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"Florida store offers free firearm with jewelry purchase"

"We kind of took the take off the shotgun wedding and twisted it a little bit so more people could get involved,... This kind of gives the guy an incentive to purchase a piece of jewelry for his wife,” Czerok (Shop owner) told reporters. “Or, vice versa, we’ve sold a couple of gentlemen’s rings and the wives got the shotgun.”

The jewelry store has been around for 14 years, says Czerok. Her husband Nick, the jeweler, opened the gun store addition in 2012. Both of the Czeroks are firearm enthusiasts.

Don't you just love it when people have an aha moment? All of a sudden nothing is the same again.

Point of View Gun, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

This is a clip from the movie. 

The writing is annoying glib. That must be accepted to get at the gems throughout. The glibness strings together the gems. (glib: two men shot out of vacuum hatch into the void of space, chances of survival calculated to be grim, rescued by passing ship, annoying. It wretches glibly from one vignette to another)  This scene that describes the Point of View Gun is such a gem. It seems to me British style liberal fantasy of a gun that aggresses the shooter's POV, to violently penetrate a victim with one's own perspective, to force one's feelings combatively. An empathy gun. It's easy to miss at first they're speaking Britainlandia-talk and it goes quickly, but the narrator explains what happens. Like all British handling firearms the character accidentally shoots it, they must, they're British, the moment they touch a gun, the fist moment, it fires and hits somebody, and that's not even part of the glibness. That's innate to British psyche. When the woman gets hold of the gun then things get really dangerous. Another trope there.  Here, the writer describes women as walking emotional basket cases. She shoots the guy right off who she want's to have know (about herself). She keeps shooting to get deeper insights into herself through his expressions of her emotions as if experiencing therapy, not just pleased to have the guy know but to also learn for herself (about herself). Pow - pow for double-depth insight at the end cracks me up for its indifference to the pain of being shot.  

WLEM AM

Where we shoot and ask questions later.

ZZ Ward

This morning's wake-up brain teaser:  How many famous firearm moments from songs are we able to list?