stevelyn
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There are a few people on my Unwelcome list that include family members.
Christmas with my anti-gun family
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There are a few people on my Unwelcome list that include family members.
guitartguy
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My own Christmas w/ Anti Experience
For the most part my family is Pro Rights. On christmas day, however, my in-laws invited a friend and her daughter to stop by our house and visit. I'm a pretty easy going guy and generally get along with most people (to a point). In fact, this same mother and daughter came by to visit on Thanksgiving also (without conflict, as we did not discuss anything "controversial")
Anyways, when I woke up Christmas morning and was getting dressed, I almost put on my "All in Favor of Gun Control, raise Your Hands" T-shirt with Hitler, Stalin, Castro, and Clinton waiving. Instead I chose a shirt that was a little "nicer" ( I had no idea the conversation I'd find myself in later).
About a half hour into the visit with our guests, we were all sitting at the dining room table talking when the conversation somehow drifted to hunting. This led to the mother proudly proclaiming "I'm anti Hunting, Anti NRA, Anti Gun etc. etc. etc.
I politely stopped her mid sentence (and before I said a word my wife and sister gasped because they new this woman had just stepped on a hornets nest)
I said "It sounds like your also Anti-Rights, how long have you been this way?" She started backpeddling in a major way, saying "I know the 2nd ammendment says blah blah blah..." I then asked why she had such an aversion to self defense? She tried to play the "police and military are the ones who should protect us" That one flew as high as a dead duck in a freefall.
I took a sip from my coffee and smiled ( I was eating her lunch and she knew it). I made sure to use only the terminology that pointed to the flaw in her utopian socialist ideals. This woman is a wonderful person who unfortunately is very misinformed. The interesting thing is that she is jewish woman from Germany.
This led me to point out Hitlers Gun Control Policy of 1938 and ask her how she thought that played out.
Although it's frustrating that so many people feel so strongly about things they havn't thought through :banghead: , I must say I found it rewarding to "own" the conversation while keeping my cool.
For the most part my family is Pro Rights. On christmas day, however, my in-laws invited a friend and her daughter to stop by our house and visit. I'm a pretty easy going guy and generally get along with most people (to a point). In fact, this same mother and daughter came by to visit on Thanksgiving also (without conflict, as we did not discuss anything "controversial")
Anyways, when I woke up Christmas morning and was getting dressed, I almost put on my "All in Favor of Gun Control, raise Your Hands" T-shirt with Hitler, Stalin, Castro, and Clinton waiving. Instead I chose a shirt that was a little "nicer" ( I had no idea the conversation I'd find myself in later).
About a half hour into the visit with our guests, we were all sitting at the dining room table talking when the conversation somehow drifted to hunting. This led to the mother proudly proclaiming "I'm anti Hunting, Anti NRA, Anti Gun etc. etc. etc.
I politely stopped her mid sentence (and before I said a word my wife and sister gasped because they new this woman had just stepped on a hornets nest) I said "It sounds like your also Anti-Rights, how long have you been this way?" She started backpeddling in a major way, saying "I know the 2nd ammendment says blah blah blah..." I then asked why she had such an aversion to self defense? She tried to play the "police and military are the ones who should protect us" That one flew as high as a dead duck in a freefall.
I took a sip from my coffee and smiled ( I was eating her lunch and she knew it). I made sure to use only the terminology that pointed to the flaw in her utopian socialist ideals. This woman is a wonderful person who unfortunately is very misinformed. The interesting thing is that she is jewish woman from Germany.
This led me to point out Hitlers Gun Control Policy of 1938 and ask her how she thought that played out.
Although it's frustrating that so many people feel so strongly about things they havn't thought through :banghead: , I must say I found it rewarding to "own" the conversation while keeping my cool.
Medusa
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Most of my wife's family is anti-gun. If they'd find out I'm in the business of shooting guns and have a couple of those "dreaded killers" in house they'd freak.
If the police is supposed to protect us and in case of attack the police isn't within 100 m then what? Police could arrive 1 minute too late, and somebody could be dead 'cause that somebody didn't like the idea of SD.
For those who say the police and military protects you, I ask what if you have to protect yourself from them? This picture is a bit rude and not very high-road, for that I apologize in advance, but get's the point across.
If to disregard the place, the propagandist nature and uniforms, the point stays the same - if those girls had couple of guns they wouldn't be in this position.
Mods, before you start on me, again, due the cruesome nature of it, remember that you can't expect the criminals to be humane, civil and forgiving in nature, they're willing to kill you for those 10 bucks in your wallet.
If the police is supposed to protect us and in case of attack the police isn't within 100 m then what? Police could arrive 1 minute too late, and somebody could be dead 'cause that somebody didn't like the idea of SD.
For those who say the police and military protects you, I ask what if you have to protect yourself from them? This picture is a bit rude and not very high-road, for that I apologize in advance, but get's the point across.
If to disregard the place, the propagandist nature and uniforms, the point stays the same - if those girls had couple of guns they wouldn't be in this position.
Mods, before you start on me, again, due the cruesome nature of it, remember that you can't expect the criminals to be humane, civil and forgiving in nature, they're willing to kill you for those 10 bucks in your wallet.
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