Posted on 12/14/2013 6:47:32 AM PST by marktwain
ROCK HILL • Sitting inside a Starbucks, sipping black coffee, joking with the baristas, Dan Zimmerman doesn’t look like a gun guy.
He looks like a guy who might work in accounts receivable, which is what this Olivette resident did for years. He is 53, balding, wearing tortoise shell glasses, carrying a little extra weight and dressed in the beige tones of business casual. He smiles easily. He is working on a laptop at a back table.
He also might be packing heat. Could be his .38 snubby. Maybe his Kahr 9 mm. He won’t say.
“I really don’t talk about that,” he says.
That’s surprising. Because Zimmerman loves to talk about guns. And he loves talking about gun rights, which he worries are under attack, especially in the one year since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., where a gunman killed 26 people, including 20 children. That only reinforced Zimmerman’s views.
“It was pretty much like every other mass shooting — it happened in a gun-free zone. I think it would’ve been different if he’d been in a place where someone else was armed,” he says. “I don’t know how you could argue otherwise.”
Until the last couple of years, Zimmerman had given little thought to gun rights. Now, he is managing editor and CEO of TheTruthAboutGuns.com, a popular blog that wields considerable influence in the gun-rights world.
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What is TTAG?
TheTruthAboutGuns.com
Good website.
Thanks marktwain.
Nice site. Are you writing under marktwain or another name? I’d like to read some of your work.
bump
And now it's time to go off on a tangent.
Did anybody else look at this picture from the story and get the willies?
What's with all the steel and concrete downrange?! And if there has to be that many steel I-beams downrange, do they all have to be at normal incidence to the shooters? That range looks like it was designed by someone who doesn't like target shooters. What's next? A range with two firing lines that face each other?
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