Took a friend to my family passover seder tonight because she's from Maryland and didn't have any family to spend it with. Didn't feel right to leave her at her apartment alone on passover.
Anyways, I picked her up and during the hour or so drive, we got talking about politics. She's a pretty hardcore liberal, but she isn't anti-gun at all (which I learned today - I always assumed she was).
Apparently both her boyfriend's parents have CWP's (although they don't use them), and her uncle is a gun-nut. I had never mentioned until then that I have a CWP, I was interested in guaging her reaction.
She really didn't mind at all. I guess it's partially because she knows me well enough to know I'm not the kind of sterotyped wacko many anti-gun people try to portray us as, but it also could just be that maybe these movements in places like Maryland and such aren't really the voice of the people, but rather the exertion of influence and power by anti-gunners in powerful positions.
It was just interesting. I had to wonder if somebody so liberal really didn't mind guns, how many of the liberals that often get accused on gun forums as being by default anti-gun, are really of the same mind-set as she is?
Basically she has the mind-set that so long as people are responsible, it's fine. She never mentioned the "guns kill people" argument, and all she really had to say is that she is bothered by the number of accidental deaths of children due to playing with guns, and wishes something would be done to alleviate the problem. Her suggestion was just not leaving guns in places accessible to children, and I simply said that if you had to, at least make sure the kids know what it is, and that's it's not a toy and is not to be touched without adult supervision (ie: at a range). Or at least start kids off with firearm safety.
Anyways though, all in all, it was interesting. Just goes to show you can't judge people with a label I suppose.
Anyways, I picked her up and during the hour or so drive, we got talking about politics. She's a pretty hardcore liberal, but she isn't anti-gun at all (which I learned today - I always assumed she was).
Apparently both her boyfriend's parents have CWP's (although they don't use them), and her uncle is a gun-nut. I had never mentioned until then that I have a CWP, I was interested in guaging her reaction.
She really didn't mind at all. I guess it's partially because she knows me well enough to know I'm not the kind of sterotyped wacko many anti-gun people try to portray us as, but it also could just be that maybe these movements in places like Maryland and such aren't really the voice of the people, but rather the exertion of influence and power by anti-gunners in powerful positions.
It was just interesting. I had to wonder if somebody so liberal really didn't mind guns, how many of the liberals that often get accused on gun forums as being by default anti-gun, are really of the same mind-set as she is?
Basically she has the mind-set that so long as people are responsible, it's fine. She never mentioned the "guns kill people" argument, and all she really had to say is that she is bothered by the number of accidental deaths of children due to playing with guns, and wishes something would be done to alleviate the problem. Her suggestion was just not leaving guns in places accessible to children, and I simply said that if you had to, at least make sure the kids know what it is, and that's it's not a toy and is not to be touched without adult supervision (ie: at a range). Or at least start kids off with firearm safety.
Anyways though, all in all, it was interesting. Just goes to show you can't judge people with a label I suppose.
