"Don White" wrote in message
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Doug Kanter wrote:


Sounds better the more I think about it.

About 6 years ago, my son hit me in the cohones with a hardball during
pitching practice and I ripped him a new asshole, as was appropriate. He
learned some new words that day. I felt terrible, though, and a few days
later, I was discussing it with some friends over beer. My friend Mike
made an interesting observation based on his experiences in his enormous
extended family. When things get bad with a kid, mothers will *usually*
ramp up the response slowly, from calmly correcting the kid, through
various levels, and finally blowing up. Fathers usually go from calm to
"holy ****" much faster. I think this is true, and it's not a problem.
Kids should know that in a previous life, their fathers were cave men,
and might react in "interesting" ways. Not violent toward the kids, but
interesting.

I think my son learned well. Three years ago, we were at a boat launch in
the Adirondacks. The boat was out of the water, I was securing things,
and he was mindlessly staring at the sky or some chick in a bikini, when
I saw two pit bulls running toward him. The gun was out of the holster
instantly, I yelled to the owner to stop the dogs, and he did. If those
dogs had come within 20 feet of my son, they would've been dropped,
followed closely by their owner sucking on the barrel until the police
arrived. My son flipped out at the idea that I was ready to kill the
dogs. But, as I explained, there was no other possible option, other than
wait and see if they were vicious. It took him a couple of days to see
the logic, but he finally did.
You were packin' a gun in it's holster at a boat launch?
Up here that would cause some commotion!

In NY, they have to be concealed. No commotion before, and only a bit
surprisingly, not much after, either. There were just 3 "sets" of people
there, and it's a place where guns are seen more often than in cities. The
gun was along for the ride because we were tying up to shore to fish, and
bears have been known to express an interest in fishermen in that area. I
have no delusions about this particular gun being a great solution in such a
scenario, but some rangers say just the noise is enough to scare a bear
away. Or, it ****es off the bear and she shoves the gun up your ass. :-)