Trash Like Us

Alfred Fingulin - longtime dude Friday of Concealed Carry Reform Now - has a new blog, "Gunshow Trash". It's new, and it's getting rolling, but it'll be a great resource - especially with a new legislative season rolling around. I blogrolled and linked him yesterday - but there's more.

My favorite part of the blog so far? His "What Is Gunshow Trash" section:

"Gunshow Trash" describes the folks who enjoy gunshows.

We're not particularly cultured, but we know more about culture than you think. Where else but the gunshow books table can you buy E. A. Ritter's biography of Shaka Zulu? Catch our fancy and maybe we'll play some fiddle after the show closes (violins belong in orchestras). Or perhaps we'll recite Robert Service's The Cremation of Sam McGee. We liked it in high school and still like it now.

We lack social graces, are terribly blunt, and are sentimental to a fault. Life is too short and too rich to be restrained and proper. Lord knows we've lived full lives. Our memories are intense: love, sadness, and fondness; even for bad things that happened. Yet we like unusual people; we think everybody should be as eccentric as us.

Don't play us for ignorant rubes. Ignorant rubes get the short end of a gun deal. We don't get the short end of anything.

We like gadgets and gimcracks and geegaws; if it interests us, we collect it. But we don't need much. We're self-reliant, and can handle anything life throws at us with either a Leatherman tool, some duct tape, or a handgun.

Some think us "trailer trash." I'll own up to that. But many of us are professionals. We worked hard to rise in life, we've never forgotten our roots, and sometimes wonder what we've missed.

We take family, country, and God seriously, are very grateful for what they have given us, and hope you are grateful too.

"Gunshow Trash" is a point of view.

Stay tuned.