Often when I want a cup of coffee, I go to the airport coffee shop and take my AR-15 along with me for company.

You don’t?

Peter Steinmetz, 54, of Tempe, was booked into a Maricopa County jail on suspicion of two counts of disorderly conduct for displaying a deadly weapon.

The counts stem from when Steinmetz removed the AR-15 from his shoulder and the muzzle faced toward a woman and her daughter in a waiting area in Terminal 4, according to police. Both the woman and her daughter reported fearing for their safety, police said.

Right.  At the Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, Arizona.

When confronted by the police, “Steinmetz said that he went to the airport only to buy a cup of coffee and had no other business there.”

Yep.  I do that all the time.

And here’s the best part: “Steinmetz is director of the neuroengineering program at the Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix.”  He might want to check his own neuroengineering.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.