AUSTRALIAN GUN CONTROL and HILLARY

Remember during the campaign Hillary's Umpeenth  speech about guns, somebody asked her how she felt about ' AUSTRALIAN GUN CONTROL"? ( they had just outlawed private ownership, demanded civilian surrender of guns upon pain of awfulness), and Hillary said, " I'LL HAVE TO TAKE A LOOK AT THAT."
     Flash forward to today:  Australia gathered truckloads of everything that shoots. Tons of the stuff, pictures everywhere to prove it. Burned, crushed, buried, gone. OK?
     That was quite a while ago. The leftist government down under made the same tired old argument our Democratically run large city governments make - turn 'em in, you'll be safer. ( sure...like Chicago, tightest gun laws in the USA)
     Some smart ass University types conducted rigorous studies on crime rates before and after the "GUN-CONFISCATION!!"  Purpose? Did the government's demand to loot the public's self defense of all their firearms actually lower the rate of crime in Australia?
     After extensive scientific research, the answer was recently published. Guess what it was?
     Nope. Not one bit.

###                                           Wyatt Earp

His Protege

" Manhood" - Explained

If you can keep your head, when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it - on you.

If you can trust yourself, when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting, too.

If you can wait..and not be tired by waiting, or be lied about, and yet don't deal in lies. Or, being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet, don't look

k too good, or talk too wise.

If you can dream, and not make dreams your master, if you can think and not make thoughts your aim.

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two imposter's just the same.

If you can make one heap of all your winnings and risk it all on one turn of pitch & toss, and lose...and start again at our beginnings and NEVER breath a word about your loss.

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone and so hold on when thee is nothing left within you except the WILL which says, " HOLD ON."

If you can talk with crowd and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings, nor lose the common touch, if neigher foes nor loving friends can hurt you.

If all men count with you, but none too much. If you can fill the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run, yours is the earth and everything that's in it, and what is more, You'll be a man, my son.

Rudyard Kipling......1905

And, for me, what counts more, is having traveled that road.