ElsiePeaRN
Expert
I am curious if there are any INGOers here who, like me, used to be anti-gun and were somehow converted. I doubt I'm all that unusual. (well..ok, "unusual" would be a nice way to describe me at times... but I mean regarding this particular topic )
What's your story? What changed your mind?
A recent thread about the Luby's massacre in Texas reminded me of my final ah-ha! moment that converted me from anti-gun (guns are bad--dangerous--nobody needs to carry them, let's wipe them all off the face of the earth, naive ignorant liberal kind of thinking) to a second amendment proponent and eventually a gun owner myself.
I had been weakening on my anti-gun stance for awhile, first realizing that you can't uninvent guns, and thinking about what that means... then finding myself happy when a law-abiding gun owner did something heroic... etc. It was the story of the Luby's shooting that pushed me over that final threshold, imagining poor Suzanna Hupp helplessly watching her parents and the others being murdered and knowing that her own gun was just steps away outside in her car.
The kicker and the most uncomfortable moment came when I realized that people who thought the way I did were the reason she did not have her handgun with her to protect herself and her family. Suddenly I was mad at Texas, and mad at myself. And the lightbulb went on.
About face.
Anyone else have similar stories?
What's your story? What changed your mind?
A recent thread about the Luby's massacre in Texas reminded me of my final ah-ha! moment that converted me from anti-gun (guns are bad--dangerous--nobody needs to carry them, let's wipe them all off the face of the earth, naive ignorant liberal kind of thinking) to a second amendment proponent and eventually a gun owner myself.
I had been weakening on my anti-gun stance for awhile, first realizing that you can't uninvent guns, and thinking about what that means... then finding myself happy when a law-abiding gun owner did something heroic... etc. It was the story of the Luby's shooting that pushed me over that final threshold, imagining poor Suzanna Hupp helplessly watching her parents and the others being murdered and knowing that her own gun was just steps away outside in her car.
The kicker and the most uncomfortable moment came when I realized that people who thought the way I did were the reason she did not have her handgun with her to protect herself and her family. Suddenly I was mad at Texas, and mad at myself. And the lightbulb went on.
About face.
Anyone else have similar stories?