Gwinnydapooh
Retired Screen Name
I originally posted this over at Knifeforums but I think it'll fit better here. I'm a knife guy at heart, dad collects guns but you can't carry 'em in Illinois.
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I just got rehired as an RA at my college and had to go to the "Chemistry of Leadership" conference. I have very little patience for the liberal agenda put forth at these things (watch the men in your halls for signs of sexual predation, at least 80% are rapists by our definition. Watch the women too--they're helpless victims.) but I have to go or get fired. Anyway, we were supposed to tell "dynamic" things about ourselves that made us interesting at our tables (define what a "dynamic" thing about a person is--wouldn't that just be a thing that is moving or changing?)
The point is, I somehow mentioned a CCW law and the girl across from me exclaimed "Oh yeah, they tried to do that in my state and I was so scared!"
I asked why this would be so, and this is the answer she gave me:
"Because then MY PARENTS would get to carry guns all the time, and they're too crazy. My mom's so jumpy she'd hear a dog behind her and think it was a robber, and she'd be shooting all over the place!"
The good thing is that I thought to ask her if the NRA safety course was mandatory in Proposition B, and she didn't know. She's not so liberal that she doesn't feel embarassment at judging something without the facts. I don't know the answer to that either, but hey, it ain't my state! So I asked her to think about whether it was fair to cut the heart out of the 2nd Amendment without all the facts and based on her judgement of her mom as "flighty." She seemed pretty receptive. Her mind obviously won't be changed in ten minutes, but she's made a start. Plus, she shows signs of open-mindedness described in another post.
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That other post described the way she got scared when I said I make and collect knives, but then expressed interest (jokingly) in learning to make knives herself. When we had a break and I had to go home, I grabbed my copy of "How to Make Knives" by Loveless and Barney and told her she could read it if she wanted. She was shocked, but decided that was pretty generous. Now she lurks on Bladeforums and Knifeforums and she's rethinking her stance on CCW, plus she wants to play with my Benchmade. Not as far along as my fiancee, but not bad.
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I just got rehired as an RA at my college and had to go to the "Chemistry of Leadership" conference. I have very little patience for the liberal agenda put forth at these things (watch the men in your halls for signs of sexual predation, at least 80% are rapists by our definition. Watch the women too--they're helpless victims.) but I have to go or get fired. Anyway, we were supposed to tell "dynamic" things about ourselves that made us interesting at our tables (define what a "dynamic" thing about a person is--wouldn't that just be a thing that is moving or changing?)
The point is, I somehow mentioned a CCW law and the girl across from me exclaimed "Oh yeah, they tried to do that in my state and I was so scared!"
I asked why this would be so, and this is the answer she gave me:
"Because then MY PARENTS would get to carry guns all the time, and they're too crazy. My mom's so jumpy she'd hear a dog behind her and think it was a robber, and she'd be shooting all over the place!"
The good thing is that I thought to ask her if the NRA safety course was mandatory in Proposition B, and she didn't know. She's not so liberal that she doesn't feel embarassment at judging something without the facts. I don't know the answer to that either, but hey, it ain't my state! So I asked her to think about whether it was fair to cut the heart out of the 2nd Amendment without all the facts and based on her judgement of her mom as "flighty." She seemed pretty receptive. Her mind obviously won't be changed in ten minutes, but she's made a start. Plus, she shows signs of open-mindedness described in another post.
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That other post described the way she got scared when I said I make and collect knives, but then expressed interest (jokingly) in learning to make knives herself. When we had a break and I had to go home, I grabbed my copy of "How to Make Knives" by Loveless and Barney and told her she could read it if she wanted. She was shocked, but decided that was pretty generous. Now she lurks on Bladeforums and Knifeforums and she's rethinking her stance on CCW, plus she wants to play with my Benchmade. Not as far along as my fiancee, but not bad.
Maybe you had best let your fiancee handle these conversions. 