As usual, I’m writing a half-dozen stories simultaneously, but one really hit home for me. The fourteen-year-old kid and his dad will likely spend the rest of their lives in prison for what? The latest school shooting in Georgia only confirms that we’ve become a nation of loons.
As a kid who grew up in a small town in East Texas, I’ve been around guns my entire life. I like to kid that they put a bottle in one hand and a 22 in the other. In my case, it was a single-shot Remington rolling block 22 caliber rifle passed down from generation to generation. In truth, I had no bottle as I was born on the farm and breastfed, but it was a different time.
Back home, it is still somewhat familiar to see someone with a hog leg strapped to their side, but no one has thought much about it until lately. We didn’t go around shooting people.
One of the stories I’m working on involves Foxy and Larry stopping a school shooting. I started this story in reaction to the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting, where local law enforcement apparently failed to respond quickly to an incident with tragic consequences.
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