I wouldn't want a functional gun in the same household as a kid

That's how I am. I'd be too nervous about the kids getting it somehow.

"y'know, the fact that your tech didn't bother to hook up the vid card in the first place is an indicator that I don't want to buy your crap"

Ah, if only it was this far into the process even. My problem is that I decided to pay for a few hundred bucks of my mom's computer for her, to help her out, and they charged friggin' everything to my card. Right now I'd be happy if I could just get the charges straight, and maybe if they'd throw in the USB cable for the "free" printer ("that nobody bothered to tell me wasn't included" she muttered under her breath)

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**Sobs** I don't believe you anymore!!

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Posted here so that Jilli will see it: An Open Letter to Tim Burton

I feel 50% less blinvisible. One of the freelance clients e-mailed me back. I had to make sure -- before I started working on the project -- that they were aware of/fine with paying my fee. Dude accepted it without one bit of haggling, which leads me to think I could have gouged him for a couple hundred more. But no big.

I have someone answering my e-mails -- so he knows I exist, but he's only answering 1/3 of the questions in each one.

Susan, it doesn't work does it?

I'm a little reluctant to have a gun in the house due ot the kid factor, but then, my grandparents had some Egyptian rifle on their mantle with my mom and her brothers growing up and a gaggle of grandkids.

Posted here so that Jilli will see it: An Open Letter to Tim Burton

pounds head on desk

This just adds to my ever-growing hate and distaste for PR and Marketing firms. Sure, target any subculture you can so you can try and get them to spend money, but don't actually, y'know, have anything to do with them. Bar them from your events. Because they're scary and ooky.

The place I'd like to order from makes them nonfunctional, so they can ship them to countries with tougher gun control laws. Though I'll admit I was thinking of having mine modified by a gunsmith to actually work.

I guess it's the having grown up in a house with a hunting rifle myself that makes it hard for me to see what the big deal is.

So. Am I weird to want a gun?

I always wanted a gun and now I have one. There are a few in our house. The idea of a small child near a gun worries me, but I believe they can safely co-exist in the same house if care is taken.

It doesn't sound like you are wanting a gun that is for regular shooting. Until you have some ammunition, it wouldn't be dangerous.

re: gun

If it was absotively, posolutely unable to be fired--blocked barrel, solid breech, no moving parts except for a fake trigger--I'd say go for it. Given the chaos factor of kids, I'd try to avoid anything that could wind you up on the evening news as a cautionary tool.