speak several languages. She can shoot, and she is adaptive. Other than this, I have no idea.

There is some humor, at the expense of idiocy and cultural abnormalities. It is suspenseful, in the sense that you are left waiting for SOMETHING, really ANYTHING to happen.

A government agent 15 years before the events of the movie belonged in a research team that was trying to create a super soldier, through genetic manipulation, they succeeded. Then proceeded to terminate the research, and those involved. Hanna survived. You wait the entire movie to find this out. It is not involved, it is not hard to understand, but don't watch this movie if you are likely to get motion sick, or drunk, you will get ill.

The director made a film that was based, entirely, on a one liner. “I just missed your heart.”

If you have the $10 bucks to see this movie... don't. Spend it on beer, you'll save yourself the numb rear-end.