Almost lost my gun rights
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MachIVshooter
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8 now (7 and a bike, actually). I sold the Mitsubishi Galant VR-4 (the car she had been using) to her dad, who seems to be the only reasonable person in that family. I could have got a lot more for it than I charged him, but I figured showing that I was willing to take a loss to keep the situation amenable might help down the road.
robertpaulson
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you sold a galant vr4????? :banghead:
man, if you have anything else like that, let me know before you get rid of it.
man, if you have anything else like that, let me know before you get rid of it.
xcgates
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I'm sorry to hear this, and certainly hope that you can find the right course of action in getting the child out of harm's way.
Also, not that you take much stock (at least you shouldn't!) in what faceless people online say, but I'd like to know that someone was fighting for me before I was born. My family is pretty stable, about as stereotypical as you can get, actually, but my father and his family was abandoned by his dad. Keep up the fight for what matters. No matter what people say, jokingly or not, things can be replaced, people cannot be.
Even if you aren't religious, it can't hurt to investigate that course of action. I haven't quite figured out my religious life, but I know that the people I can most count on are those who I met at church.
Good luck.
Also, not that you take much stock (at least you shouldn't!) in what faceless people online say, but I'd like to know that someone was fighting for me before I was born. My family is pretty stable, about as stereotypical as you can get, actually, but my father and his family was abandoned by his dad. Keep up the fight for what matters. No matter what people say, jokingly or not, things can be replaced, people cannot be.
Even if you aren't religious, it can't hurt to investigate that course of action. I haven't quite figured out my religious life, but I know that the people I can most count on are those who I met at church.
Good luck.
Shawn Dodson
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When it appears that she's gonna get physical it's time to leave immediately. Women bruise easier than men. If you grab hold of her upper arms in attempt to restrain her and prevent her from hitting you then she's gonna have marks and you're not. Guess who's going to jail for domestic violence assault if police are called?
Jonah71
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Maybe it's a good thing I'm overweight, kinda ugly with one good eye, spend all my $$ on guns & ammo, gasoline, and covering the spread during playoff season and the Super Bowl. It's kept me single for the past several years.But it hasn't been so long that I can't still feel your pain.
ole farmerbuck
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If she is abusing alcohol, and could be harmful to herself or others,she can be court ordered to rehab. I know, it happened to me. (a couple of times) Learned my lesson finally and now going on 10 years w/out any juice. Life is good!
I think what you are going to find here is that people will cite similar instances of things eventually going well.
Why?
Because even though they go bad just as often if not more often, the people in those situations can no longer own guns and are not likely frequenting and posting on a gun board.
So you will hear a disproportionate number of "things worked out" stories here than is representative of reality.
When I was a younger I knew a girl that was a friend and a little unstable at times. She was extremely attractive (and so had a lot of guys trying their luck) but because of her instabilities I never pursued dating her myself.
One day she hit herself to create injuries and called the police on her boyfriend. Her boyfriend had cheated on her and it was her way of getting revenge.
The injuries were taken as absolute "proof" regardless of what he said and his conviction was a sure thing. She later bragged about getting him back that way.
I had no idea at the time such a thing may have removed his firearm rights for life. Of course such things didn't before the retroactive Lautenberg Amendment took effect on 30 September 1996.
Why?
Because even though they go bad just as often if not more often, the people in those situations can no longer own guns and are not likely frequenting and posting on a gun board.
So you will hear a disproportionate number of "things worked out" stories here than is representative of reality.
When I was a younger I knew a girl that was a friend and a little unstable at times. She was extremely attractive (and so had a lot of guys trying their luck) but because of her instabilities I never pursued dating her myself.
One day she hit herself to create injuries and called the police on her boyfriend. Her boyfriend had cheated on her and it was her way of getting revenge.
The injuries were taken as absolute "proof" regardless of what he said and his conviction was a sure thing. She later bragged about getting him back that way.
I had no idea at the time such a thing may have removed his firearm rights for life. Of course such things didn't before the retroactive Lautenberg Amendment took effect on 30 September 1996.
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7mmstalker
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Good for you, keeping your composure when the poo went in the fan. Surely you will have more challenges from this situation before the final act plays out.
My wife and I must be the black sheep of our families. All of our siblings have had these kind of issues, some can't break the cycle and keep repeating it! My younger brother got charged with DV for wielding a garden hose in a summertime water fight-not the hose but just squirting water-. Too much alcohol and too little sense, he can't resist the snakey type of female and has been bitten many times, like a moth to the flame.
My wife and I must be the black sheep of our families. All of our siblings have had these kind of issues, some can't break the cycle and keep repeating it! My younger brother got charged with DV for wielding a garden hose in a summertime water fight-not the hose but just squirting water-. Too much alcohol and too little sense, he can't resist the snakey type of female and has been bitten many times, like a moth to the flame.
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MachIVshooter
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You got that right. I just had to send her an email (multiple Cc's to 3rd parties) telling her to knock of the BS or I'd have her in court for defamation. She's running her mouth to anyone who will listen, forgetting how long I've lived here and how many people I know.
Zach S
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My wife does that, and I'd be willing to bet that her friends have a lower opinion of me than they do the antichrist...
However, her family knows better, and I'm on good terms with all of them. Well, the ones that we saw on a regular basis before she walked out anyway.
hardluk1
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Change the locks on the doors and add some extras security also get a restraining order. She could be back to cause more problems before this is over. Maybe your own recorder too for both cops and ex-girtlfriend.
rainbowbob
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The only solution to prevent this kind of heartbreak is to keep that "gun" holstered (or "sheathed") until you are POSITIVE you want to spend the rest of your life with the recipient of your "bullets". I mean the next fifty years, kids, grand-kids, in-laws - the whole nine yards. It isn't a game, and the stakes are literally life and death.
xcgates
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This has actually rekindled my interest in pocket sized recorders. I looked a while back, but couldn't really figure out what was so great about one or another, and more or less gave up, as I couldn't afford the $100+ ones. Well, now I can, and I'll start looking again.
Any tips on what makes a good one?
Any tips on what makes a good one?
Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow
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That conjures up one of the funniest mental images I've ever had.
The really ironic part about the OP's and similar situations, and almost having things go really bad from the mentally unstable GF or wife, is that IF you WERE actually a violent person, she would know that, and wouldn't be running her mouth off and making trouble for you, because she'd be afraid of your retaliation. So no good deed (being a non-violent gun owner) goes unpunished, it would seem.
Identify the crazies first...
Seventeen years ago, I met my brother "intended" before he ran off and married her. We (me and the misses) spent a weekend with Bro and "Sister-in-law-to be.
I did not know he was going to marry her - just another skirt of his. Anyway - before he left to another part of the country I told him that this chick was crazy... "kinda mean spirited"..and some other adjectives. Anyway, he held it together for a long time. As it was all coming to a head, she did pull this DV BS on him. This could've cost him his 20 year military career. I had him at my house for a couple of weeks...where we hatched our master plan...
He would go make up for now...appease her at all costs...look for a good escape route that would eventually come. It all came one night when she called to say she was going to commit suicide. He got off the phone with her and called 911. The cops did indeed find her un-conscious and shipped her off to the looney bin for 10 days. He in the mean time filed divorce papers...he just had enough. Now he has full custody, she's paying him child support.
He is a new man to be rid of her. Watch out guys.
Seventeen years ago, I met my brother "intended" before he ran off and married her. We (me and the misses) spent a weekend with Bro and "Sister-in-law-to be.
I did not know he was going to marry her - just another skirt of his. Anyway - before he left to another part of the country I told him that this chick was crazy... "kinda mean spirited"..and some other adjectives. Anyway, he held it together for a long time. As it was all coming to a head, she did pull this DV BS on him. This could've cost him his 20 year military career. I had him at my house for a couple of weeks...where we hatched our master plan...
He would go make up for now...appease her at all costs...look for a good escape route that would eventually come. It all came one night when she called to say she was going to commit suicide. He got off the phone with her and called 911. The cops did indeed find her un-conscious and shipped her off to the looney bin for 10 days. He in the mean time filed divorce papers...he just had enough. Now he has full custody, she's paying him child support.
He is a new man to be rid of her. Watch out guys.
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