Now the news media will spend days trying to determine why these
men did what they did in Boston. They will want to know what America did
to make these brothers so angry with us. They will want to know why these
men were not arrested before they did something unlawful. The media will
be in a tissy about the new era of home grown radicals and about how they could
live among us and still hate us.
Here in west Texas, I have rattlesnakes on my place. I have
killed a rattlesnake on the front porch. I have killed a rattlesnake on
the back porch. I have killed rattlesnakes in the barn, in the shop and
on the driveway. I kill every rattlesnake I encounter. I kill
rattlesnakes because a rattlesnake will bite me and inflict me with
poison. I don’t stop to wonder why a rattlesnake will bite me. It
will bite me because it is a rattlesnake and that is what rattlesnakes do.
I don’t try to reason with a rattlesnake…I just kill it. I don’t try to
get to know the rattlesnake better so that I can find a way to live with the
rattlesnakes and convince them not to bite me…I just kill them. I don’t
quiz a rattlesnake to see if I can find out where the other snakes are because
(a) it won’t tell me (b) I already know that they live on my place…I just kill
the rattlesnake and move on to the next one. I don’t look for ways that I
might be able to change the rattlesnake to a non-poisonous rat snake. I
just kill it. Oh, and on occasion I kill a rat snake, because I thought
it was a rattlesnake at the time. Also, I know that for every rattlesnake
that I kill, two more lurk out there. In my lifetime I will never be able
to rid my place of rattlesnakes. Do I fear them? No! Do I
respect what they can do to me? Yes! And because of that respect I
give them their fair justice….I kill them.
Maybe as a country we should give more credit to the jihadist just
being a rattlesnake!
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