Shooting at Stuff is Cool….
I’m really excited about my latest passion! Shooting revolvers, lever-action rifles, and double-barrel shotguns off of a sprinting horse is great fun, and it has practical uses.
Dakota Running irons is a local Cowboy Mounted Shooting club based out of the Ashley Arena near Pukwana. With any luck, the folks there won’t laugh at me too much should I fall off one of my broncs as I attempt to shoot stuff from the saddle. So far I’ve learned that anybody can shoot a gun off of pretty much any horse, it’s doing it again after the animal’s flight response kicks into overdrive that’s tough.
I thought about getting into Team Penning, and still might, but the mounted shooting thing has so much more practical use. For example the US is now at war with yet another Muslim oil producing nation and it’s clear the days of the automobile are nearing an end. Ol’ Gaddafi might have been a tyrant, but at least he kept his tribes in line and the oil flowing. Why we are backing the random rebel groups is beyond me. Who knows what wacky plans they have once they’re in control? What makes us think those rebels won’t go to fighting with each other once “peace” breaks out?
In my opinion, the real reason that ordinary citizens in the Middle East want to overthrow their rulers has nothing to do with pursuing prosperity. What the rebels really long for are the old days when the different sects could saw each others heads off. Maybe the Sunnis face the wrong direction when they pray and that makes the Shiites mad? Maybe the Shiites don’t beat their women-folk enough, and that makes the Kurds mad? Nobody knows for sure why they are all out of their minds, but I have a suspicion it has a lot to do with the lack of branches on their family tree. What’s evident is that blowing up Muslims is high entertainment for the other Muslims, and having a mean dictator get in their way is ruining their fun. Besides, mean dictators in the Middle East are good for America, and lord knows the desert warlords and tribal chieftains can’t have that. Especially when America will partner with these jokers.
So what we have going on now is that our arms built in here in the USA are destroying other arms built in the USA. We halt blasting them long enough to get another fill-up of their oil so we can then carry on the destruction. The entire thing is financed with our Chinese line-of-credit. Let me get this straight, we borrow money from the Chinese to buy oil from the Arabs which we burn as we blow up Arabs and their military equipment which we gave to them in the first place…..
So… why the horses? Our country is not going to fix its roads much longer. The shocking lack of road-quality gravel in Eastern SD after a mere 50 years of use isn’t even an issue. We will run out of wealth before we run out of resources. It’s the natural outcome from our leaders eating paint chips and taking baths in mercury the moment they get to Washington D.C.
So… why the guns? We live in a society that PAYS thugs and gang-bangers to not riot excessively. It keeps them from bothering the rest of us too much. What happens when those welfare dollars lose their purchasing power not by the recent mere 20% per year, but by 100% overnight? Well… let me put it this way… we won’t need to worry about policing atrocities and mass catastrophe on the other side of the world… we’ll have plenty of it right at home.
