My religious wacko brother never owned a gun, now he's joined the NRA.

My born again republican brother, who dropped acid and found Jesus 35 years ago, has never owned a gun, although I've always owned them, and my Democratic dad too, but my dad tells me little bro has purchased his first ever pistol, and is taking shooting lessons at the range, and even joined the National Rifle Association. Why the sudden interest in guns out of the blue? You get 3 guesses. No, one guess.

That's right, he's convinced that President Barack Obama is literally going to kick in all our doors and confiscate all of our guns. No joke, that's his reason.

I've always considered him mentally unstable, and now I consider him mentally unstable and armed, and easily manipulated by the right wing media.

So my bro has gone from dragging a large wooden cross down the street at the Mardi Gras, to target practice down at the gun range and NRA membership.

My dad also tells me that gun sales have sky rocketed in Florida and nationally too.

Folks, the far right wackos are getting lots of guns, we should all be concernced, no joke.

he was one heavy partying brother. I did notice however he did tend to bogart.

anyway...i LOST Jesus...i figured he just was off to see the Grateful Dead and just hadn't happened back, yet....where did you find him?...he wasn't chasing that one lady with the veggie burritos, was he?...if you see him again, ask him if he took my Europe '72 8-track with him, because i lost it at about the same time...

Because of people like your brother, I'm considering getting a gun as well. what has held me back is how much time it takes to get competent at using one.

You can learn all the basics with an airgun, sight picture, sight alignment, BRASS (breathe, relax, aim, slack, squeeze) all at a very low initial price of entry and only about a penny per shot for pellets.

I shoot indoors with a pellet trap a lot and even more in the back yard, also with a pellet trap (basically two layers of carpet in a box).

My air rife, a Benjamin Discovery, can hit a dime quite reliably at fifty yards in still wind conditions.

I'm one of those people very likely to be more of a danger to myself than an assailant without extensive practice. The uncoordinated need far more repetitions of physical skills to achieve competence.

.22 ammo is still reasonable.

Sold by the "brick" = 500 rounds for $12 - $16.

Low cost, low recoil but still a firearm.

Good for practice. When I am showing a "newbie" how to shoot I will usually have them start w/ a good .22 pistol like Ruger MK III (well technically MK II but they aren't sold anymore).

Three most important things about firearms for self defense
1) good firearm
2) good training
3) good practice (and lots of it)

Many people whose only "exposure" to firearms has been Hollywood as genuinely suprised at how difficult it is to consistently aim a pistol and how much harder it is to quickly fire accurately.
Just pointing the gun in the direction and mashing the trigger a bunch of times tend to only damage the air.

Makes it a lot more difficult to get in a lot of practice.

Your other points are well taken though.

The first link is to single pump pistols..

http://www.airgundepot.com/single-pump-air-pistols.html

Here is the best deal I've found on a pistol, three to five pumps is fine for indoor practice, keeps the noise and velocity down but still enough for good accuracy.

http://www.airgundepot.com/rosman-airguns-1377c-american-classic-air-pistol-remanufactured.html



You're right, repetition is the key to success in shooting, an air pistol will give you lots of opportunities for repetition since you don't have to go to the range to shoot.

The great majority of far right whackos already have lots of guns.. Your brother is a bit of an oddball in that respect.

I'm very concerned with the rise of wingnuts with quick trigger fingers out there. Hate Radio and Faux have whipped up paranoia to hold onto those 25% dead-enders out there and this has been to spread all sorts of fear. Irrational and self destructive in so many ways...especially in their own hive.

Yes, there is a great concern that these asshats will lose it...as we saw in Pittsburgh last weekend, but, as we saw, the biggest victim was the shooter and his family. Those fools who play "patriot" and commit suicide by police are only hurting their own causes and I, sadly, expect too many of these guns to result in a rise in domestic violence...not political.

But unfortunately these nuts take far too many innocent people with them.

religious wacko + guns + NRA = _______________.

It would certainly save you the price of a new door.

But this is like nothing I've seen before.

Don't want to wait for another tragedy and then say, "Damn, I should have done something."

Its too late then.

I know this isn't something you would look forward to doing but it may be your best option for everyone concerned.

Thats what I would do in this situation.

Don

That's a crime right?

After a bad acid trip at that.

And now he has purchased a weapon.

Yea nothing wrong with that picture.

Don

More guns + (fear of the govt + rw mouthpieces +/- a bad economic situation) = more shootings.

More shootings = more gun control = fulfillment of anti-gun fear = more...



And away we go...

and then takes the time and effort to train and learn how to use it properly and safely?
Sheesh, what a nut.

doesn't take away from the fact that he is trying to be a responsible gun owner though.

If you were a government agency, where would you look for conservative firearms owners? Why...the NRA membership list, of course!

While the NRA says they don't sell their membership list to advertisers, they do, apparently, sell it to mailing list brokers. See this story: http://www.dmnews.com/Complete-Mailing-Lists-Has-Gun-Owner-Database/article/92334/

Then watch his head explode...

I mean, who would the Prince of Peace draw down on, sight, and pull the trigger? The man who, when the authorities came to arrest him on bogus charges that would cost him his life, refused even to let his followers draw their weapons? I'd really like to know how your brother squares the scene at Gethsemane with his own purchase of a lethal weapon.

When Jesus said, "Love your enemies," I think he probably meant "Don't shoot them."

Florida Mental Health Act
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_Act

so he buys a gun so it can be confiscated? :silly: Some one should inform him that the last Administration (republican) confiscated guns in the aftermath of Katrina. So which Party likes to confiscate guns?

Civilians using guns in self-defense.
http://www.claytoncramer.com/gundefenseblog/blogger.html

They think Obama wants to take away all our rights as a secret muslim. There are whole mind sets just clashing in Amerka.

I doubt that a whole lot of people are buying their first one.

Who Would Jesus Shoot?

Perhaps he bought one because he thought it might be harder and more expensive to buy one in the future. Regardless he seems to be going about it responsibly enough.

David