Confessions of a Liberal Gun Owner

New York Times ^ | January 27, 2013 | JUSTIN CRONIN

[Second Amendment First]

I AM a New England liberal, born and bred. I have lived most of my life in the Northeast — Boston, New York and Philadelphia — and my politics are devoutly Democratic.

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I am also a Texas resident and a gun owner.

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My relationship to firearms might have ended there, if not for a coincidence of weather. Everybody remembers Hurricane Katrina; fewer recall Hurricane Rita, an even more intense storm that headed straight for Houston less than a month later. My wife and I arranged to stay at a friend’s house in Austin, packed up the kids and dog, and headed out of town — or tried to. As many as 3.7 million people had the same idea, making Rita one of the largest evacuations in history, with predictable results.

By 2 in the morning, after six hours on the road, we had made it all of 50 miles. The scene was like a snapshot from the Apocalypse: crowds milling restlessly, gas stations and mini-marts picked clean and heaped with trash, families sleeping by the side of the road. The situation had the hopped-up feel of barely bottled chaos. After Katrina, nobody had any illusions that help was on its way. It also occurred to me that there were probably a lot of guns out there — this was Texas, after all. Here I was with two tiny children, a couple of thousand dollars in cash, a late-model S.U.V. with half a tank of gas and not so much as a heavy book to throw.

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IT didn’t happen overnight, but before too long my Northeastern liberal sensibilities, while intact on other issues, had shifted on the question of gun ownership.

[Blue Collar Christian]

These hacks that are “born and bred” up in New York and New England I guess have a built in wuss factor.

I myself am not confident enough in my masculinity to ever express any wussiness like these wusses.

Worthless metrosexual oxygen wasters.

[Blue Collar Christian]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2977507/posts

Same kind of drivel from a New York metrosexual.

These guys are probably on Bloomburg’s and Soros’ payrolls.