All in the Family featured the curmudgeonly Archie Bunker. Archie was television’s most famous grouch, blunt, blustering, straightforward and untouched by the PC crowd. He was the archetype of the conservative male. Michael desprately tried to reeducate him, but he persisted in his breviloquence.



Looking back at the last 40 years, we realize: ARCHIE WAS RIGHT!

10/30/2018

Sweet Home Alabama

They still make men in Alabama.
Alabama McDonald's gunman killed by armed dad, who is injured in shootout
No matter what the gun control crowd preaches, armed citizens do more good than unarmed victims.  I wish they had more useful information in these "news" reports.  One thing that is clear, at least to me, is that this dad stayed focused while he and his children took hostile fire and he stopped the perpetrator before more harm was done to himself or anyone else.

That's more than being prepared, which he was.

That's more than being willing to take a stand, which he did.

That's more than being in the right place, at the right time, which is what happened.

That's more than making a tough choice at the drop of a hat, which he did.

This dad could have grabbed his kids and ran.  Instead he grabbed his gun and fought.  He fought when he got shot, he fought when his kid got shot.  He fought on and saw the battle to the end.  Because of that, that willingness to be prepared, take a stand and make the tough choice, there is a McDonalds full of folks that didn't die.

That's what it means to be a man.  Good on ya'll Alabama.  You still raise your sons to be men.

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