I have a bunch of guns. Ask me anything.

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60. college, USA history to 1877.

it's a survey class so we did not have a chance to get into the gendered and racist origins of the gun culture. I'm a TA.

I've always been interested in them and why shooting and not something else, I'll refer you up thread to where I answered that. Add to that, since moving to this part of Ohio, I found that shooting is an accepted and even admired recreation. It would have been harder to join a baseball team (well, especially for me).

I started in '04 because my father disapproved of guns and he died (stroke) in '99. Also, because of the campaign rhetoric in '04, I was genuinely afraid of my neighbors who voted Bush 60-40. If they came around looking for the godless, commies who were killing 'merica, I wanted something more than foul language. We did not keep our views secret, you know. I was on record giving John Kerry the Federal maximum in donations. That proved unnecessary, of course, but I really liked target shooting.

Generally, deprogram ourselves from thinking violence solves problems. Look for sources of violence in society: news media, our prison system, tolerance for poverty, capital punishment and get rid of that violence. More gun restrictions. Can't help noticing all these mass shootings started after the '04 AWB expiration. Finally, better mental health care for everyone, especially those with violent tendencies.