Simple Math

Take away all legal guns; only illegal guns left.

Make it illegal to own guns; only the criminals will have them.

Stop and think about for a while. Do you really want to live in a town where only the criminals carry guns. You just might prefer a different town, different state, or maybe a different country.

Then again, I might be wrong. If you’re a criminal type, you just might like it to know your victim doesn’t have a way of defending him/herself.

Sometimes, the person who wants to disarm the town is the criminal’s best comrade.

Attention to Detail

I have known a few. As a big picture person, I have a tendency to overlook details. It both helps and hurts in my writing. It helps me develop good plots and then I leave out words or even phrases.

Look at Mickey Spillane. He wrote his first book in nineteen hours. Then he sent it, as is, to a publisher. How many folks can do that sort of thing on a typewriter?

When I was in the Marines, I met a few men who very, very rarely made mistakes. It’s not that they corrected them. They didn’t make them in the first place.

I think, if I were put in a position of great responsibility, I would like to surround myself with folks like that. They just might make me look very good.

Daily writing prompt
What is something others do that sparks your admiration?

What If?

Just had an odd thought. Just what if Old Joe ends up in court facing charges of accepting bribes. Then to avoid the trial he seeks to claim he’s to senile to properly aid in his defense?

It would keep Old Joe out of prison, but it sure would give the dems a black eye. Then again, they’d not care, as long as it did no damage to their power structure. The dems are beyond being embarrassed.