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I am honest about everything with my wife except my guns. Growing up the daughter of a Methodist minister (I married a minister's daughter!) she is a pacifist like myself, and is abhorred with violence in society, like myself, so we agree on those things. She thinks that guns are the reason for all the violence in the world and doesn't understand that it is violent people that are the reason for the violence, not guns. A violent person with a hammer can kill someone, do we take away all hammers? A gun is a tool, and I am a non violent person who is good with tools, plus I've also done a bit of security over the years as a side job and believe in protecting good innocent people from being victimized. I feel that way about my family and would take extreme measures if they were threatened by a violent person, but as a woman she doesn't feel the natural sense and responsiblitiy of protection that men feel, so I've had to purchase a basic collection with money I earned outside our combined budget and hide them away for when the SHTF. I can just picture her face when I bring them out in a crisis, I think the actaul crisis will take second place to the reaction she'll have. I feel terrible hiding something from her, but it's something I have to do to continue to be myself and to ease my worries of the world, which in turn make me a better person and husband for her. So it's for the best right? Will I be judged as a dishonest person by the great spirit if there is one?