I have lost some of my nine lives (had I been a cat) - at least three times .. 1/- 🐈 Was when a surgeon poked my heart with a catheter instead of just using it to squirt some dye, and around five minutes after the lights went-out - I came back with four red burn marks on my chest.
2/- 😺Was when I spent about five odd hours "on the slab" while multiple surgeons and nursing staff turned-me-off & cut me open for by-pass surgery with my sticky fluids being recirculated by ancient mechanical pumps and refrigeration devices ..
3/- 😹Was when I enjoyed 'Mallory Weiss Tears' in my esophagus and just about filled a bucket with blood three times .. before, during - and after the repeated emergency surgery.
I can report that despite these multiple death experiences, purely for education - there were no angels or long departed relatives calling me to cross over - and most surprisingly to all concerned .. my brain seems to have not deteriorated noticeably - and my mental health wasn't injured when my by-pass neighbour in the Dunedin ICU received open heart massage next to me before being transferred to the cold store.
In 60 years of driving both here in NZ & elsewhere I have also had several life threatening crashes that might count as subtracting from my allocation of Nine 🐈editions .. (and naturally there were also the original 'heart attacks' that I self medicated with high dosage aspirin - do they count?)
None of my red 'departure cards' resulted from my prolonged & close associations with military styled semi-auto arms, shotguns, pistols and 'dangerous' high capacity magazines.
'Time Flies when You're Having Fun'.
- Back at the begining in 1841 there were only 57 sworn Policemen in New Zealand - each carrying flintlock pistols shoved down their trousers waistband ..
It took repeated letters to the then NZ Police Minister (and the UK 'Met') to winkle my banned sample Glock out of isolation in a locked cabinet at Upper Hutt to be included in the police trials - which naturally it won.
Who can guess what might replace the 9mm Glocks one day when they themselves become outdated?
- You'd be brave to guess eh .. but right now I'd be imagining a move towards a high capacity smaller caliber - higher velocity 'auto' round .. perhaps something in a 5.7mm or 8mm "bottle-neck" cartridge for dependable feeding into a non tilting rotating barrel ??
Plastic cased? Electically Ignited? Integral Optics? Dunno.
What I do know is that currently our politicians and police management are colluding to label civilian gun owners as dangerous violent armed undesireables.
- How can it be - that the single most checked, interviewed, compliant, law-abiding - referenced & endorsed sector of New Zealand Citizenry - that is Licensed as FIT & PROPER to own firearms ..
are simultaneously undesireable Pariahs to be shunned, controlled, and penalised as a threat to the nation?
Licenced Firearms Owners are more checked and approved than the Police themselves are, - certainly our record for stability and lawful behaviour is superior to that of some of our country's politicians.
Time is long overdue for the repeated punitive attacks on law-abiding sporting gun users to be ended and wound back to a system that works at least as well as it used to ..
HOW CAN THE BEST CALIBER PEOPLE - WHO COULD BE THE STRONGEST ALLIES OF POLICE - BE TREATED AS THE WORST?
Marty K.
Oh my ... The Minister Of Police office holder is once again Stuart Nash of the Labour Party.
He has held the position since 1 February 2023.
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