Today I saw an ad on TV done by Hank Williams mentioning how Americans like him love their God, and their guns, but not in the violent sense of the word. He referred to the gun that was handed down to him by his grandfather, much like my husband had a 30/40 Craig Cavalry rifle handed down to him by his father a couple of years back.

I’ll be danged (as hubby would say) if I can find that ad now to post for you, but I do want you to stop on over and visit Hank Williams official website, where he has some info about his support of McCain and Palin…as many know he’s been traveling and singing with the Palin team lately. At his site provides a link to something I’d never heard of before, Sportsmen for McCain.

Now if you’ve read my posts before on guns and hunting, you’ll know I have a love/hate relationship with the whole thing.  I get a little uncomfortable when hubby takes his gun out of the case to admire it even though he tells me that it’s not loaded and the bullets are hidden in another room far from the gun.  And I hate coming up behind a car with a deer carcass tied on the back.  But bring me some prepared venison, and my mouth waters thinking of the recipes I can make from it.  So I guess you could say I’m just a bit conflicted.

Here’s Hank William’s video about his gun & Obama wanting to take away his freedom to keep this inherited treasure…is he right? Is that what Obama has said? Let me know if he’s wrong, but knowing Hank, who says it like it is and nothing more from what I’ve seen of his interviews lately, I’d say he is.

I’m kinda bored with the news lately, tired of the same old things about Hillary and Obama, and wonder when it will ever end…sometimes it’s actually kind of funny, it’s almost like the Democratic Party is imploding, but that’s not what I want to talk about.

I thought I’d fill in this long gap between now and the REAL campaigning with some of my own feelings about some of the “hot button” issues. Gun control is one of those issues, and it’s one I have feelings about, but am not passionate about. I hate guns, I really do. Can’t stand watching the violence in movies, can’t stand hearing what’s become all to frequent reports about guns and shootings in schools, oh and that accidental shooting by a pilot last week? I didn’t hear the full story, just one of those things I heard in the background while working.

My husband doesn’t hate guns.  He’s not a member of the NRA, but he does have a nice antique Cavalry rifle that his Dad gave him, a 30/40 Craig, and a couple of shotguns. He believes in our right to bear arms, that people should be able to have a gun to protect themselves. He keeps the ammunition stored far away from the gun, which is smart, but if anyone broke in and I were to even think of using the gun to protect myself, I’d have to say to the intruder, “oh, could you hold on a minute, I have to run into the other room and get some bullets to load the gun if I can find them in my husband’s drawer…just have a seat, I’ll be right back”….so I really don’t think the gun will do much good to protect me. Of course there’s hunting, and an occasional venison steak is pretty good, hunting season brings a lot of guns into our area as we are surrounded by forest.

So, this is an issue I’m conflicted on…not real passionate about…the next “Where I Stand” will be something I AM passionate about.