So let’s get down to it. Everyone is tired of shooting sprees. If you’re a gun owner, you’re tired of seeing weapons abused and misused to harm the innocent. If you’re a gun opponent, you feel the same way but can’t imagine why anyone has these weapons in the first place. I get it. I hope both sides get it.
I’ve thought about this a lot. I’m a gun owner. I have been since childhood. That was the culture in which I was raised. Guns everywhere. In dad’s dresser, in the closet, in the neighbor’s truck. It’s what I knew. There are about 80 million (with an M) gun owners in America, many of whom come from a similar background.
I don’t have an AR-15. I have something similar called a Mini-14, but it just doesn’t look as “angry” as the standard image of the semi-automatic weapons we see in news stories. It has meaning to me. It was a Father’s Day gift from my wife and family. It lives in a gun safe with many other happy, quiet firearms.
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