Afraid to go to the range?

[200Apples]

Cooldill

Afraid to go to the range [following a mass murder]?

entropy

If anything, the opposite. It's a good reminder why I should practice more.

Cooldill

Should you give it more time until things settle down?

CoRoMo

Nope. Gotta get the trigger time in. It's like doing laundry; it doesn't do itself.

Exactly. My sentiments echo entropy and CoRoMo.

:-|



However, so as not to appear insensitive to the losses suffered, I have considered the victims, the survivors, their families and their friends... I collect vintage gas pressure appliances, and we in the vintage lantern and lamp collecting community will light one of our older pieces and run it in honor of those lost, or for those who may be sick or suffering. It's something that was done before I came along and I think it a good gesture.

 

[harrygunner]

Perhaps the OP is not a "regular white guy". Imagine the experience of a brown skinned dark haired "foreign looking" guy at the range today.

There's a chance people of that description might be judged in ignorance, by some in spite of having no knowledge of their character.

 

[Panzerschwein]

Perhaps the OP is not a "regular white guy". Imagine the experience of a brown skinned dark haired "foreign looking" guy at the range today.

There's a chance people of that description might be judged in ignorance, by some in spite of having no knowledge of their character.

Yes, that could be an issue. Not all of us are aged white haired men with guts, as the media often portrays us.

 

[25-5]

I am situationally aware, and I don't care what anyone thinks. Never have.

 

[Scooter22]

Well if that issue is part of your original post you should have added it. You asked for honest answeres and I think they are given the info in your post. Now with that added info I'd still say no thinking of my fellow shooter/hunter BIL. Big 45 year old Italian(Sicilian) ex Marine auto worker. He could pass as someone from middle east easy. He doesn't hide from anything.(wife maybe) I can here him say "Why, I didn't do anything wrong"

 

[hawk4570]

The folks I shoot with are the ones I see when I go to the range, We have 150 members and I consider them friends, We have done nothing wrong and do not plan to

 

[Elkins45]

Is there a poll for "worst poll question?"

 

[Panzerschwein]

Is there a poll for "worst poll question?"

Cut it. Not appreciated, not helpful. Shoo.

 

[Schwing]

If anything, the opposite. It's a good reminder why I should practice more.

Entropy beat me to it. I would be willing to bet that far MORE people shoot after these events.

Edit:

I have to add that this tickled a memory from WAY back. When I was working in my father's CNC shop back during Gulf War I, we got a government contract to make some little titanium mounts that held part of the guidance systems for Tomahawk missiles. It was a big contract and we made a lot of those little mounts over a several month period. My Dad was asked several times whether he felt bad that something he was manufacturing was going to be used to kill people. He would always answer that the parts directly impacted the accuracy of the missiles; he would much rather build them himself and KNOW that they were the best than farm them out to the cheapest bidder and hope for the best. After all, the missiles kill innocents as well as bad guys if they malfunction.

I know it isn't a direct comparison but I feel the same with my shooting. I am not the best shooter but I strive to be. I never want to have to use my weapon in self defense but, if I ever had to, I would want to have known that I put serious effort into my shooting abilities. I also never want to be in a situation where I am "Farming" out my families defense to someone else. By training, practicing and maintaining my firearms I am ensuring that they are going to get my best effort. I have never felt guilt for trying to be a better shot.

 

[bannockburn]

Cooldill

Haven't been to the range in awhile (working a lot of overtime), but when I do go I don't even give it a thought what somebody else might think about me and what I'm doing there. I go to try out new guns and new loads, get some practice time in for myself (CCW holder), and just try to enjoy putting some nice tight groups on paper.

What I do at the range has no correlation to any events involving guns that may transpire somewhere around the world at any given moment in time.

 

[SDawson]

I was at the range on Sunday morning, a bit quieter then normal.

 

[hso]

After major shooting incidents (such as the most recent Orland shooting), are you wary of going to public gun ranges in the days right afterwards?

No

If there's anyone at the range they're there like I am so should we all be worried or reassured.

 

[rubicon923]

Range employees would only think that I'm "insensitive" if it's an LBGT gun range.

 

[PowerG]

I shoot in an old pit on my land, but even if I shot at a public range, no.

 

[shootniron]

Seriously, what kind of question is this?

What does wanting to go to the range and shoot, have to do with what happened in any of these attacks?

 

[orionengnr]

Seriously, what kind of question is this?

Well, they say the only stupid question is the one you didn't ask....
Maybe this is one that shouldn't have been asked.
But wait, that would make it a...

Never mind.

 

[Art Eatman]

Enuf already.