I am sitting here this Memorial Day evening awaiting the start of a TV miniseries about the birth of Texas.  It has been a nice day, weatherwise, and hopes to be more of the same tomorrow.  All is pretty much well with the world except for those folks up in the hill country who may have lost their homes to flooding.  That is a shame, for sure.

I have been reading a lot about gun control since the motorcycle gangs decided to have a re-enactment of the OK corral up in Waco.  All because of a parking spot?  I dont think so.  Let me be up front.  I am a licensed concealed firearm carrier.  That doesnt mean that I wear one to church. or to the grocery store, or even to the hamburger joint, it simply means that I am licensed to have one on my person as long as it cant be seen.  There is always one within reach in my car.  Why?  Because I go places that are sometimes scary and dark and inhabited by bad people.  I never start out the day thinking I will use my gun.  In fact, I hardly ever think about it at all.  It is just there.  I doubt that I will change my attitude about guns when Texas becomes an open carry state.  I wont ever walk down the street with a gun on my hip.  They are weighty and uncomfortable to carry, even in a shoulder holster.

I am not one of those folks who is afraid that the feds will come in and confiscate my guns.  I have registered guns that they could track without much trouble.  If they ask for them I would probably not put up too much fuss about giving the licensed guns to them.  I am not a person who thinks the feds are stupid.  I feel sure they are smart enough to understand that a confiscated gun could be replaced in a matter of hours with an unregistered gun.  There is just not much reason to try and disarm a nation that has as many guns as our country owns.  I feel sure that they understand that there are many millions of Americans who will own guns no matter what laws are passed to the contrary.  Outlawing firearms would be about as useless as outlawing sex.  It aint gonna happen.

What we need to outlaw is stupidity.  It was stupid for the owner of the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco to welcome two opposing motorcycle gangs into his town and into  his restaurant, to not expect some type of trouble.  His last name is Patel.  I am gonna go out on a limb and guess that he is from India or is descended from Indian people.  He may not know about motorcycle gangs or guns being from a different culture but surely the man could figure out that if 10 people come into your restaurant, carrying chains, with guns in their belts and tats up and down their arms that trouble may ensue.  And that was just the female gang members, those setting up the meetings.

I have lived almost 72 years, going places I wanted to go, not being afraid of where I am at, and I plan on finishing out my tour of duty in the same manner.  I am not going to cry wolf, hide my guns in a bucket in the back yard, or do much of anything else controlled by paranoia.  I am going to buy an adequate amount of ammo, maybe a case or two of spam and just have a good time.  I am going to try and stay loose.  Well maybe not that loose.

Chuy