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HOW OLD IS ‘OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER?’

December 23, 2023 by David Gillaspie

How old were you when you first heard it? My memory says I was a seven year old who couldn’t field a grounder after my last ‘bad hop’ bounced off my face. I wasn’t technically afraid of the ball, except I was afraid of what the ball might do. When one of the baseball fields […]

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AR15 PURCHASE QUESTIONS THAT NEED ASKING

April 9, 2018 by David Gillaspie

The Washington Post ran an nice piece about a guy buying his first AR15. He’d wanted one for years and finally the day came. Money, motivation, and gun show all came together for him. The WaPo research seems pretty good, even with a tag of fake news thrown around. The […]

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SETTLE OLD SCORES OUTSIDE, WIN THE BIGGER WAR INSIDE

April 1, 2017 by David Gillaspie

Small wars turn into bigger war, small conflict to large scale How far back do you go to find a good war? It’s not that war, the Good War, the Last Good War, the Big One. The end results justified the means in WWII. Industrial death and human neglect in the Axis Powers […]

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HOW TO EXPLAIN MODERN PROBLEMS TO THE GREATEST GENERATION

July 31, 2014 by David Gillaspie

Boomers in the Sandwich Generation have a lot to cover. Wedged between the Greats from WWII and Millennials, baby boomers in combined households find one group over-informed by network news, and the other who understand world events from Comedy Central. The younger group has time to figure things out on their terms. To the older […]

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HOW OLD IS ‘OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER?’

AR15 PURCHASE QUESTIONS THAT NEED ASKING

SETTLE OLD SCORES OUTSIDE, WIN THE BIGGER WAR INSIDE

HOW TO EXPLAIN MODERN PROBLEMS TO THE GREATEST GENERATION

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HOW OLD IS ‘OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER?’

AR15 PURCHASE QUESTIONS THAT NEED ASKING

SETTLE OLD SCORES OUTSIDE, WIN THE BIGGER WAR INSIDE

HOW TO EXPLAIN MODERN PROBLEMS TO THE GREATEST GENERATION

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