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With the former group, I do my best to be a good ambassador and bring them to our side.
With the latter group, GFY is my stock answer.
I posted this before, but I once had a similar conversation in a bar with a friend of a friend. He's 'dramatic', loud, and flamboyant, and a total libtard. Over the previous few years, I'd probably been out in a group with this guy about a half dozen times.
The subject of guns came up one night around the time that those high school kids broke into that house in rural NH and killed the Mom and stabbed the daughter. I said something like "Too bad they weren't armed". Here's how the conversation went (as close as I can remember):
HIM: People shouldn't be allowed to walk around carrying guns.
ME: Why not?
HIM: Because it would be a bloodbath!
ME: I bet there are people in this room that are carrying guns (we were in Portsmouth, NH).
HIM: I doubt that.
ME: Yeah? I'm carrying a gun right now. You're sitting five feet away from it, and nobody is bleeding.
HIM: You carry a gun?
ME: All the time. Every time you've seen me I've had a gun with me.
HIM: Why do you think you need a gun?
ME: We were just talking about it. Say you were at home with your boyfriend and some lunatic broke in and...
HIM: I'm not gay.
ME: ...Get the f--k out of here...
HIM: I'm married and have two kids.
ME: Dude. Sorry.
She said she didn't understand why I would risk going to jail to save not just a friend, but a stranger. I asked her, "If someone was raping you, right now, would you want me to shoot them?" That was the end of the conversation. She just looked at me in shock.
When I get asked that question, I simply say, "Because, when seconds count, the police are only minutes away."
"Sometimes bad animals need killing, and people taste good."
It's probably not a coincidence that she's currently pursuing higher education.i see this woman gave you every cliche the anti-gun crowd likes to use.
That's because in her world, all gun owners are backwards inbred illiterate hillbillies.I actually talked to my friend as we're making plans to ride this weekend. Guess whose coming along? The redhead.
I asked if she was still bothered by my carrying a gun - shocked as shit, he tells me she actually was amazed that I articulated the discussion so well (surprising as I was working on zero sleep and a shit day at the office).
Grew up in a house that was somewhat anti. My dad had his 18ga shotgun from his childhood pheasant hunting days and had ammo near by. Never locked up, just in the parents closet.Alot of people simply think they are immune to danger or criminal action. They think because they haven't been robbed or attacked that it will never happen. They also hear from a young age(especially in Mass) that guns=evil. When talking with family about my desire to apply for my LTC the first things I hear are "I don't want a gun around me" or "I don't want it in my house" as if its gonna leap out of my holster and attack them. As the months have passed by my family has warmed to the idea of it simply because I've been talking to them about potential dangers out there, and why I wanna be prepared for that situation should it ever occur.
It's probably not a coincidence that she's currently pursuing higher education.
Grew up in a house that was somewhat anti. My dad had his 18ga shotgun from his childhood pheasant hunting days and had ammo near by. Never locked up, just in the parents closet.
Bought my first gun 2 years ago completely against my parents approval. Here we are 2 years later, and my mom gave me $1,000 from my grandpa's passing to buy a 1911 in remembrance of him and his service in WWII. She will be out here from Seattle in July and can't wait to see the gun and possibly shoot it!
Pretty funny to see her change her mindset...