The Gundoc's Doctrine

Ok…so I’m not a fan. Gotta laugh though.

I’m in the middle of trying to find a good location to get some photos of our rifles. It’s not only time to update the website but to get some uniformity with the pictures.

There’s only one problem…I’m really picky. I know the look I want. I know the emotion I want to invoke. Finding a location that fits that is the problem.

Any suggestions on who to contact or of locations you think would look great, please let me know.

*Disclaimer*   There are some thoughts that I have to get down. I apologize that they aren’t firearm related. This post is more therapy for me than of anything else.

Some of you know that my dad isn’t doing too well. Actually it’s worse than that. He has kidney cancer with spots on other organs. He has a few months left, but that’s it. My family spent last weekend with my parents. At 86 years old he still had a lesson to teach.

• Death is something that comes to all of us. But there are reasons for every part of it. Many ask themselves why old age has to suck so much. Why can’t we pass from this world with all our faculties in tact? The truth of that is that it isn’t about us…it’s about those we leave behind. It gives them a chance to grow closer to you by serving you. It’s God’s way of giving the family plenty of time to say goodby.
• For those of us left behind, there are two ways we can take death. We can celebrate the remaining life inside the warrior that resides in every man…or we can do the selfish thing. Most choose the selfish route. What is the selfish path, you ask? I’ve noticed, even among my own family, morning the death before it even happens.
• Once death occurs everyone morns. It’s natural and right. Many take it to the selfish level. They morn their own loss and forget about the actual death. It becomes all about them.
• The Vikings had a better view of funerals than has existed in centuries. Everyone will morn their personal loss to a point but don’t let that interfere with the celebration of their life, their accomplishments, and everything in between that made them great.
• The people that leave us have a bitter sweet reunion with their ancestors. Their parents and grandparents await them. They will also morn the pain of those left behind. They know that their children will suffer the loss of the parent. Being a parent myself I can only imagine what it would feel like for my little ones to morn the loss of me. The desire to somehow return to comfort their tears but know that it isn’t possible.

Death can not be escaped but our attitude toward it can change. It will always be hard, it will always be painful. We can make it a time to teach our children more about the person by giving them heroes. We’ve all heard stories about our grandparents. We need to hear more. Let our children hear the great accomplishments of their forefathers. Make their death a time for glorifying their life and cheering their ability to reunite with their loved ones. Instead of only being a time of weeping and waling it can be a bitter sweet time of celebrating a great life.

We all know that we, as a country, have been heading slowly down the wrong path for decades. I have to default to my own personal realm. For thousands of years of human development there has been one thing, one set of skills, that has been the definition of a man. That one thing being the type of weapon he carried and his skill with it. If he was caught out among others without it he was thought less of a man. From a caveman’s club to a Celt’s sword, to an American Minuteman’s Pennsylvania Long Rifle everything about him has been focused on the symbol of his power. This symbol told everyone around him the most important parts of his soul. The strength, the focus, and the honor to protect.

Today we demonize our children and make weapons a matter of terror. We catch them with toys and make them so afraid of ever coming in contact with the real thing that gun control will a useless point in the decades to come. If they can’t legislate it away they will simply make our children too fearful of handling, much less owning, them in their life time. If no one wants to own a weapon then the market will fall out from underneath them and only enough will be made for the police and military. Without fear of an uprising the government will be free to inflict anything they want on the populous.

Read this story

This story sickens me. Why are we arresting children, #1? And if we even need to go further than that then why are we arresting them for a BB Gun? Last time I checked they made them FOR children. Sure they are tools to, responsibly, teach young children to shoot and that’s not a bad thing. The whole article is making a monster of the boy.

“A seven-year-old brought a pellet gun to school, oh my God!”

Seriously….? A full grown adult had that quote to say? IT WAS A PELLET GUN. Do people even know the difference between this and a real gun? The difference in

This is the typical pellet pistol. Some BB pistols are fairly realistic but the article specified a pellet pistol.

lethality? Oh, wait. That doesn’t matter because we now arrest kids for having an “L” shaped Poptart that could look like a pistol.

“I’m surprised in someways but not in other ways. I was just kind of hoping that 7-year-olds would be a little more innocent than that, or maybe he was just being innocent and thinking that this is cool,” said Cameron.

Cameron…I’m only going to say this once so pay attention, Scooter. When I was a kid a pellet/BB gun wasn’t cool…it was AWESOME. That hasn’t changed. That hasn’t changed.

I will always be proud to be an American. I will always be proud of this country’s history. But I am DISGUSTED with the people of this nation today.