MikeK
Gold Member
That's beautiful country and were it not for being close to my three girls here in the New Jersey/New York region I would be right up there with you. I have a cousin who moved to Skowhegan, Maine, back in the fifties. I visit him now and then and I really enjoy being there.I live "north of the notches" in New Hampshire, rolling wooded country where the nearest city is in Canada.
I recall visiting him once while on leave from LeJeune in '59. We stopped at a country store for gas one snowy night and went inside for some coffee. This little place had an old-fashioned shelved glass counter with cakes and candy on a couple of its shelves. At the bottom there were used handguns, including the well-worn Walther P-38 I bought for sixty bucks and a handshake. No paperwork at all. And he gave me a box of 9mm.
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The media has become fond of calling the problem of internal violence, "gun violence." The fact is if there were no guns they would be whining about knife violence and baseball bat violence, etc.Gun violence seems to be a city problem, which makes it important because most people live in or around cities. If guns weren't so easy to transport, local laws would solve the problems without people who don't have the problems. But there's the problem. Guns are easy to carry around. I can't tell people in Chicago that they don't have a gun problem and I don't see a way to solve their problem without making it my problem.
The problem isn't guns -- or knives. The problem is economic inequity and diversity conflicts. This Nation's wealth must be equitably re-distributed through federally subsidized work programs (infrastructure repair) and law enforcement resources should be re-directed -- away from the counterproductive drug war and toward such real problems as gang formation and street violence.
But no such improvements are possible without a serious political revolution, which is why I will urge you to vote for Bernie Sanders. We need a committed socialist at the wheel, and while Sanders is not perfect he is the only one running. (And he's your neighbor.)
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