Would you ever forgive your father if this happened to you?

Today something really messed up happened to one of my best friends. He got in a fight with his dad, and his dad pulled a gun on him and stuck it to his temple. He didn't shoot, but my friend knocked him back and grabbed his keys and ran out the door. My friend's dad chased after him. He gripped up my friend outside the house and my friend hit him in the face as hard as he could twice and knocked him out.

From what he told me, the fight was a long verbal fight that was brewing for a while. My friend's dad isn't abusive, and my friend is 22, and living at home until he graduates college, which he is about to. His dad gives him a hard time sometimes and can be a bit of a jerk over a bunch of useless stuff. Sometimes he comes home drunk from bars.

Anyway, I've like never seen my friend cry in my entire life, and when I talked to him on the phone today he sounded choked up over the whole thing. He said he can't believe his dad would pull a gun on his own son, and he said he'll never talk to his dad again for the rest of his life. I could tell he meant it from talking to him. He said to him he's no longer his dad.

What would you do in this situation? Would you ever talk to your father again? Could you forgive him for ever pulling a gun on you and sticking it to your temple? I, myself am probably on the same boat as my friend. My dad would never ever do that to me, but if he did I'd probably forgive him and never talk to him again.

Crazy stuff, but what would you do?

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I couldn't believe it. Him and his dad were pretty close too. But I know for a fact that his dad is extremely racist, and has anger issues.

I feel awful for my friend. It's worse than being betrayed by your wife. It's your dad. The man that raised you.

I would've called the police too, but he told me he's not going to for whatever reason. I can't pretend like I know what that's like to happen to me, so I'm not going to pretend I know what he's thinking.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I talked to my friend today. He said his dad left messages on his cell phone telling him to never come back there, he's not his son anymore, and he never wants to talk to him again.

Looks like an apology is out of the question.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Nothing warrants putting a gun to someone's head. His dad is pretty much a psycho. He did beat up his mom one time in the past, but I don't know the full story.

He told me his dad disabled all the cars that he had and my friend used, so he can't travel anywhere.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

The cars are under my friend's dad's name. He's a mechanic and buys/deals cars and gets his hands on a new car every once in a while and gives it to my friend. He said he did something to them, none of them would start.

He snuck back in and grabbed some stuff like clothes, but there's a lot more to get. Plus I lent him a few anime DVDs that are still there. He needs to get those back for me.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Devo

Your friend is in a dire situation that involves moving out and breaking ties with his father and you're concerned about Anime DVDs which are replacecable?

What does one have to do with the other? Because he got in a fight with his father, I'm not allowed to want my DVDs back? It's not like it's the first thing that came to my mind.

It's a mere fact that the DVDs are over the house and he needs to get them back, I spent a lot of money on them. I wouldn't say I'm concerned over it, but I do want them back.

If he can't go back there, then I'll go and get them myself, but he's told me he is going back to get stuff, so he'll get them.

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Originally Posted by Devo

Yes you are quite the great friend here.

"Oh you're dad threatened your life. Where's my Evangelion?"

Yes I believe you watch shit anime

That was quite the asinine assumption. What makes you think that is how I went about asking it? Not to mention that you know nothing about my friend. He's the totally opposite of politically correct.

All I said was if you go back to your house to grab your stuff then if you remember grab the DVDs I lent you. Nothing wrong with that.

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