I should have known better than to ask Beagles anything about guns, but
while we are on the subject, on the tv show they said something on the
order of that the cumbersome loading process didn't make that much
difference because the muzzle needed that long to cool off before the
next shot, so how did they get around that problem once they introduced
repeating rifles.
One of my theories is that there are three kinds of people, those who
view life as a quest, those who see it as a pleasure cruise, and those
who see it as a battlefield. Of course most people are a combination of
those three, and maybe there is a fourth kind, yeah call those guys
mountain climbers for guys like Bill Gates and Attila the Hun. It's
just something I made up, and maybe we can discuss it later, or maybe we
already have. We need an editor, somebody who would go through all the
postings and put it all together so that the big thick book could land
with a thud on the tables of America, and then be slipped unopened to
the door jamb to keep the door propped open on warm summer days.
Oh the battlefield, that was what I was going to talk about. People who
see it that way see it as a moral battleground, that their job is to
fight evil, the kind of people who say they want to leave the world a
better place than when they entered it. Actually almost everybody says
that, but I am talking about people who really try to do that.
Have you noticed the proliferation of the word warrior these days.
Everybody is proclaimed a warrior for something, a warrior for Illinois,
a warrior for health care, a warrior for peace (strangely enough I
don't notice any military types ever being called a warrior), what the
hell does that mean? Well I guess people just like the sound of it, it
does have a ring. But isn't war a terrible thing? Certainly if we
lose, but even if we win, don't we still lose some of our children and
our treasure? And unless we massacre all the men and enslave all the
women (heh heh) and till their soil with salt, which we don't seem to do
much anymore, in a few years don't we find that same country we
defeated right back and doing those same things that irritated us so
much back when we kicked their ass?
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