Gun Talk in the liberal bubble
“No, really I see no reason that I can’t have one, keep close in hand, for my protection.”
“Concealed.”
“Yes. Concealed. There are creeps out there.”
Two people — late 20s? early 30s? — talking about guns, largely positively. Off notes shift in.
The negative notes seem to be almost perfunctory. Cover their bases.
“Of course if I had children, the calculus would change.”
“Of course.”
“Like, the last school shooting. Apparently the gun was just… lying around. Or something.”
“That’s just wrong.”
“Apparently in some states you can own a gun at age four. Can’t buy one of course, but can be passed on to the kid.”
I suppose I may mention that should the four year old actually fire the gun for any consequence, the legal guardian would almost certainly have some mighty serious legal repercussions. Also, what does a four year old own, really?
They then plan on going shooting over the weekend. Firing shots and some inanimate object or other out in the boondocks.
“Sounds like fun.”
“Sure does.”
Worth pointing out, perhaps, this is a woman and a man. The woman speaks at some point of her girlfriend. I point that out only because back in the summer, I noted at Huffington Post a story lauding some trans-gendered student associated with the anti-gun group of high schoolers behind David Hogg, speaking out and lauded as grabbing the “intersectionality” of the gun issue, which elicits a giant groan, a forced framework. As it were, I suppose we’re still in the “white” and “cis” categories, so we’re still not fully where we need to be in the “Oppression Olympics”. When I get the tran-woman or man nra member, I’ll be sure to note it.