More Talks With the Contractor

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Clarissa

July 14, 2014

Contractor: I need to figure out what to do with that safe of mine. I have this safe – it’s a big enormous thing – where I keep all of my guns. And somebody is opening it when I’m not there, so I need to figure out what to do.

Me: Is it possible your son has access?

Contractor: Yeah, I mean he’s just 10 but he’s smart. Maybe he saw me entering the code. So I guess I should just figure out what to do about it before the kid shoots up his school or something. Ha ha.

Me: If you need to leave right now to secure the safe, that’s fine with me.

Contractor: Nah. I guess it can wait until I get around to it.

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5 responses to “More Talks With the Contractor”

musteryou

July 15, 2014

This is why people who have not been trained in the utmost military discipline should not have weapons

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1. Clarissa
  
  July 15, 2014
  
  Exactly! The neighboring state is discussing a law to arm teachers. With the general carelessness and with so many people on drugs, this will be a peach of an idea.
  
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  1. musteryou
    
    July 15, 2014
    
    “Human nature” is rampant and cannot be controlled. This is a basic ideological stance. Also somehow human nature has weapons appended to it.
    
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2. Shakti
  
  July 16, 2014
  
  Sometimes not even then. I had a roommate’s friend wave around a pistol at us while we were all sitting around talking and drinking. He had just gotten off base. I started yelling at him to put that thing away. “It isn’t loaded!” he said. “I don’t care!” He put the gun back in its case and slid it under the bed.
  
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Good Enough Professor

July 15, 2014

Yup. This is what a “well-regulated militia” looks like.

I’m a little stunned that the scenario the contractor sort of worries about is “the kid shoots up the school.” Far more likely is that the kid will accidentally shoot himself or someone else in the vicinity of the safe. I grew up in WV, where gun culture has been alive and well for a long time, and had several classmates end up in hospital as a result of idle curiosity about a family gun stash.

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