Convincing
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Cheapshooter
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Try to overcome her ignorance with a firearms safety course dealing with home defense if one is available. Not calling your wife ignorant, just suggesting that an instructor, in a classroom, may be able to help educate her to the fact that properly stored, and handled, firearms are perfectly safe in your home.
Sorry, but if my wife said ..... I will not live in a house that has guns in it. I'ld ask where she's moving to, and to let me know. I'm single now, and plan to stay that way... but it didn't have a thing to do with that, but I never asked my wife and she never voiced an opinion.
She didn't particularly liked shooting guns, but when she did.... she outshoot everyone. She had gotten an Expert in her Army qualification. She did say though, that she loved throwing hand grenades. Seriously.
She didn't particularly liked shooting guns, but when she did.... she outshoot everyone. She had gotten an Expert in her Army qualification. She did say though, that she loved throwing hand grenades. Seriously.
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Now that's funny I don't care who you are.
FWIW, When someone says they are more or less liberal about something, it's not the same thing as saying they are or not 'a liberal'.
To the OP.
This same topic comes up from time-to-time.
It's my belief that whomever is going to be elected to get out of bed and handle things if there's a 'bump in the night' should also have the honor of handling them as they see fit. Providing the elected person is adequately trained to do so.
Amazingly, there are still many people in the world that refuse to accept the fact that there are people in the world capable of doing un-imaginable, horrible acts of torture to another human being in short order. Too, these same people that refuse to accept that fact, also deny that these same acts of torture could ever happen to them. If they read in the newspaper or see on the news where a house was broken into, wife raped and tortured, it just never sinks into them that it was just luck it wasn't their house.
Typical 'it can't ever happen to me' syndrome.
Never cross's their mind as to why the burglar/rapist picked that house to pillage. Maybe the rapist cased the house for a week or two learning when hubby wasn't home. Not hard to do!
A shame, they also never think about(GOD forbid) what they will do if they're laying there one night and hear someone in the house. Especially if hubbies not there to nudge him and say " did you hear that?" Then,if hubbies there, he gets up to check things out.
Happens every night somewhere in the U.S.
If all that sounds a bit dramatic, it should. It's the way it often happens and the very reason you should not only have a gun in your house but the wife should know how to use it as well. You can't be with her 24/7.
Find out what bothers her about guns.
If it would make her feel better if you took a gun safety course. Take it. (Try to get her involved also.)
Slowly, try and teach her about firearms. Lack of knowledge usually breeds fear.
Lastly, call and get the average response time of LE in your area. Remembering, it only takes seconds to incapacitate someone to a helpless state, then the perp has all the time he wants to do as he chooses.
Goodluck!
Sparks1957
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@ shortwave; Whatever... not sure I understand what you are driving at here, but I think it was not intended as a compliment.
The point is that some people think only "conservatives" like guns and support 2A rights, and that "liberals" do not. That couldn't be further from the truth. One's political leanings have nothing to do with those inclinations. I stand by my original statement
My method was hard on a neighbor, but it worked ... my wife insisted we get a gun after a guy was murdered in the house behind ours about 20 years ago ... she was not a gun fan but realized the need for more than a Louisville Slugger and a K-bar for SD; even took lessons with our Mossburg 500 with a police trainer I hired ... just tell 'em necessity sent ya ...
bikerbill,
My ex-wife was against guns as well. What changed her mind,some thirty years ago, was an incident also involving a neighbor as well. Actually two neighbors.
A 17yr old male(known druggy of the neighborhood) which lived next door to a couple that had a 9yr old girl broke into home while girls dad was at work. He overpowered mom, raped her and the 9yr old.
They had been neighbors for several years and the families knew each other well.
For those that think these kind of things only happens in low income,seedy parts of town, this was an average to above average community.
17yr old was tried as a minor and was released from prison when he was 21.
As someone posted earlier(or something to the effect), Obviously, no responsible person wants to do harm to another human. The fact remains there are people in this world that descent people have to prepare ahead of time to defend themselves against. Or we can just simply roll-the-dice and hope the BG chooses the neighbors house for some reason other then ours.
Kinda like playing russian-roulette with our loved ones,eh!
Sparks1957
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My ex-wife was against guns as well. What changed her mind,some thirty years ago, was an incident also involving a neighbor as well. Actually two neighbors.
A 17yr old male(known druggy of the neighborhood) which lived next door to a couple that had a 9yr old girl broke into home while girls dad was at work. He overpowered mom, raped her and the 9yr old.
They had been neighbors for several years and the families knew each other well.
For those that think these kind of things only happens in low income,seedy parts of town, this was an average to above average community.
17yr old was tried as a minor and was released from prison when he was 21.
As someone posted earlier(or something to the effect), Obviously, no responsible person wants to do harm to another human. The fact remains there are people in this world that descent people have to prepare ahead of time to defend themselves against. Or we can just simply roll-the-dice and hope the BG chooses the neighbors house for some reason other then ours.
Kinda like playing russian-roulette with our loved ones,eh!
Sparks1957
pm sent.
Have you suggested less than lethal ammunition? My girlfriend does not want ammunition in the house, that was a sticking point for owning a firearm, but is considering allowing rubber bullets. Granted they're still dangerous, even lethal in extreme situations, but the danger is minimized as much as possible.
Over the course of three years I've turned my girl from refusing the notion of having guns on hand to her suggesting we take a weekend trip out of town to take a gun safety course and rent some handguns for practice. She even said she might like the idea of getting one herself as long as she doesn't end up like the girls on YouTube who knock themselves out firing guns that they're not prepared for. At this time the only real sticking point on a firearm is one of price, we simply have more important things to spend our money on at this time.
The discussions were all a matter of assuring her that her, I and our future children would all be safe with a gun in the house. Even without ammunition in the house we'll have a pistol safe, an unloaded gun in the wrong hands can still get someone hurt. Have you ever handled a firearm before and, if not, does she understand that you are willing to undergo the proper safety courses and regimen to handle it properly?
Or you could ignore your wife's concerns and most of the advice you've received. Good luck with that.
Over the course of three years I've turned my girl from refusing the notion of having guns on hand to her suggesting we take a weekend trip out of town to take a gun safety course and rent some handguns for practice. She even said she might like the idea of getting one herself as long as she doesn't end up like the girls on YouTube who knock themselves out firing guns that they're not prepared for. At this time the only real sticking point on a firearm is one of price, we simply have more important things to spend our money on at this time.
The discussions were all a matter of assuring her that her, I and our future children would all be safe with a gun in the house. Even without ammunition in the house we'll have a pistol safe, an unloaded gun in the wrong hands can still get someone hurt. Have you ever handled a firearm before and, if not, does she understand that you are willing to undergo the proper safety courses and regimen to handle it properly?
N.Farley said:
Or you could ignore your wife's concerns and most of the advice you've received. Good luck with that.
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