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Otherwise know as "Stupidity For The Children". See the following...
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>"Armed in-laws risky to children"
The Palm Beach Post, Wednesday, December 15, 1999
Dear Abby: I need some advice on how to handle a sticky situation with my in-laws. My husband's father carries a concealed handgun in his pocket, and in addition to this, his wife carries one in her purse. My father-in-law is in his early 70s, and it was not until recently that I learned they carried these weapons everywhere they go. This includes our home.
We have a child under the age of 1, and I am so afraid the gun may go off while my father-in-law is holding our child. The other posibility is that it may go off in a public place. My father-in-law does have a concealed gun permit, but the thought of his gun going off by accident and injuring our child or someone else has really upset me.
My husband says if it really bothers me, I should say something to his father. How should I bring this up to the in-laws if my husband will not talk to his dad about this?
I really do want to have a good relationship with my in-laws, but guns in my house or around my child at any time will not be tolerated. Please help! -- Desperate in Dallas
Dear Desperate: Tell you pistol-packing in-laws that the world may be dangerous and scary place, but they are safe when they are within the confines of your home.
Dear Abby appears daily. Write to her in care of The Palm Beach Post, P.O. Box 24700, West Palm Beach, Fla. 33416-4700.[/quote]
Rant Number One - "Go Off"? How may times are the cerebrally-challenged going to metronomically spout this drivel? "Desperate" uses it no less than three times in a single paragraph! The mass media bray it sycophantically in almost every shooting. What are the odds of a firearm "going off" of its own volition, barring any outside influence? Does not the writer fear her kitchen knives might suddenly "cut off", and thereby inflict injury? Or that her car might "drive off", terrorizing pedestrians and non-mechanical motorists?
Rant Number Two - "Guns Around My Child"? Is "Desperate" going to demand police officers maintain a mile-and-a-half distance from her offspring, because their sidearms might suddenly "anti-sympathetically" detonate? Perhaps she should consider moving off-world, we seem to have lots of ICBM's here that might just be plotting to launch themselves. Hey, it happened in a movie I saw once...
Rant Number Three - "Safe Confines" Whatever leads you to this assertion, "Abby"? (Side note: Isn't "Abby" two middle-aged guys? How wierd is that?) Safe from miscreant handguns with self-determination? Safe from a gun take-away by a scheming one-year-old with bad genes? Safe from their dottering old "70"-ish selves? Maybe "Desperate"'s father-in-law was a Ranger at Point-du-Hoc in '44, and feels he can trust himself with his own safety. Did you consider this?
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>"Armed in-laws risky to children"
The Palm Beach Post, Wednesday, December 15, 1999
Dear Abby: I need some advice on how to handle a sticky situation with my in-laws. My husband's father carries a concealed handgun in his pocket, and in addition to this, his wife carries one in her purse. My father-in-law is in his early 70s, and it was not until recently that I learned they carried these weapons everywhere they go. This includes our home.
We have a child under the age of 1, and I am so afraid the gun may go off while my father-in-law is holding our child. The other posibility is that it may go off in a public place. My father-in-law does have a concealed gun permit, but the thought of his gun going off by accident and injuring our child or someone else has really upset me.
My husband says if it really bothers me, I should say something to his father. How should I bring this up to the in-laws if my husband will not talk to his dad about this?
I really do want to have a good relationship with my in-laws, but guns in my house or around my child at any time will not be tolerated. Please help! -- Desperate in Dallas
Dear Desperate: Tell you pistol-packing in-laws that the world may be dangerous and scary place, but they are safe when they are within the confines of your home.
Dear Abby appears daily. Write to her in care of The Palm Beach Post, P.O. Box 24700, West Palm Beach, Fla. 33416-4700.[/quote]
Rant Number One - "Go Off"? How may times are the cerebrally-challenged going to metronomically spout this drivel? "Desperate" uses it no less than three times in a single paragraph! The mass media bray it sycophantically in almost every shooting. What are the odds of a firearm "going off" of its own volition, barring any outside influence? Does not the writer fear her kitchen knives might suddenly "cut off", and thereby inflict injury? Or that her car might "drive off", terrorizing pedestrians and non-mechanical motorists?
Rant Number Two - "Guns Around My Child"? Is "Desperate" going to demand police officers maintain a mile-and-a-half distance from her offspring, because their sidearms might suddenly "anti-sympathetically" detonate? Perhaps she should consider moving off-world, we seem to have lots of ICBM's here that might just be plotting to launch themselves. Hey, it happened in a movie I saw once...
Rant Number Three - "Safe Confines" Whatever leads you to this assertion, "Abby"? (Side note: Isn't "Abby" two middle-aged guys? How wierd is that?) Safe from miscreant handguns with self-determination? Safe from a gun take-away by a scheming one-year-old with bad genes? Safe from their dottering old "70"-ish selves? Maybe "Desperate"'s father-in-law was a Ranger at Point-du-Hoc in '44, and feels he can trust himself with his own safety. Did you consider this?