Allow moi to get the proverbial ball rolling…
“I’d poke out his eyes with my tampon.”
Omni, the primary item in my purse is a .25 caliber Beretta automatic, FOR which I have a license, and WITH which I am a crack shot. Where do you carry your gun? In your hip pocket with your wallet?
Don’t worry, I won’t reach into my nasty old purse for Betsy if I see you being mugged and beaten to a pulp. You can defend yourself with your tiny little macho wallet.
Carpe diem - Seize the day
Carpe noctem - Seize the night
Carpe cerevisi - Seize the beer
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(Sorry to take so long to reply; I just finished the Christmas vacation from H-E-double toothpicks, and to make it even worse, I had absolutely no computer access.)
As for securing the weapon from those little hands…
When going somewhere in the car, which is the only time I carry my gun, my infant
daughter (only child) sits in her rear-facing car seat and the baby bag sits on the
passenger seat beside me. The .45 itself has a trigger lock, as well as a safety that can almost assure that the gun can be fired by nothing but an adult hand. There is a clip in the gun, but NEVER a bullet chambered.
When we get home, the gun goes directly into the gun safe ( we have an awesome security system on the house, so I don’t feel the need to have the gun that close at hand.)
Since my car includes a passenger side airbag, the young’un will sit in the back seat until
she is at least 10 yrs old, maybe even 12 (as they recommend, I think) by which time she will have been taught well enough to know about gun safety,(and hopefully smart
enough to have retained the lessons). My husband and I both firmly believe in teaching children the appropriate respect for guns and other weapons.
(I hope that by that time, we live in a safer society, and I don’t have to worry about freaks, druggies, rapists and the like, but ya know… There are a lot of weirdos around us, and a lot of random violence, of which I do not want to become a victim if I can prevent it!)
I totally respect your question and concern. Rest assured, though, I am a cautious, responsible and sensible grown up, and take precautions to ensure that my kid (or any of her pals, later in life) does not become a statistic that breaks my heart every time I see the latest accidental kid-shooting story on the news.
( I was going to say I might be a dumb blonde but I’m not stupid, but I don’t want my answer coming across as bitchy and flippant.)
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Thanks for responding to my somewhat obtrusive question. Its comforting to see that you are being safe and responsible with the gun around your child. One last battery of questions out of curiosity (if you don’t mind answering): Do you keep the trigger lock on even while in the car? Is it a key lock or a combination lock? If key lock, is the key on the same key-ring which is in your car’s ignition?
If you do ever take off the trigger lock while out on the run, and return home still without the trigger lock secured, it seems that this could potentially be the weak point in your procedure. I don’t want to come off like I’m telling you what to do, but you should use extra caution to make sure that nothing distracts you while entering your home and causes you to forget to put the gun in the safe. I’m sure you already do this, and you probably already have the trigger lock on, but as long as you make the simple steps routine, you’ll never have to endure the consequences of a horrible accident. I would probably leave some sort of marker at the doorway so that it reminds you when you first walk in that you should put the gun away. Store the marker in the safe with the gun so that you know that if you see the marker out, the gun has not been secured.
ok… ok… I don’t want to be left out on the purse contents. Besides…time to do the semi-annual clean out.
First… my purse is designed like a backpack. I love that invention coz I hate carrying a purse but hate looking like a student in business attire.
What do I put in it…as little as possible as I hate excess baggage (one of the reasons I got rid of my ex).
Contents: a wallet with the usual stuff, credit cards, driver’s license, money, and spare change I keep to donate to the street musicians I pass on my way to work. Checkbook, adresss book/business card holder, calculator (math is not my thing), pen, lipstick (when you are my age and spend as much time on the puter as I do instead of being outdoors you need a little color), mints, advil and a sinus tablet (being an honorary boy scout taught me to be prepared), and finally car and house keys. All pretty boring but I use most of it over the course of a day. I would try to cram all that into a pocket on the backside of my jeans, but my jeans are tight enough as it is after all that chocolate. =)
I really try to be good but it just isn’t in my nature!
Sometimes I think that I am the only woman that doesn’t carry a purse. I hate not having my hands free and always having something to look after. All I need is my (small and thin, but perhaps that is due to my current “student” status) wallet, and some lip gloss. I even feel weighed down carrying keys, so I stopped locking my doors…to all the women out there (and whoever else this is applicable to) Now is the time to free yourselves from your chains! Give up the purse and have both hands free to do something useful! You have nothing to lose but your travel pak of Kleenex!
I just carry my colostomy bag. Hope to bump into you sometime, Omni.
Some mornings, it’s just not worth chewing through the leather straps.
– Emo Phillips
Even sven, you stopped locking your doors? Are you kidding?
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On-On, M.K!
Always nice to meet a fellow hasher. You’ve done the red dress thing, too ? Makes for one h.ll of a party, that’s a fact. Just don’t start right next to an Aussie bar.
Spiny Norman, aka Last Boy Scout, Aarhus H3
Omniscient, why are you so concerned about our purses? Has a purse caused you some sense of pain, either physical or emotional in your past? You spend far too much time obssessing about this. You think we give a damn about what’s in your wallet? Oh and by the way, the mention of the “weekend” condom comment leads many of us I’m sure to believe it is a “wishful thinking condom”. Very sad indeed. Three words Omni, GET A LIFE.
Weaker sex indeed, GUFAW!!!