In 1983 my wife decided that having guns in the house was a bad thing. She wasn’t happy until I locked them in a large cabinet in my garage. A week later, she went to visit friends in California. The first night she was away, someone thought our house was vacant and broke in. I wrestled with the intruder and wound up with a large hunting knife embedded in my shoulder.
The burglar ran off and I called the cops. They didn’t catch him, but I remember the Chief of Police asking me if I owned a gun. When I said, “Yes.”, he then asked me, “Why didn’t you use it?”
In the days following this event, my firearms came back into the house and I’ve never since investigated a noise at night without my 12 Gauge.
Thank the Living God you survived that event. I certainly hope your beloved bride took that as a clarion call to become vigilant.
I took my wife to a pistol range many years ago to introduce her to firearms. She had never fired one before so I went through an abbreviated course of fire for her. Her 1st round was dead-center in the 10 ring at 15 yards. She has been an expert shot ever since and has supported me taking our kids to the range. All are trained and understand the purpose of firearms in our home. I continue to encourage their successive training and expose them to the realities of those who both maintain arms and those who do not.
Keep your powder dry!
All you need do is rack a shell in, watch perp run, then clean up the urine spilled when the piddle their britches.
Hunting knife in the shoulder?
That’s gotta hurt.
There is actually an evolutionary theory that many women are subconsciously programmed to demand things that will get their men killed.
It is a unconscious way of making sure they are with the fittest man possible. If the man follows her lethal advice, he was not as fit as a man who would ignore her. So when she gets him killed with bad advice, she can then seek out a man who will ignore her, and whose children will be more likely to keep her genes flowing through the family tree.
Interestingly it is also believed (with good anecdotal evidence IMHO) that such women tend to become more attracted to men who just blow them off and happily do their own thing, regardless of any bitching and moaning.
Just FYI.
Either way, glad you survived your wife!
“In 1983 my wife decided...”
I think I found the root of your problem.... :)