People always fear what they no nothing about.
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People always fear what they no nothing about.
To be clear, my wife and I both share the same views on firearms. Its not a me verses her thing. She is simply more courteous than I am when people act or talk like idiots. I call a spade a spade and that tends to get me in trouble more often than not.
I used to be a little more tight lipped on the gun debate but not any longer. I'm always polite but I wont stay quiet if it comes up. If people want to not like me for it, I just tell them "Thanks for the tolerance" and move on.
I would tell them that shooting makes you hard and the only way to get it to go down is to have sex with your wife for hours. I sure all the women will be buying guns for their husbands. But I'm just a smart ass.
You could try mugging several of them and beating the crap out of them. Anonymously so they don't know it's you and you're wife doesn't get mad at you for mugging her friends, of course.
People who have near-death crime experiences often change their minds on guns being bad.
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Invite the most liberal among them to go shooting with you sometime. Just that one person, none of the others. Get that one to go with you and enforce safety, but make it fun... shoot small calibers only, etc... see if they change their mind, even a little bit. Oh, and make them buy the ammo ;). I've used this tactic with 3 colleagues, and in each case, they grew more comfortable and respectful of both firearms and me. It's not necessarily the most "fun" day at the range, but it's a good use of my time and experience in my opinion.