I think it goes without saying that he changed my life, and I say that without hyperbole. I am a very different person than I was in early 2005 prior to MDShooters thanks to this place.
I know people dismiss this place on a lot of levels, but they are at their core sucky people who just don't get it.
They also don't understand how transformative this community has been in terms of activism and community amongst gun owners in this shit stain of a state and just how bad things were in the old days for this place and MSI.
I'm inserting way too much of myself in this right now, but I am sad and I feel very old and very used up. We were young back then with so much promise and so much excitement about what MDS could eventually become.
Thankfully Blaster229 provided me with an outlet for my sorrow via FeverTree and Bombay.
Don was only 48 and a close friend of mine. This was a very sudden and unexpected. Don will be severely missed by me.
Don was only 48 and a close friend of mine. This was a very sudden and unexpected. Don will be severely missed by me. Don was one of the biggest 2A advocates that I was great friends with and our families went shooting quite often. I was over at his house this Tuesday and with him until the end. God rest my Shipmates soul.
48, that's way to early to go. Did he have kids in the house or still in school ?
This is awful. I used to be somewhat active years ago. When he took a hiatus I would check back to see if there was any activity on his account from time to time. I was excited to see him posting again this year.
Seeing his last post breaks my heart because he has such young children and yet warms my heart that his last post would be about how great his daughter is. https://www.mdshooters.com/showthread.php?p=6301837#post6301837