a tale of a misinformed boy

[robmkivseries70]

Good Day,
I have a foster son with Aspergers who is now 30 y.o. He has extremely sensitive hearing. This could be the root cause of someone's fear of firearms. When we were gone he would turn on two TVs and listen to each game no matter where he was in the house.
Best,
Rob

 

[USAF_Vet]

another one here who thinks it may be autism. My cousin is autistic, and if things don't jive with his world view, he tends to get upset. I've got tattoos and guns. He is fond of neither. While I don't take my guns to my aunt and uncles house (although she does want me to take her shooting) there isn't anything I can do about my ink. I try to calmly explain to him that all people are different and have different views on what is acceptable.
If the kid in the OP wasn't autistic, then he is just another one of the brainwashed masses. Sad.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

Some people get introduced to hand guns or handgun carry by less than pleasant people in less than soothing circumstances, such as a thuggish relative I had. Even though my uncle and dad had revolvers for self defense and were responsible and sane, even took me target shooting, the one thug relative was enough to give me over-caution about strangers with guns. It took awhile to get over it.

I love the "he man" who took the "only a wuss carries a gun" attitude. Probably the kind of guy who picks fights in bars to prove his manhood, since that appears to be his obsession. I bet if you were unarmed and looked smaller or weaker, he would pick a fight with you. (I usually carry out of doors in the boonies, first round up snakeshot, because I am "not man enough" to duke it out with a rattler or copperhead, rabid skunk, feral dog pack, bear or even squatter meth lab operator in a cell phone dead zone. LOL.)

 

[paramedic70002]

Some people choose to not share their family's medical issues with strangers.

That guy who wanted to be a real man and get cut down by a criminal's bullet, I think maybe he was suicidal. At least unbalanced. I would have notified LEOs. Might prevent the next active shooter or some other crime.

Maybe he thought y'all were the "Kayak Bandits."

 

[WhistlinDixie]

While it could be that the boy was autistic, it could be that he just has an irrational fear of guns. I saw that all the time at Florida State. I knew a girl there that didnt want a mutual friend to deploy because she didn't want him to be around guns. Not "I don't want him to be around insurgents", it was "I don't like him being around guns". Irrational, but it happens

 

[Hopsing]

Another possibility is that the young man has been through a traumatic experience that involved guns. He may have been mugged, or worse, at gunpoint. Followed with a threat to not tell "anybody", period! This whole thread has been one of wondering and conjecture, and some interesting things about autism. We live in an unusual world and, unfortunately, some things are never explained. Just my .02

 

[Vyacheslav]

Some people choose to not share their family's medical issues with strangers.

When you have a kid who behaves that way you owe the strangers an explanation.

 

[Black Knight]

Hoppes there is another possible response to the idiot in your post.

idiot's comment
me: See those guys over there? They are U.S. Marines, go tell them that.

sit back and enjoy the show

 

[garyhan]

Judging from the extremity of the reaction this young man showed, I would agree that he probably suffers from some form of mental illness. As a mental health therapist, I would agree that autism or Asperger's are possibilities; as are ptsd or even paranoid schizophrenia. It's certainly ok for you to carry, but the situation calls for some sensitivity to the young man and his family, which I believe you showed. Good job.

gary

 

[paramedic70002]

I've lost count of the number of patients I picked up in the Medic who either skipped entire sections of their medical history, or worse, made it up. And many of them I was giving drugs that could have been contraindicated by those omissions. Turn them over to the ED staff and hear an entirely different story told to the Doctors and nurses.

 

[Cokeman]

When you have a kid who behaves that way you owe the strangers an explanation.

Wrong. Do you have kids?

 

[TexasBill]

The kid sounds like he has a mental health issue. His reaction to your sidearms, even in the presence of his parents, sounds like it's way beyond some "crap at school" or the anti-gun crowd and his parents' reactions sound like it's happened before.

 

[Ken451]

If I saw two people walking towards me with guns, I would be on alert. I live in Illinois so I have never seen it and its illegal.

You have never seen a cop with a gun?

Why is it that you would trust a cop (especially in Chicago) more than one of us?

 

[ObsidianOne]

You have never seen a cop with a gun?

Why is it that you would trust a cop (especially in Chicago) more than one of us?

I think the point he is making is it would be a strange sight to see a plain clothes person walking with a gun since it is illegal, and he would be cautious as to whether or not the person(s) walking towards him are law abiding or criminals.