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October 15, 2010
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First of all thank you all for your support through these times in need, and I'm sorry for not keeping you posted till now… I's been a bad first half of the year for me…
The saddest news is that the doc says that Leo will never walk.. All they say is his spine was just too badly damaged, but as "they" say hope is the last thing that dies.
A side note on this is that sweden is a bad place to live for gun owners. Another friend that accepted the responsibility to handle the sale of Johans weapons is accused for unlawful weapon possession, which is punichalbe with several years in prison, for a slim technicality in the law (almost all one handed guns have a limited license to five years) that a couple of licenses went over the time limit and hence were subjected for a official hearing for unlawful possession. (A lawyer says that it is a load of crap but the courthouse is a bunch of morons).
The end is two children that have lost their parents, one that never have taken a step in his life. And another friend that only wishes to help the family stands the risk to spend 3-8 years in prison, if things goes badly, for his wish to help the family in a time of need.
I say that this is a bad time for all weapon owners in the land of sweden, and I can't begin to express the need to help these people when they are filled with grief and the authorities gives them no respite. I mean how can you fix the the problem that a weapon whit a time limited license can renew his license when he is dead, and pass that responsibility, on th another person that have according to law one year to conduct the sale of the weapons.
I'm just at a loss of words of the governments handling of this issue, but the only thing I can do is wait and see what happens and hope for the best.
December 26, 2010
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Wow! I am deeply saddened to hear the news about Leo. While doctors are more educated than most of us in this area, they are not perfect, all-knowing predictors of the future. An example I have is a young man I met in a gym years ago. He had been clipped very badly in a football game. The damage to his knees was so extensive that the doctors told him he would never walk again. Yet, here he was, four years later walking, albeit like a 90 year old man, but walking. What a sight. A 20-something guy straining to do calf extensions with 5 lbs of weight in a room full of studs doing them with 100+ pounds. He was the toughest guy in the place and everybody knew it. Another true story. A cousin, a strapping farm boy, came down with polio. Us kids would be in the yard playing running games basically knocking each other down. (No brutal hits, but if you were you were going to wind up on the ground.) Here was David, on his crutches, playing as hard as the rest of us. He'd get knocked down and while he could get up on his own even though we gave him a hand just like anybody else. Now a spinal injury is a lot different than destroyed knees but if the child can keep his spirits up, maybe some way can be found that he has some mobility. He and you are in my prayers.
As for the guns, no good deed goes unpunished. It's good that an attorney is involved. He'll need it to deal with them morons. I pray the judge shows some common sense and tells the bureaucrats to go pound sand so the proceeds can help the little boy. He's in my prayers as well.
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