Great come back. I will have to remember that one if someone makes a statement like that to me.
I'm going to actually start removing my seatbelt in the car if/when it comes up again. And start countering her with "Why? These are our own local 'safe' roads?" and "What's the matter, are you planning on crashing?"
Note, Mrs. Dual is simply
stubborn. She will never concede defeat or change her mind. The closest I'll ever get is that I might be able to "train" her through the negative stimulus that she does not like losing arguments, and as such to no longer protest, or bring the subject up.
She's the kind of person who'll almost never try something, or "like it" even if all things being equal, she would have liked it, just because she felt someone wanted her to like it. It's the same for shooting. She refuses to try it, simply because it's her stance she does not want to. She's not scared of shooting, nor would she find it unpleasant. She merely does not want to do it, because she knows I want her to try it.
And much like Monkeyleg's motorcycles and cars and his spouse, she has the resentful dynamic of any hobby or interest that is not focused on her.
The only way she would ever change her mind about it is that she met some woman-friend who is an avid shooter and suddenly decided to like shooting "on her own". You can sort of see the dynamic in that my prior post, the ONLY times she even mentions guns, shooting, RKBA-politics is when other women are talking about it, but quickly shuts down with pretty much any feedback from me, negative, positive, or neutral once she's reminded about how big a part of "gun culture" is my identity.