It’s much easier to convert them if you’re nice to them when they go to church.
The best question to ask when you’re done at the range is, “So how many people did you want to murder when you fired that gun?”
“None.”
“Oh.”
Converts are the best zealots.
I would be charitable to them. I would also tell them - in a charitable way - to man up and stop acting like they’re twelve.
I would also tell them get their damn fingers off the trigger. One or two of them accidentally fired a round when they didn’t intend too. They’re dangerous and stupid. And I would tell them that too. Charitably.
Niceness is overrated. Charity is better. “Nice”, by the way, is a 15th century French word meaning “silly” or even “stupid”. I’m not kidding. Middle English, foolish, wanton, from Anglo-French, silly, simple, from Latin nescius ignorant, from nescire not to know. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nice?utm_campaign=sd&utm_medium=serp&utm_source=jsonld Like I said, niceness is overrated.