"I advocate trained professionals having guns. I have issues when morons touting the second amendment shoot themselves in the foot and wonder why I want gun control. But one can do just as much damage with knives."

They're a little ways away from the bar now and Mac is just buzzed enough not to care about people seeing her in various states of undress. She tugs up her shirt, pointing to a long, raised scar across her stomach.

"I got knifed in Islamabad when I was a war correspondent."