Another case of why the wife & I carry 24/7

[Medic218]

This was my moms reply to the e-mail I sent her...

"I know, I saw the story on the news. I just hate that you are living your life in fear and you feel like you need to carry."

I'll be honest, the fact that she thinks I'm living my life in fear kinda hurt. the feeling was similar to being called a failure by a parent.
Nevermind all my military training with firearms. She is still uneasy aroud them. I think she is of the mindset of "out of sight, out of mind". Guess from now on I just won't mention it anymore around her.
Dad is a country boy and doesn't care but mom is a city girl....guess I know where she stands finally. I just didn't expect that to come from the person who first put a pump .22 in my hands at a VERY young age and taught me how to shoot.
Sorry to hijack the thread momentarilly but I figured I'd put it here since I'd already mentioned I e-mailed here on this thread.

[cubbyjg]

This was my moms reply to the e-mail I sent her...

"I know, I saw the story on the news. I just hate that you are living your life in fear and you feel like you need to carry."

I'll be honest, the fact that she thinks I'm living my life in fear kinda hurt. the feeling was similar to being called a failure by a parent.
Nevermind all my military training with firearms. She is still uneasy aroud them. I think she is of the mindset of "out of sight, out of mind". Guess from now on I just won't mention it anymore around her.
Dad is a country boy and doesn't care but mom is a city girl....guess I know where she stands finally. I just didn't expect that to come from the person who first put a pump .22 in my hands at a VERY young age and taught me how to shoot.
Sorry to hijack the thread momentarilly but I figured I'd put it here since I'd already mentioned I e-mailed here on this thread.

When my dad first found out that i had a handgun, he said the same kind of stuff. He actually went on to ask me if i was having problems with my coworkers or friends. I was dumbfounded and had to explain to him that i am not some crazy person and that i purchased a gun and went through the process to get my CHL to help protect myself. In the end, parents will be parents and all we can do is love them. Like i learned in scouts, always be prepared.

[Fangs]

MedicMan218, don't take it that hard. Whether or not your mom "gets it" has nothing to do with how valid your reasoning is. Yeah, we place a lot of weight on our parents' opinions, but in the end you have to know why you believe what you believe. You're just smart enough to see the need in advance, where she will unfortunately only see the need once it's staring her in the face (hopefully that never happens).

Hey, I was impressed when my mom got into text messaging after all the years of, "I don'e see why you would pay for texting when you have a perfectly good phone for calling". Fortunately she grew up on a farm in South Africa, and I never had to explain the gun thing to her.

[surprise_i'm_armed]

To shed some more light on how much of a scum bag the
Fort Worth murderer is:

After his parents disciplined him, her resented them, and
spiked the orange juice in their fridge with a poisonous
chemical. But his 2 younger siblings ended up drinking it
first.

They rushed the siblings to the hospital and were able to
save them.

The poisoner was charged with 2 counts of injury to a child,
then got a plea bargain, and got off easy.

You can now see that if a guy is so twisted as to poison his
own family, the stranger he encountered in that person's own
house doesn't have a chance of humane treatment. Sheesh.

SIA

[VoiceofReason]

He took a life and in my opinion has lost the right to finish living his, if even behind bars till death. People like this don't deserve to breath my oxygen.

I share that opinion MedicMan218. And I'm quite confident that many forum members share that belief also.

Take comfort that Texas (the only sane state in the union) actually uses the death penalty and has shortened the appeals process in the last few years.

Those people sentenced to death in California have more chance of dying of old age than being executed. I was reading that some even want to get the death sentence because on death row they get a private room.