I need a little help from my friends

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My grandson enlisted in the military in Virginia, then went to stay with his brother in Florida until time to leave for Basic Training.  

At the last minute he lost his slot. As retired Army, my guess was it was over which recruiting office would get the credit for the enlistment. I don't know if I was right, because it didn't make any difference.

I made a call then went to Lowes where my grandson was working. I told him I needed him to go on line and write a letter saying he wanted to go to basic Monday, and he's be off. He said he didn't want everyone to know his grandmother used her influence to get him in the military. I told him no one would know.

Yes, I have a lot of influence. Clout is another word for it. I'm a registered voter. I learned a long time ago that USA Congressmen work for us.  

This time I need help. If you are already a registered voter, pick up the phone or go on line and call your congressman.

If you aren't registered go to the courthouse and spend ten minutes of your time registering to vote. After that it's easy, they will assign you to a voting poll in your neighborhood.

Here's what I want; 1. Ban all assault weapons, only allow them to be sold to law enforcement or military.  2. Put metal detectors in the front of every school with 2 armed police or security guard in the morning then one for the remainder of the day. 3. Make all other doors exit only. Put up cameras to see if someone tries holding the door open for another person.   

This isn't hard and it makes sense. Please, contact every elected official and let them know if they want your vote they have to do this. NRA and gun manufactures won't give them a dime if they are voted out of office.

If you want to be as important as me, register to vote, then vote.

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DAVID HOGG isn't old enough to vote, but another birthday will fix that. My only regret is if he remains in politics, I won't live until he's old enough to run for President

David and his friends are making waves in South Florida, George Clooney and Oprah have sent him money to fight his cause.

Trump wants to arm teachers. He said if a teacher had a gun they would have ended the kid killing people before he knew what happened. Turn Off the TV Mr. Trump, it doesn't happen that way in real life.

I'm going to tell you what I want. I am hoping this email reaches David and Oprah. She has the money and the sway to do anything.

1. Ban assault weapons.  Sell them only to law enforcement and military. The gun manufactures shouldn't get too upset about that when the alternate choices are worse.

2. Metal detectors at school entrances, with two armed police or security guards monitoring in the mornings. One should be able to handle it the rest of the day

3. Make all other doors exit only. Cameras installed to monitor those doors, in case someone comes up with a plan to enter.

I hate the idea of being forced to take such measures, but this is the cheapest way to fix the

problem. It needs to be done now. The NRA and gun manufactures depend on time allowing people to forget, and return to business as usual. Until the next time. Americans need to hit our congressmen hard. Call. Email, or any other measure to tell them how you feel.

If you agree with what I've said, tell them do it or lose your vote. That's how you fire a congressman.

Someone told me they voted for Trump because they believed Hillary was pro late term abortion. The only one I heard say that was Trump. The man who looks the American people in the eye and lies to us. Think about losing a baby to an abortion, then think about losing a teenager to an idiot with a gun.

Do what you can. March, contact your congressman.  I'm too old to be marching around. I write, so that's what I'm going to do until someone pays attention.

My fellow Americans, we are not supposed to do what our elected officials tell us, they are elected to do what we tell them.  Don't let this thing die. They have had their way because we have been complacent.

DO SOMETHING NOW NOT TOMORROW

TRUMP again

He wants to arm teachers and raise the age to 21 to buy assault weapons. If the man had a brain, he wouldn't know what to do with it.

The age to purchase an assault weapon should be never. Gun manufacturers want to sell guns, but no law-abiding citizen needs for then. Sell them only to entities, police departments, and military.

Guns don't kill people, people kill people, but the gun allows or limits the amount of people who can be killed. We don't need assault weapons.

How many people have protected their family, by using a gun? How many children have been murdered. How many innocent people went to an entertainment event, when some fool started shooting. I don't know the figures, but I can say it is less than zero.

It's nice to say you protected your home, but did you ever need to? I have 3 times. That's an exception, not the rule. It isn't as easy as these macho men think it is. (1954, Ohio, robbed bowling alley, on run from police, ended up in my backyard, I was 10 years old and home alone, 1963, Ohio, burglar, 1967 Panama, civil war, my children and I didn't get evacuated to the Canal Zone, my husband was at school in New Jersey.)

Think you can shoot another human being? It isn't that easy. It isn't shooting a deer or rabbit. Want to shoot a walking talking real person? Trump only knows what he sees on TV. Life isn't a soap opera, or a cop show where the bad get killed and the good live. Life isn't scripted, when you are in that position, you don't know the outcome. It could be the last breath an evil person takes, or it could be your last breath. Are you ready to die?

Schools should put in the machines you walk through at airports, along with a couple actual police officers. It's going to cost, but will be cheaper than a child's life. If you arm teachers, will they be able to kill a child, even if that child has a gun in his hand?  A machine pings as the child walks through and the police stop them and find out what's making the noise.

Stop the gun manufactures, and their lobbies. No one in congress, or the white house, is going to stop them to save the lives of our children, there is too much money involved. They put that fool Trump in office. He's not the only one, note to Rick Scott, Governor of Florida, you lost my vote with yesterday's speech.  

We have a problem in this country and more guns won't solve it, they will cost more lives. When I was in basic training, we finished at the range, and the Drill Sergeants let us put our M-16's on automatic and fire away at old tanks and jeeps. Can you imagine what an automatic weapon can do to a child. It will tear them apart; can you imagine it being your child.

Get rid of Trump and all politicians who have ever taken a dime from gun manufacturers or the NRA. It won't make us lose our constitution right to own a gun, but it might stop another child's death.   

School Shootings

If we had proper gun laws, he wouldn't have been able to buy a gun. If he stole the gun I was working on a what comes around story about Trump, when life became serious. Another school shooting.    

This one took place in Florida, over 150 miles south of me. I cried more tears for this one, not because it was in my state, but because it happened again.

The shooter was a young man, who tortured and killed small animals as a child, a sure sign of a serious mental problem. If family members didn't know the meaning of such acts, the kid must have done other things that should have given them reason take him to a doctor.  

Someone contacted the FBI tip line in January about his threats to do a school shooting, both verbal and on his social media. The tip was never passed to the Miami FBI office so it was not investigated. Seventeen people would still be alive if the FBI had understood any threat to shoot up a school, should be put in the proper hands immediately and followed up on.

Where did he get the gun?

Currently, there is an idiot running for office, here in Florida. His name is Richard Corcoran and he is running for speaker of the Florida house. His ad is an illegal alien shooting a young lady. Not a word about the gun.  Being an illegal didn't murder the girl, the gun in his hand did.  What if his ancestors were Pilgrims, would it make a difference to her family.   

and the person he took it from didn't have it secured properly in a gun safe, they could also be liable in the murder. No, excuses if the person gave or sold him the gun. If he was able to buy the gun from an authorized gun store, that store would pay a heavy fine, and lose their licenses to deal in guns as well as being open to a wrongful death suit by the girl's parent.

I am not anti-guns. My father was a hunter, I grew up with them. I am retired military and a gun owner.  My son, a retired police officer has a gun, and of course my grandson carries a gun because he is a police officer.

If you shoot a deer with more than a single shot you can ruin the meet. It only takes a hand gun to protect your home.  Anything bigger and automatic is only of use to criminals, to shoot at civilians and police. If you are unsure how I feel about that, read the previous paragraph.

Remember if you are a Florida resident don't vote for Richard Corcoran, not even for dog catcher.  Finally, I do not belong to the NRA, because their loyalties are to gun manufactures, protecting our constitutional right is a way to get citizens to join and pay dues. They don't care about us.     

I was working on a laugh a Trump piece, when life became serious. Another school shooting.    

This one took place in Florida, over 150 miles south of me. I cried more tears for this one, not because it was in my state, but because it happened again.

The shooter was a young man, who tortured and killed small animals as a child, a sure sign of a serious mental problem. If family members didn't know the meaning of such acts, the kid must have done other things that should have given them reason take him to a doctor.  

Someone contacted the FBI tip line in January about his threats to do a school shooting, both verbal and on his social media. The tip was never passed to the Miami FBI office so it was not investigated. Seventeen people would still be alive if the FBI had understood any threat to shoot up a school, should be put in the proper hands immediately and followed up on.

Where did he get the gun?

Currently, there is an idiot running for office, here in Florida. His name is Richard Corcoran and he is running for speaker of the Florida house. His ad is an illegal alien shooting a young lady. Not a word about the gun.  Being an illegal didn't murder the girl, the gun in his hand did.  What if his ancestors were Pilgrims, would it make a difference to her family.   

If we had proper gun laws, he wouldn't have been able to buy a gun. If he stole the gun and the person he took it from didn't have it secured properly in a gun safe, they could also be liable in the murder. No, excuses if the person gave or sold him the gun. If he was able to buy the gun from an authorized gun store, that store would pay a heavy fine, and lose their licenses to deal in guns as well as being open to a wrongful death suit by the girl's parent.

I am not anti-guns. My father was a hunter, I grew up with them. I am retired military and a gun owner.  My son, a retired police officer has a gun, and of course my grandson carries a gun because he is a police officer.

I know what size gun it takes to kill a deer, and that a hand gun is all it takes to protect a home.  Anything bigger and automatic is only of use to criminals, to shoot at civilians and police. If you are unsure how I feel about that, read the previous paragraph.

Remember if you are a Florida resident don't vote for Richard Corcoran, not even for dog catcher.  Finally, I do not belong to the NRA, because their loyalties are to gun manufactures, protecting our constitutional right is a way to get citizens to join and pay dues. They don't care about us.     

Show this to all those athletes that kneel during the National Anthem!!!!       God Bless America                                   Van T Barfoot died...   Remember the Guy who wouldn't take The flag pole Down on his Virginia  Property a While back? You might Remember the news story several Months ago About a crotchety old man in Virginia who Defied his local Homeowners Association, And refused to take down the Flag pole on His property along with the large American flag He flew on it. Now we learn Who that old man was. On June 15, 1919, Van T. Barfoot was born in Edinburg, Texas . That probably didn't make News back Then. But  Twenty-five years later, on May 23, 1944, Near Carano  , Italy ,That same Van T. Barfoot, Who had in 1940 enlisted in the U.S. Army,  set Out alone to Flank German machine gun Positions From which gunfire was raining Down on his Fellow soldiers. His advance Took him through a minefield but Having done So, he proceeded to single-handedly Take out Three enemy machine gun positions, Returning With 17 prisoners of war.   And if that Weren't enough for a day's work,     he Later Took on and Destroyed three German tanks Sent to Retake the machine gun positions. That probably Didn't make much news either, Given the Scope of the war, but it did earn Van T. Barfoot, who retired as a Colonel after Also serving In Korea and Vietnam , a well Deserved Congressional Medal of Honor. What did make News... Was his  Neighborhood Association's Quibble with how the 90-year-old Veteran chose To fly the American flag outside His suburban Virginia home. Seems the HOA rules Said it was OK to fly a flag on a house-mounted Bracket, but, For decorum, items such as Barfoot's 21-foot Flagpole were "unsuitable". Van Barfoot Had been denied a permit for The pole, but Erected it anyway and was facing Court action Unless he agreed to take it down. Then the HOA Story made national TV, And the Neighborhood Association rethought Its position And agreed to indulge this Aging hero Who dwelt among them. "In the Time I have left", he said to the Associated Press, "I plan to continue To fly the American flag without interference." As Well he should. And if any of his neighbors had taken a Notion to Contest him Further, they might have done well to Read his Medal of Honor citation first. Seems it Indicates Mr. Van Barfoot  wasn't Particularly Good at Backing down. If you got This email and didn't pass it on - Guess what - You need your butt kicked I sent this To you, because I didn't want MY butt kicked!      WE ONLY LIVE IN THE LAND OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE!                                           AND, BECAUSE OF OLD MEN                                                         LIKE VAN BARFOOT!       From Gene's Desk "The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office." Will Rogers - (1879-1935) American humorist