"Do yourself a favor. First thing, get a firearm.
How many incidents involving aged people and firearms have occurred? Now how many incidents involve black men and guns?
Maybe someone is looking at the wrong risk group.
When should Grandpa give up his gun? When his son or daughter inherit it.
I guess it’s a good thing I lost all of my weapons in that terrible boating accident at the deepest part of Trinity Lake.
To bad, so sad, right?
Maybe gramps needs an electronic headphone, encouragement to go from 9mm to .45 ACP, free range time and free ammo and the gov’t to totally leave him the H alone...
I'm not geriatric yet, but the youngest kid and I have had the talk.
I try to give her my keys every time I see her. She won't take 'em. She knows I hate driving.
She does want my grandmother's .38 special though. But that won't get transfered until it's time, just like the keys.
Everyone has a claim on their preferred firearm. Lots have already been handed down through a couple of generations.
One thing for sure... govt ain't getting any of it.
/johnny
when do older folks don’t need self-defense? there have been great articles posted about older folks using their weapons to defend themselves.
"Do yourself a favor. First thing, get a firearm.
When the family is able to provide 24-7-365 assurance of coverage and capable of providing safety. I would still keep a fallback option. Give it up? Not likely.
Unfortunately certain questions from child to parent are verboten in my family and always have been unless the parent introduces the topic.My siblings and I were never allowed to ask how much money Daddy made? Or did they have sex before the wedding? Does Daddy still have Ben and Betsy? His names for two shotguns? Do we have funding and contacts for his funeral when that happens? Does he have a will written? We are all in late 50s and no one dares to ask, or at best you get the Silent Treatment.
Grandpa keeps his favorite 10 then gives the rest to the following generations when he pleases. Problem solved.
I’m dealing with the driving issue now, and I can see where this could be a problem in the future.
But the American Medical Association says they don’t even know if I’m a boy or a girl anymore....so I sure ain’t gonna trust a bunch of doctors to handle a complicated issue like this one.
My grandmother has Alzheimers. She has often been uncharacteristically aggressive towards my mother, grabbing her and pinching her, swearing at her and threatening to throw things at her. A neighbour whose husband developed alzheimers said that one day he grabbed her hair and then started hitting her in a demented rage.
I think under those kinds of circumstances, they should have their guns taken off them if they can no longer be trusted to be rational. My grandmother is still living at home for the time being.
The more appropriate question should be... “Should 19-year-old Gangster Disciple gangbanger Ja’Qu’An give up HIS gun??
Keep the government bureaucrats out of our gun cases!!!
(See? It works both ways!)
My Father passed away from Alzheimer’s back in 2007. We didn’t have to worry about his guns because as soon as my Mom told all the children he was diagmosed my one older brother who lived only 45 miles from my parents started to steal all my Dad’s guns.
One day my sister opened the gun safe and it had one pistol left and that was the one I purchased for my Dad as a present back in the 1080s. All the rest of his firearms were gone, my brother had taken them.
How comfortable would these same doctors be suggesting old people give up their right to vote?
I guess I missed the epidemic of geriatric killings. Is that who is behind the slaughter in Chicago?
The thugocracy always goes after those less able, lest they have a conversation with young black men.
Doctors, again, trying their anti-gun status, from a different angle, period.
It is none of their (*) busyness!