Gun Control Reform Activism

I remember growing up in a rural western state the NRA speaking for gun safety, training, etc.

My father owned a hunting rifle he used occasionally for hunting pheasants. He wasn't interested in hunting deer, elk, etc. But he seldom spoke about his gun.

As a result I was not raised around guns or a mentality focused on them.

I think that while this mentality has existed for many years the NRA since Charlton Heston has fabricated this worldview - i.e. the rest of the world is against you and therefore you must be armed.

They like to think that solving the problem of burglary, rape, etc. is to have more guns because somehow this dwebe will be able to find his gun, load it, aim it and accurately fire it to protect his family. I give him a 30-40% chance of doing that. He is likely one of the rest of the right that cannot focus, aim or shoot and if they did they would soil their pants.

These guys are all alike. Only men (and women) who are afraid (for no reason) resort to threats of violence "shooting them in the chest" as if that was a manly thing to do. No, actually it is the cowardly thing to do.