Hard Liquor and Handgun night at the OK Corral

[Uncle_Tricky]

Sometimes I think the world might be a better place if upon turning 18 years of age, every American was issued a copy of the Bill of Rights, a voter registration card, a driver's license, a loaded rifle, a bag of greenery, and a case of the beer of your choice. Oh--and a one-way ticket to Pyongyang, exercisable at any time one decided they couldn't handle the occasional messiness of living in a (still sorta) free country.

 

I'm reminded of what my grampa, who tended to speak in opaque aphorisms, once said as he was teaching me to shoot: "Son, just because you're wearing overalls at the OK Corral don't mean the world is rated PG all the time."

 

I still lie awake at night, pondering just what in the hell he meant by that....

[allthumbs]

To be born free is an accident.

 

To live free is a responsibility.

 

To die free is an obligation.