So, the last I heard is that it wasn’t a marriage license that Bennifer went to the courthouse to get, it was a gun license. “Great,” I thought. “A loaded gun in the same house with those two.”
But it just recently occurred to me that if that gun is used to settle a dispute between our favorite :wally couple, it might not be either one of them who takes the bullet. People of that caliber of celebrity are seldom truly alone. There’s always someone else around: assistants, friends, hangers-on, staff.
I really don’t want to pull up CNN and see, “J-Lo’s personal trainer shot Lauren Benchpress, 25, is in critical condition at Cedars-Sinai hospital. Benchpress, Lopez’ personal trainer, heard a ruckus when she entered the home shared by Lopez and sometime fiance Ben Affleck…Benchpress tried to overpower [either one of them], but the gun discharged in the scuffle, wounding Benchpress…”
Not that I wish either half of Bennifer to get shot. But I wish even less for someone else to die or be disabled.
Um, there’s a weird sort of assumption in your post that J. and Ben bought the gun specifically for resolving their inevitable domestic squabbles. Given their prominence and wealth, they probably do have a somewhat greater problem with creepy stalkers and other evildoers than we humble folk. So while neither of them has manifested the kind of emotional stability I’d like to see if I were arming them with anything mightier than a super-soaker, there might be some need for this weapon that you’re not aware of.
Although it is true that celebrities and firearms often do result in fodder for those Hollywood True Stories retrospectives.
Sorry, Coldfire. Where did I post this in the first place? I can’t even remember.
Finagle: Allow me to clarify; I was dashing off to work when I posted last. I see what is misdirecting you: “But it just recently occurred to me that if that gun is used to settle a dispute between our favorite couple…”
I certainly don’t think that either of them are planning to use the gun in that manner. But…in a way, a gun can be like that extra bag of Easter candy you keep in the china hutch. You know it’s there…you’re not gonna eat it and break your diet…but it’s there. It’s after dinner, when you usually have something sweet…well, you’re still not gonna eat it…but there it is, in the china hutch, and you’re more aware of it every time you pass by. Then, finally, something happens to give you an excuse to break it out and binge.
Same thing with a gun. I don’t doubt that he did buy it for the purpose of shooting game. But both of them know it’s there…
By “gun license”, does the press mean a concealed weapon permit or a hunting license, or something else entirely that I’m unaware of? Would they be getting a concealed carry license in Georgia because they have a home there, or because it might be easier to get one there that other states or maybe Georgia has reciprocity of CC permits with some other state that they spend more time in. Although my last random thought seems unlikely since NY and CA apparently don’t have reciporcity of CC permits with any other states.
While I’ve read of many celebrities being armed in addition to whatever bodyguards or security personnel they may employ, I see very little overlap between the kind of firearm that would normally be carried concealed on your person or in a vehicle for self-defense and the kinds of weapons used for hunting. Unless they plan to keep a shotgun stashed in that new truck to fend off stalkers or bag a few ducks depending on the day.
Even handgun hunters tend to use large caliber revolvers or automatics with longer barrels for power and accuracy sake, quite often with optical scopes attached. Much too heavy and cumbersome for concealed carry. I suppose Ben could carry something like a .45 ACP 1911 clone or a Smith & Wesson Model 29 in .44 for defense as well as take it hunting in the country.
On the other hand, you’re not likely to bag too much game with the compact 9mm automatic pistol or the snub-nosed .38 special revolver you bought to protect yourself with. Granted they both have enough money to buy many firearms, but as a gun owner the thought of either of these twits being armed makes me nervous and almost ashamed.
Whether they got maried, or got a hunting licence, or wahtever, wouldn’t be a matter of public record? Seems to me any citizen could go down there and see the archives during buisiness hours.