right to bear arms
i started gun shopping a couple weeks ago. i just want something to play with on the weekends at the firing range with my friends or, God forbid, home protection.
well i've gotten a lot of input from people in making my decision. and i've noticed something...
people that like guns are WEIRD.
there is one guy in particular at work who will only talk to me about guns now. he thinks i'm interested in every gun he's ever owned and thinks that his opinion as a gun nut will somehow affect what i might buy.
i told him i like walthers b/c they look cool. he says that doesn't matter. his exact words were, "you're talking about a piece of machinery that fires a lead slug. it doesn't matter what it looks like."
well i have news... YES IT DOES!!! look man, james bond had a walther... that makes it cool. dirty harry had the .44 magnum. those are cool guns, used by cool guys.
this sparked something in me, though. something not related to firearms.
there are LOTS of people out there, and of those LOTS, we're not always going to be fascinated by what people have to say. maybe sometimes in life, we just have to nod our head and fake it so we don't hurt people's feelings. so for now, i pretend to be interested in every detail of firearm ownership, and the guy at work feels like he's helping out a young guy with a new gun obesession.
(blogger's note... i am not now, nor will i ever become a gun nut)
