Second Amendment

From the available context, the purpose of the second amendment is crystal clear. The founders believed there should be no standing armies in peacetime. (They’d be aghast at our current military situation!) Private citizens should be free to own and become proficient with any weaponry that may be useful in time of war, because they may at any time be called upon to fight in a war.

I need to get a watch.

I decided to bicycle to the Community Groups meeting last Wednesday. Allowed two hours to travel the sixteen miles, then wound up stopping at a nearby Farm Fresh to avoid arriving an hour early. Wandered around for a while and realized I’d left my clock/speedometer on the bike. Saw a short line at the register and read the cashier’s name-tag. Asked, “Excuse me, Michael; have you got the time?”

In a lilting soprano, he started “I get off at …”

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