peacefuljeffrey
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Yep. My new girlfriend is anti-gun. She said last night that she thinks they should be banned.
What's more, she personally knows Sarah and Jim Brady! She showed me a picture of them (I don't remember but I think she was in the picture with them).
She knows I have and love guns. She accepts that. She knows I have a concealed weapon license, and that I "occasionally" keep a gun with me.
We spoke about it a bit this morning, and she keeps saying that she can barely believe that we got involved together and that it sorta creeps her out that I have guns in my house; and she said that if we were to be in my car and she were to know that I had a gun in the car, she probably wouldn't feel able to ride with me.
Well... She has not asked about the small nylon shoulder satchel that I always have with me when we go out. Maybe she doesn't figure it's big enough to possibly have a gun in it? I dunno. But I have not volunteered to her the information that it does contain my carry gun, more importantly, I do not know how she might react if and when I do inform her of that. She might flip out knowing that I've had the gun with me all this time. She might be able to rationalize that if I had it all these other times, it's apparently and obviously not a big deal.
I have made some occasional efforts to see it my way -- relating to her that bad guys will always avail themselves of weapons with which to harm people, and good guys (like me) are not wrong to keep the means to fight back for our own protection -- but only when she has brought the subject up.
She was asking, when we woke up this morning, how many guns I had, so I told her. When I mentioned that I would like to take her to the range and let her fire my guns, she locked up on me and said something like "not in this lifetime."
We love each other. I don't love this about her, though. It's a tough spot to be in, but I'm just gonna ride it out, I figure. Eventually she will probably find out or figure out that I carry -- daily, regularly, frequently...well, always. At that point, I figure she will have to either come to grips with it and love me anyway, or move on. (In other words, there is not a chance that I will stop carrying, for love or not. How could I love someone and abrogate my ability and means to protect myself and her?)
What are your thoughts? I know we read a lot here about bringing antis around to see our logic and reason. Some of you are lucky enough to have real shootin' girlfriends... Mine's great in the sack, but I'm missing out in this respect. Not sure what's going to happen. What would you do?
Blue skies,
-Jeffrey
What's more, she personally knows Sarah and Jim Brady! She showed me a picture of them (I don't remember but I think she was in the picture with them).
She knows I have and love guns. She accepts that. She knows I have a concealed weapon license, and that I "occasionally" keep a gun with me.
We spoke about it a bit this morning, and she keeps saying that she can barely believe that we got involved together and that it sorta creeps her out that I have guns in my house; and she said that if we were to be in my car and she were to know that I had a gun in the car, she probably wouldn't feel able to ride with me.
Well... She has not asked about the small nylon shoulder satchel that I always have with me when we go out. Maybe she doesn't figure it's big enough to possibly have a gun in it? I dunno. But I have not volunteered to her the information that it does contain my carry gun, more importantly, I do not know how she might react if and when I do inform her of that. She might flip out knowing that I've had the gun with me all this time. She might be able to rationalize that if I had it all these other times, it's apparently and obviously not a big deal.
I have made some occasional efforts to see it my way -- relating to her that bad guys will always avail themselves of weapons with which to harm people, and good guys (like me) are not wrong to keep the means to fight back for our own protection -- but only when she has brought the subject up.
She was asking, when we woke up this morning, how many guns I had, so I told her. When I mentioned that I would like to take her to the range and let her fire my guns, she locked up on me and said something like "not in this lifetime."
We love each other. I don't love this about her, though. It's a tough spot to be in, but I'm just gonna ride it out, I figure. Eventually she will probably find out or figure out that I carry -- daily, regularly, frequently...well, always. At that point, I figure she will have to either come to grips with it and love me anyway, or move on. (In other words, there is not a chance that I will stop carrying, for love or not. How could I love someone and abrogate my ability and means to protect myself and her?)
What are your thoughts? I know we read a lot here about bringing antis around to see our logic and reason. Some of you are lucky enough to have real shootin' girlfriends... Mine's great in the sack, but I'm missing out in this respect. Not sure what's going to happen. What would you do?
Blue skies,
-Jeffrey