So my Los Angeles - dwelling half-uncle is always posting his uninformed "opinion" about guns and gun ownership on the facebook, which is fine, freedom of speech and all that. But for some reason it really gets me hot in the chest reading these things he says.
He owns a gun.
He claimed to me, in the same sentence that he was both against banning guns in any way but he is all for the reinstatement of the assault weapons ban.
I try really hard to educate the man. Explain that disarming innocent people does nothing to protect innocent people, etc. So-called assault weapons are no more dangerous than hunting rifles, and the like. Bad guys don't adhere to gun free zones, yadda yadda, same old story.
I post stories of citizens stopping criminals using firearms, he says, "Funny how nobody needs an AK-47 in any of these stories." So I find news stories where the use of an AK variant is used to stop a crime. Also another where a 12 year old boy shoots a burglar with his dad's AR-15.
He posted today that he saw an ad for ADT home security systems and went on to say "I can only imagine what it would be like if gun makers were allowed to advertise." So I ask why on earth they wouldn't be allowed to advertise, then post some gun commercials I see on outdoor channel all the time. None were crazy, none were scary.
Long story short, I get really flustered when he spouts his anti-gun bullcrap for no reason whatsoever. Anyone else spews that crap, I blow it off and consider them idiots and pay it no mind, but my uncle.....I JUST WANT TO YELL!
Anyway, had to ***** about it to someone.
He owns a gun.
He claimed to me, in the same sentence that he was both against banning guns in any way but he is all for the reinstatement of the assault weapons ban.
I try really hard to educate the man. Explain that disarming innocent people does nothing to protect innocent people, etc. So-called assault weapons are no more dangerous than hunting rifles, and the like. Bad guys don't adhere to gun free zones, yadda yadda, same old story.
I post stories of citizens stopping criminals using firearms, he says, "Funny how nobody needs an AK-47 in any of these stories." So I find news stories where the use of an AK variant is used to stop a crime. Also another where a 12 year old boy shoots a burglar with his dad's AR-15.
He posted today that he saw an ad for ADT home security systems and went on to say "I can only imagine what it would be like if gun makers were allowed to advertise." So I ask why on earth they wouldn't be allowed to advertise, then post some gun commercials I see on outdoor channel all the time. None were crazy, none were scary.
Long story short, I get really flustered when he spouts his anti-gun bullcrap for no reason whatsoever. Anyone else spews that crap, I blow it off and consider them idiots and pay it no mind, but my uncle.....I JUST WANT TO YELL!
Anyway, had to ***** about it to someone.