This may be the dumbest thing ever written on the subject of firearms and ammunition. It starts with an idiot dad who doesn’t like his adult daughter legally owning a firearm and ends with an advice columnist claiming that hollow point rounds are exploding ammo that is illegal. Somehow this doesn’t really do the stupidity of this exchange justice. Read on and prepare to be amazed.
“Ask Amy” is a syndicated advice column that appears in some the nation’s biggest papers like The Baltimore Sun, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, and The LA Times. Here’s a recent letter asking for help from the most fragile snowflake in Florida:
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.
Amy, this is the kind of weapon a criminal would possess! She says it is for emergencies. There have only been two home invasions in our neighborhood in the last 11 years.
I’ve given her three choices: She can either give her weapon to me, sell it, or move out in three weeks.
How is a .40-caliber handgun not a normal gun? It’s a common firearm among law enforcement, for concealed carry, and for home protection. Criminals generally have cheap shitty small-caliber weapons.
Also, 2 home invasions in a decade? That actually seems excessive. No, check that, it is excessive and alarming. There have been exactly zero home invasions in my neighborhood ever and I still keep a “normal” gun loaded and ready to go just in case.
Somehow this stupid letter gets less intelligent:
I love my daughter and would be so sad for her to move into a place that she would hardly be able to afford, but now I have to lock my bedroom door at night because I don’t know what she’s going to do.
Now she says that I don’t trust her, and is barely speaking to me. How can I convince her to stop endangering us? — DUMBFOUNDED FATHER
So his daughter is intelligent, hardworking and responsible, but he locks his door at night because he’s worried that she will kill him? I don’t know what’s going on in this house, but if I had to guess I’d say this dad might have molested his daughter and now he’s worried his number is about to get punched.
Now get ready for Amy’s idiotic response to Dumbfounded Father’s dumb letter:
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?
Amy, your research is garbage. Hollow point rounds are not exploding bullets and they aren’t illegal in 11 states. Armor-piercing “cop killer” rounds are banned in 11 states, but those are different than hollow points, although they are as equally non-explosive.
Where did your daughter get this weapon and ammunition? Has she received any safety training or certification? (Accidental gun death is a substantial risk of owning a gun.) Is she perhaps engaged in another activity outside of your household that exposes her to increased risks and makes her believe she needs to have a weapon?
I have news for you: A locked bedroom door is no match for this weaponry; as I write this, just five days ago a father in South Carolina tragically shot and killed his own 23-year-old daughter through a closed door — when he mistook her for an intruder.
I agree with your ultimatum; I also weep that there is yet another (likely unsafe) gun owner in this country.
What makes this daughter a “likely unsafe” gun owner? Despite the father’s hysterics, he said she’s smart and responsible. Isn’t it remotely possible that her intelligence and responsibility will carry over to gun ownership? Maybe what Ask Amy is trying to say is that the simple act of owning or possessing a firearm turns good people into crazed killers.
I honestly don’t believe this letter is legitimate and think it was cooked up by the Ask Amy staff as anti-gun propaganda to push gun control. The fact that Amy belly-flopped her own set-up so badly is just pathetic.
