I know that gun ownership is a hot button issue but I was just wondering how you all feel about nurses being gun owners. I recently acquired a very nice hunting rifle that was handed down from my dad. None of the boys wanted it so I jumped at it since I had many happy memories of hunting and target shooting with my dad. It is a stunningly Beautiful Henry Golden Boy in perfect condition. I have not gone shooting in almost 30 years so I took it to the range and familiarized myself again with all aspects of the gun and how to clean and store it with a range master.
Someone at work asked me what I had done that weekend and I said I went shooting. She arched her eyebrows and said something guns weren't very nurse-like.
This is not a handgun - but a family heirloom. I doubt I'll ever shoot it off the range but I may give it to my son when he is a grown man.
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I am a nurse, gun owner, military Vet, and..... oh no.... a Liberal. I guess I am just not a liberal who has lived under a rock their whole life. My eyes are also stuck in the back of my head.
Not with my horrible housekeeping !!! The intruder would more likely end up in a heap at the bottom of the stairs Ala Home Alone (the first movie) after tripping over God knows what in the entry and luckily I might never have to shoot at all!!!
:) I read that and thought, "most happen with guns? And the rest with... crossbows?"
What is a scary/black kind of rifle?
A sardonic reference to the perception of various semi-auto rifles like the AR-15 that are commonly made of black polycarbonate and referred to as "assault weapons" by anti-gun activists even though the defining characteristics are largely cosmetic, such as grips, ability to attach lights, barrel shroud (protective covering), flash supressors, etc that have no effect on lethality. But they look "military" and are therefor "scary" and should be banned "for the children."
I know that gun ownership is a hot button issue but I was just wondering how you all feel about nurses being gun owners. I recently acquired a very nice hunting rifle that was handed down from my dad. None of the boys wanted it so I jumped at it since I had many happy memories of hunting and target shooting with my dad. It is a stunningly Beautiful Henry Golden Boy in perfect condition. I have not gone shooting in almost 30 years so I took it to the range and familiarized myself again with all aspects of the gun and how to clean and store it with a range master.
Someone at work asked me what I had done that weekend and I said I went shooting. She arched her eyebrows and said something guns weren't very nurse-like.
This is not a handgun - but a family heirloom. I doubt I'll ever shoot it off the range but I may give it to my son when he is a grown man.
For home protection, IMHO, a short barrel (legal) shot gun is superior to a pistol. I can hardly find the bathroom at 2 AM let alone double tap a crook in my house out of a sound sleep. Loud, major muzzle flash, very large pattern that will not travel to my neighbor's house make it my choice for bedroom protection.
Daytime....different story altogether.
Agree that a short barrel shot gun is superior to my Glock. However.. I have chosen one weapon.
I will double tap into center mass.. day or night... Glock has a night site.
I enjoy my guns (including my handgun), and I am an RN. After active shooter training in my clinic, both myself and a colleague (ex military) were in agreement; we wish we could have at least one armed staff member each shift. It's too bad owning firearms, which as mentioned is ABSOLUTELY a constitutional right, has to be so politicized. Good guys (and women, like my colleague) with firearms can and have protected liberals and conservatives alike.
Wow, I feel like the only people who walk around with guns on the east coast are police, govt security, and criminals.
Sure people own guns but they aren't walking around with a gun holstered to their hip out in the open.
As for all the liberal talk and not owning guns, one of my nurse friends is the biggest liberal except when it comes to owning guns. So yeah, liberals can definitely own guns.
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I am a nurse, gun owner, military Vet, and..... oh no.... a Liberal. I guess I am just not a liberal who has lived under a rock their whole life. My eyes are also stuck in the back of my head.