Guys... I love my guns, but I love my wife more. If I had to choose, by by guns. It's that simple.
Fair enough. It's not how I am, but you know where your priorities are, and there's no shame in that.
I know people are gonna say "but what if a burglar/rapist/serial killer breaks in??" And I say, when was the last time that happened to YOU? Never? Me too. I'm not gonna worry about it.
I don't know how much reading you've done on here, but I've personally read several accounts of people who've used their guns before on here. One shot a felon who broke into his house; another was unarmed, and his brother was shot in the face in a home invasion. Even more have been mugged out in public, witnessed shootings, fallen victim to stalkers (check out
this thread that I posted on here awhile ago), or have had problems with neighborhood thugs. I remember who some of them are on here by username, but I'll let them chime in if they want. There's even more who have had things happen and don't want to talk about it on a public forum, for legal or personal reasons, which is perfectly understandable.
There's an average of 2,000,000 lawful defensive uses of firearms in the US every year, and FYI, something like 70% of them are in the home, not out in public. I will respect your choice to leave your guns locked up, it's your house, your wife, your life. But don't think for a second that just because you haven't read an in depth post by someone here on NES about using their gun in self defense that it doesn't happen, or that something bad didn't happen to get them into guns in the first place.
If she really respected you she wouldn't have a problem with your guns. At all. I'll leave it at that.
Exactly. I know that there can be different comfort levels involved for some people and guns, but like anything else it's an issue that can be discussed (and if there's so much emotion tangled up in it that they don't even want to see them, I'd say it's an issue that
NEEDS to be discussed, for their own mental health).