Good Time Magazine gun article

[Madcap_Magician]

Once your head has recovered from the explosive cognitive dissonance of the thread title, take a look at this:

Why Letting Kids Shoot Guns May Actually Be Good For Them by Dan Baum, most recently author of a good gun book called "Gun Guys: A Road Trip."

Baum himself is center-left, but he is open-minded and fair, and his book was a long-form journalism piece on being a liberal who went around the country asking gun owners why they like guns. He himself got a CCW permit as a part of his research, and his book is very enjoyable as well.

This article is a common-sense response to the recent death of a firearms instructor after being accidentally shot by a nine-year-old girl with an Uzi.

 

[DeadMoneyDrew]

Once your head has recovered from the explosive cognitive dissonance of the thread title

I was actually drinking milk when I read this, no lie. Somehow I managed to not spit it out my nose.

Good article, though.

Lest anybody think that the gun-owning and gun-rights communities are defending Vacca’s judgment, rest assured that they’re not. I watch the gun blogosphere as part of my work, and even the most hard-core gunnies are appalled and infuriated.

What the shooting community worries about is that people will conflate this tragedy with proper marksmanship training for children.

I mean, my goodness. This nails precisely why most shooting enthusiasts are reluctant to engage the anti-gun folks.

 

[akarguy]

This is indeed a very good article. First Forbes, now Time magazine. Wonder if ISIS massing in Juarez has anything to do with the lefts sudden pivot. In any event, I'm sharing this article with several people and might even post it on FB

 

[230RN]

Darned good analogy:

It’s the difference between leading a child in circles on the back of a docile pony and sending her alone around a track on the back of a thoroughbred.

Well-constructed, well-written article.

Thank you, Dan Baum, and thank you, Madcap Magician, for bringing this to our attention. For myself, as someone once said, "I used to read Time to keep up with the information. Now I read it to keep up with the Biases."

But today, I don't read it at all.

By the way, is that article also in the print edition, or just on-line?

Terry

 

[22-rimfire]

Not a bad article. It is focused and well put together. Thanks for bringing it to my attention as I would have never seen it otherwise.

I used to subscribe to Time. Dumped them due to their predominant bias. Started with US News and pretty much came to the same conclusion. I have no interest in either magazine now and won't buy them.

 

[1911 guy]

I, too, stopped reading Time (and U.S. News & World Report) a long time ago. However, I also must agree that this article was well written. So well written, in fact, that I'm a little surprised that Time published it. I may have to find his book.