The elder graduated pre-law, but decided that SHE wanted to be in active law enforcement. (My prediction is that she'll eventually get tired of wrestling drunks every Saturday night, take the LSATs, go back to school, and make a great prosecutor.) The other "gun-nut," as you refer to them, the career military officer, is an optometrist. So did you want to argue that this country doesn't need engineers and scientists, or were you just looking for an opening?