This whole term “gun violence” irritates the hell out of me. Violence is violence, the TOOL has no bearing on it.
Back when was a younger man I dated a college educated liberal school teacher. She was easy on the eyes so I put up with her BS as long as I could. One evening she had one of her friends over for dinner. Inevitably, they both started harping on guns.
After listening to this garbage for about 20 minutes, I went to my gun safe (yes we were living together), grabbed my S & W 686, brought it out and laid it on the table in front of them . I looked them in the eyes and asked them to tell me when the gun was going to shoot someone, explaining that GUNS DON’T PULL THEIR OWN TRIGGERS.
Took about 5 minutes for her guest to leave - quickly. After a very ‘interesting’ evening I moved out the next day. One of the best decisions I’ve ever made.
I know I could have dealt with the situation more appropriately, but sometimes you have to have a little fun with the children. The look on their faces was PRICELESS!