Thread:Lilliana:3/@comment-397235-20140912011340/@comment-397235-20141004151019

I carry one of these, without the threading on the barrel and the orange tip removed:

http://www.evike.com/products/32733/

Weight wise this is an M9, and it's fully metal. It looks like a gun, so if some homeless person comes after me with a knife this will probably be enough to scare them off.

We have some idiotic laws here too. In some States, for instance, it's actually illegal to intervene (meaning, if I'm walking down the street, see someone getting raped, and shoot the rapist, I go to jail).

You should look at getting one of these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASP,_Inc.

They're fairly small but man will they mess somebody up.

Like I said, I'm fairly tolerant of everyone. My senior year of high school we had a foreign-exchange student from Lebannon and he was actually a pretty cool guy (he was in the political club with me; he always had interesting insights as long as you didn't mention Israel around him; of course, I'd probably have a different opinion of that nation had they invaded my homeland...of course, then again, if I was harboring terrorists and they came and got them maybe I'd understand...). There's nothing especially objectionable about the Pillars of Islam (which include Charity and Piety); on the other hand, I absolutely loathe the way they treat women, and the deafening silence of the vast majority of Muslims about things like ISIS or AL-Qaeda is especially troubling. And I get absolutely sick and tired of people who aren't even Christians trying to tell me Allah and God are actually the same deity (they aren't, anymore than God and Zeus are the same).

Ha Long Bai? That sounds Chinese. That must've been exciting. I've been to Denver Colorado (up in the mountains when I was very little), the Capitol (toured the White House, got to visit several Smithsonian Institutes, the Washington Monument [which is terrifying because that things sways in the wind], the Lincoln Memorial, the Holocaust museum [very somber]; all sorts of touristy things...except I was in a group with people I didn't like, which rather spectacularly sucked), San Antonio Texas (saw the Alamo, caught the Swine Flu, got the whole Texas experience), and Orlando Florida (so I've been to Disney World; even when you're a male teenager there's still something inherently cool about that place). I like the outdoors, though (I enjoy walking...when I have time, which of late I do not, so I've gained a bit of weight, much to my discomfort; I know, awful stereotypes about fat Americans); like most people, I'm not a stereotype. I enjoy being outside alone or inside with other people. It's weird.

Not an art person, though. I dated a couple of artists in high school (never again); I'm a huge history person. That's what I originally planned to study in college (well, that, and every writer I've ever spoken to has said under no circumstances should you get an English degree as a writer).