And Sita, isn't it about time you grew up?" "You mean it's adult behavior to let ambassadors get ripped up by boars on the family's hunting grounds, … - S. M. Stirling

One of the pieces of advice his father had given him when he got his commission was that excitable women were wearing, but often worth the trouble.

[...] Anyone who might think of attacking them would also probably recognize that they were armed. She smiled slightly; all three of them actually had valid concealed-carry permits for the Belgian FiveseveN specials under their jackets. Although not for the P90 machine pistols in the attaché cases, and some of the stuff in the vehicle would be right out of it. Semtex, timers, detonators, cans of gasoline and thermite bombs, for example. Even if the invoice reads "Cleaning supplies" back at HQ.

A libertarian is someone who can believe that the police are no more than a gang of thugs without realizing that in the absence of police, thugs will gather into gangs.