wacki
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My dad has always been very proud of our military. But in the civilian life he has always had a strong distaste for civilian self defense and violence in general. He has always hated cheap rifles, thought handguns should be banned, and thought the average person wasn't responsible enough to handle a gun. He was so bad that he was extremely upset that I bought my first rifle. The only thing that calmed him down was the fact that it was a "single shot" bolt action. Even then he was extremely against the "evil" SKS rifle which "had no practical use". Since then I've introduced him to trap shooting, educated him on how ridiculous the media is on firearms, made him angry about the media's spin of Teflon "cop killing bullets", etc. I even convinced him that buckets of water kill more children under 5 (on accident) than guns.
Today he asked me to teach him how to reload shotgun shells and I think he actually became jealous when I told him I'm going to shoot an AK47 this weekend. Considering that it wasn't long ago that he refused to let me in the house if I had a gun (or "explosive" gunpowder) with me this is a HUGE change.
Lessons learned: Make sure sure you let the anti know you are reading all of the arguments of the left and the right. He thought I was a crazy libertarian when I bought this DVD:
http://www.secondamendmentdocumentary.com/
but I think I finally broke him when he realized I was reading the National Academy of Sciences, NYT's, CBS, gun-r-evil-bloggin-Tim-Iambert as well. One thing I noticed about him is that he really respected fine engineering. When I showed him my Hornady 366 he was tickled pink by the "assembly line" inside the machine. He couldn't stop playing with it. At the gun club the "fine Italian" Benelli's is what made him respect the shotgun. Anything less "gentlemanly" like the Remington (please forgive him) wouldn't do. With him I think the statistics/history broke his fear but the fine engineering is what caused him to become really interested. Since he was a huge war historian I would frequently frame gun conversations in relation to military small arms from the civil war to present day. Also, him seeing how much of a stress relief shooting is for me really helps. To this day I don't have another activity that can relieve stress like shooting can and I think he knows this.
Just passing a few lessons on to other potential pro-gun pro-freedom missionaries.
-tipsy friday night wacki
Today he asked me to teach him how to reload shotgun shells and I think he actually became jealous when I told him I'm going to shoot an AK47 this weekend. Considering that it wasn't long ago that he refused to let me in the house if I had a gun (or "explosive" gunpowder) with me this is a HUGE change.
Lessons learned: Make sure sure you let the anti know you are reading all of the arguments of the left and the right. He thought I was a crazy libertarian when I bought this DVD:
http://www.secondamendmentdocumentary.com/
but I think I finally broke him when he realized I was reading the National Academy of Sciences, NYT's, CBS, gun-r-evil-bloggin-Tim-Iambert as well. One thing I noticed about him is that he really respected fine engineering. When I showed him my Hornady 366 he was tickled pink by the "assembly line" inside the machine. He couldn't stop playing with it. At the gun club the "fine Italian" Benelli's is what made him respect the shotgun. Anything less "gentlemanly" like the Remington (please forgive him) wouldn't do. With him I think the statistics/history broke his fear but the fine engineering is what caused him to become really interested. Since he was a huge war historian I would frequently frame gun conversations in relation to military small arms from the civil war to present day. Also, him seeing how much of a stress relief shooting is for me really helps. To this day I don't have another activity that can relieve stress like shooting can and I think he knows this.
Just passing a few lessons on to other potential pro-gun pro-freedom missionaries.
-tipsy friday night wacki
