6 Things Gun Lovers and Haters Can Agree On [View all]

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Apologies if this has been posted before, but with the new campaign season getting off to an abominably early start, I thought I'd share this just in case:

I was 7 when I shot a gun for the first time, and probably 17 before I realized guns were a big deal in national politics. Some of that comes from growing up in Texas. Guns aren't controversial in this part of the South: I once bought a pistol and three old Soviet rifles from a dude in a parking lot for $300. Even our hippies conceal-carry handguns in the waistbands of their hemp pants. But on a national level, the gun debate rages on.

And for some reason we've handed off the responsibility for this debate to the loudest, angriest people in America. On one side are pissed-off but well-meaning folks who know less than nothing about the objects they plan to regulate. And on the other side is Ted Nugent.

http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-things-gun-lovers-haters-can-agree-on/