[Billthedrill]

People who have never seen a giant redwood that is as wide as an F350 is long and towers higher than the side of the Cotton Bowl understandably don’t know what it costs the environment when you use paper plates for every meal because you just don’t feel like washing real ones.

Um..dear? That isn't where you get paper plates.

I'm not entirely comfortable with a n00B shooter fantasizing about turning her firearm on her lane neighbors, to be honest. It argues poor instruction or poor mental hygiene or both. There is a scene in Annie Hall where Christopher Walken is driving Woody and fantasizing aloud about turning the car head-on into the oncoming traffic. It's that sort of feeling.

I have often maintained that nothing is so empowering to a woman as the ability to defend herself and the determination to use it. Buying a gun only gives you the ability. The rest is in your head, and I worry about hers.

[rktman]

What! You never thought about popping the clown in the lane next to you? Yeah, me neither.

[T-Bone Texan]

I know the new feeling the author is referencing. I was not raised around guns, and when I got my first gun as a young man (Walther P99 in .40, olive drab - I still have it!), I marveled the immense power in possessed in my hands. Before that, I had very little ability to defend myself against bigger and more aggressive perps. Now, I was complete, in a sense.

If anything, the seconds-long realization about my ability to kill others merely engendered decades of respect and responsibility around guns.

A conservative gets a gun and thinks "who can I protect?".

The liberal gets a gun and thinks "who can I kill?"

Yet more evidence of the mental illness that is liberalism.