silicosys4
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Hope I don't offend anyone,
But to me, giving a newborn a gun name unless it is already a fairly common name like Barrett or such, is kind of like seeing those mothers dragging their 5 year old kids to beauty pageants...projecting parental dreams and ambitions on their often unwilling or unknowing children. You might love guns but peoples children often turn out to be vastly different than their parents. I'm a gun fan, but thank god my parents didn't name me after a gun company. TO ME, that's more appropriate for a beloved canine companion.
I am a fan of the tradition of naming children after relatives in your life who have contributed positively towards your upbringing. I do like the suggestion of naming your child after a prominent inventor or designer of firearms
Raise them right and your children should be gun friendly, but don't shoehorn them into something they might or might not want anything to do with in the future depending on how they form their own opinions. Your love of firearms could very well turn out to be your child's hated millstone-of-a-name because of connotations tied with it, depending on what your child eventually wants to do with their life.
Just My Opinion
But to me, giving a newborn a gun name unless it is already a fairly common name like Barrett or such, is kind of like seeing those mothers dragging their 5 year old kids to beauty pageants...projecting parental dreams and ambitions on their often unwilling or unknowing children. You might love guns but peoples children often turn out to be vastly different than their parents. I'm a gun fan, but thank god my parents didn't name me after a gun company. TO ME, that's more appropriate for a beloved canine companion.
I am a fan of the tradition of naming children after relatives in your life who have contributed positively towards your upbringing. I do like the suggestion of naming your child after a prominent inventor or designer of firearms
Raise them right and your children should be gun friendly, but don't shoehorn them into something they might or might not want anything to do with in the future depending on how they form their own opinions. Your love of firearms could very well turn out to be your child's hated millstone-of-a-name because of connotations tied with it, depending on what your child eventually wants to do with their life.
Just My Opinion
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