You always do!
And no, Scrivener, you're assuming, guessing, and generally making stuff up once again at what goes on in my life be it work or personal, in your continued failed attempt to make my failure to renew my LTC earlier an act of negligence on my part. You just keep making stuff up. That's just so...odd. Having an LTC is not part of my job. I hire people with more tactical training than me when I deem a security situation requires an armed component. Where I carry and when is nobody's business except mine and anyone I have a legal duty to answer to. You aren't on that list and your guessing at what my job requirements are (and being totally wrong about them) just makes my point about your game even stronger. But thanks for playing anyway. We have some nice parting gifts for you out back.
And if asking questions on this forum is "intellectual panhandling" then you've just insulted a huge percentage of people that ask all sorts of gun related questions here every day. (Nice try with playing off my calling you out on intellectual dishonesty though. Is that the best someone who calls themselves "Scrivener" can come up with). Maybe you have more time than the rest of us. Maybe you're retired and can spend all day "researching" things. (I don't know if you are, it s called an "example") Tell me you've never, ever, turned to another person when looking for a quick answer on something without "researching" for an answer and I'll call BS on it right on the spot. But then again, you seem to take pleasure in insulting us mere mortals, baiting and pushing the buttons of decent people who do nothing more onerous than asking questions that you personally deem unworthy of being asked, or asking them in ways that you disprove of. You have a well documented compulsion to comment (typically impolitely) on things that seemingly don't have anything to do with you in the first place. Usually, like in your personal derision of me, you offer no substantive advice in the process. You just piss on people. I COULD do what you do, and publicly speculate as to why. Your written comments would make for a good partial starting point as towards a diagnosis about your rude and impolite ad hominem attacks on people here, but as entertaining as it would be, I won't publicly speculate as to the psychological motivations behind your need to butt in to threads and dump on people. We've all seen your shtick here over time and I guess it was my turn for you to take a verbal caning out on me. I suppose I should take it as a badge of honor almost.
I'm done with you on this and won't reply to further baiting, as much as you seem to get your jollies off of it. (See, I said "seem", becuase unlike you, I don't really know what goes on inside your head. That's called speculation, which I DO believe you know a lot about) Today's my birthday. Why don't you give me the gift of silence?
Besides, I'm off to the P.D. to file the paperwork for my LTC.
Steve