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Ask Amy: My daughter lives with me and owns a gun. Can I kick her out?

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Ask Amy: My daughter lives with me and owns a gun. Can I kick her out? | Relationships | omaha.com

Dear Amy: This week, I discovered that my intelligent, hard-working, responsible 24-year-old daughter (who lives with me) is a gun owner! And it’s not a normal gun, either — it is a 40-caliber semi-automatic, and she has hollow-point bullets to go with it.
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Dear Dumbfounded: According to my research, possessing hollow-point bullets is illegal in 11 states; is it legal in your state to own this sort of exploding ammunition?
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Dear, Holy ****!!!!

That's not advice. It's catering to every fear the gun grabbers have. It's willful ignorance or, worse, intentional dishonesty.
 
Hollow point rounds are explosive ammunition?

Definitely. And they turn ordinary firearms into fully automatic assault weapons that any kid can get their hands on.
 
Irrational fear and panic... about the norm these days concerning all things guns.
 
certainly the father, as the home owner, is justified in denying such a weapon to be resident in his house
but is that a very wise choice

his daughter may have to move to a much less safe community, where her need for the firearm might be greater than where her dad lives

it would seem that a more centrist approach would be to assure that both he and his daughter are trained to shoot this weapon and that it is properly secured at all times, where he and his daughter have access to it if needed

if the present ammunition is legal in his state, then why not keep it for use against a threat. if it is not legal in their state, then substitute something lethal that is

that way, he preserves his peace of mind and his daughter's safety
 
certainly the father, as the home owner, is justified in denying such a weapon to be resident in his house
but is that a very wise choice

his daughter may have to move to a much less safe community, where her need for the firearm might be greater than where her dad lives

it would seem that a more centrist approach would be to assure that both he and his daughter are trained to shoot this weapon and that it is properly secured at all times, where he and his daughter have access to it if needed

if the present ammunition is legal in his state, then why not keep it for use against a threat. if it is not legal in their state, then substitute something lethal that is

that way, he preserves his peace of mind and his daughter's safety

Something tells me that if this man does not consider a .40 caliber semiautomatic handgun with hollow point ammunition a "normal" gun, I am given to wonder how much he knows about firearms and what gun he would be comfortable with his daughter possessing in his home. If he does not want guns under his roof because they make him uncomfortable or he just does not like having such a dangerous tool on his premises, that is his right and I can certainly understand it. But he seems to be taking it a step further and is treating his daughter as though she is a murderer-in-waiting, ready to empty her pistol into him while he sleeps. I do not understand where that thought pattern comes from. I think the biggest issue is that the parent-daughter relationship has broken down over this, and he now lives in fear of his daughter, and his daughter now realizes that her father fears her and does not trust her, for all the flowery language he uses when describing her. That is far sadder than the gun issue.
 
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Something tells me that if this man who does not consider a .40 caliber semiautomatic handgun with hollow point ammunition a "normal" gun, I am given to wonder how much he knows about firearms and what gun he would be comfortable with his daughter possessing in his home. If he does not want guns under his roof because they make him uncomfortable or he just does not like having such a dangerous tool on his premises, that is his right and I can certainly understand it. But he seems to be taking it a step further and is treating his daughter as though she is a murderer-in-waiting, ready to empty her pistol into him while he sleeps. I do not understand where this comes from. I think the biggest issue is that the parent-daughter relationship has broken down over this, and he now lives in fear of his daughter, and his daughter now realizes that her father fears her and does not trust her, for all the flowery language he uses when describing her. That is far sadder than the gun issue.

It would seem to me that if you fear your kid is going to kill you that may have had a parenting failure somewhere in your past...which makes it perfectly reasonable to blame guns because it would be crazy to blame yourself!
 
He certainly can. I'm sure, too, that some around here would applaud him for doing so.

It's his house. He should be a p###y and cave in to her?

What happened to men in this country?
 
Hollow point rounds are explosive ammunition?

'Full metal jacket'

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The issue isn’t the firearm, the issue Is he dosent trust his hard working daughters decision.
 
She should move out of the father’s house anyway, he has shown that he does not possess adequate respect for her, first by his unreasonable reaction to her legal decisions, and then doubles it by writing a stranger for advice instead of resolving the issue like an adult
 
'Full metal jacket'

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Actually, that picture is of hollow points. Jacketed Hollow Points, to be more specific. Full Metal Jacket refers to "ball" ammunition (basically a lead, round nosed bullet) with a copper "jacket" covering it. The copper jacket, being harder than the lead, means the projectile is less likely to become deformed while loading or being chambered and tends to leave less "crud" in the barrel than an unjacketed round.
 
Actually, that picture is of hollow points. Jacketed Hollow Points, to be more specific. Full Metal Jacket refers to "ball" ammunition (basically a lead, round nosed bullet) with a copper "jacket" covering it. The copper jacket, being harder than the lead, means the projectile is less likely to become deformed while loading or being chambered and tends to leave less "crud" in the barrel than an unjacketed round.

Both look pretty nasty compared to a round tip bullet. Both do a lot more damage. This whole story about this guy and his daughter smacks of debate bait to me. I think it's a fake story made up to create dissension between gun owners and anti-gun activists.
 
I'd wager the "Ask Amy" team ginned this question up themselves to provoke.

Are advice columns even still a thing?
 
I'm glad I grew up on a household that waa gun friendly. My dad bought me a 410 so I could go hunting with him, when I moved out he bought me a 357 for home protection. We still go shooting when we can. I feel bad for this girl growing up with a father so ignorant of firearms.

I do have my doubts that this is a legitimate story.
 
Both look pretty nasty compared to a round tip bullet. Both do a lot more damage.

That's not exactly true either. One of the reasons most people who carry for self defense use hollow points is because they tend to not penetrate as far as ball ammunition does. Hitting a fleshy target with 9mm FMJ is quite likely to produce a through and through wound thus risking damage to anything behind the target. Hollow point ammo is less likely to produce such an effect. An added "bonus" to hollow points is a larger wound cavity which tends to mean more stuff on the inside gets scrambled. However, of a hollow point hits bone first that effect can ge a lot less than if FMJ is used.

Bottom line, if I had to shoot someone through a car door, for example, I'd probably be better off with FMJ ammo. If I had to shoot someone through a screen door I'd probably be better off with hollow points. That being said, if I have to shoot it will be with whatever is loaded and in neither case would I like to be on the receiving end.
 
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Dear, Holy ****!!!!

That's not advice. It's catering to every fear the gun grabbers have. It's willful ignorance or, worse, intentional dishonesty.

Basically it is your house. Most state laws permit the owner of a home to establish the rules for which a home can be resided in. If the renter / tenant does not wish to live under those rules they can find a place without the restrictions.

If you have a Great Dane and the homeowner doesn't want pets you do not have the right to ignore them.
 
I believe home owners have the right to decide whether or not they wish to have firearms in their home. If the letter is true as written, it is doubtful the daughter was unaware of her father's feelings about the issue. He deserved to be consulted before she decided to bring in a weapon. It is not unreasonable for him to ask for control of the gun as long as she is residing in the house.
 
I didn't think hollow points exploded?

Or is the writer referring to how they expand...


She once saw this documentary that followed a guy named James Bond around. He was able to use a hollow point round to get a gas tank to explode and it blew up a building all with one shot. It was on TV so had to be true.
 
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