Miss D,
I have several friends, male and female, who are like this. Some will never understand until a major crisis is before them; then again, a few will still never understand. The best thing to do if you want to keep the friendship is do what everyone else has suggested and not bring it up.
Guns and knives are the equalizers for all people, male/female. I personally like to see females with guns because it shows that A. they haven't fallen to the stereotypes presented by Hollyweird, media, and the fashion mags, B. it shows that someone is possibly concerned with real-world problems of self-protection and self-preservation, and C. it's a fun activity that many can and do enjoy.
Why do you need a gun? Well, why do you need anything? Why do you need a car? You can theoretically walk to work. Why do you need a stove or a microwave? You can cook your food over an open fire after rubbing two sticks together. I don't buy the "need" argument.
Indians in the rainforests of South America who go about their daily business in loin clothes or no clothes and all and who appear "primitive", demonstrate that a human doesn't need much of anything in the form of material goods to survive.
The thing is you want a gun, and in this country you can still get a gun if you want one. If you work hard, play hard, you get what you want; that's what we get for being in a "free" society.
The gun is the best means of protection when other measures like awareness, dogs, security systems and the like have failed. Will it work all the time? No. Does it have some inherent dangers and responsibilities? Yes, but so do many things such as cars, bricks, rocks, etc.
Some people are just so closed-minded that nothing you do or say will convince them. Like someone else mentioned, I wonder what your friend and others who think like thim are going to do if someone is breaking into their house after poisoning the dog, disabling the alarm system, and phone lines, etc.
I think it's totally ridiculous for people to even think about denying others the right to protect themselves and their families. Kids and firearms can and have coexisted in households for many years without problems.
If indeed he is simply being sexist, well you know where you can tell him to put it. I have a coffee mug that has a cartoon picture of a guy with his head between his legs up his own *ss and it says, "I'm trying to see things for your point of view"; it sounds fitting for him.
"Out for my own, out to be free, One with my mind, they just can't see, Life's for my own to live my own way" - Metallica
I have several friends, male and female, who are like this. Some will never understand until a major crisis is before them; then again, a few will still never understand. The best thing to do if you want to keep the friendship is do what everyone else has suggested and not bring it up.
Guns and knives are the equalizers for all people, male/female. I personally like to see females with guns because it shows that A. they haven't fallen to the stereotypes presented by Hollyweird, media, and the fashion mags, B. it shows that someone is possibly concerned with real-world problems of self-protection and self-preservation, and C. it's a fun activity that many can and do enjoy.
Why do you need a gun? Well, why do you need anything? Why do you need a car? You can theoretically walk to work. Why do you need a stove or a microwave? You can cook your food over an open fire after rubbing two sticks together. I don't buy the "need" argument.
Indians in the rainforests of South America who go about their daily business in loin clothes or no clothes and all and who appear "primitive", demonstrate that a human doesn't need much of anything in the form of material goods to survive.
The thing is you want a gun, and in this country you can still get a gun if you want one. If you work hard, play hard, you get what you want; that's what we get for being in a "free" society.
The gun is the best means of protection when other measures like awareness, dogs, security systems and the like have failed. Will it work all the time? No. Does it have some inherent dangers and responsibilities? Yes, but so do many things such as cars, bricks, rocks, etc.
Some people are just so closed-minded that nothing you do or say will convince them. Like someone else mentioned, I wonder what your friend and others who think like thim are going to do if someone is breaking into their house after poisoning the dog, disabling the alarm system, and phone lines, etc.
I think it's totally ridiculous for people to even think about denying others the right to protect themselves and their families. Kids and firearms can and have coexisted in households for many years without problems.
If indeed he is simply being sexist, well you know where you can tell him to put it. I have a coffee mug that has a cartoon picture of a guy with his head between his legs up his own *ss and it says, "I'm trying to see things for your point of view"; it sounds fitting for him.
"Out for my own, out to be free, One with my mind, they just can't see, Life's for my own to live my own way" - Metallica
Hopefully he will still be my bud in the end.