So there I wasn't either

Vote Yes on I 594; Vote NO on I 591!
RantWoman deeply hopes that closing loopholes about ease of gun purchases will dramatically cut down the number of "idiots with guns" episodes around her!

The latest:
Neighbor: RantWoman did you hear about the shooting?

Which shooting? (Indeed several to choose from.)

Friday night in the parking lot. Two cars, people shooting at each other. About 8 cop cars. The place was lit up like a Christmas tree.

Was anyone h-h-hurt? (Actually if anyone had been hurt or worse yet killed, it would have been all over the building grapevine as soon as RantWoman walked in the door Sunday afterQuarterly Meeting.)

No, thanks you God and Jesus and a bunch of angels. Nobody with guns and no residents either. And apparently the cops got the shooters too.


Indeed, RantWoman was AWAY, away on one of her hours and hours doing something called minutes gigs.

This particular gig, for Friends Committee on WA Public Policy frequently comes with chatter about gun suicides and care of mental health issues. RantWoman is all for care of mental health issues. RantWoman is especially all over this topic because while trying to take minutes and listening to people go on about mental health issues, RantWoman gets to remember Marat the Mopey, a friend who bought the gun he finally succeeded in offing himself with after at least two other suicide attempts in a year. RantWoman's brain usually leaves the room at least temporarily; RantWoman manages to take minutes and say a prayer for some other stories that have emerged in the orbit of the policy chatter.

This time, while all that gunplay was happening in RantWoman's home parking lot, the meeting bounced fast over the message atthe top of the post and headed straight for Climate Change! Ura! Climate change gets its own post or posts. And RantWoman gets to be grateful, once again, to be nowhere near the drama of the moment and to say yet more prayers on repetitive themes!