And.....Time for a nut check

This from Bearing Arms: Guy Writes To Advice Columnist About Lawfully-Armed Daughter

First thing dad needs to do is drop trou and check to see if he still has any cajones. If he does, then it is time for him to get some education. If his daughter felt safe in his home - if he was a real father - then this would not be an issue.

From the original story:

This week I discovered that my intelligent, hard-working, responsible 24-year-old daughter (who lives with me) is a gun owner! And it's not a normal gun either -- it is a 40 caliber semi-automatic, and she has hollow point bullets to go with it.

Eeeeyyyaaahhh! What the hell is a "normal gun"? Guess what, dad - lots of intelligent, hardworking, responsible people (e.g., yours truly) own firearms.  In fact, if someone is going to own one, wouldn't we all prefer they were intelligent, hardworking, and responsible?  OMG - hollow point bullets!  Most responsible choice for ammunition in a firearm used for self-defense.  Most effective and least likely to over-penetrate.  Come on Dad - pull yourself together, get the hell out of your little misinformed fantasy world and seek some knowledge..

Amy, this is the kind of weapon a criminal would possess! She says it is for emergencies. There have only been two home invasions in our neighborhood in the last 11 years.

Hey Sherlock - criminals possess the same kinds of guns as law-abiding citizens and law enforcement do.  In fact, in case you didn't know, that's how most of them get their guns - either stealing them from good folks or buying them from someone who stole them from good folks. Hey Dad - do you have homeowner's insurance?  Do you have a fire extinguisher?  When was the last time your house burned down? Do you wear seat belts?  Well, terrorists only flew airplanes into the WTC and Pentagon once in the past bazillion years, so who needs homeland security?  Your intelligent, hardworking, responsible daughter gets it - she has enough sense to know that bad things happen to good people and the fact that it has not happened yet, does not, like some magical incantation, prevent it from happening today.

ONLY TWO HOME INVASIONS?  If you ask those people who got invaded first, I'd bet that, prior to their home invasions, they said something like "We don't need to prepare, there has never been a home invasion in the neighborhood". To be crude to make a point:  Given you game of "can't happen here" will you be willing, when someone kicks in your door, to sit on your little passive ass and watch them rape your daughter (and then you)?

I've given her three choices: She can either give her weapon to me, sell it, or move out in three weeks.

God, I am so glad that I reared my children to be responsible adults and trust them to make their own decisions, take responsibility for their own health and safety.  I hope she moves out rather than sacrifice her rights, safety and responsible nature to your infantile hysteria.

I love my daughter and would be so sad for her to move into a place that she would hardly be able to afford, but now I have to lock my bedroom door at night because I don't know what she's going to do.

How in the living hell that must exist in this house does this moron square the fact that he called her "intelligent, hard-working, responsible" with the fact that he heels he has to lock his door because he does not know what she will do, to protect himself from her?.  Dude is lying somewhere in here or is histrionic - or both.

Now she says that I don't trust her, and is barely speaking to me. How can I convince her to stop endangering us?


She's right, you are insulting the shit out of her, you don' trust hert, and, well dad, honesty sucks. Your parenting skills are non-existent. You're being an idiot about this.I bet dad doesn't realize how many people around him on a daily basis are carrying guns.  Or, perhaps, Dad doesn't get out much.

All in all, pretty pitiful "Dad"!