George Hill
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A lesson learned the hard way is a leason learned well. I'm glad this lesson didn't end up in the evening news.
This could have have happened to anyone - so mind your tongues. Handling guns is very much like handling serpents. All it takes is just a moment of wandering mind, slip of attention, just a brief second of carelesness... and it will bite.
Let this lesson be an example to all of us in that we are all going to be extra vigilant in our handling as I know we all are. Federal guy shoots him self... an XD owner shoots himself... and one of our own has an ND. Don't point fingers because it might just be a mirror you are pointing at tomorrow.
I know some old biker guys. They say that there are two kinds of riders... those who have spilled and those who have yet to spill. Some riders might scoff. I did. I spilled. These old riders... they live here in this little town. Neither one of them have fallen off a bike yet. That is what they say... "Yet". Because they respect the bikes and are always careful about them and not so arrogant as to think "It can't happen to me... I'm too good". That's how they have lived to be old bikers... both are in the late 60's early 70's I would guess. Still riding. Still careful.
This could have have happened to anyone - so mind your tongues. Handling guns is very much like handling serpents. All it takes is just a moment of wandering mind, slip of attention, just a brief second of carelesness... and it will bite.
Let this lesson be an example to all of us in that we are all going to be extra vigilant in our handling as I know we all are. Federal guy shoots him self... an XD owner shoots himself... and one of our own has an ND. Don't point fingers because it might just be a mirror you are pointing at tomorrow.
I know some old biker guys. They say that there are two kinds of riders... those who have spilled and those who have yet to spill. Some riders might scoff. I did. I spilled. These old riders... they live here in this little town. Neither one of them have fallen off a bike yet. That is what they say... "Yet". Because they respect the bikes and are always careful about them and not so arrogant as to think "It can't happen to me... I'm too good". That's how they have lived to be old bikers... both are in the late 60's early 70's I would guess. Still riding. Still careful.