These conversion stories (even mine) always sound like the person involved just shook their head, blinked, and looked up from a television:
"Huh? What? Bad stuff can happen to me?
People are behind all the bad gun crime, regardless of the tool involved? I have the right to, means to, and can gain the ability to defend myself? Why am I not doing so now? ...Wow! That was really cool, like stepping on a gas pedal for the first time! Turns out guns aren't that hard to use, after all. Huh, gun-nuts aren't like Dale Gribble, after all. Woah, people all around me carry guns concealed, and I'm none the wiser (Texas)?"
Eventually leading to...
"People are
barred from defending themselves effectively elsewhere in this free country? Especially people in the poorest, most crime ridden areas?! And they want
my guns now, too? These laws are really stupid, and make no sense. These people writing these laws are really ignorant, and make no sense. These laws are enforced in the most vague, arbitrary, and capricious manner. How do we begin dismantling 100+ years of laws, put in place by blissfully ignorant dupes like
me, before I shot a gun as an adult?"
And finally...
"Oh, crap, I guess I'm a gun-nut now...
"
Who knew the Red Pill was a freakin' Remington 700 SPS?
TCB
don't say this often but kudos to CNN for putting it on their web site
I'm sure it's just an oversight
. Actually, this is the second or third story that ranks as half-decent or above in regards to fairness and accuracy regarding firearms. Who knows, maybe CNN is seeing where their bread is buttered, and will start treating we fiercely loyal and opinionated gunnies with a bit more respect--Piers just made them a (higher rated, for a time) national laughingstock with his antics, and probably gained no fans in doing so. Now, if only we could get NPR to reliably report gun issues with the same accuracy and fairness they do, say, gay issues, I'd have reason to listen again. The only thing that worries me about CNN is that the dreaded "gun control" topic header is now present on their homepage once more, meaning their editorial staff will be dedicated to it until we have another Papal coronation