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In reply to the discussion: My son is driving me crazy. He's a tRumper. [View all]TigressDem
(5,125 posts)That is an exaggeration and somewhat of a cop out, but.....
The love we invest and when we see it turn out like this... just boggles the mind and cranks on the heart.
I've been telling him, I don't want to talk to you about guns. I did not raise you to use them and even though I am fine with you hunting and using them for self defense, I just don't want to hear (other applications that border on crazy) any more about them at all. You know how I feel and we just have to agree to disagree.
So we actually have ratcheted down those conversations. He says he's not looking for reasons to go use his gun... but he did enjoy shooting squirrels that were attacking his lumber business at one point. Apparently red squirrels are really pests in that situation.
My segue from him not looking for reasons to use his gun became... Yeah, you could always find some squirrels to shoot if you got really bored. It defuses the conversation.
Dang, I feel like I'm in a mine field, constantly defusing the conversational bombs around me trying to get out of this in one piece.