I'm surprised it took this long for someone to ask. No, it's not the idea of me owning a gun that upsets her.
Maybe I've been phrasing things wrong. What I want to take away from this thread is a method to open communication on the topic without upsetting her, or sounding like a jackass.
She and I had a discussion based on a response to my original post, specifically this one.
I asked her that particular question, and her response surprised me. I can't quote her exactly, but the general gist of it was that she's not so much afraid of the gun, or as she put it, "the mechanism" (I do remember her saying that), and she isn't afraid of me owning a gun, but that there are people who are unsafe around firearms and own them. I think her words were, "I'm more afraid of idiots who own guns and are a danger to others because of it." But don't quote me on that because I'm 100% positive that those were her
exact words.
I just had a thought. Would it be a bad idea to ask her to post her thoughts on gun ownership on this thread? She knows I posted this thread, and if it were her words instead of mine, it would better express what
she feels, and not what I might interpret from what she said. Anybody have any objections to that idea? If so, why?