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[AStone]

to nematocyst, mordechai aniliewicz was a jewish freedom fighter in the warsaw ghetto uprising in poland, who led an insurgency of untrained, starving teenagers in a desperate battle against the nazis. A couple hundred starving jews who probably had never seen a gun held off the nazi empire longer than the whole nation of poland! To me this man and everyone there was a hero. And what happened is an example to anyone who says civilians with guns cannot do a thing to a government gone evil.

Great story. Thanks for a short synopsis.

And again, welcome. {BTW: if Kansas is near hell, try moving on further out west ...

[Mother] did have a rule she stuck with, though: If I cleaned it, she would cook it.

The same {thankfully} applied in my family. I never hunted ducks {oh, wait, no: I never sucessfully hunted ducks}, but I was a good squirrel hunter, and mom would do them up right everytime.

Dang, I'm so hungry for squirrel stew right now.

Nem

 

[mustanger98]

I've talked about my sister and how she learned to shoot at the same time I did... she keeps a revolver for defensive reasons, but she's not a "gun person" in the sense that most of us are. She don't like to discuss guns like I do. She's said she isn't into hunting because she don't "want to kill something warm and fuzzy", yet she'll go fishing and that's killing too if you're after supper. We all have our own things, but my sister's not a rabid anti; she just has a problem with me being a fount of "useless (to her) information". FWIW, she married an ex-cop who basically just knew his duty weapon.

Now, if I meet the kind of girl I'm hoping- sharing interest in guns, hunting, horses and a few other subjects- my sister's gonna say "oh no, God made two of 'em".

 

[MarkDido]

I dated an 'anti' last year. She got really upset when she found out I was packing heat everywhere we went.

Until one night when we encountered a few, uh, 'undesireables' in a dark parking lot. "You have your gun on you, don't you?" she wispered with a worried look on her face.

I just smiled and she was relieved and, happily, nothing came of the encounter. But when I brought that situation up at a later date all was forgotten and I was bad to have guns again.

Liberals are really funny that way. Even though they feel that guns are bad, when they need one they are quite happy to have one at hand. But, will go back to being against them as soon as the crisis is over. Can you say hipocrite?

You know the old saying....

"A Conservative is a LIberal who has been mugged"

 

[Stevie-Ray]

Welcome. Most girls I dated (God, but that was a long time ago) could take guns or leave them. Didn't dislike them but none ever owned any. That was fine with me. Never ran into a rabid anti. Probably would have tossed her out of my car if I did, so that's a good thing.

 

[entropy]

My wife's shooting is like her cooking; she's good at it when she does it, but doesn't like to do it much.

Fortunately, I am a good cook and good shot.

Welcome to the forum, mordechaianiliewicz!