Reagan's security detail sure did!
Posted on 12/06/2009 5:20:32 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
Probably just a few “joy” shots that went tragically awry.
Reagan's security detail sure did!
A Smith & Wesson bazooka was also found nearby!
But I thought Maryland had gun control.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
This poor hotel!
Isn’t this the same harbor hotel where the Monty Co. jerk (”Hispanic”, surely, but probably illegal) killed his 3 kids the other year in the bathtub?
“the Army viewed Baltimore as an approximation of a war zone; and sent young doctors there for training.”
Probably also because Baltimore is the best - has been the center of the medical universe for a century.
Great combo.
Add “3:00 a.m.” in the mix, and you can pretty much guess.
“when her dad and the other Italian and Irish ran the city it worked a lot better”
Make that, Germans and Poles. Hardly any Irish.
In ‘68? You must’ve been there during the watershed moments of the MLK Riots. I say “watershed” because that is when you can mark that Baltimore changed from great city to sh#$#@$y city, along with so many others.
I wonder if they held the Uzi sideways when they fired?
Actually that is what they would do to spray the room.
I remember a friend of mine was trying to convince his
wife that getting a subgun was a good idea so we were
at the outdoor range and he showed her how to hold it
and told her when you fire keep the muzzle DOWN.
Well, she went up to the line and proceeded to empty the
full mag, the gun, an Ingram I think, went right over her head and sprayed a line of bullets right between the cars
parked behind them.
He took it from her and never said another word.
Lucky.
I think that, as we get older, we have a vested interest in preserving our values and creating the best possible environment for our children and grandchildren. Jefferson referred to them as our “posterity”——we just see their smiles around the holiday dinner table.
There have been many times when times were hard—take 68 years ago tomorrow, Pearl Harbor—as one of them. Fear took hold until the shock wore off, and Americans came together to fight off the external threat.
And that is when we do it best, when the threat is EXTERNAL.
This time, the threat is INTERNAL, and that is a harder beast to quantify and to rouse the citizenry against before it is too late.
As a country we have only experienced this once before—during the Civil War. Those four years of madness killed off 600,000 Americans and impoverished tens of thousands of families, and wreaked destruction across the South.
No one is alive who experienced that time to tell us how to avoid another one. Their writings give us an idea, but much of that is lost to a historically illiterate nation.
That is what makes this time so dangerous. It feels like 1860 must have felt to them. Pressures building,government out of control,liberties threatened, regional splits, political hatred between parties. Somehow we feel that the very heart of our nation and its promise of freedom is in danger of being lost. And not by an outside enemy, but an enemy inside the gates.
Everyday I wonder the same thing, basil, then I remember that we are here at this time in our history, us older folks who know why America is unique even if our President does not, who are proud of our country, even if our First Lady is not, who care for right and wrong, even if our political leaders do not.
If not us, then who?
Our posterity is depending on us. We dare not fail to fight for them.
Finding like minded folks like you here at FreeRepublic helps me to keep fighting the good fight. We have an instant network of patriots at our fingertips—no other generation has had that.
So let’s encourage each other that small minded politicians, Marxist, Communists, and Islamist terrorist and other assorted enemies are not going to take America and its ideals away from us or our posterity.
That’s what the Founding Fathers hoped we would do.
I see what you mean about holding it sideways now.
That lady coulda killed someone!
Actually arrived in July which would be later. Had the poor fortune of seeing the Newark riot of 67 close up though and it was the most scary disgusting thing I have ever witnessed in the US.
The “Civil War” wasn’t the only time. It’s the only time - sort of - it reached full-fledged hostilities over a long time. We haven’t reached that yet. We’re more pre-hostility, and we’ve had quite a few times like that over our history. Easily including the “Revolutionary War”, which included plenty people mixed in together (unlike the “Civil War”) who disagreed, which obviously went hot.
All these years of paying folks not to work has taken it's toll on the pride and work ethnic of our citizens. Instead of striving to make life better, too many people are pleased to sit on their posteriors and wait on the gummit to hand them whatever they need. It 's gotten so bad, that a large percentage of our population thinks that because they breathe, someone else needs to pay them for it.
I sure wish I had the formula to right all that is wrong, but I have to say I do not. It's so frustrating to watch what is happening and not be able to do much to stop or change it---at this point, prayer may be our best answer.
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