Justin Buist

Okay, what got me thinking about that last post was Sebastian’s post on celebrating Heller in it he says:

In addition to the drinks, Bitter prepared a lovely Italian dinner, in honor of Justice Scalia, complete with cannollis. I honor Justice Kennedy merely by being Irish. For Chief Justice Roberts, the last new shooter I took to the range was a Roberts. And for Justice Alito, well, he’s another Italian! I’m still trying to figure out how I honor Justice Thomas.

Emphasis mine. I responded in comments:

Uhh… have a Coke?

I ran that bit of wit by Theresa only to be met with the, “you’re retarded, but I’m still marrying you” stare. She’s a year younger than me so I expected she wouldn’t get it.

I was 11 years old during the Clarence Thomas hearings, and obviously I was watching coverage of them at the time.

I figure when I hit 30 I’ll be yelling at kids to get off my lawn. I’ve aged way too quickly.

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So, this weekend we’re hanging out with my parents and the whole tomato salmonella thing came up.

Theresa mentions that I thought I might have had a touch of that. I had eaten a bunch of raw tomatoes the night before that whole thing hit the news and I had some,err, issues, the next day.

My mom piped up, “Oh, Justin always thinks he’s got whatever’s on the news. Remember when cyanide was found in stuff a long time ago? He started complaining about having trouble swallowing and I took him to the doctor and told them it’s probably nothing, because he saw the cyanide thing on the news. They were like, ‘Your six year old watches the news?’”

It’s true. As a kid I watched the news every night, or at least a hell of a lot more than you’d expect a kid to. I don’t really watch it anymore, but I do follow it online like a crack addict.

And I’m still a hypochondriac!

Oh, and my throat issue when I was 6: Turned out I had some kind of infection and my tonsils were swollen up to the point they were actually touching.

The tomato thing: Well, eating a pound of raw tomatoes will do that to you. Tends to clean the system out.

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5-4 split with Souter, Breyer, Stevens and Ginsburg dissenting.

What a shock.

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Robb shares a few things he does when cleaning his guns for safety purposes. They’re good practices and none of his safety measures are required by any law.

On Monday morning I made myself a cup of coffee, ventured down to my gun room, and proceeded to take a few “essential” pieces out. The shotgun that I keep in the bedroom, the .22LR that I keep handy for critters that might pop up in the yard, and a pistol that I keep in my desk while I’m working.

These are guns that I (almost) always keep handy in the house. So, why were they locked away?

It’s because I had children in the house all weekend! My soon-to-be sister-in-law stayed with us this weekend and she, naturally, brought her children with her. I’m not going to leave loaded guns around the house when children are around, and I don’t need a law to tell me not to do that. Hell, I’m not going to leave unloaded guns out either.

So, I locked the guns (in steel cabinet, in a locked room) all up on Saturday morning before the kids got here.

I didn’t consult any legal statutes to figure out what I should do, and I sure as hell wasn’t thinking of any sage advice from the Brady Campaign when I did this because they don’t have any good advice. Instead I relied on a little common sense and advice that I’ve gathered from other law abiding gun owners over the years.

And guess what? That worked.

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