Various Thoughts, Vacation Edition

[chris_gerrib]

I'm on vacation, not in a coma, so I do have thoughts. Herewith are a few:

1) Comes news that a woman in Texas who made at least a side job of being armed and talking about it got shot in the back by her 4-year-old with her own gun. (Google it if you need to.) Here is Land Gerrib, 4-year-olds and guns do not mix, full stop.

2) Hilton Head Island is pretty. It's also nuts to drive in. Whomever laid out the roads has a near-vampiric allergy to right angles, and they don't believe in streetlights, even at major intersections. Add to that the local signage laws are "small and discreet" and that 90% of what you're looking for is in a shopping mall, finding stuff is Right Hard. (as opposed to Left hard, or whatever.)

3) I am not good at just "hanging out." I had a 30-minute argument with myself before I gave myself permission to do what most people do on vacation, namely hang out at the pool and read a book. I've also rode a bike up and down the beach, done some editing, caught a movie and relaxed.

Comments

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Regarding 1)

I read about that. I have a whole rant about guns are power tools and you should treat them that way, and part of treating them that way is bringing them out when you have a specific job that calls for them and are in good mental physical and emotional shape to pay complete attention to what you do with them from the moment you take them out of storage to the moment you put them away again.

So yeah, people who have poor judgement for one reason or another--because they are children, because they are drunk, because they have suffered an emotional shock--and power tools Do. Not. Mix.

That poor kid could have shot himself or an innocent bystander *just* as easily. So it seems to me that this time there was at least a little more justice in the outcome.

I hope you have a lot of fun with the rest of your vacation.

[chris-gerrib.livejournal.com]

Thanks!