Auld Lang Syne

You should be willing to take a bullet for your good friends. So you ought to limit yourself to 4 or 5. 10 at the most. You can’t have too many friends, because that’s a lot of bullets to take. You haven’t all that many limbs to spare. That’s one approach. Another way to go about it is to have as many friends as you like, but choose the kind that surely won’t get shot at. Choose the kind that don’t go to big cities, sporting events, bars, hitchhiking, or out late at night. Definitely do not associate with the type who speak up too loud or stay suspiciously quiet. Don’t be friends with cops, hunters or any official uniformed persons. Beware activists, communists, futurists, drug addicts/dealers, presidents, and members of the Hell’s Angels. But if you just choose a little more selectively, you can have as many friends as you’d like. Even a hundred of them. Safely.