“How about a Springfield XD-S 4.0? Nine-millimeter. Five and one in the pipe.” Turnbull examined the small automatic. “Sold.” “Now,” Ernie said. “I don’t know if you need it, but in case you have a hankering for a scattergun, I do have
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“in the military if you are not there fifteen minutes early you are late.”
― The Attack
― The Attack
“When they were finally released at noon, they hustled down Pennsylvania Avenue to 15th Street and the Old Ebbitt Grill, where they enjoyed a long lunch with Lindsey and Elaine.”
― Camino Winds
― Camino Winds
“You know, a landscape, more than any other feature of a home, reflects the character of the owner.” And if that stung, and you asked why, she would tell you that it was because it was evolving and aging just like you were, and how you handled it was how you handled yourself.”
― The Last Ranger
― The Last Ranger
“I do not deny that I ignored the law, but what is the law but a tool to make the lawmakers rich and everyone else poor?”
― The Attack
― The Attack
“was not. I finally got home, locked myself in my house, and got out a golf club to brain anyone coming in. No one came that time, but I was done being a victim. Once things got under control, I replaced my nine-iron with a nine-millimeter. I have been a prepper ever since. I learned about guns, of course. I learned to shoot, then to make my own ammo, then to gunsmith. I learned survival medicine – I am basically an EMT. I learned about food in an austere environment, and how to get safe water. There is this whole plethora of skills our pioneer ancestors knew, but we forgot. We outsourced them to other people, which is fine – when everything works. When it doesn’t, then you have a problem.”
― The Attack
― The Attack
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