The Orlando Shooting

Re: The Orlando Shooting.

I know this next statement may cause a lot of controversy, especially with gun owners, but I feel I have to say it.

It is in my honest opinion that guns outside the military and law enforcement should not be produced if they are able to take clips/magazines that house more than 3 or 4 bullets/rounds.

The way I see it is. If someone can't defend themselves with a gun or kill an animal for food within 3 to 4 shots without reloading, then they are a bad freaking shot.

So, that's the first thing.

The second thing is...by eliminating the amount of bullets/rounds within clips/magazines, that will give people who are attacked by the crazies (Examples: Orlando, Sandy Hook, movie theater examples) a fighting chance. Sure, it may only give them 3-4 seconds before a reload, but a lot can happen within 3-4 seconds. Someone can scramble away from the action, or even attack the attacker and prevent him/her from doing any more damage.

So, although I am not sure how my dad (Lead character in Beneath the Bamboo) feels about this since I haven't spoken to him about it yet, my (Jonathon Jones) personal opinion is:

IMO NO gun publicly available should be able to house more than a few bullets per clip. Let's help to stop this madness. Period.

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Death and Grief--one doesn't mean you have to do the other...

   No matter how hard most people try to understand it, losing someone at three or even one hundred and three leaves them clueless. Speechless. Life is fragile. Precious. Non-repeatable. We have all heard these same reasons for holding on to what we have. It's sweet sentiment, and needed, but it also causes us to lose sight of what we must do when that life is gone. It's difficult, but one shouldn't ask what ifs, or regret what they did or did not say or do. That would be an injustice to the life that was lived. A person's greatest gift, their life's meaning, is how they positively affected others that are still around. But those words of wisdom aren't learned easily.
They never are. My lessons started at any early age. Sadly, back then I had it all wrong, but I was so young I can't easily be blamed. I was a mere toddler, who eyed my Great Uncle Loren sitting in a chair out of the corner of my eye. We were in an unknown building with scattered empty chairs. My curiosity got the best of me as I sat and stared at him while he wept. I tried to bluntly talk to him like nothing was wrong, but his glazed eyes towards the coffin in front of him was beyond my attention-getting maneuvers. In that wooden box was a life I knew nothing about, but he knew, and it showed. To describe her would be easy, but back then that was all I could do. She had skin like a soft pearl, with ringlets in her ageless blonde hair. I never knew my Great Aunt Leah, and therefore all I could do was see the sadness in the room. That's where I faltered, but as I grew...things changed. You see, later on in life, I inherited photo albums from my Grandma S. that told me the REAL story. A young, articulate little girl from a well-to-do family lived life to the fullest. She traveled, collected, and spoke of beautiful places and things. I even found dried, pressed flowers meticulously placed in an album from a trip she took as a little girl with her family back in the 1920's. From then on she met my Great Uncle and they fell in love. Later they adopted a little boy. This was not the lifeless shell in the rectangular box before me as a young child. In fact, this was a woman who truly lived and, in some way, gave those around her memories for a lifetime. Even me, someone who doesn't even remember her being alive. Just by living, she inadvertently left me with a legacy of memories that I will always cherish. The stories don't stop there, either. From my wonderful Grandpa S., with his quiet but wise demeanor and helpful spirit, to my matriarchal Grandma S. with her infectious smile, constant words of wisdom, and never ending amount of love, to my sometimes grouchy but sometimes unexpectedly goofy Great Grandma P., to my Step-Grandpa Bill and his stern but extremely generous persona, to my beloved Grandpa T. and his jovial, friendly personality, who was an expert-level conversationalist and jingle-singing goof-ball, these are ALL people I don't remember during their final moments. Not because I can't, but because I choose not to. My greatest gift to them, and their greatest gift to me, are the memories that we all shared together. Treasure those gifts and never settle for what ifs. The pain will always be extreme in the beginning, but as with all things...once it fades a person's entire life finally ends up where it's meant to go. In the memories of the lives they touched when others were graced by their awesome presence. We must honor their lives by talking about how they lived. That's the only way they never truly die.            

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X-men Apocalypse review and question

Spoiler alert!

I just saw X-men Apocalypse and, although I didn't like it as well as the last one, it still had some good points about it.

Anyway, before I begin my review, I did have one question....

In the helicopter scene where the conscious group of new X-men were in the back via the power-dampening area.  We didn't get to see how they got out of there and started running loose for their rescue mission.  I mean, if their powers didn't work, then Jean could no longer hide them if the back was opened and they were still in there, am I right?  And Kurt wouldn't have been able to teleport them as soon as they landed, and so on and so forth.  Did I somehow miss something?

Well, enough of that.  On with my review.

Although perhaps a little too whiny/scared and uncertain, the new teens (Jean and Scott mainly) did a pretty good job at portraying their teen angst-filled characters.  I especially liked the re-introduction of Nightcrawler, even though it completely contradicts the 2nd movie's timeline. (Yes, I realize it was altered via Wolverine in the last movie, yada yada yada)  However, with that said, I still don't think he did as good of an acting job as the adult Nightcrawler in X-men 2.

Now, as for Apocalypse, I don't know...perhaps it's just me, but although he was an overly confident a-hole like he was supposed to be, for some odd reason (Maybe it was his makeup job) I wasn't really as threatened by him visually as I feel I should have been.

The new Storm...hmmm....okay I suppose....but still no more impressed with her than I was the adult version.  They need to develop a way to go beyond just wind and lighting and crank it up a few notches--perhaps weather combos or something--who knows?

Hmm..what else?  Seeing Quicksilver again was good.  A definitely welcomed addition to the new roster.

Angel?  Not impressed.  Psylocke?  A little more threatening, but I just couldn't connect with that character for some reason.  Her personality was basically flatline.  Okay fighting skills, but I've seen better.

Oh, Moira McTaggert returned but, alas, her memory wasn't restored until the end of the movie.  That basically meant her character was the most uninteresting and seemingly clueless of the bunch.  I loved her in the last one, but this one, well...not so much.

As for the ending, and this is a major spoiler alert so be warned...well.......I'd think that if Jean Grey was so powerful she could defeat Apocalypse, that Apocalypse would have been able to sense that and would have tried to recruit HER or tried to kill her in the beginning of the movie, no?

Oh, and one last thing.  In one scene Mystique said that her and Hank were the last two left from the original group.  Did we EVER find out what happened to Banshee?  Correct me if I'm wrong, but in the last movie I don't recall Mystique seeing his picture in the mutant cadaver dossier she was looking through.  Yes?  No?  Or maybe I just missed it.

Jonathon Jones

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New audiobook!

Making Love, Not Porn is now available in the audiobook (Digital audio) format.  It was narrated by a very talented narrator so please check it out!

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Dating Guide now available in audio on Audible.com !

For you #single ladies out there....

What Men Really Want: An Online Dating Guide for Women, is now available in the digital audio format on Audible.com!

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