Why I ride?

In case you haven't read some of my older posts you may not know that I use a scooter as my main form of transportation. I have been doing so for the past year. (It helps that I live in Florida!) To be honest most scooterist would consider my Burgman 650 as more a motorcycle than scooter. This is based on it's size, engine displacement, and capabilities. (Full size bike, 650 cc, capable of reaching 110mph, etc)

Now why do I ride a scooter?

Am I trying to do my part to save the environment? Not the main reason, not even in a list of my top 5 reasons I ride, but I don't mind that I am helping.

So here are my reason's I ride:

1) 42 mpg city, 55 mpg highway, $$$

2) Ridding a scooter is FUN!

3) The ride to and from work relaxes me, it might take a few minutes but it does!

4) It Makes me appreciate the weather and where I live.

5) It REALLY IS FUN!

Guns don't kill people ....

Guns don't kill people, blunt force trauma and/or the loss of blood kills people!

Guns are just the best tool man has yet to create to deliver blunt force trauma and/or cause the loss of blood.

Before guns we used swords and clubs, before that sticks and stones, before that who knows?!?

Are stones and sticks bad? No!
Are swords and clubs evil? No!
Neither are guns.
All of these weapons are tools. They are inanimate objects. That means they can neither think or move for themselves. They have no special powers that gain control over people making them use them.

As long as a person doesn't pick up a rock and hit someone in the head with it the rock will never, ever kill someone.

As long as someone doesn't pick up a sword and run somebody through that sword will never, ever kill someone.

The same goes for a gun! As long as a person doesn't pick up a gun, doesn't point it at someone, and doesn't fire it, that gun will never, ever kill anyone.

Like any tool/object/weapon it can be used for good or evil. It all depends on who is using it. It all depends are if the person using the tool is good or bad.

Good stones don't kill people, bad stones kill people....
Good swords don't kill people, bad swords kill people....
Good guns don't kill people, bad guns kill people....

the truth of the matter is....

GOOD PEOPLE don't kill people, BAD PEOPLE kill people.