This time at my mother’s, in the Poconos I woke up no later than 8 AM. The day after my arrival we had a premature snow storm delivering about a foot of snow. The following days it melted quickly as the temperatures rose quickly producing a tranquil fog. I took this shot in my pajamas. If got dressed I thought conditions would change and I would miss my shot.
These are the foot prints of a young bobcat that came to visit my mothers garden. We were very fortunate to experience such a sighting. As I stood up in thought of retrieving my camera, our friends sagacity caught my movement through the windows of the glass room causing him to quickly recede into cover.
The sign reads, “TRAIL CLOSED due to big game hunting season.â€
The schedule for hunting season varies according to the type of game you are allowed to hunt. This day was one of the three days of the season you are allowed to hunt bear. I think that this sign serves more as a warning to would be hikers rather than a restriction. However, one should always be cautious trekking in the woods alone. Last year in PA there were 46 total reported hunting accidents. 44 were non fatal which leaves 2. Wow, not very many. Of the two fatalities one was self inflicted and the other by someone else. However, there are many things in life that we engage in that are dangerous but in the woods hunters or no hunters, wildlife can be dangerous too.
As a proponent of our second amendment right which I believe was written under the idea that the United States was created from a pluralist ideal, The term “militia,†and “people†clearly refers to the plural form of “a free and individual citizen.†At the time written, there clearly was no debate about it’s interpretation. And as advanced and modern a society we think we are, let’s not be so silly to think that they had no imagination of the possible advancement of the firearm. Now if you try and claim that the term “arms†in it’s definition, does not include an assortment of personal weapons from a dagger to an assault riffle. I hope that you will suffer a life of enslavement because you clearly do not want to except the responsibility that comes with individual freedom. As you have the right to remain silent, you have the right to decline gun ownership. However, being that you resign to exercise your right does not mean that I should have to give up mine. This is why it’s an inalienable right. You see above, I do not have a gun. But more importantly you should see that I am being responsible for my own safety.
Although I do not own a gun because of the laws created by the useful idiots that make up the majority of New York City. A city that probably has stricter gun laws than Soviet Russia, I still was able to hunt and this is what I shot.
Isn’t our country beautiful?
Hear! Hear! For Second Amendment Rights! And utterly lovely pictures. I grew up in the rural South. If a boy didn’t have a 22 when he was 12, there was something wrong with the boy or the family. My father didn’t hunt because my mother’s father died in a hunting accident. (His own fault.) My mother asked him not to hunt and Daddy always said it was no big problem because he didn’t like to be cold and wet at the crack of dawn. No kid ever thought about playing with a firearm. Daddy had a 38 and I knew that I wouldn’t sit down for two weeks if I messed with it. My husband is in law enforcement. When I realized we would have a hand gun in the house, I insisted that it should always be loaded because one should always assume that a firearm is loaded and dangerous. In addition, I had my husband take our 12 year old out and shoot that 9mm until the world looked level and then clean it. That ensured she would have no curiosity about it. When it was time to do the shotgun, she begged not to be forced to go to the range with it. As an adult she target shoots with her own weapon,as does her fiance who is a hunter. Of course, we unload it when we know we will have children in the house who may not have been taught firearms safety or respect.