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OK, doing a bit of Christmas shopping, my daughter is driving. We are heading to the next town south of ours to go to Best Buy.
This town has been going into major decline the past twenty years. They have lots of drive by shootings. Just had a shooting a few weeks ago where the shooter said it was to show the victum "who was running the hood".
Most of this takes place in the inner city. The Best Buy is out in the township, better but still not somewhere I want to be if I'm not armed.
So as we are headed there my daughter (she's 29) ask "Do you have your gun?"
I tell her yes. Then I ask her why, and she says she gets a little nervous going to this town. She actually works in this town also, on the opposite side of the inner city. Luckily she gets off the expressway and her plant is right off the overpass so she doesn't have to drive street level.
I tell her I carry alot more than she probably knows, and even mentioned a few times we went places where I was carrying that she didn't know about.
I told her she should get a gun, but I doubt she will. She is kind of anti gun due to her cousin committing suicide when she was a teenager. He used a shotgun in the mouth, not real pleasent for any of our family. Her mother (exwife) is now very anti.
The daughter has started going with me to when I shoot sometimes. She watches me, and has started shooting my mother BB rifile.
I figure I'll just let her go along and see if she develops a desire to try my gun. I am not going to put a lot of pressure on her though.
This town has been going into major decline the past twenty years. They have lots of drive by shootings. Just had a shooting a few weeks ago where the shooter said it was to show the victum "who was running the hood".
Most of this takes place in the inner city. The Best Buy is out in the township, better but still not somewhere I want to be if I'm not armed.
So as we are headed there my daughter (she's 29) ask "Do you have your gun?"
I tell her yes. Then I ask her why, and she says she gets a little nervous going to this town. She actually works in this town also, on the opposite side of the inner city. Luckily she gets off the expressway and her plant is right off the overpass so she doesn't have to drive street level.
I tell her I carry alot more than she probably knows, and even mentioned a few times we went places where I was carrying that she didn't know about.
I told her she should get a gun, but I doubt she will. She is kind of anti gun due to her cousin committing suicide when she was a teenager. He used a shotgun in the mouth, not real pleasent for any of our family. Her mother (exwife) is now very anti.
The daughter has started going with me to when I shoot sometimes. She watches me, and has started shooting my mother BB rifile.
I figure I'll just let her go along and see if she develops a desire to try my gun. I am not going to put a lot of pressure on her though.