People CAN change!

[telpinaro]

Pretty cool... She talks about her transition from being terrified of guns and thinking they kill people to her NEW views on guns ("they're awesome!"), gun control and concealed carry. She's from New York, no less! Nice to see it can be done.

 

[CoolClownFish]

You go Girl..... I am always happy to see this kind of turnaround in people. A little story about me, When I was 11 I found a loaded rifle in our closet where we lived with another family. I fired it off by accident and almost shot the roommates 12 yr old son in the process. After that I was always afraid of guns and didn't get into learning about them until I was around 26 yrs old. After I started learning about them and safety of my firearms I realized that it wasn't the gun I was afraid of, It was the not knowing how to handle them and the fact that I could hurt someone with them. I now have some extreme rules in my house regarding our firearms. I have 2 children My daughter is 9 and my son is 8 and they are the only kids that I know of that cal tare down our guns safely and clean them. My son loves to tare down my AR after shooting because he just loves guns. My kids regularly go shooting with me and my wife and so the WOW factor of the guns is gone and they don't see them as toys but still love them.

The point I am getting at is YES we NEED GUN CONTROL....... Yes I said it, but GUN CONTROL BELONGS IN THE HOME NOT THE GOVERNMENT! Gun control to me and my family is the knowledge of guns and how to use them properly. If I knew how to handle a gun safely when I was 11 yrs old, I would never had this experience and never been afraid of guns not to mention never nearly killing another person by accident. I know that the owner of the gun should have known NOT to have a loaded firearm where there were children but that's another story.

Moral of the story: Teaching people about guns, No matter their age (Better early on), Is always the best way to go... :wink:

 

[BluesStringer]

I just left this comment on the video:

So, it's been over a year since you posted this video. Are you still in NYC? Have you bought a gun yet? Also, around 3:10 you mention the "valid requirement" of knowing how to use a gun. Are you aware that there are no training requirements at all in AL to get a permission-slip to exercise our God-given rights? The no-training requirement is more Constitution-compliant than the permission slip requirement is. And still people aren't being randomly shot down here in Dixie Land. ;-)~

Now, there is a character limit that wouldn't allow me to explain that I strongly encourage getting and refreshing training, but I was responding to the statement about a "valid requirement" that the young lady spoke of. I also checked her channel page and she hasn't posted anything for over a year, so there's no telling how firmly her new-found enthusiasm for freedom was planted in her brain by her visit to Dixie. And if I'm not mistaken, buying a gun in NYC is a very arduous process, if it's possible at all, which is why I asked her if she had bought a gun yet. There are very few people, male or female, with the tenacity to go through what Emily Miller went through to get permission to simply own a gun, and she still can't carry it, nor would the young lady in the video be able to carry if she was able to buy one in NYC.

In one way, I am happy about her seeming transformation about guns and gun control. On the other hand, her video really only speaks to a new-found tolerance for people exercising their rights by owning and/or carrying guns in a state many hundreds of miles away from her home. I really couldn't care any less that some former anti-gunner "tolerates" the free exercising of my rights by me.

I don't have anything against the lady per se, but I don't think her video represents any paradigm shift in how anti-gunners are looking at gun rights in this country. I'm not even convinced that it represents a lasting paradigm shift in her own thinking. I hope she'll reply to my comment so we can have a clue about that.

Blues

 

[Firefighterchen]

I just left this comment on the video:



Now, there is a character limit that wouldn't allow me to explain that I strongly encourage getting and refreshing training, but I was responding to the statement about a "valid requirement" that the young lady spoke of. I also checked her channel page and she hasn't posted anything for over a year, so there's no telling how firmly her new-found enthusiasm for freedom was planted in her brain by her visit to Dixie. And if I'm not mistaken, buying a gun in NYC is a very arduous process, if it's possible at all, which is why I asked her if she had bought a gun yet. There are very few people, male or female, with the tenacity to go through what Emily Miller went through to get permission to simply own a gun, and she still can't carry it, nor would the young lady in the video be able to carry if she was able to buy one in NYC.

In one way, I am happy about her seeming transformation about guns and gun control. On the other hand, her video really only speaks to a new-found tolerance for people exercising their rights by owning and/or carrying guns in a state many hundreds of miles away from her home. I really couldn't care any less that some former anti-gunner "tolerates" the free exercising of my rights by me.

I don't have anything against the lady per se, but I don't think her video represents any paradigm shift in how anti-gunners are looking at gun rights in this country. I'm not even convinced that it represents a lasting paradigm shift in her own thinking. I hope she'll reply to my comment so we can have a clue about that.

Blues

That's exactly what I was feeling as well. I definitely see a change from far left to center. If she keeps going, keeps learning, and makes the decision to defend and follow our natural rights, she will also change her requirements mindset. We will see. Hopefully she responds, I'm interested as to how far she had shifted, either way, since then.

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[telpinaro]

Let me know if you get a response... it would be interesting. I just think it's good to note that people can be swayed. They're not all impossibly stupid, and if introduced properly (I've heard some people attempt to convince antis by going off on a rant on how ignorant they are), they can be shown that guns can keep us safe and, in fact, are awesome.

 

[Firefighterchen]

Although I didn't feel she was anti gun to begin with. She was just scared of guns, but didn't think no one should have guns. More along the lines that it was normal for just police to have them...maybe she wasn't as far left as I first thought.

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[Chris Rakes]

just a note CLOWNFISH, i have always considered gun control being, hitting what you aim at, i always consider what the anti-Americans do is gun infringment

FIREFIGHTER, if i read your post right, isn't it the same thing?