I think guns are fun to shoot, too, but gun safety has to come first.
Even if you’re anti-cop/ACAB, you should know your way around guns, or at least understand basic firearm safety. Even people who are afraid of guns (and especially them) should be able to pick up a random handgun they find in the street some poor kid could accidentally use on themselves/their friends/siblings, disarm it, and even disable it. If we’re in a fight and you drop your handgun, I can quickly unload it and pull the slide off, and throw both in opposite directions. You’re not firing it any time soon. You’ll have to find all the parts first and you’ll have to know how to put it together. I’m not a tough guy. I’m a nerd who builds phones and used to mod phones (until I got sick of that shit and just got an iPhone). I can also handle guns, and I shoot pretty good (though, only ever at paper targets). You don’t have to love guns. But make them your friend. If you don’t want the gun to work for you, make it not work for someone who might use it on you. In old cartoons, they’d just bend the barrel U-shaped. You can’t do that IRL. You can make it just as useless though.
Some people think guns are fun to shoot.
I think guns are fun to shoot, too, but gun safety has to come first.
Even if you’re anti-cop/ACAB, you should know your way around guns, or at least understand basic firearm safety. Even people who are afraid of guns (and especially them) should be able to pick up a random handgun they find in the street some poor kid could accidentally use on themselves/their friends/siblings, disarm it, and even disable it. If we’re in a fight and you drop your handgun, I can quickly unload it and pull the slide off, and throw both in opposite directions. You’re not firing it any time soon. You’ll have to find all the parts first and you’ll have to know how to put it together. I’m not a tough guy. I’m a nerd who builds phones and used to mod phones (until I got sick of that shit and just got an iPhone). I can also handle guns, and I shoot pretty good (though, only ever at paper targets). You don’t have to love guns. But make them your friend. If you don’t want the gun to work for you, make it not work for someone who might use it on you. In old cartoons, they’d just bend the barrel U-shaped. You can’t do that IRL. You can make it just as useless though.