The headline is:
This is a GOOD thing. Details are here:
Again, this is a GOOD thing but then we get to the newspaper's breathless description of someone actually firing a gun!!!
The emphasis on the 'dozen yards' is mine.
There's a picture of the woman and her rifle and the target and she's got about a 10 inch group going there and perhaps a big part of the reason is SHE HAS NO SIGHTS ON HER RIFLE.
A couple different folk pointed this out in the comments to the article but my goodness, where are we, the pro-gun HELPFUL folk?
Do we need some kind of program to introduce new shooters to the sport?
Something even more rudimentary and basic than a basic firearms familiarization class?
Something on the order of here's eye and ear protection and here's a gun. Point it down range, keep your hands away from in front of the muzzle, look through the sights at the target and pull/squeeze/press (don't get me started) the trigger. The gun will go bang, it will recoil and you might just have a hole in the target. Now go take a beginners class.
Seriously, here's a person definitely on "our" side and in the nicest way possible we need to help her.
Here's the link to the article:
https://www.deseret.com/utah/2020/1...-trans-deaths-hate-crime-southern-poverty-law
gun control advocate changed her mind and launched a pro-gun group
This is a GOOD thing. Details are here:
In July, Fanaeian, a 20-year-old business student at the University of Utah, reopened the Salt Lake Chapter of the Pink Pistols, a pro-gun, pro-LGBTQ group “dedicated to the legal, safe and responsible use of firearms for self-defense of the sexual-minority community.”
Again, this is a GOOD thing but then we get to the newspaper's breathless description of someone actually firing a gun!!!
Ermiya Fanaeian looks down the barrel of her AR-15, sighting the pink paper target hanging about a dozen yards in front of her. She fires off five rounds, exhaling each time before she pulls the trigger and the bone-rattling crack of the gunshot rips through the indoor shooting range.
The emphasis on the 'dozen yards' is mine.
There's a picture of the woman and her rifle and the target and she's got about a 10 inch group going there and perhaps a big part of the reason is SHE HAS NO SIGHTS ON HER RIFLE.
A couple different folk pointed this out in the comments to the article but my goodness, where are we, the pro-gun HELPFUL folk?
Do we need some kind of program to introduce new shooters to the sport?
Something even more rudimentary and basic than a basic firearms familiarization class?
Something on the order of here's eye and ear protection and here's a gun. Point it down range, keep your hands away from in front of the muzzle, look through the sights at the target and pull/squeeze/press (don't get me started) the trigger. The gun will go bang, it will recoil and you might just have a hole in the target. Now go take a beginners class.
Seriously, here's a person definitely on "our" side and in the nicest way possible we need to help her.
Here's the link to the article:
https://www.deseret.com/utah/2020/1...-trans-deaths-hate-crime-southern-poverty-law
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