I’ve finally joined the club
No, it has nothing to do with Obama being elected or the control of Congress by the Dems. It’s something my husband and I have been discussing for a couple of years now and just hadn’t done.
I bought a gun.
Hubby already has several - a rifle, a shotgun and a handgun. He’s ex-military so is completely comfortable with firearms. Me - I have a vague memory of firing a rifle at tin cans as a child (once) and firing a handgun into a river as a college student (also once). As a college student and good little liberal I was all for strict gun laws, the shooting into the river event notwithstanding. As I matured I gained a new respect for the second amendment but gun ownership still was not for me. When my children were young I was staunchly against having a gun in the house for fear of their safety, but also because I wasn’t sure I could ever actually shoot someone.
But as the horror stories of kidnapped and tortured children multiplied I came to know that I could shoot someone under certain circumstances, and protecting my children was one of them. But I had no money, no one to tell me what kind of firearm to get, how to care for it or how to use it.
Then 9/11 happened, and school shootings happened - at least one of which would have been worse if not for students who carried handguns in their cars - and I knew it was past time, but still I waited…More…
