On the Women and Guns Forum (run by the magazine of the same name), one of the ladies posted something about almost dropping a gun recently and said she managed to catch it in her sweater before the muggles saw it.
I cracked up. Then I thought, you know, that's exactly what the non-gun-owners are like.
If you haven't watched or read Harry Potter books, the "muggles" are the non-magic folk. They don't know there are real wizards and witches unless one gets born into their family. They are kept in the dark for their own comfort, but also for the comfort and privacy of the magical folk, who want to be left alone and not asked for magical solutions to all their woes.
And that is precisely what most non-gun folk are like. Yes, of course, there are the rabid antis...but most people just don't have the idea that "the guy next to me in line is carrying a gun in that fanny pack" ANYWHERE in their consciousness. They're not sheep, they're muggles.
I suspect J.K. Rowling's hair might stand up at the thought, but I'd love to see us come up with a different description (muggles will do just fine) than sheeple for people who really don't know we're here, don't want to know we're here, and whom in truth we're probably just as well off not having know we're here.
Muggles. I kind of like that.
Springmom
I cracked up. Then I thought, you know, that's exactly what the non-gun-owners are like.
If you haven't watched or read Harry Potter books, the "muggles" are the non-magic folk. They don't know there are real wizards and witches unless one gets born into their family. They are kept in the dark for their own comfort, but also for the comfort and privacy of the magical folk, who want to be left alone and not asked for magical solutions to all their woes.
And that is precisely what most non-gun folk are like. Yes, of course, there are the rabid antis...but most people just don't have the idea that "the guy next to me in line is carrying a gun in that fanny pack" ANYWHERE in their consciousness. They're not sheep, they're muggles.
I suspect J.K. Rowling's hair might stand up at the thought, but I'd love to see us come up with a different description (muggles will do just fine) than sheeple for people who really don't know we're here, don't want to know we're here, and whom in truth we're probably just as well off not having know we're here.
Muggles. I kind of like that.
Springmom