The Gun Blogs

I don't know about you, but I hear from guys all the time saying that they want to have a "________"(insert type of firearm) but the the wife/girlfriend doesn't want them in the house.
Now, I'll be the first to say that a person has the right to associate them selfs any way they want and to control their property, but I just don't get it.
In what way is a person safer with the guns outside in the hands of criminals and none inside with you to protect yourself?
It's time such as these that remind me that I have the most awesome wife on the planet.
No, she's not a big gun nut like me. She doesn't even go shooting with me very much (once a year or so) but she does insist that if I bring in a new firearm that she must be trained on it totally! From field stripping to loading to firing, she wants to know how.
She says that "if its going to be here, then she refuses to be ignorant of the paticulars."
To me this is the best outcome possible. Not only do I have a understanding wife but I also get to keep MY firearms without fear that she will like one to much and claim it as her own. Although there was that "Kimber" incident last year.
I have yet to get it back from her.
That being said, it's the only one she got her grubby little hands on.....so far.
The thing is that she knew me before she married me and accepted that I wasn't going to balk on this particular point (Just for the record, I did balk on a lot of other points, like no drinking and no pool table in the dining room etc.).
I just don't get guys who sat that they want a firearm for defense or even just for plinking but a relationship is in the way. It just seems like lying to change who you are for another person. They should love you because you're you.
I'll leave the rest for Dr. Phil.
Maybe this post would be "Sucking up" enough to get my Kimber back.......Probably not though.