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In reply to the discussion: This was what it was like to grow up with a gun nut for a father. [View all]Robyn66
(1,675 posts)You have no idea what you are talking about. All he is about is guns, guns took someone who was a failure in the military and made him a bad-ass to people who were weaker than him. He has knives, lots of them but never used them to threaten-probably kind of weird but it was obvious that the guns give him a rush the knives don't.
The main point I was trying to make was that to the outside, my father is the perfect example of the responsible gun owner. Ammo stored separately, guns in safes has actually taught classes in gun safety but in reality at home was something all together different.
He never threw knives at us, he shot at us. The weird thing is he probably would have physically hurt us if he if he threw knives at us and he didn't want to physically hurt anyone, it was all about the intimidation and the threatening. So yes it was the guns, it was always the guns.