Fast forward several years later and my wife invites me once again to join her at the range, she is going to refresh her shooting skills, and my presence is desired. The same local indoor shooting range has changed owners, a much younger group of people run the range. Rules seem much more lax, the dress is more casual, the weapons for sale in the cases displayed by people born in the 1970s. I shoot much better this time, almost as good as my wife, who is a bit rusty, but can still group her shots well. That night, she invites me to join her in the concealed carry class. "You ought to take the class with me." She says. "I am not a gun nut". Is my canned response. Insulted, she replies, "Are you saying that I'm a nut"? How do you get out of this? You go to the concealed carry class.
I will break in here to say that I consider myself a liberal. I voted for Michael Dukkakis, John Kerry, etc. I think the NRA is a group of seething, boiling, hate filled white people. I believe that most gun owners are fearful people. Fearful people don't need a gun, they need therapy. Therapy is much safer. No one ever died as the result of falling on a loaded therapist. Somehow the second amendment of The United States Constitution has become an excuse to these people for carrying heat so that they can go outside of their homes.
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