Were your parents Anti or no?

What were your parents?

  • Anti all the way

    Votes: 103 15.2%

  • Neutral

    Votes: 156 23.0%

  • Pro gun but never owned

    Votes: 68 10.0%

  • Pro gun and owned

    Votes: 395 58.3%

  • HUGO

    Votes: 9 1.3%
  • Total voters
    677
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I think I see a pattern here: Mother = neutral to anti, Father =neutral to pro.

For my parents that has also been the case.

This is one of the primary reasons why I think women should not be permitted to vote nor hold public office.

Bring on the insults -- I believe it and I don't apologize for it.

The female sex, generally speaking, at some level basic to a woman's thought-process does not believe human beings are capable of governing themselves, or if they can, that they ought to. Which makes them enemies of republican government. Inability to comprehend the necessary place of guns in a free society is a symptom of that. Maybe it's maternal instinct. It wasn't "big brother" George Orwell had a right to fear, it's "big mother."

So as not to go totally off-topic I'll tell my own story.

We never had guns in the house when I grew up because my understanding is my mother forbade it. I don't think my dad had much interest in it besides. The story goes one day when I was about 5 years old we were visiting my grandparents. Apparently I found my grandfather's loaded revolver stuffed in between a seat cushion, took it into the next room and said "look what I found!" Then my dad took the gun before I could shoot somebody.

It apparently never occurred to my parents that if they had taught me the difference between toy guns and real ones that couldn't have happened.

When I turned 21 I took a handgun safety course and got my concealed handgun permit. It was both an interest in history and a deep appreciation of the significance of firearms that lead me to it. Arms = freedom. By that time I also had a few friends in college who owned and I was able to learn some from them. But mainly I read a lot and rented a lot of different guns and talked to a lot of "experts."

My dad had always been pro-2nd amendment but I think never gave a thought to owning himself, even though he had military experience. When he found out I had gotten the permit and was buying guns myself, I think he might have felt slightly emasculated since he not only immediately bought a pistol of his own but became an armed security officer for a federal agency. :D I stand officially 1-up'd.
 
This is one of the primary reasons why I think women should not be permitted to vote nor hold public office.
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I will not attack you for this, but I will say something:
Women, as a whole, are not particularly untrusting of an individual's capability to perform their responsibilities. However, we are faced with a society that cultures that, which makes the female sex, the one more inclined to mothership and babying, every more vocal and emotional.
The solution is not to remove women from the equation, but to raise them (I'm tempted to say "like men" here, but I won't) into adults. We don't raise or women to adulthood, which is one under-the-water problem that no one's come to grips wit yet.
My sister is a woman, living on her own, who has been an adult for probably seven or eight years now (I'm talking in maturity, not age). She was th most feminine of my three sisters, and yet she is the most adult.
It has nothing to do with the female sex, it has everything to do with the way we raise the female sex.
 
My dad got me into guns, he is a huge AK fan. Mom doesn't mind them, but doesn't own any. I went out eating with her a few weeks ago. We went to a nice Japanese place and ate outside. After about an hour of eating and talking, we said bye and hugged. As we hugged she felt my gun and said "Wow, i didn't even notice you had it." "Yeah mom, thats why its called concealed carry". She just laughed and we went home. She now knows if she sees me, i'm probably carrying.
 
My parents are getting up there....Dad turned 80 this year.....

I don't think the whole concept of being an anti or pro 2a was ever a part of their world.

My parents worked.....and that was pretty much it. No time for fun and games (with the one acception being my dad's little sail boat).

He used to bird hunt with gramps old 12 ga. pump and even had a Weimeraner for a while....but then us kids came along.....

I got a BB gun for Christmas one year and then several years later a break action 20 ga.

I couldn't take possesion of the 20 ga. untill I completed the hunter's safety class though.

Not afraid of guns....not really into guns...BUT....respectfull of their destructive power.....that probably best describes my dad.
 
Moms a quiet anti. Dads a neutral who owns long guns. However he is against handguns. Just doesn’t see the point in them. We live in Canada so we can't carry:mad:

respectfull of their destructive power.
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True for my fokes as well
 
my dad is pretty indifferent and my mother isn't anti but i don't think she exactly wants me to own guns. they are supporters of the bill of rights so they would never tell anybody that they are wrong or should not be allowed to own guns.
 
Initially both my parents were distinctly anti-gun. I doubt my mother ever fired one and I believe my father had only ever fired a gun a couple of times.

Today I would described them both as neutral. Of course, if they found out just how many guns I own they would probably not be too happy about it.
 
My Dad was ambivalent, but did hunt occasionally. As a LEO (Park Ranger), he did have a firearm, but definitely wasn't an enthusiast.
My Mother always liked to have a gun close at hand...especially after my Dad passed away.
 
I know what HUGO means

"HUGO" and "Lol hugo, bf.cotftw!" are simply truisms that THR is definitely populated by non High Road thinkers. They are cliquish, probably young and exclusive in their thinking.

A High Road mentality would mean that they are interested in spreading knowledge and assisting people be a part of instead of apart from with their little inside jokes. I have often asked for clarification of a THR-only-acronym and immediate clarifications were posted.

After 5 pages, numerous requests and not ONE response I see no other explanation than to believe either THR is infiltrated with kids or in the end, the site itself is not very HR since no moderator has clarified either. It is this type of exclusion that bullies (usually jocks) liked to live by during Junior and High School years. That, or the OP thinks he is funnier than anyone else does.

Want more proof?
This is one of the primary reasons why I think women should not be permitted to vote nor hold public office.
Bring on the insults -- I believe it and I don't apologize for it.
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Patrick Henry - you asked ... I do not mean any direct insult at you personally, but I will post my opinion... just as you did. Any person that lumps an entire group of people into one basket is practicing open and unadulterated bigotry. Bigotry by definition is intolerance. Whether it is women, blacks, hispanics, whites, Europeans, Africans or Penguins, it is that type of small thinking that keeps us as a nation from being the leader of the free world. It is close minded and small.

What if you replace the word 'women' with "Gun Owners"? Or "Civil Rights activists"? (FWIW I believe that we all are Civil Rights Activists) Or better yet... "Men"? Remember that powerful scene in "A time to kill" when Mathew McConaughey described the rape of a 10 year old girl... and threw the jury for a loop by asking them to now imagine she is white.

Immature, exclusionary stuff like this reminds one of the immortal words of one John R. Cash upon his delivery into San Quentin Penitentiary "This place ain't all it's cracked up to be".
 
my dad always has guns in the house but its mostly long guns and a .22 revolver that he used while growing up on a farm. He is pro gun and I talked him into buying a pistol for me (im 19 so cant purchase my own)
my step mother is totally indifferent but does take an interest, I think it is just to be nice though.

My mom is pro gun but doesnt own any. she passed up a .223 lever action that was my late grandfathers.
my step dad couldnt care less.
 
My father used to be a fairly active shooter. He reloaded and everything. I believe he carried in his truck before he met my mom. When I was about 2 years old when my dad was still active duty. Our house on base was broken into and they stole every gun he ever had. I think that broke him, soon after that he sold his reloading stuff. My mom is neutral.
 
Pro gun but never owned. My Dad wound up giving me what he had which was a broken cheap .38 and 1860 Sharps derringer. He bought me a .22 rifle at Sears in '68 when I was 13 but he never owned any working guns, which was strange because he did tons of hunting growing up.
 
My parents were always pretty anti to neutral toward guns, but my dad is much more so anti-gun than my mom. When he had very vocal concerns about guns when I was born, my mom sold her M16 (yes, MG, full auto) - right before the '86 ban. D'oh.
 
My father has always been very anti-gun. He calls it anti-violence, but he can't separate the two. Dad comes from a long line of Lutheran teachers and preachers who have always been disgusted with harm and bloodshed. Oddly, this side of the family is also interspersed with military service, duplicating the modern conflicts still going on within our family. Though gun-hating, these educators and clergymen have been kind, caring men who have never done harm to anyone. My father was a war protester (Vietnam) but both my grandfather and great-grandfather tried to join the military. Grandpa didn't make the cut, but Great-Grandpa survived WW1. Before that we have well documented history involving our family in the Swedish and Scottish military (Paternal grandfather and grandmother) through the 19th century, from Palace guards to sharpshooters. The sibling conflict between peace and war remains the same, but where oh where did those sharpshooting talents go?

My mother has been fairly neutral. Her own father was a sporting man and Korean vet, but mostly in the sense that he liked to be outdoors and fish. He shot .22s rarely and went on a few raccoon hunts in his younger days. My maternal grandmother has been quite neutral as well. This maternal side has an early American history (Pre-Revolution immigration) of militia involvement, with ancestors that have faught in the Revolution and the Civil war. Grandma was raised by rum runners and anti-Prohibitionists in a rural Illinois, so she's probably seen the worst that alcohol and guns can too, but that hasn't changed her views of either. She showed no surprise at my interest in firearms and even dug up a few bricks of old .22 left behind when my grandfather passed away. This side of the family has a healthy trust of firearms and a healthy distrust of criminals with guns. My mother simply doesn't care for guns in the same way she doesn't like dirt. They're fine as long as they stay outside and don't bring any messes inside. Mom would never vote against gun restrictions for the sake of gun restrictions but they often find their way into her straight line democratic voting tendencies. It only took a few weeks of hassling before getting her to sign my FOID at age 18.

As a child there were no BB guns or toy guns. I can now see how hard my father struggled not to impose his beliefs on me, although he always tried very hard to teach them. Against his better sense, Dad eventually bought me a BB gun for my birthday at age 12. In that very same day I shot myself in the eye and the neighborhood kids shot out our basement windows. That was the end of that! I saw that gun, bent in half, going out with the garbage the following Monday.
 
My mom is anti and I will not be telling her I own a gun. Dad is neutral. It was a requirment to do a year or two of RTOC at the univeristy he attended way back in the 50s, so he got to fire 22s on a range back then.
 
My father is neutral to pro. He was a collector for a while with a whole host of expensive and exotic pieces, but he's not what I would call a "gunny" - I think his interest stems more from the fact that he's a technically minded individual with a thing for gadgets and "toys" - with more than enough wealth to indulge himself. I should note, however, that he does have a strong affinity for WW2 equipment and history, including firearms.

My mother is vehemently anti for some inexplicable reason. She claims she was "shot at" when she was a child, but knowing her it was probably a pellet gun (assuming the whole thing isn't a lie to begin with). It's so bad that we didn't speak for weeks (by her choice) after she found out I had purchased my first firearm.
 
Well my father has always been pro gun and owne. My mother she dosnt care. She never got into shooting Then at this point she just dosent want to. She accepts the fact that we have guns. She just doesnt care. So i guess thats good.
 
Mine are both the equivalent of Fudds. They have no problem with hunters and hunting arms, but would be against most anything else. The irony is that my dad, even with this position, wound up buying a 12ga for home protection and bear protection while camping. Yet he thinks CCW is a horrible idea.
 
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