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God, Guns, Guts, Glory: Part 2...."GUNS" Awhile back, I published a blog post entitled  God, Guns, Guts, Glory: Part 1....."GOD" . This blog post is the second in the series of "God, Guns, Guts, Glory". I should probably make something clear before I start, though: While the tenor of quite a lot of this blog post appears to be directed toward Christian God, all things herein are equally attributable to Muslim God and Jewish God as far as I'm concerned. It's just that I am most familiar with Christian God. So, I admit to having a tendency to focus on what I do know, and to provide bits and pieces of information on Muslim God and Jewish God if the point I'm trying to make happens to be applicable to them, too. With that in mind, would it be safe to put it out there the NRA is pretty much a lightning rod on the issues of gun violence and gun safety today? Kind of hit you between the eyes with that one, didn't I? Their leadership have colle...

  Given the recent shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, in which an 8 year old boy was critically injured and paralyzed from the waist down, Six weeks after getting shot at a Fourth of July parade, an 8-year-old left paralyzed feels 'hopeless' and angry as new reality sets in I thought it prudent to share just a tidbit of what my own family went through after Anne Marie, my daughter, was shot and also paralyzed from the waist down as a result of the Columbine massacre. I won't dwell on what she, and the members of her family went through as she went through a very long and very painful rehab at Swedish Medical Center and Craig Hospital except to say she was admitted to Swedish Medical Center on April 20, 1999, the day of the massacre, and was discharged into my care on August 15, 1999. You, the reader, can do the math on that length of time in order to better comprehend how difficult that rehab was and what we ALL went through to help her survive. During that time, my first...

  Active Shooter Lockdown Drills on Steroids In March, 2018 East High School in Anchorage, Alaska put an active shooter lockdown drill they were conducting on steroids.  They did this by having the school resource officer of East High walk the halls of the school while firing blanks to make the active shooter lockdown drill seem more realistic:   East High active shooter drill simulates real gunfire They also did this to try and give students and staff a way to help discern the difference between actual live gunfire and firecrackers going off. More than a few mass shooting survivors have opined they thought firecrackers were going off before they actually became aware something was drastically wrong.  So, from that perspective simulating live gunfire with blanks during an active shooter lockdown drill seems like a reasonable thing to do, right? Not necessarily – especially if one listens to those advocating against lockdown drills of any kind, and they are many....