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January 20, 2004

Slumming It

The other day, I posted a link to Alfred Fingulin's "Gunshow Trash", as well as his "What Is Gunshow Trash" essay.

Almost as enlightening, surely, is reading what we're not - through the eyes of someone who used to think less complimentary things.

This is an LA Times article - registration required:

"I expected a dungeon full of men missing teeth and wearing T-shirts decorated with Confederate flags. Instead, I found a sunny, wood-paneled lobby and guys who looked like lawyers on their lunch break. "
Read the article - it's interesting, and heartening.

Here's what I've found in eight years of evangelizing concealed carry reform; you can convince the darnedest people of the merits of your Second Amendment advocacy, if you can just convince them that shooters are...people like them - and by that, I don't mean you need to buy a Volvo and start wearing free-range Alpaca.

The antis invariably see themselves as reasonable, educated, intelligent - and if you portray your case reasonably and intelligently, you have a shot at getting through, as did the hero in the article above.

Of course, many anti-gun sympathizers aren't reasonable, their education is flawed (let's not confuse "schooling" and education), and their intelligence - let's be polite here - isn't focused on this issue.

Posted by Mitch at January 20, 2004 06:12 AM
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