Posted on 06/18/2019 12:43:16 PM PDT by servo1969
Dear Amy: 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.
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.
I’ve given her three choices: She can either give her weapon to me, sell it or move out in three weeks.
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.
Now she says that I don’t trust her, and is barely speaking to me. How can I convince her to stop endangering us?
Dumbfounded Father
Dear Dumbfounded: According to my research, possessing hollow-point bullets is illegal in 11 states; is it legal in your state to own this sort of exploding ammunition?
In a report published in 2015, researchers at the University of Chicago found that 31 percent of households reported having a firearm in 2014, down from about 48 percent in 1980.
According to this study, there are more guns, but concentrated in fewer households. Why must your household be one of them?
Where did your daughter get this weapon and ammunition? Has she received any safety training or certification? (Accidental gun death is a substantial risk of owning a gun.) Is she perhaps engaged in another activity outside of your household that exposes her to increased risks and makes her believe she needs to have a weapon?
I have news for you: A locked bedroom door is no match for this weaponry; as I write this, just five days ago a father in South Carolina tragically shot and killed his own 23-year-old daughter through a closed door — when he mistook her for an intruder.
I agree with your ultimatum; I also weep that there is yet another (likely unsafe) gun owner in this country.
My dad's handgun lived in the cabinet above the refrigerator. Several semiautomatic rifles, however, lived in corners near various exit doors. None if them made any noise indoors. Outdoors was another matter.
How did she end up so level headed with a dolt of a father like that?
I gave all my daughters handguns when they were of age and passed the firearms training for their CCW’s. No muss, no fuss....
Yep. Reads like it.
NewsFlash for Amy.. Omaha ain’t a sleepy cowtown anymore.
“Accidental gun death is a substantial risk of owning a gun.”
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Intentional stupidity is a substantial risk when spreading party propaganda.
She also has a Vagina, are you worried she might be a Prostitute also??
daughter inherits the house after her father is brutally killed and raped in a home invasion... two have happened already in the neighborhood.
daughter then invites amy from ask amy to spend time on the range firing hollow points into targets.
nothing explodes except amy’s preconceived notions that got her new friend’s father killed.
Didn’t know they made 40 cal Dragon Breath ammo. Thought that was only for “semi-auto” shotguns. Then again, I don’t think I’d fire it from a short barrel handgun.
Semi automatic, oh the horror, oh the ignorance.
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/808093138
LOL
Father kicks out daughter with gun.
Week later, father get’s robbed at home, stabbed by intruder, died hours later.
Daughter: Told you so.
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Daughter inherits house.
Next house-robber is shot dead.
I've heard of that, but my guns are the laziest group of inanimate of objects you've ever met. They don't clean themselves. They don't load themselves. In fact, all they do is lay around. I swear, if it started raining, they would probably just rust. If it wasn't for, me they wouldn't ever go bang. Maybe they are unionized?
She will, I have no doubt, get more than one offer of a place to live!
Those are leftist jews. The leftism has basically trickled down through the generations from the late 1800s/early 1900s and the labor and leftist zionist movements that were present at that time. They are also generally atheist, anti-Christian, and anti-anything that comes across to them as “redneck culture”, which in part explains the distaste for gun ownership. Their ultimate dream is an all powerful state that enforces their views.
Very different crowd from the religious and moderate jews.
So by that logic, if your parents tell you to jump off a steep cliff, youre obligated to honor them and obey?
What about if a parent is abusive?
I see your point but its flawed and inapplicable in this case.
Her proper response is simple
Do not live in their house
His house, his rules
As stupid as they are
But I would live in a cave rather than to dishonor my parents
Or maybe she knows her “father” is utterly incapable of protecting her.
“”Daughter needs to move the heck out of that nuthouse, IMHO. “
I agree - I don’t think I’d make a move to protect the dad with my weapon in case of a break in. Just tell him to go back to bed as they don’t happen in his neighborhood. “Gee, dad, I knew you were against me having a weapon in the house so I decided not to intervene.”
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