Firearm enthusiasts are an interesting bunch. My mother is a firearms enthusiast, so is my stepdad, and I have two stepbrothers that are "gun nuts". My mother's first husband was a firearms enthusiast (gunsmith) and my father's best friend is one (gunsmith) as well.
I have also known many other firearms enthusiasts in my life outside of my family and have spent many hours at ranges hanging out with other firearm enthusiasts that I did not know personally.
I have known a LOT of "gun nuts" in my life. As a child, I was fascinated by firearms and nobody in the neighborhood had a larger toy gun collection than I did (I grew up in the Chicago area). I loved all things war and was obsessed with WWII and Vietnam as a lad.
I have a love of guns in my heart.
Now as an adult, I am much more in tune with the motivations of other people and what drives them to be who they are in life.
"Gun nuts" have a coldness in their heart... I don't know where it comes from, but it is there. I sense this coldness in my own mother who is supposed to be a "saint" in my mind right? She has a coldness and lack of empathy that I don't understand... I mean, she obviously loves her boy, but her lack of empathy is startling. I moved to live with my Dad at age 15, so I guess I never really knew her completely...
She is cold and will put a bullet in your heart, but she is only five feet tall, so I gather that her coldness stems from the fear that she has felt all of her life from being small... closed case.
Now my stepdad can be fairly racist... not in overt way, but just a mistrust and misunderstanding of black folk and no desire to get to know them. I wouldn't call him a racist, but I wouldn't refer to him as "post racial" either.
Does his gun enthusiasm stem from a mistrust of brown and black people? It sure might.
The "Death Wish" movies were HUGELY successful in the 70's and audiences cheered wildly whenever Bronson would snuff a criminal's life. The backdrop of rising crime rates and decay in urban cities served as a welcome mat for future vigilantes like Bernhard Goetz. An almost hysterical fear of inner cities and street gangs gripped the country in the 80's and into the 90's. Racial tensions were again high as fuck in the early nineties with the L.A. riots taking place on everyone's televisions and pivotal movies like "Do The Right Thing" gracing the silver screen.
Fuck, my own grandfather sits by the door late at night with a rifle so that he can get a good shot at any possible intruders!
My Mom's former husband and my Dad's best friend are both gunsmiths and share a love for weapons that was born out of stints in the military and hunting as teenagers.
Have I heard them both use racial slurs from time to time? Yes.
My two stepbrothers are "gun nuts". They are also Glen Beck fans and Hannity freaks... Limbaugh is their God. They are racists plain and simple.
I have never met a black gun enthusiast... I know that they are out there, but I have just never met one. The gun range in Georgia where my Mom goes is chock FULL OF RACISTS and people who would GLADLY put bullets in the heads of liberals... they have anti-Obama propaganda plastered all over their shop.
All I am trying to say is that firearms enthusiasts by and large are not a bunch of sweet and loving people. MANY of them have a deep seated hatred of brown and black people and MANY of them have a serious hatred of liberals as well.
I don't trust many gun enthusiasts to be "good" people. Now that doesn't mean that all gun enthusiasts are the enemy of liberals and progressives, it just means that like around 65% (VERY unscientific figure) of them are the enemies of the left.
Many gun enthusiasts simply have a baseless fear that the government is evil and own guns to protect themselves and their family from the inevitable "New World Order".
I am afraid that those people are now the enemies of the Obama administration and of liberals and progressives everywhere.
I am scared, but not too scared... me thinks that one of these right wing gun enthusiasts needs to go too far and actually shoot some people in order for the rest of the country to wake the fuck up to this growing menace.
Americans don't seem to do shit about anything until people start to die.
I have also known many other firearms enthusiasts in my life outside of my family and have spent many hours at ranges hanging out with other firearm enthusiasts that I did not know personally.
I have known a LOT of "gun nuts" in my life. As a child, I was fascinated by firearms and nobody in the neighborhood had a larger toy gun collection than I did (I grew up in the Chicago area). I loved all things war and was obsessed with WWII and Vietnam as a lad.
I have a love of guns in my heart.
Now as an adult, I am much more in tune with the motivations of other people and what drives them to be who they are in life.
"Gun nuts" have a coldness in their heart... I don't know where it comes from, but it is there. I sense this coldness in my own mother who is supposed to be a "saint" in my mind right? She has a coldness and lack of empathy that I don't understand... I mean, she obviously loves her boy, but her lack of empathy is startling. I moved to live with my Dad at age 15, so I guess I never really knew her completely...
She is cold and will put a bullet in your heart, but she is only five feet tall, so I gather that her coldness stems from the fear that she has felt all of her life from being small... closed case.
Now my stepdad can be fairly racist... not in overt way, but just a mistrust and misunderstanding of black folk and no desire to get to know them. I wouldn't call him a racist, but I wouldn't refer to him as "post racial" either.
Does his gun enthusiasm stem from a mistrust of brown and black people? It sure might.
The "Death Wish" movies were HUGELY successful in the 70's and audiences cheered wildly whenever Bronson would snuff a criminal's life. The backdrop of rising crime rates and decay in urban cities served as a welcome mat for future vigilantes like Bernhard Goetz. An almost hysterical fear of inner cities and street gangs gripped the country in the 80's and into the 90's. Racial tensions were again high as fuck in the early nineties with the L.A. riots taking place on everyone's televisions and pivotal movies like "Do The Right Thing" gracing the silver screen.
Fuck, my own grandfather sits by the door late at night with a rifle so that he can get a good shot at any possible intruders!
My Mom's former husband and my Dad's best friend are both gunsmiths and share a love for weapons that was born out of stints in the military and hunting as teenagers.
Have I heard them both use racial slurs from time to time? Yes.
My two stepbrothers are "gun nuts". They are also Glen Beck fans and Hannity freaks... Limbaugh is their God. They are racists plain and simple.
I have never met a black gun enthusiast... I know that they are out there, but I have just never met one. The gun range in Georgia where my Mom goes is chock FULL OF RACISTS and people who would GLADLY put bullets in the heads of liberals... they have anti-Obama propaganda plastered all over their shop.
All I am trying to say is that firearms enthusiasts by and large are not a bunch of sweet and loving people. MANY of them have a deep seated hatred of brown and black people and MANY of them have a serious hatred of liberals as well.
I don't trust many gun enthusiasts to be "good" people. Now that doesn't mean that all gun enthusiasts are the enemy of liberals and progressives, it just means that like around 65% (VERY unscientific figure) of them are the enemies of the left.
Many gun enthusiasts simply have a baseless fear that the government is evil and own guns to protect themselves and their family from the inevitable "New World Order".
I am afraid that those people are now the enemies of the Obama administration and of liberals and progressives everywhere.
I am scared, but not too scared... me thinks that one of these right wing gun enthusiasts needs to go too far and actually shoot some people in order for the rest of the country to wake the fuck up to this growing menace.
Americans don't seem to do shit about anything until people start to die.
