The rifleman's prayer

From The Smallest Minority, I find this prayer over at Gandalf23:

“A Rifleman’s Prayer

Oh Lord, I would live my life in freedom, peace and happiness, enjoying the simple pleasures of hearth and home. I would die an old, old man in my own bed, preferably of sexual overexertion.

But if that is not to be, Lord, if monsters such as this should find their way to my little corner of the world on my watch, then help me to sweep those bastards from the ramparts, because doing that is good, and right, and just.

And if in this I should fall, let me be found atop a pile of brass, behind the wall I made of their corpses.”

Can I get an Amen?

hat tips to all involved.

**UPDATE** The author has come forward. I should have known it was the Geek With a .45.