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WE recently purchased our first- an AR-15 that my husband built. Lately, we have been going on drives to find places to target shoot as our weekend activities. Do you shoot? Are you opposed to having guns in your home?
I would never have a gun in my home. The stats for children and adults accidentally shooting themselves are just too high to take that chance. It is an unneccessary risk, IMO.
I am not opposed to owning a gun. FI doesn't have any in the house but it is something that we are looking into. I think its fine as long as it is properly locked up and only people who are experienced handle the gun.
I absolutely agree with crayfish, at least for myself and my husband. Guns are not for us or our family.
However, we live in a safe area and do not take part in recreational shooting or hunting like some people do. I have family in the country, and they have guns in their homes but keep them locked up at all times. My uncle keeps the key to their gun cabinet in a location that is only known to his wife and his children are not allowed to even be near it. I am not opposed to people being able to own guns with proper licensing, but I hope and pray that you will be smart about it if you choose to have children.
we have a handful of guns in our house. FI got his first gun a week before we started dating. It's a hobby for him now. Our first date was at the shooting range. I go with him on occasion so that I am comfortable with the guns in case I ever need to use them when he is out of town (for self-protection). I'm sure when we have kids, they will be locked up very well. FI wants me to get my concealed carry. Not sure if I'll ever do it but who knows
SO has tons, I have one. He's going to be a cop.. I feel this goes hand-in-hand :)
I understand that it's definitely not for all families, but it works for ours. My husband is VERY safety oriented, we keep our equipment well-cared for and properly stored.
Just curious how everyone else feels about it! We really enjoy going out together.
@KLloyd1: I can't wait to get my concealed carry! Unfortunately I have a while to wait before I can even own a handgun :(.
I do have many rifles, shotguns and handguns. I grew up with guns and I took my hunter saftey when I was 10. FI grewup with no guns, and was always a little weary until he was shown proper protocol.
I like when people say they dont have them because they arent safe, and some kid may shoot themselves. Responsible owners dont leave guns, loaded or not, not locked up.Incase of a natural disaster or totally shutdown of policing you best believe the majority of people who have guns wont be the good people.
We have a couple. I grew up with guns in the house, my dad had quite a few. So for me it made me respect them (guns) and I have no problem with them being in the house when we have kids as long as they are always kept in the locked safe. We actually got a .22 rifle as a wedding gift from my hubby's friend (an ex marine).
We have many of them and I have my eye on a sweet 9mil right now.
@crayfish, while guns are not for everyone, I still recommend a gun safety course for all kids. I took mine around 8, and my parents didn't have any. The stats change completely when there is proper gun safety learned and kids with gun safety courses are far less likely to play with or mis handle a weapon. Kids will eventually run into weapons, they are at friends houses and families houses.
No. I respect people's right to have them, but I would never allow one in my home. I will however make sure my daughter knows everything there is to know about gun safety when she's old enough.
This whole conversation just seems so surreal to me. I live in Canada and guns just aren't common. The only people I know with guns are farmers or are in the military and only use them when there's a bear or something.
We always had guns in our home(my parents) for safety reasons... they kept them in high hidden places that we(kids) would never get to or even look in that area.
I will want atleast one in FI and I's home when we get our place together.
My FI has one and he plans to get me one after the wedding... I want a small pink one- lol. He has a glock. He used to be a Marine so I'm comfortable with the gun around and it's locked so my son can't get to it. I've went shooting a few times with my friends guns but I've never used a small gun so he says were going to go out and start practicing soon.
No. I can understand hunting or target shooting as a sport, but we don't, and I can't see any other reason to have one in the house.
I second Jenniferk6's comment. The only guns I know about are used for job related purposes or for hunting.
I shoot. My first gun was a .45 Colt 1911. I love it, it is by far the most comfortable gun I have ever had and I have yet to find anything that compares.
Between my husband and I, we have 20 guns; 14 are his, 6 are mine. We have a variety: handguns (both semi-automatic and revolver), rifles, and shotguns.
He hunts. I kind of hunt (I don't like the cold, so if it's cold I don't go.) I do very much enjoy wild game meat though!
We also both have our concealed carry permits.
When we have kids, they will learn about guns from a young age. I personally started shooting when I was 6 or 7 years old, I took hunter safety at 12, and I was in 4-H shooting sports. I grew up in a home with 20+ guns, I never once looked at them as "toys", I learned to respect them from a young age.
Kids that learn about guns are far safer than kids who have parents that try to shelter them from guns. Even if you don't have guns in your home, your child may be to a friend's house where there are guns.
My DH collects them and currently has over 20 in our home; including a sweet AR and I own 2. He also has his conceal carry. Its definetly not for everyone! I could care less about peoples judgements towards us about owning them and badgering us of how unsafe it is.
We have rifles and shotguns. They are for hunting. My husband and his family hunt to provide the family with meat. None of us believe in hunting for any other reason. We hunt for meat because it is a much more humane way of obtaining it than the poor animals raised in factory farms for meat you buy in the supermarket.
Congrats on your first AR. I like a colapsable stock too. But I use open sights in the daytime, green dot or infrared at night.
I have a 2 semi-auto pistols (9mm & .40), 2 revolvers (.38 & .357), an AR-15 (.223), and a shot gun (12ga). Fi hass several too. I am the sniper of our group, and FI is the best with a pistol. We hunt, shoot for fun, and most of our friends are in LE in some way. We are fortunate to have lots of property to shoot on, and invite friends over to shoot all the time.
No, we don't have kids (and don't intend to), but FI's 6 year old niece has shot a pistol before, and loved it. She had been taught that guns are not toys and she is not allowed to touch them with out an adult holding it. The older kids in the family also know about guns. FI's 13 year old niece is the best deer hunter in the family!
We live in the country, and believe that if you teach kids about firearms when they are young and show them to handle firearms properly, the kids will be responsible around guns.
We don't have them in our home because neither FI nor I shoot or hunt for sport, so there's not really a reason for us to own one. However, I learned gun safety at a very young age, even though my parents did not own guns themselves.
We were actually required to take a gun safety course in school in 8th grade, which involved shooting a gun under supervision of a safety officer. Nearly everyone in the area I grew up in hunted and I have spent time in houses of friends and family where there were guns.
Everyone I've ever known who owned guns kept them locked up inside the home and were very safety oriented.
FI has 3, and the only thing preventing the growth of his (and my) gun collection is our status as broke students. He was in the marines before we met and had the highest rating as a rifle instructor (might have said it wrong, but he's proud of it), and taught me to shoot. He's also fastidious about safety.
We live in the country, in TX. Guns are a reality here and I imagine every house around us has at least a couple. I think our future children will go through gun safety training and learn that guns are useful but potentially dangerous items that must be handled carefully, and this will be reinfored by how their dad and I will handle them.
I don't see guns as majorly more or less dangerous than the horses, pool, powertools or vehicles also on the property we live on. All of those things are potentially fatal to children (or adults), but being taught how to properly handle them and seeing their parents always handle them carefully will teach our children how to react to them when adults aren't around. Pretending guns (or other dangerous things) don't exist does not mean our children will never be exposed to them in other places; the safest thing we can do is teach them how to handle them on our terms.
No. When I was growing up, my father had several hunting guns, but he got rid of most (all? not sure) when they brought in the stricter licensing/possession laws - too much of a hassle considering he rarely hunts any more.
I don't hunt, so there would be absolutely no need for me to own one. Plus, they make me really uncomfortable. This is one of the reasons I could never live in certain American States.
ETA: Should I be capitalizing "states" in a sentence like that? Never sure.
@KatyElle - I had a concealed carry license years ago. I was working a national political campaign and there were many many death threats (which is becoming more common). Also, In states where there are concealed weapon laws exists, they have a lower violent crimes rate and lower crime rates against women. You are far less likely to rob someone if they might be packing.
"Can someone please clarify their need for a concealed weapon?"
Protection. Though I'm very unlikely to ever have to use it, I'd rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it. It's like having homeowners' insurance; you don't think your house will burn down, and statistically it will never happen to you, but it does happen to someone and it's better to be prepared.
Suzanna Hupp is a prime example of the fact you don't know when and where something bad will happen. Here's a video of her speaking (broken into 3 parts).
I also live very close to the border between 2 states. I live in Kansas City, so I go back and forth between Kansas and Missouri quite frequently. In Missouri, you can have a concealed firearm in your car without a permit, but in Kansas you need a concealed carry permit to have a concealed firearm in your car. I keep a gun in my car, and it was a pain to always have to stop, unload the gun, and put it in the trunk any time I was going to go into Kansas.
Thinking "it can't happen to me" only works until it does happen to you or someone close to you. I know 2 girls that have been murdered. Niether was in a bad part of town or walking down a dark alley alone at night. One was in a Kansas farm town where people don't bother to lock their doors and they leave their car keys in the ignition. The other was in a typical small college town. (Neither one was killed with a gun. Also neither had a gun for protection.)
@tksjewelry: Exactly. SO has been robbed several times.. with a gun. He put the guy under citizen's arrest.
@JeffsWifey: why do you have to wait before you can own a handgun?
I personally don't know if I want my concealed carry because I am a teacher which means I can NEVER have it at work (obviously) and FI has his and has NEVER carried.
@KatyElle:
Having his CC gives him a legal right to carry his gun especially in his car; and I'm sorry with his job and a few situations we've been in, it was nice knowing he had it. He was also a cop so it goes with the territory. Also if you read up on CC you will see they are not people who are gun toting crazies but people who actually have to go through state and federal background checks, hours of training and can't have a criminal record. Pure safety with laws to protect you so that you can protect yourself.
DH has a gun; he's been in the navy for 9 years and just bought his own, lol. He has a pretty heavy/large handgun that I would never be comfortable shooting so he wants me to get my own before he gets deployed again. He also wants me to get my concealed permit so i can carry it with me for safety.
@KLloyd1: You have to be 21 to legally purchase one. Not quite there yet.
And @katyelle: Need? Personal safety. Mostly, I just want one.
I wasn't asking in an incredulous way, I was really more interested in the practicality of it.
Mr. Tattoo has a handgun and his concealed. The gun is locked up in a safe in our bedroom. My daughter has been shown it and we have talked to her at length about gun safety and how it is not a toy to be played with. She understands the only people that are to touch the safe are Mr. Tattoo and myself.
In fact, she kind of tip toes around it (it's under the night stand in our bedroom, but you can see it when you first come in) I was the same way. My dad had a gun in the house and I remember him sitting me down, showing it to me, and telling me what it was and what could happen if I decided to play with it. I too kind of tip toed around it. It was on a high shelf in a closet in my parents bedroom. I couldn't even reach it until I was much older, but knowing it was there, I was careful.
I'm not worried about an accident because we talk to her often about it. Every month we have safety drills in the house on where to go if a fire starts or what to do if she hears the house alarm go off. Every month after the drill we talk about why we do it and then again, talk about gun safety.
I'm not uncomfortable with it. We live in a pretty safe area. (Right next to an elementary school) But if shit ever went down, I'm happy to know that I have a taser (it's pink!) and if it didn't work, Mr. Tattoo has a gun.
But all this gun talk does make you wonder why America has the highest related gun deaths compared to other countries with stricter gun laws. If you live in this country, you can basically buy a gun anywhere. I'm suprised we don't have drive thru's for guns. I guess we can blame the American attitude that we have a right to do whatever the fuck we want. lol
This sort of blows my mind. Here, the only people who have guns are policemen and bad guys... oh and a very, very small percent have their hunting licence in remote areas but even then they don't have multiple guns.
Reading about all you guys with your guns just amazes me.
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