My metaphysical views lean towards Taoism and Ive always been very anti gun control.
Perfect. We already have the ladies of Harvard Law School and their gun club and now "New Age" groups are going to buy guns. That's going to muck up the image of the knuckle dragging gun owner.
It will be interesting as to how far the "New Age" group is going to pursue the idea of owning a gun. There are so few people with carry licenses in Massachusetts that this single individual may start a trend. It will be interesting if it would translate to voting habits but I think you can fit all of this group in a phone booth.
I think most of us in the New Age community aren't intentionally hypocritical, we just suffer from what I call the Paint Chip Syndrome. The paint chip looks great in the hardware store, but when you actually paint your wall, you wonder what you were thinking. Maybe it isn't hypocritical, but it is stupid. Those of us who use our frontal lobes more than once a month also wonder what people like this are thinking.
Meanwhile, in another room in our consciousness we see someone in such pain that we're moved to tears. No one should have to suffer that. Someone should do something. Someone or something is to blame. "There ought to be a law." We start a petition, pass a law, illegalize a thing.
This is why the country is set up as a republic, NOT a democracy - precisely to avoid mob rule based on emotion. Any politician that makes policy based on the latest poll might as well not be there - let the pollsters govern. Further, such politicians a traitors to the idea of a republic and to this particular republic.