xenophon
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Sorry for the long post, but I think you'll like it.
Ok, so a little background. I got my first handgun about a year ago. Living with the girlfriend and of course it was brought into the apartment despite her objections. She says she hates guns and never wants to see it. A bit of arguing about the benefits of having one, but she won't hear it. So I'm with an anti-gunner. A pretty bad one too, it took a lot of arguing to keep that gun in the apartment just to give you an idea.
Over the next couple months, I try to work on her, invite her to the range just to try it out. Nope, she still won't even touch it or learn how to even operate it. I tell her stories of women using firearms for self defense off and on, but much to no avail. This was about the time the WI CCW law was going through the Legislature, so of course she noticed me working hard to get that passed.
So about 9 months later, she's to the point where she'll let me clean it in front of her. Ok, a little bit of progress, but she still won't touch it. Invitations to range are still turned down, but apparantely her girlfriend is with a guy who just joined the police academy and she said she would only go to the range if her other anti-gun friend went with her so we could all go together. A little more progress, I just need to get her friend that lives an hour and a half away to make the trip up here.
So a couple more months pass, of course the WI CCW didn't pass. BAH. Anyways, just last night I get home from work and we're just sitting around watching tv. I was reading my new glock reference guide book next to her. She looks at my book and says the following: "You know, if CCW passes in WI next year, I want to get my permit and a gun."
Of course, I pinch myself to see if I'm awake. "What did you just say?" I ask her. And she says "I want to get my permit if CCW passes in WI ever".
I didn't act surprised at all, I was just too dumbfounded. I asked her why the sudden change. She said she was watching an episode of Beverly Hills 90210 (syndication which she watches religously) and in the latest episode, one of the girls was being stalked or something and was given a revolver by her boyfriend, and at one point in the show, got cornered in a room by the bad guy rapist and used the gun to protect herself.
I guess a light bulb finally went on in her head and my lectures about why self defense is important and one should always be prepared finally clicked. Thank God for 90210, California actually did something good for a change.
So I ask her if she wanted to use my Glock 19 (my only gun) when she gets her permit, and she said no, she wanted to go pick one out herself
. Of course, this is all depending on WI passing CCW, but at least that gives me the rest of this year to get her to the range and some training. 90210, who would've imagined.........
On a different note, when I was visting my sister in FL last month, when I told her about my gun she said "You know, I want to get one of those, I would get a permit and would probably carry if I had one of those." This coming from a girl who was a very liberal, snobby, sorority girl a few years back, who never in a million years would I have thought would have wanted to own, let alone carry a firearm. Just goes to show you never know.
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Ok, so a little background. I got my first handgun about a year ago. Living with the girlfriend and of course it was brought into the apartment despite her objections. She says she hates guns and never wants to see it. A bit of arguing about the benefits of having one, but she won't hear it. So I'm with an anti-gunner. A pretty bad one too, it took a lot of arguing to keep that gun in the apartment just to give you an idea.
Over the next couple months, I try to work on her, invite her to the range just to try it out. Nope, she still won't even touch it or learn how to even operate it. I tell her stories of women using firearms for self defense off and on, but much to no avail. This was about the time the WI CCW law was going through the Legislature, so of course she noticed me working hard to get that passed.
So about 9 months later, she's to the point where she'll let me clean it in front of her. Ok, a little bit of progress, but she still won't touch it. Invitations to range are still turned down, but apparantely her girlfriend is with a guy who just joined the police academy and she said she would only go to the range if her other anti-gun friend went with her so we could all go together. A little more progress, I just need to get her friend that lives an hour and a half away to make the trip up here.
So a couple more months pass, of course the WI CCW didn't pass. BAH. Anyways, just last night I get home from work and we're just sitting around watching tv. I was reading my new glock reference guide book next to her. She looks at my book and says the following: "You know, if CCW passes in WI next year, I want to get my permit and a gun."
Of course, I pinch myself to see if I'm awake. "What did you just say?" I ask her. And she says "I want to get my permit if CCW passes in WI ever".I didn't act surprised at all, I was just too dumbfounded. I asked her why the sudden change. She said she was watching an episode of Beverly Hills 90210 (syndication which she watches religously) and in the latest episode, one of the girls was being stalked or something and was given a revolver by her boyfriend, and at one point in the show, got cornered in a room by the bad guy rapist and used the gun to protect herself.
I guess a light bulb finally went on in her head and my lectures about why self defense is important and one should always be prepared finally clicked. Thank God for 90210, California actually did something good for a change.
So I ask her if she wanted to use my Glock 19 (my only gun) when she gets her permit, and she said no, she wanted to go pick one out herself
. Of course, this is all depending on WI passing CCW, but at least that gives me the rest of this year to get her to the range and some training. 90210, who would've imagined.........On a different note, when I was visting my sister in FL last month, when I told her about my gun she said "You know, I want to get one of those, I would get a permit and would probably carry if I had one of those." This coming from a girl who was a very liberal, snobby, sorority girl a few years back, who never in a million years would I have thought would have wanted to own, let alone carry a firearm. Just goes to show you never know.
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Er, correction, ALL women.
