----- Original Message -----
From: "amy mathews" <matheusfamily@...>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 2:22 PM
Subject: playing guns
> my husband was raised around guns and he and his father think they are
> responsible
> I brought my son and his friend over to the in-laws for dinner and had to
> ask that the pistol at the front door be put in a gun safe away from the
> bullets
>
> this is not respect for safety in my opinion
> I think my father in law is just another one of the people that the NRA
has
> brain washed for their cause
> not that every member is:
> some actually do research on their own and not take the magazines and
> letters as gospel
> in our home we have the no gun rule
> our eldest son has no interest in guns
> my husband got a rifle for his 10th birthday, his father received that gun
> on his 10th birthday
> our son who could care less about guns and chooses not to hunt animals did
> not receive the gun
> our other son seems some what interested in playing guns
> I think that comes from our recent move to the ranch/cowboy land where
> everyone carries their rifle
>
> We will not have guns in our home!!
> my FI-L likes to think it would be good protection
> HA I'm a small framed weak woman with MS if a person showed up here to
hurt
> us
> he/she would have my own gun in moments and use it against me
> Accidents happen in the best of homes where guns are kept
> my father had a gun and I never touched it. he also hunted and since we
> did not eat the meat,
> donated it to a meet processor, or the people he went hunting with.
> he never forced his opinions pro or con of his views on war, hunting, or
> farm life
> and respects others feelings.
>
> my husband and his friend once told me hunting was a way of feeding their
> family
> ha
> imagine the amount of food I'd have come home with from the store
> for the amount of money they spent on licenses, camping, equipment,
> ammunition, supplies ect.
> and if they had brought home game there is also storage and processing to
> pay for.
>
> if our younger son does show interest and receives the shotgun he will
have
> to pass safety courses, keep the gun at grandpas, properly dispose of
> unused bullets each time
> and I will put every effort in to finding someone to train the three of
them
> as the Olympic coach, I found that taught Saturday workshops for archery
> to our older son..
>
> I'll just agree to disagree on the gun issue
> Amy
>