Lawyers, Guns and Money

 

Maybe you’ve noticed? To get anything done, you need a lawyer.

If you purchase a car, a house or a gun you need a background check to be legit. If you get married or apply for a job you have to sign a document drawn up by a lawyer with stipulations. If you drive too fast or drink underage, better get a lawyer.

In these days of turmoil, seems every statement on a newscast or social media needs to be fact-checked and could be subject to a lawsuit. The threat is sending in the lawyers as the new armed forces.

Now a lawyer is a fine person. They have to stay in school almost as long as doctors. They are required to be attentive, dress sharp and be eloquent before a judge and jury. They must be persuasive enough keep you out of jail or get you a bunch of cash (after they take their fee). They must be able to take a simple idea and make it into a 400-page litigation with footnotes.

A lawyer can defend or prosecute. There are corporate lawyers, medical lawyers, bankruptcy lawyers, personal injury lawyers, and estate lawyers….

It also seems that any disagreement threatens a lawsuit.

So my advice as this endless year grinds on, get yourself a good lawyer. You might need one.

 

You might also notice the increase in the sales of guns. After years of constant shootings in the headlines, the cry to get guns off the streets seems to have faded.

With the uncertainty and fear of social unrest civilians are arming themselves in record numbers. Quarantined homes are becoming fortified with weapons.

If having one gun gives a sense of security, does having two or three or four convert the meek and mild into Rambo?

The care of a weapon is as important as maintenance of your furnace or automobile.  Weapons need to be checked and cleaned and stored properly to correctly function when used.

To show a gun can be intimidating. To use a gun, especially against another human, is a life changing experience.

Guns can be bought at established retailers, gun shows, out of the back of vans in the parking lot of Wal-Mart or just given to you without anyone noticing.

 

While stocking up on toilet paper and canned products, cold hard cash would be good to hoard.

If civil unrest comes, banking establishments may close down. Worst-case scenario the “In God We Trust” greenbacks might not be accepted by merchants and peddlers and the ATM doesn’t work.

 

When the riots start and there are sirens screaming and glass breaking and gas floating through the air and fire lighting up the sky, you (and yours) will be secure in your paranoid cocoon.

 

Don’t like that advice?

 

Sue me.