I thought I had seen it all, but I have not.
Would you marry a guy who owns guns? (I know it’s custom in NWFP province and such, but I’m talking about urban guys, urban families, urban shadis and abroad). I can see where families may have guns in Karachi, and I can’t blame them given the violence and daily threats.
But I’m talking about American-Pakistani families.
I guess now I have another question to add to my interview list. Do you own a gun?
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I don’t think its a big deal at all.
I don’t own a gun but definitely want to learn how to shoot.
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You would be ok with a gun in the house, with kids in the house??
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Some folks keep their gun locked so that others…especially their young kids…don’t have easy access to it. Others may not even inform their children that there is a gun in the home.
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This would’ve been a big deal to me eons ago.
Now, it does not bother me.
Two in the family have concealed hand gun permits, and we have a few handguns. and rifles.. all legally purchased.
The guns are locked up, the ammo is kept separate , separate gun locks ..we try our best to be safe .
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I’m surprised to hear this from you PCG since I know you lived in Texas for quite a while. You really didn’t come across people here who showed you responsible gun ownership? 
I don’t see anything wrong with owning a gun. I don’t see this being any more dangerous than keeping knives in your kitchen. Having lived in Texas for more than 20 years, I have had many friends and co-workers who are gun owners. Many of these people grew up with guns (ie. parents/grandparents etc. own them) and many of them currently have kids. I’ve been taken to a gun range several times and loved the shooting experience! I plan on actually learning how to shoot and have even thought about owning a gun one day/getting concealed carry permit.
When not in use, the guns are un-loaded and kept in a locked safe. Kids do not know the combination to the safe. Once the kids are old enough to understand, many of these people take the kids to gun ranges and teach the kids gun safety from a young age (the same way their own parents taught them) so the kids are fully aware of the dangers. But even then, its not like they leave loaded gun just lying around in the living room. Every single time I have read a article about a child getting hurt/killed b/c of a gun…it was b/c a loaded gun did not have the safety on AND was left out in the open where a child had access to it.
If so many goras out there can be responsible gun owners, and can manage to raise kids safely while keeping a gun in the house…why can’t American-Pakistanis do the same?
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I hope and if he is not a serial killer..it is ok to keep it. But again, i do not personally support keeping a gun or weapon of any kind at home..but heyy people do. So what? should that stop you from marrying a fella??
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A guy who owns guns?
::red hearts stuck to the eyes smily::
So you dont want him? Gimmi his phone number 
…Only if he’s not a mob, that is… 
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I would probably want to stay away if they’re the redneck gun-toting types. Brains were not given out freely in that lot. I also probably wouldn’t want to live where guns are the norm. Rather live in a safe neighbourhood than act like a dumbass cowboy and get killed by my own gun.
Bizarrely enough my father had a gun for the longest time because it was my grandfather’s and I was deemed least likely to find it and shoot my head off among all the grandchildren. I did find it once and closed the lid quickly so they were right about that.
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fiance had a gun and i made him sell it. I know it has a lot to do with the fact that I come from a liberal, non-gun owning background and just being around guns (and even tseeing them on tv) gives me intense anxiety. I went to a gun range to try to get over the fear and I never want to go to one again. He whined for a bit about it but he’s over it now.
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I was in Texas for a grand total of 3 years, and no I never became an actual Texan. I am a south floridian still. And South Florida is not actually the South. It’s not even the USA actually, it’s more like south America, and we don’t have guns, we see people carrying machetes. The only people who have guns here are in the ghetto’s, and cocaine dealers and those types. We don’t have a gun culture. Prior to that, family is from Karachi, and the family has no culture of guns. There are no guns in the houses. We see way too many stupid deaths from this, rather than people actually defending themselves.
Humans evolved. Now there are alarm systems. And by the time you reach for your gun, you’ll probably be dead anyway. More likely, kids are getting harmed than these guns are protecting anyone.
I’d be scared if my husband knew how to use a gun. The guy I spoke to is pretty assertive and likes to argue, a lawyer type (he’s not even in law school yet and is pretty sure he will get in - infinite rolleyes) → so yes, I am afraid this guy will shoot me.
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I wouldn’t marry a guy who has a gun. The South is obsessed with guns and it’s sickening. The number of deaths caused by guns in the US is shocking compared to the rest of the first world countries. Guns can go off at any time and before you know it, it’s too late to undo the damage.
And for clarification having a knife is drastically different from owning a gun. It takes a millisecond to die from a gunshot. It takes a lot more work to die from a kitchen knife.
I can’t stand gun culture in this country. It’s one of my pet peeves about this country. The second amendment needs to be struck down!
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There is nothing wrong with your views on guns…many people share them. All this means is that your search continues and yes, one more question to add to your list. 
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This from skyfall**
Q:** Every now and then a trigger has to be pulled.
James Bond: Or not pulled. It’s hard to know which in your pajamas.
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Yes. Rifle for deer and 12 bore for pheasants/grouse.
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so now poor guys have to pass no-gun test too 
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What if they are hunting guns and he likes hunting? Is it still a deal breaker?
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What if he buys a gun later in life? A better question would be one that asks how he feels about gun ownership and he if plans on owning one ever. He might be waiting on getting one once he gets a permanent place.
And there’s always the chance of his beliefs on gun ownership changing to where he feels he has to own one. All it takes is a loved one’s home getting invaded or some other shi.
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Yeah but what desis own guns, honestly??
Like wth?
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Owning a gun is a different thing then being a psycho. After all that NY TV dude cut off his wife’s head. I suppose it’s easy killing with a gun, but I would still be more concerned with what someone is like versus if they own a gun.