Guns Don't Kill People, Stupid Politicians Kill People

With more than 20 People Shot last night at an Alabama birthday party, with only four deaths, and Two Deaths, with four injured in Louisville, I thought this Post from February 26th, 2016 would help explain on how I feel about Gun Control. And don't tell me about the bullshit lies where "Guns don't kill people, people kill people."

This is playing right into the Republican's hand where they get richer and they have the poor killing each other over scraps so they can claim during election time that "We need more white supremacy type of cops to protect our streets so we can let them run wild and kill innocent civilians too! For a safer America!" Yes, it's my opinion. Yet here are some facts.

Anonymously Anonymous

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White supremacists and militias have infiltrated police ...

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And when you thought people couldn't get any more ignorant, 

here comes the 

"Iowa Lawmakers, (Who) Approve Bill That Would Let Kids Have Handguns." By Kim Bellware for The Huffington Post.

I thought
Texas
had a bunch of

Jackasses

for

Lawmakers,

"Texas 'open carry' law passes, allowing guns in holsters on the street." The Guardian.

"Texas lawmakers approved carrying handguns openly on the streets of the nation’s second most populous state on Friday, sending the bill to the Republican governor, Greg Abbott, who is expected to sign it and reverse a ban dating to the post-civil war era."

I'm sure all the republican people living in

Iowa

were so upset by

Texas

beating them out on the

"Open Carry Law,"

that the only thing they could think of to do,

to be ahead of them in ignorance was to,

"Give Guns To Children."

"Children of all ages in Iowa would be able to lay down their toy guns and pick up the real thing under a bill that passed the state House of Representatives. Statehouse Republicans, including the bill's sponsor, Rep. Jake Highfill, said the the legislation was an issue of parents' rights designed to correct "an injustice in Iowa code” that now forbids children 14 and younger from handling pistols. Allowing people to learn at a young age the respect that a gun commands is one of the most important things you can do,” Highfill told The Washington Post on Wednesday. The alternative, he said, is “turning 18 with no experience.”

If we only had a system in place
that could teach someone how to handle a gun?

I know that setting up

Classes

at a

Firing Range

with specially

Professionally Trained Marksman

to teach people,

Under Age,

how to handle a firearms would start a whole new industry.
And who would train the
Professionals Trainers?

But we already have these moronic

Laws
in place with kids killing kids.

Couldn't the

Law

have specified,

before a youth was allowed to have a pistol,

even under parental supervision,

they would have to have these

Classes With A Professional

and then be

Certified

before they got a gun?

If you ask me,

most parents don't even know how to handle a gun.

I knew a few grownups who carried guns

and they didn't have a clue on the safety issues.

Some of them are in jail now

and the other is dead from a self inflicted wound.

Stupid people think you can carry a gun in their belt instead of a holster.

I wouldn't want their children carrying guns around if they were taught by their parents who thought it was cool just to carry one!

If you are thinking of getting a gun,

check these websites out

and maybe we will have one less accidental shootings.

National Handgun Safety Course

or

Education & Training

This is,

Raised In A Family That Respected Guns - And If Anyone - In Our Family - Older Than I - Saw That I Was Playing With Or Disrespecting A Gun - They Had The Right To Whip My Ass - Then Tell My Dad So He Could Whip My Ass Too

Jim Hauenstein

And

“The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.” - P.G -

That is my story and I am sticking to it!

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Many Many Moons Ago

   Yes, many many moons ago there was (and still is) an annual herbaceous flowing plant cultivated throughout recorded history as a source of industrial fiber, seed oil, food, recreation, medicine, and religious practices that I partook in. (Spiritually speaking.) It was also illegal to have traces of it in your blood system if you were in the military, applied for jobs, or, as in my case, got hurt on the job.

   I have nothing bad to say about the company I worked for because they were very good to me for twenty years. It was just a corporate policy.

   By this time in my life I had quit smoking this herbaceous for about five years. Except! (Of course there wouldn't be a story without an "Except.")

   Except at a party, on New Year's Eve, at my friends house. After a few beers, a few laughs, I thought, "What the Hell." So I smoked a little, or a lot. It was a party.

   In the middle of February, of that new year, I break my foot while on the job. After going to the hospital, getting a cast on, I went home expecting four weeks of playing video games while my kids were at school.

   After one week of relaxation I get a call from Human Resources saying I have to go to such and such clinic for a drug test. If I didn't go in I would be terminated.

   Being superstitious, I believed what every Rastafarian had said to me. That there would be traces of this herbal spiritual drug in my blood system for up to six weeks!

   I panicked.

   So I took the advice of one Rastaman and bought a box of

"Quick Tabs - Herbal Clean."

Which I just found stuffed way back in an old cupboard while doing some spring cleaning.  

   I bought them around 2001. (I wonder if they are still good?)

   I can't tell you if it worked or not. But I didn't have anything in my system to warrant termination. I worked for the same company for at least another seven years.

   Now, in the State of California, potential employers can't even test for it!

 

This is,

I Checked Out Their Website Today

And They No Longer Sell

"Quick Tabs"

For Cleansing Your System Of

Cannabis Sativa

Just Regular Detox Solutions For A Healthier You

Jim Hauenstein

 

And

 

“The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.” - Carl Sagan -

 

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My Life So Far

Born, Love, Wonder, Feel

Taste, Cry, Laugh, Meet

Siblings, Play, Run, Talk

School, Away, Shy, Afraid

Friends, Awkward, Teachers, Lessons

Discover, Introvert, Girls, Immature

Music, Reading, Imagine, Enlighten

Move, Breakup, Use, Heartache

Rebel, Consort, Grad, Destructive

Work, Money, Travel, Explore

Musician, Reader, Poet, Writer

Split, Anger, Quit, Relocate

Employed, Encounter, Smile, Marry

Kids, House, Family, Home

Promotion, Recession, Retire, Bereavement

Writing, Hobby, Blogging, Fun

Novellas, Poetry, Fiction, Novels

Author...

This is,

My Life In A Poem So Far

Jim Hauenstein

 

And

 

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” - Douglas Adams -

 

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Thank You

The sales of my book

A Stop In Harmony 

is doing really well.

So well that I'm getting 25 copies sent to me so I can autograph them at potential

"Book Signings"

in my local book stores.

Thank you readers.

If it comes to fruition I will notify everyone when

and where,

here on my blog.

Or I will be handing them out to the people who have helped me over the years.

 I know the initial sales are always friends

and relatives with the occasional curiosity buyers.

What I am hoping for is the grassroots word of mouth sales.

Where readers tell other readers that my book is worth purchasing.

If anyone does buy it on one of the different online book services, please rate

and review it from the site you purchased it on.

Hopefully you will give me a positive review

and rating.

It helps other readers find my book if you do.

Thank You All

 

This is,

Humbled By This Experience

And A Whole Lot Of Fun

Jim Hauenstein

 

And

 

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
- Jorge Luis Borges -

 

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No Return Address

No Return Address

is the first book I wrote and released back in 2012.

You might be asking yourself why it would take me so long to get my second book published.

A Stop In Harmony

Because literary agents

and publishers are always looking for the latest trends with readers.

Sometimes you hit it right on the nose

and then sometimes you get good feedback from agents but a pandemic happens

and everyone and their sister are writing the next great novel.

No Return Address

only comes as an

eBook

that you can purchase at the low price of

99 cents

from these fine establishments.

Barnes & Noble

Apple Books 

Rakuten kobo

and

Smashwords

my first publisher.

*****

The book was written during a time when kids were taught how to write cursive,

learn to sign their name,

and fill out an envelope.

So some young adults today reading the book might not know where you would put a return address on an envelope

and why there would be a post mark stating the

Post Office

where it was processed

and the date.

Those things usually are not on junk mail.

*****

The story is written as an

"Epistolary Novel."

Where a serial killer confides to an old friend about the things he has done wrong.

Perfect for people who love

Mysteries/Suspense/Crime

Stories.

 

This is,

Timing Is Everything

Thank Goodness My Timing Was Perfect When I Met My

Wife

Jim Hauenstein

 

And

 

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” - Albert Einstein -

 

 That is my story and I am sticking to it!

 

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Two Galaxies - One SVU

   I don't want to scare anyone but did you know that the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxies will collide together in the not-too-distance-future? According to astronomical standards, it's just a blink of an eye, on computer simulations.

    Don't let that ambiguous stimuli fool you. That is not a pretty butterfly. It's Armageddon with Stars. Andromeda is the larger of the two Galaxies and will eat up our puny little Black Hole while incorporate our stars, if any are left over from the collisions do to the gravitational flux of stars and the larger Black Whole devouring the smaller Black Hole.

But don't you worry your pretty little heads about it.

After 4,500,000,024 seasons,

Law & Order SVU

will rip the story right out of the day's headlines

and handle the crises with that season's cliff hanger.

Hopefully,

the Earth will all be around for the 4,5000,000,025th season's first episode

and the conclusion of the story!

 

This is,

Asking

Will That Show Ever End

Jim Hauenstein

 

And

 

“Then I go in the den and turn on Law & Order, since the only thing i can really count on in life is that whenever I turn on the TV, there will be a Law & Order episode.” - David Levithan -

 

 

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A Stop In Harmony

I have been working on this project for awhile now

and I can finally break the big news!

You can now order my new book called;

"A Stop In Harmony"

It's on all the major platforms

including a couple of oversea websites too!

Amazon

Apple Books

Barnes & Noble

Smashwords

Rakuten kobo

Angus & Robertson

Mondadori 

Scribd 

tolino

vivlio

Coming soon to library apps such as

Overdrive

hoopla 

Borrowbox

Palace Marketplace 

bibliotheca

Right now paperback copies are only available at

Barnes & Noble

&

 Amazon

and if everything goes really well,

there might be audiobooks too!

Thank You

It's a

Fantasy/Adventure/Love Story

which I think you will enjoy seeing the development of the characters grow.
 

 This Book Is For

Young Adults

and

Adults

Jim Hauenstein

 

And

 

“There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on.” - E.B. White -

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But It's True

   You are not going to believe what happened to me! I'm having a hard time believing it, but it's true. It happened on February 13th.

   It all started, I thought, innocently enough. While sitting around a colleague's house with three other people discussing such things as the philosophical question of, which would be better, Heaven verses Hell, if your soulmate ended up in a different plain of existence than you?

   In the tradition of the Greek Philosophers of old, we sat at a huge dining room table, gorging ourselves on fine wine, Mediterranean sea bass, roasted lamb, and deep fried calamari.

   Also in their tradition, while we ate greedily, we discussed many subjects. Everything from democracy, education, psychology, metaphysics, and finally religious beliefs.

   This last subject was the most heated of all the debates that evening. I assume because of the different religious backgrounds of the five members at the table. Islamic, Hinduism, Jewish, Buddhists, and Catholicism.

   I will never forget what happened next after each side explained their religious belief. I was asked to weigh-in on how I felt about the subject.

   My answer? "My wife, my soulmate, is probably in Hell right now suffering for her sins. But I believe I am a good person and have lived a good life. So I will go to Heaven. But if I would die right now, I would rather go to Hell and be forever with my soulmate, then to be without her for an eternity in Heaven!"

   That is the very moment I started choking on a piece of calamari.

   I quickly blacked out and the next thing I knew, I was floating in the air, above my friends and my body, as they panicked like chickens around me as they tried resuscitating me.

   I turned away from the scene and saw a bright light before me which I followed to its beginning.

   There was my beautiful wife. Standing on the other side of the pearly gates holding a key. I assumed to unlock those gates to let me.

   "Honey," I exclaimed with joy. "Let me in so we can be together!" As I reached and grab the bars in front of her. Smiling a smile of joy I haven't had since she passed.

   "Ahem." my soulmate said, clearing her throat before continuing. "So you think I went to Hell, do you?"

   "What does it matter dear?" I was euphoric. "We can now be together, forever!"

   "You still can't keep your foot out of your mouth, can you?" She replied. "It's my decision to let you in now, later, or never you know."

   "What?" I asked confused. "But honey?"

   "Don't honey, honey me." she said. "I think you need to go back down into your body and think about what you have said!"

   Then poof!

   That is when I woke up today, Valentine's day. With a tube in my throat, oxygen blowing up my nose, and the the deepest guilt I have ever felt in my life.

   I missed my chance of being with my love again.

 

 This is,

I Know What You Are Thinking

My Mind Was Playing Tricks On Me Because Of The Lack Of Oxygen To My Brain

But I Knew It Was Her

Many Times Over The Years When We Were Together

She Had Many Opportunities To Say

"Don't Honey, Honey Me!"

Jim Hauenstein

And

“Something magical happens when two soulful people meet.”
- Avijeet Das -

 

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