You can't truly call yourself peaceful unless you are capable of great violence. If you're not capable of violence, you're not peaceful, you're harmless.
-Important distinction
We have a niece who is gong to school for law enforcement and for her 21st we bought her a gun to use in her training.
Former Navy and ANG
CCW holder/Instructor
NRA Basic pistol instructor
Range Safety Officer
Personal Protection inside and outside the home instructor
Advanced pistol instructor
Defensive pistol instructor
Not house warming gifts as such, but I've helped arm two young women.
When my youngest daughter graduated from OSU my graduation present to her was a 9mm Stoeger Cougar, 3 extra 15 round magazines (5 total), 500 rounds of FMJ practice ammo, a box of HSTs, a mag. loader, a paddle holster, and a clamshell safe for her car.
A Charlottesville police officer acquaintance mentioned that she was thinking of getting a BUG so I asked where she would be shopping and ended up giving her a $200 gift certificate for that gun shop. Turned out that one of the clerks there was her pistol TO. She ended up getting a Glock 26 for her BUG.
AlanM
There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men. - RAH
Four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo - use in that order.
If you aren't part of the solution, then you obviously weren't properly dissolved.