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- From: fontenot@comet.rice.edu (Dwayne Jacques Fontenot)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: To Drop Or Not To Drop ( was: Re: To buy or not to buy ? )
- Message-ID: <C1K1Bo.G9@rice.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 16:10:47 GMT
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- In article <199301260022.AA05338@cherokee.advtech.uswest.com> kdlin@advtech.uswest.com (David Lin) writes:
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- #In this posting, I'm not providing a solution. Instead, I have a
- #similar but worse problem. I'm considering to drop her because of
- #her attitude toward my guns/security plans. Let me tell my story
- #and you guys can give me suggestions.
- #
- #I have been seeing this girl for a short while. She grew up in a Michigan
- #rural area and is an attorney ( not my favorite type though ). Recently,
- #I found out that she used to a DA ( the anti-gun type ) and still has
- #a *VERY* strong prejudice against handguns.
- #
- #She even hates my security alarm and comments that I'm paranoid to
- #have all these things installed. Her reasoning is that no one is going
- #to bother me, and my guns will only hurt myself. She claims that she has
- #shot .22 rifles before. ( So, taking her to a range will not help at all. )
- #She points out that I'm living in my own "jail" by having all these
- #motion sensors and by having the "fantasy" of arming/defending myself.
- #
- #So, do I have a solution to this problem? Guys?
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- She is wrong, irrational, and IMHO not very intelligent. How else can anyone
- who has had as much access to the relevant data as she has hold these opinions?
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- How can any rational person (other that a criminal) dislike a security
- alarm?
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- If anyone is in a fantasy world, it is her.
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- I suggest you take stock in your situation. If you like her enough to
- change your way of life, do so and stay with her.
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- If not, get as far away from her as fast as you can.
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- All IMHO, of course.
-
- Dwayne Fontenot
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- #David
- #--
- # K. David Lin, Ph.D. | IEEE Member, NRA Member, HAM Operator
- # Communication Services Research | U S WEST Life Safety Team
- # U S WEST Advanced Technologies | Defend your life in STEREO - Beretta & SIG
- # E-mail: kdlin@advtech.uswest.com | Disclaimer: Only personal opinions
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