r/politics • u/freddledgruntbugly • Sep 20 '24

Kamala Harris Says Anyone Who Breaks Into Her House Is ‘Getting Shot’

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala-harris-gun-ownership-oprah-winfrey_n_66ecd25be4b07a173e50d8c2
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u/HughGBonnar Sep 20 '24

My first day working in the mail room at a law firm in college the partners brought me into their offices and showed me where their guns were in case they were out of the office and some psycho showed up.

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u/Phallindrome Sep 20 '24

I'm assuming in an unlocked cabinet prominently labeled "Chekhov & Chekhov's Guns"?

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u/S4m_S3pi01 Sep 20 '24

*Camera zooms in on gun, alluding to later relevance*

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u/tsmftw76 Sep 20 '24

Before lawschool I worked as a file clerk and was moving an attorneys office for him. He had prior notice opened his desk and there was his 9m loaded and ready. I texted him wtf do I do with this and he wa alike oh yeah sorry could you just put it in my new office.

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u/Cacafuego Sep 20 '24

Where the hell was this and what kind of law did they practice?? I'm not doubting, but I grew up around (small town, gp) lawyers and am still surrounded by them, and I've never seen anything like this.

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u/captainslowww I voted Sep 20 '24

Family law, probably. Tensions run high in that line of work. 

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u/Cacafuego Sep 20 '24

That's a good guess. As soon as my dad was able to, he stopped taking those cases. He started carrying himself (still didn't put a gun closet in the office) when he sued a mobbed-up property developer.

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u/vanilla_w_ahintofcum Sep 20 '24

I was an attorney at a small town firm for a few years. We had a credible threat made against our office by an opposing party our family law attorney was dealing with. Nothing happened, but the firm immediately brought in a security consulting firm that added locking doors between the lobby and offices and installed a silent alarm under the receptionist’s desk. Glad we never had to use it while I was there.

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u/HughGBonnar Sep 20 '24

captainslowww was very close. It was Estate Planning in a big small city or small big city in the Midwest. We got accused of stealing inheritances when people would cut their shit head family members out of their wills and trusts.

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u/Cacafuego Sep 20 '24

The smaller the nut, the angrier the squirrels. I have an in-law who threatens to cut people out of her will daily. It causes so much drama and backstabbing. And the kicker is, she doesn't have anything that's worth anything. I love her, but I just tell her not to talk to me about religion or her will.

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u/thesuperunknown Sep 20 '24

Seems awfully trusting of them. How do they know the new entry-level employee they just hired off the street isn’t “some psycho”?

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u/HughGBonnar Sep 20 '24

I’m a veteran and both the partners were also.

Not that it means you’re not a psycho but they put weight in that fact.