I gave up membership in my local IWLA club after twenty years as they - IWLA national leadership - leaned ever more leftward in support of “green new deal” policies, polluted every article in their journal with tenets of the AGW faith, the last straw being their support of the EPA’s edict controlling “waterways” which would make filling wet spots in my farm pastures a criminal offense, them being “seasonal wetlands.”
I tried to like skeet shooting. I DID like shooting skeet, and trap, but the FUDD’s going on and on with labial diarrhea week after week opining how “NOBODY needs a(n): AR15, high capacity magazine, bump stock, silencer, machine gun, or any scary looking firearm” and the worst of it was the praetorian attitude of “they’ll never take MY $25,000 Perazzi, my custom-made Beretta, my grandfather’s collectible whatever” and this conversation came up, literally, EVERY week.
As a Family Practice doctor with a good background in psychiatry, I saw this for what it is: defensive posturing, the overt fear of a group of guys heading towards low-T aging puffing themselves up in their self-importance, their delusions of grandeur “I’m a pillar of the community, THEY will never take MY guns,” and worse, the insidious posturing of the villain in a 1940’s movie in a lifeboat survival film who is surreptitiously throwing people overboard during the dead of night.
They know, they’ve read, yes, THEIR guns WILL come under government scrutiny, control, enforced storage at gun clubs where, eventually, they WILL be confiscated by government force.
The majority of them will simply change hobbies, go back to golfing, or whatever hobby affords them the ability to display conspicuous consumption, flashing their bling in front of friends and impressionable youth, until some crusading leftist comes for THAT hobby based upon some “greater good” fallacious argument.
Well, until the pointy sticks are taken away by the nanny state, there’s still knitting.
larrytown: “FUDD is a rather generic term that is easily misinterpreted and adds to already unhelpful internecine ridicule.”
normbal: “I tried to like skeet shooting. I DID like shooting skeet, and trap, but the FUDD’s going on and on with labial diarrhea week after week opining how “NOBODY needs a(n): AR15, high capacity magazine, bump stock, silencer, machine gun, or any scary looking firearm” and the worst of it was the praetorian attitude of “they’ll never take MY $25,000 Perazzi, my custom-made Beretta, my grandfather’s collectible whatever” and this conversation came up, literally, EVERY week.”
I disagree that the term is generic. normbal’e experience is a perfect demonstration of fudds in real life. These gun owners perfectly OK with restrictions on “scary” guns. They will not lift a finger to defend 2A rights until gun grabbers come after their hunting rifles and shotguns.