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Thanks, that's a kind offer! I'd love to visit Colorado one day.
My friend who I went with is very stringent on safety / weapon maintenance, and I got a really serious vibe from the owner on the way in... No messing about, listen carefully to instructions, follow guidance to the letter. That gave me quite a bit of confidence knowing all the people inside would be held to that standard. Guns are serious tools and not to be fucked with, is how I felt on the way there and on leaving.
I am huge on safety as well. Like any other machine, there is a degree of respect that needs to come with operating it. Maybe even a little bit of fear is healthy in some cases. Accidents happen, but there are multiple layers of basic safety process that would need to be violated first.
Just like everyone else in this world, avid gun owners hate idiots with guns as well. Unless you get in a conversation with us, it's usually not the first thing we talk about or flaunt. Also, a joke we have is that we are not afraid of someone that owns a dozen guns. We are afraid of the person that only owns one and has never used it.
Yep. There's nothing quite so frustrating as having to sit there while a total and utter idiot drags your cause, hobby or profession through the mud.
I remember when my friend was checking his weapon / ammo, I noticed he had hollow points. I was quite shocked as in my head they were more dangerous, he explained that because he lived in an apartment, if he had to shoot at an intruder with normal bullets they'd go straight through the walls, and that hollow points were much safer for fellow residents if the worst came to the worst. Really demonstrated to me that there's a metric fuck ton I don't know about guns. So I always try and moderate my emotional reaction to 'gun issues'. Some things imo are quite obvious (like, if there's a license to drive a vehicle, then surely it's just as crucial to have some common-sense legislation to ensure people who own guns do so responsibly). But then, I don't live in a country with something like a Constitution and it's not for me to tell other people how to live in their own country!