Would You Date a Gun Owner?

Guns make me extremely uncomfortable but who knows? I own swords I guess...

 

Yes if I knew them well and trusted them and they've proved to be responsible gun owners.
Where I live it's pretty common, I mean not for people my age but a lot of households do just because there are a lot of hunters around here, so I guess I'm used to it. Especially since my dad's an avid hunter and owns many guns (he keeps them locked away safely and is very responsible with them.) I think it also helps to be comfortable with and understand how guns work. I've shot some handguns before under instruction and it was pretty fun. I think that made me feel more comfortable, just knowing how to be safe around guns myself.

 

I am pro-gun ownership and have served as references for several of my friends to obtain firearms in Canada. With that said, I do not like using guns personally and wouldn't own/use one myself, unless I were being shot at. But I'd be fine dating a gun owner, provided they're mentally stable, and most gun owners I know are. If that's their hobby, cool. Just not for me. They can go shooting, I'll rock out to some Slayer.

 

Yes. But if they were some cra cra NRA activist, I would kick her to the curb.

 

As a vegan animal-activist crazy person who values his rats over his friends, I'd never date a hunter. Ever. I would never even be friends with a hunter, and while I know that sounds harsh, understand that to me hunting is murder.

I would never date a gun owner in general. There are WAY too many shootings, and frankly I'm already terrified of someday being on the wrong end of a gun- I don't need one in my house.

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Okay, I'm moving to Berlin.

 

A gun for home protection, sure. But only if it was used in a dire situation, I mean someone's only intent is to harm us. If someone wants to steal our car, let em. If someone broke in the front door with a weapon then yes shoot.

 

It depends why they have the gun.

 

It really depends on the person. Guns do bother me with the side-effects of death and killing and all, but if the person seems stable and unlikely/unwilling to do that, then of course.

 

I am a proud gun owner, and would probably not date someone who was vehemently anti-guns.

 

Bingo! Back when the second amendment was written, if you didn't hunt you didn't eat. They put the 2nd amendment in the constitution not for hunting necessarily but so that the people can defend themselves against an oppressive government weather it be a foreign government or our own government or a coup d'etat and also so that you can defend yourself against a mugger or a highway man.

 

Yes, provided they weren't prone to violence or had any issues that would question their competency with firearms (not that I would even date someone who would make me feel unsafe, regardless of whether they owned a firearm (or sword, or whatnot)).

I feel that gun ownership is a right, but not an unfettered right. Same as speech or anything else. I do feel that some/many gun owners or activists feel at some primal level that firearm ownership equates masculinity/maleness, power, and use it as a substitute for their insecurities.

Now, the one thing that does piss me off are those who put Browning stickers on the back of their trucks. Worst still, those who bastardize it and put this monstrosity :lol:.



Worst still, those who have such a sticker and don't have a fuckin' clue what Browning is.

I swear if I ever get married I'll put this sticker on the back of my truck (minus the Confederate flag, though, on second thought :lol, just to piss people off.

 

Most likely no. I mean... no. Just no.

 

I'm extremely timid and paranoid, and I'm terrified unarmed people are going to kill me, well, because they still have their fists. So no.

Heck, somebody could be a brain in a jar and I'd still think they could kill me. The fact that someone really could makes it much worse.

 

No

 

I dated a police officer for a while back in the day, but short of something like that I doubt it. It's not so much that it is an automatic veto as that it seems unlikely to me that someone that I would otherwise date would be a gun owner.

 

In America it's statistically hard not to, so yes, so long as it isn't an illegal weapon. In England, it's practically impossible to get a gun license, so yes as they must have an actual reason for having it (most common ones being sport and farming), but as before, only of the weapon is legal.

 

If the person is nice and psychologically stable, yes. Their political opinions might also pose an obstacle though.

 

Really? Do that many Americans own guns? That's a scary thought! O.O

 

To be honest, I DID date a gun owner. She was in the Army and would come home from weekend training still wearing her guns in her harness under her clothing. Man, I would always 'welcome' her and even convinced her to wear them a few times during. She would make sure they were unloaded and locked before we did anything, but man, what a turn on!

What can I say? I'm a bad bad girl......lol