Jim's Blog

        Since Oklahoma has passed the No permit law for fire arms I have had mixed feelings.  I fully support the 2d Amendment.  Before the modern age owning a weapon for a tool, a means of survival. Furthermore, those before us were not carrying automatic and semi-automatic weapons when the Bill of rights was written. As we have become more modern, we have become more civilized (for the most part)        Today weapons are a toy and some for protection.  To fully support the 2d Amendment I feel that Americans must first know how to use it and the laws that for in place for use.  A good example of this is... you cant fire your weapon from a vehicle unless you can prove exigent circumstances.  Also, you must be able to protect law enforcement when they are in danger if you on the scene. If they are in trouble you must be able to assist.  This doesn't mean that you are going to instantly start enforcing the laws. If a police officer is shot or unable to return fire as needed then yo

So, the other day my wife and I were watching, "The Good Doctor."  The initial plot (for the episode) was about two girls who didn't know one another.  One had to have major facial reconstruction and the other was brain dead.  The doctors in the scene decided that a complete face transplant would work for the living girl and they subsequently asked the mother of the brain dead child if she would consent to organ donation.  At first, she declined then a chance meeting of the mother and the living child changed her mind.  Fast forward... they walk the brain dead child toward the operating room first.  As they wheel the bed through the corridor there were two long rows of doctors, nurses, medical and admin staff showing a sign of respect.  The mother, covered in tears, is wondering what was happening.  A doctor leaned in and said this is called, "The Walk of Honor." The overwhelming respect seem to get to me and remind me of a time when I was deployed during "