The recent riots and flash mobs, together with the east coast earthquake and Hurricane Irene, with Hurricane Katia in the wings did it for me. Along with an assurance from me that it didn’t need to be full-scale armageddon to justify dipping into the emergency food supplies and that a hurricane would qualify.
Still working on the gun and ammo part, though. She’s got a real issue with that. Funny thing is that she would be willing for me to get a bow and arrow. Why? Because she’s familiar with that from gym class in high school (back when they actually had bows and arrows in gym class in high school).
She’s OK with me going to the range, though, to shoot guns and with me taking NRA courses to learn about them. That’s a step in the right direction.
I made a solumn promise back in my naive days that I wouldn’t get a gun without her buy-in, and I’m going to live up to that promise, but that doesn’t mean I’m not going to try to change her mind.
you’ll shoot your eye out!
Take HER to the gun range and the NRA course. My wife was once ambivalent about guns but I talked her into the NRA course. I knew it had had the intended effect when, as we were loading up the truck to go look at raw property she told me to don’t forget the gun, “in case of snakes.”