Frankly, being exposed to no gun people from a young age until about '06 (age 51), my opinion about the NRA was skeptical regarding their stance on the famous "cop killer" bullets and I wondered why somebody might need an AK-47. No exposure to personal gun talk at work, or away from it.
But several years ago I realized that my mistaken impressions had been formed by very deceptive editing and half-truths or total omissions of basic facts by the mainstream media (CNN was what I watched). My previous awareness had been totally "out to lunch"
, or "tango uniform".
I decided to listen to one or two coworkers who put these topic into the balanced, accurate context.
It dawned on me how the antis lie about anything and everything to promote their agendas, which are seldom presented in a balanced portrayal.
It was a stunning surprise to learn how much deception, twisted, false terminology, and how many lies are promoted as balanced truth by the more rabid Antis, and by many of the more moderates.
Recently I worked a couple of days with a guy from just south of Chicago, who had been an enlisted soldier in the Marines, before the recent wars.
His brother, who is a retired Deputy Police Chief belongs to Police Chiefs (or such) Against Gun Violence.
He had brainwashed his younger brother into believing that we need much tighter gun regulations for everybody.
His idea is that After fifty or one hundred years, there will be far fewer guns available for criminals to steal, buy, whatever, and will reduce the overall gun violence.
I was not about to contradict somebody in a really small "workspace", and could not think of a very logical way to counter this sort of thinking up there in IL.