Excellent morality tale!
Sat, Jul. 18th, 2009 17:10![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jarissaOn ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ursulav's blog today, a reader tells a story that really illustrates one of life's repeatedly proven truisms:
Quothwombat32 :
one of my sisters, about [35] years ago, made a very foolish decision, and married a guy she knew when they were in the Air Force together, after a whirlwind, 2 weeks-at-the-most courtship. The very first weekend they were married, we were in my parent's house in Florida, just the 3 of us, when he got it into his head that my sister was there to be beat about the head and shoulders. What he didn't know was my dad was a retired paratrooper/Ranger/all around badass, who kept a hefty arsenal handy. And what he also didn't know was my dad had taught all of us proper gun control.
When he saw me holding a gun on him and telling him to back away from my sister, he made the minor mistake of thinking I wouldn't do it. Then he had to explain to his commanding officer why he had a bullet in his knee, so he was courtmartialled and sent to jail for a few years for assault, breaking and entering (no one invited him into the house, he just came in), and a few other charges. Nothing ever happened to my or my sister because of it.
I was also 13 years old at the time, that may have had something to do with it. :)
For what it's worth, I do not own any guns, and except for mandatory Navy training years later, I have never touched a gun.
I can just imagine the referenced conversation with the C.O., complete with "I didn't do anything wrong, sir, I just...."
ursulav's blog today, a reader tells a story that really illustrates one of life's repeatedly proven truisms:Quoth
wombat32 :one of my sisters, about [35] years ago, made a very foolish decision, and married a guy she knew when they were in the Air Force together, after a whirlwind, 2 weeks-at-the-most courtship. The very first weekend they were married, we were in my parent's house in Florida, just the 3 of us, when he got it into his head that my sister was there to be beat about the head and shoulders. What he didn't know was my dad was a retired paratrooper/Ranger/all around badass, who kept a hefty arsenal handy. And what he also didn't know was my dad had taught all of us proper gun control.
When he saw me holding a gun on him and telling him to back away from my sister, he made the minor mistake of thinking I wouldn't do it. Then he had to explain to his commanding officer why he had a bullet in his knee, so he was courtmartialled and sent to jail for a few years for assault, breaking and entering (no one invited him into the house, he just came in), and a few other charges. Nothing ever happened to my or my sister because of it.
I was also 13 years old at the time, that may have had something to do with it. :)
For what it's worth, I do not own any guns, and except for mandatory Navy training years later, I have never touched a gun.
I can just imagine the referenced conversation with the C.O., complete with "I didn't do anything wrong, sir, I just...."
