"I need a gun, can you help me?"

[Sylvilagus Aquaticus]

Good for you. I think with her 'past and present history' she'd be much better served with a heavy stick and a dog, but upon reflection it'd be unconscionable to subject the dog to her.

I think better of dogs than I do of lots of folks.

Regards,
Rabbit.

 

[Correia]

Smurf, I believe you did the right thing. One other thing to help defend your Husband Points. Remember back to when you took your NRA Instructor's course? One of the very first things in the book was about how we were only supposed to teach law abiding people. Clemantine isn't law abiding, and you know it, so in good conscience you couldn't do it.

Also, put serious accents on the civil liability issue. I'm sure your wife doesn't want you to help her so much that you lose your house in the lawsuits after Clemantine shoots the paperboy.

 

[JamisJockey]

Dave,
IMHO, you've done all you can do without haning your posterior into the wnid. If she doesn't want to step up and learn responsible gun ownership, screw her then.
good job,

 

[Mastrogiacomo]

"Point and shoot, anyone can do that? I don't need lessons..." Very scary woman...you did the right thing.

 

[JohnBT]

I wouldn't get involved. With my luck she'd shoot some drug dealer and I'd be blamed for helping her get the gun and be stalked by the dealer's scabby girlfriend.

She's a big girl, been around some from the sound of it, and if she wants a gun and some training she can go get it. Give her the Yellow Pages.

"No one should be denied the basic right to reproduce."
...or the opportunity to defend themselves.
But I wouldn't help her with either one of them.

John

 

[Kaylee]

Once upon a time, my driver's ed teacher told me "forget the rule book for a minute... just stay farthest away from the most immediate threat." Sometimes that meant hugging the edge of a road on a blind turn. Other times that meant moving almost to the center of the asphalt to stay away from a steep dropoff at speed. (Hey, I grew up in East Tennessee mountain area, the back roads are... interesting)

Anyhow.. that's always seemed a pretty good life philisophy to me.

As described, this woman is a greater threat to herself and those around her with a firearm than without. In keeping with the principle of "stay futherst away from the most immediate threat" -- don't bring a weapon into her life. There's not a chance in heck I'd help her arm herself.

Further, to be brutally callous... some of Darwin's children are desperately begging to be called home. If her behavior is that self destructive... I'd be inclined to let her reap what she's sown. But then, I've had more than my fill of drug-abusing, criminal-associating, blankety-blanks lately.

-K

 

[GSB]

An interesting dilemma. I've been partly responsible for getting a couple of people into the handgun-owning community who in retrospect I came to believe probably aren't emotionally mature enough for that responsibility, despite being adults in their forties. It bothers me sometimes.

 

[sctman800]

NRA TRAINING PROGRAM POLICIES

Page one of the training manual states three goals of the NRA training program are: 1) Provide quality firearm training to law-abiding citizens. 2) Maintain the NRA's national standard for firearm training. 3) Further the purposes and objectives of the NRA. During my instructors course we were told an instructor gas the right to refuse training to anyone we feel is not qualified under #1. Jim.