October 30, 2019 |
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Gabby Giffords - 2019 |
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AN ONLINE PUBLICATION
OF THE ANONYMOUS ANYTHING SOCIETY |
AN ANNIVERSARY OF SORTS FOR THIS BLOG.
Although I didn’t date the first few blogs, I began to publish them on
an irregular bases beginning in 1999.
The one concern that has troubled me most greatly since then is the
insistent need for gun control and the obvious lack of backbone of our
lawmakers to turn down the money flowing from the National Rifle
Association.
I began to speak out about gun control; school shootings and mass
murder following the Columbine School massacre in April of 1999. This
was difficult for me to do. I’ve been a gun owner and avid hunter for
80 years. It was the only “sport” in which I excelled and loved to
do.
Then
came the horrific killing of six people including nine-year old
Christina Taylor-Green and 63-year-old Federal Judge John Roll and the
wounding of 18 others by a deranged young man on January 8, 2011 at a
shopping center in Tucson, one of whom at the time was U.S.
Representative Gabrielle Giffords, now the wife of astronaut and
politician Mark Kelly.
Gabbies’ grandfather and father were longtime customers of mine,
(purchasers of broadcast advertising) going back several decades, and I
was outside of my home and heard the commotion at a shopping center
barely a mile away, when the shooting took place.
My point is, it has been 20 years since Columbine and maybe our
lawmakers are finally considering doing something about assault rifles
and super-size ammo clips. Perhaps, we pray, with a greater sense of
haste and determination than the last 20 years!
-Phil Richardson, Storyteller and Observer of the Human
Condition.
Tommy Ross follows his older brothers to
be an apprentice in the hazardous trade of mining coal. It is doubly
dangerous, for his father has been sent to organize a local union in a
"company owned" coal camp. "The Prosperity Coal Company" is a novel
based on actual events that occurred all across the coal belt, when
America was on the cusp of the great depression, and union wars raged. This book is available on Amazon (link below). Amazon Paperback |
Born
to an addicted prostitute in a crime-ridden barrio, a man finds a love
that transcends all obstacles and opens a new pathway to life beyond
working for the Jefe of one of Mexico's brutal drug cartels. (In
English) "A roller-coaster ride of subterfuge and violence through the highways and byways of the drug trade in the US/Mexico desert borderlands." (reader's review on Amazon) This book is available on Amazon (link below). Amazon Paperback |