Trump's power is, in numerous ways, on the wane....he is scrambling and lost and may become like the cornered rat you describe. His followers will react with more immediate violence. They have many, many guns.
I have relatives who own some of them. I try to give money to the organizations who are working for gun control. Everything seems to be such a long, long struggle.....
Trump's power is, in numerous ways, on the wane....he is scrambling and lost and may become like the cornered rat you describe. His followers will react with more immediate violence. They have many, many guns.
I have relatives who own some of them. I try to give money to the organizations who are working for gun control. Everything seems to be such a long, long struggle.....
Maybe I shouldn't introduce such matters to the community, but if you look up Change.org and Eskdalemuir, you'll find a petition signed so far by 19 000 opposing the setting up (it has already happened, but they're now seeking planning permission) of two .50 caliber high-velocity shooting ranges in one of the quietest valleys in southern Scotland.
Unfortunately, the matter's urgent because the planning authorities will examine the application soon and last objections are tomorrow.
These gun ranges will in effect sandwich between them the oldest and one of the most important Buddhist monasteries in the West, which, apart from its religious, cultural and peace-bringing function, is the main tourist attraction in this part of southern Scotland.
The Scotsman newspaper headline:
Buddhists up in arms as military-grade shooting range sets up near monastery
The deep peace of Buddhists living at a world-famous monastery in the south west of Scotland has been shattered by gunfire from a military-grade shooting range which has set up nearby.
The article states that the landowner wishing to change the land use designation of one of these sites is in negotiations
with USAF Special Forces to use the range for training, as well as planning the world long-distance shooting competition here if planning permission is approved.
In the Middle Ages there were 5 great monasteries near the border in southern Scotland, all burned down again and again by invading armies form England and again and again rebuilt. Like so many monasteries in Tibet, which this monastery's founders were forced to flee in 1959.
Now the Christian monasteries that prayed for Scotland, for peace and for the souls of Scotland's defenders, are all ruins and the one monastic establishment set up in this lovely, remote border valley is under threat from big gun men.
Perhaps there's a powerful dislike of Buddhists and peaceniks is at work here (though a son of the former abbot was a Royal Naval officer). I can't help suspecting NRA proselytism. All this against a background of tensions between English and Scottish nationalists that could in time affect the border...
Quite apart from the threat to a valley and a monastery I've frequented over four decades, I am absolutely unable to see any possible justification for the use by civilians of such weapons.
Am I paranoid if -- after events like seeing all those men with big, big guns in Michigan state Capitol -- I don't feel quite safe making this announcement?
Trump's power is, in numerous ways, on the wane....he is scrambling and lost and may become like the cornered rat you describe. His followers will react with more immediate violence. They have many, many guns.
I have relatives who own some of them. I try to give money to the organizations who are working for gun control. Everything seems to be such a long, long struggle.....
Maybe I shouldn't introduce such matters to the community, but if you look up Change.org and Eskdalemuir, you'll find a petition signed so far by 19 000 opposing the setting up (it has already happened, but they're now seeking planning permission) of two .50 caliber high-velocity shooting ranges in one of the quietest valleys in southern Scotland.
Unfortunately, the matter's urgent because the planning authorities will examine the application soon and last objections are tomorrow.
These gun ranges will in effect sandwich between them the oldest and one of the most important Buddhist monasteries in the West, which, apart from its religious, cultural and peace-bringing function, is the main tourist attraction in this part of southern Scotland.
The Scotsman newspaper headline:
Buddhists up in arms as military-grade shooting range sets up near monastery
The deep peace of Buddhists living at a world-famous monastery in the south west of Scotland has been shattered by gunfire from a military-grade shooting range which has set up nearby.
The article states that the landowner wishing to change the land use designation of one of these sites is in negotiations
with USAF Special Forces to use the range for training, as well as planning the world long-distance shooting competition here if planning permission is approved.
In the Middle Ages there were 5 great monasteries near the border in southern Scotland, all burned down again and again by invading armies form England and again and again rebuilt. Like so many monasteries in Tibet, which this monastery's founders were forced to flee in 1959.
Now the Christian monasteries that prayed for Scotland, for peace and for the souls of Scotland's defenders, are all ruins and the one monastic establishment set up in this lovely, remote border valley is under threat from big gun men.
Perhaps there's a powerful dislike of Buddhists and peaceniks is at work here (though a son of the former abbot was a Royal Naval officer). I can't help suspecting NRA proselytism. All this against a background of tensions between English and Scottish nationalists that could in time affect the border...
Quite apart from the threat to a valley and a monastery I've frequented over four decades, I am absolutely unable to see any possible justification for the use by civilians of such weapons.
Am I paranoid if -- after events like seeing all those men with big, big guns in Michigan state Capitol -- I don't feel quite safe making this announcement?
THESE GUN-MAD PEOPLE ARE A PUBLIC MENACE.