Posted on 11/01/2015 12:30:23 PM PST by AQuietThinkingMan
I read a lot of opinion and "fact" from the gun-control lobby and its acolytes on Facebook and social media. Much of it is fear based and misleading if not outright falsehoods. Just responding with verified fact isn't likely to change minds because those with a particular mindset will not likely change by reading an article (if they even go so far as to read it.)
I think it would be valuable to offer to bring your friend to the range to introduce them to guns and demonstrate to them safety and the proper handling of weapons.
For many, I believe it is the fear of the unknown - most people who are not in the "gun culture" have been indoctrinated by the gun control lobby and movies and popular culture. If they realize that a gun doesn't just "go off" when handled properly, maybe some of the fear will be reduced.
Thanksgiving week would be a great week, as many families get together and you can bring your favorite lib to the range.
Roger that.
I took my son and some college buddies to the local gun range. I happened to bring along the minuscule Chipmunk .22 bolt action rifle. One guy had never shot a gun. He fell in love with it. My kids were shooting it at age 4-8 and here’s a college age guy shooting this tiny 2 1/2 pound rifle. But he did enjoy it and that’s what counts.
A Redhawk 44mag scares even me.
Start with mild things, like AR-15s.
That is fun and “evil”, therefore cool.
Stay away from hand cannons.
Met a French lady who was in Louisiana on a teacher exchange program. I talked her into a trip to the range and she absolutely loved it. One of my favorite weapons for the uninitiated is my M1 Carbine, of which she was particularly fond, especially when I told her it was one of the firearms used to rid her country of Germans, lol.
Liberal friends?Who has liberal friends?
I thought he’d get a kick outa shooting a scoped handgun. Too much of a kick as it turned out! My deer gun.
History shows that there is nothing scarier than a Leftist with a gun or an entire army of armed Leftists.
Don’t really have any lib friends left.
After that, I would just about guarantee that they would come to one of us to go to the range and hope to learn how to become a real man and defend himself.
Or maybe not.
After all, we were talking about liberals, right?
>>Don’t really have any lib friends left.<<
Too much weapons instruction for them? ;) :) ;)
Don’t have liberal friends.
I remember Rachel Maddow shooting an Uzi at a range in Nevada, just to show how butch she was. She’s still a gun-grabber. That drunk with a food show on CNN shot a bunch of guns with some cowboys, and even that steaming pile Piers Morgan got to shoot a .50 Browning M2 HMG. They just don’t want YOU to have guns.
Agreed. All liberals, by defition, are my enemy. I don’t believe in the concept of liberal “friends “.
I no longer have any liberal friends. Nor will I in the future.
It’s not possible to befriend a person who doesn’t believe in inalienable rights.
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Yes, but they still reliably vote liberal, celebrate homosexuality and abortions, and want to tax me and ban my guns. I’m kind of done wasting ammo on them now. As other posters have noted, I got rid of my remaining liberal friends in 2008 and have seen no good reason to acquire more since then.
One thing at a time.
Guns are a very very good first step, being fun in themselves, and have the thrill of forbidden fruit to them.
After you have them hooked, you have credibility. Use it wisely.
This is not the attitude of the missionary, who is willing to suffer as needed to convert the heathen. And it also requires, of course, endless patience.
This is a hard calling indeed, but the most glorious.
I don’t have lib friends.
The M1 carbine is by far my favorite firearm.
Modest but light, handy and very easy to learn.
It’s not so practical these days, the ammo being expensive.
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