(VANITY) What is the best gun for a beginner?

[Minus_The_Bear]

I've grown up in Oklahoma and went through Boy Scouts (am an Eagle Scout) learning to shoot various types of firearms but haven't even touched one in 5+ years. Now that I'm about to leave college I'm thinking of getting a firearm of some kinda but don't know where to start.

What should I be looking at and why?

[Yossarian]

i would suggest not taking a gun to college. unless you live alone off campus perhaps.

Back 15 years ago (!) when I went to Michigan Tech, they had armories in the dorms where the students could store their weapons.

When I tell liberals in the SF Bay Area this, it blows their minds! A college that supports firearm ownership?!?!