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My office is a partnership between two lawyers with wildly diverging political views. It works for us. It helps us serve a wider demographic, and helps us view a wide variety of issues from a wide political lens.

We get into some pretty wild discussions, with staff being split fairly evenly politically as well. We were having one today at lunch. It concerned the physiological changes that occur in the brain and body under intense stress and/or trauma.

As example, the conversation led to an incident about a year ago when a police chief, on a camping trip, shot and killed a man who had shot at him first during an altercation over a camping spot.

My partner was telling the story when one of our paralegals asked, “why didn’t he shoot him in the knee or something“? To which my partner, who is also a concealed carry instructor, replied “because it’s a good way to get dead. While you’re aiming, they are shooting. You pick the largest point (chest) and tap tap. Two rounds and take cover.”

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