Viewer 2-5-8: Guns

I know that some of you may have issues with guns.  I'm a firm advocate of owning and using guns for sport and protection (mostly sport).  There are safety rules that you must learn when handling them.  The more you know about a weapon the less likely you are to accidentally injure yourself or someone else with one.

The Rules:
1. Never point a weapon - loaded or unloaded - at anyone or anything you are unwilling to kill.

I'm serious about this.  It drives me crazy when people on TV, in real life, and in fiction wield them around like it's no big deal.  Never point a weapon, loaded or unloaded at someone or something that you don't want dead - seriously. 

This is me at the range in my spiffy trench coat.

I've read at least one fic where Bella's a crack-shot and shoots a target in the wrist, then goes off on this whole thing about disarming an attacker.  Um... no... If you shoot someone in the wrist he's going to keep coming.  If you're firing on someone you'd better be willing to kill him/her and that is the end of the story.  Also, realistically if 250lbs of angry man is bearing down on you with a weapon, you don't risk missing his wrist or a kneecap.  If you can't stomach it, you shouldn't have a weapon, because you're going to end up disarmed.

2. Always assume weapons are loaded.

I don't care if you've pulled the clip, checked the chamber, and put the safety back on - treat it like it's loaded.  Why? Because what you do becomes a habit.  If you're in the habit of pointing that baby around haphazardly you're more likely to do it some other time.  Just don't. Has anyone noticed all of the politicians lately holding up guns on TV.  Almost every single one of them has been irresponsible about it.

3. When passing off any sort of weapon (knives included) you wait for the other person to say "Thank you" before releasing the weapon.  This ensures that dangerous items are not dropped.

Just do it.  Honestly, if I'm handing you a weapon I'm going to do this and I'm not letting go until you say it.

4. Do not look down the barrel of a gun for any reason.  If you feel that your weapon has misfired and there might be a bullet lodged in the barrel, use a pen light, not your face, to test this theory.

This should really be obvious, but you'd be amazed at the stupidity.

5. Don't pull a weapon on someone unless you're really in danger.  Guns are not for arguments.

6. Lock your weapons in a secure location.  We have a lockbox for our hand guns that responds to a typed combination.  Our larger weapons have trigger locks.

7. If you are using a weapon for home defense your lock box needs to be in an accessible place out of the reach of children and hidden from idiots. 

8. Hit the range regularly.

A gun is totally useless and quite dangerous if you don't know what you're doing with it.  

I'm really not a wacko, I promise.  I'm a normal mom.  If you're not going to be smart and responsible about gun ownership, you have no business having one.  Also, if you have one, you need to talk to your kids about it and teach them gun safety.  My son has a BB gun - which stays in our room locked up - and we made him earn it through consistent, responsible behavior.  Trust me, that took a while, but he's very responsible with the BB gun now.  He had to earn it, so it means more.

Like I said, I know that a lot of people have issues with firearms these days.  They don't have to be scary, you just have to be mindful about your behavior with them, and for goodness sakes lock them up.

Baby Beretta - notice how there's not much of a lip between the handle and the slide.  I'm pretty sure this is why we call it Beretta Bite

Smith and Wesson 38 Special

Desert Eagle - this is a big gun

Glock 17

Viewer 2-5-8 Musical Storyboard

A completely unshared fact about V258 is that it's story boarded with music.  Some people use outlines or pictures, I'm usually an outline girl, but not with V258.  I don't share the songs with particular chapters because there's not a song for each one, and some songs bleed over from one chapter to the next.

Sooo... I give you an incomplete YouTube playlist of the V258 storyboard in no particular order:




I'm sorry if you're unable to view this in your area.  I tried a few different ways of making this playlist but oddly youtube was the only place I could find some of these songs.

Viewer 2-5-8 ch28 recap

For those who have been following Viewer 2-5-8 and are now in need of a recap before we get into the next chapter, here's where we are:

Bella and Edward had a very serious relationship from 2007 - 2008 when Bella was in college and Edward was a Major in the Army.  Edward was going to propose to Bella on February 5th of 2008.  Unfortunately fate stepped in in the form of Alice getting lost in Afghanistan.  We're still a bit sketchy on the details regarding Alice's disappearance as Alice herself isn't exactly sure of what happened.  She was on a team doing some contract work in the country when they seem to have turned on her.  Carlisle convinced Edward to join SpecInt, the family business.  Edward left Bella without so much as a phone call.  Bella was devestated.

Two years later, work-a-holic Bella has made a name for herself in the radio news business and is at the top of her game when an accident leaves her with a special ability.  Bella is now a remote viewer.  She can mentally jump through space and time.  Unfortunately, she's also in pretty bad shape, because her out of body experiences are completely uncontrollable. 

Alice, unbeknownst to just about everyone else orchestrates a plan to bring Bella into SpecInt in order to bring her back into their lives.  This doesn't work out quite the way Alice planned.  Bella is not happy with anyone involved, and doesn't trust anyone at SpecInt.  This is exacerbated by the fact that SpecInt's current RV trainer is Edward.

Edward and Bella are still attracted to each other but neither wants to say anything about it.  Edward thinks that Bella is engaged to Jake, and Bella is certain that Edward isn't attracted to her.  Neither of them is willing to put themselves out there again.

Side note - during the two years in which Bella and Edward weren't together, she was at one point engaged to Jake.  Edward spied on her.  Edward also dated his previous trainee, Tanya.  Tanya has gone off the reservation with some very important data that SpecInt would like back.  They also want to bring her in on principle.  Tanya is currently spying on at least one of SpecInt's teams, and we don't know why.  We have reason to believe that she knows about Bella.

Bella has renewed her relationship with Esme and Carlisle has taken her in now that he knows who she is in relation to Edward.

As soon as Carlisle and Edward approve it, Bella will be heading to training at The Farm with the CIA.