i m the publisher of a firearms magazine. obviously, i have more than one or two weapons. there are different purposes for different weapons. we own .22 caliber for practice, we own shotguns for hunting, sporting clays and self-defense. perhaps one by the bedside if you don t have children in the house, perhaps one in a vault. and we have handguns for personal protection, for conceal carry. does that make you a gun nut? i don t think so. but i do think this, if you own those weapons, you damn sure better be trained and safe around them. i m not talking about trained to kill somebody. i m not talking about trained to use them in self-defense, but you should if that s what you purchase the gun for. i m talking about trained to be safe around those firearms. and in order to be safe around those firearms, you have got to practice, like anything else. you have got to go to a range,
someone whose got a whole bunch of firearms, okay? and spends a lot of time training with those firearms and thinking about how they are going to use them. and i think, i cannot help but think there s something paranoid and creepy about that. that there s this apocalyptic sense of fear. that we are not imposed reconstruction south, right? the context here matters. the post reconstructive heart, mlk in the heart of dixie in the 1960s. the context here is very different when people had this psychology is very different. explain how i m wrong on that. that s relatively easy. i m the publisher of a firearms magazine. obviously i have more than one or two weapons. there are different purposes for different weapons. we own .22 caliber weapons for flanking and target weapons practice. we own shotguns for hunting, sporting plays and self-defense,