Wow, I just watched this and it actually wasn't bad. It seemed fairly even, and legitimately unbiased. Now here's my story:
As an ex-bleeding heart liberal, I made a huge 180 on guns when I actually shot one. I grew up on one of the few surviving farms in my area. Our land was completely surrounded by subdivisions, and I never much cared for the farm life mentality. I always saw myself as someone who'd move downtown and live a liberal art lifestyle. When we were kids, young enough to where I don't much remember it, my grandpa would take us around our land and pick off rabbits and I hated it! I would cry and feel terrible for the cute, innocent bunnies, squirrels, etc. Those were the only firearm experiences I ever grew up with. We never had a gun in the house, other than pellet rifles or bb guns.
Fast forward to around the time I hit 21. I still have my yearning for big city life, I'm an art major, and I'm a budding tattoo artist. A few buddies of mine go out shooting time to time. I make fun of them for having guns, call them gun nuts, etc. One day they convince me to go out to the range with them. The first handgun I ever shot was a Sig Pro, and holy crap it was fun. Next up came a Kimber 1911. I was ecstatic! I couldn't believe that something I never gave the time of day, never saw the need of having, and legitimately feared could be as fun as it was. I filled out a FOID card application that same day at the gun shop.
Jump ahead another 2 years, and I start looking into buying a gun, which was something I never, ever thought I'd do. Up until then, I always went out with buddies or rented a gun at the range. At this point, I still didn't see guns as anything other than range toys, and for the life of me couldn't figure out why people needed any more than one or two of them. I end up going with a Taurus PT24/7 Pro in 9mm that one of my buddies sold to me. At this point, I keep it unloaded at all times, locked in a safe, mags empty, ammo separate from firearm. I never saw it as a self defense tool, and for the first few weeks of owning it, I was actually somewhat uncomfortable having it in my place, more so if I ever happened to load it, just to kind of gauge what it was like having a loaded firearm somewhere other than in a range stall.
Now we skip ahead to today. I'm the ripe old age of 26, and I own several different guns of several different calibers. Rifles, shotguns, and pistols. My collection somehow keeps growing, and I now spend more money on guns than I do on guitars, which is something I never thought would happen.
I guess what I'm hoping what people take away from my story is this: There are many different faces to gun ownership. The armchair commando, the hand-me-downer, the weekend warrior, the competitor, and countless others. One thing we all have in common is our love of guns, and expressing our second amendment right. I myself am still more liberal than conservative, covered in tattoos, pierced in several places, and probably couldn't be in the same room with many of you for very long before we got into some kind of debate, or you told me to cut my hair. So when someone makes a comment about X amount of guns is too many, or can't grasp why someone would ever want to own an evil black rifle, don't get defensive, or worst, offensive!
In regards to the episode, I guess if I can go from bleeding heart liberal to gun-toting second amendment purveyor, just about anyone can. All it involves is education, and intelligent argument.
