Do you have any hardcore anti-gun family members?

A gun is a tool, and every tool is built with a specific purpose. Hammers are used to drive nails

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Hammers were around long before nails were. The first use of hammers were to break things apart. Maybe crack open a coconut or bust a rock into smaller peices.

Hammers of today may be built with a PRIMARY purpose of driving nails. But they are built by design to also REMOVE nails.

If all your tools only have ONE purpose you must have the worlds largest toolbox or don't really use tools much

No. Including several registered Democrats, and two college professors (both "soft" sciences for that matter), FWIW.

Both of my folks are pretty darn liberal. My dad doesn't mind guns but he doesn't like many gun owners. My mom started her career working in an ER and saw a five year old with a gunshot wound to the chest. That affected her pretty severely. She's not a big fan of handguns. She's okay with rifles, just not handguns.

My parents weren't anti-gun, but definately not pro-gun. That is until the Rodney King riots. That changed with a pair of S&W model 36's and a lot of range time.

goon:

Your comments about the widespread massacres of civilians (WW2 etc) reminded me of a YouTube website I discovered about a year ago:

"No Guns For Jews".
From what I remember, the producer can not figure out why so many other Jewish people have learned so little from history, and it also baffles me.

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Only ever allowed one anti into the family. That was my son-in-law. Turned him into my best shooting buddy. Got a daughter-in-law that's "something else" but that's a whole nother story.

My mother and sister aren't shooters, and neither "likes" guns, but both would always vote on the side of gun rights. They recognize their own lack of interest/passion shouldn't disqualify others from those rights. WHen I met my wife back in college, she was a "city" girl, raised by a single mom with two sisters. Her exposure to hunting, guns, and shooting was zero.....but yet, one day, we were discussing moving more of my things to my apartment from my parents. I mentioned a shotgun being one of the things I was bringing back, and she dropped the bombshell..."I'm not comfortable with a gun in the house." Being a South Dakota rural kid, born and raised practically with a gun in my hand.....I was quite taken aback. I told her straight out...."I've been shooting a hell of a lot longer than we've been dating. If you are firmly attached to the idea of a gun-free household....we have no future". That shocked her to no end, but by the time I finished talking to her about it, she had a much more reasonable mindset, and began to understand things from my POV. Today, we've been married 6 years, together a total of 12, and she enjoys shooting amd actually feels more uncomfortable when there ISN'T a gun nearby. i'm glad she wasn't committed to her original mindset, but...i was....and couldn't have married someone who didn't at least understand my passion

My mother hates guns, my dad has no use for them, and doesn't own any, but really enjoys shooting mine when he visits. Most of my close friend either carry or are VERY pro gun. My wife has little interest in them but is very supportive of my passion, she just laugh and says boys will be boys,

Where I get the biggest kick, my wife is a C level executive for fortune 100 company, so I get dragged to quite a few "schmoozing" cocktail party and for whatever reason that crowd is very left and anti-gun. I have been included in quite a few discussion the evil of guns and gun owners and CCW holders are vigilantes bla bla bla. I just smile and make sure I don't hit my Glock on the back on the chair when I sit down for dinner......funny what people will say when they have no clue you are carrying. Even funnier is the way react when they find out and all these year they thought you were a normal person......

My mom cried on the phone when I told her I was with my brother in law shooting guns.

My dad doesn't really care.

My brother is a fence sitter. He tried to use the militia argument once. I LOLed.

I'm pretty fortunate in that I have no rabid anti-gunners around me, whether they be family or friends. Some of them could just care less; that's about as bad as it gets.

I have taken a bunch of non-gun people to the range over the years and every single one of them has had a ball. Some have since bought their own and one pariticular ex-girlfriend went from a complete gun virgin to a permit-carrying pistol packer. She carries a nice, old H&R snubby 922 everywhere and is quite a good shot.

Yes I do. We seldom discuss it. Those who continually insist on rudely pushing their views on me fall into the "see ya!" category. As Ron White states....."You can't fix stupid." I'd much prefer spending time at the range by myself than arguing with idiots....family or not.

Not really...

My niece on my wife's side is leaning that way though....chris3

Not really. We are spread over a wide geographic area and have mixed political views, but I'm glad to say there are no rabid anti gun people. There are some who are indifferent though.

No anti-gun or anti-hunting on either side of my fsmily. Big hunting and military traditions on both sides of the family.

Not really, but it's a very oddball situation down here. Until I got up into college (1999) I didn't even know that gun ownership was a politically charged or sensitive issue.

Note that in my family I am known as the "gun person" - I collect lots of them, shoot (a LOT - both at targets and competitively), and generally just like guns the way a "car guy" likes his cars. I also was the first of any of them to actually get a concealed carry permit (since doing so another of my cousins also went and got his as well).

None of my family (and I take that definition out to cousins - talking about a lot of people here) is quite into them like that, but all of them grew up around guns as a general tool. Mostly for hunting purposes. They treat guns as tools in the most literal sense. They're about like a spatula to them - everybody has one, everybody uses it, the very notion of outlawing them is completely ridiculous sounding, but anybody who takes a great interest in them is showing an odd tendancy in their eyes too. Target shooting is unheard of. You do a LITTLE bit of shooting at paper to get your deer rifle sighted in, but in most of my families eyes target shooting is a non-existent activity. I go to the range every weekend to "waste bullets".

I WILL say that around here (not necessarily my family, but just in the general local populace) there is also some mistrust of handguns. A long gun is a hunting gun and has a purpose. They have no problem with self-defense as a concept, but in their minds the gun for that is their shotgun either at home or until relatively recently handing in the back window of their truck. They see a handgun as a shady character's weapon that will "gitcha in trouble".

There are no anti's on my side of the family, and none on my wife's side as far as I know amongst all of her immediate family. Select few family members know I carry.

I'm the gun nut; I field most all questions regarding firearms. Most others are blasé about guns, although a few have carry permits (I sparked that interest in them). A few are interested in hunting, and that's the extent of their interest in firearms. Dad likes guns, but not like me, so he takes second place in the gun nut ranks. A cousin of mine though, he's really into guns, probably just between Dad and me. He just got a Mini-14 that I'm itching to hold. His dad, my uncle, has some really nice hardware too.

Sister and her husband are fairly anti-gun, not violently anti, just basically anti. Won't even let any of their kids go with us when we head out to the farm to shoot. She said, "You never know what could happen". Another cousin of mine is a lawyer. She once said, "I don't do guns", and wouldn't even touch Mom's 642 that she was showing off. I've never bothered to debate any of them, I couldn't care less what they think about the issue.

My sister's kids are probably just as curious about guns as any child tends to be. Especially since their upbringing has forced the firearms issue into the mystical/taboo realm. I hope someone can show them what responsible gun ownership and handling is like so that when they get off on their own, and happen to be around guns, they don't do something stupid. Their mom and dad thinks the 'don't ever touch it' theory will suffice.

my mother. but i still convinced her to take a ccw class and buy a pistol. it only took me 10 years to convince her...

I have two brothers who are very anti-gun. One of them actually told me that anybody who has a gun ought to be shot. I just assumed he meant by the police.

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Do you have any hardcore anti-gun family members?

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Yes, ex-wife. I would not consider her family except that we have 2 sons together. Strange thing is that she is now OK with me taking the boys to the range - both archery and firing. Maybe her eyes are opening up.

"Friends" that are anti gun? Can't say I have any "friends" that are anti gun. If they're anti gun they're automatically no friend of mine.

My mom bought me my first four guns: Remington .22LR bolt action single shot rifle, Ruger Blackhawk .357 Magnum, 1911A1 and a Remington 700 in .30-'06. She also signed me up for training when I was 14.

My Bro-in-law is a true gun nut as are his kids and their kids to a lesser extent. My daughter loves her Glock Gen3 19 and my son is on his way to getting his share of guns of all sorts.

All things considered, life is good.

I didn't grow up around guns and neither has my mother/sister who were/are uncomfortable around them. They trust me, though.

They recognize their own lack of interest/passion shouldn't disqualify others from those rights.

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It takes a responsible citizen to have this mindset. Most people feel like if they don't want want to exercise their rights, and that it isn't necessary, then no one should have the right.

Nope.

Even my sister the new age high priestess out in CA has enough logic left in her head to figure out that gun control isn't going to solve societies problems with crime and violence. For her the answer is more moonlight meditiations and "visualize world peace" type stuff.... seriously! We don't talk much.

Every one else in the family still has their heads connected to their bodies and were raised with good critical thinking skills and an ethic that we are supposed to solve our own problems, and not expect the gub'ment to do it for us.

I won the "assault weapon" debate with my father a couple years ago... and since his only negative comment has been "why do you want to own an AK-47, when their not very accurate".

I'll let him slide on that one.