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I have owned guns all of my adult life. When my wife and I first met, she had been around guns quite a bit but did not care to have one in the house. She was a little taken back on her first visit to my house when she saw my gun safes. When she asked about them, being the proud gun owner I am, I showed them to her. She was okay with the rifles and shotguns but not so much with the handguns. She wanted to know why I had to have them, yadda yadda yadda. I really thought that our relationship had come to an end at that point but we continued to date. Then I told her that on one Saturday we would not be going out until later in the evening because I was going to take my CHL class. Then it was why do you need that, yadda, yadda, yadda. I explained to her that she knew I had guns and if she was going to be a part of my life then she would have to accept that. Fast forward to 1999, we were married and she accepted the fact that I carried everywhere I was allowed.
She started paying more attention to the news and all of the meanness going on and then she started making sure I was carrying when we would go somewhere. Then, in November of 01 (Black Friday) she and some of her girlfriends and my grand daughter went Christmas shopping and were robbed at gunpoint in the parking lot. When she got home that night, she announces that she wants me to teach her to shoot and get her CHL, all of which was done and she has been carrying every day since.