These things tend to hit home with people when it can be related to them on a personal level.steveincowtown wrote:I have a reformed buddy who always questioned the need for guns, the last conversation before he purchased his first gun was about 2 days after he had his first daughter.
Non Gun Buddy: I can't see having guns in the house, especially now that I have kids.
Steveincowtown: Really...what is the average response time of the police in (his town).
Non Gun Buddy: Oh, pretty decent. I think they say like 5 minutes or something.
Steveincowtown: Well that seems like a long time to watch a bad guy attack your wife and daughter before the cops get there.
He bought a gun 2 days later and then I took him to the gun show to get a safe that weekend.
My wife is not a big fan of guns but she allows them in the home. I had been talking with a buddy of mine about buying a shotgun from him and my wife was OK with it but not really enthused either. Then one night when we were watching TV and the baby was asleep, we heard a loud hammering sound on our back fence (which runs along an open field). I grabbed a flashlight and my handgun while the wife grabbed our baby and we retreated to another part of the house. I dug out my cell phone and called the Sheriff's Office.
It turned out to be nothing but wouldn't you know it, after that my wife was a lot more interested in getting that shotgun.
"Whatever man" - never was there a better, more convincing end to an argument.