I’m at mountaintop Pennsylvania has this is written, haven’t driven today from the Rochester area to Buffalo to Batavia back to Newark New York, and then down to Hazleton Pennsylvania. Then here. Fairly long day.
Tomorrow, I’ll pick up a trainee, and teach him how to drive for us. That’s a job I’ve been doing quite a bit of lately. I won’t say I like it or dislike it, I guess it’s down to I don’t mind it. And it seems I’m reasonably good at it. The truck is behaving, no the engine computer is complaining about a bad sensor which monitors the oil breather. It’s on order and I should see it at the end of the week.
The recent chill with Joan as come in with is actually a welcome respite. The air conditioners in the truck work fine, even one the truck isn’t running. But it’s nice to open the window at night. At least, the windows with screens in them.
Welcome to my world.
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I saw an interesting study the other day.
This study [2], for whatever it’s worth concluded that yes, America does have a gun problem. At the same time however, when they broke the figures down, they found something very interesting indeed.
That being, that if you take away the incidence of gun crime involving black on black crime, and Hispanics using guns in criminal fashion, the incidence of gun crime here in these United States falls below that of Great Britain, of Australia and even below that of New Zealand, where such firearms are banned entirely.
It struck me as I was reading the report that I never seen anything of the like even contemplated before. And of course the reason why would be obvious. There are those who would consider even thinking such a thing to be racist. Or at least, so they would label it, and thereby have the opportunity to dismiss it.
Thing is, I’ve never been bound by such considerations. My pursuit of the truth is exactly that pursuit of the truth. Wherever it ends up leading.
I’ve always known of course with the emphasis on guns as a problem Factor was being well exaggerated by the gun grabbers in our society, and always have been. Consider the number of public schools for example that actually had gun ranges where students were taught how to handle firearms. That’s no longer happening.
But you know what else isn’t happening? You know what else isn’t being taught? Responsibility of the individual. And the thing is, I don’t consider it a racial issue, but a cultural one.
Just something to think about today.