Monday, January 03, 2005

Twenty Bucks and a Sandwich

The City of Boston application for a License to Carry a Firearm (form G13) contains this section:

REASON FOR ISSUING PERMIT:

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How's this for a reason? There are people walking the streets where I live who will stab you in the gut for 20 bucks and a chicken cutlet sandwich.

Herrera said the store got a phone call order for a chicken cutlet sandwich, small pizza and a grape soda about 7:33 p.m. He said it was a first-time caller, who asked that the food be delivered to 40 Mattapan St.. When Rodriguez arrived just after 8 p.m., the robbers struck, stealing between $20 and $30 and taking the food valued at $16.11.


Sorry, that's not a valid reason. That's just being paranoid, unlike, say, the realistic viewpoint our enlightened leaders hold that putting a loaded firearm in the hands of a responsible, law-abiding citizen will instantly turn him into a crazed trigger-happy murderer, resulting in the end of civilization as we know it.

Side note: The grape soda would have tipped me off. Who the hell drinks grape soda anymore? [homer]Mmmmm...syrupy fizzy purple drink.[/homer]