My adorable six-year old was concerned about burglars and/or robbers. She said “I need something to use against them if they come.”

I said “you mean like a weapon or something?”

“No. I don’t want to do it myself. Something would do it for me. I would have like a metal detector all around the house, because robbers usually have metal. Yes. They have either guns or swords. Mostly swords. I would have a TV in my room and it would show what was in the detectors. And I would know if they were up to no good.”

I agreed that this was a sound concept.

“And then when I saw them, lasers would shoot out and kill them.”

As a geek, and as a heartless Republican, I am so doubly proud of my little robber-killing engineer.