Grown man crying over an EBR
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ducktapehero
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Get an Airsoft that looks like an M16 and shoot him next time. 
BerettaNut92
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This has got to be the funniest thing I've read this week...
This can't be real...you've got to be making this up....
This can't be real...you've got to be making this up....
White Horseradish
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Be sure to say "I come in peace"
Aguila Blanca
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Unfortunately, it sounds more like the aunt's troubles are just beginning, if she doesn't dump this guy very quickly. Even a died-in-the-wool liberal who doesn't want us to own guns should be able to look at one without coming unglued.
CentralTexas
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The kid has a great future in
an elected position in California or New York....
Ack!
CT
an elected position in California or New York....
Ack!
CT
Joe Demko
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All fun n' games aside, Sean is emotionally incontinent. Life with a whackjob (excuse the technical jargon) like that is wearisome as one tries to deal with their frequent emotional crises while also trying to lead a normal life of one's own. It isn't long before someone like Sean becomes a burden. Breaking up with a whackjob at that point often results in some real theater.
Auntie needs to point him in the direction of your county mental health office and then turn and run the other way so fast she leaves a vapor trail.
Auntie needs to point him in the direction of your county mental health office and then turn and run the other way so fast she leaves a vapor trail.
spacemanspiff
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i'm man enough to admit that some moisture escaped my tear ducts when the terminator tossed aside that selectfire AR after emptying it into the T1000 on the liquid nitrogen truck.
Joe Demko
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I never said that it was always wrong to cry. If you didn't cry when Tom Berenger got his trigger finger cut off in Sniper, then you have no heart.
Mikul
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The guy's actions are understandable, but not by someone who has grown up around guns. I've seen the same reaction by my wife the first time she held a gun. It happened back in '99 when the Bill the Liar was President. He was passing all manner of laws and firearms ownership was always in the news. I decided to buy a gun before Bill banned them all. So I told my wife that I'm buying a gun and she can be as much, or as little a part of it as she chooses. She decides that she wants to see the gun before I buy it, so we head to the gun shop. The store owner hands her the gun and I can see her eyes tearing up. The shop owner does a fabulous job of calming her down and she was okay again.
Guns hold a very different meaning to people who are never around them. I didn't grow up around them, neither did my wife, and neither did most of our friends. We weren't against them, they just didn't enter into our lives in the same way that particle accelerators didn't. When we did hear about them, it was on the news and how somebody used one to kill somebody else. Guns imply death and nothing else. This was, of course, exactly why I wanted one: not for target shooting or competition, but to stop dead anyone attempting to hurt me or my family.
When you hold a gun for the first time as my wife did, you suddenly realize that with the flick of your finger you can kill someone. It's a frightening and sickening feeling. It's also completely overwhelming... and that's not a bad thing. We should all keep a little bit of that feeling with us to remind us of how great a power our prized possessions hold.
Don't write the guy off. He was man enough to wait until later to let the tears flow. My wife, the tearing up lady in my story, now has an 18" 870 with a 7-round extention that she has claimed as her own.
Guns hold a very different meaning to people who are never around them. I didn't grow up around them, neither did my wife, and neither did most of our friends. We weren't against them, they just didn't enter into our lives in the same way that particle accelerators didn't. When we did hear about them, it was on the news and how somebody used one to kill somebody else. Guns imply death and nothing else. This was, of course, exactly why I wanted one: not for target shooting or competition, but to stop dead anyone attempting to hurt me or my family.
When you hold a gun for the first time as my wife did, you suddenly realize that with the flick of your finger you can kill someone. It's a frightening and sickening feeling. It's also completely overwhelming... and that's not a bad thing. We should all keep a little bit of that feeling with us to remind us of how great a power our prized possessions hold.
Don't write the guy off. He was man enough to wait until later to let the tears flow. My wife, the tearing up lady in my story, now has an 18" 870 with a 7-round extention that she has claimed as her own.
Sixteen years ago I took my then girlfriend to the range. It was obvious that she was uncomfortable,but she was there. She fired a full magazine from my dad's Ruger MKII then promptly burst into tears. She had never been around guns until that moment and she was 26 at the time.
Well we've been married for almost fourteen years and have two children. I'm a cop and ex-military and now own a safe just full of guns. She owns a Detective Special and is a pretty good shot with it. She still isn't into guns, but she is a very practical person. SO this story might not be as far fetched as everybody thinks. Just a thought.
Well we've been married for almost fourteen years and have two children. I'm a cop and ex-military and now own a safe just full of guns. She owns a Detective Special and is a pretty good shot with it. She still isn't into guns, but she is a very practical person. SO this story might not be as far fetched as everybody thinks. Just a thought.
confinedbythecurtain
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That is awesome! I have never heard of anyone one being that afraid of guns (and I live in California). Welcome to THR!
I cried over an EBR just the other day when I missed out on the following:
All original Colt 6520, 1/7 M4A2 upper with 2 postition stock and A2 flashider, Aimpoint Carry Handle mount, Aimpoint ML2, Aimpoint QRP mount w/spacer, ASA Front sight sling thing, 2 Colt 20 round mags, and finally soft rifle case.
Asking price? $1000.00. It must of lasted all 10 minutes on the AR15.com equipment exchange.
All original Colt 6520, 1/7 M4A2 upper with 2 postition stock and A2 flashider, Aimpoint Carry Handle mount, Aimpoint ML2, Aimpoint QRP mount w/spacer, ASA Front sight sling thing, 2 Colt 20 round mags, and finally soft rifle case.
Asking price? $1000.00. It must of lasted all 10 minutes on the AR15.com equipment exchange.
unfortunately, i have had a similar instance in my home, but no one got to the point of tears........WOW.
i had a 7 y.o. come over with his mom one day to see my wife about playing in a soccer league my wife was starting. they were in the living room talking and i was happily polishing the action up on a smith 686 at the kitchen table. i was not paying the kids any mind when my son comes through the kitchen with this kid and he runs away screaming to his mom.....
GUN,GUN,GUN, GUN!!!!
now no two pieces of this gun are together except the barrel and frame, it is a harmless pile of steel and wood on the table, and would be no more had i assembled it. any way, here comes mom and she is some kind of mad
at me in my own house for having a gun out in the presence of her kid. i did not let this go , but i was nice, and explained that she came to my house uninvited and her opinions about my activities were niether needed or appreciated, but she was entitled to have them. she insisted to me i should tell her son that guns were a bad thing and they kill people :banghead: and i was sorry for having exposed him to them. 
WHOA, HOLD IT RIGHT THERE!!!!!!!!!!
i agreed to talk to the young man. i told him, with his mom there, that i was sorry i scared him by having a gun out, but i was not going to put it away until i was ready, after all, it is my house. futhermore the gun itself was not a bad thing and without someone deciding to use it to kill someone it could not do it on its own. i told him i thought it was right for him to tell his parents when he saw a gun and not to touch it as he could get hurt or maybe hurt someone and if a friend found one to tell him not touch one either and if he did get into one of these situations to go tell a grown up what was going on. he seemed to understand as well as any 7 y.o. would.
the mother was somewhat soothed, but in absence of the child she told me she would have rather i lied and told him that guns do kill people. i told her that i would not lie to the boy about anything, not even santa claus, and sure not lie to spread anti gun propaganda. i told her that i though that if i had to lie to someone to be around them i don't need to be around them. she hasn't been back since.
no the funny thing? her husband loves to go shoot 22's on his dad's place; i guess he doesn 't get to take the kids.
i had a 7 y.o. come over with his mom one day to see my wife about playing in a soccer league my wife was starting. they were in the living room talking and i was happily polishing the action up on a smith 686 at the kitchen table. i was not paying the kids any mind when my son comes through the kitchen with this kid and he runs away screaming to his mom.....
GUN,GUN,GUN, GUN!!!! now no two pieces of this gun are together except the barrel and frame, it is a harmless pile of steel and wood on the table, and would be no more had i assembled it. any way, here comes mom and she is some kind of mad
at me in my own house for having a gun out in the presence of her kid. i did not let this go , but i was nice, and explained that she came to my house uninvited and her opinions about my activities were niether needed or appreciated, but she was entitled to have them. she insisted to me i should tell her son that guns were a bad thing and they kill people :banghead: and i was sorry for having exposed him to them. WHOA, HOLD IT RIGHT THERE!!!!!!!!!! i agreed to talk to the young man. i told him, with his mom there, that i was sorry i scared him by having a gun out, but i was not going to put it away until i was ready, after all, it is my house. futhermore the gun itself was not a bad thing and without someone deciding to use it to kill someone it could not do it on its own. i told him i thought it was right for him to tell his parents when he saw a gun and not to touch it as he could get hurt or maybe hurt someone and if a friend found one to tell him not touch one either and if he did get into one of these situations to go tell a grown up what was going on. he seemed to understand as well as any 7 y.o. would.
the mother was somewhat soothed, but in absence of the child she told me she would have rather i lied and told him that guns do kill people. i told her that i would not lie to the boy about anything, not even santa claus, and sure not lie to spread anti gun propaganda. i told her that i though that if i had to lie to someone to be around them i don't need to be around them. she hasn't been back since.
no the funny thing? her husband loves to go shoot 22's on his dad's place; i guess he doesn 't get to take the kids.
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one45auto
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.........(catching breath)....BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...
ScorpioVI
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The last time I cried over an EBR...
... was when the driver of my M1064 track (APC) backed over my new AG's M16 in Grafenwoehr, Germany. Our new AG had just PCSed into our unit and learned the hard way that you do not leave items laying on the ground around armored vehicles.
The receiver was... *sniff* ... it was bent into a *sniff* ... no, the memory haunts me to this day!!!
... was when the driver of my M1064 track (APC) backed over my new AG's M16 in Grafenwoehr, Germany. Our new AG had just PCSed into our unit and learned the hard way that you do not leave items laying on the ground around armored vehicles.
The receiver was... *sniff* ... it was bent into a *sniff* ... no, the memory haunts me to this day!!!
Zundfolge
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Laugh at Sean all you want ... hell I did when I first read the story.
Now think about this Sean is probably registered to vote.
now I'm gonna cry
Now think about this Sean is probably registered to vote.
now I'm gonna cry
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