3 People Who Want to Borrow Your Gun (& What to Tell Them)
Last updated: December 19, 2018 · Originally published: November 14, 2018
Every gun owner meets at least one of these in their lifetime…
If you own firearms and you don’t mind letting people know it, sooner or later one of them will ask you if they can borrow one of those guns. Although there are about 300 million people in America, and every one is a very special and unique snowflake, the people who would like to borrow your gun fall into three main archetypes. Here’s who they are, and what you should probably say in reply:
1. Karen from the Homeowners’ Association
The first time Karen heard that you’re a gun owner, she looked at you as if you had eight heads and each one of them was busy eating a newborn infant. She loudly asked if you had a license for it, then, when you told her you didn’t need one, she scoffed and said “we’ll see about that.” Not only won’t she let her kids play with your kids at your house (which is certainly her right), she snidely questions the sanity of everyone who does.
Until the hurricane rolls in, that is. When the power’s been out for a few days and 911 still isn’t responding to phone calls, plan on Karen popping by to see if she can borrow one of your boomsticks. You know, just for a little extra security. You don’t mind, do you?
What to tell Karen:
That she needs a license to borrow your gun, and that they’re available for purchase at www.hahahahano.no.
2. Aydinn from the food pantry.
Aydinn figured out you were a hunter when you stopped by to donate some venison, and thought it was kinda messed up, maaann, like, that you would, like, kill a deer. They’re like, so pretty and peaceful and junk. That’s why he moved out here to the country (with his girlfriend, Aydenne), so they could, like, get back to nature and stuff. He really hopes you don’t bring your death and negativity around his place, maaannn.
Until the deer get into Aydenne’s vegetable garden, the skunks get under their porch, and the raccoons get into Aydinn’s dreadlocks, that is. Then you might hear from Aydinn about maybe borrowing that 20-gauge, you know, just to keep the pretty, peaceful critters pretty and peaceful…somewhere else, maaannn.
What to tell Aydinn:
“Possession of a firearm is illegal for weed smokers. Maaaannn.”
3. Dan Bilzerian
For those out of the loop, Dan Bilzerian is an “Instagram influencer” who got all the way through the Navy Seals’ BUDS training before he washed out. There’s no shame in that; BUDS training is quite possibly the most physically and mentally difficult military program out there. It’s what he washed out for: being unsafe on the shooting range. He is now, basically, famous for being famous…which is a pretty sweet gig, but it’s not sweet enough for Bilzerian. When the Las Vegas mass shooting begun, he decided he was going to try and commandeer a responding law enforcement officer’s firearm. Better still, he decided to record the exchange. Luckily, I don’t have to tell you what to tell Dan Bilzerian, because the LEO in question did it for me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bd3qgLsqJs
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I always find the word NO works every time.
BTW: Please don’t stereotype or demonize Cannabis. Educate yourself a little before making assertions. Everything you think you know, or have been told about Cannabis is a Lie.
oh Dan, DAn DAn DAn…..pooor Dan…. wanna bee Dan,,,,, i wonder why Dan is sitting there Sans fireams when the popping goes off. then has to try to” show creds” on camera …
how sad and stupid…
real men would have been dumping the camera man, tying to help others out and applying first aid skills
Of me and some friends or family are out at the range and one wants to swap or try something I have that they don’t sure, since I know and trust them, are in a safe firing location and might even have theirs but, outside that NO wait let me think about it, oh yeah I forgot a word, HE’LL NO!
It’s always the ignorant people who pose that stupid question, “Do you have a license to own that?” A question often spoken on TV and in movies by those actors playing the police.
There is no license except of course to carry a concealed weapon, but the facts seem to elude most people. Then again those super crusaders and post adolescent Hall Monitors all tend to have what I call the “Chicken Little” response to everything and fear everything that they don’t think is right. And when you do bad, they have to tell the teacher.
These are the kind of people who basically will not allow anybody to do anything they deem as wrong, immoral or dangerous. Yet once trouble strikes, they run and hide behind those of us who are by their definition, dangerous and on the edge of insanity.
Hey I’m a crossing guard. I’m here to hy.
Unless I am right there with that person or I trust them implicitly, NOBODY BORROWS MY GUNS. And those who know me, know that. However, if we are out hunting and somebody runs out of ammunition, or his tool malfunctions and I have an extra with ammo with me (I normally do) I let them use it. One such time was when a friend’s bolt did not get packed with his rifle when he put it in the case. He learned why I like my Model 94 30-30 so much. He is looking for one now.
I think I would let someone borrow my wife before I loaned one of my guns and that’s not happening!
I couldn’t tell what was said either – but what I told my chief once upon a time applies – he said that if we got in a shoot out (fortunately never happened!) that I could share my extra ammo with him – I carried LOTS more than he did – I said NOPE.
Not sure if he started carrying more or not since he got fired shortly after……………………(and that whole sordid tale is reserved for another time -)
I have always said the first time an anti-gunner, anti-religious person gets into a bad spot, they pray someone with a gun will show up and help them out. And once they get out of a tight spot, they go right back to their same old ways.
If you let anyone borrow a weapon that you personally are not completely familiar with as to his safety and responsibility, then you are personally and morally responsible for anything stupid he or she does!
True and Correct!
Kind of hard to make out anything that was said except for, “I’m saving myself.”
and it looked like the LE said that.