person of the week
as of last night this blog was going to be about celebrities with normal names and their inane need to name their offspring something stupid, particularly frank zappa (the indisputable fore-father of ridiculous child naming), but today, at work, someone did something so incomprehensibly stupid that he bumped moonunit zappa, apple martin-paltrow, suri cruise, and zuma nesta rock rossdale...
ok, now i have every respect for anyone who wants to express their second amendment right... for those of you who are not familiar with their second amendment right i can only make three assumptions a.)you did not pass 9th grade civics 2.)you live in some urban center north of the mason dixon and east of the appalachians (or west of the rockies) and d.) you are not of a minority ethnic group who "know their rights" (meaning they have no idea what their rights are, just that they have the right to remain silent) and could not be labeled "a redneck," "a hillbilly," or "a republican."
this is fact because the second amendment right, of course, is the protection of the right for the state to organize a militia... oh yeah and the right for that militia to bare arms. some how in this convoluted mess of things we call law making, it also came to be interpreted that any individual can also bare arms, not just the militia...this i am also ok with
... here's the problem: that people who think they have the right to carry a gun, think they have the right to carry a gun anywhere they want. this truly brings out the stupid in people. so, this brings me to today... a guy walks into our store, jared the galleria of jewelry (yes "galleria" is a made up word) in auburn hills, and sits down at our bridal counter with his wife... as they begin to look the guy (we will call him dumb ass gun nut or dagn for short) takes off his jacket... now i must digress here for a moment and explain that our store has, for obvious reasons (no gun battles in the store), a strict no firearms policy, limiting authorized carriers of guns to only uniformed police officers, people contracted through our store (i.e. brinks armored truck service) and our security guard. even our sales staff who deal with $30,000 rolexes and $50,000 diamonds can't carry... dagn however feels that he must wear his gun in plain view in a holster while in a jewelry store looking at bridal... why? because he is a moron. but more specifically dagn is a moron with something to prove. my security guard then pulls him away from the presentation politely and tells him about our firearm policy and takes him outside our store to show him our firearm policy posted in the window and our manager comes out to reinforce this policy. dagn hands jeremy, my manager, a pamphlet on michigan's gun policy, which says he can openly wear a hand gun. jeremy says that it is private property and he has to follow our firearm policy. dagn says, and i quote, "my gun goes where i go" and pulls his wife out of the store.
here's my issue with dagn... is he really so concerned that he or one of his loved ones are going to get gunned down on the way into and out of the jewelry store if he's not packing heat? if the answer is yes, then we all have better things to do than buy jewelry because the shit has truly hit the fan. however, like most rational people, i believe the answer is no. this leads me to my next point... someone who carries is 6 times more likely to get shot... normally i would agree with the criticism that people who are more likely to get shot carry guns rather than the other way around (so the original statement is really the dog wagging the tail so to speak)... however in this asshole's case, if i were packing, i'd put 2 in his head just to prove a point (and he wouldn't see it coming either 'cause my shit is concealed)... better yet i'd put 1 in his stomach and let him bleed to death because, and to the fault of his mantra "my gun goes where i go," they would be unable to admit him to a hospital, because in the state of michigan it is illegal to take a firearm, including licenced firearms (excluding police officers), into a hospital, or bank, or airport, or school, or church, or court house, or post office, or on to private property that has a no firearms policy...
so i say again, if you want to express your second amendment right by all means do it, but don't be a dick about it just to prove a point...this is how people end up shooting one another in a fucking toys-r-us and how stupid celebrities get bumped from my person of the week...fuck you my dumb ass gun nut...fuck you
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