My anti-gun mom.

keep.
working.
some.
ships.
are.
slow.
coming.
about.

I feel sorry for you, I know what you are going through - I am married to an anti-gun person. I have have more than a few firearms. Don't give up. Keeping working on the problem and you will find a solution.

Ahh my friend I share your pain. My mom saw my gun on my hip one day in the mall here and she asked me "Do you take that thing everywhere?" and I replied well of course I do. She then asked why and my answer was nothing short of perfect for her haha. I answered her question with this, "Do you wear your seatbelt everyday? With the mindset that the one day you dont wear it you will get hurt in an accident?" I said to me the one day I dont have it with me will be the one day it may have saved my life.

What's going to change if your mom becomes pro gun?

She's your mom, show some respect for her opinion and quit rubbing her nose in the fact that you disagree.

Yes I meant every word

Unfortuneatly Kyle, this is your mother were talking about. If there was one thing being a kid taught me, it's that your parents do not respect your thoughts. They're right, your wrong. End of story.

Your best hope is to move out, and get an apartment or house. Preferably with a friend you trust who will split the rent and utilities. Also try going half-in-half on groceries, going dutch never works when it comes to stocking cabinets. You and he will always eat what looks best first and save the Ramen for when your desperate, and living on your own means you'll be desperate!

*warning will not work with all moms*

Complimenting complimenting complimenting. I don't care if it is your mother, your wife or a girl you are trying to pick up, I have yet to find one that doesn't like it. Now have you ever heard the phrase "flattery will get you everywhere"?

Thank you mom for how well she raised you and how great you feel you turned out. Say how you don't think you could have become this smart and have such great judgment without her. Once she has taken the bait and concurred with you about how she turned you into a bright young man with good judgment, that's when you spring out that you used the smarts and good judgment she gave you to realize that guns are not evil.

yes guns are not evil, but my powers of manipulation are

Take her shooting.

www.gunfacts.info

Would you rather be right, or happy?

You could always force the issue and continue to argue your position in an effort to show her that you are right, but neither of you would be happy.

or

You could love your mom, and count the immeasurable blessings that she has brought to your life.



Rarely will you be able to reason someone out of their emotions.

youll shoot your eye out

Well I guess I got lucky. My wife just dragged me to are local gun shop to show me the gun she's been wanting for CCW. My mother in law wanted a gun for home defense so she went with us too. We ended up buying 2 Taurus Pt111.
It was my mother in laws first gun ever, having moved from Mass.. She didn't even realize she could own a gun. Gotta love Florida its a pretty pro gun state. On my side of the family my mother carries a Charter arms .38 spcl. My whole family is now "gun nuts" I'm loving it.

You could have my problem if you wanted....

My Mom showed up at my house this weekend and she was carrying her loaded .38 in her purse with her. She has no CCW permit.. But she is pro-gun and worries little/understands the level of scrutiny that she'll receive from a LEO in a vehicle stop.

My problem is that she has wad-cutters and hardball loaded in the gun and doesn't want any of the fancy stuff in there. She justs wants what she knows that works.

For what it is worth, my Mom is 66 and used to be afraid of guns until relatively recently. She lives in North Central Minnesota and their driveway is literally a 1/2 mile long, winding through trees into pure seclusion. They had a problem with a drunk showing up at there door and being belligerent at 10pm. When it took Crow Wing County 20 mins to get there, that was her wake up call. "She got it then".

People have to "feel" a need to change an established pattern of behavior.

When it's her getting robbed, she'll change her mind.

If you can get her shooting that is your only chance. The men on both sides of the family love shooting. My wives brothers and I go to the range whenever they visit . My wife? Haven't been able to get her, my mother, or sisters to the range once. And yes, I've tried. I don't badger them, leave it alone, just try and figure out a way to get her shooting then let me know how you did it!

I didn't have a problem with guns with my mother. But, Lord, I had plenty of problems otherwise.

I never got through with reason. Not once in her lifetime. But I found the way on my 21st birthday. I had just eaten my first bite of steak as my mother completed the sum of her present complaints...and started over...word for word.

I calmly placed my knife and fork on my plate. I wiped my mouth with my napkin. Then I got up and went around to my mother. I kissed her cheek and quietly said,"Mama, I love you. I'll come back when you have other subjects to talk about."

I continued to do that every time she climbed on my back. I'd listen to the sum of her complaints once. When she began to play the same record again, I would kiss her, tell her I loved her and would leave. She asked me one day when I would stop doing this and stay for a proper visit. I told her I would stop leaving when she stopped trying to repeat complaints over and over and over. If she didn't stop then I wouldn't stop. She stopped. That was in 1975. My mother died in 2003 and I miss her dearly. But she never did that again after doing it for over 21 years.

If you're on your own, your mother's opinions don't matter.

My mother in Illinois doesn't like that I carry. I live two states away and support myself. It doesn't matter what she thinks.

She can not be reasoned with.

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Then give up trying to change her mind and simply be happy that you still have her with you.

What's going to change if your mom becomes pro gun?

She's your mom, show some respect for her opinion and quit rubbing her nose in the fact that you disagree.

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Big +1. I can understand the frustration of trying to "enlighten" anti-gunners, but you can't make everyone see it the way you do. Pushing and forcing the issue just makes them more defensive and closed off, and makes you (and pro-gunners as a result) look like pushy idiots who can't peacefully co-exist with those who don't believe as they do.

Let it rest. Pro-gun or not, she's your mom. It's not worth alienating family over beliefs.

I had a girl talking to me once about guns(anti gun).So i asked her.You're laying in bed about to go to sleep.somebody opens the bedroom door.what would you rather have a phone to call 911,or a loaded gun to protect yourself.She never said anythink about guns again to me.

You want to give mom an example of why we all
need to be able to protect ourselves?

Get a few buds together and stage a home invasion on her on night.
If she doesn't have a heart attack before you guys pull off your
masks and reveal it's just a hoax. She will get the message.

Don't really try this.
Maybe a better thing to do would be show her vids
from you tube of how women have defended themselves against would be attackers.
Then show her the stats and perhaps vids from those women who chose to be victims.

My Mom showed up at my house this weekend and she was carrying her loaded .38 in her purse with her. She has no CCW permit.. But she is pro-gun and worries little/understands the level of scrutiny that she'll receive from a LEO in a vehicle stop.

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Is your house in Illinois, as your location suggests? If so, then does your mom know what "felony" means?

I don't get the responses that say "It's your Mom, let her have her way".

Are you telling us it is written in stone that your Mother is always right and you have no right to voice disagreement with her? If so, I really feel sorry for you people.

As for the posters that are married to rabid anti-gunners, I just don't get it. Why did you get married if you knew this (unless you didn't know prior). There is no way I could live with someone who's mindset is completely different than mine. I couldn't even live my life with someone who's political views are opposite mine. Sorry, but I just don't get it.

In some ways it's worse being married to someone like my wife, because she's not as much of a gun nut as I am, but she took her carry class and does like shooting.

Meaning:

I can't pull the "Oh, honey, I've always had that gun..." because she knows and has shot my entire collection, but she's not such a gun nut that I never need to ask about buying one, either.

When someone tries to call me paranoid for wanting to carry a gun when nothing dangerous has happened to me, I do this:

Me: "Well, has your house ever been robbed?"
Them: No
Me: Well, then wouldn't you be considered paranoid for locking your doors every night?