I was living the American dream. And then the Russians hacked the election and I lost.
Signed,
Hank Rodney Clanton
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.
OMG!!! What a bunch of dumb-a$$es. Can’t even bother to look up hollow-point bullets on the web.
[Complete propaganda! - Of course it’s a fake agitprop letter.]
Yep, it’s not even remotely believable.
These Communists all pat each other on the back with their never-ending schemes.
Sorry....tell her to get rid of it or get out.
First of all, this is a fake letter. These “advice” columnists create the “letters” so as to promote propaganda.
This is nothing more than leftist crap, disguised as a letter from a father.
According to leftist dogma, the gun is bad so your daughter is automatically bad. It makes no difference that she is intelligent, hard-working and responsible. NO. Leftist belief is that she has a gun so she is bad.
“Amy” is a fake and so is her advice.
Substitute the word gun with the word dildo and this article is much more fun
What would I really do?.....Take it down to the police station...and tell them the story.
Dear Amy: I looked you up, and you’re not from Nebraska. You are from New York!! Golly gee. So Amy, let me tell you something about Nebraska. We have 15 murders per year, 14 of which occur in 3 or 4 “diverse” neighborhoods in Omaha. For 99% of the Nebraska population, we have no problem with guns or violence. So why don’t you take your left-wing tropes back to Yankee-land and keep them there.
yep
I would bet that killary was that way on election night.
Hollow-points are only illegal in New Jersey. In NJ you can have them in your home and you can take them to the range but you cannot carry your gun loaded with them in public unless you are law enforcement.
I'm sure there's more to this.
Bet dad doesn't even know if she owns it legally.
Meanwhile these idiot commies completely roll over for the very “criminals!” they claim these weapons are for. They hate the guns, but join BLM and complain when thug gets shot or even arrested for 1 day, as “unfair”.
Maybe the Mother stepped out for an evening a long time ago.
Just kidding.
The Father is worse than an idiot, he is dangerously stupid.
(Pssst...for all those who didn’t really read...it’s a father.)
It is like the letters to the editor in any newspaper.
All fake.
I would do the same thing, Texas Resident. Unfortunately, my 20-year-old daughter lives in Manhattan.
I live in Massachusetts and have never owned a gun (although I have shot a .45 handgun before and also shot .22 rifles as a boy).
But I’m planning a move to Tennessee next year, and I will definitely be buying a gun and going to the shooting range after I’m settled there.
It’s the girl’s father, not mother.
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