Here's the deal, I've always been a firm believer in our 2nd amendment rights, I've never been a 'big' gun advocate, BUT, in today's world I've decided that it's a good time to acquire my ccw and maybe purchase my first handgun for home and self defense. (I do own shotguns and have been around guns my entire life) We live in a pretty rural part of Ohio. When I mentioned to my wife that I think it's time to arm myself not only for my self protection but for hers also, she seems to think I've gone off the deep end and I'm absolutely crazy! She don't understand why anyone would want to walk around with a gun hanging off their side like some "macho man" or something, her words were "I'm not going anywhere with you if your carrying a gun". For some reason she thinks that a ccw permit just gives a person the ability to just go around waving a gun in peoples faces and do whatever they want to with it. I've tried to educate her on the strict laws of carrying but that's when she raises her voice and gets pretty much irate. She's never really been around guns in her lifetime or even had guns in her house growing up. She seems to think that a home security system will suffice. I feel like i'm fighting an uphill battle and that she'll probably NEVER understand. Any advice on what I could try next?
So if I understand the question, the newbie to guns is your wife, and the newbie to the forums is her husband, and hubby wants a forum-full of perfect strangers to give him advice on how to handle his wife? It sounds like you're on the right track as far as arming yourself goes, but dude, if you can't figure out the right track on handling your own wife, you've got two choices; 1) turn in your man card or, 2) find another life partner who will respect and revere that you take your responsibilities as a man seriously.
I've been with my wife for over 30 years. I love her dearly still, but if her women's lib BS can only be fulfilled by emasculating me, she'd be relegated to the out-building on the other side of the property until she got her mind right. I can say that for two simple reasons; 1) I did my "homework" on her before ever asking her to marry me, and know such a scenario will never happen, and 2) If I ever lost my mind and forgot my weapon when we were leaving the house together, it'd be cool because I'd just borrow hers. Well, either that or we'd turn around at her insistence to go back and get mine.
Otherwise, just tell her that you're not going to go out in public with her if she insists on exercising her 1st Amendment rights to say any damned thing she pleases. Or tell her that if you get pulled over and the cop asks you if it's OK to search your vehicle, you're going to tell him no, not the vehicle, but you have suspended your wife's 4th Amendment protections while in public together, and he's free to search her person and her purse if he wants. There's not a bit of difference in you demanding of her those rights be forbidden when you're in public together, and her telling you the same thing regarding your 2nd Amendment rights.
Me, I'd ditch her, but then I never would've picked her in the first place. Did y'all not talk about your respective beliefs before getting married?
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