Facebook flog - Jul 9 2014
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Link: Jul 9 2014, 19:46
Disclaimer: This blog entry is verbatim, as originally posted on LKH's Facebook. Copyright belongs to Ma Petite Enterprises.
Target showing first hits for new guns. Jon may have won me to .45 ACP at long last.

Disclaimer: This blog entry is verbatim, as originally posted on LKH's Facebook. Copyright belongs to Ma Petite Enterprises.
Target showing first hits for new guns. Jon may have won me to .45 ACP at long last.

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Date: 2014-07-11 07:24 pm (UTC)But I'm also aware it's a personal preference. I'm not advocating to take away people's guns or whatever, just because I don't like them. You don't need to convince me of anything, because I'm not standing in opposition to you, and as I said " I know there's nothing wrong with practicing with firearms recreationally, or being fascinated by the various types of firearms, their design, their history." That also extends to guns as a necessity for survival. I'm just saying that her posting this--on the heels of the Texas shooting--shows a remarkable lack of awareness and raises some issues that make me feel ill.
It is definitely a symptom that something has gone very wrong with our collective culture as a nation. And it won't be fixed until we fix that, instead of just trying to take guns out of the hands of people who would do horrible things with or without them anyway.
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Date: 2014-07-11 09:32 pm (UTC)...and I wasn't actually trying to convince you of anything. I put more effort into arguments/persuasive pieces. I thought it was an interesting tidbit and was sharing it.
But otherwise I probably agree with you?
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Date: 2014-07-11 09:54 pm (UTC)We do have very different personal / family cultures; my only disagreement is with your assumption that the culture I come from drives my current discomfort with guns. (And I mean "culture" as in environment more than anything to do with ethnicity or country of origin.) But otherwise, yeah, we're pretty much agreeing. It's more a "live and let live" thing, anyway.