“No, really I see no reason that I can’t have one, keep close in hand, for my protection.”
\n“Concealed.”
\n“Yes.\u00c2\u00a0 Concealed.\u00c2\u00a0 There are creeps out there.”<\/p>\n
Two people — late 20s? early 30s? — talking about guns, largely positively.\u00c2\u00a0 Off notes shift in.<\/p>\n
The negative notes seem to be almost perfunctory.\u00c2\u00a0 Cover their bases.<\/p>\n
“Of course if I had children, the calculus would change.”
\n“Of course.”
\n“Like, the last school shooting.\u00c2\u00a0 Apparently the gun was just… lying around.\u00c2\u00a0 Or something.”
\n“That’s just wrong.”<\/p>\n
“Apparently in some states you can own a gun at age four.\u00c2\u00a0 Can’t buy one of course, but can be passed on to the kid.”<\/p>\n
I suppose I may mention that should the four year old actually fire the gun for any consequence, the legal guardian would almost certainly have some mighty serious legal repercussions.\u00c2\u00a0 Also, what does a four year old own, really?<\/p>\n
They then plan on going shooting over the weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 Firing shots and some inanimate object or other out in the boondocks.
\n“Sounds like fun.”
\n“Sure does.”<\/p>\n
Worth pointing out, perhaps, this is a woman and a man.\u00c2\u00a0 The woman speaks at some point of her girlfriend.\u00c2\u00a0 I point that out only because back in the summer, I noted at Huffington Post a story lauding some trans-gendered student associated with the anti-gun group of high schoolers behind David Hogg, speaking out and lauded as grabbing the “intersectionality” of the gun issue, which elicits a giant groan, a forced framework.\u00c2\u00a0 As it were, I suppose we’re still in the “white” and “cis” categories, so we’re still not fully where we need to be in the “Oppression Olympics”.\u00c2\u00a0 When I get the tran-woman or man nra member, I’ll be sure to note it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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