Using Your Collection to Intimidate Daughter's Boyfriends

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Here is a question for any fathers here who have teenage daughters.

Has anyone here ever indirectly used your firearm collection to send a message to your teenage daughter's boyfriend or prom date? Do any of you plan to do this when your daughter gets to that age?

I just remember being 17 yrs old and being at my girlfriend's house, in the den, and her father was casually cleaning a shotgun as he explained her curfew to me. Needless to say I made sure to return her on time.

Any fathers here have any stories about this? Any suggestions or tips on this for future fathers who may have daughters?
 
While everyone has heard of the "father cleaning the shotgun" when the boyfriend stops in routine and it IS an entertaining story...The actual use of firearms for this purpose is grossly in defiance of anything remotely resembling THR. I have lots of them, but I certainly don't need a gun to help make my daugters or their friends comply with my wishes.
 
The actual use of firearms for this purpose is grossly in defiance of anything remotely resembling THR.

Agreed. If one can't make ones point without intimidation through the inferred use of deadly force, one should rethink ones reason for having access to it...
 
Having been on the other end of it...
Cocky 17 yo, too smart for my own good, and determined to get his daughter undressed as soon as possible.
...having her father field strip and reassemble an AR on the dining room table certainly made me focus a bit more than I usually did back in those days. 'Course she probably hated his guts since it was highly effective. I don't have kids yet, but if I did, me and the sons might just happen to be cleaning something whenever a boy drops by.
 
Guns? Yes.

Sure, I use guns to keep boys in line....

I've found that my Black & Decker staple gun is quite effective at keeping teenage boys' trousers up around their waists where they belong. If you show up at my house with pants so large they're sliding down your backside and no belt, I'm gonna get my gun!

My caulk gun is also quite useful. A little panel adhesive is great at anchoring wandering hands.

Oh, wait. You asked about "firearms", not "guns." Never mind.... :evil:
 
I've found that my Black & Decker staple gun is quite effective at keeping teenage boys' trousers up around their waists where they belong.

HAHA, I can see it now 'Hey boy, your zipper's down, let me staple that for ya". Good one man!
 
My daughter is 14 and not allowed to date yet but when the time comes I think the taxidermy and shooting trophies in the den will most likely get the point accross....
 
Makes me think about the movie "Uncle Buck". I loved the hatchet scene!

Can't speak from experience, but I keep firearms out of sight as much as possible. You just never know what people tell others which can lead to burglery etc.
 
I don't keep any guns in sight, and certainly wouldn't try to use them for intimidation purposes. When the boyfriends see me, that scared sh**less look is priceless. :D
 
Goodness, no. I would never indirectly threaten a young man who paid a visit to my daughter. My daughter is 7. If a young man came to pick her up, the threats would be vocal and unmistakably direct. ;)

Actually, based on the Strategies & Tactics section of THR, I'm thinking of getting my wife to do a Two Man Clear with me anytime someone knocks on the door. Need to pick up a few flash-bangs, I guess.

In the interest of being on topic, I don't think I would. It's not "high road," for one, but I also prefer to keep information on the nature and disposition of any arms I may hypothetically own confined to a few individuals whom I trust. I also think it's just sort of a jerk move, in a way.

And besides...what if they guy's carrying? :eek:
 
Even a half-wit kid knows that such a threat is fake, because if it wasn't, daddy would have been in jail for murder long before he had a chance to concieve a child.

It makes a good story on the internet, but in real life, I can't imagine it being anything other than a juvenile, transparent thing to try to do. :rolleyes:
 
I think that directly breaking the rules of safety and pointing it at him or threatening him with it is deffinantly not THR or a civilized way to act at all, OTOH cleaning it when he walks in, having it slung over your shoulder or having your pistol in a holster is a non-threatening way to, psychologicaly speaking, get the point across. i know if i went to my womans house and her old man was cleaning one i'd probably offer to help, then proceed to impress him with my greatness :neener:. but no seriously, save the rambo crap until he messes up. the staple gun is a good idea, but might inflict harm. i say have your wife put him in an arm bar while you wrap duct tape around his waiste :D
 
Back when I was at that stage (the ambitious teenage male stage, not the father stage), I found it far more terrifying to have the Dad just walk up and start talking to me:

"So, how are you doing in school? Do you have a job too? How are things going with you and Sarah?"

A father with a keen and critical eye, now that's scary.



-MV
 
I guess it's time to dust this one off again-


Ten Simple Rules for Dating My Daughter

Rule One:
If you pull into my driveway and honk you'd better be delivering a package, because you're sure not picking anything up.

Rule Two:
You do not touch my daughter in front of me. You may glance at her, so long as you do not peer at anything below her neck. If you cannot keep your eyes or hands off of my daughter's body, I will remove them.

Rule Three:
I am aware that it is considered fashionable for boys of your age to wear their trousers so loosely that they appear to be falling off their hips. Please don't take this as an insult, but you and all of your friends are complete idiots. Still, I want to be fair and open minded about this issue, so I propose his compromise: You may come to the door with your underwear showing and your pants ten sizes too big, and I will not object. However, in order to ensure that your clothes do not, in fact, come off during the course of your date with my daughter, I will take my electric nail gun and fasten your trousers securely in place to your waist.

Rule Four:
I'm sure you've been told that in today's world, sex without utilizing a "barrier method" of some kind can kill you. Let me elaborate, when it comes to sex, I am the barrier, and I will kill you.

Rule Five:
It is usually understood that in order for us to get to know each other, we should talk about sports, politics, and other issues of the day. Please do not do this. The only information I require from you is an indication of when you expect to have my daughter safely back at my house, and the only word I need from you on this subject is "early."

Rule Six:
I have no doubt you are a popular fellow, with many opportunities to date other girls. This is fine with me as long as it is okay with my daughter. Otherwise, once you have gone out with my little girl, you will continue to date no one but her until she is finished with you. If you make her cry, I will make you cry.

Rule Seven:
As you stand in my front hallway, waiting for my daughter to appear, and more than an hour goes by, do not sigh and fidget. If you want to be on time for the movie, you should not be dating. My daughter is putting on her makeup, a process that can take longer than painting the Golden Gate Bridge. Instead of just standing there, why don't you do something useful, like changing the oil in my car?

Rule Eight:
The following places are not appropriate for a date with my daughter: Places where there are beds, sofas, or anything softer than a wooden stool. Places where there are no parents, policemen, or nuns within eyesight. Places where there is darkness. Places where there is dancing, holding hands, or happiness. Places where the ambient temperature is warm enough to induce my daughter to wear shorts, tank tops, midriff T-shirts, or anything other than overalls, a sweater, and a goose down parka - zipped up to her throat. Movies with a strong romantic or sexual theme are to be avoided; movies which features chain saws are okay. Hockey games are okay. Old folks homes are better.

Rule Nine:
Do not lie to me. I may appear to be a potbellied, balding, middle-aged, dimwitted has-been. But on issues relating to my daughter, I am the all-knowing, merciless god of your universe. If I ask you where you are going and with whom, you have one chance to tell me the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I have a shotgun, a shovel, and five acres behind the house. Do not trifle with me.

Rule Ten:
Be afraid. Be very afraid. It takes very little for me to mistake the sound of your car in the driveway for a chopper coming in over a rice paddy near Hanoi. When my Agent Orange starts acting up, the voices in my head frequently tell me to clean the guns as I wait for you to bring my daughter home. As soon as you pull into the driveway you should exit your car with both hands in plain sight. Speak the perimeter password, announce in a clear voice that you have brought my daughter home safely and early, then return to your car - there is no need for you to come inside. The camouflaged face at the window is mine.

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I just put up my "good" bullseye centers on the refrigerator door...so does my daugther. I guess holes from a .45acp swc can be quite intimidating to some :D
 
One of the best lines ever from a movie;

"Young man, I have a .45 and a shovel. I doubt you'll be missed."

The movie, by the way, was one of my wifes favorites, Clueless.
 
My fiancee's dad did this with me, but it backfired, as he was showing me his gun closet, I showed him what I was carrying at the time.

He was at once impressed, and then we had a 45 min argument about "real guns" (his .45's, and his 1911's) vs. my "fake toy plastic striker fired garbage" (my XD9) but we bonded over it, so all's well.
 
Has anyone here ever indirectly used your firearm collection to send a message to your teenage daughter's boyfriend or prom date? Do any of you plan to do this when your daughter gets to that age?

Never, ever should anyone do something like this. If you think you've got to threaten your daughter's date then you've already failed as a parent.
 
My aunt was being taken out on a date by a boy who had a few "rumors" circulating around him.

It seems his last girlfriend suddenly went to live with rural relatives "up north". Which in the late 1950's and early 60's was code for "teen pregnancy".

My grandfather met him at the door of their Milwaukee South-Side home with a .38 openly carried on his hip.

He was legend amongst my aunt and mother's peers for some time after that.

Frankly, reverse psycology is probably better. Every time I learned a girl's father "liked me" I knew I was doomed. I was usualy dumped within the week.

So when "Mr. Body-Suit Tatoo with a pierced face he can't get past a TSA checkpoint and drives a windowless van with a shag-carpet interior" comes to pick your daughter up for a date, you're probably better off making fast friends with him.

She'll drop him like a hot rock.

Save the "gun-show" and your best glower for the class valedectorian and president of the church's "virgin club" who happens to have millionaire parents comes to date your daughter. Then make lots of speeches to her later about how you "just don't like that boy".

Just be sure to pull the poor lad aside outside the sight of your daughter to let him in on the scheme so he can maintain some semblance of bladder control during the date. Just be sure that if he makes it all the way to "son in law" status, it's clear you do expect him to pick up an interest in firearms, as you need every excuse for a range outing you can get...
 
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