Now that is just wrong, Guns?

Now hopefully you’ve gone through our style-guide post to get an idea where I’m going with this post.  The question is simple, is it a gun or weapon?  Is your rifle a gun or a weapon?  Is your pistol a gun, weapon or better yet, a handgun? 

According to my old-faithful Associate Press Stylebook under the word-entry guns, it states, “See weapons.”  So as I flip the pages over and land on weapon, I find,  “Gun is an acceptable term for any firearm.”  But the next sentence disturbs me, it states, “Note the following definitions and forms in dealing with weapons and ammunition….” 

When I served for over 8-years, active-duty, in the U.S. Army we did annual weapons qualifications.  It’s a mandate, you must qualify annually with your assigned, personal weapon to stay in the Army.  Notice I used the word weapon(s) twice, I never mentioned gun(s) even though I qualified with the M2HB Browning .50 Caliber Machine Gun.  In the Army, every firearm is a weapon and your personal weapon is never referred to as a gun. The only time we were allowed to use the word gun was when we were describing “crew-served” weapons.

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Handling Annoying Phone Calls

I’ve found many methods on handling those annoying phone calls.  One of my all time favorites, just don’t answer if you don’t recognize the number. If it’s that darn important, they will leave a message with a call back number–and if I give a crap, I’ll return their call.

Sometimes I like to answer it just for the heck of it too.  Sometimes I’ll just answer it, if it’s an idiot I don’t care to talk to, just keep saying “Hello, hello, hello” of course they’ll do one of two things, either hang up and not call again, or try again thinking it’s a bad connection.
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Toilet Seats

Why is it that men have to lower the toilet seats for women?  Why shouldn’t women raise the toilet seats after they get done?  Besides, it’d help stop men from urinating on the toilet seats because many of them are either too lazy to raise toilet seats when they are down.  Besides, it’s a known fact, what comes up must come down.  Let’s look at that, women know how to raise men.  Whatever that means?  I dare you to respond…Thanks, Rolando