guns & politics

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Signs forbidding entrance with a gun are everywhere, even in a ladies restroom in the yacht harbour. I imagined that I have a gun, and I visit Chicago. I cannot enter any museum, any restroom, any restaurant or mall. This is a big handicap. How could be living with such a disposable handicap, why ?

40% of Americans have a gun. Viorel was talking about tradition, about a feeling of security. The grandfather had a riffle, maybe a Colt, but not an Uzi or other Matrix style gun-machine. About the security, you are in the room where you keep the gun, and then you here strange noises. Maybe is a thieve, maybe is your kid. Guns are among the biggest cause for accidental death for kids.

In the late period there are in US a lot of mass shootings, in a church, in a school. They are suicidal acts. There is a theory that if everyone would have a gun, the casualties could be highly limited, so give guns to everyone.

I was to a Walmart, I think the biggest retailer in the world. At the sport section, there were only air-compressed guns, and a catalog heavy like golden pages one. I ask if they don’t have real guns. The clerk apologize, but he gives me very precise direction to another Walmart where I can buy. With 70$ I could buy a decent one.

So?

souvenir de Cuba

Aujourd’hui nous nous séparons de notre presque unique souvenir de Cuba:

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C’est un dessin à l’encre de Chine de Henry Aloma. Nous l’avions rencontré à las Terrazas, petit village perché dans les montagnes, notre dernière destination à Cuba. Il a voyagé avec nous pendant presque 3 mois, nous avons du le protéger des intempéries, du froissage, de l’oubli, des taches… Nous avons confié notre oiseau-île à Viorel, l’ami de Dan qui rentre parfois en Roumanie.

Il ne verra pas les Rocheuses, mais c’est peut-être mieux pour lui…

Las Terrazas était une terre ravagée par les cultures intensives de café, dans les années 70, le gouvernement a réussi à transformer le lieu en un petit village tranquille où il fait bon vivre. De nombreux artistes y sont installés et la nature a repris sa place.DSC_0324