My wife is being called at hypocrite about her stance on Gun control/safety

[diabeticman]

I will begin by saying my wife has a deathly fear of guns (when she was a teenager she was kidnapped and raped...the man used a knife to kidnap her BUT when he got her to the place where he held her he showed her a gun and told her somethings.) She personally does not want to own one or touch one. Her life experience of being a victim did NOT give her a desire to own a gun to protect herself.

Stating this My wife believe some people do in fact need guns to protect themselves and several members of her family have been/are hunters who enjoy the sport. Her one uncle does target shooting as a sport for the area we live in BUT my wife firmly believes in universal background checks and limit on the amount of how many bullets a gun can fire.


So this winger that we know was talking to my wife and she is arguing her point in which the winger tells my wife --she (my wife) is saying no one should have guns. (This woman wasn't even listening to my wife.)

My wife begins again saying: NO, she believe guns have a place in American culture and life BUT we should be responsible on how we use the items.

The woman than yells at my wife that she is a hypocrite for demanding certain controls YET laughing about her "Family story". Took a moment for my wife to figure out what the person was talking about.

Back in the 1940s-1950s in the town we are living in now some of the areas had not been developed (as you can imagine) So my wife's Grandparents happen to be living in a newly built home in an area which was just starting to see development. Basically you we see a house surrounded by a wooded area than as you drove further more woods than a house would appear. So during hunting season one of my wife's uncles would go hunting and this point of time going hunting meant going up to my wife's grandparents' house opening the dinning room window getting a dinning room chair and sitting at the window waiting for a deer to come out of the wooded area into line of site and "baggin the dear". uncle would sit up there and My wife's grandmother served him coffee lunch and when her uncle got his dear he'd take it and leave.

Yes, to some it was an easy way of hunting to some it might have been a kind of cheating BUT this winger of a "friend" basically says my wife is a hypocrite to demand gun control laws when she laughs at the fact her uncle "misused" a gun by firing it in the house.

[el_bryanto]

1. Arguing with this person doesn't sound like a profitable use of your wife's time. nt

[diabeticman]

2. my wife normally doesn't but she does get stuck with said person a few times a week since we

take her places (she never learned to drive.) and it is helpful to the older person. but I guess no good deed....

[Mariana]

7. Are you and your wife being paid for the services you provide to this person?

[Kelvin Mace]

3. Laughing at something does not convey approval

i frequently laugh at crazy wingnuts but I certainly do not approve of them.

[madmom]

4. She's being called hypocritical because of something

someone else in her family did, something she had no control over! Yup that's a teabagger

[EC]

5. So why is the winger against background checks?

Is she afraid her uncle won't pass because he fired a weapon in the house? It really doesn't make any sense.

[Eleanors38]

6. I can't say how your wife should co-exist with this idiot, but it is a burden.