I already tried that with my wife. She admitted that she didn’t think she could shoot someone, even to save her life. The last thing I need is dead wife and a criminal on the loose with her shotgun. Women are programmed to be the nurturers and men are programmed to be the warriors, although you couldn’t tell in some progressive households.
Do you have children? Many women that think they can’t shoot someone would in a heartbeat to save their children. At least see if you can get her to practice target shooting and maybe when she feels more comfortable with a weapon if the need arises she may change her mind.
we are all different,
my wife was very hesitant at first, the noise and recoil, but my wife now smiles as she pumps the next round into the chamber. She LOVES blasting watermelons..I have no doubt, this girl would pull the trigger.
Get your wife one anyway, better to have the choice, than not. PS, women in a crunch, will surprise you.
This woman is programmed to shoot if necessary.
I do agree that certain women are not cut out for handling firearms.
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You never met my Grandma. Snakes feared to come on to her place, 'cause if she found 'em there, they never got the chance to leave. She was of pioneer stock. German pioneer stock.
This wife would stop a heart in a heartbeat if it meant staying alive...as well as offing a dirtbag.
Well, teach her anyway. You might be surprised. Most people are “fight or flight” and if flight is not possible, they can be the fiercest fighters. People don’t realize how dangerous a doe can be. Lots of hunters have been killed by an angry deer. Ask her if she’d shoot someone to save your life, and you’ll have your real answer.
WHEN the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride,
He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside.
But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
When Nag the basking cobra hears the careless foot of man,
He will sometimes wriggle sideways and avoid it if he can.
But his mate makes no such motion where she camps beside the trail.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
When the early Jesuit fathers preached to Hurons and Choctaws,
They prayed to be delivered from the vengeance of the squaws.
'Twas the women, not the warriors, turned those stark enthusiasts pale.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
Man's timid heart is bursting with the things he must not say,
For the Woman that God gave him isn't his to give away;
But when hunter meets with husbands, each confirms the other's tale—
The female of the species is more deadly than the male.
Man, a bear in most relations—worm and savage otherwise,—
Man propounds negotiations, Man accepts the compromise.
Very rarely will he squarely push the logic of a fact To its ultimate conclusion in unmitigated act.
Fear, or foolishness, impels him, ere he lay the wicked low,
To concede some form of trial even to his fiercest foe.
Mirth obscene diverts his anger—Doubt and Pity oft perplex
Him in dealing with an issue—to the scandal of The Sex!
But the Woman that God gave him, every fibre of her frame
Proves her launched for one sole issue, armed and engined for the same;
And to serve that single issue, lest the generations fail,
The female of the species must be deadlier than the male.
She who faces Death by torture for each life beneath her breast
May not deal in doubt or pity—must not swerve for fact or jest. These be purely male diversions—not in these her honour dwells—
She the Other Law we live by, is that Law and nothing else.
She can bring no more to living than the powers that make her great
As the Mother of the Infant and the Mistress of the Mate.
And when Babe and Man are lacking and she strides unclaimed to claim
Her right as femme (and baron), her equipment is the same.
She is wedded to convictions—in default of grosser ties;
Her contentions are her children, Heaven help him who denies!—
He will meet no suave discussion, but the instant, white-hot, wild,
Wakened female of the species warring as for spouse and child.
Unprovoked and awful charges—even so the she-bear fights,
Speech that drips, corrodes, and poisons—even so the cobra bites,
Scientific vivisection of one nerve till it is raw
And the victim writhes in anguish—like the Jesuit with the squaw!
So it comes that Man, the coward, when he gathers to confer
With his fellow-braves in council, dare not leave a place for her
Where, at war with Life and Conscience, he uplifts his erring hands
To some God of Abstract Justice—which no woman understands.
And Man knows it! Knows, moreover, that the Woman that God gave him
Must command but may not govern—shall enthral but not enslave him.
And She knows, because She warns him, and Her instincts never fail,
That the Female of Her Species is more deadly than the Male.
Rudyard Kipling
She might surprise herself when faced with reality and the necessity of self-preservation, or the preservation of her family.
My thought is that it's better to be prepared and decide against it than to be unprepared and regret it.
Do you think she would watch some Clint Smith vids? His defensive thinking, and defensive tactics might be a good start.
There was a Mother and Daughter who lived in a town about six miles from me. They didn't want a gun in the house, so they kept a ball peen hammer by the Mom's bed.
An illegal immigrant broke into their house one night. He took their hammer away from them, and used it to bash their heads in. As they lay there,slowly dying, he raped and sodomized them.
I really pray that your wife will be able to overcome her mindset. It is heartwrenching to think that any woman would willfully submit to the possibility of rape, sodomy, and torture at the hands of a depraved animal.
Depends somewhat on what you were exposed to growing up. I'm about as far from a progressive as one could imagine, yet I enjoy killing and eating things. Additionally, if it comes down to me or a criminal tresspasser ... you're going to find a room temperature criminal tresspasser. If someone is inside my house uninvited or in the middle of the night, it is first assumed that they are there to harm me and they will be harmed with extreme prejudice.
Oh, and I nurture with the best of them, too.