Who has anti-relatives & friends?

[Croyance]

My family. They grew up during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong (and lived through British occupation for that matter). They saw the second abuse their power beating up on locals, they saw the first kill from boredom.

 

[Ruger451]

Yeah, my family is mostly ok. Dad owns, I shoot w/ my brother and my mom "says no" but doesn't really care.
My girlfriend and her family, on the other hand, man, what a nightmare. I live with my girlfriend and her younger sister in a house owned by their parents, all of whom are super-anti. My girlfriend doesn't care about me going to the range, but she is flipping her lid over ownership. It completely cracks me up to think that her father, mother, three sisters, and her all think that a gun could be at all dangerous from inside a locked safe. But whatever, we'll figure it out, or we won't/:banghead:

 

[MedGrl]

I have 3 very anti friends. One of them is a complete pacifist. I am slowly wining him over though. He asked me what the feeling i get whn I shoot a gun is...he is very much into how emotions rule ups and was trying to guage my "intent". I told him It was just fun to shoot. and that i knew if it came down to it I would be able to defend myself though i pry to God it never will come to me having to use lethal force. He seemes to be thinking about that and I've an open invitation to all of my friends to come to the range with me. The other two won't tell me why they are against guns and I have gotten them to stop trying to convince me that guns are bad by saying we should just agree to dissagree at this point. BUt...mabey i can get them to the range with me eventualy.

 

[stevelyn]

Had some anti family membersand aquantances.....never friends, but I disowned disassociated myself from them all long ago.

 

[TexasRifleman]

I have a brother-in-law that's completely afraid of guns.

The topic came up once that I carried all the time, he asked me to leave his house since I was carrying since I might shoot the dog or something I guess.
His father in law stood up to leave as well (he's a Deputy Sherrif in Colorado). He said he was also carrying and was leaving. The brother-in-law said it was OK for him since he was a cop. We both left together and neither of us will go back.

I asked him how he would defend his wife against an attacker. He told me that since he played Rugby at an Ivy League school he could take anyone that tried.

I left, but I heard later that his wife, my sister-in-law, ripped him a new one over not being able to protect her. Seems she'd never thought of it before and found his arrogance to be too much.

She contacted me and asked me to go with her to pick out a handgun. She now owns a Ladysmith and has it hidden from him in case SHE has to protect the home.

I just don't get it.

 

[TrafficMan]

some folks that i work with are anti, but i just avoid discussing politics with them.

Dad is pro, Grandpa is pro. Sister is indifferent...espescially after her boyfriend blew his head off with a 12ga.

most of my buddies aren't gun owners, but they like guns.

 

[danurve]

My sister was a rabid anti. We went round and round about hunting as well. She even started to talk to the rest of my family about my evil ways. Well most of them ignored her, so what, there are to many deer around here anyways kind of attitude. Well my kids got wind of her goings on and basicaly told her; look your not our parent, don't pretend to be one, we support what our dad does and if you don't wise up your not going to see us anymore.

These days she asks how my 'catch' or season went.

 

[Just_a_dude_with_a_gun]

Yep. My wife is anti-gun, and a card carrying liberal. Thankfully for her, she's also anti-divorce. Guns are legal, and I am licensed, and she'll live with it, or live elsewhere.

It was the only time we'd ever disagreed on a household issue, and also the only time I had ever told "what was what", and "how things are gonna be". It doesn't hurt that we had just been burglarized....

I am also in NJ, working in NYC. Surrounded by squeamish whining victims, and illegally armed thugs. Sometimes If I look too hard, or think too much about it, this place really does suck.

 

[IllHunter]

I do, but I'm workin on it...

Hey I grew up in NYC and there are alot of liberals there!

 

[SeanSw]

My father and mother are both anti, but nowwhere near as vehemently against guns as my sister is. Both parents have moral issues with violence of any type (and we all know that guns=violence....) and my sister is a diehard liberal activist, being well known in these areas for her activism.

Interestingly enough, both sets of grandparents, who are not exactly gun enthusiasts, didn't instill this anti-gun attitude on their children. They are still quite accepting of firearms and didn't bat an eye at hearing I had been purchasing firearms. My grandfather who passed away when I was very young even had a membership at my sportsman's club about 25 years before I did, and I never knew until mentioning my new membership to my grandmother.

Naturally, there's still that one estranged uncle who moved out west in his youth, hoarding away firearms and making moonshine in the mountains..... I can thank him for my first foray into firearms!

 

[V4Vendetta]

"He told me that since he played Rugby at an Ivy League school he could take anyone that tried"


My mom says the same thing. She wouldn't mind kicking a BG or punching him, but using a gun would be evil . I'm not giving up on her yet. That's what families do. I tell her that in the event of something going really bad*, I know who's house she will run to .


Civil unrest, military coup, natural disaster & zombie insurrection.

 

['Card]

This is probably connected with the fact that both my wife and I are from rural areas in southern West Virginia, but I can't think of anyone on either side of our family that I would consider "anti-gun."

I mean... there are degrees to it. Obviously some people are so pro-gun that they think if you're not armed-to-the-teeth 100% of the time then you're clearly the worst brand of card-carrying liberal pinko... Most of my relatives probably wouldn't see much point in concealed carry, and probably don't own and aren't interested in owning a pistol, but just about all of them own a hunting rifle or two and a shotgun.

 

[M.E.Eldridge]

I don't know of any friends or relatives who is anti-gun enough to try to spread the BS behind their cause. I don't really associate with anti-gun people because I can't stand them. They're always a bunch of whiny, America hating,liberal tree-huggers .

 

[tellner]

Relatives who are anti?

My parents, but they don't give me any grief over it.
My sisters, and they do to the point where the youngest one will never allow me in her house again since I once brought a pocket knife in. I have cut off all relations with them until that changes.

Friends who are anti?

None that I know of. Friends I have a choice about...

 

[PlayboyPenguin]

Most of my family are very pro-gun. All of them hunt or shoot for sport. They are also all Democrats. The only exceptions were my grandfather and one of my aunts who both despised guns. Both were hard core republicans. Politics has little to do with gun ownership. In fact I read a story about one of the past census' findings that stated the vast majority of gun owners in the USA identified themselves as Democrat or independant(it was framed on the wall of a gun range I went to). I myself am a registered republican but find myself at odds with the party alot since the mid 90's. I keep my love of gun and my more liberal social politics and my more conservative fiscal politics seperate from one another.

 

[gearbox]

My good friend is anti-gun and I actually debated it with him and his best friend (who is also my friend and at the time he was pro-gun). In the end he stuck to his guns and refused to believe that so many Americans are gun owners, that so many times per year a gun is used to stop crime, that the chances of a gun owner having his gun used against him is 100% related to will and resolve.
Two days after 9/11 he said "any more of this [expletive] and I'm going to get a gun." Since then we've been defending American soil well, as opposed to the Thai's, Indonesians, Britons, and Spaniards. C'est la Vive?

 

[Chrontius]

Mother: lawsuit-phobic. Taken her to the range; she didn't suck and asked for a half-dozen more 'free range time' coupons after that.
Sister: afraid of her own actions, to the best of my ability to tell
Father: Stopped talking about 'cop killer assault rifles' when it was pointed out that any rifle would cut through body armor designed for pistol rounds, plus a couple more logic injections. May be neutral, now. Has formally adopted a live-and-let-live worldview.

 

[fantacmet]

I'm 28 and live wth my mother for the time being until my degree is finished. She is anti-handgun. Although she understands the need. My sister and her husband are pro gun unless you have children. Although they do believe at the age of 8 a child should shoot a single round so they know and respect the power of one. Most of the rest of my family are mixed on it. Most are anti-handgun but pro rifle and shotgun. Go figure. Although as a whole they don't believe guns cause violence, they just don't see the need for anyone to own a handgun.

Rev. Michael

 

[f4t9r]

Some friends and some family. No big deal they have that right.:banghead:

 

[GEM]

Yep, so we don't talk about it unless we can have rational discussions. Just like I have friends who have crackpot social conservative ideas. As long as they don't rave - they are good friends.

Life is too short to not be friends with fundamentally good people if they disagree calmly and rationally about some position.