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My husband wants to buy a gun and I'm terrified of them. How do I get over my fear?
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<blockquote data-quote="marineimaging" data-source="post: 71110165" data-attributes="member: 355761"><p>My wife says that she was raised around them so she never had a fear of them. But not so for everybody of course. I contend that we have been taught from Kindergarten to fear them by a society that wants socialism so bad it is ready to give up freedom and call it safety. Several years ago a coworker told me her husband and son were avid hunters but she was deathly afraid of them. Her husband had tried to teach her but she was just in true terror of them. I took advantage of a range day picnic scheduled as a reward for our hard work. On the day before we met at the range I sat down with her over lunch and showed her a book of guns. Historical and modern. She was at first shocked there were so many, then she became enthralled at some of the history of guns. Then I sat her down and took the gun apart all the way to it's pieces. Explained each part to her. Then put it back together. I would ask her as I was doing so what she recalled about this piece or that group. Then I showed her pictures and hands-on components of bullets. I poured the powder into a lid and had her light it. I then showed her videos of fires engulfing a truck full of ammo. Firefighters were approaching it in full bunker while the rounds were going off and the bullets were just bouncing off their bunkers because of the physics of bullets. Then we went to the range. I had asked her to bring her husband. We talked for a bit to get comfortable and then I asked him to leave until we called. Through my talk I told him that I was going to be like a drill instructor with her and didn't want him distracting us. He agreed and left for the day. The first thing I did was loaded a gun, pointed it downrange and fired at the berm. I then turned and said, so that you can see it is loaded. I then had her hold it the proper way, pointed down range, finger off the trigger. I had her hold it for a full minute. Then told her to sit it down pointed down range. Pick it up, aim at the target. Hold. Put it down. Pick it up, aim, hold for two minutes. Sit it down. Question: Now Amy, how many times did the gun go off? Ans: None. Qstn: And why was that? Ans: Because I did not pull the trigger. And what makes the gun shoot? Ans: Because I control it, I want it to shoot, and because I pull the trigger. Then we went on to shooting the targets. When we finished for the day she was bouncing up and down and smiling and said, "Can I Please take this target home to show my husband and especially my son?" "He said I wouldn't make it past the first 5 minutes." It has been years and I still get the reward of an occasional note from her thanking me for taking the time with her.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="marineimaging, post: 71110165, member: 355761"] My wife says that she was raised around them so she never had a fear of them. But not so for everybody of course. I contend that we have been taught from Kindergarten to fear them by a society that wants socialism so bad it is ready to give up freedom and call it safety. Several years ago a coworker told me her husband and son were avid hunters but she was deathly afraid of them. Her husband had tried to teach her but she was just in true terror of them. I took advantage of a range day picnic scheduled as a reward for our hard work. On the day before we met at the range I sat down with her over lunch and showed her a book of guns. Historical and modern. She was at first shocked there were so many, then she became enthralled at some of the history of guns. Then I sat her down and took the gun apart all the way to it's pieces. Explained each part to her. Then put it back together. I would ask her as I was doing so what she recalled about this piece or that group. Then I showed her pictures and hands-on components of bullets. I poured the powder into a lid and had her light it. I then showed her videos of fires engulfing a truck full of ammo. Firefighters were approaching it in full bunker while the rounds were going off and the bullets were just bouncing off their bunkers because of the physics of bullets. Then we went to the range. I had asked her to bring her husband. We talked for a bit to get comfortable and then I asked him to leave until we called. Through my talk I told him that I was going to be like a drill instructor with her and didn't want him distracting us. He agreed and left for the day. The first thing I did was loaded a gun, pointed it downrange and fired at the berm. I then turned and said, so that you can see it is loaded. I then had her hold it the proper way, pointed down range, finger off the trigger. I had her hold it for a full minute. Then told her to sit it down pointed down range. Pick it up, aim at the target. Hold. Put it down. Pick it up, aim, hold for two minutes. Sit it down. Question: Now Amy, how many times did the gun go off? Ans: None. Qstn: And why was that? Ans: Because I did not pull the trigger. And what makes the gun shoot? Ans: Because I control it, I want it to shoot, and because I pull the trigger. Then we went on to shooting the targets. When we finished for the day she was bouncing up and down and smiling and said, "Can I Please take this target home to show my husband and especially my son?" "He said I wouldn't make it past the first 5 minutes." It has been years and I still get the reward of an occasional note from her thanking me for taking the time with her. [/QUOTE]
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