My friend’s mother is seventy-something and living on her own. Recently, she informed Bill, my friend, that she wanted him to help her purchase a gun.
“A gun?” Bill asked incredulously. “Why a gun?”
“For protection,” she assured him.
“Protection from what?”
“What if someone is causing me trouble or tries to break in?”
“Call the cops.”
“I would feel better with a gun. What if there is a rapist out there?”
Bill considered for a moment. “Mom, you are in your seventies…some guy is not going to bust into your place and rape you.”
His mother smiled. “If I have a gun, he will!”
--Mitchell Hegman
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