Jeff Thomas
New member
OK, I think I've brought this up before, but it has happened again and I wonder if any of the rest of you run into this situation.
Spoke with my Dad's girl friend this weekend - a 77-year-old 'Roosevelt Democrat', as she puts it. We discussed firearms, and she doesn't have a problem with me using a firearm to defend myself and my family. But, she says she is too old to learn, and besides - she doesn't need one. 'Why not?', I ask. Well, she says she believes she has always been surrounded by a 'protective aura'. As a matter of fact, it protects her daughter as well. But, not her son ... he doesn't have 'the right attitude'. [I loved that part. ]
I have another older friend, late 60's, who told me she believes she has a 'guardian angel'.
I'll tell you ... I now see why I'm so 'paranoid'! I don't have a protective aura or a guardian angel! I'm just flappin' in the wind out here!
Now, both of these ladies are otherwise rational. And, as we gently discuss these issues they really can't even try to give me any logical basis for their beliefs. But, since they've never come to real harm, they hold these beliefs fervently.
From my perspective, these perspectives leave them both just this side of being 'certifiable'! Have any of the rest of you run into this foolishness? I probably need to find a better way of dealing with this. When I'm walking them through a logical discussion of self defense and they hit me with this, I have to work real hard just to keep my mouth from dropping open!
Perhaps the real strategy is to get these folks literally certified as insane so we can keep these otherwise harmless people out of the voting booths!
I think it is a dangerous trick they are playing on themselves with such foolishness. But, it is criminal when some of them want to foist this garbage on me and my family by denying us more logical means of defense!
Spoke with my Dad's girl friend this weekend - a 77-year-old 'Roosevelt Democrat', as she puts it. We discussed firearms, and she doesn't have a problem with me using a firearm to defend myself and my family. But, she says she is too old to learn, and besides - she doesn't need one. 'Why not?', I ask. Well, she says she believes she has always been surrounded by a 'protective aura'. As a matter of fact, it protects her daughter as well. But, not her son ... he doesn't have 'the right attitude'. [I loved that part. ]
I have another older friend, late 60's, who told me she believes she has a 'guardian angel'.
I'll tell you ... I now see why I'm so 'paranoid'! I don't have a protective aura or a guardian angel! I'm just flappin' in the wind out here!
Now, both of these ladies are otherwise rational. And, as we gently discuss these issues they really can't even try to give me any logical basis for their beliefs. But, since they've never come to real harm, they hold these beliefs fervently.
From my perspective, these perspectives leave them both just this side of being 'certifiable'! Have any of the rest of you run into this foolishness? I probably need to find a better way of dealing with this. When I'm walking them through a logical discussion of self defense and they hit me with this, I have to work real hard just to keep my mouth from dropping open!
Perhaps the real strategy is to get these folks literally certified as insane so we can keep these otherwise harmless people out of the voting booths!
I think it is a dangerous trick they are playing on themselves with such foolishness. But, it is criminal when some of them want to foist this garbage on me and my family by denying us more logical means of defense!