Unexpected Gunners, Part 2 – David Feherty and Greg Norman

On June 8, 2012July 26, 2012 By Tom LindsayIn Celebs

Photo courtesy of The Golf Channel

Sometimes people who you would not expect to be shooters turn out to be just that. First was Alton Brown, and then golfers David Feherty and Greg Norman.

Feherty hosts a self-named talk show on The Golf Channel, and in one episode last year he went to visit golf legend Greg Norman at his home in Colorado. One of the things Norman shared was his gun room, shown above.

Photo courtesy of The Golf Channel

They shot a lot of guns, including a Barrett .50BMG rifle and a lot of handguns and shotguns.

In a candid shot from another episode last year, while on a flight, Feherty was reading a gun magazine that had an AR-15 on the cover. He put the magazine down as the camera came toward him, noticed the AR, and said to the camera that he had two of those. Nice. He also tweets about them from time to time.

A Prayer for the Greatest Generation

On June 6, 2012 By Tom LindsayIn Uncategorized

Almighty God:

Our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our republic, our religion, and our civilization and to set free a suffering humanity.

Lead them straight and true. Give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith.

They will need Thy blessings. Their road will be long and hard, for the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces. Success may not come with rushing speed. But we shall return again and again. And we know that by Thy grace and by the righteousness of our cause our sons will triumph.

They will be so tried by night and by day, without rest until the victory is won. The darkness will be rent by noise and flame. Men’s souls will be shaken with the violences of war. For these men are lately drawn from the ways of peace. They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate. They fight to let justice arise and tolerance and goodwill among all thy people. They yearn, but for the end of battle, for their return to the haven of home.

Some will never return. Embrace these, Father and receive them Thy heroic servants into Thy kingdom.

And for us at home, fathers, mothers, children, wives, sisters, and brothers of brave men overseas, whose thoughts and prayers are ever with them, help us, almighty God, to rededicate ourselves in renewed faith in Thee, in this hour of great sacrifice.

— President Franklin Roosevelt, announcing the D-Day invasion to the country, June 6, 1944.

H/T Daddy Bear

The Greatest Feat of the Greatest Generation

On June 6, 2012July 26, 2012 By Tom LindsayIn Uncategorized

Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon a great crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers in arms on other fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world.

Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle hardened, he will fight savagely.

But this is the year 1944! Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of 1940-41. The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats, in open battle, man to man. Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground. Our home fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war, and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men. The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to victory!

I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full victory!

Good Luck! And let us all beseech the blessings of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
June 6, 1944

(Listen to General Eisenhower give his speech, here.)

Then They Came For Me

On June 4, 2012 By Tom LindsayIn Gun Rights, RKBA1 Comment

First they came for the communists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

– Martin Niemöller, German pastor and theologian, 1946

Some of us have learned the lesson, and are speaking out.

David over at Musings Over a Pint wrote today about the movie For Greater Glory, about the Cristeros War in Mexico, which started in 1925.

If you are worried about government intrusion into the affairs of religious groups, especially the Catholic Church, you should check out his post.

The lesson – if we don’t speak out against injustice at any level, against any group, then we shouldn’t expect anyone to speak out against injustice done to us. You can pick your own example.