i thought we needed a chuckle
Okay, I chuckled. But a couple of years ago, a political science professor e-mailed me an Onion article about some political atrocity that he, not being familiar with The Onion, had swallowed whole. I clued him in and he thanked me for doing so before he spread the story further thus making his gullibility widely known.
Same guy, a Viet vet, looked down his nose a bit at those of us that carried. Then one day he came in muttering something about an incredibly slow police responce, bought a pistol, and qualified for his own CCW/CPL.
He owes me.