So while in Scottsdale I sat next to a business colleague who lived in the adjoining town to New Town, Conn. We had a discussion about firearms. What a clueless guy. Absolutely had swallowed every gun control talking point. No compromise whatsoever, and then he had the gall to tell me I wouldnt compromise...when I pointed that out, he huffed and puffed about saving kids.
Most of us here live in the central or west. I tell you what, the east coast is different than we are. way different. I did burn him pretty good when he said we should change the constitution because the forefathers couldnt have known about ARs. I said they couldnt have known about the internet either, so we better open up a conversation about restricting the 1st Amendment with regards to the internet. And I really roasted him when I said, what if there was 1 common thread between all mass killings of more than 2 people since 1950. If we could find something like that, should we look really hard at that and make appropriate changes? I said it like someone should research it....he bought in 100%. I said, well there is a common thread. They were all gun-free zones. That got him pretty mad and that was the end of the conversation as we were in a business setting.
The point of all this is that many of us run with like-minded people. Believe me, there are a lot of people out there that are extremely passionate and unfortunately they have been brainwashed by the liberals. If you find out yourself in one of these situations, especially in a business setting, sometimes descretion is the better way to go...you aint gonna change their mind.
Of note though, the next day I was sitting with the CEO of my firm and we were talking about team building activities and the topic of trap shooting came up and he loved that idea. An East Coast liberal said that some people might be offended by that and my CEO, bless his heart, said that during a team building event some people have to get out of their comfort zone! I loved it!
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For us MN guys, the MN House of Representatives held the first hearing on MN HF 241 today and tomorrow will have the first hearing on HF 242. 241 proposes to ban virtually all semiautomatic firearms of all types and 242 proposes to ban all magazines with a capacity of more than ten rounds. The NRA spokesperson who testified said that this would the most onerous of any state law governing firearms in the country if it would be passed. Please contact your legislators immediately.
Good point. I am sure we have some here as well, but from what I saw the east coast is stocked with them. Quite the times we are living in.
I suppose you guys already practice this but taking these people to the range is really worth the effort. When they find they can't hit diddly with a semiauto anything they stop worrying about the capacity issues. Of course handing a total novice (or worse an out-and-out gun phobe) a semiauto pistol is a bit dangerous so you gotta watch what you are doing and maybe start with single fire, But in the end, give them 4-5 targets and let them see how hard it is to hit them shooting "as fast as you can squeeze the trigger" is pretty enlightening for them.
I have four of them now gun owners and weekly trap shooting partners in the summer time.
Only way I know how to deal with these folks and make progress.
a very good point, I too have done this. sometimes it's not even someone way left, it could be someone who just never used a gun and quite often they said guns were scary to them and they just avoided them, but didn't care if other people had them. they are quite fun to take to the range. I know several who have went on to purchase their own guns and started to teach others.
Beware of any old man in a profession where one usually dies young.
I used to help teach the "shotgun" classes for Becoming an Outdoors Woman, through out hunters safety group. The number of ladies from a big city that were afraid of gun, but came along because their frineds "dragged" them with was in the dozens.
By the end of the day, they were asking where to buy shotguns. I even stopped at GM on the way home from one of them and two of the ladies were in there buying guns! They both bought Browing Citori's!
The one thing about newbies to shooting, is they have no sense muzzle control. With pistols, plan accordingly. They seem to change direction way way too often and unexpectedly.
Good work on the BOW work. It really helps and lots of women are willing to attend with other women, but not willing to do it with just their husband or boyfriend.
Good work on the BOW work. It really helps and lots of women are willing to attend with other women, but not willing to do it with just their husband or boyfriend.
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The ladies are really a good time. They have fun with it, which is what shooting is supposed to be about. It's pretty cool when you take someone who's never even held a shotgun, to hitting trap and/or skeet a few hours later. Many of them come back year after year.
For us MN guys, the MN House of Representatives held the first hearing on MN HF 241 today and tomorrow will have the first hearing on HF 242. 241 proposes to ban virtually all semiautomatic firearms of all types and 242 proposes to ban all magazines with a capacity of more than ten rounds. The NRA spokesperson who testified said that this would the most onerous of any state law governing firearms in the country if it would be passed. Please contact your legislators immediately.
A buddy of mine watched this on line. Here is his take. (An email he sent me a bit ago)
"Have you been looking at the gun laws they are trying to put in place in Minnesota? I have been watching the house committee meetings on this crap and its absolutely absurd what they are trying to do. I watched online the State house hearings on the new proposed gun laws last night, or at least one of them, HF241 about assault weapons, I cannot believe the absolute absurdity of the people that are proponents of this bill. This woman starts presenting this bill and what is the first thing she does, plop a bunch of pictures of the sandy hook kids on the podium. Every bit of testimony was completely irrelevant to the real problem. They are so unwilling to blame the criminals for crime. I am so upset with myself that I didn't go down there and testify in front of that committee. There were some good speakers on the opposing side as well, but I sure would have like to have been one of them. Oh and get this, the woman that authored the bill, presented a short introduction to it and then left, for a 'prior engagement', so the opponents couldn't even challenge her or ask her to answer questions. During the opponents time to testify there were a bunch of members of the committee that they were testifying in front of that GOT UP AND LEFT ! They didn't find it important enough to arrange their schedules so that they could listen to the people that were opposing this bill. By the way the bill was drafted and co-sponsored but 8 people, all D-F-L."
Does anybody have a link to all the legislators that need to be contacted?
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There sure are a lot of America haters that want to live here...
