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.
How did such a bright responsible gun-owner of a daughter come from such a crying wimp-faced pu$$y of an excrement excuse of a man?
Is she single?
Not having guns is what causes mass shootings.
OMG, so much wrong with this I don’t know where to start!
The weirdest thing of all here?
Father basically saying he doesn’t know what she is going to do!
I.e, he thinks she wants to murder him?
What a nutcase! Or, has she had a past with him that makes him feel she might deliberately shoot him?
Amendment 2
A well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.
Hmmm, Honor Parents or Second Amendment...
Ten Commandments are a higher law
The daughter is under obligation
The advice columnist is full of sh.t however
Not unless she's unarmed when you do.
Homo
Sounds like liberal fiction to me.
A few minutes with a hacksaw or drill bit and a FMJ is suddenly illegal?
Maybe dad should watch some of my favorite videos....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ5ORqlmHe8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvN1EvrYYkk
Tell me, Amy, exactly how do you define “a normal gun”??
Yeah, this is but one way the liberals brainwash the fools out there.
“That gun might decide to shoot him. They’re like that, you know.”
Yup. Guns have a mind of their own according to stupid liberals. They sometimes hold meetings at 3 am and figure out which person to shoot the next day..
What’s also weird is that he sounds somewhat like he knows something about firearms!
That whole “letter” sounds phony as a $3 bill. It comes across as something the advice giver wrote just to preach the “dangers” of gun ownership.
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