Psycho Vets....

A link was sent to me by 13Stoploss earlier today and I thought I'd share it here with everyone.
 http://www.stripes.com/crazy-vet-assumptions-after-shootings-more-stereotype-than-reality-1.206948

What upsets me is that it is common place to assume all soldiers have PTSD. Well not all soldiers do, those that do, in my personal experience, are more likely to turn to the bottle or pills than a gun. That is just a personal observation. I personally have rage issues. When I get irritated it doesn't take much for me to fly off the handle and yell or break things. Do I have a problem? Yes, yes I do. I know this. Have I ever hurt someone in a fit of rage? Nope, never have. I am a trained veteran with 2 tours in Iraq and would never dream or hurting an innocent individual. There are people out there that need to be killed, but I'm not in that business anymore. I'll leave the killing to the military. I'm tired of the PTSD excuse. I'm tired of hearing that vets aren't stable.
The problem isn't with us, the problem is with all the bullshit spread by the mainstream media outlets. They spread lies about how vets are just timebombs waiting to explode, well, well we're not. We're no more likely to explode than the next man. Let me let everyone on a couple things:
We are fathers
We are mothers
We are brothers and sisters
We have hopes and dreams
We feel happy sad
We get angry and depressed
We are black, white, brown, yellow and red
We are made of flesh and blood like everyone else
We bleed, sweat and cry

What makes us different is we HAVE ALREADY paid our dues.
We have bled, sweated and cried for YOU. You, the citizens of the nation we stood up to defend, ostracize us. Treat us as if we don't belong here in your "perfect" society. Well, let me let you in on a secret...We're the reason your "perfect" society exists. We kept the wolves at bay. We did so in order to provide a place for you that is safe, so you don't have to be worried about being pulled out of your comfy beds in the middle of the night. We answered the call so you could mock us and fear us. We, the sons and daughters of America, have watched our friends die in our arms. I have words for all of you that call us crazy or unfit, but they're not very eloquent and would make me look uneducated, so I shall hold my tongue.

To all of you politicians, I'd say what I want to say but I'd probably have the FBI knocking on my door within the hour, so I shall edit it and use gentler words. You sit up there in DC in your fancy offices wearing your fancy suits that would cost me my paycheck for the month and you talk about cutting military pay. You talk about taking my guns, you can keep on talking. You can take my money, you can tax me into the grave, but I will not give up my freedoms that I protected. Get down off your damn pedestals and come live like an average American for once. Come down here and work for a day. Then, maybe then, I'd have some respect for you. Probably not, but maybe.

Ok, rant complete. FOX3, out

New Year, New Ideas...

Well, the end of the world has come and gone and we are all here. So that was a crock, no big deal. Now we have a whole new set of problems to deal with. Tax increases, gun control scares, drought and a truck load of other stuff. I don't follow the news too much because it depresses me. Frankly I'm scared to death, I don't think I'm going to make enough money to pay the bills. I'd like to tell the senate and congress a few things: 1st- I make enough money to pay the bills, barely, right now. What the hell do I pay your sorry asses for? I served my country and asked no questions. I went where I was told and did as I was told. Why is it that I now can barely afford to live? 2nd- Hey Mr. President, If you want guns registered and want to take away some of them, come and get mine. I'd be honored to have you as my guest. We'll have a nice sit down talk about how you want to take away my RIGHT to defend myself and my home. Then we'll talk about your inability to convince me that you have my best interests at heart. 3rd- More taxes on my to pay for welfare, medicaid, medicare and other government handouts? Get bent!! Go pound sand!!! I've got words for you, but I was told the excessive use of sterotypical "4 letter words" make you look ignorant and undeucated. I work for my money, I have never accepted a hand out. Your shitty system for doling out "rewards" for NOT working makes me sick. There needs to be more rules surrounding your "entitlements" than what you currently have. 4th- I need to wait till I cool off to go any farther with my ideations. All I'll say is "Come and take it"

College and Gun Control stuff

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College, new people everywhere to meet. New people to room with, new people to make uneasy.

Last week, I'd say Tuesdayish, maybe Wednesday I finally unloaded my car after a weekend of dove hunting with the brothers and my dad. To most people in Texas dove hunting is a ritual. Everyone waits for September in order to go bag some dove. After deer season's opening day, it's one of the biggest unofficial holidays here. Let me digress, I live with 3 other males in an apt. One of them from France, who wants to try hunting, one from Oregon who's here for his MBA after attending a seminary and the other from the Dallas area(I believe) here for engineering. From this point on they will be referred to as Frenchie, MBA and Dallas. I walked in the door wearing 2 x drop pouches, my rack (which is set up for hunting now) 2x bandoleers of shotgun ammo and carrying 2 x 1911's, a Mossberg 930, a Sig Saur 9mm, an 870 Wingmaster Express, a New England break open and a Bushmaster M-4 variant. They all stopped and stared, the first question was, "You take over a small Central American country?" The second was, " What exactly where you hunting all weekend?" I replied to both questions with, "Yes, and illegals." MBA knew I was kidding at which he smiled and went back to cooking his rice and meat. Texas and Frenchie weren't so sure I was kidding about the while thing. Frenchie wanted to know how to shoot every gun and when I'd take him to shoot. (I've never met a Frenchman that wanted to know so much about guns, one would think that they don't have guns over there.)
Dallas is a sarcastic, Warcraft playing, chubby little computer nerd. He didn't think it was funny that I joked about hunting illegals. At this point I left the room.

This being said let's go back, back to before recorded history.....men wore furs of the animals they killed, they ate the meat, made tools out of the bones of the animals they killed. (And maybe gathered some berries along the way) This is how man survived.

Have we forgotten our history? Have we forgotten that we had to at one time scratch a living out of the land? Despite what all the liberal, anti-gun pussys think my side-arm and my rifle are going to be the last thing anyone takes from me. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for gun control. I'm just not for gun restriction of the hard working, law abiding, tax paying everyday American. One thing these "Americans" have to remember is that the only people they are hurting by limiting gun ownership is the ones that follow the laws. If a crook wants to get a gun, he will. Why is it, do you think that the Cops are out gunned? Because they have to follow the laws. The weapons of choice for crooks tend to be unregistered, illicit or stolen, interesting to think about isn't it.

So I leave you with this: Don't do all your complaining on BLOGs, make sure you take a second to write your senators, congress men/women and representatives. We elected them, they make their decisions based on our opinions.