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In reply to the discussion: I don't understand the animosity towards DU gun owners. [View all]Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)The only time I've ever encountered this kind of reaction before was when I was in college. A couple from NYC were in my study group for organic chem and we became somewhat close.
One day I was doing my pseudo-annual cleaning and they stopped by to ask us to dinner. Knock at the door, I never gave it a though and shouted to come on in as I was sitting in the kitchen surrounded by a bunch of clean & oiled parts laid out on newspapers waiting for me to reassemble them.
They walked into the room and froze like I'd only seen in films before. Mouths hanging open and sheer terror in their eyes, they looked like they expected the guns to animate themselves, reassemble themselves, and kill them. It took me almost a minute to figure out what the hell had even happened. Turns out that neither one of them had ever even seen a real-life rifle or pistol in their lives and they were literally paralyzed with fear of even being in the same room with a disassembled rifle and pistol.
That was the first time I realized that a large number of people are absolutely ignorant of and about guns, and have been so well conditioned to fear them that intellect cannot overcome the compulsion. Very strange.