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I fear that those of us who have never known war first hand will, in our ignorance of and inaction to distant evils, serve only to give them time to perpetrate those horrors again and again.

Facts:

  • In the Holocaust, six million men, women and children were exterminated.
  • If you wear a crucifix, there are people in the world who will not hesitate to shoot you, blow you up, or chop off your head, and record a video of it to show the world.

At some point, parents need to realize their obligation to children includes preparing this new person for the real world. Those wretched horrors are real, and if the kids aren’t aware of the dangers, they may walk in and be killed.

When shooting Bullseye, there are five things you must do:

This is my second target in the Slow Fire match and, with all ten shots in the 10 ring or better, that makes it a clean target.

For the past couple of years, television and popular science articles have been capitalizing this popular theory. It came about because movements on a galactic scale found Newtons law of universal gravitation (1687) as modified by Albert Einstein’s General Relativity (1915) to be inadequate. According to those theories, the galaxies do not have sufficient gravity for their observed sizes. They should fly apart.

Home for spring break, her “let’s go to the range” request coincided with the Tuesday evening Nighthawks so I said, “Yes, if you’ll shoot your first competition.”

The shirt is one of many memorabilia I’ve collected over the years of Bullseye shooting at various clubs sandwiched in with business travels. It’s from the Old Colony club in Massachusetts. I was pleased to support their club through the nominal cost of this keepsake and while the Xs I shot that evening are long gone from my senior-ifying memory, the shirt lives on.

Just so there’s no doubt, patriotism means

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