: About Me

Gen Xer, Reagan baby, growing up with the threat of Mutual Assured Destruction, the spectre of nuclear winter and scared to death by "The Day After"...
Bag boy, dishwasher, video store clerk, K-Mart employee (twice!), landscaper, Navy Corpsman, nursing aide, television news producer, computer programmer...
Three colleges, two degrees, smart-aleck frat boy moving from coast to coast - New York, Illinois, California, Hawaii ,Japan and all the way back to Pennsylvania...
A Deadhead who likes to Rage Against the Machine, the music collection spans from jazz to country, with stops for the Carpenters, Ben Folds and Iron Maiden...
Older, balder, married, three boys, two pugs, a cat, two hermit crabs and five fish...with a minivan.
Any questions?
Bill W

My passion is ...

music

I know too much about ...

Arkansas

My parents always told me ...

keep making that face and it will freeze that way

My childhood ambition ...

to be Indiana Jones

My favorite memory ...

watching the sun come up over the clouds on Mount Fuji

Why I write ...

to keep myself sane

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Stephen King, b-rated zombie movies, and right now BOC

My first job ...

Bag boy at the local supermarket

My best moment ...

fill-in DJ at a friends wedding after the real thing got caught in a snowstorm

My inspiration ...

life - it's far more interesting than any fiction

Politics, News & Issues > US Politics (Other) How tougher punishments, not gun control, can lower firearm violence

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There is a compelling reason that increasing punishment instead of increasing gun control can lower firearm violence, and suprisingly it has little to do with the Second Amendment and the right to bear arms. Instead, it has everything to do with where those arms are coming from. The average gun-owning American has followed the proper legal procedures to obtain their firearms - and Federal and State governments are doing their best to keep guns out of the hands of criminals via background checks. Currently, the FBI conducts handgun transfer checks for 26 states and long gun checks for 36; t...

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