As I’m travelling across this great country of ours I have had the pleasure to have spent the past few days in the West (east of California west). Following the Zimmerman trial on the radio and not trying to spit up my coffee as I hear anti-gun correspondents claiming that Zimmerman should have used a pen like a ninja in order to protect his life, I started thinking about John Bernard Books. For those of you who may not know, JB Books was the main protagonist in the 1976 movie, The Shootist, starring John Wayne. In it, Books tells a young Gillom Rogers, played by a young Ron Howard, a few truths that more people should live by. First, there was the code that JB Books lived by: I won’t be wronged. I won’t be insulted. I won’t be laid a-hand on. I don’t do these things to other...
