To all of the new gun owners and shooters, welcome.
There is one thing that sets you apart from people in every other country in the world; a Second Amendment right to purchase, own and enjoy a firearm. Nowhere else in the world are people free enough to exercise and enjoy such a right.
If you chose your new gun for sport, few sports are more challenging and rewarding than the shooting sports. They’re safe, fun and enjoyable for those 8 to 80+.
For those who purchased your first firearm for protection, I think it’s been shown that the police can’t be everywhere, all the time and you’ve decided to accept that fact and take responsibility for yourself should you be faced with it. Since the dawn of time there have been humans with evil intent in their soul and sometimes an adult has to have the ready means to resist those who wish you or yours harm or death. No matter what the elites say Seattle’s “CHOP experiment” is proof in living color the fact that absence authority some people are hardwired for evil. This will never be regulated away, educated away, nor will it be wished away.
To all new gun owners who bought for self protection, please seek out competent instruction, practice/train when you can and may you never have to use your firearm in a deadly encounter. But become confident in your abilities if you do.
And a final thought; There are people who will derisively tell you that all guns are bad, that “gun nuts” like you with a gun in your home are deranged and no one other than the government and military should possess any firearms, period.
Who are these people, and when did they manufacture the right to tell you which rights YOU may enjoy and when you may exercise them? Who are THEY to tell you that YOU have no right to self protection and YOU must submit to the wills of those who violently prey on others?
Often, THEY same people YOU vote for.
Please think about that the next time a ballot sits in front of you.
Stay safe.