I enjoy shooting as a hobby and sometimes hunting. It is weird how some people react to that, and when questioned about why they are so leery or weird they have no good reasons. It's like someone with an irrational fear of anything. Some person, in the previously mentioned person (or persons) life, clearly must have fed them boogey man tales about guns or any person that owns one. I asked someone if they had been shot or witnessed a violent crime involving a gun because their reaction was so strong. Strangely enough they claimed to have never seen a gun in person before, touched one, or had known anyone that experienced any such acts they could think of. I was puzzled and ask why the harsh judgment and apparent distrust they seemed to have for me after mentioning my hobby, they pretty much admitted they had no good reason, but they just felt like the mere fact I owned a gun would somehow corrupt me as if it were a cursed talisman from a bad pulp comic. I have gotten several people I have dated into the idea of shooting and they enjoyed it. Quite a few friends have asked that I take them and I give them the safety break down, take them to the range, and not had a single person walk away all weirded out. Everyone enjoyed the experience, some even purchased a firearm of their own and have a new hobby, a few even said they felt like they couldn't be prepared for the inevitable zombie hordes without a basic lesson, and a few just wanted to say they had the experience, but would go again if I offered. I chalk some people's reaction up to being akin to a caveman trying to figure out a car, and then promptly destroying the metal abomination that must clearly be the source of all evil. I suppose it comes down to this strange delusion that some people must possess that an inanimate object can be pure evil and corrupt.
I remember some show having a joke about that, wish I remembered which show and what it was, either way it was laughable, oh the show was a cartoon no less. So essentially children's programming is more advanced than the thought process of some adults minds, awesome. I know some people that were raised with moron parents that they admit brainwashed them with irrational stupidity, I enjoy showing those people firearms safety and then sharing the experience of shooting with them. Plain targets to start, then I usually get silly targets like zombies, puppies, or kittens (jk about the puppies, I may not be about the kittens...) and people really get a kick out of that. I always try to reinforce that guns are a tool and like any tool can be abused. People don't think twice about having crazy kitchen knives, haven't they seen any movies? Those things are dangerous and crazy people that are axe murderers use them! So using silly logic, anyone that owns a knife is a demon possessed, mask toting, super killer. Just look at what happened when Freddie owned more than one! He turned them into a furious murder glove of destruction and could enter people's dreams. Yes I know I am making the point in a very ridiculous fashion, but people's reeling reactions at the mention of a gun is along those lines, my sister in law has that reaction to snakes, even fake ones. She is irrationally scared to tears of the things, and I can understand why, she grew up in the country and spent lots of time on a farm where rattlesnakes were all over. As a young person the experience of fear like that can have long term reactions. I don't like wasps, my dad doesn't either, he is really bad, one got in the car once I thought we were all going to die, I honestly should be able to find something comedic about it, but that experience of him losing his shit proper and almost going off the road was terrifying. I understand that fear, but fear that has no traumatic event or anything experienced and felt like that is not healthy. Paranoid crap like that is how idiots in the early 1900s were brainwashed into thinking the Jews were to blame for everything...
I'm not talking about Hitler here, this goes back to ole Henry Ford buying The Dearborn Independent, here's a link to the articles http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/intern_jew.htm
The first link has better incite to Ford and how he viewed this, and provides some back history about the reluctance
of some people at the Dearborn Independent to publish this
...to this day this attitude exists, calling people a Jew, you're such a Jew, etc. for no specific reason. When asked they don't even know, it's just a joke man, doesn't mean anything. Sigh... The sad part about Ford is that he published an entire book into a newspaper, so it's not like a onetime heated pissed off industry mogul's rant, I'm not excusing that as a valid reason either, but you get the point, it was a systematic and deliberate act. Hitler named him as a hero of the Third Reich, had pictures of Ford and said those articles influenced his book, Ford even sent money to Hitler. Oh and not to bag on just Ford, but encyclopedia's had the same stuff published in them that Ford had written, so it was an institution for a long time, and he just helped propel it to the less scholarly. Yes I do know that it sounds like a wild conspiracy theory, but it's just a sad aspect of our past, making the choice to learn from it is always the best.
Anyhow you get my point or think I'm just another gun nut moron. Tomorrow, most likely less serious post about guns and what I am doing to continue that hobby, show you how I work and what it is that I like about it.
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