New Year's Eve and it's hard to believe
another zodiac has gone around.

While you drank yourself high on hoping
and watched the ceiling spin from the ground.

Counting down from ten it's time
to make your annual prayer.

Secret santa in the sky
when will I get my share?

Then you tell yourself
what you want to hear.

Cause you have to believe.

This will be my year.

This will be my year...Semisonic


Go Ahead Punk: E-Mail Little Squaw @ squawpunch@hotmail.com

AIM: gimletgurl7 (Remember when she used to be here?)

Tuesday, December 30, 2003

"I know what you're thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya - punk?" - Dirty Harry 1971

So Gilly and I went to the police dept. today to get finger printed. Since we moved we needed to update our gun owner cards. This was our third attempt to do so. Stick around long enough and you'll see that most everything takes three tries with us. So we went one time and were told we needed to fill out a pile of papers as high as our nose and we were told that we needed various money orders. We were told and I quote, "It's $49.00 each now. Be sure to come back before the end of the year because the price is going to go up in 2004." Then we went the day after Christmas with everything in hand and the office floozy was on vacation. So this morning we went back AGAIN and guess what? She says to us, "So you each have a money order for $54.00, right?" and I almost flip out. I say, "You told us $49.00" and I thrust the instructions she had given us which she had highlighted the the $49.00 on it for us. "And you also told us to come back before the end of the year because the price was going to go up. Now you're telling us it's already gone up? We were here less then a week ago!" I must go on the record as saying the people who work in police dept. administration are universally bitchy idiots. That's it. That's my statement of the day. We ended up getting fingerprinted though even though she told us that we would need to make an appointment.

I think that we were fingerprinted by the police chief. Apparently the fingerprints will be sent to the FBI to compare them to the ones that they have on record for us from the first time we got done. They will put them into the system and if our originals pop up as a match that will serve as proof of identification and thus move the process forward. They also need to do a full background check again. Mind you this is just to update our cards with our new address. Not to buy another gun or two. Now you know why people do things illegally. We told them as much. It's much cheaper and easier to be illegal. Which allows me to get on my soap box about gun control. Most people don't realize what sort of controls/restrictions are already in place as is. Now I shudder to think what other hoops I would need to jump through if they amped it up. PLUS we are willing to do things legally. Ultimately if someone wants to get a gun they are going to do it by any means. That means that criminals will continue to get guns illegally. You'll never stop someone who wants to get a gun from getting one. Gill and I think it's important to be legal so if we ever have to use the gun as a form of protection in our home well, at least we'll be legal owners. Also, we're hoping if something major changes in the laws we will have a clean record and possibly be grandfathered in past any wacky hoopla. Harumph.

I took the opportunity to play my inquisitor role during our fingerprinting.

With questions such as:

Do you have a fingerprint scanner like they used to book Martha Stewart? Answer: No the cheapest one is $17,000 and they just recalled it.

When do you think they will use DNA as a form of "fingerprinting" or do you think people will protest that it is too evasive? Answer: It's too expensive. Some states have actually eliminated the death penalty because DNA testing was too costly (at least $600 a pop). And yes people will complain.

Do a lot of cars get stolen from the park and ride where I park? Answer: No, they get stolen from the community college parking lots due to the larger number of cars to choose from.

Are there a lot of home robberies in our town? Answer: Yes, but the burglars are very smart. They break in when people are not home and head straight for the bedroom for the jewery and bonds.

Okay, who leaves bonds on their dresser? Hmmm?

If you do catch a burglar in your house should you stop them yourself? i.e. shoot 'em and shoot 'em dead... Answer: No. You should not. You become very liable and whether you kill them or not they will sue. It's not worth it. You should give them what they want and let them go about their business.

Okay, so if someone breaks into my house, I am going to shoot them, I am going to kill them and then I am going to ask questions later. Should I let them rape and murder me for fear of them suing? I don't think so. A dead man tells no tales and I would get the best lawyer possible. I'd rake their families over the coals if they tried to sue me.

I need to go polish my rod.

P.S. I've shot a .44 Magnum before. The kick was so much that the long barrel almost hit me in the forehead. Wowza!
posted by JustKeepMum on 3:35 PM