My keen police instinct alerted my bullshit detector and the message on the display reads MASSIVE EXAGGERATION FOR PURPOSES OF SELF PROMOTION AND BOOK SALES.

I think you are from Somalia like I am from New Jersey. Also you misspelled part of your username. The Somalian word for mother, as in Mother Africa, is hooyo. Happen to have a Somali character in a sci-fi I’m writing and noticed when I did language research. You’re very welcome.

Thank you. If your backstop is an apartment complex or daycare center this is always problematic even if you don’t miss. Bullets exit human bodies with little change in velocity. Good catch on this detail.

Guns are notoriously amoral.

Do not grieve too much because I think investigation would prove many of those horrible things did not happen.

I neither believe nor trust Stacy Dash because she is a black Ann Coulter.

It does not ring true to me and would not even if I did not know race or sex. If he was close enough to be a threat, it would be almost impossible to miss him unless you were ratcheting it like a Shake Weight. Humans are large. And gunfire in populated areas seldom goes unnoticed. I am all NOPE NOPE NOPE here.

I get a tension headache when someone brings up guns and women who need protection. I have handled them all my life and there are things you need to know because ignorance will kill you.

The “we told you so” value would be priceless.

We could stand to be less so. They are physically no less dangerous but absent mating season or a nest, slower to rouse. I am sadly here to testify they are man eaters too...in my area we have lost two children to them in horrendous tragedies as well as an elderly adult who was taken from her lakefront lawn. We are…

Crocs and gators are one of my passions. The fact that crocs will stalk you and plan an attack is nightmarish but amazing. And the fact that they have incredible immunities...truly apex predators.

I have not had the pleasure, but I have been in the Florida Everglades at night when you could have walked across the gators (and Nile crocs) like stepping stones. Our lazy Florida gators have been stepping up attacks on humans but they are bush league compared to the Salties. I can’t get my mind around this either.

Now I have a crush.on you.

No no I am not sure the mother feels terrible about this. Is there any way that you could reassure me? I only ask because I'm on medication for this type of thing.

The animal in question was a second generation product of a successful breeding program in Texas dedicated to increasing the population of lowland gorillas. Admittedly he was captive born but the important thing is that he was born and would have continued his species.

Could she get the hell off the social media bullhorn? Yes.

Ah, but she did. Read the statement in the lede.”I keep a tight watch on my kids.” That alone was enough to loose the dogs.

As always, on target.

NOHESNOTSTUPID.

Without sarcasm, how would you propose to design an idiot proof zoo absent the existence of enough suitable terrain to create a viable habitat that would also allow observation? And if not observable how would you fund it since most zoos depend on visitor revenue?