Frustration
By Mitch Berg
Joe Dokes from Como Park emails:
Dear Diary: Today was a frustrating milestone — 15,000 consecutive days of living in a home where a firearm is present, and not a single person shot. Not one! What Am I Doing Wrong? Why don’t I fit in? No wonder the young people in North Minneapolis don’t want to hang out with me (note to self: research what neat-o tunes the hep cats are grooving to, these days; Barry Manilow is out).
Joe Doakes
I think it’s one of those things when you just know you’re part of the in crowd. Or not.
August 4th, 2014 at 9:01 am
How is it possible that in 15,000 days that the firearm hasn’t gone for a walk and just shot someone, because “it’s just their nature?”
August 4th, 2014 at 9:31 am
You are very, very lucky, Mr. Doakes. We know from RickDFL that firearms cause murders, suicides, and accidental deaths.
Devilish devices . . .
August 4th, 2014 at 1:51 pm
JD, It’s been as long as that for me with multiple guns and nobody shot, hell the guns haven’t even shot one another, go figure.
August 4th, 2014 at 3:34 pm
Maybe Herb Alpert? They say Tijuana is violent this time of year.
August 4th, 2014 at 6:41 pm
I’ve had my .357 for 17,292 days and its tally so far: several dozen squirrels( they are surprisingly challenging targets), a dozen or so raccoons, a couple of whitetail deer and a neighbor’s horse.
It sleeps near my bed and not once has it awakened me with cries of “Shoot something! Shoot something!” .
Maybe I got a defective unit.
August 4th, 2014 at 9:49 pm
Yeah, Kel, I was thinking the same thing about mine. Besides, Liberals constantly insist the odds of somebody getting shot are better in a house with firearms: do you think my odds would improve if I bought more pistols? Or would that be like buying a second lottery ticket – a statistically insignificant increase in the odds?
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