This woman is an embarrassment to the pioneer women that moved across our frontier. I'm so glad I don't have any acquaintances like this! Such a pantywaist!
Heh... I'm not that hard on her, or, for that matter, on the advice Dr. Joyce gave her. The advice she gave is the same I would give. She should go shooting with her husband and become familiar with it!
I've known a lot of good people, including my roommates in college, who were fearful and apprehensive about guns being in the house because they'd never been exposed to them! Anything unfamiliar and deadly is frightening.
But both of my roommates, and everyone else I've ever taken shooting, was much more comfortable with them after a nice, organized, safe day of target shooting.