One of my good friends is not pro-gun. He's not anti-gun either. He just hasn’t thought about gun ownership much.
He told me a story about how he had a home “disturbance” one night. He has a wife and two kids. He responded to the disturbance by yelling from bed “Get out of my house” and by walking through the halls to check things out. The disturbance turned out to be nothing; something fell in the bathroom. He seemed to take comfort in the fact that the cops came within about three minutes. Nevertheless, his response was obviously dumb. Again though, we’re talking about somebody who hasn’t thought about gun ownership much because he hasn’t experienced much violence.
I just couldn’t help but feel like he was less of a man for not logically stepping through his mind what would have happened if that disturbance had actually been a home invader.
Have any of you been affected by gun ownership in such a way that you suddenly look at close friends differently?
I’m not asking advice about how to approach my friend. That’s another thread and an issue I have under control. I just wanted to get some response to my specific question here.
EDIT: My friend lives in a suburb of Dallas, TX.
He told me a story about how he had a home “disturbance” one night. He has a wife and two kids. He responded to the disturbance by yelling from bed “Get out of my house” and by walking through the halls to check things out. The disturbance turned out to be nothing; something fell in the bathroom. He seemed to take comfort in the fact that the cops came within about three minutes. Nevertheless, his response was obviously dumb. Again though, we’re talking about somebody who hasn’t thought about gun ownership much because he hasn’t experienced much violence.
I just couldn’t help but feel like he was less of a man for not logically stepping through his mind what would have happened if that disturbance had actually been a home invader.
Have any of you been affected by gun ownership in such a way that you suddenly look at close friends differently?
I’m not asking advice about how to approach my friend. That’s another thread and an issue I have under control. I just wanted to get some response to my specific question here.
EDIT: My friend lives in a suburb of Dallas, TX.
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