I love my kids! I love the 6 year old boy sitting in the chair with me. THIS is a great age! My favorite age, I think. He is currently telling me how to spell certain words. I love this bossy child.

There was a senseless shooting of 20 precious 6 year olds a few days ago. I say senseless because it doesn't make any sense, it just doesn't. Lots of people blame guns in an effort to make sense of it. I tend to think there is a terrible problem with mental illness and there are too many people untreated. 20+ elementary children in China were stabbed by a man the same day. Crazy will find a way. It is my opinion, the focus needs to be on helping the mentally ill...resources for good mental health are so slim. People need to slow down and be kind to one another. The world can be a stressful place and it causes people to CRACK. Like I said and like the Chinse man made clear, guns or no guns, crazy will.find.a.way.

Besides, we NEED guns down here in Texas. Border violence is spreading north...and it seems like the media and the majority of America has turned a blind eye. These aren't crazy, sick, gun wielding people causing problems down here. They are hard core, stone-cold, killers. To a lot of Mexican bandits, life is assigned little to no value. It's not uncommon for a 12 year old boy in Mexico to take a life and feel NO REMORSE.

In northern Mexico, a personal friend had his truck stolen from him at gun point. This same man's son was also murdered...because he refused to let the cartel take his land in Mexico. The cartel has the land now. I hear stories like this all of the time. Everyone here knows someone, who was affected by border violence. Mexican bandits chop the heads and limbs off of women & children like it's common place. The violence has spread to south Texas. AMERICANS, of all races, that stand in the way of a Mexican drug cartel are faced with REAL THREATS to the lives of their family. It's freaking scary. Not much at all is being done about it. Hell, we rarely get more of a blip about it on the news and we live damn close to the violence. It will take a mass casualty to make the rest of America wake up and realize there is a real, BIG, PROBLEM at the Mexican border.

In my hometown, a man was murdered, had his hands chopped off, and left in a field a few years ago. It was cartel related. The murderer is found...she happened to live next door to one of my best friends & across the street from another one. Guess what? She is out on bond for the holidays. She does drugs. She is a murderer. Screw you, if you don't think my friends shouldn't have the right to continue being responsible gun owners. The justice system lets a killer come home for the holidays.

Until something is done about violence down here, you'll be hard pressed for my family to EVER give up our right to bear arms. EVER. In the town where I work, an illegal Mexican man was picked up and deported for trying to lure young boys into his van. A man in this town was doing business near the border, he refused to give the cartel what they wanted. They took his daughter and held her ransom until he paid them $20K. They told him where in Mexico to find his 8 yr. old daughter, he found her headless.

If I lived 200 miles south, the threat of a mexican bandit coming into my home and murdering my family would be very, very REAL. And like I said, the violence is creeping north. Unless something is done, I fully expect that threat to be very real here in the next few years. I don't personally know anyone who doesn't have a fire-arm in this area. If someone were to ever, EVER, EVER, EVER come to my home and threaten the lives of MY adorable SIX YEAROLD, MY precious THREE YEAR OLD they would have to get through my husband & I first.

That's nice that Australia & Canada don't have to worry about violence from an unsecure border spilling into their country full of un-armed citizens. If American's didn't have our right to bear arms...I believe the border violence would be MUCH, MUCH further north.

In response to all of the articles, posts, blogs, Twitter messages about banning the right to bear arms. I say step out of the picturesque, predominantly safe world you live in and move down here. Right here in America, I can take you places to change your mind. Where it's not American gangs who could actually be affected by the ban of guns that make you scared. But where soul-less eyed, illegal immigrants who can NOT be affected by anti-firearm legislation can make you piss your pants with a cold glare . I can make you second guess your opinion that all of us American cowboys ought not own guns...and make you wish you had one, too.

I hate that crazy Americans can get their hands on guns and can do horrific things. I can see how you see something like what happened in CT and scream for gun control. I honestly get it. But it's not that simple. Yeah, if it were a country like America that shared our southern border. I might, just might agree with you whole heartedly. But we border Mexico people, and it's a different world. A much, much different world. Oh you say you took a cruise to Cozumel or spent a week in Cancun and know all about Mexico? You don't. You don't know a damn thing about Mexico if you're basing it off of your vacation to the Yucatan. Ha, take a vacation to Juarez, and IF you live to tell about it, then I will agree you know all about Mexico.

Not all gun owners and supporters of the NRA are gun-toting hillbillies who are pushing for the continuance of their way of life. For me and my family, owning a gun isn't just about being sportsmen and preserving time honored traditions. My American brothers & sisters who live FAR from the violence taking place on OUR SOIL need a good education. Until something big and awful happens to put it on your t.v. screens you will never, fully comprehend why I will give portions of our HARD, EARNED money to the NRA to keep lobbying for MY right, my NEED to have fire arms.

(In addition, not all illegal immigrants are bad and associated with the cartels. Many of them are trying to escape the horror they face in their daily lives. They are simply refugees and I welcome those folks with open arms.)