Name:	Buteye -	Reply
Subject:	Strange Coincidence
Date:	10/8/2017 6:15:12 PM

After working all day at my lake house and while driving back to Montgomery, a strange thought popped in my head. I have had thoughts off and on for the last few days about the shooting in Las Vegas. I know this will sound a little wild, and I am not trying to make light of the shooting and terrible aftermath. I was in my old truck and the radio doesn't work and out of no where the lyrics of "Froggie went a courtin' and he did ride, uh-huh, With a sword and pistol by his side, uh-huh. He rode up to Miss Mousey's door, uh-huh, Gave three loud raps and a very loud roar, uh-huh," etc. came out of the "blue" or maybe the "dark" since it was nighttime. No, I'm not losing my mind, but I thought it a bit weird that a little "song" that I remember as a child and and recalled it again when my children came along would surface at this time. I immediately thought that if "Froggie" had been limited by the "laws" that today's left wing liberals propose, he would not have had a "sword" and "pistol" by his side, uh-huh.                                                                                                                                                                                                                         What is even a little more intriguing about this event is that after I got home I "googled" 'Froggie Went a Courtin" and found that there must be over a hundred versions of this little "song" with something of a similar nature dating back to the 15th and 16th century. I found Bob Dylan's version which consisted of seventeen verses to be rather amusing. I only posted this because I thought it might add a little levity to all the gloom and doom that is being posted today. And yes GoneFishin before you respond, I think I am reasonably equipped to pass a "background" check for my purchase of a firearm.

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Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	Strange Coincidence
Date:	10/9/2017 8:29:58 PM

I'm glad to learn I am not the only one who has litty ditties from the past pop into my head.   Man has been armed since he figured out that he needed to defend himself against predators.  Nothing has changed, except liberals can not accept that violence and mental illness will not be resolved by taking guns out of the hands responsible citizens.  When you think about all of the responsible people who own guns in this country, literally millions, and the relatively few number of these incidents of mass shootings, it's a tiny number.  But people get upset about it, and they want to do something to stop it - so they talk about gun control, which is something that could be controlled, as opposed to the problem of violence in people's nature or mental illness which cannot be controlled.