Some peoples is so dumb!
you can thank the media for a lot of the negative attitudes towards guns. actually, i do kind of understand where they are coming from. i do not agree with it, but if you look at a typical news reporters experience with firearms, you may understand some of it. they are book smart people, with academic backgrounds. not many of them will have come from a hunting / shooting sports family. their actual experience with firearms comes from being sent on asignment to cover a shooting, or a war of some type. that is about all they get. so, naturally, their veiwpoint of guns are bad. it would be like sending a king out to do his own wash in midieval days. it would be a horrible experience. the big problem, is that with only negative firearms experiences, that is going to be their only point of veiw. and after they have seen several people with their lives taken by violent crime. they will have no interest in going to a range to shoot their neighbors firearm. their immediate reaction will be fear and anxiety. why, would they even want to hold something that will undoubtedly kill someone. while i am certain that some of them realize that there are legitimate reasons for owning firearms, they are still going to rely on their experiences. all of us do. if your only experience with eationg honey came from stealing it from an active bee hive, and you were stung repeatedly, you would not want anything to do with honey again. even looking at it on a store shelf will flood your brain with that bad expeirence earlier. so, how do we get academic people and the media exposed to the shooting sports at an earlier time in their life? one way would be for colleges to have a shooting team. but that will be a headlong battle for many schools, because they are run by academic people that have no firearm experience to begin with. then there is the whole firearms in school thing to deal with. i do not know how other states deal with this, but michigan makes no distinction between an air rifle and a firearm. if you walk onto campus with an air rifle, you might as well have a 458 lott in the eyes of the law. some police officers may deal with it differently, but as for the law, they are the same thing. no matter how you look at it, we are going to have an uphill battle to fight just to keep and bear our firearms. now, California, and their people, are a whole different breed anyway. Arnold is certainly NOT firearm freindly, and he has been in power way to long in my opinion. to many laws that serve a very limited percentage of the people have went across his desk, and he has signed them into law. you guys out there need to get rid of him, and get someone with a good head on their shoulders, and start repealing some of those laws! firearm education is our best freind, but the academic community is not much help there. i really wish i had a wonderful plan that would cure all of this ignorance. but i do not. we need to get kids exposed to firearms, so they can have an understanding of them, before the media and academic community have a chance to poison their heads. 40 years ago, when i was in school, things were a LOT different. i could actually bring a 300 magnum shell into class for show and tell. and i got my firearm safety class in junior high school. now, having a firearm logo on a pencil will get you expelled! do you think just maybe the academic crowd has gone just a little overboard!
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