Family And GF Oppose Gun Purchase..

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: KevinCU

Originally posted by: sandorski
Owning a Gun does not make you or anyone else a Man. If you think it does, you are not a Man.

Do you think that not owning a gun makes you "more" of a man?

See post above yours.

 

[phreaqe]

Originally posted by: sandorski

Originally posted by: KevinCU

Originally posted by: sandorski
Owning a Gun does not make you or anyone else a Man. If you think it does, you are not a Man.

Do you think that not owning a gun makes you "more" of a man?

See post above yours.

while it may be true taht having a gun does not make me a man, my wife expects me to protect her as part of my doing my MANly duties of being her husband. If having a gun makes me able to fulfill those duties better then NOBODY has any right to tell me otherwise.

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: phreaqe

Originally posted by: sandorski

Originally posted by: KevinCU

Originally posted by: sandorski
Owning a Gun does not make you or anyone else a Man. If you think it does, you are not a Man.

Do you think that not owning a gun makes you "more" of a man?

See post above yours.

while it may be true taht having a gun does not make me a man, my wife expects me to protect her as part of my doing my MANly duties of being her husband. If having a gun makes me able to fulfill those duties better then NOBODY has any right to tell me otherwise.

Everybody has the right. You just don't have to listen.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: KevinCU

Originally posted by: sandorski
Owning a Gun does not make you or anyone else a Man. If you think it does, you are not a Man.

Do you think that not owning a gun makes you "more" of a man?

It doesn't even enter into the equation.

 

[phreaqe]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat

Originally posted by: phreaqe

Originally posted by: sandorski

Originally posted by: KevinCU

Originally posted by: sandorski
Owning a Gun does not make you or anyone else a Man. If you think it does, you are not a Man.

Do you think that not owning a gun makes you "more" of a man?

See post above yours.

while it may be true taht having a gun does not make me a man, my wife expects me to protect her as part of my doing my MANly duties of being her husband. If having a gun makes me able to fulfill those duties better then NOBODY has any right to tell me otherwise.

Everybody has the right. You just don't have to listen.

very true and i truly appreciate the rights they have to tell me that.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: Amused
There are 150 million females out there and not a single one is worth your self respect.

In other words, to give you the best advice my father gave me: NEVER take an ultimatum from a woman.

Trust me on this. Unless you want to be one of those whipped guys who never get their way and have to beg for everything in a relationship.

that's the dumbest fuckin thing i ever read on this forum.

This advice goes FOR WOMEN TOO.

NEVER take an ultimatum from a man. It WILL lead to being walked all over.

Ultimatums are POWER PLAYS. They are not discussions, they are demands. They are not a sign of a healthy relationship, they are a sign of dominance and control.

 

[compman25]

Do you wear a dress?

Does she wear the pants?

 

[preslove]

Is the gf hot?

Yes? Don't buy the gun.

No? Dump gf and buy gun.



But, srsly, anyone who would name themselves 'Triforceofcourage' probably isn't mature enough to own a fire arm...

 

[2Xtreme21]

Originally posted by: everman

Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21

it is made for one purpose: to kill. The only reason to own one is that you want to be prepared to one day use it to end the life of someone or something.

Hardly. Have you ever gone to the range just to shoot some targets? It's actually a lot of fun. It's one of those things that looks a lot easier than it really is. I suggest that you do if you haven't, because guns are not inherently dangerous weapons of death. The best definition is that they are tools, but you can have good safe fun with them too in a responsible manner. There's no reason to be afraid of them. I've introduced gun-fearing individuals to firearms and so far all of them love it, and are no longer afraid of them.

Can't you go to a bar and play darts and achieve the same effect of nailing a target? Just because the military can play target practice games by firing missiles from planes doesn't mean they don't exist solely for the purpose of killing.

For the record, I'm not towing the "guns kill people" line that you're rushing to defend. I've gone to shooting ranges with my uncle and cousins and I've had a lot of fun, and I one day plan to own a (or a few) firearms myself. I wouldn't get one if the love of my life vehemently opposed though as I actually respect what she thinks.

 

[Molondo]

The first response to this thread is probably your best one.

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: spidey07
My girl was against it, until I was robbed when I slept. Now she is very happy and feels much more safe and knows how to operate them all.

no matter how many times i try, i cant seem to fire my 9mm while im sleeping.



and if she isnt willing to listen and compromise on the gun issue, you have the obvious choice to make. i dont envy you, thats a hard one to make. you could literally replace "gun" with anything you felt like buying right now. "new stereo", "motorcycle", "velvet painting", doesnt matter. if she has that kind of control over you right now, she will only gain more by getting you to cave on things you want.

 

[Miramonti]

You can get further with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word.

 

[sutahz]

Originally posted by: Triforceofcourage
I'm a grown man and live on my own. They can just deal with it.

Pretty much sums it up. What's more important to you, making a choice you want or setting aside your own wants to make another happy/comfortable?

 

[Mr Pickles]

Originally posted by: sutahz

Originally posted by: Triforceofcourage
I'm a grown man and live on my own. They can just deal with it.

Pretty much sums it up. What's more important to you, making a choice you want or setting aside your own wants to make another happy/comfortable?

So what you're saying is you have never been in a real relationship with someone while taking their perspective into consideration....

Please don't buy a gun. Granted, it can be used as a recreational tool at the range but it is still capable of falling into the wrong hands. Its not as if you are buying a dog that will live for a certain amount of years. When a gun is produced it has an indefinite shelf life. Who knows who's hands it will be in 30 years from now. You want to say yours, but that might not always be the case.

 

[pstylesss]

Originally posted by: Mr Pickles

Originally posted by: sutahz

Originally posted by: Triforceofcourage
I'm a grown man and live on my own. They can just deal with it.

Pretty much sums it up. What's more important to you, making a choice you want or setting aside your own wants to make another happy/comfortable?

So what you're saying is you have never been in a real relationship with someone while taking their perspective into consideration....

Please don't buy a gun. Granted, it can be used as a recreational tool at the range but it is still capable of falling into the wrong hands. Its not as if you are buying a dog that will live for a certain amount of years. When a gun is produced it has an indefinite shelf life. Who knows who's hands it will be in 30 years from now. You want to say yours, but that might not always be the case.

And that dog may bite someone and you may fall asleep at the wheel and kill someone and the sky may fall today, or tomorrow, who knows.

Stay out of these threads, troll, we all know you're an anti-gun nut.

 

[Lalakai]

Originally posted by: Triforceofcourage
I would like to purchase a gun for protection and just taking it to the range.
However, my family and gf are against it. I really don't care my family is against it. I'm a grown man and live on my own. They can just deal with it. However, my gf is threatening to never come over again if I get it. Should I just man up and tell her to piss off. Or is it possible to reason with her?

lol it gets back to whether you can accept a person as they are, or feel the need to change them so that you can accept them. Regardless of the item/topic that is at question, if one person in the relationship lays down a mandate, that doesn't bode well for the future. before getting too far though, is your desire to own a firearm a new issue or one that she's known of? If it's a sudden identification that's new to her, then there's grounds for compromise.

If not guns, it could be religion, politics, finances, career, etc. How would you feel if your partner told you that she couldn't be with you unless you were catholic, or buddist, or republican, or shaved your head, or you wanted 5 children instead of 2 or none, ......and on and on and on. Don't go hard core on her, but if you like what she brings to the relationship you two have, see if you can talk about why she feels the way she does. Good luck.

 

[Mr Pickles]

Originally posted by: ZeroIQ

Originally posted by: Mr Pickles

Originally posted by: sutahz

Originally posted by: Triforceofcourage
I'm a grown man and live on my own. They can just deal with it.

Pretty much sums it up. What's more important to you, making a choice you want or setting aside your own wants to make another happy/comfortable?

So what you're saying is you have never been in a real relationship with someone while taking their perspective into consideration....

Please don't buy a gun. Granted, it can be used as a recreational tool at the range but it is still capable of falling into the wrong hands. Its not as if you are buying a dog that will live for a certain amount of years. When a gun is produced it has an indefinite shelf life. Who knows who's hands it will be in 30 years from now. You want to say yours, but that might not always be the case.

And that dog may bite someone and you may fall asleep at the wheel and kill someone and the sky may fall today, or tomorrow, who knows.

Stay out of these threads, troll, we all know you're an anti-gun nut.

You might want to review the concept of troll. It might help you differentiate between pointless posts that are made to bait people into increased emotions, like your reply, and posts that actually have reason and a clear viewpoint, like my reply; weather you like my opinion on guns or not.

 

[pstylesss]

Originally posted by: Mr Pickles

Originally posted by: ZeroIQ

Originally posted by: Mr Pickles

Originally posted by: sutahz

Originally posted by: Triforceofcourage
I'm a grown man and live on my own. They can just deal with it.

Pretty much sums it up. What's more important to you, making a choice you want or setting aside your own wants to make another happy/comfortable?

So what you're saying is you have never been in a real relationship with someone while taking their perspective into consideration....

Please don't buy a gun. Granted, it can be used as a recreational tool at the range but it is still capable of falling into the wrong hands. Its not as if you are buying a dog that will live for a certain amount of years. When a gun is produced it has an indefinite shelf life. Who knows who's hands it will be in 30 years from now. You want to say yours, but that might not always be the case.

And that dog may bite someone and you may fall asleep at the wheel and kill someone and the sky may fall today, or tomorrow, who knows.

Stay out of these threads, troll, we all know you're an anti-gun nut.

You might want to review the concept of troll. It might help you differentiate between pointless posts that are made to bait people into increased emotions, like your reply, and posts that actually have reason and a clear viewpoint, like my reply; weather you like my opinion on guns or not.

You come in almost every gun thread and say "please don't buy guns". This time you added a few more sentences.

 

[Mr Pickles]

Originally posted by: ZeroIQ

Originally posted by: Mr Pickles

Originally posted by: ZeroIQ

Originally posted by: Mr Pickles

Originally posted by: sutahz

Originally posted by: Triforceofcourage
I'm a grown man and live on my own. They can just deal with it.

Pretty much sums it up. What's more important to you, making a choice you want or setting aside your own wants to make another happy/comfortable?

So what you're saying is you have never been in a real relationship with someone while taking their perspective into consideration....

Please don't buy a gun. Granted, it can be used as a recreational tool at the range but it is still capable of falling into the wrong hands. Its not as if you are buying a dog that will live for a certain amount of years. When a gun is produced it has an indefinite shelf life. Who knows who's hands it will be in 30 years from now. You want to say yours, but that might not always be the case.

And that dog may bite someone and you may fall asleep at the wheel and kill someone and the sky may fall today, or tomorrow, who knows.

Stay out of these threads, troll, we all know you're an anti-gun nut.

You might want to review the concept of troll. It might help you differentiate between pointless posts that are made to bait people into increased emotions, like your reply, and posts that actually have reason and a clear viewpoint, like my reply; weather you like my opinion on guns or not.

You come in almost every gun thread and say "please don't buy guns". This time you added a few more sentences.

That's not trolling. I'm not hoping for some sort of a huge response and a bunch of hate replies. I'm not looking to piss people off. In fact, the reason why I keep it so short is because the more opinionated comments I put into a reply the bigger, nastier response I get. My goal in making those replies short is simply to let people know that there's someone out there that opposed the option to purchase a gun. I keep it straight, I keep it simple, I don't call people names like "trolls" or "...gun nuts". Its effectively harmless, which is in contrast to your reply. I added a few more sentences this time hoping the OP understands the longevity the decision to purchase a gun holds. Nothing more.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: Mr Pickles
My goal in making those replies short is simply to let people know that there's someone out there that opposed the option to purchase a gun.

Well, just so you know, every person that posts on here about buying a gun is already well aware that there are people out there opposed to them buying a gun before you post.

 

[jonks]

nuke her from orbit...?

just get it and don't tell them. ez peezy.

 

[MotF Bane]

Originally posted by: ZeroIQ

Originally posted by: Mr Pickles

Originally posted by: ZeroIQ

Originally posted by: Mr Pickles

Originally posted by: sutahz

Originally posted by: Triforceofcourage
I'm a grown man and live on my own. They can just deal with it.

Pretty much sums it up. What's more important to you, making a choice you want or setting aside your own wants to make another happy/comfortable?

So what you're saying is you have never been in a real relationship with someone while taking their perspective into consideration....

Please don't buy a gun. Granted, it can be used as a recreational tool at the range but it is still capable of falling into the wrong hands. Its not as if you are buying a dog that will live for a certain amount of years. When a gun is produced it has an indefinite shelf life. Who knows who's hands it will be in 30 years from now. You want to say yours, but that might not always be the case.

And that dog may bite someone and you may fall asleep at the wheel and kill someone and the sky may fall today, or tomorrow, who knows.

Stay out of these threads, troll, we all know you're an anti-gun nut.

You might want to review the concept of troll. It might help you differentiate between pointless posts that are made to bait people into increased emotions, like your reply, and posts that actually have reason and a clear viewpoint, like my reply; weather you like my opinion on guns or not.

You come in almost every gun thread and say "please don't buy guns". This time you added a few more sentences.

This. Pickles, you're a troll. Stop posting in gun threads.

 

[jonks]

Originally posted by: phreaqe

Originally posted by: sandorski

Originally posted by: KevinCU

Originally posted by: sandorski
Owning a Gun does not make you or anyone else a Man. If you think it does, you are not a Man.

Do you think that not owning a gun makes you "more" of a man?

See post above yours.

while it may be true taht having a gun does not make me a man, my wife expects me to protect her as part of my doing my MANly duties of being her husband. If having a gun makes me able to fulfill those duties better then NOBODY has any right to tell me otherwise.

tell her 1867 called and it wants her bonnet back

 

[Mr Pickles]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: Mr Pickles
My goal in making those replies short is simply to let people know that there's someone out there that opposed the option to purchase a gun.

Well, just so you know, every person that posts on here about buying a gun is already well aware that there are people out there opposed to them buying a gun before you post.

Then how about "another one" instead of "someone"? Its important to me for my own reasons. Making someone think that much more about the decision is worth the reply.

 

[adairusmc]

Originally posted by: Mr Pickles

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: Mr Pickles
My goal in making those replies short is simply to let people know that there's someone out there that opposed the option to purchase a gun.

Well, just so you know, every person that posts on here about buying a gun is already well aware that there are people out there opposed to them buying a gun before you post.

Then how about "another one" instead of "someone"? Its important to me for my own reasons. Making someone think that much more about the decision is worth the reply.

Well, here is hoping that someone reading your replies decides to buy two guns instead of one. :beer: