Typical - The Strib did

Typical - The Strib did a decent profile of some typical handgun owners.

Who are the gun owners? Who wants to carry a handgun?

Franz Metzger says they can't be pigeonholed.

Metzger was in the seminary for three years before becoming a dentist. He's married with two grown children, lives in Edina, played football at the University of Minnesota and sings with the Apollo Male Chorus.

And he owns a handgun.

"When the rhetoric about handguns gets emotional, you hear the stereotypes," said Metzger, 63. "But there is no typical handgun owner."

If you'd told me seven years ago that the Star Tribune would be running a story like this, I'd have gotten a court order to keep you away from my kids; I'd have figured you were daft.

Truth is stranger than fiction. It sometimes seems like this issue is too strange to be true, if you've been following it.

Posted by Mitch at April 28, 2003 02:23 AM