how can i convince my dad not to buy a handgun?

Question

i know this might not be a religious question, but i think that it is a moral one, and i wanted to know how i can do this. he wants a gun for "protection" but i said that he should get a rifle or something.

in my views, i believe that the only uses for handguns are bad, at least if you have a rifle, you can't hide it to kill someone with. how do i convince him that no matter what religion, it isn't a good idea?

Answer 1

Shoot him

Answer 2

I personally have several handguns. The best thing to get if you are going to leave it at home is a shotgun. If you are not going to practice shooting on a regular basis, you are going to miss when it counts and that will actually put you in a worse position because the criminal will have your gun and be pissed because you tried to shoot him. A shotgun means you only have to be good enough to point when you are excited and scared. Get a nice pump action because just charging it makes a very distinctive noise that gives you a great psychological advantage. I have two shotguns at home and that would be the first thing I would go for.

I am only saying this because my honest advice would agree with your goal. I personally think that every stable and moral person should know how to protect themselves and should have weapons to do it. If he wants to get a permit and carry and he is willing to practice regularly, then a handgun is the right choice.

Answer 3

Maybe if you point out that he's still alive after all these years without a gun it'll help. What's changed? I mean, if it's just one of those things he's always wanted more power to him - but remind him to get a membership at a range and to do some target practice from time to time. And then keep it clean and oiled. And hope he's got the cajones to actually shoot something with it if the time comes rather than to get it taken from him as seems alarmingly common in home robberies (so the police say at those neighborhood watch meetings).

Personally, I love shooting stuff. Make's you feel like God to get them sights all lined up and squeeze one off and see a hole magically appear in the center of the target. There's nothing like it. But I always rent a pistol for that kind stuff (that way I can try different guns, too).

Answer 4

We since it would be your dads gun and not yours I think you should get over it. He's a grown man he knows what he's doing. As long as he keeps it on safety and away from all children, then it's okay.

And yes, you can kill someone with a rifle and hide it just the same.

Quit being so uptight.

You'll appriciate that gun when it's saving your life.

Answer 5

So it's your position that police carry guns to kill people rather than to use them to defend their own lives?

How sad, to live a life where everyone is evil and has bad intentions. You know your dad better than we do; do you really think that, if he wanted to kill someone, the tools he uses - handgun or rifle - would really matter?

Answer 6

You could show him the statistics that most gun victims are killed with their own guns. People who own guns are much less safe than people who are not. For Instance when asked Sixty-two percent of pediatricians treating gunshot victims said that the children were shot during unsupervised play with a gun found at home.

I really think people don't buy guns out of fear so much as because of other reasons. You need to find out what those reasons are.

You are right this has nothing to do with religion. Christians in the US do tend to own guns more than non-christians but the difference in rates is not that high and the difference is more likely that christians tend to be less well educated than non-christians.

Maybe you could give him access to the stories of some of the thousands of children killed by their parents handguns. Ask him how he would feel in one of those parents positions.

Answer 7

Rifles are much more dangerous. They have more power. Try talking him into a small handgun.

If he is a responsible gun owner, keeping it locked up in a SAFE place, AND with a safety lock on it, one that takes a key to open, you should have no worry about anyone getting a hold of it.

Answer 8

Buy him a copy of the course in miracles for Christmas. It is an antidote for all the fear based nonsense that the media promotes. The idea that he needs protection is an illusion created buy the media to make people more easy to control.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 9

Neither a handgun nor a rifle is a good idea. A question earlier was asked, implying that we should be careful of being too emotional. Well, I differed, and here, AI think, is a situation where being emotional can be a good thing.
If he doesn't listen to a rational argument, make an emotional one. It's perfectly valid. Tell him what it does to your innards to know there is a handgun in the house.
If you are like me, you find it disgusting. (I'm emotionally involved here, - someone close to me was killed in a horrible way in a hunting accident). But to have a gun to defend yourself? Is somebody out to get him? Or is he paranoid? Sounds extremely dangerous to me.

Answer 10

Pistols are a self-defense weapon. Even Christ told the disciples to purchase a self-defense weapon not offensive weapon such as a spear or a bow and arrow are. A rifle COULD be an offensive as well as a defensive weapon.

Answer 11

Guns in responsible hands save lives !! It's better 2 have a gun and not use, it than 2 need a gun and not have it !!!