I watched a guy nearly Dick Cheney his buddy. Just a normal day.
when the police arrived at his home to take him away. In other words, these cases have little in common except that the shooters were dirtbags. Yet, if therea lesson that should be drawn from this trio of tragedies, it is this: The average gun owner is bad at guns, and knowing when to use them.
. The average gun owner is scarcely more prepared to engage in an impromptu firefight than any randomly selected dude from the phone book. I say this not as some anti-gun crusader, but as a gun owner.Although it often surprises friends and colleagues—given that I’m a Trump-hating, tree-hugging, pinko commie college professor—I’ve been around guns and owned guns for as long as I can remember. My father is a cop and combat veteran, and I grew up in.
To be clear, during my years working at the gun club, I was often astounded by the knowledge—and kindness and generosity—of many of the members and customers, some of whom would rightly be described as “gun nuts.” I was a liberal brown teenager in a sea of white, mostly conservative firearms enthusiasts in central “Pennsyltucky,” and—despite what some might assume—I was always made to feel right at home.
his buddy one sweaty summer afternoon, sending a spray of birdshot into a birch tree 10 feet above his head.Indeed, as I’ve grown older, I’ve often been struck by the number of friends, acquaintances, and co-workers who claim they own guns “for protection” and yet—when I ask if they shoot much, or have taken any live-fire courses that involve actually discharging a weapon—blithely report that they don’t shoot at all.
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