Quote:Also, he'd be presenting his daughter, Mayonaka, with her first true weapon..."Oneesan, why is you daddy teaching you to bring a knife to a gunfight?"
"It's a stilleto."
"It's kind of small, Poppa. What's so great about it?"
"Because you can hide it someplace like a boot or a bodice and then shiv the bad guy when he gets just close enough... or when you sneak up on them. And, while small, it's still long enough to pierce the vitals."
Yeah, he loves his girl, but he's pratical. He (and I for that matter) would rather have a daughter that knows how to kill someone effectively than have a dead daughter and a killer on the loose.
"He said that sometimes I'm going to want to be subtle, Helen."
"What's 'subtle' mean? That isn't a word that my daddy uses."
And later (preferably much later), when Helen discovers her pistol isn't as effective in close-quarters combat as Mayonaka's knife is, she'll want to cross-train...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012