Were you ever threatened as a suitor with a firearm?

[Belmont31R]

I was...but not directly. Just basically the step dad "showing" me his old and out dated collection. Little did he know I was armed during this "demonstration". He found out pretty quick, though, and opened up right away especially since he was retired AF and I was AD Army at the time. I told my now wife, who I met online, that I was into guns and if that was an issue we shouldn't even date. She replied back that she grew up in rural Indiana and already had her hunters cert. "Ok then....when can we go on a date!?" Just playing around but that was the jist of it.



Just wondering because I kinda got a chuckle out of it at the time, and have twin boys who will be getting into that phase in the next little while. Still young but we have a wide age range here so do any of you plan on this type 'show of force'?

[woodandsteel]

I have daughters. Everyone jokes about me cleaning my guns when suitors come calling. I have a better idea, though. When young men start coming around to see my girls, I am going to be sharpening my knives. I just think that most people have a primordial fear of edged weapons, and what can be done with them.

[Evil Colt 6920]

I have daughters. Everyone jokes about me cleaning my guns when suitors come calling. I have a better idea, though. When young men start coming around to see my girls, I am going to be sharpening my knives. I just think that most people have a primordial fear of edged weapons, and what can be done with them.

I agree that a knife works just as well in this scenario. While I am not a father, I do have a sister 12 years younger than myself. Theres something about a razor sharp full tang katana thats instills fear in would be boyfriends. Seems like Im always applying fresh oil to the blade when she brings some dude over

[QuietShootr]

From the other side of that issue - all you're doing is making sure a guy like me (or like I was, at that age) is going to be jackhammering your precious daughter like an oil rig, and sooner rather than later. You may think you're scaring the guy, but whatever fear you think you might be instilling is far outweighed by what you're doing to your daughter, because everybody knows the last time a daddy shot her daughter's boyfriend for ****ing her was...oh....half past never unless you live in a ghetto or a trailer park.

I loved freshman girls with insanely strict parents when I was in college.

[C-grunt]

My ex girlfrriends father tried that. It backfired on him when he found out I knew more about and had more guns than him.

[Watrdawg]

My daughter is 11 now and she's all tomboy. She's been hunting with me since she was 3. I think I'll have any boys coming to the house just happen to come by when she's skinning a deer. When they see her doing that I'll tell them that if they get any "ideas" about having their way with my daughter she has my permission to skin them just like the deer she's skinning now!!

[Buckaroo]

Once took my daughter's dirtbag boyfriend to lunch. told him how important my daughter was to me and that I felt it was my duty to look after not only her welfare but that of her suitors as well.

Told him that I wanted that best for both of them.

He never called again, never knew I was armed, just an involved father.

She is married now to a guy who thinks the world of her. when they were getting engaged I told him that he was "marrying me" and that he needed to court me as well.

Seems to have worked in this one situation.

[QuietShootr]

Once took my daughter's dirtbag boyfriend to lunch. told him how important my daughter was to me and that I felt it was my duty to look after not only her welfare but that of her suitors as well.

Told him that I wanted that best for both of them.

He never called again, never knew I was armed, just an involved father.

She is married now to a guy who thinks the world of her. when they were getting engaged I told him that he was "marrying me" and that he needed to court me as well.

Seems to have worked in this one situation.

Interesting. When I got engaged to my wife, I explained to her (divorced) parents that they were now finished telling her what to do, and if either of them ever attempted to interfere in my marriage that they would be cut out of our lives immediately, or their daughter would be returned to them forthwith, depending on her choice.

It's worked well for 12 years so far. My MIL sniffs around like she wants to cause trouble every once in a while, but I remind her of that conversation and that I still mean it, and she ****s right off. FIL has never attempted to violate boundaries.

[CarlosDJackal]

This reminds me of Bill Engvall's routine:

I'm going to pull him in tight next to me so only he and I can hear the conversation. And I'm gonna say to him, "Boy, look at me. You see that little girl right there? She's my only little girl, man. She's my life. So if you have any . . . thoughts . . . about huggin', or . . . kissin', you remember these words: 'I've got no problem going back to prison.'

[QuietShootr]

This reminds me of Bill Engvall's routine:

I'm going to pull him in tight next to me so only he and I can hear the conversation. And I'm gonna say to him, "Boy, look at me. You see that little girl right there? She's my only little girl, man. She's my life. So if you have any . . . thoughts . . . about huggin', or . . . kissin', you remember these words: 'I've got no problem going back to prison.'

Go Bill! You aren't doing a thing but ensuring I'm gonna be balls-deep in your little princess by midnight.