I was in a doctor’s office the other day and reading an article by a woman. Yeah. What can a woman tell a man who was in the Marines for nine years about guns? Plenty!

Two things specifically that never occurred to me. First, never carry a gun in your purse. Now, I don’t know why I never thought of that, other than I never carried a purse. The problem you see, if a purse snatcher, snatches your purse, then he has also has obscanded off with your gun. You now no longer have a purse or money, but you lost your gun too. Now you will need to explain that to the police.

I have a weakness as a reporter. I am bad at getting names. I should have written down the name of the woman that wrote that which I read so that I was able to write it so you can read it. Should the woman read this, send me a message so I can properly credit you.

By the way, good clean well oiled guns don’t need to be carried in not so clean pursues anyway.

As a side note of my own, if you left your gun in the car that was stolen, pretty much the same thing applies. Fortunately, at least until recently, cars are more difficult to steal than purses.

One more peace of advice for any person, especially women, if you think you want to carry a .38 special for any reason, fire 50 rounds through one before investing in one. 1 in 3 men can handle one; maybe 1 in 10. After firing 10 rounds through a rental one day, I learned that. I am not too proud to admit my wrist hurt for hours after.

They used to be carried by police, you know. Now I have a new respect for them. I suppose after four or five hundred rounds, I might get used to it, but why?