Former gun enthusiast turns anti...

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Cliff

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I have NO personal knowledge of this happening. Only the opposite - folks who were formerly fearful, once given qualified instruction and a range trip or two discovering that (big surprise) shooting is FUN!

The next thing you know, they're buying guns of their own. It is good.

Do any of you have knowledge or experience of a previously enlightened individual falling to the dark side and turning.... anti. ?

If so, I'd be very interested in hearing the 'how' and 'why.'

Cliff
 
robear - Excellent post. Thanks for providing the link. Posted today, no less. Talk about propitious timing!

The poster makes a good point - not everyone is raised in a house where there are firearms. I was, and had several of my own at a pretty young age.

I need to remember that not everyone was that fortunate and that the fear factor can be very real.

Cliff
 
I once got into a debate with an anti who told me that he was once an avid target shooter, but learned the errors of his ways. This comment came at the time I had mentioned to him that he was talking out of ignorance. That since he had not ever picked up a gun, he did not know what he was talking about. This got me to thinking, so I did some checking. Found out he had lied. He did admit to lying when I confronted him with my source standing beside him.

Moral of the story. This is one of our best hopes. Teaching others about the sports. For it is by belief that one can be turned from the darkside, but it is so rare to go the other way that it is not worth mentioning.

So take an Anti out shootin!!!.



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Richard

The debate is not about guns,
but rather who has the ultimate power to rule,
the People or Government.
RKBA!
 
Only one (sort of) that I know about is a politician here in Perth.

An ex-Viet vet (he lost his legs in Vietnam), he publicly voluntarily handed in his 12g semi-auto (it was handed down to him by his father) for destruction after the Port Arthur shootings, saying that he could no longer bring himself to own a weapon and could not see why anyone else should want to have one either. Prior to that he had been a duck shooter.

B
 
I've seen worse. ACTIVE shooters who said, "I don't like NRA cuz nobody needs to own an assault rifle". This from my dad's bozo hunting buddy, who has a nice "sniper rifle"...
 
Ah, you mean one of those "bolt action assault rifles"?...

They're next on the list.

CMOS

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NRA? Good. Now joing the GOA!
 
I've never heard of a pro gun to anti gun switch. Though, I do know several people who you'd think would be RKBA folks, having problems with concealed carry and/or ownership of handguns.

I've had hunters tell me that "all anybody needs is a bolt gun and a 6 shot revolver...the rest should be banned!".

A couple of weeks ago, one of the guys I hunt with, upon finding out that I was carrying a gun (with CCW permit), told me that I couldn't ride in his truck with the gun. After about thirty minutes of heated conversation, we left together, in his truck WITH my gun still on my hip. He just didn't know the facts and once I enlightened him, it was OK.

My own brother told me I was "not his brother in Christ" because I carried a gun daily! This same brother has a pistol and has carried it with him in his vehicle for several years. I haven't got a clue how that's better than carrying on my person!

Divide and conquer...we're almost there.

Whew...I feel a little better! :)
 
I have heard of firearms enthusiasts supporting controls on firearms in America. But they qualify their oppinions with the need to restrict the annual addition to the measures they would take.

An example:
One supports instant background checks, national CCWs on the completion of a basic familiarity course, restricting automatic weapons, resticting sawed off rifles and shotguns, restricting felons from firearms access, restricting the mentally unstable from firearms, and limiting children to when and how they may use firearms. But that's it.
 
George Bush turned anti-gun when he renounced his Life Membership in the NRA in response to the "Jack Booted Thug" comment.
 
Hollywood is full of them. Sharon Stone, Sylvester Stallone, Dick Donner (director of the virulently anti-gun "Lethal Weapon" movies, etc etc, ad nauseum.

J.B.
 
Bruce in West Oz: "Only one (sort of) that I know about is a politician here in Perth."

Jay Baker: "Hollywood is full of them. Sharon Stone, Sylvester Stallone, Dick Donner . . ."

Cliff was asking if we "have knowledge or experience of a _previously enlightened_ individual falling to the dark side." I didn't think he was talking about poiticians or movie stars :)

bookie: "This got me to thinking, so I did some checking. Found out he had lied. He did admit to lying when I confronted him with my source standing beside him." Hey, I thought you were talking about Clinton and his phantom NRA membership!
 
A little unrelated but Mr. Gooore was once "pro-life". He also invented the internet and was a highly trained Navy SEAL. :D

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"But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip; and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one." -Jesus Christ (Luke 22:36, see John 3:15-18)
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"Reasonable gun law?............There's No such critter!" --EQ
 
I remember one a few years ago here in Australia (the guy was a duck hunter who gave it up and went over).

The anti's paraded him around like a preacher with a reformed drunk.

It was pathetic so see.
 
There is a gentleman who lobbies for HCI or VPC in Washington DC. I don't recall his name but do remember he had a spanish last name. Newspapers did a story on him, claimed to be a gun enthusiast, but saw the light on how dangerous guns are. Damn traitor.
 
Equalizer, because of your post, I need another beer (or an Excedrin...or both) ;)

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"...you gotta ask yourself one question...do I feel *lucky*?"
 
Yeah, isn't that what drove MacGuyver to eschew guns???

:)

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Justin T. Huang, Esq.
late of Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
 
I got a pretty shocked look from an anti once. She said something about taking away handguns. I made the point that I could drop her from 600 yards with my .308 if I wanted, and she would never see me.

The blood drained from her face.

So, yes, the "evil" bolt guns are going to have to go, too.
 
I know of one. I debated him and others on another forum. I don't think he was bad-bad anti (he still understands the Second Ammendment is a right) but he's completely quit shooting, and seems to take the anti postition.

He said he was a big shooter, NRA member, owned all kinds of guns, even "assualt weapons," but finally sold them all. He says he got sick of the other people at the range, who seemed to be looking "for an excuse to use their firepower."

Watch what you say. The other day, I heard my local gundealer use the "n" word and it bothered me to no end. If I was neutral about guns, that would have re-inforced the stereotype of gunowners as racist fools.
 
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