Can I get a side order of hollow-points with that please?

It had been a while since the family had had some good old fashioned IHOP for dinner so we decided to treat ourselves the other night.

By chance we're seated at a booth near the entrance and it turns out we have a good view of folks as they enter and exit. When a couple of guys left the restaurant my wife and I noticed that one of them was wearing a shoulder holster containing a semi-automatic pistol. We figured he was a police officer since we've heard they must carry a weapon at all times. We didn't think much more about it until we left IHOP.

As we're loading the kids in the van, the armed gentleman leaves the restaurant with his companion and what appears to be their families: they've got young ladies with them and small children, one of which is an infant. They proceed to load up the car next to use with the kids and I notice that one of the young ladies is wearing a hip holster containing what looked like a pearl-handled 45-caliber colt. She's wearing a tight tank-top, low-cut jeans, and A PISTOL. As we pulled out we left the armed couple chatting and sharing a cigarette.

I wonder why they carry guns. Maybe they both were officers. Maybe they think they're safer from terror attacks if they carry pistols.

Whatever, dood!