As for presenting myself as a big-shot businessman, are you confusing me with some other poster? I am a lady in her forties, raised in Illinois but of Southern heritage, a hard-working and perpetually exhausted divorced mother of two young children. I am far from rich but perhaps I gave the impression that I have money because I speak of riding horses, which is something millions of middle- and lower-income Americans do as well. I haven't had a vacation in eight years but was planning a trip to Ireland. After the death of my father a small inheritance made me think of buying a horse for my daughter, who works so hard and so richly deserves a horse. And where better to buy a horse than Ireland, the place that produces the greatest horses in the world?
As for being trigger-happy: as a woman alone I have twice in my life had to defend myself with firearms, and I do not apologize for that. I have come to regard guns as cherished tools, like my circular saw and my computer. As for being reactionary: Guilty as charged.