Careful with that Axe Eugene

Pacifica is a relatively small coastal town just south of San Francisco. It was incorporated in 1957 and hence is a relatively young city comprised of smaller geographically divided hamlets doting the Pacific Coast. Perhaps due to it's young age the city does not have an over abundance of business codes on the books. Although new development is generally frowned upon you never hear too much talk about what type of businesses should be allowed in town.

Pacifica had no specific business code that dealt with the retail sale of fire arms. We did not have any gun stores in town until recently. A gun store, following proper procedures, was allowed to open up in a strip mall right next to Clay Creations a clay art studio mostly geared towards kids. When school is not is session and especially during the holidays this place is packed with children.

You could imagine what an uproar this created in this mostly Democratic community. The local paper was filled with letters to the editor from both sides, although mostly from the anti-gun folks. Soon after this happened the city council passed a law making it harder for gun stores to open, however this law is not retroactive so the current gun store was allowed to stay.

I heard all the usual arguments which I will not repeat here, and for awhile I started to side with the pro-gun crowd. Not so much for the same ole arguments I've heard a million times before but for the fact that that I started to think about the "pro-gun" guys I know. Funny thing is each of these guys, 3 to be exact, are stand up guys. I would trust my life with each of them. Although it is odd that each of them just so happens to be a Republican.

Well as luck would have it, less than 4 months after the store opened a guy rammed his car through the front window, stole a shotgun and started shooting up the place.