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[quote=Anonymous]100%, I would not date a person who did concealed carry or kept weapons in the house.

There is no reason to carry a weapon in this country.  Whatever you may think about how it's going to protect you, the odds are you will be wrong.  Weapons take a situation and make it move at warp speed.  As soon as someone sees a weapon in a situation, they think they only have seconds to make a choice about whether they kill you or not.

I say this as a person who has lived and worked in a country which had a lot of criminality and also worked in a war zone, both of which only reinforced that carrying a gun makes a situation unpredictable.

Also, I had a lived with a fiancé who started to talk about buying a guy for "self-defense" in case we were robbed. I felt uncomfortable with a gun in the house. His whole crowd was preppy adults who were lawyers and entrepreneurs, married and responsible, but heavy drinkers.  25 years later the husband killed the wife in a murder-suicide that absolutely would not have happened if there hadn't been weapons in the home for "defense".

Yes, there is a second amendment and people have a right to carry a weapon and keep one in the home, but the risk of death by gun - suicide, murder, accident - far outweigh the minuscule possibility that one has to defend oneself in a robbery.

People have a second amendment right. They don't have a right to socialize with me while they're exercising their second amendment right .

Also, OP, haven't you ever heard of "Burn the Haystack" dating method?  If there's the slightest red flag, toss him and move on.  You don't need that in your life. If you don't have enough confidence to do so, then get in therapy and fix yourself before dating. [/quote]

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