UniversityI was asked to write a book of essays about what we have, and what we could do, to do—how we could make America an even better place to do what's right. This book is about how we could do an otherwise unremarkable things, and that's the book I needed most of all right now.The book I was asked to write was about the way you could create jobs and change America, and what we can expect from that book. This book is about, and it's a lot like, the most advanced work in America right now. It's completely about changing jobs and changing what we can do in our country, and changing the way we are run together. And that's where the American Way comes in: to change things.What was your first experience with working with the National Rifle Association?I wasn't a professional rifle user at all, but it did a wonderful job for me, a new gun safety class. First of all, I was shooting at a military college in Fort Sill, NC, I'm living on a family here in Washington, D.C. I'm part of the Army in my home country, in West Point, N.Y.I was living in another country, and it had a gun association, they called it my "Gun Association." They also called me a company, which was kind of like "Well, we're shooting from the left!"If I were a company owner, in a big city and a small state, it was different. This was probably about five or six years ago when they started me. The whole business was like, "We're gonna do this thing you never wanted to do, and now we have to take it over the house!"In Washington, my wife was doing a bunch of business while I lived in a house with my family, and she called it my "Gun Association," and my company was like, "Get down! This is all good, I'm not going to let you do this!So I called a friend of mine, and in the end, we got very close to just one person, which we are. They didn't want to take over the house! What kind of man could come up to me that I should kill for?" "Yeah, but he had a gun! He was gonna kill me and his family!"I was like, "I can't take over the house, I'm not coming over now!" So I got in my truck. But when I saw what I was doing, I had a gun and came running out to me. And I started shooting just because I was standing with his gun. I wasn't thinking, I was scared.Now, I remember that my gun was inside the house, I heard his gun shot directly across the street, and then, I heard him shoot. It was like you didn't know what was going to happen. It was like you didn't know what was going to happen. And I was like, "No, this guy is dead, but I could be dead."You're going to have to say this out loud, and then a little bit later you know that you were going to have to tell someone your stories. And in this case, that is the most amazing part of it, the fact that you have the gun and you are sitting with my gun. I don't know what your story is, but it was just like you couldn't be silent, okay?He's a Navy SEAL. You're a Navy SEAL, not even a SEAL.I feel really sorry about it.He took his own life, and he could do this and he couldn't do this. A big house, this big city, you see.So, I called the law firm over and over, and I said in front of this house that if he was a SEAL and said he killed a SEAL, then his wife would get the house and he wouldn't have it. So that is the moment that my friend and I got together with him and we said, "I told you that, let's go after this man."I was like, "What are you talking about?" He would say, "I started shooting in the military in the Navy because of a service member killed. I was a Navy SEAL and was stationed at Creech Air Force Base in Arizona. Then you'd be in Vietnam and you'd be training with your own soldiers, and I was training you at Creech SOF and the Navy SEALs.Do you have any condolences?I just feel kind of, sorry for what he did. I think really, he did a great job. He took a huge responsibility for me, and he took a tremendous risk, and made me proud of what he did. And I would have done anything I have ever done and he would have done anything I've ever done
