anti-firearm friend

[Baba Louie]

I don't know what else to say to him...?

Have a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing. Smile and let it go.
OR, if you really want to continue his thinking mode... ask him what a 105 lb 60 year old woman would do in regards to punching out a 200 lb, 20 year old burglar/assailant who's a repeat offender out on parole... smile and let it go.
What's good for me might not be what's good for you, and vice versa.
Enjoy making music with him.

 

[fjolnirsson]

If the people on this thread would like to take up a collection, I'm sure I could come up with any number of people who would just love to piss him off. (By the way, the money collected is my fee, these guys would do it just for the fun of giving him an attitude adjustment

I'm in. I'm good at pissing people off.

 

[BerettaNut92]

"Guns should be illegal. People should not have a right to kill someone that easily. Guns are for pussies, if someone pisses me off, I'd straight just knock him out."

Violent people scare me.

 

[fish2xs]

Stupid comment: "...if someone pisses me off, I'd straight just knock him out."

Your reply: "And if that someone is my grandma... Well I'm just happy that she's packing!"

Sorry to say, but I have a pretty low opinion of your 'friend'.

 

[Treylis]

Perhaps you should remind your friend that not everyone is in a physical shape for such things--women in general just don't have the musculature that men do, and god forbid he think about people in wheelchairs or that are otherwise disabled... even with a temporary thing like a broken bone. What the hell are they supposed to do, try to fend 'em off with cast or cane?

I second the notion that this line of thinking commonly comes from highschool/early collegiate men.

And also remind him that it's the tool-using aspects of humanity that brought us up out of the muck, heh.

 

[Bruce H]

May I enquire as to his musical insturment? With his attitude the fees the proctologist charges will greatly depend on what gets shoved up there.

 

[gripper]

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everyone handles insecurity,bad memories,residual fear etc. differently. my first impulse on reading about your friend&his attitude problem/responses was to take the old"what an @sshole-send him my way &have him take his title shot"approach.but you know;in doing that I'M the @sshole.I would just say to take your other bandmates shooing,make it fun&educational.throw in some valu/political discussion where appropriate;they are your friends so they must at least respewct you enough to think about what you're all doing together&talking about.As faras the "tough guy"goes,you know him,I don't. If you consider him a friend than you should be able to talk with him. Ask him if he could fight efficiently as soon as he could walk,the same about physical conditioning/training etc.Appeal to his obvious respect for physicalskills/prowess(toughness,fighting abil;ity)as another (or first)discipline to challenge oneself with.Who could say??Maybe he will come around.Be aware however ,that if the @sshole side of his nature kicks in too much he might be worth walking away from.Or working over yourself IF the bad behavior warrants it.Sometimes object lessons are necessary.

 

[manwithoutahome]

cidirkona,

Depending on how "good" this friend is, here is what I did:

I made friends with someone while I was active duty in the AF. He was an office hand, grew up with anti parents, etc..

This day and age, not only is he a firearms owner, but his mother has come around also. Still won't shoot, but not afraid of them anylonger. Here's what I did.

Invited him over in GA one day (We were both at Moody AFB) and got to talking. I had previously put a 12ga shotgun, my SKS, my HK, my Ruger 9mm, and I think the 45-70 and with about 100rds for each (actually, around 1000rds for the SKS, I just "had a feeling"). I told him that I wanted to go down by the river (which they had a "range" pit there) to check something out.

He wanted to go so I drove up to the river and parked. I got out, walked down into the pit, and then walked back, got my target stands out and started to put up targets. He asks what I'm doing and I just said that this seems like a good place to put some rounds into paper and steel. He knew that I was a gun owner.

I placed the targets and got out the shotgun, SKS and the whole shooting match. Loaded up one at a time and "went to town".

I told him that he could watch or join me, his choice.

I came home without any ammo left and almost sold the SKS because my "gut" was right. 1000rds of ammo, and I don't think I fired more then 90rds of it! He deplited(sp) ALL of my ammo stash, but he was happy. Even helped to clean the guns (thank G-d, that was alot of guns to clean at once for me).

After that, he went wild. Bought a Glock, traded it in for a Springfield .45, an M1A, a NAA .32, S&W .357 something, Bolt action .308, etc.. This guy went wild, wanted everything out there. The guy hasn't been happier since IMHO. And yes, I did break my arm (the older folks should know what the means).

Tricks work, but they backfire also. I didn't ask him to join me (once we were there), it was his decision to do so. I did ask him to give me money for the ammo we spent (jokingly) and he says, "hey, I didn't ask to be there, and you offered"

M

 

[Zundfolge]

Lemme guess ... this guy's the lead singer isn't he?