Please tell me how one can become a gun enthusiast. I understand chess, stamps, dogs and cats, even trinkets.
I don’t understand computer enthusiasts either. A computer is a tool with which to do something else. A pencil is a tool with which to write. A knife and pan and spatula allow one to cook. I’m not enthusiastic about any of them.
A gun is for shooting for sport, to practice or hunt game with a license in season and within the law, or to kill varmints that threaten your herd or flock or crops. Also to scare off the guy who breaks into your home, though my great grandma did that with a broom once. That guy never came back.
Lest you think I detest weapons, I’ve always been afraid of them. I was forced to take both archery and riflery when I moved below the Mason-Dixon Line at age 12. I excelled at archery and everything else in gym class but shooting a bb gun gave me the shivers. I was passed by the skin of my teeth because I tried and did excel at every other challenge presented to me.
I’ve a retired Navy man who’s OK with taking me to a shooting range, because no sane woman wants her husband to teach her to drive much less shoot.
We do not have any kind of weapon in our home (some pretty sharp chef’s knives, though) and I do not want one. This was set up weeks ago and I look forward to hopefully not shaking so hard I can’t hit anything.
Some of these weapons were made not to bring down a stag, but to kill humans. In addition to strengthening laws to prevent what I will call “assault weapons” for convenience, we must look into schools and psychiatry to identify those individuals who may have certain risk factors that may lead to violence. Why aren’t these crazy websites flagged?
I’m sure my email is read and phone is tapped and blog read to make sure I’m not out to do another 9/11. There are already metal detectors in schools. Let’s try to find the troubled kids before these massacres happen. That’s all I ask. Dee
Cooking with Dee 