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<blockquote data-quote="tRidiot" data-source="post: 3115654" data-attributes="member: 9374"><p>She is a bit frail, in terms of weak and would be unable (IMO) to work the slide of a handgun. Nearly ANY semi-auto. Which means it would be up to me or my wife to load and "ready" the firearm for her, and she would never be able to unload it without help, either. A revolver would likely have too heavy a trigger pull for her, and she doesn't want one of those anyways. I didn't explore why, I am assuming she probably thinks that it is old-fashioned or not modern or something. I don't know. I didn't explore the issue.</p><p></p><p>Her frailty is somewhat... cultivated, if that makes any sense? As in, she almost revels in not being able to do for herself. Like I said, she was kept woman, and she wishes she still was. And nosy as the day is long, let me tell you. lol. But with how many times I've been called over to fix/reset her TV/satellite/internet/surround sound (which I gave her and put in for her), as well as her phone/tablet/laptop, etc., there is no way I'm going to be involved with her purchase of a firearm. It's just not something I want to do.</p><p></p><p>I'll just ignore it and it probably won't come up again. If it does, I'll explain I don't think it's a good idea for her individually.</p><p></p><p>On a side note, it's funny... I'm assuming because her husband did everything for her, she thinks every decision in the household is <strong>the man's</strong>, and <strong>the man's <u>only</u></strong>. Many times she has irked my wife when she asks her, "Has Danny decided what you're going to do about xxxx, yet?" When my wife may be "in charge" of that particular subject or issue, and she damn well knows it. She assumes everything has to be my decision, essentially ignoring that my wife is a very highly-educated and strong, independent woman in her own right. </p><p></p><p>In fact, we both about put the smackdown on her over the weekend, independently and at the same time. It was funny as hail... lol. She always talks about how wonderful the steaks were they always used to have, they lived on a farm in Nebraska. So, she has told us many times (you know how some folks repeat the same stories ad nauseum?) about how she used to eat her steak well done when she married her husband, but he quite literally forced her to eat them rare until she got used to it. And now she likes blue rare, which is fine, I don't care. But we were all at Mother's Day lunch with my mom and her and she got off on some tangent about how men would order for wimmins in the fancy restaurants they used to frequent, because, "That's proper etiquette." <strong>Oh. My. GOD.</strong> My wife and I looked at each other incredulously and both at the same time came out with, "Oh no it isn't!" We proceeded to let her know there was <strong>NO </strong>way that would fly in our house, and that it most certainly is <strong>NOT </strong>the appropriate way to do things. Of course, there are some situations where it is helpful for one partner to do so - if restaurant familiarity is an issue, etc., but we made sure to add the caveat that this is with express permission, not as a presumption. Oh my goodness, we laughed soooooo hard about that interaction later, because we both jumped on that like a chicken on a June bug. lol</p><p></p><p>Anyways... sorry about the novel. lol</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tRidiot, post: 3115654, member: 9374"] She is a bit frail, in terms of weak and would be unable (IMO) to work the slide of a handgun. Nearly ANY semi-auto. Which means it would be up to me or my wife to load and "ready" the firearm for her, and she would never be able to unload it without help, either. A revolver would likely have too heavy a trigger pull for her, and she doesn't want one of those anyways. I didn't explore why, I am assuming she probably thinks that it is old-fashioned or not modern or something. I don't know. I didn't explore the issue. Her frailty is somewhat... cultivated, if that makes any sense? As in, she almost revels in not being able to do for herself. Like I said, she was kept woman, and she wishes she still was. And nosy as the day is long, let me tell you. lol. But with how many times I've been called over to fix/reset her TV/satellite/internet/surround sound (which I gave her and put in for her), as well as her phone/tablet/laptop, etc., there is no way I'm going to be involved with her purchase of a firearm. It's just not something I want to do. I'll just ignore it and it probably won't come up again. If it does, I'll explain I don't think it's a good idea for her individually. On a side note, it's funny... I'm assuming because her husband did everything for her, she thinks every decision in the household is [B]the man's[/B], and [B]the man's [U]only[/U][/B]. Many times she has irked my wife when she asks her, "Has Danny decided what you're going to do about xxxx, yet?" When my wife may be "in charge" of that particular subject or issue, and she damn well knows it. She assumes everything has to be my decision, essentially ignoring that my wife is a very highly-educated and strong, independent woman in her own right. In fact, we both about put the smackdown on her over the weekend, independently and at the same time. It was funny as hail... lol. She always talks about how wonderful the steaks were they always used to have, they lived on a farm in Nebraska. So, she has told us many times (you know how some folks repeat the same stories ad nauseum?) about how she used to eat her steak well done when she married her husband, but he quite literally forced her to eat them rare until she got used to it. And now she likes blue rare, which is fine, I don't care. But we were all at Mother's Day lunch with my mom and her and she got off on some tangent about how men would order for wimmins in the fancy restaurants they used to frequent, because, "That's proper etiquette." [B]Oh. My. GOD.[/B] My wife and I looked at each other incredulously and both at the same time came out with, "Oh no it isn't!" We proceeded to let her know there was [B]NO [/B]way that would fly in our house, and that it most certainly is [B]NOT [/B]the appropriate way to do things. Of course, there are some situations where it is helpful for one partner to do so - if restaurant familiarity is an issue, etc., but we made sure to add the caveat that this is with express permission, not as a presumption. Oh my goodness, we laughed soooooo hard about that interaction later, because we both jumped on that like a chicken on a June bug. lol Anyways... sorry about the novel. lol [/QUOTE]
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