I have mixed feelings about being excited at the range. On one hand, I think it’s natural. Our generation, while growing up with school shootings, also grew up with Call of Duty and Fortnite. It doesn’t seem unreasonable that the real-life experience would generate a similar affect and excitement. Further, I’m not sure this phenomenon is unique to Gen-Z.
When my parents tell me stories of their childhood, they talk about playing dodgeball or slinging rocks with slingshots at each other. Those things aren’t the same as shooting a gun, but in the back of my head I’ve assumed those things are fun for the same reason a first person shooter or actual shooting experience could be enjoyable.
On the other hand, I don’t know if this natural disposition to enjoy the range is good. I mean this in the broadest way possible: as I enter the second week of this class, I have no idea what’s to be done with gun policy or gun culture. So, I’m inclined to withhold my judgment about cultures and relationships built around guns. For now, I’m starting to realize why it might be so hard for the US to let go of guns. Decades of social change, political evolution, and violence are built around it–it’s almost like reforming access to them would radically change the US’s social landscape.
— Alex Mojica in his Fall 2024 Student Range Visit Reflection
{Leftist went to a gun range and was shocked to discover he liked the experience}
“…as I enter the second week of this class, I have no idea what’s to be done with gun policy or gun culture.”
This is what the Leftist Scum ™ fear above all else :
That one of their robots will actually begin to think on their own… 😉
” I have no idea what’s to be done with gun policy or gun culture”
There in lies the issue we face now …. that a sector of the population and politicians think they have a right to dictate to the rest “what’s to be done with gun policy or gun culture” while ignoring the reality in favor of their agenda and those affected by such.
There isn’t really a ‘gun culture’, its a ‘culture of Americans excising a constitutional right that involves guns” just as people would, say, exercise their first amendment right by use of a computer and words have injured or killed far more people than guns ever have. For example; its words that send troops to war, its words that let for example the ATF self-interpret to result in innocent people being terrorized at gun point of government and sometimes killed, its words words words and now words are being used by anti-gun and Biden and Kamala and Walz and politicians to push agendas to remove and control all constitutional rights thus seeks to injure all American citizens by deprivation of constitutional rights. Far more people have been injured or killed with ‘words’ then guns ever have. Yet anti-gun people use the victims of horrendous crimes as ‘stage’ props to push this rights deprivation injury agenda by use of words, thus further victimizing those already victims and their families.
So do we need to have an idea of what to do about gun policy or gun culture? NO! What we need to have is policy that addresses the reality that the law abiding gun owning person IS NOT the problem, that the gun is not the problem, that its not permitted that these ‘sectors’ are able to have a self-proclaimed and self-granted ‘somehow a right’ to do with others constitutional rights as they see fit, and that the ‘criminally minded’ person is the problem, and leave us law abiding gun owners alone and let us have a actual meaningful say and involvement in developing any gun policy instead of intentionally excluding us (for example, the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention intentionally excludes pro-gun people on its staff and uses only anti-gun people from anti-gun organizations).
You want to have a ‘gun policy’? Then stop making it about intentionally trying to take away or control or infringing constitutional rights of the millions of law abiding people who have done nothing wrong over which you never actually had any written constitutional right to do and stop trying to create such a ‘right’ for your selves in lawfare.
What rights do YOU have if your kids school asks about guns?
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Tell your children to tell them it’s none of their Damn business. Just like I have told nurses and doctors when they asked that question.