Health week

Saturday the wife went to the local health fair where the blood draw went wrong, the BP cuff broke, and she was given an 8x11 whiteboard "to put up honey-dos" by a suicide prevention group. The board, naturally, came pre-printed with a list of the signs that someone might be getting ready to end it all. That ones spouses unending list of chores might trigger the impulse apparently has not occurred to them.

Anyway, item #6 was "Recent purchase of a firearm".

The day before, the Wall St. Journal had published an editorial quoting researchers who have discovered that gun owners are happier than non-owners.

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Yes, Republicans are on average, happier than Democrats, but within the groups, gun owners, of either stripe, were happier than non-owners.

I suppose it has something to do with the fact that when the zombie hoards rise from their graves and walk the streets, as they do on Nov 4 in Chicago, New Orleans, and other large cities, that they'll be equipped to deal with the ones who get lost on their way to the polling places.