Well regulated meant having an infantry type weapon at home, e.g., Brown Bess musket or AR-15. You cannot assemble a "well regulated" militia with unarmed people. It goes back to King Henry's "Assize of arms" requiring the peasantry to keep some kind of weapon with which to participate in the "fyrd," the forerunner of the citizen militia. In early America--and today--the militia was all able-bodied males.

Rest assured I have laid terrorists low in foreign lands. I have also saved the life of a carjacking victim in Georgia and successfully protected my family from criminal attacks.

No one who has not been in a gunfight has any business telling anyone else what kind of firearm they "need."

In the present business, IF the FBI had done its job, and IF the Broward County, FL, Sheriffs Dept wad not staffed by cowards, and IF the Obama "Promise Program" had not allowed Cruz to be visited 39 times without being arrested a single time, and Cruz was STILL able to get a gun, then we could talk gun control measures.

But since we were failed at EVERY level by the people sworn to protect us, and since the FBI is now embroiled in a scandal by which its leaders sought to rig an election and overturn it in the event Hillary lost--no, we are not going to accept obe iota of blame, and we are certainly not going to entertain proposals for gun bans or confiscations in this volatile political climate.

No future with this guy. You are a surrogate wife for him. Plan to leave. University is secondary now. Get your old job back, gather up your pets and find a new place--or go back home.

You have wasted half a decade with him. Our lifespans are not 10,000 years. We do not have decades to waste on people who "see no future" with us.

My computer refuses to type "ly" when I tell it to!

OK, I am back. First I want to tell all of you a little story.

My wife is Jewish. Her family lived in Austria before WWII. As you know, Hitler annexed Austria to Germany. Hitler gave the order for all the Jews to be disarmed--even if they were decorated WWI veterans. Their guns were confiscated by agents of the Nazi regime.

Next, they were loaded into boxcars and taken to Auschwitz. My wife's mother survived Auschwitz--even being experimented upon by Dr. Josef Mengele--but most of her family perished there.

Right now the US is in a political crisis. It is no secret now that the FBI was backing the campaign of Hillary Clinton. There was never a serious intent to investigate her violation of national security laws. Her crimes were covered up, while a fake dossier was used to obtain secret warrants for spying on the Trump campaign. The special prosecutor who is waltzing around Washington right now is the result of this fake dossier business. Deep inside the FBI was a cartel which developed an "insurance plan" to be used in case Trump got elected. All of this is just coming to light. It's very ugly, folks--and whether you're a Democrat or Republican, you know that the real problem was not the Russians influencing the election--it was the FBI taking sides in a political campaign. Now, stay with me a little longer.

So now we have the Left mobilizing these children to march in support of dismantling the Second Amendment. They are being orchestrated, scripted and manipulated by the Left--especially through the organization known as the Women's March.

Now, the Women's March has ties to Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, who is the most anti-Semitic person since Adolf Hitler. The Women's March refuses to cut ties with him. Then you have George Soros, the Uber Socialist who is pushing an agenda of open borders, unlimited immigration and public disarmament.

You say, "So what?"

So now we have the greatest political crisis since Watergate--in fact, it makes Watergate look tame in comparison--and you have the Left calling for bans of the most popular firearm in America, and the one that be able to put armed citizens on rough parity with government forces.

Many people see the Left as trying to topple a legitimately elected President--and the Left is simultaneous calling for gun bans and gun confiscation, and is shameless exploiting the children in their bids to do these things.

So what you have here are the ingredients for a civil war. That's right--a civil war.

The first Civil War resulted in 750,000 Americans killed, and that's a pretty conservative estimate. A second civil war, sparked by actions to ban certain firearms and/or confiscate them, would result in tens of millions of deaths. If you don't think this is a real likelihood, you haven't been talking to the same people I've been talking to.

Unlike Brits or Australians, Americans are not going to meekly turn in their guns or accept another "assault weapons ban." They are just not going to do it.

And, no, I do not want to see a civil war. I've seen civil wars in other countries. I will tell you right now that civil wars are more destructive than invasions by another country or power. The Spanish Civil War ended in 1939, but the wounds from it have still not healed. I've been to Afghanistan, and have seen what years of civil war have done to that country.

What would happen in a second American civil war? I can tell you this, based on decades of military service and observation of other countries: the government forces would be overwhelmed. They would lose. They would be outnumbered 50 to one. They could not bring their biggest weapons to bear, because it would all be urban combat. Ask any seasoned military leader the kind of fighting he fears most, and he'll tell you: urban combat.

Now, again, this is not something of which I am in favor--far from it--and it is NOT something I am advocating. Stay with me.

There would be purges like you haven't seen since the days of Stalin. Leftists and liberals would be hunted down. Because Leftists abused free speech, free speech would be a thing of the past. Every lamp post would have somebody hanging from it.

Most likely an "American Hitler" would emerge from the ashes to put the country back together again. Civil liberties would go out the window. In the guise of reclaiming our freedoms, our freedoms would be taken away. But people would go along with it, because they remembered the excesses of the Left.

I do not want to live in such a country. I do not want to see either the Right or the Left attain absolute power. We all know that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Yes, we can address issues about guns without taking away people's rights. But we cannot take away people's rights in the guise of making them safer--that just does not work.

The problem of violence in our society isn't a gun problem--it's a societal problem. Anyone who has lived five or six decades has seen the changes in our society. They have not all been for the better. We've had AR-15s since the 1960s--but only recently have they figured in senseless acts of violence.

I would like to see the Left back off, to stand down, and to TALK to the NRA and other gun owners about things we can do. When the Left demonizes and vilifies us, we tune them out. Also, I don't want to be told I don't "need" my guns by people who are rich and live in mansions with high walls and a platoon of armed security guards!

There ARE some things we can do. But Leftists and liberals HAVE to accept that giving up our civil rights is NOT the answer.

Nevermind, you need to be aware that some brain chemical processes, sometimes aided and abetted by medications, will actually produce suicide ideation.

There are some medicines people take that will do that. We don't fully understand the mechanisms, but we know that this is true. Interestingly enough, there are parasites that influence their hosts' behavior. If, say, you were exposed to toxoplasmosis from an infected cat, it would tend to make you more likely to take risks--and be involved in an auto accident.

Now about that auto accident--looks like a bad one, kid. That would shake up anyone! Don't worry about ambulance bills and crap like that. First, they overcharged. Secondly, you let the insurance company worry about that. Even if the insurance company refused the claim, you can always go "Eff you" to the hospital. Happens all the time.

Do not let yourself be judged by the standards of this world. The standards of this world are terribly, terribly skewed. We heap honors upon athletes for throwing balls, but we let teachers labor in obscurity.

I also know that if I were to take a poll with your cats, they'd definitely say that they want and need you! My grandfather used to say that our status in heaven would be determined by how well we treated animals on earth. I believe that he was right.

I also want you to realize that you are in a temporal bubble right now. It's a temporary situation. You won't always be living at home. You won't always having a parent hovering over you, telling you this or that. One day it will seem like a distant memory.

The process of growing up is to decide what kind of person you want to be, and then to undertake steps to become that person. You do not "find" yourself--you BECOME that which you want to become.

You know, Einstein said that "God does not play dice with the universe." He was right. We all have a reason to be here. It might be to take care of cats--and I'm totally serious. But I am sure that is not your only purpose. The fact is, you are here for a reason. You may not be able to discern that reason right now, but it is waiting to be fully manifested before you.

Be sure to put the gun and ammo away. I had a brother-in-law whose wife had cheated on him with the pastor of their church. He found himself in a divorce action. He was losing his home, his kids and his income although he had done nothing wrong. One day he had an auto accident--it seemed like the last straw for him. He reached inside the glove box and pulled out his magnum revolver. He walked into the woods and shot himself.

His two adoptive children, his mother and his siblings and I were devastated. I cannot begin, not even begin, to tell you of the pain that a suicide leaves behind. It's apocalyptic. It's traumatic beyond all imagining.

And do you know the definition of suicide? It's a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

Somewhere out there, Never, is someone whose very life will depend upon you. Somewhere out there is a good deed that will never be done if you are not there to do it. Somewhere out there is a righteous cause that will never come to fruition if you are not there to make it happen. Somewhere out there is a soul who will be lost if you are not there to guide him or her.

You may say to yourself, "But I am JUST a girl right now!" No, you are not JUST anything. You are a universe of positive potentialities, you are a cosmos of good things to come, you are a future of love and compassion showered upon those who need it most.

Your cats, who are far more discerning than most humans, can sense these things already. They already know that you are a superior being. And they know that your compassion, warmth and love make you truly worthy of feline adulation!

If you will hang in there with us, if you will trust us, if you will believe in yourself and what our Creator has planned for you, then a beautiful life will unfold before you. No, it won't all be roses and laughter--but much of it will be.

You must stay the course--and begin preparing for that day when you go out to make your mark in this world--to make it a better place!

How are you doing now? 😊

You are right. We CAN put an end to people messing with us. Sometimes there is a price to pay--but it is always less than self-destruction. Better to quit a job that makes you feel like crap than to be psychologically eviscerated on a daily basis.

Yes. Stay. We are picking up steam!

Will answer more fully tomorrow. But gun bans are not the answer. The NRA has been around for 147 years. We have had AR15s since the late 60s. The guns have not changed, but the media, education and the restrictions placed on parental discipline HAVE.

Wonder how these Leftists would like a nice big civil war? That is what they are going to get if they get their way. Civil War 1.0 = 750,000 American deaths. Civil War 2.0 would be in the tens of millions. They haven't thought about THAT.

Nevermind--you cannot overhaul your life in 24 hours. Pick one thing at a time to change.

Celebrate yourself. You are a light in this world!