i am not a nerd. i read fantasy and romance novels. i like poetry and such. my dads not a nerd either. geek, yes, nerd, no, fanboy, definatly. my mom is as liberal as all get out. she's also a social worker.
but my step dad is an honest to goodness nerd. he is a electrical engineer. he does stuff like build gadgets that make trolly cars work, and smelting fernaces operate. stuff that he can't explain to me. and he THINKS like that too. all the time. even when thinking like an engineer will not translate. when me and mom try to talk about stuff like socialogical principles and music and horses, eric often doesn't get it the first couple times through. he keeps seeing equations were equations don't fit.
however, despite the fact that his only connection with firearms has been through me and that he was raised and lived in an entirely liberal family, he gets the gunstuff. in fact he gets the gun stuff better then my mother, who lived with it for years.
and i have always attributed his understanding to his use of logic, which is the product of his engineering background.
so yeah, nerds are more likely to be open to gunnies, if not gunnies themselves, just based on the logic of it.
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