Forgetting you were there: bad

Assessing the situation before deciding to use the weapon: good

 

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How is it a red flag that he's prepared to defend himself against a possible robber/attacker? It's possible that op and their boyfriend don't live together and he thought op already left.

As a personal handgun owner and as someone who was trained and certified for years in the state of Texas for carrying, I can tell you it is not normal nor healthy behavior to draw your firearm and point it at someone in this situation.  You don't just "forget" that you have or have had guests in your home, and you don't point a gun at someone unless you are prepared to use it to kill.  

If you want the responsbility of owning a handgun, it is doubly your responsibility to be

How is this a red flag? If he pulled a gun on OP because he didn't want them to leave for work that'd be a huge red flag. Not knowing who's in your house and pulling a gun in self defense: not a red flag.

Eveni n the bizarre situation that he forgot he had a guest over, it is incredibly irresponsible and a little deranged for his knee-jerk reaction to be to point a gun at someone without assessing the situation first.  Speaks highly of PTSD, and no citizen should own a gun if that is their first response to ambiguous situations.

I agree.

I agree.

maybe call out "who's there?" before fucking pulling a gun on someone. And also being forgotten about to such a deep deep level has to mean something like a red flag. Forgetting someone is there, does not excise pulling a gun on them. I'd dump a guy if he did that to me. I'd also tell all my friends. People that paranoid do not have the rationale to safely own a gun in my opinion. Just because he didn't pull the trigger wouldn't cure the relationship for me. What if he did. Seriously though, jus

You couldn't be more correct, now please tell that to the American Police at Kaylanafml

Or he just needed some money.

Not the brightest bulb in the box, that one.

Rough neighbourhood??

Red Flag? Really. What should he do. When he comes upon an armed intruder he should ask them to either A wait patiently while he goes and gets his firearm or B: Hope they don't shoot before he can pull it out of it's holster. Also, the PTSD comment makes it seem as if anyone that has PTSD shouldn't be allowed to have firearms because the boyfriend and anyone else that has it is just too emotionally unstable. That is extremely far from any truth or facts.

So glad I don't live in the states where guns are so prevalent and these sort of situations exist

'Murica :')

Is your boyfriend Oscar Pistorius?

at least you know that he will always have your back in the case of a home-invasion.