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GUN TALK THE WRONG WAY … AGAIN

March 14, 2018 by David Gillaspie

Raw Story posted a gun column about white men and guns. It was the sort of gun talk white men with guns shouldn’t identify with. “White men stockpile guns because they’re scared of black people and feel inadequate, science says.” That’s the rawstory title. It’s raw, but even more, it’s lazy, but a site called […]

Filed Under: Toughen Up Tagged With: anxious whitle man, blog, blogger, boomerpdx, doomsday prepper, facebook, gun control, gun hoarders, gun stockpile, guns, handguns, hoarder, hoarders, hoarding, raw story, scientific american, social structure, website, white male hoarders, white men

GLOCK 17 DOUBLE STACK PROBLEM

February 25, 2018 by David Gillaspie

Why does the Glock 17 have so many bullets? Because it might take the first sixteen shots to hit a target. Some people are bad shots. Maybe you’re a bad shot. I know I am. I nearly failed Army bootcamp because of my shot pattern with an M16. I wanted to blame the […]

Filed Under: Boomer Up Tagged With: AR15, armed forces, arming teachers, draft dodger, firing range, glock, glock 17, gun debate, guns, M16, national rifle association, NRA, teachers, tour of duty, Vietnam War, Vietnam-era, weapons

APPLIED GUN VIOLENCE EXPLAINED

February 17, 2018 by David Gillaspie

Baby boomers have a unique perspective when it comes to gun violence. Our fathers participated in the most extreme gun violence in world history. The books call it WWII and Korea; the dads went with bad intentions. Their applied gun violence saved the world from a Nazi future. Along with the horrific acts […]

Filed Under: Boomer Up Tagged With: America, Baby Boomers, boomers, gun violence, guns, Korean War, Marines, obama, President Obama, registered weapons, second amendment, WWII

GUN WORLD SURROUNDS YOU? What’s It Mean When You Don’t Notice

November 8, 2017 by David Gillaspie

A gun world is all around us in America. Start a casual conversation and you might learn the mild mannered person you’re talking to owns thirty guns. Since it’s so long ago, I like reflecting on my days as an Army medic. It comes in handy helping me pretend not be as grossed […]

Filed Under: Toughen Up Tagged With: gentlemen, gun death, gun violence, gun world, gunner, guns, hand gun, hand guns, health, ladies, mental health, nuclear weapons, portland gun death, portland state shooting, WWII

HOME SECURITY MISTAKES, SOME TO AVOID, SOME TO DO

August 2, 2017 by David Gillaspie

The longer you hang around gun people, the more you learn about guns. And them. If you’re not a gunner, but appreciate weapons, you also learn where you sound like an idiot. Strangely enough, this happened recently. 1. You talk to a gun friend. They ask about guns, your guns, and how available they are […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: alarm system, escape plan, guns, home, home invasion, home security, intruders, loved ones, neighborhood watch, security, weapons

3 THINGS GUNS WON’T DO BUT YOU WILL

August 3, 2016 by David Gillaspie

More than 3 things guns won’t do? Make a list. A gun won’t fix a flat tire. No matter how many times you threaten, guns won’t do it. There you are on I-5 north to Portland, cut over on 84 headed for the Glenn Jackson. You’re in a station wagon full of camping gear, kids, […]

Filed Under: Boomer Up Tagged With: Baby Boomers, boomers, communications, flat tire, friends, good parent, guns, guns won't do, I5, parenting, Portland, wife

CHARLES BRONSON GUNS

June 12, 2016 by David Gillaspie

A movie star for decades, Charles Bronson doesn’t get much run today. He was a star with guns from Death Wish back to the Dirty Dozen and Magnificent Seven. His best gun move came from Hard Times where he played a bare knuckle fighter collecting his fight purse. He drove out into the country, walked […]

Filed Under: BOOMER YEARS Tagged With: bronson, charles bronson, guns, hard times, mass killing, Orlando

FIRE ON THE HIGHWAY

January 27, 2016 by David Gillaspie

(Inspired by Marshall Tucker’s Fire on the Mountain) Left my family on my Arizona land Drove to Oregon with a loosely laid plan Winter’s cold there and life is hard Sometimes I wish I was in my sweet desert yard Now there’s fire on the highway One man laying dead We tried to […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: burns, felony crime, fire, fire on the highway, guns, highway, Oregon

7 WAYS TO JOIN A MILITIA THAT MATTERS

January 18, 2016 by David Gillaspie

Join a militia expecting things to go right? Then join the right militia. First, look in the mirror. Take a good, long, look. Do you see an eighteen year old? Nineteen or twenty? Or do you see a forty or fifty year old? Maybe sixty? Either way, ask yourself if you really want to join […]

Filed Under: Boomer Up Tagged With: Air Force, colin powell, DD 214, Dick Cheney, george bush, guns, join a militia, Marines, militia, Navy, u.s. Army, valerie plame, veterans, weapons

PROTEST HISTORY: HIPPIES, BLUES BROTHERS, AND AMMON BUNDY

January 11, 2016 by David Gillaspie

Blues Brothers and Ammon Bundy both on a Mission From God? The history of non-violent protest is a rough one. American college campuses rocked with turmoil in the Sixties and early Seventies with protests against the Vietnam War. The youth of America took notice of federal policy and didn’t like it. And they came strong […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: ammon bundy, blues brothers, bundy, burns, burns oregon, civil disobedience, college protesters, federal land, guns, hippies, Malheur Wildlife Refuge, Oregon, peaceful protest, protest, russian white house, stonewall riot, tank man, Tiananmen Square, Vietnam War, weapons

GLOCK 17 DOUBLE STACK PROBLEM

APPLIED GUN VIOLENCE EXPLAINED

GUN WORLD SURROUNDS YOU? What’s It Mean When You Don’t Notice

HOME SECURITY MISTAKES, SOME TO AVOID, SOME TO DO

3 THINGS GUNS WON’T DO BUT YOU WILL

CHARLES BRONSON GUNS

FIRE ON THE HIGHWAY

7 WAYS TO JOIN A MILITIA THAT MATTERS

PROTEST HISTORY: HIPPIES, BLUES BROTHERS, AND AMMON BUNDY

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