Dear Abby gets letter from gun-hating mother

[IndyTom]

What's that adage, "Men marry Women hoping that they never change. Women marry Men hoping to change them."

 

[beararms1776]

If he does in fact store them in a safe, then obviously there's still an issue of; "OMG the guns are in the safe"

 

[aaron580]

I think this man needs a divorce and some bacon.

 

[jcwit]

Threads such as this make me realize how fortunate I am. A loving, understanding, gun owning wife.

 

[Beowulf]

I really love the shrill cry of "think of the children" when there are guns in the home.

There are, what, 300 accidental shootings involving children a year and something like 80,000,000 gun owners.

Don't get me wrong, one is one too many, but your child is way more likely to be hurt or maimed playing school sports than to die from an accidental shooting at home. Take reasonable precautions and teach your children and they'll be fine, like the 10's of millions of other kids raised in gun owning households.

 

[WebSnyper]

I'm thinking if he had met her in a diner while he was having some bacon and eggs or a nice thick cheeseburger this would not be happening now

 

[hoosierdoc]

I bet it was a plant and fake letter

 

[Redskinsfan]

Well, isn't that nice advice. I guess the phrase in that vow "...until death do you part..." is just some sort of throw away line. If she knew he had those guns before they got married (which is the impression I get from the reading), the burden is on her "to get over it"; she knew what she was getting into. To suggest throwing away a marriage over the presence a couple of guns in the house---I guess the advice is worth exactly what "UNWILLING..." paid for it. Maybe their parakeets will get more value out of it.

This is the best reply as I see it. The marriage vows are often worthless these days and that should not be.

 

[avboiler11]

This is why you test drive, before you buy...

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

My wife was like that, actually worse. Any vestige of what made me me was to be destroyed, whether or not the rationale could be made to sound rational. But she was not in her right mind, shall we say, wound up in the psych ward and all. I tried, but death did us part. Stupid can happen. You see it a lot more among the emotionally driven types.

 

[churchmouse]

She needed the legal union as leverage.

My thought as well.
One of those who will do or say what ever it takes to get the ring and then once it is on.....look out. This is my 2nd "X" to a tee.

 

[NathanJefferson]

*primps his collar* The no guns in the house is the ONLY argument/discussion/point of contention I think I've EVER won with my wife. And boy - did she lose that one bad!

 

[Dobber]

I don't disagree with Abby about trigger locks or a gun safe. Maintaining a safe home atmosphere is appropriate in addition to proper education at a proper age. The part about finding a new husband is some sacrilegious nonsense. Marriage is a covenant between man, woman, and God. I guess if she wants to dissolve her civil union for a new flavor she's free to discredit herself as she please.

-Dobber

 

[hopper68]

Was he a vegetarian before they got married?

 

[yepthatsme]

I'm thinking if he had met her in a diner while he was having some bacon and eggs or a nice think cheeseburger this would not be happening now

Do those "think" cheeseburgers come from cerebral cows?

 

[hookedonjeep]

I would tell him "sell your guns to me, and when the home invaders attack - throw your wife at the intruders to protect yourself"

 

[Bennettjh]

Dear Husband: Get a steak, ditch the broad, buy a gun.

 

[churchmouse]

Life is far to short to spend it being submissive to the desires of a control freak that will eventually leave anyway.

 

[bos-94-003]

She doesn't give any room for compromise so end of story. I, however, am looking forward to sharing my interest and love for guns with my wife when I find her

 

[DragonGunner]

In the old days Abby would of said she knew he had guns before they got married, so you have no right to complain, be thankful you have a man that loves you enough to of married your stupid arse.

i don't know who this new Abby is but she is as brain dead as the wife.