Honey and Venom
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- Joined
- Oct 11, 2015
- Messages
- 5
So, I've been hiding in two closets long enough.
I'm a gun loving liberal, and I'm not alone.
I've grown more outgoing about my opposition to attempts to ban or neuter guns lately and find that my feelings are increasingly common. I worry a lot more about telling my shooting friends that I vote in Democratic primaries, than telling other liberals about my "assault weapon." uhoh:Yeah, sorry about that one, we were WAY out of line there.)
Gun ownership is growing rapidly, and if you think about who didn't have guns before, but are buying them now, it would largely be us.
We have some crazy ideas about the role of government, and social issues, I get that, but it isn't because we're (all) allergic to thinking.
We're increasingly hunters, marksmen, gun store customers, and defenders of our families. We Google for information and find forums and other gun websites. We also vote.
Many of us are new, learning, and (really!) forming opinions that diverge from the party line. We don't want idiotic, ineffectual gun laws that only make it safer for criminals to terrorize the law abiding public. Please, take the time to teach the rest of us you meet.
When we learn about the joy that collecting or marksmanship provides, the tremendous investment required, the importance of hunting for wildlife conservation and management, we care, and our minds are changed.
When we get called names, told we're all idiots, or cursed at, the gun lobby looks like the kind of big scary armed threat that inspires knee-jerk nonsense gun policy that nobody benefits from.
No, it shouldn't be your responsibility to be patient with is, but it does make a huge difference. Be stewards of a cause when you can. We vote, and we're starting to care about something very dear to you, show us instead of insulting us and we could see the uninformed anti-gun movement dwindle into insignificance.
I'm a gun loving liberal, and I'm not alone.
I've grown more outgoing about my opposition to attempts to ban or neuter guns lately and find that my feelings are increasingly common. I worry a lot more about telling my shooting friends that I vote in Democratic primaries, than telling other liberals about my "assault weapon." uhoh:Yeah, sorry about that one, we were WAY out of line there.)
Gun ownership is growing rapidly, and if you think about who didn't have guns before, but are buying them now, it would largely be us.
We have some crazy ideas about the role of government, and social issues, I get that, but it isn't because we're (all) allergic to thinking.
We're increasingly hunters, marksmen, gun store customers, and defenders of our families. We Google for information and find forums and other gun websites. We also vote.
Many of us are new, learning, and (really!) forming opinions that diverge from the party line. We don't want idiotic, ineffectual gun laws that only make it safer for criminals to terrorize the law abiding public. Please, take the time to teach the rest of us you meet.
When we learn about the joy that collecting or marksmanship provides, the tremendous investment required, the importance of hunting for wildlife conservation and management, we care, and our minds are changed.
When we get called names, told we're all idiots, or cursed at, the gun lobby looks like the kind of big scary armed threat that inspires knee-jerk nonsense gun policy that nobody benefits from.
No, it shouldn't be your responsibility to be patient with is, but it does make a huge difference. Be stewards of a cause when you can. We vote, and we're starting to care about something very dear to you, show us instead of insulting us and we could see the uninformed anti-gun movement dwindle into insignificance.