Posted on 06/19/2019 7:37:09 AM PDT by SJackson
From Live Well Nebraska comes the most amusingly hysterical and extraordinarily ignorant advice column I have read in a long while. It consists of a question, posed by a man writing as “Dumbfounded Father,” and a response, offered by “syndicated columnist” Amy Dickinson. At no point in the exchange does either person range within a country mile of reality.
Dear Amy: This week, I discovered that my intelligent, hard-working, responsible 24-year-old daughter (who lives with me) is a gun owner!
What, exactly, is the purpose of this description of his daughter? Is the implication that an “intelligent, hardworking, and responsible” person should not own a gun? Would the purchase be more understandable if it had been made by a stupid, lazy, and reckless person? Is it that women should not own guns (long live the patriarchy!)? Or should gun-owners be older, perhaps. He doesn’t say.
It gets worse from there:
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.
It is difficult to think of a more “normal gun” than a 40-caliber semi-automatic pistol. If there is such a thing as a “normal gun” in American life, it is this one. Likewise, there is nothing especially scary about “hollow-point bullets,” more on which later.
He continues:
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.
A 40-caliber semi-automatic is in no way “the kind of weapon a criminal would possess.” Hell, what does that even mean? Millions of Americans possess 40-caliber semi-automatic pistols. Tens of millions possess near-identical handguns in 9mm, .357 SIG, and .45 ACP, among others. There’s nothing remotely “criminal” about those guns, or about the people who own them.
As for his “she says it is for emergencies” part. If that’s what she says, then why not believe her? She’s an adult, isn’t she?
Oh:
I’ve given her three choices: She can either give her weapon to me, sell it or move out in three weeks.
“Give the weapon to me” is an odd thing to write after “this is the kind of weapon a criminal would possess” — as, for that matter is, “sell it” (to whom: a criminal?). But the “move out in three weeks part” takes the cake, given that he follows it up with:
I love my daughter and would be so sad for her to move into a place that she would hardly be able to afford
The position thus far, then, is: “My daughter has bought a gun for emergencies. This is irrational because we live in a safe area that has hosted only — only! — two home invasions in the past decade. In consequence, I will force her to live in a place that is more dangerous.”
Brilliant.
Dumbfounded’s question then goes fully off the rails:
but now I have to lock my bedroom door at night because I don’t know what she’s going to do.
Has there ever been a better illustration of the weird belief that the mere act of owning a firearm turns even “intelligent, hard-working, responsible” people into murderous psychopaths? The questioner is is talking about his own daughter. He doesn’t know what she’s “going to do”? He has to “lock his bedroom door at night”? Good Lord, man.
Related thread.
Ask Amy: My daughter lives with me and owns a gun. Can I kick her out?
Maybe the third time is a charm?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3757812/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3757278/posts
Just sayin’.
Why is he afraid of her?
Sounds like an agenda driven, virtue signaling, fabrication.
I read this a couple of times yesterday and have come to the conclusion Dumbfounded Father is a Master Troll... I can’t accept anything else because to do so I would have to accept the fact our American Culture of badassery has been absolutely thinned and diluted to the point we actually have pansies like, what were being lead to believe, this living among us. This person trolled the crap out of Amy!!
Your link is better than than the others that have been posted about this. So thanks.
First)I think she’s adopted.
Second) There’s no mention of the Mom so she must have moved out cause she was tired of protecting his “soy” eating butt.
I’d advise the daughter to shoot the lock off his door and put an end to his gun phobia...
Just sayin’...
Actually, I believe Amy made up the letter in order get her column the attention it is now getting. It worked.
No one wrote any letter - it is all fake. It was revealed several years ago that “letters” to Amy are written by her staff.
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