Maybe just screaming into the void. I became a gun owner a month ago for the first time in my life because I was afraid for the safety of my family with things continuing to deteriorate. After a few months of research I ended up going out and buying a shotgun, a gun safe, some ammo, etc. I’ve taken it to the range and done a lot of drills with snapcaps and am confident in my abilities to safely and effectively handle the weapon and shoot accurately.
…and yet now I have a nagging feeling like I’m doing something wrong. Like I’m somehow putting myself and my partner at risk by having a gun in the house. It’s locked up with the hammer down and an empty chamber, and so it’s just an inanimate object and shouldn’t pose any more threat to us than say my kitchen knives or power tools or anything else in the home. Still, I’m feeling a kind of anxiety around it that I haven’t felt before.
Anyone else ever feel this way?
— Awkward_Dragon25 at Reddit
[h/t Rob Romano]
Children often fear boogymen and shadows.
So do leftists. How many shadows and boogymen did Lenin, Stalin, Castro, Maduro, etc… have executed?
The real terror in this person’s mind is that if he overcomes his fear of shadows he might no longer identify as a leftist. No greater horror.
Some level of “Generalized Anxiety Disorder” is a common inherent trait of liberals. They create a lot of ‘boogymen’.
I too have doubts about liberals being firearm owners, and voters, and employees, schoolteachers, people who can own a house, people who can pay off a loan, college students, human beings, and even sentient life as we know it. They should probably sell the gun.
“…and yet now I have a nagging feeling like I’m doing something wrong. Like I’m somehow putting myself and my partner at risk by having a gun in the house.”
Because… You let the emotional ‘creep’ of ‘anxiety’ fuel a doubt in your confidence to make decisions and act responsibly. All people experience this at some point when adopting new skills. Its the ’emotional fear creep’ of ‘anxiety tendency’ ‘boogyman’ of ‘what if’ that creates a nagging doubt thus creates a nagging basically-fear feeling of doing something wrong. Its a self generated ‘boogyman’ you created.
Despite you claiming ‘confident in my abilities to safely and effectively handle the weapon and shoot accurately”, it signals you are not ‘confident’ in your abilities overall, even though in the mechanics you may have gotten through those but confidence in ability needs more and goes much further than simply doing a some mechanics in adopting a new skill.
The cure for this is ‘practice’ and responsible actions in adopting your new responsibility and skills such that they become mastery-second-nature-automatic.
Perhaps you are too feeble to own a gun. Anxiety is merely an exercise of the feelings dictated to you by those who distrust, dislike and seek to destroy POTG. Listen carefully to the propaganda and the truth will reveal it’s self. You should not feel anxiety, worry and guilty due to your willingness to be prepared. Gun ownership does not make your residence “unsafe” especially since you have it stored safely, while having it handy in case a need arises. In short, you are prepared which is a good thing. The old question: would you rather have it and not need it or need it and not have it?
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In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense.
In the end the party would announce that boys could be girls and girls could be boys, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later:the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense.
Totally not a cult.
I for one am glad to welcome you to the wide world of guns and nice choice going with a shotgun for home defense I would recommend that you put at least 10 rounds through it because the snap caps are okay to learn how it functions but you need to put some rounds through it to get used to the kick so you won’t be surprised if you need to use it to defend yourself or your family and also I would ask the other posters to not put you down or any new gun owners but instead help you understand more about guns we rarely get a person who wants to learn when they’ve spent their life either being afraid of or being told guns are evil and they need to be gotten rid of they’re a tool and as such need to be maintained and used to be proficient with them if you have questions or concerns about how to take care of and find the joy of guns as we gun owners have please reach out to someone who has the knowledge to make it a lot less scary for you and as you enjoy it maybe just maybe it’ll encourage others that have a hatred or doubts to get educated as well.
Happy Shooting
Welcome to the world of gun ownership. You are now able to defend yourself and your partner. Be happy and proud of these steps. You have learned the mechanics, now go to a range and shoot a box of ammo. Have fun, feel and learn how to control your shotgun because ultimately it is you that has the control, knowledge and power to use it safely, G-D forbid you never have to. Go to the range with your partner, take a few lessons, and you will find shooting is a gratifying, interesting and challenging sport.
Classic leftist “Guns Turn People Into Homicidal Lunatics” syndrome.
No. I think it my obligation to defend myself. You need to unplug from the left wing Matrix. Defend yourself and your loved ones. Nothing wrong about that.
Yeah, quit buying the trope your friends push about the tools being the problem, vice the wielder. You have to shed that aspect of your tribal heritage.
Congratulations on recognizing that there are some threats to you and to our civilization for which the appropriate response is self defense with a gun.
Those “feelings” that you are having is light peeking through cracks in the narrative that says that the lives of you and your family are less valuable to society than is the life of your attacker.
The voices of that narrative are wrong.
Welcome to the sunshine of individual rights and responsibilities. The possibilities are endless.
Don’t look for sympathy from the Left, because you have left the group think plantation, and are now a threat to them.
Wondered about that, too.
Another spool piece?
i posted (below) before i read this. some of the coach guns, henry levers and side by sides have them.
but you just know that’s not what it bought. and nobody on /r is reading this.
Do you have the same misgivings about your other Constitutional Rights?
Ask your girlfriend’s other boyfriend to help.
Sell the gun. Sell the ammo. Sell the gun safe. Sell the trigger lock.
On your front lawn post a “This is a Gun Free Zone” sign.
See how that works out.
I read the article. They never mentioned they took a training class. So I assume they never have. They “learned” all about guns from the internet.
I’ve spoken to liberals on guns. They all said they had mental issues about guns. I told them they should not have guns .
FFS- you took appropriate logical steps to protect yourself and your family.
Stop wallowing in your f’g feelings.
Try doing some thinking instead– are you willing to pull the trigger in the event your family is threatened with physical violence or not.
If you are– keep practicing.
If you are not- get rid of the gun.
if there are kids the mama bear will probably use it.
If the fur ever hits the fan, as this author fears, it will likely be too late then to find and buy a gun and ammo and learn to use them.
Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. You will know exactly what that means when the time comes to need it.
“…with the hammer down…” on a shotgun suggests this may be projection trolling. i know there’s a few still.